Literary Fiction
90 books
Literary Fiction
525
Edith Wharton - Custom of the Country (version 2)
Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional Midwestern Apex City to New York to Paris. Undine is determined to acquire...
14 hours 15 minutes
Literary Fiction
470
Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge (version 3)
In a fit of drunkenness, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter to the highest bidder at a country fair. He lives with regret and swears off drink, until his wife and daughter return eighteen years later,...
11 hours 29 minutes