Literary Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 8
No More Parades - Ford Madox Ford
No More Parades - Ford Madox Ford
- Author: Ford Madox Ford
- Genre: Literary Fiction / War & Military Fiction
When No More Parades was first published in 1925, a critic in The Observer wrote of the first 100 pages that they "easily surpass in truth, brilliance and subtlety everything else that has yet been written in England about the physical circumstances...
Billy Budd - Herman Melville
Billy Budd - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Young naive sailor Billy Budd is impressed into military service with the British navy in the 1790s, framed for conspiracy to mutiny, summarily convicted in a drum-head court martial, and hanged. Billy Budd is the final published work by Herman...
Martin Chuzzlewit (Version 3) - Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit (Version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Dickens portrayal of selfishness, in this case in the Chuzzlewit family. Old Martin has a great fortune, and everyone wants in on it, especially distant cousin Seth Pecksniff. Meanwhile, his grandson, young Martin, has fallen in love with his...
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 13 - Various
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 13 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Anthologies
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 08 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 08 - 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....
Cut by the County; or, Grace Darnel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Cut by the County; or, Grace Darnel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Detective Fiction
Darnel Park is situated in a county that thrives on gossip and secrets, and the Darnel family, as it turns out, has many of them. An attempt at Sir Allan Darnelβs life, after various misunderstandings and misdirections, reveals an estranged son and...
The Rainbow (Version 3) - D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow (Version 3) - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
The Rainbow is the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a sexual and religious collection of incidents that eventually shows the inertia of an individual consciousness to outgrow the commonplace and embrace the reality that lies beyond...
The Prelude To Adventure - Hugh Walpole
The Prelude To Adventure - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole novelizes the Francis Thompson poem The Hound of Heaven, about a fearful soul pursued by an insistently loving God....
A Woman Of Yesterday - Caroline Atwater Mason
A Woman Of Yesterday - Caroline Atwater Mason
- Author: Caroline Atwater Mason
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Religious Fiction
Anna is the daughter of a clergyman in a small town in Vermont. She is very happy with her lot. But when she goes to nurse a woman in the big city, she starts to discover the world. She sees new places, meets new people, and falls in love. This will...
At a Winter's Fire - Bernard Capes
At a Winter's Fire - Bernard Capes
- Author: Bernard Capes
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Literary Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
This is a book of stories by Bernard Capes to entertain you if you should find yourself in a cozy chair by the fireplace during the short dark days of winter. - Summary by A. Gramour...
Death in Venice - Thomas MANN
Death in Venice - Thomas MANN
- Author: Thomas MANN
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Thomas Mann, author of Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) was a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. The main character in this novella is Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous author in his early 50s who was widowed at an early age. In...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 01 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 01 - 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....
Silas Marner (Version 3) - George Eliot
Silas Marner (Version 3) - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Silas Marner is a hermit-style weaver who keeps to himself and is eyed with suspicion by those in the nearby town of Raveloe. Dispelled from his religious community as a young man after being accused of a crime, Marner finds solace in weaving and in...
The Metamorphosis (version 5) - Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis (version 5) - Franz Kafka
- Author: Franz Kafka
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Inexplicably, young Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning having turned into a large bug. The story follows how him and his family deal with the absurdity of such a situation, leading the reader on a bizarre, dreamlike exploration of family, alienation,...
The Fortunes of Nigel - Sir Walter Scott
The Fortunes of Nigel - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction
During the turbulent moment in English history involving King James 1 and 6, Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish lord, seeks to protect his family home and holdings, but meets with recalcitrance and treachery, which eventually results in his imprisonment....
The Town Traveller - George Gissing
The Town Traveller - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction
The town traveller is himself a British salesman, living in a lower class part of London in the Victorian era. The story depicts his interactions with his neighbors, and thus brings us images and vocabulary of personal exchanges, street scenes and...
A Daughter of Today - Sara Jeannette Duncan
A Daughter of Today - Sara Jeannette Duncan
- Author: Sara Jeannette Duncan
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The Canadian author Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes) is today best known for her 1904 novel of Ontario life, βThe Imperialistβ (also available as a LibriVox recording), but in Duncanβs own time readers were impressed more by her other...
The Grim Smile Of The Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
The Grim Smile Of The Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Single Author Collections
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907) is the second major collection of stories written by Arnold Bennett. (The first is Tales Of The Five Towns, 1905, available at Librivox.).The five towns of the title are the conurbation of Stoke-on-Trent in...
