Drama

Henry VIII

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
This is Shakespeare's dutiful trubute to one of the most imposing and terrifying rulers in European history. The kingdom trembles as the gia…

Titus Andronicus

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeare's earliest tragedy; it is believed to have been written in the early 1590s. It depicts a Roman general w…

La Comédie Humaine: Scènes de la vie privée

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Bernard 4.6
Ce n'était pas une petite tâche que de peindre les deux ou trois mille figures saillantes d'une époque, car telle est, e…

Seven Against Thebes

by Aeschylus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
In this, the only extant tragedy from Aeschylus' trilogy about the House of Oedipus, Thebes is under siege from Polynices, a former prince o…

The Trespasser

by D. H. Lawrence Read by Martin Geeson 3.9
Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde - on the Isle of Wight, under a vast sky florid with stars. The consequence is tragic indeed for on…

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson Read by Nicole Lee 4.4
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady is a profound exploration of virtue and the struggles of a young woman in 18th-century Engl…

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy Read by Debra Lynn 4.6
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character&…

Hippolytus

by Euripides Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Eurpides' tragedy tells of Theseus' chaste son Hippolytus, who refuses to worship Aphrodite in favor of Artemis. Aphrodite gets revenge by c…

El País del Placer

by Edith Wharton Read by Victor Villarraza 4.5
El país del placer llamada así por la primera traducción en español de esta novela de Edith Wharton publicada po…

Emma

by Jane Austen Read by Sherry Crowther 4.3
Sherry reads Jane Austen’s sparkling comedy of manners with wit and vivacity, and brings the characters to life. Mr. Woodhouse worries and f…

Prometheus Bound

by Aeschylus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
"Prometheus Bound" is the only complete tragedy of the Prometheia trilogy, traditionally assumed to be the work of Aeschylus. Jupi…

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty …

Niebla

by Miguel De Unamuno Read by Mongope 4.6
Niebla es una de las obras más conocidas de Unamuno. Esta “nivola”, como el propio autor la denominó quizás para difere…

The Takeover

by Mur Lafferty Read by Mur Lafferty 3.8
If you've ever worked with corporate zombies, then you've experienced The Takeover. Web designer Maureen and her friends struggle to adapt t…

The Red and the Black

by Stendhal Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Ba…

The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
In Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, the lives of two young men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, intertwine in a web of m…

The Machine

by Upton Sinclair Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Upton Sinclair is best known for his novel The Jungle, an expose of the meatpacking industry. He was also a playwright whose works for the s…

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011) 4.3
Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to…

Bel Ami

by Guy de Maupassant Read by Martin Geeson 4.5
“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all women yielded to …

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka Read by Phil Chenevert 4.6
This story, about a man who wakes up transformed into a bug and the repercussions it has on his life and the people around him, has intrigue…

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