Classics audiobooks

The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss. His intense and inescapable... Read more

The Permanent Husband

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Eternal Husband opens with a man who answers a late-night knock on the door to find himself in a tense and puzzling confrontation with the husband of a former lover—but it isn’t clear if the husband knows about the affair. What follows is one of the most beautiful and piercing considerations ever written about the dualities of love: a... Read more

Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoeyevsky

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 28 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in... Read more

Pudd’nhead Wilson

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Nathan Osgood

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young female slave, fearing for her infant son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's, leading to a novel whose plot rages as a savage indictment of racial prejudice and slavery. Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson is full of characteristic Twain humour and stands as a gem among the... Read more

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Coat

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Nathan Osgood

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, who is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur's Camelot. The 'Yankee'... Read more

The House of the Dead

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Accused of political subversion as a young man, Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labour at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.
A haunting and remarkable work filled with wonder and... Read more

Tutto per bene

By: Luigi Pirandello

Narrated by: Gianluca Testa

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

La signorina Silvia Ascensi, venuta a Roma per ottenere il trasferimento dalla Scuola normale di Perugia in altra sede – qualunque e dovunque fosse, magari in Sicilia, magari in Sardegna – si rivolse per ajuto al giovane deputato del collegio, onorevole Marco Verona, che era stato discepolo devotissimo del suo povero babbo, il professor Ascensi... Read more

Panchatantra

By: Hendrik Wiethase

Narrated by: Hendrik Wiethase

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Panchatantra gilt als das wichtigste literarische Werk Indiens. Das Buch besteht aus fünf Teilen, die allesamt wiederum aus inein- ander verwobenen, moralischen Fabeln und Gleichnissen bestehen. Die Übersetzung von Dr. Ludwig Fritze ist an vielen Stellen Basis dieser Neufassung, insbesondere in Form der gereimten Zeilen. Die alten Schriften... Read more

Franz Kafka. Die Romane und die zu Lebzeiten veröffentlichten Erzählungen - Sven Regener liest Franz Kafka (ungekürzt)

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Sven Regener

Length: 33 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Kafka erscheint uns rätselhaft, dabei schreibt er doch eigentlich in einer schlichten Prosa, seine Schilderungen sind präzise, seine Personen reden in einfachen Worten und es wird weder um das, was sie tun, noch um das, das sie reden, noch um das, was ihnen zustößt, ein großes Gewese gemacht. Aber wir verstehen nicht. Oder glauben, nicht zu... Read more

William Wilson - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

"William Wilson" é um conto de Edgar Allan Poe que narra a história de um homem atormentado por seu duplo, que compartilha não apenas seu nome, mas também sua aparência desde a infância. Esse duplo moralista interfere em seus atos degradantes, levando a um conflito fatal. Read more

William Wilson - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe that tells the story of a man tormented by his double, who has shared not only his name but also his appearance since childhood. This moralistic double interferes in his degrading acts, leading to a fatal conflict. Read more

William Wilson - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"William Wilson" es un relato corto de Edgar Allan Poe que cuenta la historia de un hombre atormentado por su doble, que comparte no sólo su nombre sino también su apariencia desde la infancia. Este doble moralista interfiere en sus actos degradantes, conduciéndole a un conflicto fatal. Read more

Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 36 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered one of the great English novels, George Eliot's Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life follows myriad characters and their lives in the eponymous town, Middlemarch, in the 1800s. Utilizing a realistic style, Eliot considers issues such as religion, education, and the status of women—to name just a few. Read more

Forgettable in Every Way

By: Jennifer Peel

Narrated by: Will Watt & Justis Bolding

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Jules A word of advice? Never fall in love with an Englishman in New York. If you do, chances are that he’ll captivate your soul and never let you go. Take me, for instance. For the last thirteen years, I’ve heard “So This Is Love” on repeat every time I think of Simon Harrison. If this is love, it kind of sucks. Especially given that Simon only... Read more

Live and Let Die

By: Ian Fleming

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by Adjoa AndohLEGENDARY AGENT JAMES BOND CONFRONTS AN ENEMY UNLIKE ANY HE’S FACED BEFOREJames Bond is not an easily intimidated man, but it’s hard not to feel unnerved in the presence of Mr. Big. A ruthless Harlem gangster who uses superstition and fear to control his vast criminal empire, he’s also one of SMERSH’s top American... Read more

Casino Royale

By: Ian Fleming

Narrated by: Richard Armitage

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by Richard ArmitageJAMES BOND PLAYS A DEADLY GAME OF CHANCE IN IAN FLEMING’S LEGENDARY FIRST 007 NOVEL“Le Chiffre” is a ruthless operative and the accountant for a soviet SMERSH cell in France, but he’s on the verge of disaster after gambling away his client’s money. Taking the last of his stash, he lures a dozen wealthy players to a... Read more

Our Man in Havana

By: Graham Greene

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true . . .



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The Tell-Tale Heart - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator tries to prove his sanity after murdering an elderly man because of his "vulture eye". His growing guilt leads him to hear the old man's heart beating under the floorboards, which drives him to confess the crime to the police. Read more

El Corazón Delator - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

En "El corazón delator" de Edgar Allan Poe, el narrador intenta demostrar su cordura tras asesinar a un anciano a causa de su "ojo de buitre". Su creciente culpabilidad le lleva a escuchar el corazón del anciano latiendo bajo las tablas del suelo, lo que le lleva a confesar el crimen a la policía Read more

O Coração Delator - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Em "O Coração Delator", de Edgar Allan Poe, o narrador tenta provar sua sanidade depois de assassinar um homem idoso por causa de seu "olho de abutre". Sua culpa crescente o leva a ouvir o coração do velho batendo sob as tábuas do assoalho, o que o leva a confessar o crime à polícia. Read more

Весь Булгаков

By: Михаил Булгаков

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов & Дмитрий Шабров

Length: 78 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

В настоящую аудиокнигу включены наиболее знаковые произведения Михаила Булгакова. Попадая в удивительный мир писателя, читатель остается покоренным его талантом, мастерством и фантазией с первых до последних строк. Богато и разнообразно творческое наследие выдающегося писателя Михаила Булгакова. Наиболее знаковые произведения Мастера, вошли в... Read more

The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether", a narrator explores a French asylum that practices the innovative "system of soothing", avoiding physical restraints on patients, promoting a debate about the nature of sanity and psychiatric treatment. Read more

El Sistema del Doctor Tarr y el Profesor Fether - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

En el cuento de Edgar Allan Poe "El sistema del doctor Tarr y el profesor Fether" un narrador explora un manicomio francés que practica el innovador "sistema del apaciguamiento" evitando las sujeciones físicas a los pacientes, promoviendo un debate sobre la naturaleza de la cordura y el tratamiento psiquiátrico. Read more

Os Óculos - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Em "Os Óculos", de Edgar Allan Poe, um jovem vaidoso, negligenciando sua necessidade de usar óculos, apaixona-se à primeira vista. Mais tarde, ele descobre que a mulher por quem se apaixonou não é o que ele esperava, revelando uma ironia mordaz sobre percepção e realidade. Read more