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Tolstoy: Father Sergius & Other Short Stories
By: Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Tolstoy is perhaps best recognized as the author of the classic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. While he was able to sustain complex and moving plots though large novels, his ability as a great writer also is demonstrated in his many short stories. Tolstoy brings to these brief tales the same psychological depth and spiritual insight... Read more
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Drei kurze Texte (mit tödlichem Ausgang) - Abridged
By: Peter Palizsch
Narrated by: Anne Moll, Germain Wagner & Ulrich Gebauer
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Peter Palitzsch hat drei kurze Texte über Krieg, Gewalt und Emigration mit jeweils tödlichem Ausgang geschrieben, es ist sein erstes Drama überhaupt. In ihm geht es um das Beheimatetsein auf einer Erde, die zu oft ihre Kinder ausgespuckt hat, die nun umherirren, gerade auf der Suche nach dieser Heimat. Die drei Texte umreißen verschiedene... Read more
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As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
Narrated by: Various
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short Stories
One of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying,... Read more
The Notebook
By: Nicholas Sparks
Narrated by: Barry Bostwick
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Experience the unforgettable, heartbreaking love story set in post-World War II North Carolina about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart -- one of PBS's "Great American Reads".
Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story -- it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is... Read more
Romeo und Julia (Ungekürzt)
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Katharina Thalbach
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Das größte Liebesdrama der Weltliteratur: von jugendlichem Übermut und altem Hass. Das um 1595/96 entstandene Drama gilt als erste Liebestragödie der englischen Literatur und ist bis heute eines der erfolgreichsten Stücke von William Shakespeare. "Die Thalbach spricht alle Rollen, ist mit krächzender Stimme die komische Amme, gibt dunkel rauchig... Read more
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The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in... Read more
The Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Audio Collection - Abridged
By: Kurt Vonnegut
Narrated by: Kurt Vonnegut
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. himself reads from his most celebrated works: Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and three complete stories from Welcome to the Monkey House. Read more
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The Sibyl
By: Pär Lagerkvist
Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Kristoffer Tabori & Yuri Rasovsky
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In this powerful, poetic, and moving parable, the Wandering Jew of medieval Christian legend journeys to Delphi to consult the famed oracle of the pagans. He is turned away, but not before learning that one of the most adept of the old priestesses, or sibyls, lives in disgrace in the mountains above the temple. In her rude goat-hut he seeks the... Read more
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Matador
By: Barnaby Conrad
Narrated by: Barnaby Conrad
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
It is the morning of Pacote’s last fight, the finale of one of the greatest careers in Spain. The posters are up, the great black bulls are waiting, and a heavy air of expectancy hangs over the city. Pacote, alone in his dressing room, feels the heavy ball of fear pressing against his heart. For he knows that he has been falling off, that he... Read more
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Winesburg, Ohio
By: Sherwood Anderson
Narrated by: various narrators, Bruce Blau, David Thorn, Jim...
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
This timeless collection charted a new stylistic path for modern fiction. Through twenty-two connected short stories, Sherwood Anderson looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young... Read more
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Ringworld
By: Larry Niven
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel, Ringworld remains a favorite among science fiction readers.The artifact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its center. Pierson’s puppeteers—strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens—discovered this “Ringworld” in a hitherto unexplored part of... Read more
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The Phantom of the Opera
By: Gaston Leroux
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A shadow of unease, a quickening pulse, an unnamed fear breathing on the collar of those who sit alone in their dressing rooms at the great Paris Opera.An unbearable compulsion to glance quickly over a shoulder in the dark corridors to the stage would sometimes reveal a figure in evening clothes moving softly in the shadows—a figure no one could... Read more
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Sister Carrie
By: Theodore Dreiser
Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
Length: 17 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
When small-town girl Carrie Meeber sets out for Chicago, she is equipped with nothing but a few dollars, a certain unspoiled beauty and charm, and a pitiful lack of preparation for the complex moral choices she will face. Adrift in an indifferent city, she struggles from the sweatshop to stage success and inspires an obsessive love in a married... Read more
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The Coin of Carthage
By: Bryher
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The war that began in 218 BC with Hannibal’s march across the Alps is one of the familiar stories of history, but its details are little known. A struggle between an emerging barbarian power and an old culture, it pitted a Roman army of mostly farmers against the highly trained officers of Carthage. Hannibal’s empire, founded on her control of... Read more
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Perelandra
By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
C. S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, of which Perelandra is the second volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus’s The Plague and George Orwell’s 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of the moral concerns.Readers who fall in... Read more
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Moby-Dick - Abridged
By: Herman Melville
Narrated by: William Hootkins
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Moby-Dick is one of the great epics in all of literature. Captain Ahab's hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace, while Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, on the sublime indifference of nature, and on the grimy physical details of the extraction of oil provide a reflective counterpoint to the headlong... Read more
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Frankenstein - Abridged
By: Mary Shelley
Narrated by: Richard Pasco
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as... Read more
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Great Expectations - Abridged
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Hugh Laurie
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The orphan Pip’s terrifying encounter with an escaped convict on the Kent marshes, and his mysterious summons to the house of Miss Havisham and her cold, beautiful ward Estella, form the prelude to his “great expectations.” How Pip comes into a fortune, what he does with it, and what he discovers through his secret benefactor are the ingredients... Read more
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Crime and Punishment - Abridged
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrated by: Alex Jennings
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police... Read more
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A Tale of Two Cities - Abridged
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Ian Richardson
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the... Read more
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Dracula - Abridged
By: Bram Stoker
Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker's Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author's mother, who wrote her son: "It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror."
A popular bestseller in Victorian England,... Read more
Kidnapped - Abridged
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: Tom Conti
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The classic adventure story of kidnap, shipwreck, murder and pursuit as young David Balfour tries to claim the inheritance he has been cheated out of. ‘I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.’ Orphaned as a young teenager, Lowlander... Read more
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Heart of Darkness - Abridged
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Joss Ackland
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.’ At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve... Read more
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Lord Jim - Abridged
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Joss Ackland
Length: 2 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: Yes
‘Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!’ Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to prove his mettle. When the boat he sails in threatens to sink, Jim abandons ship in fear in order to save himself,... Read more
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