Fiction audiobooks

Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures

Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures is a collections of rhymes for children portraying exaggerated consequences for children misbehavior. Interesting to note that the Heinrich Hoffmann, a German psychiatrist has written & illustrated this book while he could not get an impressive story book for his children from book stores...

Lysistrata

by Aristophanes

Lysistrata is a comedy play written by Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes performed in 411 BC. In an attempt to end Peloponnesian War, The protagonist Lysistrata convenes a meeting of women from all over the states of Greece. She provokes the women to withhold sexual privileges to the men, which could eventually lead to end the deadly war. Howev..

The Sorrows of Young Werther

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther is a semi-autobiographical novel by German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The protagonist Werther falls in love with beautiful Lotte for her motherly care to her siblings since their father's death. Werther's endless sorrows starts on knowing Lotte is already engaged with Albert who is 11 years elder than her. Thoug..

She Stoops to Conquer

by Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer deals with marriage, society and human tendencies. In an attempt to impress others the bride and groom pretends their real identities. While the bride knows it early and acts as a maid, the groom isn't. Their meeting in an Inn lead to humorous incidents. Charles Marlow exchanges his identity with his ..

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe's narrative poem The Raven gave mass popularity to him as a literary scholar and became one of the most famous poems ever written. In a haunted atmosphere a young man sitting in his home is lamenting his loss of love. His door is inflated by a Raven entering his camper and behave as if no one is there in the room. The Raven starts t..

Anne of Avonlea

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Montgomery further glorifies the character of lovable heroine Anne Shirley, in her sequel novel Anne of Avonlea. Annie at her late teens works as a teacher at Avonlea school. As usual her helping tendency towards unfortunate people has been narrated many incidents like taking care of two kids Davy and Dora who live with their uncle after their..

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

by Mark Twain

In an attempt to get him out of his financial crisis, Mark Twain was looking for opportunities for lectures by travelling through out the world. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World is his travelogue of his travel account narrated as short stories with his trademark wit while unmasking the racism, imperialism and missionary zeal on his..

The Waste Land

by T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land is a highly influential 433-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of the 20th century, dealing with the decline of civilization and the impossibility of recovering meaning in life. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem—its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt ..

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