Literary Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 5
David Copperfield (version 2) - Charles Dickens
David Copperfield (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Literary Fiction
The story is told almost entirely from the point of view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself, and was the first Dickens novel to be written as such a narration. The story deals with the life of David Copperfield from childhood to...
The Beast in the Jungle (version 2) - Henry James
The Beast in the Jungle (version 2) - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
One of James's last great stories, it is not actually a ghost story but has every claim to be considered such with its mysterious spectral essences surviving death and summoning the central character towards - well, what, exactly? That query is of...
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft - George Gissing
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death. There is very little in the way of plot, but a great deal of quiet musing about art, nature, society, and...
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid - Thomas Hardy
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
A milkmaid, Margery, encounters a mysterious foreigner and perhaps prevents him from committing suicide. In gratitude, the man offers her any reward she can name. She tells him she wants to go to a ball. He takes her, admittedly a bit reluctantly,...
The Pickwick Papers (version 3) - Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Mr Pickwick, founder of the Pickwick Club, sets out with his three friends, Tupman, Snodgrass, and Winkle, to observe the world. They intend to travel to places in England remote from London, and observe their findings which they send back to the...
The Romantic - May Sinclair
The Romantic - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
As a simple story told, "The Romantic" is one of Sinclair’s tightest and most compelling. Charlotte Redhead, a young British secretary, finds herself in a degrading extra-marital affair with her boss. In reaction, she renounces Sex and links herself...
The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Published in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in 19th-century Britain. At that time, the management of many Irish estates suffered from the absenteeism of their Anglo-Irish landlords. We meet Lord and Lady Clonbrony....
In Vino Veritas, from Stages on Life’s Way - Soren KIERKEGAARD
In Vino Veritas, from Stages on Life’s Way - Soren KIERKEGAARD
- Author: Soren KIERKEGAARD
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Psychology
In Vino Veritas is one section of Kierkegaard's Stages on Life's Way, originally published in 1845. In a conscious reference to Plato's Symposium, it is determined that each participant must give a speech, and that their topic shall be love. Lee M....
Les Misérables Vol. 3 - Victor HUGO
Les Misérables Vol. 3 - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
This is book 3 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...
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818) - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818) - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Literary Fiction
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years old. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818, and this audiobook is read from that...
The Wolf-Leader - Alexandre Dumas
The Wolf-Leader - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Literary Fiction
Part local legend of a dark and dangerous Wolf-Leader, part childhood memories of his home near Villers-Cotterets, in Aisne, Dumas here penned a chilling supernaturlal encounter between man and the devil. Our hero, Thibault the shoemaker, is beaten...
Armand Durand - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
Armand Durand - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
- Author: Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks to her Montreal education and marriage to a man from an old Québécois family. Paul Durand, a prosperous...
Dombey and Son (version 3) - Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
To Paul Dombey, the business is everything, and he must have a son who will learn the business and eventually inherit it. Will his newborn, but sickly son be the fulfilment of his hopes and dreams? And what about his daughter Florence, who made the...
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6 - Samuel Richardson
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6 - Samuel Richardson
- Author: Samuel Richardson
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Literary Fiction
It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, It is generally regarded as Richardson's masterpiece. This is Volume six out of a series of nine Volumes. Letter 6 read by TriciaG, wib66, Timothy...
Another Study of Woman - Honoré de Balzac
Another Study of Woman - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A series of tales -- told by men, of course -- about women. Though the book first appeared in 1842, Balzac later added to it as an addenfum a tale of 1831, La Grande Bretèche. That will be read later, keeping it separate to mirror the form of the...
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas's most popular work. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like...
The Tysons - May Sinclair
The Tysons - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance / Satire
Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, "The Tysons" is the story of the caddish Nevill Tyson and his beautiful but frivolous young wife Molly. Sinclair uses a different narrative voice...
Jenny - Sigrid UNDSET
Jenny - Sigrid UNDSET
- Author: Sigrid UNDSET
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Jenny Winge is a Norwegian expatriate studying art in Rome, part of a Bohemian group of friends who explore the ancient City in an intoxicating passion for Beauty. Yearning for an immortal Love, she allows herself to fall into less-than-ideal...
The Coast of Bohemia - William Dean Howells
The Coast of Bohemia - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable society and the dubious bohemian world of Art and Poetry. Cornelia Saunders has everything going for her in her...
La Grande Bretèche - Honoré de Balzac
La Grande Bretèche - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction
La Grande Bretèche is an addendum to Balzac's Another Study of Woman, and is the final of a set of stories told around a dinner table. This one, given to the guests at about two in the morning, is tale of marital infidelity and revenge,and perhaps...
A Hazard of New Fortunes - William Dean Howells
A Hazard of New Fortunes - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Howell’s novel is set in New York of the late nineteenth century, a city familiar to readers of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Basil March, a businessman from Boston of a literary bent, moves with his family to New York to edit a new journal founded...
