Language audiobooks

The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Into the narrow social world of New York in the 1870s comes Countess Ellen Olenska, surrounded by shocked whispers about her failed marriage to a rich Polish Count. A woman who leaves her husband can never be accepted in polite society. Newland Archer is engaged to young May Welland, but the beautiful and mysterious Countess needs his help. He... Read more

The Card

By: Arnold Bennett & Nick Bullard

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of... Read more

Bronte Story

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young... Read more

The Three Strangers and Other Stories

By: Thomas Hardy & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd's cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night ...In these three short stories,... Read more

Vanity Fair

By: William Thackeray & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen... Read more

The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Down by the river bank, where the wind whispers through the willow trees, is a very pleasant place to have a lunch party with a few friends. But life is not always so peaceful for the Mole and the Water Rat. There is the time, for example, when Toad gets interested in motor-cars - goes mad about them in fact ...The story of the adventures of... Read more

Rapid Arabic (Vol. 1)

By: Earworms Learning

Narrated by: Riem Elfar & Marlon Lodge

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Earworms MBT Rapid Arabic - your personal audio language trainer with 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music! Volume 1 is your survival kit for use when travelling abroad on a business trip or vacation. 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Children of the New Forest

By: Rowena Akinyemi & Captain Marryat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody. The four Beverley children have no parents; their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell's soldiers have come to burn the house - with the children in it. The four of them... 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

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

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