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The Complete Essays (EN) - Michel de Montaigne (mp3 audiokniha)

In 1572, Montaigne – nobleman, humanist, and thoroughly Renaissance man – retired to the seclusion of his estate in the Dordogne and started to write. From his pen poured a stream of ‘essays’ – attempts to capture the observations that came to him on an idiosyncratic range of subjects,

City of God (EN) - St Augustine (mp3 audiokniha)

Written after the capture of Rome in 410 by Alaric, King of the Visigoths, St Augustine’s City of God was intended as a response to pagan critics who blamed Christianity for this brutal defeat. Augustine attacks ancient pagan beliefs and relates the corruption and immorality that led to Rome’s

The Wealth of Nations (EN) - Adam Smith (mp3 audiokniha)

It was Adam Smith (1723–1790) who first established economics as a separate branch of knowledge, and many would say his work has never been surpassed. The Wealth of Nations, which appeared in 1776, is the definitive text for all who believe that economic decisions are best left to markets, not

The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 1: The Forsyte Saga (EN) - John Galsworthy (mp3 audiokniha)

John Galsworthy’s magnificent trilogy of power and passion chronicles the wealthy Forsyte family. As the disintegrating values of the Victorian era progress to World War I and the political uncertainty of the 1930s, the family’s material and emotional struggles are set within the dwindling

Le Morte d'Arthur (EN) - Sir Thomas Malory (mp3 audiokniha)

Of all the legends of Western civilisation, perhaps the glorious adventures of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are the best known. The Quest for the Holy Grail, and the undying illicit love between Sir Launcelot and Queen Guenever, have provided inspiration for storytellers and

The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 2: A Modern Comedy (EN) - John Galsworthy (mp3 audiokniha)

The Duke's Children (EN) - Anthony Trollope (mp3 audiokniha)

Bereft of his beloved wife Glencora and his role as Prime Minister, Plantagenet Palliser enters the realm of family politics as he struggles to guide and connect with his three wayward children. Lord Silverbridge, the Duke’s first born and natural inheritor, expelled from Oxford, a gambler at

Democracy in America (EN) - Alexis de Tocqueville (mp3 audiokniha)

Sent by the French government to examine the American prison system, Alexis de Tocqueville spent nine months touring the United States between 1831 and 1832. However, fascinated by the success of America’s democratic system, de Tocqueville took advantage of his stay to examine the country’s

The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 3: End of the Chapter (EN) - John Galsworthy (mp3 audiokniha)

John Galsworthy’s magnificent trilogy of power and passion chronicles the wealthy Forsyte family. As the disintegrating values of the Victorian era progress to World War I and the political uncertainty of the 1930s, the family’s material and emotional struggles are set within the dwindling

Armadale (EN) - Wilkie Collins (mp3 audiokniha)

Two young men linked by a familial murder mystery, a beautiful yet wicked governess who spins a web of deceit, and five individuals named Allan Armadale: Wilkie Collins’s follow-up to The Woman in White and No Name is an innovative take on mistaken identity, the nature of evil and the dark

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (EN) - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (mp3 audiokniha)

Published four years after Rousseau’s death, Confessions is a remarkably frank and honest self-portrait, described by Rousseau as ‘the history of my soul’. From his idyllic youth in the Swiss mountains, to his career as a composer in Paris and his abandonment of his children, Rousseau lays

Finnegans Wake (EN) - James Joyce (mp3 audiokniha)

On War (EN) - Carl von Clausewitz (mp3 audiokniha)

‘War is a mere continuation of policy by other means. ’ A classic work of military strategy, On War sets forth the theories and tactics of Carl von Clausewitz, a distinguished Prussian general who was notable for his roles in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The book covers a

Ulysses (EN) - James Joyce (mp3 audiokniha)

Ulysses is one of the greatest literary works in the English language, regarded by many as the single most important novel of the twentieth century

The Descent of Man (EN) - Charles Darwin (mp3 audiokniha)

