Literary Fiction Audiobooks

This is the sixth volume in a nine-volume series. It tells the harrowing story of a heroine's quest for virtue, which her family constantly thwarts. It is generally considered to be Richardson's masterpiece. Letter 6 was read by TriciaG, wib66, Timothy Ferguson, and Adonis. (Michelle Eaton)...

Twenty stories were originally published in Household and All Year magazine's Christmas editions. Some reports have little to no holiday cheer, instead showing Dickens' anger at his day's social and economic injustice. Some stories are written in collaboration with other authors. The book's editors...

From 1843 to 1848, Charles Dickens wrote five short stories to be published on Christmas Day. Most people are familiar with the first "A Christmas Carol." The others are "The Bell," "The Cricket on the Fireside," "The Battle of Life," and "The Haunted...

Childhood, the first novel by Leo Tolstoy, was published under the initials LN in the November 1852 issue of the famous Russian literary magazine The Contemporary. It was the first in a series of three novels, followed by Boyhood and Boyhood. Published when Tolstoy was 23, the book was an instant...

"You are an expert in the psychological wilderness," the titular narrator of this riveting tale once tells Marlowe, who is, in fact, the chief discoverer and commentator on the vagaries of human behavior in this hidden-event novel. In Chance, these are most evident in the actions of the...

Chaucer's famous and important work is based on the premise that a well-known medieval group of Christians of various professions, a considerable number of whom were in church, was worshiping at the tomb of Thomas Becket in the Cathedral of Our Lady. canterbury. The host suggested that each...

When Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, the quote specifically referred to his first novel, Budden Brooks, published in 1901, calling it "the first great novel of the 20th century." The novel focuses on the Buddenbrucks family, middle-class owners of a grain wholesale...

Originally published in serial form in 1879-80, The Brothers Karamazov is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of world literature. It was the last and best novel of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who died before writing the planned sequel. The story first revolves around how adult sons deal with their...

Botchan is the story of a young Tokyo math teacher whose first assignment is to a rural middle school. He's not exactly lucky in his arrival: the students have to test his stamina and comment on his every blunder with glee. In the staff room, he soon finds himself drawn into a conspiracy between...

Bleak House is one of Dickens' most significant achievements. It was written for a sequel in 1853 when Dickens was at the height of his career. Monthly sales greatly surpassed his previous bestseller, David Copperfield. Dickens' mastery of the English language stands out in this book. This dynamic...