Literary Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 6
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Author: Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900 / Single Author Collections
This is a collection of well-written engaging short stories written by "Q", the pen name of the prolific and eccentric Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. - Summary by Amy Gramour...
Oliver Twist (version 3) - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Oliver Twist was published in 1838 as a three volume book. The novel was the first of Dickens' works to realistically portray the degradation and impoverishment of the London underworld and its denizens. Dickens utilises the environment and...
David Copperfield - Condensed by the Author for his Dramatic Readings in America - Charles Dickens
David Copperfield - Condensed by the Author for his Dramatic Readings in America - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"This short collection of 6 selected scenes from "David Copperfield" were abridged and performed by Dickens himself during his American Tour of 1867 and 1868."- Summary by Michael Armenta...
Utopia (Robinson translation) - Thomas MORE
Utopia (Robinson translation) - Thomas MORE
- Author: Thomas MORE
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Literary Fiction / Political Science
Originally entitled A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of publique weale, & of the newe yle, called Utopia: written in Latine, by ... Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson ... The first...
Audrey Craven - May Sinclair
Audrey Craven - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In May Sinclair’s remarkable first novel, Audrey Craven is a beautiful young woman who has by her idiosyncracies acquired a thoroughly undeserved reputation for originality. In fact, Audrey is a shallow, selfish, malleable person of negligible...
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment, Conrad being reputed to have detested...
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - Ann Radcliffe
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - Ann Radcliffe
- Author: Ann Radcliffe
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Ann Radcliffe is the founder of the gothic novel. This novel is no exception. The wicked baron murdered the good earl's father twelve years before the novel began. Only twelve years later, free from his mother's wishes, can the earl seek revenge....
Fire - Flowers - E. Pauline Johnson
Fire - Flowers - E. Pauline Johnson
- Author: E. Pauline Johnson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fire - Flowers by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 18, 2013. Fire-Flowers is taken from the book, Flint and Feather: Collected Verse by E. Pauline Johnson. (Summary...
Hieroglyphic Tales - Horace WALPOLE
Hieroglyphic Tales - Horace WALPOLE
- Author: Horace WALPOLE
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Literary Fiction
Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...mere whimsical trifles, written chiefly for private entertainment, and for private amusement... an attempt to vary...
The Steppe - Anton Chekhov
The Steppe - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Little Yegorushka goes off to school for the first time, setting out on the journey in the company of his Uncle Ivan, the local priest Father Christopher, and the fun-loving servant Deniska. Along the way they meet an extraordinarily colorful array...
Les Misérables Vol. 4 - Victor HUGO
Les Misérables Vol. 4 - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
This is book 4 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...
Birds of Prey - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Birds of Prey - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The first part of the book builds the characters of four con men who become interconnected and attempt their schemes on each other. This book is the first of a two part story, the second part is the book Charlotte's Inheritance....
Lost Illusions: Ève and David - Honoré de Balzac
Lost Illusions: Ève and David - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Ève and David (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France. In the first volume of the trilogy (Two Poets,...
A Tale of Two Cities (version 3) - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature. The novel...
The Journal of Julius Rodman - Edgar Allan Poe
The Journal of Julius Rodman - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The Journal of Julius Rodman, Being an Account of the First Passage across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized Man is an unfinished serial novel by American author Edgar Allan Poe published in 1840. Six installments of...
The World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / War & Military Fiction
This is the seventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a...
Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage Vol. 1 (version 2) - Dorothy Richardson
Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage Vol. 1 (version 2) - Dorothy Richardson
- Author: Dorothy Richardson
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Literary Fiction
"Pointed Roofs" is the first volume of "Pilgrimage," a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson considered to have pioneered the "stream of consciousness" technique of writing. In a review of Pointed Roofs (The Egoist April...
The Creators: A Comedy - May Sinclair
The Creators: A Comedy - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Jane Holland is a genius, the greatest of a group of extraordinary literary friends. She has an intense artistic and intellectual kinship with George Tanqueray, another remarkable novelist. Despite this keen spiritual relationship, both Holland and...