First published in 1871, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex sees Darwin apply his evolutionary theory to the human race, controversially placing apes in our family tree. The book covers a range of adjacent themes, including differences between different peoples, the dominance of

The Complete Mapp and Lucia, Volume 1 (EN) - Edward Frederic Benson (mp3 audiokniha)

Sharply observant and wickedly funny, E. F. Benson’s six ‘Mapp and Lucia’ novels satirise the upper-middle-class social climbers in 1920s and ’30s rural England. Games of bridge and cups of tea fuel hilarious gossip and vindictive plots a-plenty. It is a masterfully sustained spotlight

The Complete Mapp and Lucia, Volume 2 (EN) - Edward Frederic Benson (mp3 audiokniha)

Sharply observant and wickedly funny, E. F. Benson’s six ‘Mapp and Lucia’ novels satirise the upper-middle-class social climbers in 1920s and ’30s rural England. Games of bridge and cups of tea fuel hilarious gossip and vindictive plots a-plenty. It is a masterfully sustained spotlight

No Name (EN) - Wilkie Collins (mp3 audiokniha)

Critique of Pure Reason (EN) - Immanuel Kant (mp3 audiokniha)

The Complete Short Stories (EN) - Saki (mp3 audiokniha)

H. H. Munro (Saki) is one of the undisputed masters of the short story. In this complete compendium, the full gamut of his subjects and themes is experienced. His stories are imbued with humorous satire, biting irony and often the macabre, all of which have one target: the stupidities and

East Lynne (EN) - Ellen Wood (mp3 audiokniha)

Ellen Wood’s sensation novel of 1861 found immediate popularity on its first publication. Its themes of infidelity and double identity attracted a wide range of readers, from the Prince of Wales to Joseph Conrad. Lady Isabel Carlyle leaves her husband and children for the aristocratic Francis

Machiavelli: His Life and Times (EN) - Alexander Lee (mp3 audiokniha)

Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination. But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thought to be? Might he not have been an infinitely more sympathetic figure, prone to political missteps,

Romola (EN) - George Eliot (mp3 audiokniha)

Set in the turbulent years following the death of Lorenzo de’ Medici, George Eliot’s fourth novel, Romola, moves the stage from the English countryside of the 19th century to an Italy four centuries before her time. It tells the tale of a young Florentine woman, Romola de’ Bardi, and her

Rural Rides (EN) - William Cobbett (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook Rural Rides written by William Cobbett. Between 1821 and 1826, the prolific writer and journalist William Cobbett travelled the countryside of the South of England on foot and horseback. Rural Rides is a fascinating account of his journeys, and depicts a way of life in transition,

Man and Wife (EN) - Wilkie Collins (mp3 audiokniha)

Published 10 years after Collins’s most popular novel The Woman in White, Man and Wife centres on the confused and inequitable marriage laws of 19th-century Britain, reflecting the author’s own antipathy towards the institution. The plot follows the fortunes of a woman who, committed to

Sentimental Education (EN) - Gustave Flaubert (mp3 audiokniha)

The Charterhouse of Parma (EN) - Stendhal (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The Charterhouse of Parma, written by Stendhal. The Charterhouse of Parma is a twisting tale of passion and intrigue following the adventures of Fabrizio del Dongo, a young Italian nobleman who dreams of glory on the battlefields of Europe and finds himself fighting alongside Napoleon at

Sybil (EN) - Benjamin Disraeli (mp3 audiokniha)

In Sybil, or The Two Nations, social activist, political reformer and twice Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli tells the love story of a young working-class woman and a newly elected nobleman. While on a visit to the manufacturing towns of the north, aristocrat Charles Egremont encounters beautiful

Ivanhoe (EN) - Sir Walter Scott (mp3 audiokniha)

The Tragic Muse (EN) - Henry James (mp3 audiokniha)

Belinda (EN) - Maria Edgeworth (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook Belinda, written by Maria Edgeworth. Published in 1801, Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda is an absorbing novel that mirrors social and domestic life among the English gentry. In her pursuit of a suitable marriage, Belinda encounters an array of characters including the dazzling socialite Lady

La Terre (EN) - Émile Zola (mp3 audiokniha)

Little Women (EN) - Louisa May Alcott (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook Little Women, closely based on Louisa May Alcott’s own experience of family life, was first published in 1869 and follows the lives of the four March sisters and their mother, ‘Marmee’. With the heartrending story of gentle Beth, the humorous adventures of tomboyish Jo, Meg’s vain

The Adventures of Roderick Random (EN) - Tobias Smollett (mp3 audiokniha)

The Odd Women (EN) - George Gissing (mp3 audiokniha)

Parzival (EN) - Wolfram von Eschenbach (mp3 audiokniha)

The greatest of all the medieval romances about the Holy Grail, Parzival was written in the early 13th century. The narrative describes the quest of the Arthurian knight, Parzival, for the Holy Grail. His journey is filled with incident, from tournaments and sieges to chivalrous deeds and

Annals (EN) - Tacitus (mp3 audiokniha)

The Last of the Mohicans (EN) - James Fenimore Cooper (mp3 audiokniha)

This famous novel deals with the early frontier period of American history and is set in 1757 during the Seven Years War between the French and the British. Intrepid frontiersman and scout Natty ‘Hawkeye’ Bumppo, has lived among Indians for most of his life, respecting their customs and

Two Years Before the Mast (EN) - Richard Henry Dana Jr (mp3 audiokniha)

Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana Jr’s captivating account of life as a common sailor on board a merchant ship in the early 1830s. Initially an attempt to remedy the author’s eye fatigue, the two-year voyage from Boston to California had a transformative effect on Dana, whose

Uncle Silas (EN) - Sheridan Le Fanu (mp3 audiokniha)

A Laodicean (EN) - Thomas Hardy (mp3 audiokniha)

Zeno's Conscience (EN) - Italo Svevo (mp3 audiokniha)

The Female Quixote (EN) - Charlotte Lennox (mp3 audiokniha)

Young, wealthy Arabella is obsessed with French romances: brought up by a reclusive widowed father in an isolated castle, she has educated herself through their pages, and been led to believe that their dramas and absurdities are reality. She blindly adheres to their example and interprets her

The Nether World (EN) - George Gissing (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The Nether World, written by George Gissing. Dramatic, fast-moving and brutal, Gissing’s highly regarded early novel lays bare the reality of urban poverty in 1870s London. Old Michael Snowdon returns to the city with an inheritance that he determines should go towards helping the poor

Jane Eyre (EN) - Charlotte Brontëová (mp3 audiokniha)

One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr Rochester

La Bête Humaine (EN) - Émile Zola (mp3 audiokniha)

Against the backdrop of political and legal corruption in Second Empire France, La Bête Humaine (1890) contrasts the technological advancements of the Machine Age with the primitive and timeless human impulse to possess through killing and to kill through possession. The lives of two railwaymen

The Masterpiece (EN) - Émile Zola (mp3 audiokniha)

Perhaps the most autobiographical of Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels, The Masterpiece is a hard, bleak and raw portrait of unrecognised artistic genius. Claude Lantier, brother to Nana and son of Gervaise, is a struggling painter who dreams of conquering Paris’s art scene with his

Cousin Bette (EN) - Honoré de Balzac (mp3 audiokniha)

Hide and Seek (EN) - Wilkie Collins (mp3 audiokniha)

Appearing in 1854, Hide and Seek was Wilkie Collins’s third published novel. At the centre of the plot is the mystery surrounding a deaf and dumb girl known as Madonna, whom the painter Valentine Blyth rescues from her life as a circus performer. But it is only when Blyth’s friend Zack Thorpe

South (EN) - Ernest Shackleton (mp3 audiokniha)

Beau Geste (EN) - P.C. Wren (mp3 audiokniha)

