Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Парадокс об актёре

By: Дэни Дидро

Narrated by: Иван Забелин, Сергей Осадчий, Илья Акинтьев & И...

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Аудиостудия «Ардис» предлагает вашему вниманию труд французского писателя, философа-просветителя Дени Дидро (1713-1784) «Парадокс об актёре», впервые полностью опубликованный в 1830 г. В нём анализируется наиболее спорный для современного театра вопрос, касающийся «чувствительной» и «рациональной» составляющих актёрской игры. Простота и правда,... Read more

The Ukraine

By: Artem Chapeye

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Ukraine is a collection of twenty-six pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference, simplicities and complications.



In the title story, Chapeye... Read more

Better by Far

By: Hazel Hayes

Narrated by: Hazel Hayes

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Zibby Mag's Most Anticipated Books Coming Out in 2024 | One of SheNet's Highly Anticipated Books of 2024

A genre-bending story about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, and the healing to be found in life’s little limbos, those in-between spaces where you’re no longer who you were and not yet the person you will be
 
About her debut, Out... Read more

American Ending

By: Mary Kay Zuravleff

Narrated by: Mary Kay Zuravleff

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman growing up in a family of Russian immigrants in the 1910s seeks a thoroughly American life.



Yelena is the first American born to her Old Believer Russian Orthodox parents, who are building a life in a Pennsylvania Appalachian town. This town, in the first decades of the twentieth century, is filled with Russian transplants and a new... Read more

Infinite Jest

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 64 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America

Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our... Read more

Bad Habit

By: Alana S. Portero

Narrated by: Alexandra Grey

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Dua Lipa's September Book Club Pick!""[Bad Habit] shows us that a 'trans novel' can actually be anything it wants to be."" –New York Times""A novel that could very well serve as a surrogate mother for future children who grow up lonely and trans."" –Washington PostCombining the raw realism and vulnerability of Shuggie Bain and Detransition, Baby... Read more

I Disappeared Them

By: Preston L. Allen

Narrated by: Michael Braun

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Bullied as a child for being overweight and an orphan, the serial killer in I Disappeared Them hides in plain sight. By day, he is an affable family man with a disarming smile, surrounded by his children and loving wife. At night, he punches the clock as a hardworking pizza man. After work, he roams Miami’s nighttime streets as the Periwinkle... Read more

A Single Act of Kindness

By: Samantha Tonge

Narrated by: Claire Storey

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Inspiring, thought-provoking and incredibly moving – Samantha Tonge hit me straight in the heart with the wonderful tale of Tilda and Milo.’ No.1 bestselling author, Shari LowMeet Tilda Wright…Tilda has done everything she can to make her life neat, protected, tidy. No longer the girl who was scared of everything, whose family pushed her away,... Read more

A Dark Dream

By: William Walker

Narrated by: Tony Brown

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"A Dark Dream" by William Walker takes you into the tumultuous world of Tre, a man whose life spirals into darkness, landing him in a notorious psych ward known for its mistreatment of patients. The story unveils a harrowing incident involving a tragic medication mix-up, setting the tone for the bleakness of Tre's existence. Amid this despair,... Read more

Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки

By: Николай Гоголь

Narrated by: Иван Литвинов

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

«Сейчас прочёл Вечера близ Диканьки. Они изумили меня. Вот настоящая весёлость, искренняя, непринуждённая, без жеманства, без чопорности. А местами какая поэзия!.. Всё это так необыкновенно в нашей нынешней литературе, что я доселе не образумился…» А. С. Пушкин Содержание: Часть первая Предисловие Сорочинская ярмарка Вечер накануне Ивана... Read more

Искушение для нечисти

By: Ирина Смирнова

Narrated by: Нина Сашина

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Она — маг, убивающий нечисть. Он — нечисть, ненавидящая магов. Но у них есть общий враг, общая цель и пугающее взаимное притяжение, грозящее перерасти в нечто большее. Read more

To My Sunflower

By: Marie Weis

Narrated by: Nina-Carissima Schönrock

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Die erfolgreiche Ophelia geht in ihrem Job als Illustratorin voll auf und auch mit ihrem Instagram-Profil @opheliaungeschönt, auf dem sie über Selbstliebe und psychische Erkrankungen aufklärt, hat sie sich einen Namen gemacht. Doch so selbstsicher, wie sie wirkt, ist sie ganz und gar nicht. Besonders in Sachen Liebe hat sie bisher keine... Read more

