A mulher pálida - Abridged
By: Machado de Assis
Narrated by: Tom Bueno
Length: 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
O conto "A mulher pálida" tem por característica marcante a ironia típica de seu autor, Machado de Assis. Destaca-se da galeria de personagens o protagonista Máximo, cujo desejo é ser poeta. Dele, no entanto, o que se aproveita é tão-somente a voz, com suas singulares inflexões. Read more
View audiobookNoite de São João e Pedro Pichorra - Abridged
By: Monteiro Lobato
Narrated by: Tom Bueno
Length: 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Pertencentes ao livro "Cidades mortas", os contos "Noites de São João" e "Pedro Pichorra" se inscrevem no universo rural tão caro a seu autor, Monteiro Lobato. No primeiro, o leitor mergulha no universo mágico de uma autêntica festa junina. No segundo, conhece a história do protagonista, que acredita ter encontrado um saci – será? Read more
View audiobookAires e Vergueiro - Abridged
By: Machado de Assis
Narrated by: Tom Bueno
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
No conto "Aires e Vergueiro", Machado de Assis traz o mote recorrente do triângulo amoroso. Carlota é esposa de Vergueiro, mas acaba se envolvendo com Aires. O grupo planeja vender seus bens e viver viajando. Buscam fazê-lo com discrição, então Vergueiro vai para Buenos Aires, para esperar que Aires e Carlota aí o encontrem. Mas estes têm outo... Read more
View audiobookDecadência de dois homens grandes - Abridged
By: Machado de Assis
Narrated by: Paulo Carvalho
Length: 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
No conto "Decadência de dois grandes homens", o leitor conhece a história de dois homens, Jaime e Miranda, que se conhecem num café no Rio de Janeiro. Mais velho, Jaime convida Miranda para ir a sua casa, onde conta que ele é Marco Bruto, assassino de Júlio César, que, por sua vez, está incorporado no seu gato... Read more
View audiobookA última receita - Abridged
By: Machado de Assis
Narrated by: Paulo Carvalho
Length: 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Leve, o conto "A Última Receita" narra a história de Paula, jovem viúva que, a certa altura, é diagnosticada pelo médico Dr. Avelar com uma constipação grave. Sua velha e surda tia passa a desconfiar das visitas diárias que o médico faz à sobrinha, suspeitando que ela estivesse interessada nele. Depois de alguns meses sem melhoras da doença, o... Read more
View audiobookCarnaval - duas crônicas de José de Alencar - Abridged
By: José de Alencar
Narrated by: Paulo Carvalho
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
As duas crônicas aqui reunidas, oriundas do livro "Ao correr da pena", de José Alencar, têm em comum o tema do Carnaval. O curioso e brasileiro contraste de interesses se faz presente na mistura das notícias do jornal, que reúne a guerra e o carnaval. Interessante para o leitor é ver o Carnaval carioca em formação. Read more
View audiobookLa Foresta Incantata
By: LS Morgan
Narrated by: Valeria Barbera
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Un breve racconto per bambini e ragazzi, sull’ amicizia e il sostegno reciproco. Due fratellini vivranno una magnifica avventura nella fattoria della loro prozia, e ciò che entrambi sperimenteranno sarà la sensazione di trovarsi in una foresta incantata, vivendo una giornata di sorprese, magia, gioco e divertimentoClassificazione: adatto ad ogni... Read more
View audiobookSzepty
By: Paweł Śmieszek
Narrated by: Grzegorz Feluś
Length: 1 hour 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Wyjątkowa opowieść, która przeniesie czytelników w świat emocji i ulotnych zdarzeń.Na co dzień często zapominamy o przyglądaniu się rzeczywistości, która nas otacza. W codziennym pędzie nie mamy czasu, by zatrzymać się nad tym, co tak naprawdę ważne. Paweł Śmieszek przypomina, że czasem warto znaleźć czas na świadome przeżywanie tego, co nas... Read more
View audiobookPrzygoda ostatniej blondynki
By: Andrzej Zimniak
Narrated by: Grzegorz Feluś
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Barbara, sfrustrowana żona i zmęczona matka, co noc we śnie odbywa szalone podróże w towarzystwie Fabiana, swojego lekarza. Medyk przeprowadził na jawie modyfikację genową hipokampu pacjentki i w ramach cyklicznych wizyt monitoruje efekty eksperymentalnej terapii. Zbiór opowiadań Andrzeja Zimniaka obfituje w podobne, brawurowe pomysły fabularne.... Read more
View audiobookDieci storie quasi vere
By: Daniela Gambaro
Narrated by: Alessandra Schiavoni
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
C'è chi è pronto a traslocare, chi sceglie a chi somiglierà da grande, chi vorrebbe che il figlio nato troppo presto torni nella pancia, chi dimentica la figlia in macchina e poi si reca al lavoro, chi si dimentica il gas acceso, chi ha un segreto che potrebbe far crollare un'intera casa, chi cerca di non farsi capire dai più piccoli, chi ha... Read more
View audiobookZombie Santa Claus: Axe Murderer Edition
By: Astrid Addams
Narrated by: Collin Clark
Length: 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Zombie Santa Claus: Axe Murderer Edition
It was Christmas Eve and the twins wanted to go and see Santa Claus. Mother wasn’t sure, but they’d been so good lately hadn’t they? After all, what was the worst that could happen?
