Literary Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 4
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor HUGO
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Literary Fiction
One of the great literary tragedies of all time, The Hunchback of Notre Dame features some of the most well-known characters in all of fiction - Quasimodo, the hideously deformed bellringer of Notre-Dame de Paris, his master the evil priest Claude...
Mr. Waddington of Wyck - May Sinclair
Mr. Waddington of Wyck - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
May Sinclair’s 1921 novel tells the story of the ridiculous Mr. Horatio Bysshe Waddington, a pompous, self-deluded poser making his way through life caring only for the impressions he makes on others. His long-suffering wife Fanny, his secretary...
Riallaro: The Archipelago of Exiles - Godfrey SWEVEN
Riallaro: The Archipelago of Exiles - Godfrey SWEVEN
- Author: Godfrey SWEVEN
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Satire / Fantasy Fiction
John Macmillan Brown was born in New Zealand and a University professor, wrote under the pseudonym Godfrey Sweven. An excerpt from the Introduction: "Absorbed in contemplation of its sublimity, I sat for a moment on a rock that rose out of the bush....
Martin Schüler - Florence Roma Muir WILSON
Martin Schüler - Florence Roma Muir WILSON
- Author: Florence Roma Muir WILSON
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Romer Wilson's first novel is a study in the life of Genius, a theme that would preoccupy her throughout her life. The eponymous Martin Schüler is a young German composer of genius in the years leading up to the Great War. His great passion is to...
Wuthering Heights (Version 2) - Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights (Version 2) - Emily Brontë
- Author: Emily Brontë
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys...
Amelia (Vol. 1) - Henry Fielding
Amelia (Vol. 1) - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
This is the first volume of a three volume novel. In this novel, Amelia marries William Booth against her mother's desires, and the two must move to London. Fielding explores the issues of married life such as infidelity and whether women's...
An Old Man's Love - Anthony Trollope
An Old Man's Love - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This was Trollope's last completed novel, and he may have acquired his sympathy for older lovers with age! A not-so-very-old man, Mr. Whittlestaff, dearly loves Mary Lawrie, the girl he provides a home for after her father's death. He wishes to...
The Portrait of a Lady (version 2) - Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady (version 2) - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular long novels, and is regarded by critics as one of...
Sons and Lovers (Version 2) - D. H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers (Version 2) - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912: “It follows this idea: a woman of character and refinement goes into the lower class, and has no satisfaction in her own life. She has had a passion for her...
The Last Ditch - Violet Hunt
The Last Ditch - Violet Hunt
- Author: Violet Hunt
- Genre: Literary Fiction / War & Military Fiction
An amusing but deeply poignant story, “The Last Ditch” describes the wartime experiences of a British aristocratic family who gradually realize that their old feudal perquisites are passing away in the trenches of the Great War and that...
The Woman in White - version 2 - Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White - version 2 - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Family Life / Literary Fiction
Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and setting them in commonplace surroundings among "people like us", Featuring unforgettable characters such as the...
A Vital Question, or, What is to be Done? - Nikolai CHERNYSHEVSKY
A Vital Question, or, What is to be Done? - Nikolai CHERNYSHEVSKY
- Author: Nikolai CHERNYSHEVSKY
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth century tsarist Russia; translator Nathan Haskell Dole affirms in his preface his conviction that it is a...
The Custom of the Country (version 2) - Edith Wharton
The Custom of the Country (version 2) - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional Midwestern Apex City to New York to Paris. Undine is determined to acquire money and position through...
Royal Highness - Thomas MANN
Royal Highness - Thomas MANN
- Author: Thomas MANN
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live as his neighbor. The novel is a microcosm of Europe before World War I, with Mann's depiction of a decaying...
Les Misérables Vol. 2 - Victor HUGO
Les Misérables Vol. 2 - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
This is book 2 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people up. Hooray. (Summary by...
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life - Honoré de Balzac
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy. Sections of this book, in various groupings and with various titles, were published between 1838 and 1847. It...
Short Plays from Dickens - Horace Baker BROWNE
Short Plays from Dickens - Horace Baker BROWNE
- Author: Horace Baker BROWNE
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Plays
Here is a collection of 20 short plays drawn from various books by Charles Dickens such as Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Our Mutual Friend. "For the use of Amateur and School Dramatic Societies" - Summary by ToddHW Cast...
Oliver Twist (version 6) - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (version 6) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"Please sir, I want some more," the famous line spoken by Oliver Twist at age nine, becomes the tipping point of a huge change in Oliver's life. He is soon captured into the service of Fagin and his gang of pick-pocketing boys. But, Mr. Brownlow...
Christmas Stories From 'Household Words' And 'All The Year Round' - Charles Dickens
Christmas Stories From 'Household Words' And 'All The Year Round' - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Single Author Collections
Twenty stories originally published in the Christmas editions of the magazines “Household Words” and “All The Year Round”. Some of the stories have little holiday sentiment and exhibit much of the indignation Dickens felt at the social and economic...
