Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Oscar Wilde 3 Iconic Audiobooks

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano & The Circle

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"An Ideal Husband" explores the intricacies of morality, marriage, and political intrigue as Sir Robert Chiltern faces the consequences of a past indiscretion while navigating the demands of public life and personal integrity.
"The Happy Prince & Other Stories" is a collection of whimsical yet poignant tales that delve into themes of... Read more

Count Cagliostro

By: Alexei Tolstoy

Narrated by: Fred Wolinsky

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When a young man goes from the demands and rigors of the army to a luxurious and serene country living, his mind is bound to wander where it should not. Such is the fate of Alexei Alexeyevich Fedyashev, who becomes so absorbed in his newfound idleness that he falls in love with an old portrait.When the famous conjurer and medium Count Cagliostro... Read more

The Queen of Spades

By: Alexander Pushkin

Narrated by: Fred Wolinsky

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Queen of Spades is decidedly one of Pushkin's gloomier tales, which inspired several movie adaptations and a magnificent opera by Tchaikovsky. Its determined but misguided protagonist stakes his life on a very old secret that might or might not even exist - with dire consequences. Read more

The Way Things Were

By: Marko Vovchok

Narrated by: Susan Greenway

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Way Things Were is a collection of stories and novellas by Ukrainian writer Marko Vovchok (Maria Alexandrona Vilinskaya-Markevich) focused around the lives of Russian and Ukrainian serfs during the last decade of slavery in the Russian Empire. These works were instrumental to the abolitionist movement, whose members - writers, poets,... Read more

Two Destinies

By: Rustem Valayev

Narrated by: Virginia Ferguson

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Playwright and historian Rustem Valayev presents two poignant, dramatic and thought-provoking episodes from our not-so-distant past. Despite having been written many decades ago, these two novellas hold up surprisingly well in the modern context. Read more

Henry David Thoreau Collection: Walden, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walking and Cape Cod

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Drake Johnson

Length: 22 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry David Thoreau was a 19th century American writer and lifelong advocate for the abolition of slavery. His written works are many and varied but he is perhaps best known for works such as Walden, a book which promotes the idea of simple living in natural surroundings and for Civil Disobedience, which argues that the general population should... Read more

The classic of German literature

By: Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke & ...

Narrated by: Mark Bowen, Shawna Wolf & Peter Coates

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. Contents: Thomas Mann Death in Venice Hermann... Read more

Lewis Carroll Collection: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and Sylvie and Bruno

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Gabrielle Domena Laughlin

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Enjoy this Lewis Carroll Collection combining three of Carroll's most noteworthy pieces, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and Sylvie and Bruno
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La dama de las camelias

By: Alexandre Dumas hijo

Narrated by: Jorge Ramírez

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"La dama de las camelias" es una novela escrita por Alexandre Dumas hijo, publicada por primera vez en 1848. La trama gira en torno a la historia de amor entre Armando Duval, un joven burgués, y Margarita Gautier, una cortesana parisina. La novela es conocida por su representación de la sociedad parisina del siglo XIX y por abordar temas como el... Read more

The Plays of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, and Othello

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Drake Johnson

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Enjoy the most notable plays of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello. Shakespeare was known for his writings on tragedies and these four works are known to be some of the finest tragedies ever written. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello remain popular and are studied, performed, and reinterpreted... Read more

Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano & The Circle

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The correspondence of Oscar Wilde volume four.
This fourth collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote while living in Berneval, in the months after his release from prison, and in Naples, where he shared a villa with his former lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. In a long letter to the editor of the Daily Chronicle,... Read more

The Notes of Crazy Girl

By: Inna Novikova

Narrated by: Inna Novikova

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A raw psychological thriller with dark humour and a sprinkle of prose. Told light-heartedly and with an accent, The Notes of Crazy Girl is full of music, emotions and disorders.Lies, mind webs, and manipulation - Crazy Girl is on top of it! When a young musician, highly creative and an overthinker, meets a man who likes mind webs, she lets him... Read more

Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano & The Circle

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

The correspondence of Oscar Wilde volume two.
This second collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes letters written when the Irish playwright was at the height of his success. Wilde defends several of his works from criticism and even censorship and writes "prose poems" to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, that will eventually be... Read more

Eyeless in Gaza

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Jamie Parker

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Though somewhat overshadowed by Brave New World and The Doors of Perception, Huxley's modernist novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) is often regarded as his finest work. The writer and historian Simon Heffer dubbed it, unequivocally, ‘his only great novel.'