First published in 1924, Beau Geste tells the story of a stolen sapphire and three brothers, who consequently join the Foreign Legion. Michael ‘Beau’ Geste, as his nickname suggests, represents honour and bravery in the midst of deceit and treachery. An action-packed adventure, much of the

Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (EN) - Leo Tolstoy (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook Childhood, Boyhood and Youth, written by Leo Tolstoy. Blending fact and fiction, this trilogy by a very young Tolstoy centres on the inner life of Nikolai as he navigates the universal challenge of growing up. In relating his thoughts and feelings, his self-awareness and embarrassing

The Custom of the Country (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

The Woman Who Saved the Children (EN) - Clare Mulley (mp3 audiokniha)

On the Happy Life – The Complete Dialogues (EN) - Seneca (mp3 audiokniha)

In his dialogues the Stoic philosopher Seneca outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled world. Tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote practical philosophical exercises that draw upon contemporary Roman life and illuminate the intellectual concerns of the day. The dialogues also

Pride and Prejudice (EN) - Jane Austenová (mp3 audiokniha)

Jane Austen’s most popular novel, originally published in 1813, some 17 years after it was first written, presents the Bennet family of Longbourn. Against the background of gossipy Mrs Bennet and the detached Mr Bennet, the quest is on for husbands for the five daughters. The spotlight falls on

The American (EN) - Henry James (mp3 audiokniha)

Self-made American millionaire Christopher Newman arrives in Paris brimming with hope and optimism, excited to experience the culture and, hopefully, find the perfect woman to become his wife. After a chance encounter with American expatriate friends his attention is drawn to Madame de Cintré,

The House of Mirth (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

A single woman of 29, Lily Bart is Edith Wharton’s quintessential trapped heroine. Orphaned following the death of her parents, Lily understands that she must use her beauty, grace and charm to attain the social position she longs for, but she is caught between her desire for wealth and a strong

Roderick Hudson (EN) - Henry James (mp3 audiokniha)

My Bondage and My Freedom (EN) - Frederick Douglass (mp3 audiokniha)

The Complete Letters of Pliny the Younger (EN) - Pliny (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook containing The Complete Letters of Pliny the Younger. The extant letters of Pliny, written between AD 97 and 112, give us a unique insight into Imperial Rome under the early Antonine emperors. Organised into 10 books, the letters reflect a wide range of topics, mirroring Pliny’s own

Fairy Tales (EN) - George MacDonald (mp3 audiokniha)

AudiobookFairy Tales written by George MacDonald, who was described by W.H. Auden as ‘one of the most remarkable writers of the 19th century’, was valued in his own time as an original thinker and spiritual guide. Of all his writing it is the fairy tales that have retained their fascination,

The Dead Secret (EN) - Wilkie Collins (mp3 audiokniha)

A masterful blend of Gothic drama and romance, Wilkie Collins’s mystery novel is an exploration of illegitimacy and inheritance. Set in Cornwall, the plot foreshadows The Woman in White with its themes of doubtful identity and deception, and involves a broad array of characters. The

A Simple Story (EN) - Elizabeth Inchbald (mp3 audiokniha)

Published in 1791, A Simple Story concerns Miss Milner, who announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, thereby breaking through the barriers of his religious vocation and society’s standards for proper female behaviour. Central themes of the novel include the importance of proper

Njál's saga (EN) - N/A (mp3 audiokniha)

The Republic (EN) - Plato (mp3 audiokniha)

In The Republic Socrates is asked the question ‘What is justice?’ And in order to answer it, he draws a long and detailed analogy between the individual and the city. Plato’s work forms the foundation of Western philosophy and covers a wide range of topics including political theory and

The Encheiridion and Discourses (EN) - Epiktétos (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The Encheiridion and Discourses written by Epictetus. Born into slavery in the first century AD, Epictetus was a leading Greek philosopher of the Stoic school. He spent most of his life in Rome before the emperor Domitian banished all philosophers from the city in AD 93; his exile then

