Literary Fiction
90 books
Literary Fiction
802
Honoré de Balzac - Father Goriot (version 2)
Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Paris in 1819, after Napoleon's defeat and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy....
11 hours 27 minutes
Literary Fiction
1.1K
Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers (version 3)
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...
29 hours 49 minutes
Literary Fiction
876
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
823
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
Family Life
742
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
