Literary Fiction
90 books
Humorous Fiction
485
Unknown - Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation)
A whimsical collection of stories about a wandering street urchin, Lazarillo de Tormes is a classic of the Spanish Golden Age, even paid homage in Cervantes’ Don Quixote . Rendered homeless by the arrest of his...
1 hour 34 minutes
Literary Fiction
485
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon - Armand Durand
Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks to her Montreal education and marriage to a man from an old Québécois family....
7 hours 41 minutes
Literary Fiction
509
Henry James - Portrait of a Lady (version 3)
Our central character is Isabel Archer of Albany, New York, a young woman of no great means, and no great beauty (that is, by her own estimation; others disagree) yet of rich imagination, high ideals and a thirst for...
25 hours 5 minutes
Literary Fiction
457
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Elsie Venner
Bernard Langdon is close to earning his degree in medicine when his family finds itself in financial difficulties, forcing Langdon to interrupt his studies for a time in order to earn money with which to fund the rest...
15 hours 57 minutes
