Drama

The Film of Fear

by Frederick Arnold Kummer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
(Written under the pseudonym, Arnold Fredericks.)Ruth Morton is a world-renowned film actress who seems to have it all: youth, beauty, wealt…

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 Maid of Maiden Lane

by Amelia E. Barr Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in …

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Perhaps the most controversial of Shakespeare's comedies, The Merchant of Venice tells the tale of a man, Bassanio, who has a crazy plan to …

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare Read by Sam Stinson 4.5
Romeo and Juliet is an early tragedy by William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose "untimely deaths&qu…

The Strange Gentleman

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Before he became a novelist, Dickens wrote several successful plays. This one from 1836, his first, he called, “A Comic Burletta in Two Acts…

Faust I

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal w…

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Banished from his own lands by a usurping brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been living on a deserted island for years, until …

Joshua

by Georg Ebers Read by Ann Boulais 3.5
Hosea is a commander in Pharaoh's army... and a Hebrew. As he returns home from war, he finds that there has been a great pestilence in Egy…

Philoctetes

by Sophocles Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Sophocles' play recounts an episode from the Trojan War, in which the wily Odysseus and Achilles' son Neoptolemus travel to a remote island …

The Double

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.1
This is the story of a mild-mannered civil servant, Mr. Golyadkin, who begins to see his "doppelganger" appearing in his life (at …

Tartuffe

by Molière Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greates…

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evi…

Camilla

by Frances Burney Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels…

Alice in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A dramatization of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass for the stage. In this version, Alice goes…

The Changeling

by Thomas Middleton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
The Changeling is a sensational 1622 tragicomedy by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley that comprises two intertwining plots. The first inv…

See Tom Run

by Scott Wittenburg Read by Scott Wittenburg 4.1
Tom Grayson returns home from a quick errand to discover that his family and guests have all mysteriously disappeared. Prior to this chillin…

Cinderella

by George Calderon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
If you are expecting glass slippers and pumpkin coaches, look elsewhere... This is "a pantomime as Ibsen would have written it, if only…

Dracula

by Bram Stoker Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Bram Stoker did not invent the vampire story, but he popularized it with his classic 1897 novel. In form Dracula is an epistolary novel, to…

The Girl with the Golden Eyes

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Martin Geeson 3.2
Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts th…

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