The Bride of Lammermoor - Sir Walter Scott
The Bride of Lammermoor - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
An historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, part of the Tales of My Landlord series, published anonymously in 1819. Based on a true story, it is set in south-east Scotland and (in this edition) in the reign of Queen Anne, after the 1707 Acts of Union...
The Idiot (Part 03 and 04) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot (Part 03 and 04) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society. The teeming St Petersburg...
Childhood (version 2) - Leo Tolstoy
Childhood (version 2) - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Literary Fiction
Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and...
A Hero of Our Time (Version 2) - Mikhail Yurevich LERMONTOV
A Hero of Our Time (Version 2) - Mikhail Yurevich LERMONTOV
- Author: Mikhail Yurevich LERMONTOV
- Genre: Literary Fiction
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Father Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
Father Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to have been an inspiration to Charles Dickens and Henry James as well as others, the novel seeks to portray the...
Crime and Punishment (Version 4 Dramatic Reading) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment (Version 4 Dramatic Reading) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Literary Fiction
The story tells of the inner turmoil of Rodion Raskolnikov, a student in St. Petersburg who commits murder. His psychological and moral agitation is furthered and complicated by his family's arrival in St. Petersburg, his sister's engagement to a...
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured out he surprises you. As you begin to like him, he does something to evoke the “what a rat” response. Male menopause wasn’t a...
The Immortal Moment - May Sinclair
The Immortal Moment - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This is one of the later works of May Sinclair – a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist – famous in Britain and the US after the 1904 publication of The Divine Fire. The Immortal Moment concerns the defining episode in the life of...
The Judgment of Eve - May Sinclair
The Judgment of Eve - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: General Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire
May Sinclair was a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist, famous in Britain and the US in the 1910’s and 20’s. The Judgment of Eve, like most of her novels, uses irony and understatement to expose the hypocrisy of the social order...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 22 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 22 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story Of H.M.S. Pinafore (Version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story Of H.M.S. Pinafore (Version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
Pinafore’s sublimely silly story is made even sillier by this (ostensibly for children) 1908 story version of the 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. Gilbert, the author of the operetta’s lyrics, writes this version of the story with his tongue...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 11 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 11 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 15 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 15 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 10 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 10 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
The King of Elfland's Daughter - Lord Dunsany
The King of Elfland's Daughter - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This is a 1924 fantasy novel by Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany, which became public domain in January 2020. It is widely recognized as one of the most acclaimed works in all of fantasy literature. Highly influential upon the fantasy genre as a...
Miss Crespigny - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Miss Crespigny - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
This is a less known, but not less beautiful, novel by the author of The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, The Lost Prince, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Shuttle, and many more. There is something different about miss Lysbeth Crespigny. Raised by...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 04 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 04 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
El Filibusterismo (The Reign of Greed) - José RIZAL
El Filibusterismo (The Reign of Greed) - José RIZAL
- Author: José RIZAL
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The Philippines, still a Spanish colony, are more or less run by the Catholic friars, and with an iron fist.. However, here and there are pockets of insurrection. In the countryside, a group of outlaws takes things in their own hands – including the...
The Murder of Delicia - Marie Corelli
The Murder of Delicia - Marie Corelli
- Author: Marie Corelli
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The following slight and unelaborated sketch of a very commonplace and everyday tragedy will, I am aware, meet with the unqualified disapproval of the 'superior' sex. They will assert, with much indignant emphasis, that the character of 'Lord...
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes - Joseph Conrad
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to run dangerous missions on their behalf, with the financial support of a beautiful but exceedingly baffling...
The Island of Doctor Moreau (Version 3) - H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau (Version 3) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
In 1896 HG Wells produced the Island of Doctor Moreau. After a fateful shipwreck, a chance rescue, and offer of safe harbor, Edward Prendick must contend with a dark science. A man of science, Prendick must wrestle with the ethics of its passions....
The Story of a Modern Woman (Version 2) - Ella Hepworth DIXON
The Story of a Modern Woman (Version 2) - Ella Hepworth DIXON
- Author: Ella Hepworth DIXON
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
“The Story of a Modern Woman” (1894) is a work of feminist social realism. In its time it was one of the most famous and influential novels to grow out of and shape the “New Woman” movement of the 1890s. It won such attention for its author that...