The Beetle (EN) - Richard Marsh (mp3 audiokniha)

The House of the Dead (EN) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (mp3 audiokniha)

The Book of the City of Ladies (EN) - Christine de Pizan (mp3 audiokniha)

Shocked and distressed by a male writer’s vilification of women, Christine de Pizan has a powerful dreamlike vision in which she is visited by three personified Virtues: Reason, Rectitude and Justice. They tell her she has been chosen to write a book which will be like a city, housing virtuous

Eminent Victorians (EN) - Lytton Strachey (mp3 audiokniha)

Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey’s wonderfully witty and Wildean quartet of biographies, stands out as one of the most radical and groundbreaking works of its genre. With relentless precision, Strachey explores the lives of four exemplars of the Victorian age: Cardinal Manning, Florence

The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth (EN) - Andrew Carnegie (mp3 audiokniha)

A leading industrialist of the 19th and 20th centuries, Andrew Carnegie was one of America’s most successful and generous businessmen. The Autobiography tells of his rise to power, from humble beginnings in Scotland to controlling the biggest steel empire in the history of the United States

Basil (EN) - Wilkie Collins (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook Basil by Wilkie Collins. Appearing in 1852, Basil was Wilkie Collins’s second published novel. The eponymous narrator is emotionally torn between two women: Margaret Sherwin and his sister Clara. His marriage to Margaret, a draper’s sexually precocious daughter, is to remain secret

The Professor (EN) - Charlotte Brontëová (mp3 audiokniha)

Pragmatism and The Meaning of Truth (EN) - William James (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook Pragmatism and The Meaning of Truth written by William James. William James was one of the most influential figures in 19th-century American philosophy and psychology. His Pragmatism is a set of lectures that he gave in 1906–07 in answer to the enduring debate between empiricism and

Mountolive (EN) - Lawrence Durrell (mp3 audiokniha)

Zofloya, or The Moor (EN) - Charlotte Dacre (mp3 audiokniha)

The White Guard (EN) - Mikhail Bulgakov (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The White Guard written by Mikhail Bulgakov. In the Ukrainian capital Kiev (‘the City’), life has become frightening and fragile. Bulgakov’s first full-length novel is set in the harsh and chaotic winter of 1918–19, as power struggles start to play out with brutal consequences

Idylls of the King (EN) - Alfred Tennyson (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook Idylls of the King written by Alfred - Lord Tennyson. Lovers of legends know that this is the finest retelling of the story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table; lovers of literature know that this is the greatest of all 19th- century narrative poems. In Tennyson’s

Pride and Prejudice (EN) - Jane Austenová (mp3 audiokniha)

The Histories (EN) - Tacitus (mp3 audiokniha)

Reflections on the Revolution in France (EN) - Edmund Burke (mp3 audiokniha)

Written in the form of a letter to a Frenchman, Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France is an impassioned attack on the French Revolution and its hasty destruction of the Church, the old elites and the Crown. Burke tackles the new republic and its allegiance to principles such as

Ten Days that Shook the World (EN) - John Reed (mp3 audiokniha)

Ten Days that Shook the World is John Reed’s phenomenal first-hand account of the October Revolution, leading up to the storming of the Winter Palace and the assumption of power by the Bolsheviks in 1917. A socialist journalist from the United States, John Reed was open about his Bolshevik

Jezebel’s Daughter (EN) - Wilkie Collins (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook Jezebel’s Daughter, written by Wilkie Collins. Set in the financial centres of 1820s Frankfurt and London, Jezebel’s Daughter (1880) tells the story of two widows: Madame Fontaine, who will go to any lengths to secure her daughter’s marriage, and Mrs Wagner, who devotes herself to

The Interpretation of Dreams (EN) - Artemidorus (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The Interpretation of Dreams, written by Artemidorus. Dating from the third century AD, Artemidorus’ The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the only dream-book from Graeco-Roman antiquity that has survived intact. It represents the most influential pre- Freudian treatment of

