Meditations (Unabridged)
By: Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Narrated by: AI Marcus
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Little Dorrit, like many of Charles Dickensâ novels, was originally published in serial form over a period of about 18 months, before appearing in book form in 1857. The novel focuses on the experiences of its protagonist Arthur Clenham, who has spent some twenty years in China... Read more
View audiobookThe Philippines A Century Hence (Unabridged)
By: José Rizal
Narrated by: AI Marcus
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. In The Servile State, BritishFrench writer and historian Hilaire Belloc makes a provocative case that capitalism will inevitably move toward the reestablishment of slavery. The thesis in this book forms the backbone of Bellocâs lifelong effort as an advocate for reform to the existing... Read more
View audiobookClotel (Unabridged)
By: William Wells Brown
Narrated by: AI Marcus
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The first published novel by a black American author combines reallife stories, including his own story of escaping slavery and recollections he heard while helping others escape, with abolitionist agitprop, revealing ephemera from the newspapers of the time, and sympathetic (if... Read more
View audiobookOlaf Scholz - Wer ist unser Kanzler? (UngekĂŒrzte Lesung)
By: Mark Schieritz
Narrated by: Wolfgang Wagner
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Deutschland hat einen neuen Bundeskanzler. Aber wer ist dieser Mann eigentlich? WofĂŒr steht Olaf Scholz? Und was haben wir von ihm als Kanzler zu erwarten? Nach 16 Jahren endet die Ăra Merkel. Mit dem neuen Kanzler steht nun erstmals wieder ein Sozialdemokrat an der Spitze des Landes. FĂŒr viele kam sein Wahlsieg ĂŒberraschend, ist Olaf Scholz... Read more
View audiobookFiring on Fortress Europe
By: Nick Hewitt
Narrated by: John Telfer
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
On 6 June 1944, HMS Belfast supported troops in action on the beaches of Normandy in the campaign to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany.
This audiobook recounts this extraordinary story, focusing on the dramatic events of 6 June but setting the context of the ship's history in the Arctic Convoy Service and Battle of North Cape. It describes the... Read more
Dioses y héroes del México antiguo
By: Enrique Florescano
Narrated by: Alejandro Ivarias
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
«Los sĂmbolos de fertilidad, abundancia y poder que distinguen a la serpiente emplumada entre los olmecas, mayas y teotihuacanos perduraron en los reinos y culturas posteriores.» Este libro es un recorrido por los cimientos de la identidad de los pueblos mesoamericanos: los mitos fundadores, las divinidades que crearon y ordenaron el mundo, los... Read more
View audiobookEl exilio
By: Carlos Tello DĂaz
Narrated by: Miguel Ăngel Ălvarez
Length: 18 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Basado fundamentalmente en fuentes primarias, muchas de ellas inĂ©ditas, el autor -tataranieto de Porfirio DĂaz- narra la historia de dos familias que tuvieron que dejar su paĂs con la RevoluciĂłn: los DĂaz y los CasasĂșs, con particular Ă©nfasis en el ex presidente Porfirio DĂaz. El exilio: un relato de familia narra los avatares de dos familias... Read more
View audiobookCradle Snatcher
By: Jack Freestone
Narrated by: Jack Freestone
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A sexual encounter involving a university student and a teenage girl. Read more
View audiobookA Brief History of Germany
By: Jeremy Black
Narrated by: Roger Davis
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, politics, unification, and war.
In A Brief History of Germany, Jeremy Black questions how the Germany we know today came to be, chronicling the events that shaped its past, present and future in a... Read more
Juho 18
By: Juhani SyrjÀ
Narrated by: Riku J. Korhonen
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Juho on vasta 18-vuotias, kun hÀn ilmoittautuu punaisten joukkoihin kansalaissotaan. HÀn osallistuu taisteluihin, ja joutuu valkoisten vankileirille, jossa korventava nÀlkÀ ja vÀsymys ovat uuvuttaa hÀnet lopullisesti. Mutta kun kotiinpaluun hetki koittaa, uuttera Juho tarttuu kotitorpan askareisiin ja onnistuu pitÀmÀÀn sydÀmensÀ pehmeÀnÀ... Read more
View audiobookQueen Victoria (Unabridged)
By: Lytton Strachey
Narrated by: AI Marcus
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The publication of Lytton Stracheyâs Eminent Victorians in 1918 was a tremendous success. In it, Strachey looked at four iconic figures of the Victorian Age and punctured the hagiographical illusions surrounding them. It seems only fitting that he should follow up in 1921 with a... Read more
View audiobookThe Rights Of Man (Unabridged)
By: Thomas Paine
Narrated by: AI Marcus
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Thomas Paine wrote the first part of The Rights of Man in 1791 as a response to the furious attack on the French Revolution by the British parliamentarian Edmund Burke in his pamphlet Reflections on the Revolution in France, published the previous year. Paine carefully dissects and... Read more
View audiobook101 Surprising Facts about Church History
By: Fr. David Vincent Meconi, S.J.