Возвращение в Ивто

By: Анни Эрно

Narrated by: Оксана Васякина

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

В основу этой книги легла запись выступления Анни Эрно в Ивто, городке ее детства в сельской Нормандии, куда писательница приехала по приглашению муниципалитета в 2012 году — спустя несколько десятилетий, когда Ивто существовал для нее лишь в памяти и письме. Город вместе с его жителями и порядками — ключевой персонаж книг Эрно. Он находится на... Read more

King Lear

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano & The Arc

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"King Lear," one of William Shakespeare's most renowned tragedies, presents a harrowing narrative of a monarch's downfall amidst familial turmoil and political upheaval. At its core, the play explores themes of power, madness, and the complexities of human nature. Lear's decision to divide his kingdom among his daughters based on their... Read more

An incident at the apartment of Madam Cerize

By: Alexander Grin

Narrated by: Fred Wolinsky

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

It is difficult to combine mysticism with humor, but Alexander Grin takes on the challenge and comes out with flying colors. For all its mystical and mythical references, An incident at the apartment of Madam Cerize, is quite a heartwarming story, giving all of us some hope that, sometimes, powers that be do care. Read more

The Gray Automobile

By: Alexander Grin

Narrated by: Fred Wolinsky

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander Grin is known for his strange and chilling tales, and this one is certainly one of the oddest of them all. The author would like us to consider, what would happen if a creation not only outsmarted its creator but became truly dangerous. Read more

Ghosts

By: Ivan Turgenev

Narrated by: Fred Wolinsky

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Ivan Turgenev's Ghosts is a rare venture into the supernatural for this writer, and all the more precious for it. The story has all the beauty of Turgenev's language, all the power of his description, and a decidedly chilling feel of a true ghost story. Read more

The Jack London Collection: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Scarlet Plague, and The Sea Wolf

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Joe Wosik

Length: 24 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Enjoy this Jack London collection combining four of Jack's most noteworthy pieces, The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Scarlet Plague, and The Sea Wolf! Read more

Bruce Chatwin: A BBC Radio Collection

By: Bruce Chatwin

Narrated by: Russell Tovey, Ian Hogg, Ioan Meredith, Patrick...

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of full-cast dramas and readings from the giant of travel writing – plus a bonus documentary

Author and adventurer Bruce Chatwin was one of the 20th Century’s most charismatic writers. His first book, In Patagonia, changed the face of travel writing and made him a literary sensation. Collected here are dramatisations and readings of... Read more

Los pájaros que habitan mi corazón y otros cuentos

By: Sue Zurita

Narrated by: Mariana Alberico

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Prepárate para emprender de nuevo el vuelo de la mano de Sue Zurita. La autora de El viaje de los colibríes y Aquellos días nos abre su corazón con estas historias que parecen escritas especialmente para ti. En este volumen se recopilan los mejores relatos de Sue Zurita, extraídos de las ediciones independientes de Los pájaros que habitan mi... Read more

The Amendments

By: Niamh Mulvey

Narrated by: Jessica Regan

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

'Extraordinary. I loved it' - Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist
'Engrossing and moving . . . gives voice to so much that's unspoken about Ireland' - Emma Donoghue, author of Room
'Wonderfully compelling . . . haunting' - Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea

Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments by Niamh... Read more

Зажги свечу

By: Мейв Бинчи

Narrated by: Юлия Тархова

Length: 21 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Ирландская писательница и журналистка Мейв Бинчи (1940–2012) хорошо известна не только на своей родине, но и во всем мире. Перу Бинчи, помимо рассказов, принадлежит 16 романов, ее книги неизменно становились бестселлерами и не раз получали престижные международные премии. В 1970-х годах Бинчи опубликовала три сборника рассказов, и довольно... Read more

El Festival

By: Sarah J. Naughton

Narrated by: Marta García

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

CUATRO MUJERES Orly, Lenny, Mel y Thea son amigas desde el colegio, pero han pasado 20 años e inevitablemente sus caminos han ido por separado. UN FIN DE SEMANA Es el cuarenta cumpleaños de Lenny, además Orly y Mel necesitan animarse, por lo que Thea sugiere un fin de semana en el festival de su ciudad natal. Una oportunidad para que todas... Read more

Una educación

By: Tara Westover

Narrated by: Jane Santos

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

«Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación». Uno de los libros más importantes del año según The New York Times, que ya ha cautivado a más de medio millón de lectores. Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que... Read more