Language audiobooks

Men Are Like Waffles Women Are Like Spaghetti

By: Bill Farrel & Pam Farrel

Narrated by: Bill Farrel & Pam Farrel

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Breakfast food or dinner dish? You and your spouse are delightfully different. Men process like waffles. They think and act by moving from box to box. They enter a box, size up the single problem, and formulate a solution.Women process life like a plate of spaghetti. Each issue is like an individual noodle that touches every other noodle on the... Read more

Chinesisch für Anfänger

By: Dr. Wolf Baus, Dr. Mu Gu & Jürgen Hoeren

Narrated by: Dr. Baus Wolf, Dr. Gu Mu & Jürgen Hoeren

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Vielleicht planen Sie eine Tour nach China, gleichgültig, ob als Geschäftsreisender oder Tourist. Englisch allein reicht nicht aus, um sich dort verständigen zu können. Unser Sprachkurs hilft Ihnen, sich in kürzester Zeit sprachlich fit zu machen: Nach 70 Folgen werden Sie fragen können, wo sie eine Toilette finden oder wo sie ein Bier kaufen... Read more

The Railway Children

By: Edith Nesbit & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

'We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.' And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become the railway children - they know all the trains, Perks the station porter is their best friend, and they have many adventures on... Read more

Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man's world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When... Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Scarlet is the color of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What... Read more

William Shakespeare

By: Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays. But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time ...or when he was writing his plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet... Read more

David Copperfield

By: Charles Dickens & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

'Please, Mr Murdstone! Don't beat me! I've tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir!' sobs David. Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and David is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hand. For that, he is kept locked in his room for five days and nights, and nobody is allowed to speak to him. As... Read more

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any... Read more

Washington Square

By: Henry James & Kieran McGovern

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to the front parlour of her home in Washington Square to whisper soft words of love to her. But in New York in the 1840s young ladies are not free to... Read more

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a good worker; but she is uneducated and does not know the cruel ways of the world. So, when a rich young man says he loves her, she is careful - but not careful enough. He is persuasive, and she is overwhelmed. It is not her fault, but the world says it is.... Read more

Stories from the Five Towns

By: Arnold Bennett & Nick Bullard

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is Toby Hall. Why does he decide to visit... Read more

Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense - or for middle-aged men of thirty-five, long past the age of... Read more

The Year of Sharing

By: Harry Gilbert

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard is bored with the quiet life of his village. He would like to have a motor-car and drive it ...very fast. But Richard lives in a future world where there are no cars, only bicycles and small villages and green forests. And now he is twelve years old, and like the other children, he must do his Year of Sharing. He must live alone in the... Read more

Tales from Longpuddle

By: Thomas Hardy & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Tony Kytes is a favorite with the girls but he's not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English... Read more

Ear-rings from Frankfurt

By: Reg Wright

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Richard Walton is in trouble again. He has lost his job, and he has borrowed money from his sister, Jennifer - again. And now he has disappeared. Jennifer is looking for him, and so are the police. They both have some questions that they want to ask him. How did he lose his job? Why did he fly to Frankfurt? Who gave his girlfriend those very... Read more

Love Among the Haystacks

By: D. H. Lawrence & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things - about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening. Then the sun goes down, covering the world... Read more

Lorna Doone

By: R. D. Blackmore & David Penn

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

One winter's day in 1673 young John Ridd is riding home from school, across the wild lonely hills of Exmoor. He has to pass Doone valley - a dangerous place, as the Doones are famous robbers and murderers. All Exmoor lives in fear of the Doones. At home there is sad news waiting for young John, and he learns that he has good reason to hate the... Read more

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

'The moment I first met you, I noticed your pride, your sense of superiority, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. You are the last man in the world whom I could ever be persuaded to marry,' said Elizabeth Bennet. And so Elizabeth rejects the proud Mr Darcy. Can nothing overcome her prejudice against him? And what of the other... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick... Read more

Kidnapped

By: Robert Louis Stevenson & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

'I ran to the side of the ship. "Help, help! Murder!" I screamed, and my uncle slowly turned to look at me. I did not see any more. Already strong hands were pulling me away. Then something hit my head; I saw a great flash of fire, and fell to the ground ...' And so begin David Balfour's adventures. He is kidnapped, taken to sea, and meets many... Read more

Through the Looking-Glass

By: Lewis Carroll & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

'I wish I could get through into looking-glass house,' Alice said. 'Let's pretend that the glass has gone soft and ...Why, I do believe it has! It's turning into a kind of cloud!' A moment later Alice is inside the looking-glass world. There she finds herself part of a great game of chess, travelling through forests and jumping across brooks.... Read more

Barchester Towers

By: Anthony Trollope & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Mrs Proudie, the warlike wife of the new Bishop of Barchester, brings the Reverend Slope into the Bishop's Palace to help dominate her husband and rule the local clergy. But Slope is a snake in the grass, determined to find a rich wife, to win advancement for himself, even to fight Mrs Proudie if necessary. Their battle becomes a furious dance,... Read more

The Mystery of Allegra

By: Peter Foreman

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Allegra is an unusual name. It means 'happy' in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know? And who is the other Allegra? The girl in a long white nightdress, who has golden hair and big blue eyes. The girl... Read more

Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

What does the name 'Agatha Christie' mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a 'whodunnit'. 'I'm reading an Agatha Christie,' people say. 'I'm not sure who the murderer is - I think it's ...' But they are usually wrong, because it is not easy to guess the murderer's name before the end of the book. But who was Agatha... Read more