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Literary Fiction

Free illustrated audiobooks and picture books of Literary Fiction books: The Call of the Wild, A Christmas Carol, Crime and Punishment, Dorian Gray, Jane Eyre, Little Women, The Moonstone, Pride and Prejudice, Dream of the Red Chamber and The Secret Garden. Each one is retold in pictures and narrated page by page, with the original text free to read alongside.

Illustration from The Call of the Wild: In 1897, men had found gold in the frozen North, and thousands rushed there wanting strong, furry dogs. The Call of the Wild Jack London AmericanAges 10+ 41 pages · 15 min Illustration from A Christmas Carol: Marley had been dead seven years, but Scrooge never painted out his partner's name. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens BritishAll ages 60 pages · 17 min Illustration from Crime and Punishment: On an exceptionally hot evening early in July, a young man named Raskolnikov rose from the sofa in his coffin-like garret. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky RussianAges 16+ 151 pages · 45 min Illustration from Dorian Gray: On a hot summer afternoon, the scent of roses and lilac drifted through Basil Hallward's London studio. Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde BritishAges 13+ 72 pages · 25 min Illustration from Jane Eyre: No walk was possible that dreary November day. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë BritishAges 13+ 159 pages · 48 min Illustration from Little Women: “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo by the fire, and her sisters sighed over their old dresses and their one dollar each. Little Women Louisa May Alcott AmericanAll ages 120 pages · 35 min Illustration from The Moonstone: I set down these lines in India for my relatives in England, on my word of honour. The Moonstone Wilkie Collins BritishAges 13+ 120 pages · 47 min Illustration from Pride and Prejudice: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen BritishAll ages 120 pages · 34 min Illustration from Dream of the Red Chamber: When the goddess Nüwa mended the sky, she forged 36,501 stones and used all but one, leaving it at Greensickness Peak. Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin ChineseAdults 18+ 555 pages · 3 h 35 min Illustration from The Secret Garden: Mary Lennox was born in India to a busy father and a beautiful mother who cared only for parties and did not want a little girl. The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett BritishAll ages 80 pages · 26 min

About Literary Fiction

Literary fiction is the shelf for novels read above all for their characters, their worlds and the way they are written. Here are books that readers keep returning to: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber, the great novel of eighteenth-century China.

These are long books, and our editions don't replace them. Each one is a condensed retelling in illustrated pages with audiobook narration: a way to meet the story and its people before, after or alongside the full original, which is in the public domain and free to read.