Literary Fiction
90 books
Literary Fiction
474
Robert Louis Stevenson - Island Nights' Entertainments
A marvelous depiction of two sides of South Sea Islands' life through three separate tales. One, the experience of the incoming British keen to live free and exploit the innocent; the other the supernatural as...
5 hours 44 minutes
Literary Fiction
493
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey (version 4)
If it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good-looking girl cannot fail of attracting a clever young man does it follow that the reverse is also true? If the man comes of a terrifyingly dysfunctional family and...
9 hours 50 minutes
Literary Fiction
639
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Anthony Trollope - Last Chronicle of Barset (version 2)
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,...
31 hours 22 minutes
Family Life
426
Catherine Grace Frances Gore - Mrs. Armytage, or Female Domination
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...
17 hours 7 minutes