Audiobooks Narrated by Martin Geeson

Considered Dostoevsky's most autobiographical novel, the book centers on a naive epileptic named Prince Myshkin who is thought an "idiot" when he returns to 19th century St. Petersburg society at the age of 26 after spending several years at a Swiss sanatorium.

From the great Russian author Ivan Turgenev comes this 3-hour long novella entitled First Love. Written in 1860, just a few years before he would write Fathers and Sons, Turgenev claimed that First Love was the most autobiographical of all his works.

Socrates and his earnest friend Phaedrus, enjoying the Athenian equivalent of a lunchtime stroll in the park, exchange views on love and on the power of words, spoken and written.

The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, also known as The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals or Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals or Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals, is Immanuel Kant's first contribution to moral philosophy.

Pope's Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind's place in the vast Chain of Being.

Rousseau's lengthy and sometimes anguished dossier on the Self is one of the most remarkable and courageous works of introspection ever undertaken.

"He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all women yielded to it."

Published originally as “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” this is not so much a work of sober political analysis; rather it can be summed up as a rhapsodic manifesto on behalf of the Individual.

"The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise."

Émile François Zola was an influential French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism.