Category Archives: Literary Fiction
The Papers
Author(s): Henry James Today the world is awash with “celebrities” whose only accomplishment is being...
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 3)
Author(s): Thomas Hardy In a fit of drunkenness, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby...
The Last Chronicle of Barset (version 2)
Author(s): Anthony Trollope LibriVox reader Nicholas Clifford calls this Trollope’s best novel in his introduction...
The Mill on the Floss (Version 2)
Author(s): George Eliot The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was...
The Metamorphosis (version 5)
Author(s): Franz Kafka Inexplicably, young Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning having turned into a...
The Portrait of a Lady (version 3)
Author(s): Henry James Our central character is Isabel Archer of Albany, New York, a young...
The Magic Skin
Author(s): Honoré de Balzac Something along the lines of Dorian Gray as part of the...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Version 3)
Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure,...
The Master’s Violin
Author(s): Myrtle Reed Originally published in 1904, “The Master’s Violin” is the seventh novel by...
The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1
Author(s): Eugène Sue The Mysteries of Paris (French: Les Mystères de Paris) is a novel...
The Merry-Go-Round
Author(s): W. Somerset Maugham Basil Kent marries Jenny Bush, because he believes that is the...
The Romany Rye
Author(s): George Borrow “The Romany Rye” is a direct continuation of George Borrow’s “Lavengro”, taking...
The Lady of the Aroostook
Author(s): William Dean Howells Lydia blood is young, beautiful, intelligent and has a wonderful singing...
The Immortal Moment
Author(s): May Sinclair This is one of the later works of May Sinclair – a...
The Man in the Iron Mask
Author(s): Alexandre Dumas In this, the last of the Three Musketeers novels, Dumas builds on...
The Red and the Black
Author(s): Stendhal It is a brave author indeed who gives his hero as many flaws...
The Quest of the Golden Girl
Author(s): Richard le Gallienne The main character fears that he will never get married and...
The Journal of Julius Rodman
Author(s): Edgar Allan Poe The Journal of Julius Rodman, Being an Account of the First...
The Moon and Sixpence
Author(s): W. Somerset Maugham The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William...
The Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District
Author(s): Nikolai Leskov In Mzinsk, a remote Russian town, adultery is Katerina’s relief from boredom....
The Magpie
Author(s): Douglas Durkin In the aftermath of World War I, even the victors are rocked...
The Romantic
Author(s): May Sinclair As a simple story told, “The Romantic” is one of Sinclair’s tightest...
The Rescue
Author(s): Joseph Conrad “The Rescue” is the third of Conrad’s novels to feature Captain Tom...
The Hero
Author(s): W. Somerset Maugham James Parsons comes home to Little Primpton after serving in the...
The Great Gatsby (version 4)
Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby follows a cast of characters living in the...
The Black Candle
Author(s): Emily Murphy Emily Murphy wrote about the Vancouver, BC Downtown Eastside and its various...
The Double: A Petersburg Poem (Version 2)
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky In this classic novella, the life of a drab office clerk named...
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2)
Author(s): Henry Fielding _”I do not pretend to say the young man is without faults;...
The Beast in the Jungle (version 2)
Author(s): Henry James One of James’s last great stories, it is not actually a ghost...
The Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes)
Author(s): Marcel Proust Vols. 3 and 4 of Remembrance of Things Past. The hero, Marcel,...