Literary Fiction
90 books
Literary Fiction
532
Marguerite of Navarre - Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4
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...
3 hours 51 minutes
Humorous Fiction
490
Henri Murger - Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
As much as any other work of literature, Henri Murger’s 1851 collection of witty sketches Scènes de la vie de bohème shaped the later romanticized image of the bohemian artist: independent, insouciant, exuberantly...
9 hours 59 minutes
Literary Fiction
462
William Dean Howells - Indian Summer (version 2)
Set in Florence's Anglo-American colony in the late 19th century, this is a romantic story of a middle-aged man, returning to the scene of his first but disappointed love twenty years earlier. The doings of Americans...
9 hours 47 minutes
Literary Fiction
531
D. H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers (Version 2)
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....
16 hours 21 minutes
Literary Fiction
526
Anton Chekhov - My Life: The Story of a Provincial
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...
3 hours 41 minutes