Narrated by: Cloey Kelly
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Think you really know Church History? Think AgainThe Catholic Church is the longest-standing and the most universal of all institutions. The contributions made by Catholic men and women over the past 2000 years are most impressive, from a properly functioning calendar to the inventions of many things that we all take for granted today.In 101... Read more
View audiobookMitologĂa Maya
By: Juan PĂ©rez
Narrated by: Alejandro Morales
Length: 52 minutes
Abridged: No
"Antes de que hubiera años o dĂas, la tierra yacĂa en tinieblas", dice GarcĂa en su Origen de las Indias , afirmando poder proporcionar al lector una traducciĂłn de un manuscrito pictĂłrico mixteco autĂ©ntico. Todo estaba fuera de servicio, y una inundaciĂłn cubriĂł el lodo y el lodo que constituĂan el suelo en ese entonces". Esta imagen aparece en... Read more
View audiobookThe Age Of Reason (Unabridged)
By: Thomas Paine
Narrated by: AI Marcus
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The Age of Reason is an important work in the American Deist movement. Paine worked on it continually for more than a decade, publishing it in three parts from 1794 through 1807. It quickly became a bestseller in postRevolution America, spurring a revival in Deism as an alternative to... Read more
View audiobookIn On the Joke
By: Shawn Levy
Narrated by: Julienne Irons
Length: 15 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
âA sensitive and vivid study of early female stand-ups⊠[Levy is a] painstaking, knowledgeable guide.â âNew York Times Book Review
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A hilarious and moving account of the trailblazing women of stand-up comedy who broke down walls so they could stand before the micâperfect for fans of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Hacks
Today, women are ascendant... Read more
The Battle of Sluys: The History and Legacy of the First Major Naval Battle of the Hundred Yearsâ War
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Although it ended over 550 years ago, the Hundred Yearsâ War still looms large in the historical consciousness of England and France, even if the name of the famous war is a misnomer. Actually a series of separate conflicts between the English and French monarchies, interspersed with periods of peace, its historical image is an odd one, in part... Read more
View audiobookDĂ©claration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne
By: Olympe de Gouges
Narrated by: Emilie Mauchaussé
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Sur un ton énergique, ironique et engagé, l'une des plus grandes voix féminines de la Révolution française, Olympe de Gouges, rédige le premier document à évoquer l'égalité juridique et légale des femmes avec celle des hommes. "Femme, réveille-toi ; le tocsin de la raison se fait entendre dans tout l'univers ; reconnais tes droits. Le puissant... Read more
View audiobookScience and Technology in Ancient Rome: The History and Legacy of the Romansâ Technological Advances
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The modern world has the ancient Romans to thank for the origins of many modern technologies, conveniences, and ideas, from running water, baths, and republican style government to roads. Similarly, by the 3rd century BCE, the Romans were prodigious monument builders, so much so that the memory of the great Roman Republic and the Roman Empire... Read more
View audiobookMy Mother's War
By: Eva Taylor
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The extraordinary story of Sabine Zuur, a beautiful, young Dutch resistance fighter who spent over two years in three concentration camps during World War Two, told by her daughter using an astonishing archive of personal letters
After her motherâs death, Eva Taylor discovered an astounding collection of documents, photos and letters from her... Read more
Who By Fire
By: Matti Friedman
Narrated by: Matti Friedman & Andrew Polk
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
"An expedition into the troubled soul of one of the worldâs greatest songwriters."âHaaretz
"Not only is a hidden side of Cohen revealed but so too a hidden side of Israel."âDavid Bezmozgis
The little-known story of Leonard Cohenâs concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including never-before-seen selections from an unfinished... Read more
Journeys to Heaven and Hell
By: Bart D. Ehrman
Narrated by: John Tefler
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times best-selling scholar's illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated journeys to heaven and hell
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â[An] illuminating deep dive . . . An edifying origin story for contemporary Christian conceptions of the afterlife.ââPublishers Weekly
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From classics such as the Odyssey and the Aeneid to fifth-century Christian... Read more
Of Blood and Sweat
By: Clyde W. Ford
Narrated by: Julian Thomas
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
âFordâs overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough to allow the past to inform the future. Of Blood and Sweat is a myth-busting work of genius that will stand as the last word on this vital subject for a long time to come.ââElizabeth Dowling Taylor,... Read more
View audiobookIn Whose Ruins
By: Alicia Puglionesi
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In this âfirst-rate work of historical research and storytellingâ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), four sites of American history are revealed as places where truth was written over by oppressive fictionâwith profound repercussions for politics past and present.
Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal, presenting a... Read more