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The Rum Diary - Abridged
By: Hunter S. Thompson
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary—a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book—is Hunter S. Thompson’s brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean.
Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy,... Read more
Oliver Twist - Abridged
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Paul Scofield
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A pauper's child reared in a workhouse, young Oliver Twist serves an apprenticeship in a loveless house. Despairing, he runs away and is befriended by a gang of young pickpockets who offer him the only welcome home he has ever known. Falling under the influence of villainous company, the young orphan struggles to escape from a life of poverty... Read more
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Classic Tales of Horror
By: Martin Greenberg, Ramsey Campbell, Ray Bradbury...
Narrated by: Susan Anspach
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection of classic horror stories is sure to give you goosebumps, raise the hair on the back of your neck, and put some fright in your night. These dark tales from renowned authors such as Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and Ramsey Campbell are sure to please everyone— from campfire storytellers to die-hard horror fans. Stories... Read more
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On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon - Abridged
By: Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by: Polly Holliday
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate is a woman at war with herself. Born to privilege on a James River plantation, she grows up increasingly aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of slavery.
As she tells her story in 1900, she is still prey to her childhood, to the memories of a life... Read more
The Pickwick Papers - Abridged
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Paul Scofield
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Nearly two centuries after The Pickwick Papers first appeared in 1837, listeners continue to enjoy the vigorous humor and heartwarming optimism of Dickens' first great literary achievement. Actor Paul Scofield evokes all the warmth and laughter of the unlikely adventures of the immortal Samuel Pickwick, Esq., and the other members of the... Read more
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Our Mutual Friend
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: David Case
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy” Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk... Read more
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A Confederacy of Dunces
By: John Kennedy Toole
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears... Read more
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The Old Curiosity Shop - Abridged
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Paul Scofield
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In London, Little Nell lives in The Old Curiosity Shop with her grandfather, who has a weakness for gambling. Hoping to mend his finances, the old man borrows money from Quilp, a moneylender and swindler. After losing that money as well, the grandfather flees to the country with Nell in a desperate attempt to escape the clutches of Quilp, who... Read more
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A Virtuous Woman - Abridged
By: Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by: Terry Beaver & Kaye Gibbons
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a... Read more
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Underworld - Abridged
By: Don DeLillo
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books
“A great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner.” —San Francisco Chronicle
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Contact - Abridged
By: Carl Sagan
Narrated by: Jodie Foster
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!
The future is here...in an adventure of cosmic dimension.
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own. Read more
The Hero of Swine Pump Creek - Abridged
By: Barbara Cooley
Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Nightshade Racoon and his merry friends Hayward Chipmunk and Nettley Mouse, are charmingly animated in this dramatisation of the trials and tribulations of Swine Pump Creek's creature residents. Read more
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A Room With a View
By: E.M. Forster
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Published in 1908, A Room with a View was one of Forster's earliest novels and it has become one of his most famous and popular. The story is set in Florence, Italy, and Surrey, England and centers on young Lucy Honeychurch's choice between propriety and love. It is an accomplished and beautiful love story, full of generous insights.
Edward... Read more
The House of the Seven Gables - Abridged
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: Joan Allen
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A dark, many-gabled mansion in a small New England village— haunted by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death— houses the distinguished Pyncheon family. They are plagued by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin on its last four members. The arrival of Phoebe Pyncheon from... Read more
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Don Quixote de la Mancha - Abridged
By: Miguel Cervantes
Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Entranced by romantic tales of heroism and chivalry, Don Quixote— self-proclaimed knight errant— embarks on a delusional quest for fame and adventure. The eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his companion Sancho encounter an array of unforgettable characters and undertake some of the most famously foolhardy exploits... Read more
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Visions of Cody - Abridged
By: Jack Kerouac
Narrated by: Graham Parker
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . . . I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart . . . because now I know MY HEART DOES GROW." —Jack Kerouac, in a letter to John Clellon Holmes
An underground legend by the time it was finally... Read more
Ellen Foster - Abridged
By: Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy."
So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise,... Read more
Sense and Sensibility
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Glenda Jackson
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In a timeless tale of misguided romance and heartbreak, Jane Austen's first novel of love and marriage is seen through the eyes of two very different heroines, the Dashwood sisters—cautious, level-headed Elinor and impulsive lively Marianne—one representing sense and the other sensibility. In order to achieve the love and happiness they seek,... Read more
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Hard Times - Abridged
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Paul Scofield
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the squalor of a textile town, successful businessman and arch-pragmatist Thomas Gradgrind, proclaiming that he is a self-made man, teaches his children to suppress their imaginations and embrace hard facts. He arranges the marriage of his daughter Louisa to Josiah Bounderby, an unattractive, boastful manufacturer who is thirty years older... Read more
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Treasure Island - Abridged
By: Robert Stevenson
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 1 hour 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jim Hawkins, the son of an innkeeper, longs for adventure. One of the inn's guests, a coarse old bully named Billy Bones, reveals a map showing the whereabouts of buried treasure. After Bones dies, Jim and his mother flee with the map to Squire John Trelawney, outwitting other pirates who were chasing Bones. With Trelawney's friend Dr. Livesey,... Read more
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Randall and The River of Tim - Abridged
By: C.S. Forrester
Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In 1917, the Great War is in full swing. Young Randall is a second lieutenant, and is lucky enough to escape some of the consequences of the conflict by contributing to the invention of a flare, which will be of benefit to the allies. He falls in love with a woman a few years his senior, and with the imminence of death ever in a young man's... Read more
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Mark Twain’s Library of Humor
By: Mark Twain & various authors
Narrated by: Marni Webb, Richard Russ & others
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Master wit Mark Twain selected these twenty-seven stories himself by fifteen of his favorite nineteenth century authors. The order follows that which Twain placed them in in the original anthology, published in 1888. He indulged his comic fancy rather than making a textbook in which all themes or authors are placed together, saying that "This... Read more
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Abridged
By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: Julie Christie
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Quasimodo appears before the masses as the "Pope of Fools," the crowd beholds an enormous cyclops-like creature— the hunchback's whole body seems a twisted grimace. Yet, with all his deformity, there is a certain grace and agility in him, and he possesses an endearing passion. When Esmerelda, the beautiful Romani woman, stands... Read more
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Emma - Abridged
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Samantha Eggar
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Considered by many critics to be Jane Austen's finest achievement, Emma is the witty classic about youthful hubris and matchmaking gone awry. Emma Woodhouse, a privileged young lady with little to occupy her time, imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself... Read more
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