Hans of Iceland - Victor HUGO
Hans of Iceland - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Hans of Iceland was written in 1821 and is the very first novel written by young Victor, years before he became the great Hugo. It has all the ingredients of a gothic novel: dreadful murders by the hand of a human monster, a young hero in love with...
Clayhanger - Arnold Bennett
Clayhanger - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This first of a trilogy of novels is a coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England, following Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves school, takes over the family business, and falls in love. The books are set in Bennett's usual setting of...
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
- Author: Kahlil Gibran
- Genre: Family Life / Literary Fiction / Free Verse
The prophet Al Mustafa, before leaving the city where he has been living twelve years, stops to address the people. They call out for his words of wisdom on many sides of the human condition, and he addresses them in terms of love and care. He has...
Mrs. Armytage, or Female Domination - Catherine Grace Frances GORE
Mrs. Armytage, or Female Domination - Catherine Grace Frances GORE
- Author: Catherine Grace Frances GORE
- Genre: Family Life / Literary Fiction
Mrs Armytage is a widowed landowner, spirited, independent and very much used to having her own way and exercising total dominance over her family. She is acutely aware of social distinctions, proud of her power and prestige, and stands on her...
The Magic Skin - Honoré de Balzac
The Magic Skin - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Something along the lines of Dorian Gray as part of the Comedies Humane Philosophique, this is Balzac's first successful novel. He even wrote "criticisms" of the writing himself in promotion of the book, in addition to hyping the work before it even...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (version 2) - Charles Dickens
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
Martin Chuzzlewit was Dickens 6th novel, serially published in 1843 - 44. Irrespective of the fact that Dickens considered - "Chuzzlewit is in 100 points immeasurably the best of my stories"- it failed to resonate with, or capture the public's...
The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In this, the last of the Three Musketeers novels, Dumas builds on the true story of a mysterious prisoner held incognito in the French penal system, forced to wear a mask when seen by any but his jailer or his valet. If you have skipped the novels...
Coningsby, or The New Generation - Benjamin DISRAELI
Coningsby, or The New Generation - Benjamin DISRAELI
- Author: Benjamin DISRAELI
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the political turmoil following the passage of the Great Reform Bill by the Whigs in 1832 (a second Reform Bill was...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (version 3) - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (version 3) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Literary Fiction
An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s. Written by Mark Twain, the book shows masterfully-done satire, racism, childhood, and the importance of...
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4 - Marguerite of Navarre
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4 - Marguerite of Navarre
- Author: Marguerite of Navarre
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published before 1800
THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 4 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and infidelity,...
The Sacred Fount - Henry James
The Sacred Fount - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Published in 1901, The Sacred Fount delves into the interior observations and obsessions of one Englishman during a weekend gathering in the country. Regarding himself as a master of human psychology, the narrator watches the goings-on of the other...
The Moorland Cottage - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Moorland Cottage - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
"Maggie Brown is torn between her mother who constantly tells her to live for her selfish brother (to whom she gives all her love) to her wish to marry Frank and live for herself. Maggie's plight for independence shows the change in women's role,...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the second and final novel by Anne Brontë, is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, dissolute husband, and who must then support herself and her young son. Originally published in June of 1848, it...
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) - Murasaki SHIKIBU
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) - Murasaki SHIKIBU
- Author: Murasaki SHIKIBU
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Sagas / Published before 1800
The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the world's first novel,...
The Last Chronicle of Barset (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
The Last Chronicle of Barset (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Literary Fiction
LibriVox reader Nicholas Clifford calls this Trollope's best novel in his introduction to the collaborative version of this fine novel - and he is right! A wonderful study of its central character, the proud, irascible, tormented, poverty-stricken...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Detective Fiction
The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on March 7, 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in The Final Problem. Having...
Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories - Giovanni VERGA
Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories - Giovanni VERGA
- Author: Giovanni VERGA
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction
The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in rural, 19th-century Sicily. One of these stories, "Rustic Chivalry," or "Cavalleria rusticana," was the basis...
The Zeit-Geist - Lily DOUGALL
The Zeit-Geist - Lily DOUGALL
- Author: Lily DOUGALL
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"When travelling in Canada, in the region north of Lake Ontario, I came upon traces of the somewhat remarkable life which is the subject of the following sketch.Having applied to the school-master in the town where Bartholomew Toyner lived, I...
Seven Men - Max BEERBOHM
Seven Men - Max BEERBOHM
- Author: Max BEERBOHM
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively enough) Max Beerbohm wrote short biographies of six imaginary writers. Though their works of course no...
Emma (Version 6) - Jane Austen
Emma (Version 6) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively...
The Steel Flea - Nikolai Leskov
The Steel Flea - Nikolai Leskov
- Author: Nikolai Leskov
- Genre: Literary Fiction
An 1881 comic story by Nikolai Leskov, presented in the form of a traditional skaz or folk-tale, but entirely of Leskov's invention. It tells the story of a left-handed Russian artisan required to impress Tsar Nikolas I with his craftsmanship by...
