Classics audiobooks

Сорок сороков

By: Михаил Булгаков

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

«Сорок сороков» — рассказ знаменитого русского писателя, драматурга и театрального деятеля Михаила Афанасьевича Булгакова (1891–1940). Бедный москвич чувствует себя чужим в родном городе. Буржуи пренебрежительно смотрят на него, как на пролетария, но и пролетариат не признает его своим. Он с грустью наблюдает за новыми большевистскими порядками,... Read more

№13. Дом Эльпит-Рабкоммуна

By: Михаил Булгаков

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

«№13-Дом Эльпит Рабкоммуна » — рассказ знаменитого русского писателя, драматурга и театрального деятеля Михаила Афанасьевича Булгакова (1891–1940). Другими известными произведениями Михаила Булгакова являются «Чаша жизни», «Шансон д'Этэ», «Стальное горло», «Дни Турбиных», «Зойкина квартира», «Бенефис лорда Керзона», «Москва краснокаменная»,... Read more

Laughter in Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear—a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law... Read more

Rapunzel and Other Stories

By: The Brothers Grimm

Narrated by: Jenny Cullen

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This charming collection of Grimms' Fairy Tales includes Rapunzel, Frederick and Catherine, Sweetheart Roland, Snowdrop (Snow White), The Pink and Clever Elsie. Grimms' Fairy Tales was first published in Germany in 1812 as Kinder und Hausmärchen. This series of recordings is based on the original 1823 English translation by Edgar Taylor, with... Read more

Das Tal der Angst - Sherlock Holmes - Die Romane, Band 4 (ungekürzt)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Raschid D. Sidgi

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

DAS TAL DER ANGST beginnt mit einem rätselhaften Mord im Herzen Londons, der Holmes' unvergleichliche Fähigkeiten herausfordert. Die Auflösung des Falls führt ihn zusammen mit seinem treuen Begleiter Dr. Watson jedoch in die abgelegenen Berglandschaften eines gefährlichen Tals in Amerika. Holmes und Watson sehen sich mit einem mysteriösen... Read more

Franz Kafka. Die Romane und die zu Lebzeiten veröffentlichten Erzählungen - Sven Regener liest Franz Kafka (ungekürzt)

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Sven Regener

Length: 33 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Kafka erscheint uns rätselhaft, dabei schreibt er doch eigentlich in einer schlichten Prosa, seine Schilderungen sind präzise, seine Personen reden in einfachen Worten und es wird weder um das, was sie tun, noch um das, das sie reden, noch um das, was ihnen zustößt, ein großes Gewese gemacht. Aber wir verstehen nicht. Oder glauben, nicht zu... Read more

Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterpiece by Edith Wharton, author of The Age of Innocence.Winter in a Massachusetts village serves as a backdrop to Edith Wharton' s masterpiece about a man with little hope of escaping his bleak future. Married to an older woman named Zeena, Ethan Frome finds himself drawn to his wife' s cousin, Mattie. Although he... Read more

Enter A Murderer

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: James Saxon

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Crime was committed on stage at the Unicorn Theatre, when an unloaded gun fired a very real bullet; the victim was Arthur Surbonadier, an actor clawing his way to stardom using blackmail instead of talent. The suspects included two unwilling girlfriends and several relieved blackmail victims. The stage was set for one of Chief Detective... Read more

A Man Lay Dead

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Philip Franks

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house-parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a 'murder' in the dark and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time there is a real corpse... Read more

Pomfret Towers

By: Angela Thirkell

Narrated by: Yonnie Fraser

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Pomfret Towers, Barsetshire seat of the earls of Pomfret, was constructed, with great pomp and want of concern for creature comforts, in the once-fashionable style of Sir Gilbert Scott's St Pancras station. It makes a grand setting for a house party at which gamine Alice Barton and her brother Guy are honoured guests, mixing with the headstrong... Read more

Summer Half

By: Angela Thirkell

Narrated by: Penelope Freeman

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university graduates - chooses to quit his training for the Bar and take a teaching job at Southbridge School. Little does Colin imagine that he will count among his pupils the demon in human form known as Tony Morland; or that the... Read more