Have you been naughty or nice?Be warned because the naughty will be punished and only the weak scream.
Have you said something... Read more
Le Dernier Rêve du Vieux Chêne
By: Hans Cristian Andersen
Narrated by: Jérôme Pilette
Length: 13 minutes
Abridged: No
La poésie et la sensibilité de Hans Cristian Andersen sont à leur meilleur dans ce conte où il se met dans la peau (plutôt dans l'écorce) d'un chêne de 365 ans pour nous raconter ses vues, ses idées, ses rêves.Hans Cristian Anderson est passé maître dans l'art des fables et des contes, lui qui en a écrit plus de 150. Même s'il est un dramaturge... Read more
View audiobookKvarteret kärleken: Portvaktens pris - erotisk novell
By: Desirée Coy
Narrated by: Adam Green
Length: 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Kvarteret Kärleken är fullt av människor som söker efter relationer och ibland hittar dem på oväntade ställen. Portvakten Egon Meijer njuter av att hålla koll på både hyresgästerna och fastigheten. Han ser, hör och luktar allting som pågår med det är en särskild kvinna som har fångat hans intresse. Några våningar ovanför honom bor den sexiga... Read more
View audiobookThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: John W. Michaels
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
In this story, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era “a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.” Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this “Lost Generation” been more vividly preserved... Read more
View audiobookLucky Breaks
By: Yevgenia Belorusets
Narrated by: Alexandra Cohler
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Powerful, off-beat stories about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing war in Ukraine
Out of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets's captivating collection of stories emerge from the... Read more
Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte
By: Horacio Quiroga
Narrated by: Martín De Renzo
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
El libro que consagró a Horacio Quiroga como el gran cuentista latinoamericano de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Con prólogo de Selva Almada.
«Pasa algo muy especial con los cuentos de Quiroga y es que nunca se agota el interés que despiertan. A diferencia de otros autores clásicos que se leen en determinado momento de la vida, Horacio... Read more
A Set of Six
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Peter Dann
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple, if typically wry and bleak, idea. In "Gaspar Ruiz", a South American general who has fought in a war of independence tells his guests a long tale about a notorious strong man that explains the origin of his current domestic arrangements. "The Informer" leads the reader into the depths... Read more
View audiobookRambles and Daydreams
By: Billy DeCarlo
Narrated by: Billy DeCarlo
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Rambles and Daydreams is a short book of short fiction, a collection of short stories and flash fiction by author Billy DeCarlo, with two bonus poems. The works range from under 1,000 to over 5,000 words, and center around the quirky thoughts and behavior of everyday people, similar to the stories of Raymond Carver.The centerpiece of this... Read more
View audiobookTreze
By: Duda Falcão
Narrated by: Voz Sintética
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Ao abrir as páginas desse tomo, você encontrará 13 contos de horror, bem ao estilo das antigas narrativas weird. No universo de Duda Falcão habitam monstros antediluvianos, demônios, vampiros, bruxas, feiticeiros e criaturas reanimadas trazidas das garras da morte. Pessoas comuns transitam nesse mundo das trevas, desde estudantes universitários... Read more
View audiobookElderberry Croft: March Whispers
By: Becky Doughty
Narrated by: Becky Doughty
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Joe Sanderson believes that living simply is simply better living.He gardens.He cooks.He entertains Vivian.Everything is going just fine... then along comes Ms. Willow Goodhope, with her whispering shadows and her elderberry pie, reminding him of what it means to be a man.Because sometimes life is simply complicated, and when a man loves a... Read more
View audiobookElderberry Croft: April Shadows
By: Becky Doughty
Narrated by: Becky Doughty
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The Coach House Trailer Park's token "Recluse Cat Lady" rarely sets foot outside her trailer. To be precise, it only happens once a week, on the same day, at the same time; if Shelly can help it.But one Friday morning in early April, Willow Goodhope from the cottage at Space Twelve shows up unannounced at Shelly's door, knocking her perfectly... Read more
View audiobookElderberry Croft: May Enchantment
By: Becky Doughty
Narrated by: Becky Doughty
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
Managing The Coach House Trailer Park keeps Eddie busy, if not exactly fulfilled.But the woman in the cottage at Space Twelve is stirring up the neighborhood; yes, indeed. Willow Goodhope is making waves, and Eddie's a little swept off his feet by the ripple effect she's set into motion. Something about the woman has every protective cell in his... Read more
View audiobookThe Winter Wife
By: Becky Doughty
Narrated by: Becky Doughty
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
♥ Welcome to Pemberton Manor: A place where misfits fit in, where normal is overrated, and where hope - and love - spring eternal. ♥Book 6: The Winter WifeSally Bishop thought her happily ever after would be all sunshine and roses. She fell in love with a flower farmer from sunny Southern California—how could it be anything else? But when a... Read more
View audiobookSnövit som synden
By: Sonya Muño
Narrated by: Carl Larsson
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
I kungaparets sovkammare några rum bort ställde sig drottningen som vanligt framför sin stora spegel. Hon granskade sin kropp, sträckte på ryggen och putade ut brösten, de långa benen sköt ner som välsvarvade pelare i de högklackade skorna. Hon gillade vad hon såg.Drottningen frågade spegeln:”Spegel, spegel på väggen där. Säg mig vem som... Read more
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