Literary Criticism

Liza of Lambeth

by W. Somerset Maugham Read by Hatton43 4.5
Liza of Lambeth focuses on the challenges of life facing Liza, an 18 year old factory girl who lives in the poverty of the slums of 1890s Lo…

Summer

by Edith Wharton Read by Robin Cotter 4.5
The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity …

Little Dorrit

by Charles Dickens Read by Ellis Christoff 4.6
Born in the Marshalsea Prison for Debtors, Amy—Little Dorrit—the daughter of the ruined, but self-respectful William Dorrit, has put her ent…

At the Foot of the Rainbow

by Gene Stratton-Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
This story is about three people, two men and a woman. Jimmy, selfish and deceitful, who has shamelessly lied to, cheated, and used his dear…

The Duel

by Anton Chekhov Read by Phil Griffiths 4.4
The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in the Caucasus after running away with another man's wife, Nadyezhda…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters…

Crimen y castigo

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Epachuko 4.7
Obra cumbre de la literatura rusa y universal. Probablemente la más conocida de Dostoyesky. Está dividida en 6 partes y un ep&…

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens Read by Euthymius 4.6
The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of cur…

Der Stechlin

by Theodor Fontane Read by Hans Hafen 5
"Der Stechlin" ist Fontanes letzter großer Roman. Die Handlung rankt sich um das uralte märkische Adelsgeschlecht derer…

Youth, a Narrative

by Joseph Conrad Read by Chris Hughes 4.8
Youth, a Narrative is a reflective short story that captures the essence of youthful ambition and the bittersweet nature of growing up. Narr…

Le Père Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Bernard 4.8
Le Père Goriot est un roman d’Honoré de Balzac, écrit en 1834, dont la publication débute dans la Revue de Paris…

The Man of Property

by John Galsworthy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. The Man of Pro…

McTeague

by Frank Norris Read by Jeff Robinson 4.6
McTeague is a simple dentist who becomes infatuated with Trina, the cousin of his friend Marcus. Trina then buys a winning lottery ticket wo…

Dead Souls

by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of …

Los Miserables

by Victor Hugo Read by Mongope 4.8
Los miserables (título original en francés: Les misérables) es una novela del político, poeta y escritor franc&e…

Main Street

by Sinclair Lewis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is…

Felix Holt, The Radical

by George Eliot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …

Daisy Miller

by Henry James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatr…

The Art of Fiction

by Henry James Read by Julie VW 4.6
A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…

Ulysses

by James Joyce Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Ulysses is a groundbreaking novel in which Irish author James Joyce explores realism through stream-of-consciousness technique and shifting …

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