Voices

Eight years before he had seen his friend off at the North Wall and wished him godspeed. Gallaher had got on. You could tell that at once by his travelled air, his well-cut tweed suit, and fearless accent. Few fellows had talents like his and fewer...

FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE (1821–1880), French novelist, was born at Rouen on the 12th of December 1821. His father, of whom many traits are reproduced in Flaubert’s character of Charles Bovary, was a surgeon in practice at Rouen; his mother was connected with...

The Bible (from Greek 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an...

The cars came scudding in towards Dublin, running evenly like pellets in the groove of the Naas Road. At the crest of the hill at Inchicore sightseers had gathered in clumps to watch the cars careering homeward and through this channel of poverty and...

ALEXANDER III., known as The Great (356–323 B.C.), king of Macedon, was the son of Philip II. of Macedon, and Olympias, an Epirote princess. His father was pre-eminent for practical genius, his mother a woman of half-wild blood, weird, visionary and...

It was Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild West to us. He had a little library made up of old numbers of The Union Jack, Pluck and The Halfpenny Marvel. Every evening after school we met in his back garden and arranged Indian battles. He and his fat...

DOSTOIEVSKY, FEODOR MIKHAILOVICH (1821–1881), Russian author, born at Moscow, on the 30th of October 1821, was the second son of a retired military surgeon of a decayed noble family. He was educated at Moscow and at the military engineering academy at...

North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other...

Charles Dickens was an English novelist whose characters are among the most memorable in English literature. Each of his major novels appeared in several forms usually starting with an initial publication in periodical form, then collected into a...

Tutto il giorno Efix, il servo delle dame Pintor, aveva lavorato a rinforzare l’argine primitivo da lui stesso costrutto un po’ per volta a furia d’anni e di fatica, giù in fondo al poderetto lungo il fiume: e al cader della sera contemplava la sua...

Canti Orfici è una raccolta di componimenti letterari in prosimetro scritta da Dino Campana.Fu originariamente composta nel 1913, in una prima ed unica stesura che portava il titolo Il più lungo giorno, che fu consegnata per la pubblicazione a...

Canti Orfici è una raccolta di componimenti letterari in prosimetro scritta da Dino Campana.Fu originariamente composta nel 1913, in una prima ed unica stesura che portava il titolo Il più lungo giorno, che fu consegnata per la pubblicazione a...

From: "The Writing of Fiction", by Edith Wharton. Duration - 8h. Author - Edith Wharton. Narrator - William Allan Jones. Published Date - Monday, 01 January 2024. Copyright - © 1930 Edith Wharton ©.

Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage...

The bell rang furiously and, when Miss Parker went to the tube, a furious voice called out in a piercing North of Ireland accent:"Send Farrington here!"Miss Parker returned to her machine, saying to a man who was writing at a desk:"Mr. Alleyne wants...

Nota: i proventi derivati da questo audiolibro concorrono a far crescere la biblioteca digitale gratuita di Classici Stranieri.Oggi primo giorno di scuola. Passarono come un sogno quei tre mesi di vacanza in campagna! Mia madre mi condusse questa...

The grey warm evening of August had descended upon the city and a mild warm air, a memory of summer, circulated in the streets. The streets, shuttered for the repose of Sunday, swarmed with a gaily coloured crowd. Like illumined pearls the lamps shone...

Nel 1922 Pirandello decide di progettare un ciclo unico che raccolga le novelle in 24 libri di 15 novelle ciascuno, con l'editore fiorentino Bemporad disposto a varare un piano editoriale per riorganizzare l'intero corpus della sua produzione...

Paseándose dos caballeros estudiantes por las riberas de Tormes, hallaron en ellas, debajo de un árbol durmiendo, a un muchacho de hasta edad de once años, vestido como labrador. Mandaron a un criado que le despertase; despertó y preguntáronle de...

BRONTË, CHARLOTTE (1816–1855), afterwards Nicholls, novelist, was the daughter of Patrick Brontë (1777-1861), and sister of Patrick Branwell Brontë (1817-1848), Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848), and Anne Brontë (1820-1849). Patrick Brontë, born on 17...

The Bible (from Greek 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an...

She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired.Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home;...

Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories.This audiobook contains:a) The Happy Princeb) The Nightingale and the Rosec) The Selfish Giantd) The Devoted Friende) The Remarkable Rocket. Duration - 7h 5m. Author -...

After having consum'd the morning in the indearments and instructions of my new acquaintance, we went to dinner, when Mrs. Cole, presiding at the head of her cluck, gave me the first idea of her management and address, in inspiring these lively...