Literary Criticism

The Three Sisters

by May Sinclair Read by Expatriate 4.1
Fascinated as she was by the lives of the Brontë siblings, May Sinclair loosely based her subtly sensual, quietly insurrectionary 1914 …

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…

Der Schimmelreiter

by Theodor Storm Read by Felix 4.5
In einer Nordseegemeinde taucht vor drohenden Sturmfluten und Deichbrüchen eine gespenstische Gestalt auf dem Deich auf. Der Geist reit…

Robert Browning

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.8
There is an old anecdote, probably apocryphal, which describes how a feminine admirer wrote to Browning asking him for the meaning of one of…

The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …

Notre Dame

by Victor Hugo Read by Ramona Deininger-Schnabel 4.6
Auch bekannt als 'Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame'. Der Roman beinhaltet mehrere Handlungsstränge, die nach und nach ineinanderflie&sz…

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…

Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe

by Gottfried Keller Read by Karlsson 4.7
Victor (Viggi) Störteler betreibt ein einträgliches Speditions- und Warengeschäft und hat ein "hübsches, gesundes u…

The Beast in the Jungle

by Henry James Read by Rob James 3.8
The Beast in the Jungle is a poignant exploration of fate and the human condition, centered on John Marcher, a man who believes he is destin…

The Figure in the Carpet

by Henry James Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4
The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admires the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows h…

Just Sweethearts

by Harry Stillwell Edwards Read by David Wales 4.4
“Clearly he was one of those rare beings who can radiate energy standing still and convey the impression of impetuous force without motion, …

El huésped secreto

by Joseph Conrad Read by Victor Villarraza 4.4
La historia de El huésped secreto se abre con una minuciosa descripción del momento previo a la partida, del instante en que e…

Where Angels Fear to Tread

by E. M. Forster Read by Julie Pandya 4
On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy …

Sanctuary

by Edith Wharton Read by Jacquerie 4.3
Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, n…

The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
The Good Soldier (1915) "... is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples.…

Within a Budding Grove

by Marcel Proust 5
In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seve…

Crome Yellow

by Aldous Huxley Read by Expatriate 4.4
Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley's spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell's famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. T…

A Tale of a Tub

by Jonathan Swift Read by Edmund Bloxam 3.6
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697, that was eventually published in 1704. I…

Le Roman de la momie

by Théophile Gautier Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet 4.4
Un riche lord anglais, Lord Evandale, découvre avec son ami scientifique Rumphius une tombe non profanée dans la Vallée…

Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma

by Lima Barreto Read by Miramontes 4.6
Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma é um romance do pré-modernismo brasileiro e considerado por alguns o principal representante …

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