The Nursing Home Murder

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Philip Franks

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse Jane Harden are almost too nervous to operate. The emergency case on the table before them is the Home Secretary - and they both have very good, personal reasons to wish him dead.
Within hours he does die, although the operation itself was a complete success, and Chief... Read more

Vintage Murder

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: James Saxon

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

New Zealand theatrical manager Alfred Meyer wanted to celebrate his wife's birthday in style. The piece de résistance would be the jeroboam of champagne which would descend gently into a nest of fern and coloured lights on the table, set up on stage after the performance.
But something went horribly wrong. Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn... Read more

Died in the Wool

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: James Saxon

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

World War II rages on, and Inspector Alleyn continues as the Special Branch's eyes and ears in New Zealand. While his primary brief is spy-catching, he's also happy to help with old-fashioned policing. Flossie Rubrick, an influential Member of Parliament and the wife of a sheep farmer, is murdered. Had she made political enemies? Had a... Read more

Hand in Glove

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Jeremy Sinden

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The April Fool's Day had been a roaring success for all, it seemed - except for poor Mr Cartell who had ended up in the ditch - for ever.
Then there was the case of Mr Percival Pyke Period's letter of condolence, sent before the body was found - not to mention the family squabbles.
It was a puzzling crime for Superintendent Alleyn... Read more

Death at the Dolphin

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: James Saxon

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

When the bombed-out Dolphin Theatre is given to Peregrine Jay by a mysterious wealthy patron, he is overjoyed. And when the mysterious oil millionaire also gives him a glove that belonged to Shakespeare, Peregrine displays it in the dockside theatre and writes a successful play about it.
But then a murder takes place, a boy is attacked, the glove... Read more

When in Rome

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: James Saxon

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When their guide disappears mysteriously in the depths of a Roman Basilica, the members of Mr Sebastian Mailer's tour group seem strangely unperturbed.
But when a body is discovered in an Etruscan sarcophagus, Superintendent Alleyn, in Rome incognito on the trail of an international drug racket, is very much concerned... Read more

Grave Mistake

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Jane Asher

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

With two husbands dead, a daughter marrying the wrong man and a debilitating disease, it is no wonder that Sybil Foster took her own life. But Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn doesn't believe she was the type to kill herself - and he thinks someone else has made a very grave mistake... Read more

Photo Finish

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: James Saxon

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The luxury mansion on New Zealand's Lake Waihoe was the ideal place for the world-famous soprano to rest after her triumphant tour. Chief Superintendent Alleyn and his wife were among the house guests - but theirs was not a social visit.
When tragedy struck, the peace of the island was shattered. With a houseful of suspects, now isolated by one... Read more

Light Thickens

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Philip Franks

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck.
But one night the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real: murder behind the scene.
Luckily, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn is in the audience... Read more

August Folly

By: Angela Thirkell

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

It's August in the Barsetshire village of Worsted, and Richard Tebben, just down from Oxford, is contemplating the gloomy prospect of a long summer in the parental home. But the numerous and impossibly glamorous Dean family - exquisite Rachel, her capable husband and six of their nine brilliant children - have come for the holidays, and their... Read more

The Wind Off the Small Isles

By: Mary Stewart

Narrated by: Susie Riddell

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved author Mary Stewart's long-lost novella, now available for the first time in 40 years and perfect for fans of Anya Seton, Daphne du Maurier and Santa Montefiore.

'Now she would spell love her own way...'

In 1879, a wealthy young woman elopes with an impoverished fisherman, leaving her family, who live on the volcanic island of Lanzarote,... Read more

Colour Scheme

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: ric jerrom

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

It was a horrible death - Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die.
Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knew that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the... Read more

Final Curtain

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: James Saxon

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Agatha Troy, world famous portrait painter, is inveigled into accepting a commission to paint the 70-year-old Sir Henry Ancred, Bart., the Grand Old Man of the stage. But just as she has completed her portrait, the old actor dies.
The dramatic circumstances of his death are such that Scotland Yard is called in - in the person of Troy's... Read more