Literary Fiction
90 books
Literary Fiction
561
May Sinclair - Tasker Jevons: The Real Story
In this May Sinclair wartime masterpiece, dashing newsman Walter Furnival is an absurdly good catch: handsome, successful, athletic, intelligent, an upstanding epitome of manhood and rectitude. Tasker Jevons is a...
9 hours 14 minutes
Literary Fiction
430
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
457
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
476
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
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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
