Language audiobooks

Huckleberry Finn (Adaptation) - Abridged

By: Mark Twain & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there's 300 dollars... Read more

Elephant Man

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'. Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film. Read more

The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost - because of course Americans don't believe in ghosts. The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten... Read more

Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley & Patrick Nobes

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new 'man'. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And, because he is... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and... Read more

A Little Princess

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes friends at school. But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home,... Read more

The Prisoner of Zenda

By: Anthony Hope & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

'We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!' cried Sapt. 'If we're caught, we'll all be killed!' So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the King is now a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda. Who will rescue him from his enemies, the dangerous Duke Michael and Rupert of Hentzau? And who will... Read more

The Monkey's Paw

By: W. W. Jacobs & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Outside, the night is cold and wet. Inside, the White family sits and waits. Where is their visitor? There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived. The visitor waits. He has been in India for many years. What has he got? He has brought the hand of a small, dead animal – a monkey’s paw. Outside, in... Read more

The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London & Nick Bullard

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow ...and how to fight.... Read more

Love or Money?

By: Rowena Akinyemi

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

It is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party - only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die. But one... Read more

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

By: Edgar Allan Poe & Margaret Naudi

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night ...is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror ...is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when you turn round? These famous short... Read more

White Death

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So, now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die. She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help Sarah: her mother, and an old boyfriend who does not love her now.... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde & Jill Nevile

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

'When we are happy, we are always good,' says Lord Henry, 'but when we are good, we are not always happy.' Lord Henry's lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party. Read more

The Secret Garden

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden ...which has been locked for ten years. And no one... Read more

The Wizard of Oz

By: L. Frank Baum & Rosemary Border

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help her, and that is the country's famous Wizard. So Dorothy and her friends take the yellow... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain & Nick Bullard

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night. They see... Read more

The Phantom of the Opera

By: Jennifer Bassett & Gaston Leroux

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom... Read more

Sherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr Huxtable has a school for boys in the north of England. When the Duke of Holdernesse decides to send his young son there, that is good news for the school. The Duke is a very important person, and Dr Huxtable is happy to have his son in the school. But two weeks later Dr Huxtable is the unhappiest man in England. Why? And why does he take the... Read more

Skyjack!

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened. There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead - if the hijackers can find out who he is! And there isn't much time. One man lies dead... Read more

Dracula

By: Bram Stoker & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula - a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls. In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon,... Read more

PONS mobil Sprachtraining Aufbau: Italienisch

By: Giorgio Piva, Beatrice Rovere-Fenati & Christop...

Narrated by: Various Artists

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Sie besitzen bereits italienische Grundkenntnisse und Sie möchten mehr dazulernen und mehr können? PONS mobil Sprachtraining enthält 12 Dialoge und Interviews mit Menschen aus Italien. Nach jedem Dialog bzw. Interview folgen Übungen, die Ihnen helfen - gesprochenes Italienisch leichter zu verstehen - die Grammatik zu wiederholen - Ihren... Read more

PONS mobil Sprachtraining Basics: Telefonieren auf Englisch

By: Anneli Jefferson

Narrated by: Carlos Ortega, David Hegarty, Karin Adam, Abdir...

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Das praktische Englisch-Training für unterwegs: Sicher telefonieren auf Englisch! - Trainieren Sie die wichtigsten geschäftsnahen Situationen: making appointments oder placing an order - bleiben Sie dran! - Souverän reagieren, auch auf unerwartete Anrufe: einfach und wirkungsvoll üben Sie 12 häufige Situationen wie Reservierungen,... Read more

Just Say Nu

By: Michael Wex

Narrated by: Michael Wex

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Just say Nu is a practical guide to using Yiddish words and expressions in day-to-day situations. Along with enough grammar to enable readers to put together a comprehensible sentence and avoid embarrassing mistakes, Wex also explains the five most useful Yiddish words–shoyn, nu, epes, takeh, and nebakh–what they mean, how and when to use them,... Read more

PONS mobil Wortschatztraining Niederländisch

By: Digna Myrte Hobbelink & PONS-Redaktion

Narrated by: Karin Adam & Friso de Jong

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Im Auto, beim Joggen oder zu Hause auf dem Sofa: mit Pons mobil Wortschatztrainig Niederländisch erweitern Sie Ihren Wortschatz mühelos. Was heißt eigentlich "Schnürsenkel" oder wie sagen Sie, dass Sie eine Nuss-Allergie haben? Mit Rund 450 nützlichen Wörtern und Sätzen in 15 Themenbereichen sind Sie für die wichtigsten Situationen... Read more