All audiobooks
My Life: The Story of a Provincial
by Anton Pavlovich ChekhovRenowned as the greatest short story writer ever, Anton Chekhov was also a master of the novella, and perhaps his most overlooked is this gem, My Life—the tale of a rebellious young man so disgusted with bourgeois society that he drops out to live amongst the working classes, only to find himself confronted by the morally and mentally deadening eff..
Ghosts
by Henrik IbsenGhosts is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was written in 1881 and first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois, in a production by a Danish company on tour. Like many of Ibsen's plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality...
An Enemy of the People
by Henrik IbsenAn Enemy of the People is an 1882 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen wrote it in response to the public outcry against his play Ghosts, which had challenged the hypocrisy of Victorian morality. According to Ellen Mortensen, the words scandalous, degenerate, and immoral were hurled at both the play and its author because of its open di..
Brand
by Henrik IbsenBrand is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It is a verse tragedy, written in 1865 and first performed in Stockholm, Sweden on 24 March 1867. Brand was an intellectual play that provoked much original thought. Brand is a priest who wants to take consequence of his choices, and is therefore deeply bound to doing the "right thing". He b..
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
by Howard PyleHoward Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy...
Allan Quatermain
by Henry Rider HaggardAllan Quatermain was the quintessential Victorian English gentleman cum African big-game hunter. In this book, the second in the series, Quaterman and his two good friends from KSM have tired of their dull and unfulfilling lives in England, and decide to search for the truth of an old tale about the existence of an isolated white kingdom deep i..
Heart of the World
by Henry Rider HaggardHeart of the World is an 1895 book by H Rider Haggard about a lost Mayan city in Mexico. Its importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the tenth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library in September, 1976. ..
She
by Henry Rider HaggardKnown for his magnum opus King Solomon Mines, English novelist H. Rider Haggard's another great novel She: A History of Adventure narrates the story of a female dominated kingdom in unexplored African region. The narrator Horace Holly travels to Africa in an attempt to discover his ancestors and encounters with an unique kingdom which is domin..