The House of the Seven Gables (EN) - Nathaniel Hawthorne (mp3 audiokniha)

‘To inherit a great fortune. To inherit a great misfortune. ’ These words, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s notebook, neatly encapsulate the theme of The House of the Seven Gables – that of a family whose fortunes are poisoned by its past misdeeds. The sins of the Pyncheon father are visited

Two on a Tower (EN) - Thomas Hardy (mp3 audiokniha)

To the Island of Tides (EN) - Alistair Moffat (mp3 audiokniha)

In To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat travels to – and through the history of – the fated island of Lindisfarne. Walking from his home in the Borders, through the historical landscape of Scotland and northern England, he takes us on a pilgrimage in the footsteps of saints and scholars,

Clea (EN) - Lawrence Durrell (mp3 audiokniha)

Sartor Resartus (EN) - Thomas Carlyle (mp3 audiokniha)

Wieland (EN) - Charles Brockden Brown (mp3 audiokniha)

The Master of Ballantrae (EN) - Robert Louis Stevenson (mp3 audiokniha)

Told by servant Ephraim Mackellar, The Master of Ballantrae is set at the time of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 and portrays the Durie family. James abandons his ancestral home to support the Jacobites while his younger brother, Henry, loyal to the English King, remains. However, years later

Poetics/Rhetoric (EN) - Aristotle (mp3 audiokniha)

The Art of Rhetoric, a guide on the principles behind oratorical skill, is a core text on the art of persuasion. Aristotle contends that rhetoric is one of the key elements of philosophy – along with logic and dialectic. The work consists of three books: the first is a general overview, the

The Oaken Heart (EN) - Margery Allingham (mp3 audiokniha)

Margery Allingham, already a successful crime writer, was living quietly in the Essex village of Tolleshunt D’Arcy (‘Auburn’) when the Second World War broke out. Her house became an Air Raid Wardens’ post and a First Aid centre, and Allingham herself became responsible for 275 East London

Effi Briest (EN) - Theodor Fontane (mp3 audiokniha)

The Persian Expedition (EN) - Xenophon (mp3 audiokniha)

My Ántonia (EN) - Willa Cather (mp3 audiokniha)

Piers Plowman (EN) - William Langland (mp3 audiokniha)

Piers Plowman, William Langland’s visionary medieval work about one man’s quest for the true Christian life, is an allegorical journey through dream visions and visions within dreams. During the course of his journey, the narrator (William Langland) meets Piers Plowman, who gradually reveals

This Side of Paradise (EN) - Francis Scott Fitzgerald (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook This Side of Paradise written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise proved to be a best-selling novel in Fitzgerald’s own lifetime. The book follows the early life and education of Amory Blaine and is, in fact, a thinly disguised account of

News from Nowhere (EN) - William Morris (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook News from Nowhere by William Morris. Although William Morris is known primarily as a designer, he was also a writer of poetry and prose. The novel News from Nowhere (subtitled An Epoch of Rest Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance) is his best-known prose work and describes a humane

Three Lives (EN) - Gertrude Stein (mp3 audiokniha)

Gertrude Stein’s pioneering triptych Three Lives portrays the lives of three working-class women in the fictional American town of Bridgepoint (Baltimore). A progenitor of the ‘stream of consciousness’ technique later adopted by Joyce and Woolf, Stein takes us into the minds of three distinct

Full Tilt (EN) - Dervla Murphy (mp3 audiokniha)

Justine (EN) - Lawrence Durrell (mp3 audiokniha)

The Spoils of Poynton (EN) - Henry James (mp3 audiokniha)

Published in 1897, The Spoils of Poynton is one of the quintessential works of James’s middle period. The ‘spoils’ of the book’s title refer to furniture and other objets d’art that the widow Adela Gereth moves to her cottage so that they are kept away from the clutches of her coarse

The Shooting Party (EN) - Anton Chekhov (mp3 audiokniha)

