In Search of Lost Time
By: Marcel Proust
Narrated by: Full Cast, Derek Jacobi, Frances Barber, Paters...
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A landmark BBC radio production of Proust's epic masterpiece, starring Derek Jacobi as the narrator, Marcel
'Beautiful' - Charlotte Runcie, The Telegraph
Waking in the small hours, Marcel Proust embarks on a retrospective journey, endeavouring to capture the elusive moments that shaped his life. A sip of tea and the taste of a madeleine prompt... Read more
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
By: Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm
Narrated by: James Taylor & Helen Pyle
Length: 28 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm is a collection of the 211 Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, first published on 20 December 1812. The Brothers Grimm (die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob Ludwig Karl (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Carl (1786-1859), were German academics,... Read more
View audiobookMarley
By: Jon Clinch
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The acclaimed author of Finn “digs down to the bones of a classic and creates must-read modern literature” (Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author) with this “clever riff” (The Washington Post) on Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol that explores of the relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley.
“Marley was dead, to begin... Read more
Selected Hemingway Stories
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
NEVER BEFORE ON AUDIO! ALL-NEW PRODUCTIONS OF TWENTY-FOUR CLASSIC ERNEST HEMINGWAY STORIES.
This brand-new audio collection from the iconic Pulitzer and Nobel Prize–winning author is a listener’s delight. The two dozen short stories presented here have never been published on audio; these new recordings of classic stories will remind listeners of... Read more
Great Expectations
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
Length: 17 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Great Expectations, recognized as Charles Dickens' finest novel, is told by Pip, an orphan who lives with his sister and her husband, the village blacksmith. The young boy's life is changed forever when he meets and aids an escaped convict who wanders into his yard. Years later, Pip is sent to live with the decaying, bitter Miss Havisham and... Read more
View audiobookBull
By: David Elliott
Narrated by: Cherise Boothe & Korey Jackson
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: No
SEE THE STORY OF THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT Minos thought he could Pull a fast one On me, Poseidon! God of the Sea! But I'm the last one On whom you Should try such a thing. The nerve of that guy. The balls. The audacity. I AM THE OCEAN! I got capacity! Depths! Darkness! Delphic power! So his sweet little plan Went big-time... Read more
View audiobookHouse of Names
By: Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Charlie Anson & Pippa Nixon
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
* A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year
* Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, St. Louis Dispatch
From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children—“brilliant…gripping…high drama…made tangible and graphic in... Read more
Spoils
By: Brian Van Reet
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Armando Duran & Andrew Eiden
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely recognized for what it is, as a series of miscalculations and blunders fuels an already-simmering insurgency intent on making Iraq the next graveyard of empires.
In dazzling and propulsive prose, Brian... Read more
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
By: Sun-mi Hwang
Narrated by: Jill Larson
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A Korean Charlotte's Web
More than 2 million copies sold
This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an... Read more
Love in the Time of Cholera
By: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: Armando Durán
Length: 15 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Nobel Prize–winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people’s lives together for more than half a century.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born... Read more
View audiobookThe Unbearable Lightness of Being
By: Milan Kundera
Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as ""a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness"" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It went on to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and quickly became an... Read more
View audiobookWuthering Heights
By: Emily Brontë
Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The sole novel of Emily Brontë, who died a year after its publication at the age of thirty, Wuthering Heights is one of the most original classics in the canon of English literature. Set amid the wild and stormy Yorkshire moors, it is the tale of childhood playmates who grow into soul mates, and whose tempestuous natures and obsessive love... Read more
View audiobookThe Invisible Man
By: H.G. Wells
Narrated by: Victoria Morgan
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
" I had not expected the suffering. A night of racking anguish, sickness and fainting. I became insensible and woke languid in the darkness. I shall never forget that dawn, and the strange horror of seeing that my hands had become as clouded glass, and watching them grow clearer and thinner as the day went by. My limbs became glassy, the bones... Read more
View audiobookSense and Sensibility
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Jane Austen’s debut novel is a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly in which two sisters who represent “sense” and “sensibility,” or restraint and emotionalism, experience love and heartbreak in their own separate ways.One daughter, the impetuous Marianne, falls passionately in love with the dashing John Willoughby and makes no secret... Read more
View audiobookPersuasion
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The last novel completed by Jane Austen before her death, Persuasion is often thought to reflect on the author’s own lost love.Sir Walter Elliot has raised his three daughters with his own sense of haughty pride. Elizabeth, at twenty-eight, has found no one good enough to marry, while Mary has, with some condescension, married the son of the... Read more
View audiobookThe Write Stuff
By: James Walton
Narrated by: James Walton, Sebastian Faulks, Stephen Fry, Si...
