Classics audiobooks

O ventre - Abridged

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Sidney Ferreira

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A obra reúne três poemas extraordinários do historiador, filósofo iluminista e poeta francês François-Marie Arouet, universalmente conhecido por seu pseudônimo: Voltaire. E mais: a poesia aqui selecionada teve a tradução de outro gênio: o poeta português Bocage. São estes os textos que o leitor encontrará neste volume: "O templo de amor",... Read more

Mulheres detentas - Abridged

By: João do Rio

Narrated by: Cido Tavares

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Um narrador presente na cena da crônica permite ao leitor uma visão vívida da balbúrdia de um dia de visitas aos presidiários na virada do século XIX pera o XX. A descrição impressiona pela crueza e força: "os corpos, corpos de mulheres, frágeis corpos de crianças, corpos musculosos de homens, uma só vontade – forçar a entrada". Um texto... Read more

O corvo e outros poemas - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Sidney Ferreira

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O Corvo é sem dúvida um dos contos mais famosos e perturbadores de Edgar Allan Poe. A história começa em uma noite sombria e tempestuosa, quando um homem solitário, mergulhado em tristeza e saudade, é visitado por um corvo misterioso. Atormentado pela perda de sua amada Leonora, ele começa a conversar com o pássaro, que sempre responde com a... Read more

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Abridged

By: L. Frank Baum

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre productionIn this beloved children’s tale, Dorothy, her dog Toto, and their Kansas farmhouse are carried away by a tornado to a faraway country called Oz. It’s a magical, fantastical land of Munchkins, wizards, and wicked witches. But it’s no place like home …Desperate to return to Kansas, Dorothy and Toto, and... Read more

A Holiday Bundle of Classic Children’s Stories - Abridged

By: various authors

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre productionThis Holiday Bundle features six entertaining and delightful audio stories for the whole family to enjoy year-round. The perfect stocking stuffer for the audiobook lovers on your list! Each story is performed by a full cast of voice actors with sound effects and music.Includes Alice in Wonderland by... Read more

Four Classic Horror Stories - Abridged

By: Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe & Robert Louis S...

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre productionThis collection features four spine-tingling horror stories to entice your imagination, including “Bewitched” by Edith Wharton, “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Body Snatcher” by Robert Louis Stevenson, and “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. Each story is chillingly enhanced by music... Read more

O dia das visitas - Abridged

By: João do Rio

Narrated by: Guilherme Conradi

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Falavam uma língua imprevista e curiosa, cuspinhando; e olhando as pobres coitadas, não sabia eu bem se falava a mulheres velhas ou a mulheres novas, de tal forma aquelas faces e aqueles corpos estavam arruinados." A crueza da narrativa de João do Rio não poderia retratar melhor a realidade da detenção feminina no Rio de Janeiro da virada do... Read more

A máscara da morte escarlate - Abridged

By: Raul Pompeia

Narrated by: Cido Tavares

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A pouco conhecida prosa poética de Raul Pompeia surpreende positivamente pela qualidade de seus textos. "Infinito" reúne as seguintes prosas poéticas: "Rumo e silêncio", "Ontem", "Hoje", "Vulcão extinto", "Os continentes", "Os deuses", "Transit", "Solução", "Tormenta e mudança" e "Conclusão". Read more

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

The Moonston - Abridged

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Moonstone is a classic detective story. John Herncastle, an English officer, kills three guards, and steals a precious jewel from the head of a Hindu moon-god, during the battle of Seringapatam. It passes into the hands of Miss Verinder, on the celebration of her eighteenth birthday. The Brahmins then come to regain it. That night the... Read more

The Travelling Companion - Abridged

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This enchanting tale of the journey taken by a youngster together with his mysterious friend, leads the listener into a unverse of magic and mystery: a princess who is a witch, a giant who likes to eat human eyes, a miserable king, a garden of bones......these are some of the ingredients of this fetching story. An audio-dramatization with... Read more

The Fir T - Abridged

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The great Hans Christian Andersen creates a fir-tree with a voice, a soul, and thoughts we can briefly share. An audio-dramatisation with full cast, sound effects, and 'audio-ambience' created for you by AudioscapePlayers. Read more

Jane Ey - Abridged

By: Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After an unhappy childhood, 16 year-old Jane Eyre acquires the post of governess to a young girl at Thornfield Hall. Plain and poor Jane may be, but she is not to be intimidated by the owner of Thornfield Hall, Mr. Rochester, who tries to goad her into defending herself against his verbal pinpricks. As a backdrop to this duel of minds, is... Read more

Madame Bovary - Abridged

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hoping to escape from a future without horizon, Emma marries the good and kind Charles Bovary, a doctor. Finding herslf in another sort of prison however, she seeks comfort in the arms of lovers, and plays into the hands of opportunists. She has not, after all, moved upwards, but rather sideways, into an even more claustrophobic existence.... Read more

Mansfield Park - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fanny is brought up with her cousins, Tom, Edmund, Maria, and Julia. She is treated as an extra pair of hands - except that is, by Edmund. During her uncle's absence at his estates in the West Indeies, both Maria, (who is engaged to the stupid and wealthy Mr. Rushford), and Julia, fall in love with the fascinating Mr. Crawford, who is a man... Read more

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

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

The Wild Swans - Abridged

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A wicked queen, (and a step-mother to boot......there were lots of them in those days), changed eleven young princes into swans - simply because they weren't as ugly as she thought they should be. Their sister, Elise, was whisked away by the queen's henchmen, to be brought up as peasants. The queen thought she would live happily ever after,... Read more

The Woman in Whit - Abridged

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Walter Hartright, a young Drawing teacher, encounters a woman at night, dressed in white, on his way to take up his post. He does not know that she has escaped from an asylum. She appeals to him for help - and then seems to vanish. An audio-dramatisation with full cast, sound effects, and 'audio-ambience' created for you by... Read more

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

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

Pride and Prejudic - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Mrs. Fenwick learns of Mr.D'Arcy's income, she envisages the end to one of the five principle problems in her life. If her single-minded daughter Elizabeth can be married off to someone of means, her four remaining problems might be less daunting. However, Mr. D'Arcy and Miss Elizabeth appear to take an instant dislike to each other - not... Read more

Vier Wintermärchen - Abridged

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Thomas Arnold

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vier Wintermärchen von Hans Christian Andersen, erzählt von Thomas Arnold. Das kleine Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern: zählt zu den bekanntesten Kunstmärchen von Hans Christian Andersen. Er hat es im Jahre 1845 während eines neuntägigen Aufenthalts auf dem Schloss Gravenstein an der Flensburger Förde geschrieben. Ein kleines Mädchen... Read more

As mulheres mendigas - Abridged

By: João do Rio

Narrated by: Cido Tavares

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Capoeiras, assassinos (...), reincidentes, condenados a trinta anos, exprimem a certeza de que continuarão lá fora a vida anterior." Será? O narrador visita um presídio e, observador, sistematiza os ideais dos presos, em profunda reflexão sobre sua condição. Com a narrativa afiada de João do Rio, o leitor mergulha na realidade crua da detenção. Read more