The plot centres on Anthony Beavis, a dilettante social theorist, a man inclined to recoil from... Read more

A Clock Stopped Dead

By: J.M. Hall

Narrated by: Julie Hesmondhalgh

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

'Satisfyingly intriguing' Faith Martin 'J.M. Hall has mastered the warmth of a perfect modern cosy crime with all the twists and turns that go with it. I really enjoyed it!' Hannah Hendy Retired schoolteachers and amateur sleuths Liz, Pat and Thelma are... Read more

Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano & The Circle

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The correspondence of Oscar Wilde volume one
This first collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde begins with the Irish playwright's earliest extant letter, thanking his mother for the hamper she had sent to him at school. It includes letters about his travels in Italy, his American lecture tour, the staging of his first play (Vera, or the... Read more

Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano & The Circle

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The correspondence of Oscar Wilde volume three.
This third collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote from prison. It begins with notes of thanks to the friends who stood by him after his arrest and ends with discussions of his plans for after his release. De Profundis, the long letter Wilde wrote to his... Read more

Orquesta

By: Miqui Otero

Narrated by: Miqui Otero, Rebeca Hernando, Íñigo Álvarez de ...

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Tras el éxito de Simón (Premio Ojo Crítico de Narrativa), «gran canto a la novela» (Sara Mesa), vuelve Miqui Otero y su «enorme talento» (ABC) con una noche de verano inolvidable. «La perfectamente afinada Orquesta comienza siendo un solista prodigio técnico y acaba resultando en un coral milagro de sentimientos. Creo que no se le puede hacer... Read more

The Life Of Oscar Wilde

By: Robert Sherad

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano & The Circle

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

"The Life of Oscar Wilde" by Robert Sherard is a biographical exploration that takes readers on a journey through the fascinating and tumultuous life of one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the late 19th century. Originally published in 1906, Sherard, a friend and contemporary of Wilde, provides a deeply personal account of the... Read more

The Picture Of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Robert Noel & The Tram

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the dimly lit atelier of Basil Hallward, a talented and idealistic artist, the portrait of Dorian Gray comes to life on the canvas. This portrait, a masterpiece capturing the youth and allure of its subject, becomes the focal point of Oscar Wilde's haunting and philosophical novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
Set against the backdrop of late... Read more

Oscar Wilde & Myself

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano & The Circle

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The first memoir by the poet Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas was written 14 years after the death of Oscar Wilde and in the aftermath of Douglas's failed prosecution of Arthur Ransome for libel. Ransome, in his 'Oscar Wilde, a Critical Study,' had quoted from the expurgated portions of Wilde's prison letter to Douglas, 'De Profundis', which was... Read more

The Trial Of Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano & The Circle

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In the late 19th century, Oscar Wilde, a flamboyant and renowned playwright and poet, was at the height of his success. His wit and charm captivated audiences, and his works such as "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "The Importance of Being Earnest" were celebrated for their brilliance. However, Wilde's life took a dramatic turn when his personal... Read more

Прощание с Матёрой

By: Валентин Распутин

Narrated by: Иван Литвинов

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

1960-е годы. Деревня Матёра, стоящая на острове посереди Ангары уйдёт под воду из-за строительства Братской ГЭС. Многие, преимущественно старики, не хотят покидать место, в котором провели всю жизнь. Они воспринимают затопление деревни и переселение как измену памяти предков, похороненных на этой земле. А молодое поколение верит, что уехав в... Read more

Dans l'œil de la tempête

By: Clémence Renard

Narrated by: Bénédicte Charton, Alysson Paradis & François S...

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Une violente tempête s'annonce à Chicago. Les rues se vident, les médias sonnent l'alerte. La jeune Céleste, qui a traversé le pays pour fuir l'emprise perverse de son père, se barricade. Anthony, un incel, « célibataire involontaire », cherche dans les forums une réparation à ses échecs amoureux. Suzanne, enfermée par sa communauté évangéliste... Read more