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A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Paul Scofield
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: No
On Christmas Eve, miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, who warns Scrooge that three more ghosts will visit him before the night is over—the ghost of Christmases Past, the ghost of Christmas present, and the ghost of Christmas yet to come.One of the greatest Christmas stories ever written... Read more
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Nicholas Nickleby - Abridged
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Paul Scofield
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: Yes
The welfare of children— a theme of many novels by Charles Dickens— is central to Nicholas Nickleby, the story of a fatherless young man, his mother, and his sister who find themselves at the mercy of a greedy and unscrupulous relative. Nicholas Nickleby is both a vivid indictment of the exploitive, brutal boarding... Read more
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Great Expectations - Abridged
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Paul Scofield
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
Pip— the orphaned hero of Great Expectations— is one of Charles Dickens's best-loved characters. Young Philip Pirrip— nicknamed Pip— is apprenticed to his blacksmith brother-in-law, but an anonymous benefactor changes the boy' s future. After he is lifted to what seems a higher station... Read more
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The Count of Monte Cristo
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 43 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling... Read more
Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray
Narrated by: Jill Masters
Length: 32 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
"I do not say there is no character as well drawn in Shakespeare [as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly."
--Robert Louis Stevenson
"The lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeers shows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his own nature in the persons of his heroes, was responding to that craving for action,... Read more
Empire of the Sun - Abridged
By: J. G. Ballard
Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg’s film, tells of a young boy’s struggle to survive World War II in China.
Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.
Shanghai, 1941—a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In... Read more
Les Miserables - Abridged
By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jean Valjean is one of society's victims. A poor but honest peasant, he is caught stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving family and is sent to prison. By the time of his eventual release, he has become a hardened criminal, but his friendship with the saintly Monseigneur Bienvenu gives him another chance at life. This new,... Read more
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“Babette’s Feast” and “Sorrow-Acre”
By: Isak Dinesen
Narrated by: Colleen Dewhurst
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
“Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: give me leave to do my utmost.” This line from “Babette’s Feast” lends itself to both of the stories in this audio collection, which tell of unbreakable human spirit and total commitment to life choices. “Babette’s Feast,” now an award-winning film, takes a humorous... Read more
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The Phantom of the Opera - Abridged
By: Gaston Leroux
Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A baffling series of incidents at the majestic Paris Opera sparks frightening rumors about a mysterious opera ghost. Performers are ill-at-ease when they sit alone in their dressing rooms, alleging to have seen the enigma in evening clothes moving about in the shadows. Then a young and beautiful prima donna is visited by a masked "Angel of... Read more
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The Scarlet Letter - Abridged
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: Michael Learned
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Written in the winter of 1849, The Scarlet Letter unfolds the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman branded as an adulteress in the harsh Puritan world of seventeenth-century New England. As Hester calls on her inner strength to transcend her shame, the scarlet letter ceases to be a stigma and finally becomes Hester's symbol of self-affirmation.... Read more
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Alice Through The Looking-Glass - Abridged
By: Lewis Carroll
Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Alice goes out of this world and into another, replete with scatty queens, batty knights, and a kooky egg to boot! Just the kind of fantasy to relax to. Forget the so-called 'hidden meanings' and all that sort of thing, and let yourself float along with Alice, (with a bit of running thrown in), as she tries to keep her head, reach the end of... Read more
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Alice in Wonderland - Abridged
By: Lewis Carroll
Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
ALICE IN WONDERLAND This is a dotty, somewhat satirical, and rather musical version of Lewis Carroll's work, performed by Canadian and British actresses and actors in Calgary, Alberta. See if you can spot your own character in this production. Are you the Queen of Hearts, the White Rabbit, or perhaps The Walrus? You could even be all... Read more
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Wuthering Heights - Abridged
By: Emily Brontë
Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Heathcliff is a strange dark-skinned boy whom Cathy's father brings back to Wuthering Heights from a trip to Liverpool. He is adopted into the Earnshaw family. Cathy and Heathcliff develop an inseparable - even an ideal companionship. She admires his self-sufficiency and endurance; but her brother, Hindley, victimises him. When she marries... Read more
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The Return of the Native
By: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Jill Masters
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy’s most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding moor where proud Eustacia fervently awaits a... Read more
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Manon Lescaut
By: A. Francois Prevost D'Exiles
Narrated by: Walter Covell
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A devastating depiction of obsessive love and a haunting portrait of a captivating but dangerous woman.
