Fiction audiobooks

John Keats: Selected Poems

by John Keats

With just twenty five years of life and four years of publication, John Keats is considered one of the key figures of romantic poets of his contemporaries such as Lord Byron and Shelly. The popularity of his poems started bit later after his death and reached the pinnacle by end of 19th century. The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual image..

The Possessed

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky portrays the 19th century imperial Russia through his political fiction novel The Possessed. The author narrates the conflicts and collision of various ideologies like Nihilism, Shigalevism, Slavophilism, and Tsarism though his key characters. Many of the characters represent different types within this ideological conflict. By e..

Othello

by William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Othello is one of the most performed plays of Shakespeare, which deals with racism, greed and obsession. Envied over his superior Othello's unfair elevation above him, ensign Iago successfully seeds the devils in the minds of cross cultural romance pairs. Falling victim of the traps of Iago, Othello went on to kill his innocent wife ..

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream is the most fanciful work of William Shakespeare. Hermia has to settle as nun, if she does not adhere to the wish of her father's decision of marry her with Demetrius. Hermia along with her love Lysander runaway and being chased by Demetrius and Helena who is longing for Demetrius. In the forest the funniest things happen ..

Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

Though Emily Elizabeth Dickinson is considered as one of the most important poets of America, her contemporary literary world failed to recognize her poems. Emily Dickinson's irregular and free poetical style did not earn much recogniztion during her life time and hardly just a dozen of her works got published out of more than 1800 poems written by..

Arms and the Man

by George Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw's comedy play Arms and the Man is set during 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. In an attempt to escape from Bulgarian army, Captain Bluntschli of Serbian army enters the house of Bulgarian woman Raina. Hours long conversation between them changes the views of Raina on the war. After the meeting Raina ignores her betrothed Sergius Saranoff, a w..

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

Dickens portrays the tragic life of an young orphan girl Nell and her grandfather through this fiction novel which was published in serial form in his weekly. In an attempt to create huge wealth to inherit for Nell Trent, her grandfather who owns The Old Curiosity Shop starts gambling cards. The old man has been trapped by Daniel Quilp, a money len..

The History of Mr. Polly

by H. G. Wells

Wells' comic novel The History of Mr. Polly portrays the mundane life being lived by a large part of the society. Alfred Polly believed he has been cursed in his whole life, right from childhood to his present life at middle age. Losing her mother at the age of seven, he thought his life will go through a sea change, when he invested in a shop with..

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