Audiobooks Narrated by Bruce Pirie

Download Fyodor Dostoyevsky's final novel The Brothers Karamazov, which he published in 1880. Follow the story of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons Dmitri, Ivan, and Alexei as their stories involve ethical debates of God, free will, and morality.

Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger.Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural and small-town England in the mid-1800s. In the original subtitle, Hardy called this the story of "a man of character"...

Balzac's Father Goriot is the author and playwright's most popular novel, a study of three individuals as they try to try to climb a shifting social latter during a period in French history where social structures were constricting and poverty often led to desperation.

This is a collection of short stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Russian novelist and short story writer.

This is volume 4 of 5. - An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector.

This is volume 3 of 5. – An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector.

This is volume 5 of 5. - An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy.

Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled La Comédie Humaine.

When Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1929), the citation made special mention of his first novel, “Buddenbrooks,” published in 1901, describing it as “the first great novel of the 20th century.”