The Wind - Dorothy Scarborough
The Wind - Dorothy Scarborough
- Author: Dorothy Scarborough
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Westerns
After her mother's death, Letty is forced to move in with her only relative, cousin Bev. From the start, the naive 18-year-old finds it difficult to adjust to life in the tiny homestead of Bev and his family, and her sheltered upbringing has left...
Some Do Not... - Ford Madox Ford
Some Do Not... - Ford Madox Ford
- Author: Ford Madox Ford
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Set immediately before and during the Great War, Some Do Not... is a tale of social cruelty among the English upper classes that pits real honour against shameless duplicity and subjects its principal characters to extremes of mental suffering that...
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"Mrs. Dalloway" recounts a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in the middle of June 1923. Clarissa Dalloway is a high society London lady. On that day, she is hosting a party, meeting people, going to the park, and reflecting on her choices. Where...
Tales of Unrest (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
Tales of Unrest (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Single Author Collections
A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability. After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children, a farmer's wife is determined to bear no more. A spoonful of sugar brings a neophyte ivory trader to a moment of Nietzschean...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 17 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 17 - 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....
Nana - Γmile Zola
Nana - Γmile Zola
- Author: Γmile Zola
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Excerpt from Introduction: "Nana" stands third in popularity among the Zola novels. It is a study of the prostitute type and it gives a memorable picture of the life of the tinsel underworld of the Paris theaters, night life, and its parasites....
The Untempered Wind - Joanna E. Wood
The Untempered Wind - Joanna E. Wood
- Author: Joanna E. Wood
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Upon publication of βThe Untempered Windβ in 1894, Joanna Wood quickly rose to international prominence, becoming in the next few years the most highly paid fiction-writer in Canada. In this novel, we find a detailed picture of village life. The...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 16 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 16 - 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....
Taking the Bastile - Alexandre Dumas
Taking the Bastile - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Pitou lost his mother when he was small. He was raised by a stern aunt who did not really love him. He starts knowing the world by going to service. How can this man, Pitou the Peasant (as the subtitle of the novel suggests) go on to influence the...
The Good Soldier (Version 2) - Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier (Version 2) - Ford Madox Ford
- Author: Ford Madox Ford
- Genre: Literary Fiction
First published in 1915, The Good Soldier might be characterised as a melodrama of English upper class infidelities, cut into little pieces, then retold out of sequence by a narrator who occasionally appears to be half asleep. That is not wholly...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 20 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 20 - 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 Merry-Go-Round - W. Somerset Maugham
The Merry-Go-Round - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Basil Kent marries Jenny Bush, because he believes that is the honourable thing to do after getting her pregnant, but he realizes that he is really in love with Hilda Murray. Grace Castillyon, an established married woman of position, has fallen...
The Forgery - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
The Forgery - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well although happiness is not enduring. The other defers her marriage, knowing her father disapproves of her choice. The...
The Mill on the Floss (Version 2) - George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss (Version 2) - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
The Mill on the Floss is George Eliotβs second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver growing up on the river Floss near the town of St. Oggs (a...
A Woman of Genius - Mary Hunter AUSTIN
A Woman of Genius - Mary Hunter AUSTIN
- Author: Mary Hunter AUSTIN
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Literary Fiction
In this 1912 novel, Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) draws inspiration from her own life to tell the story of a gifted woman caught between her public ambition and her private desire. Beginning with her post-Civil War Midwestern girlhood, Austin...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 02 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 02 - 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 Double: A Petersburg Poem (Version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Double: A Petersburg Poem (Version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In this classic novella, the life of a drab office clerk named Golyadkin begins to be haunted by his "doppelgΓ€nger," a man identical to him possessing all the charm and charisma Golyadkin lacks. This double shows up over and over again, succeeding...
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition, of the careless rich, of wild parties and flappers and bootleg booze; and the efforts of a dreamer to reunite with his lost love. - Summary by Kara...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 19 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 19 - 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 Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
The time of French king Louis XIV was a time of religious conflict. His father, Louis XIII had tried to suppress the teachings and followers of Calvin but was thwarted by his ministers. The son took a different path. The king was Catholic, and...
Nami-ko - Kenjiro Tokutomi
Nami-ko - Kenjiro Tokutomi
- Author: Kenjiro Tokutomi
- Genre: Family Life / Literary Fiction
Nami-ko, a young woman of a noble Japanese family, has recently married the naval officer Takeo, the only heir of a friend of her father's. The couple is very happy together and Takeo is doing everything to create the perfect life for his wife, even...
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny - Alexandre Dumas
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
This 5th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins after the fall of the Bastille and the March on Versailles, which forced Louis XVI and his court to be escorted back to Paris. In Paris, political factions battle over the fate of the nation,...