In Moscow an unknown author approaches a publisher (the narrator), asking him to read and publish his manuscript. The narrator agrees to read it before the author returns three months later. At the heart of the story in the manuscript is a love triangle and themes of corruption, concealed love

The Poetic Edda (EN) - Autor neznámý (mp3 audiokniha)

The Poetic Edda is the most important collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, covering the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, The Doom of the Gods. The mythological poems are an exploration of the wisdom of gods and giants, and tell of the adventures of the god

Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (EN) - Edward Bellamy (mp3 audiokniha)

Published in 1888 to immediate popularity (it was the second-ever novel to sell over one million copies in the United States), Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a dynamic rejection of industrial capitalism, and presents a depiction of a socialist utopia. The book’s influence was such that a large

Against Nature (EN) - Joris-Karl Huysmans (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook Against Nature written by Joris-Karl Huysmans. Published in 1884, Against Nature (À rebours) concerns the attempts of its cultured and neurotic anti-hero, Des Esseintes, to escape contemporary Parisian life. At his rural retreat he is able to indulge his particular artistic tastes as he

The Enchanted April (EN) - Elizabeth von Arnim (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The Enchanted April, written by Elizabeth von Arnim. Two unhappily married women, Rose Arbuthnot and Lotty Wilkins, respond to an advertisement offering a month’s rental of a small medieval Italian castle. In order to defray the not inconsiderable cost of such a venture, two other

Thérèse Raquin (EN) - Émile Zola (mp3 audiokniha)

Published in 1867, Thérèse Raquin is the novel which established Zola’s reputation as a writer who forensically explored the darker side of human nature. Thérèse is a half Algerian orphan, brought up in provincial France by her aunt and married off to her sickly cousin Camille. His ambition

My Childhood (EN) - Maxim Gorkij (mp3 audiokniha)

At Swim-Two-Birds (EN) - Flann O'Brien (mp3 audiokniha)

More preoccupied with drinking, sleeping and writing, an unnamed student neglects his studies and invents three separate openings for a novel. The first introduces the Pooka MacPhellimey, ‘a member of the devil class’, the second involves Mr John Furriskey, a character belonging to another of

Balthazar (EN) - Lawrence Durrell (mp3 audiokniha)

The Confessions of Arsène Lupin (EN) - Maurice Leblanc (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The Confessions of Arsène Lupin written by Maurice Leblanc . Comprising 10 short stories, The Confessions of Arsène Lupin first appeared in 1913. Each story features the eponymous gentleman- burglar, who deploys his remarkable wit and skill to plot a path through aristocratic society,

Vera (EN) - Elizabeth von Arnim (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook Vera written by Elizabeth von Arnim. Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss, both recovering from recent unhappiness, meet and quickly fall in love. However, over their new-found bliss looms the spectre of Vera, Wemyss’s first wife who died in mysterious circumstances. After their wedding

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion (EN) - David Hume (mp3 audiokniha)

The Well-Beloved (EN) - Thomas Hardy (mp3 audiokniha)

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (EN) - Maurice Leblanc (mp3 audiokniha)

The first of Maurice Leblanc’s collections about his devilish, debonair rogue, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar presents eight dazzling short stories that display some of Lupin’s greatest thefts and escapes. Lupin robs from within prison, leaves its walls with ease, steals priceless diamonds

Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (EN) - Maurice Leblanc (mp3 audiokniha)

The world’s greatest gentleman thief is back and this time he must summon all his brilliance and prowess to escape the clutches of his most worthy adversary: the master English detective, Herlock Sholmes! Assisted by his trusty companion Dr Wilson, Sholmes is called to Paris to investigate crimes

La Dame aux Camélias (EN) - Alexandre Dumas ml. (mp3 audiokniha)

Dumas’s novel became one of the great love stories from its first publication in 1848. The title role of the consumptive heroine and her ultimate sacrifice inspired actresses from Sarah Bernhardt to Greta Garbo, and led Giuseppe Verdi to write La traviata. In the hands of Nicholas Boulton, the