When the young Chevalier des Grieux first sets eyes on the exquisitely beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut they fall passionately in love. But his happiness turns to bitter despair when he discovers that Manon is mercenary and immoral, and... Read more
Nicholas Nickleby
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Charles Dickens had an understanding of mid-Victorian society second to none, and genius and energy massive enough to make the absurdities and terrors of that society come alive on the page. Nicholas Nickleby, with its episodes of chicanery in finance and education, and the dramatic intensity with which it tells the story of its openhearted... Read more
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Lord Jim
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Wolfram Kandinsky
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Jim, a young, idealistic dreamer of heroic deeds, is chief mate on board the Patna. When it starts to sink and the officers decide to jump ship, Jim joins them somewhat involuntarily. He faces a board of inquiry that strips him of his papers for violating the code of conduct - but no court can equal the punishment Jim inflicts on himself for his... Read more
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Отец Горио - Abridged
By: Honoré de Balzac
Narrated by: Ya. Smolensky, V. Pokrovsky & M. Astangov
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Отец Горио" - произведение французского писателя Оноре де Бальзака, написанное в 1832 году и впоследствии вошедшее в собрание сочинений «Человеческая комедия». Впервые было опубликовано в декабре 1834 — феврале 1835 года в журнале «Парижское обозрение».
В романе показана безграничная, жертвенная любовь отца к своим детям, которая оказалась не... Read more
Фальшивая монета - Abridged
By: Maxim Gorky
Narrated by: Mikhail Yakunin, Era Suslova & Liliya Drozdova
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Фальшивая монета" - пьеса Максима Горького. Пьеса, которая в горьковском наследии стоит как бы особняком и выделяется своей сугубой нервностью, взвинченностью. Внешне сравнительно несложный сюжет "Фальшивой монеты" скрывает глубокую и для Горького в высшей степени притягательную мысль о том, как искажает, унижает и опошляет человека денежный... Read more
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Der Derwisch - Karl Mays Gesammelte Werke, Band 61 (Ungekürzt)
By: Karl May
Narrated by: Heiko Grauel
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In Tunis und im Wilden Westen spielt der erste Teil dieses dreibändigen Romans. Er schildert die Schicksale einer deutschen Familie, deren Mitglieder durch die Intrigen von Verbrechern in die ganze Welt zerstreut wurden. Im Mittelpunkt der abenteuerlichen Handlung steht die Wiedervereinigung der Getrennten. Neben Action und Spannung kommt auch... Read more
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Úrsula (Integral)
By: Maria Firmina dos Reis
Narrated by: Sandra Silvério
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Um cavaleiro é encontrado caído por um negro escravizado que o resgata e o leva nos ombros para a casa de suas patroas. Lá nasce o amor do cavaleiro por Úrsula, amor que enfrentará enormes obstáculos. Considerado o primeiro romance abolicionista brasileiro, publicado em 1859 e escrito por uma mulher negra, Úrsula retrata pela primeira vez na... Read more
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A viúva Simões (Condensado) - Abridged
By: Julia Lopes de Almeida
Narrated by: Sandra Silvério
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A viúva Simões, totalmente dedicada à criação de sua filha adolescente Sara, vê-se abalada pela volta de um namorado de juventude à sua cidade. Um intricado jogo de seduções em meio à hipocrisia da moral burguesa leva a história a um desfecho surpreendente. Esta obra foi condensada e adaptada para a gravação em áudio. Narrada por Sandra... Read more
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A falência (Condensado) - Abridged
By: Julia Lopes de Almeida
Narrated by: Sandra Silvério
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A falência conta a história de Teodoro, importante negociante de café, e sua família no Rio de Janeiro logo após a abolição da escravatura. Aborda temas como o adultério feminino e a decadência econômica, apresentando uma visão feminista inovadora para a época. Esta obra foi condensada e adaptada para a gravação em áudio. Narrada por Sandra... Read more
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A intrusa (Condensado) - Abridged
By: Julia Lopes de Almeida
Narrated by: Sandra Silvério
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Um advogado viúvo que prometeu à esposa falecida não se casar novamente precisa de alguém para cuidar da casa e de sua filha Glória, que mora com os avós e o visita aos fins de semana. A partir dessa necessidade, sua vida toma um novo rumo. Esta obra foi condensada e adaptada para a gravação em áudio. Narrada por Sandra Silvério, com... Read more
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