A Common Story - Ivan Goncharov
A Common Story - Ivan Goncharov
- Author: Ivan Goncharov
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Satire
Alexander Fedoritch Adouev is the naïve, pampered son of Anna Pavlovna, a provincial landowner. He decides to go off to Saint Petersburg, not only to make his mark upon society but also to fulfill his two rosy romantic dreams of becoming a great...
Parodies on Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade - Walter HAMILTON
Parodies on Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade - Walter HAMILTON
- Author: Walter HAMILTON
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
This extract, taken from Parodies of the works of English and American Authors, vol 1, of parodies of Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade covers such topics as the Clergy, the Fairer Sex, Doctors, Engineers and many others. - Summary by Kim...
Waverley, Volume 2 - Sir Walter Scott
Waverley, Volume 2 - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'). It relates the story of a young dreamer and English soldier, Edward Waverley, who...
Love Among the Artists - George Bernard Shaw
Love Among the Artists - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Love Among the Artists was published in the United States in 1900 and in England in 1914, but it was written in 1881. In the ambience of chit-chat and frivolity among members of Victorian polite society a youthful Shaw describes his views on the...
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel, narrated (occasionally charmingly, always unreliably) by a member of the 18th-century Irish gentry. Redmond...
Lord Beaupre - Henry James
Lord Beaupre - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
What is a young man to do, when because of his pleasant disposition, and (of course) his considerable wealth, he finds himself besieged by bevies of eligible young women, some beautiful, some less so (some, even, his own cousins)? How on earth is he...
Mardi Vol. 2 - Herman Melville
Mardi Vol. 2 - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Mardi is Melville's first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates man's beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over another--or is it all simply a sham? Mardi is a poetically existential analysis of religious truths as told...
Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (version 2 dramatic reading) - Henry James
Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (version 2 dramatic reading) - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Literary Fiction
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1879, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Frederick Winterbourne, a...
Limanora, The Island Of Progress - Godfrey SWEVEN
Limanora, The Island Of Progress - Godfrey SWEVEN
- Author: Godfrey SWEVEN
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Our ethereal man with wings, whom we met in Riallaro, continues his tale about Limanora which is a Utopian Island created as an experiment in Eugenics. Medical and technological advances have led to a central Power Source, computers, and weather...
Cousin Pons - Honoré de Balzac
Cousin Pons - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Cousin Pons is one of the final works in Balzac's long novel series titled The Human Comedy. It was published in 1847, along with Cousin Betty, as one of a complementary pair of novels, collectively titled Poor Relations. While Cousin Betty tells...
Iracema, the Honey-Lips: a Legend of Brazil - José de ALENCAR
Iracema, the Honey-Lips: a Legend of Brazil - José de ALENCAR
- Author: José de ALENCAR
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Iracema (translated as Iracema, the Honey Lips: a legend of Brazil) is considered one of the most important books of Brazilian romanticism, but also of Brazilian literature as a whole. It's been called a poem in prose, a poetic novel, a...
The House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The House of the Dead is a novel published in 1861 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. Dostoyevsky himself spent four years in exile in such a camp following his conviction for...
The Explorer - W. Somerset Maugham
The Explorer - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Literary Fiction
An early novel by W. Somerset Maugham about conflicting feelings of self-integrity, filial love, romantic love. Lucy Allerton and Alec MacKenzie have to choose between grasping happiness that is their due and upholding a set of moral values that...
My Life: The Story of a Provincial - Anton Chekhov
My Life: The Story of a Provincial - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A provincial youth of wealth and noble status refuses to employ himself in the typical occupations of the higher classes, thus acquiring a reputation as a lazy good-for-nothing. In reality, he is intensely sensitive to the injustices perpetrated by...
Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled La Comédie Humaine. Set in a provincial town in post-Revolutionary France, the story...
Howards End (version 3) - E. M. Forster
Howards End (version 3) - E. M. Forster
- Author: E. M. Forster
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Considered Forster's masterpiece and one of the best books of the 20th century, Howards End tackles social conventions of the Edwardian era. The story focuses on three families in England at the beginning of the 20th century: the Wilcoxes, rich...
The Chaperon - Henry James
The Chaperon - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker than water, and the daughter remains loyal to her erring parent, how far will affect her own standing in society...
Peccavi - E. W. Hornung
Peccavi - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Literary Fiction
How does a man who as committed a heavy sin — not a crime, but a sin with terrible consequences — atone for his behaviour? What if the man is a priest of the Church of England? That is the central question of E. W. Hornung’s Peccavi (I have sinned)....
The Combined Maze - May Sinclair
The Combined Maze - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Ranny Ransome is an idealistic young man, devoted to exuberant gymnastic exercises and to fighting “flabbiness” in his own life, body and soul. He loves the girlish and athletic Winny Dymond, and particularly loves participating with her in the...