Length: 18 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Highlights from the light-hearted literary quiz chaired by James WaltonThe Write Stuff is the book-based panel show that takes a witty and whimsical look at well-known authors and their work. Host James Walton challenges the erudite contestants with tricky literary teasers, which they endeavour to answer using a combination of knowledge and... Read more
View audiobookLos Hermanos Karamazov
By: Fiodor Dostoyevski
Narrated by: Rodrigo Martinez
Length: 33 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
"Los hermanos Karamazov" de Fiodor Dostoyevski es una obra maestra que profundiza en temas como la fe, la duda, el libre albedrío y la naturaleza del mal, a través de la compleja relación entre los miembros de la familia Karamazov en la Rusia del siglo XIX. Dostoyevski, uno de los más grandes escritores de la literatura universal, utiliza esta... Read more
View audiobookDie Glücksritter
By: Joseph von Eichendorff
Narrated by: Nikolaus Benda
Length: 1 hour 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Abenteuer zweier Hochstapler. Lesung mit musikalischem Feature. Die Glücksritter. Novelle von JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF. Es ist gerade das Ende des 30jährigen Krieges. Suppius und Klarinett - ein verbummelter Student und ein wandernder Musiker - erreichen nach wechselnden Abenteuern in spektakulärer Art und Weise ein verwahrlostes Schloß, wo sie... Read more
View audiobookUnto a Good Land
By: Vilhelm Moberg
Narrated by: Ann Marie Arvdal Richardson
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Considered one of Sweden's greatest twentieth-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigrants in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels.
Moberg's... Read more
Kleider machen Leute
By: Gottfried Keller
Narrated by: Ernst-Marcus Thomas
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Zeitlose Gesellschaftsparabel Lesung mit musikalischem Feature. Kleider machen Leute. Novelle von Gottfried Keller. Das zeitlose Thema ›Kleider machen Leute‹ in einer amüsanten Geschichte über den Seldwyler Schneidergesellen Wenzel Strapinski, der mit keinerlei Habe als seiner vornehmen Garderobe im Städtchen Goldach eintrifft und ohne... Read more
View audiobookDas Marmorbild
By: Joseph von Eichendorff
Narrated by: Ernst-Marcus Thomas
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Mystische Begegnung. Lesung mit musikalischem Feature. Das Marmorbild. Novelle von JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF. Der junge Florio lernt auf einer Italienreise den Sänger Fortunato kennen. Sie gelangen zusammen nach Lucca, wo Florio eine Neigung zu der naiven Bianca faßt. Jedoch begegnet er nachts umherstreifend einem Marmorbild, das ihm wie eine... Read more
View audiobookThe Dove's Nest and Other Stories
By: Katherine Mansfield
Narrated by: Susannah Fullerton, Lisa Giles, Erin Marie Whit...
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories is a collection of both finished and unfinished short stories written by Katherine Mansfield. The collection was published posthumously, not long after Mansfield’s death in 1923, by her husband, John Middleton Murry.CONTENTS:Introductory Note“The Doll’s House”“Honeymoon”“A Cup of Tea”“Taking the Veil”“The... Read more
View audiobookLa Reine Margot
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Loïc Richard
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
ACTION, INTRIGUES, COMPLOTS, AMOURS : UN RÉCIT FOUGUEUX AUX MILLES PÉRIPÉTIES. Paris, 1572. Dans une époque secouée par les guerres de religion, le jeune roi protestant de Navarre épouse Marguerite de Valois, dite Margot. C'est un mariage purement politique qui a pour objectif d'établir durablement la paix entre protestants et catholiques.... Read more
View audiobookThe Sheltering Sky
By: Paul Bowles
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Audio edition of the landmark of 20th Century literature, by acclaimed author Paul BowlesIn this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of... Read more
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