Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Voice of the Eagle

By: Linda Lay Shuler

Narrated by: Cris Dukehart

Length: 25 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

It was two hundred years before Columbus. The spirits of nature walked the earth and the people of the American Southwest lived in intimate harmony with the land, the sky, and the seasons. Here the beautiful, blue eyed Kwani, gifted with magical vision, and Tolonqua, Hunting Chief of the Towa, joined in a passion that defied all taboos. Here... Read more

Tangled Vines

By: Kay Bratt

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

With the bad memories of the Cultural Revolution and a life of hard work behind them, Benfu and his treasured Calla Lily are content watching their daughters blossom—six young women who they adopted as their own. But when a clue to the whereabouts of the biological daughter they lost decades ago suddenly surfaces, they begin a frantic search to... Read more

The Widow Waltz

By: Sally Koslow

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgia Waltz has things many people only dream of: a plush Manhattan apartment overlooking Central Park, a Hamptons beach house, valuable jewels and art, two bright daughters, and a husband she adores, even after decades of marriage. It's only when Ben suddenly drops dead from a massive coronary while training for the New York City Marathon... Read more

Willy Brandt. Ein Zeitbild in Originaltönen

By: Jürgen Roth

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Bis heute wird Brandt geachtet, von vielen verehrt. Anlässlich seines 100. Geburtstages - und im 150. Jahr des Bestehens der SPD - zeichnet dieses Hörbuch anhand vieler berühmter und unbekannter O-Töne ein kompaktes, facettenreiches Bild von Willy Brandt, einem Weltpolitiker, dessen komplexer Charakter mitunter schwer zu greifen und zu begreifen... Read more

Vanity Fair: January 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world's most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more

The Hired Baby

By: Marie Corelli

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Marie Corelli (1855 - 1924) was an eccentric British novelist who enjoyed great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I.

Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling and she was the most widely read... Read more

The Omnibus

By: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving story of a random act of kindness.

Old Tom Pickford, an elderly clerk at Tweedie's warehouse, is moved by the sight of a young boy on a London omnibus who is about to embark on a new life at sea. His thoughts drift back to his own boyhood in the country, which he left behind long ago.

A wonderful study in characterisation and nostalgia. Read more

The Idiots

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Conrad's truly first short story, written during his honeymoon (1896), published in The Savoy periodical, 1896, and collected in Tales of Unrest, 1898.

A Breton farmer, returning from national service, takes over the family farm and marries a local girl, hoping to have sons who will inherit the family farm and carry on his own traditions.

All... Read more

Joy School

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Natalie Ross

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the New England Book Award for FictionKatie, the narrator, has relocated to Missouri with her distant, occasionally abusive father, and she feels very much alone: her much-loved mother is dead; her new school is unaccepting of her; and her only friends fall far short of being ideal companions. When she accidentally falls through the... Read more

The Apartment

By: Greg Baxter

Narrated by: Peter Powlus

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful and elegant debut novel about love, memory, exile, and war.

One snowy December morning in an old European city, an American man leaves his shabby hotel to meet a local woman who has agreed to help him search for an apartment to rent. The Apartment follows the couple across a blurry, illogical, and frozen city into a past the man is... Read more

Brown Dog

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Ray Porter & Lloyd James

Length: 18 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of America's most beloved writers, and of all his creations, Brown Dog—a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian—has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since his first appearance. For the first time, Brown Dog gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including... Read more

Remember How I Told You I Loved You?

By: Gillian Linden

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From a brilliant new literary voice, a collection of stories that follow a young woman from college into her early thirties—from delayed adolescence to (delayed) adulthood. Through college, careers, love affairs, and marriages, Linden’s characters try to sort out what separates the passing from the permanent, the actual from the possible, and... Read more

Vatican Waltz

By: Roland Merullo

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The new novel from the award-winning author of Golfing with God and Revere Beach Boulevard is the story of a young Catholic woman jolted from a quietly devout life in Boston by a miraculous call to action.Cynthia Piantedosi lives a quiet, unassuming life with her elderly father just outside of Boston. When she loses her beloved grandmother as a... Read more

36 Stunden - Abridged

By: Ödön von Horvath

Narrated by: Thomas Kamper

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Horváths erster Roman spielt im Spätaugust 1928 in München. Agnes Pollinger, eine arbeitslose Näherin aus Regensburg, wohnt bei ihrer Tante in der Schellingstraße. Der Untermieter Herr Kastner unterhält ein florierendes Geschäft mit pornografischen Bildern und stellt Agnes nach. Agnes hat häufig Affären mit anderen Männern, die jedoch selten... Read more

Alles ist Jazz - Abridged

By: Lili Grün

Narrated by: Katharina Straßer

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Berlin 1930: Wirtschaftskrise und Armut beuteln die Metropole an der Spree. Die junge Schauspielerin Elli zieht es dennoch von Wien nach Berlin. Zusammen mit Gleichgesinnten gründet sie das Kabarett 'Jazz' - immer in der Hoffnung auf den großen Erfolg. Doch Geldsorgen und Armut machen das Leben schwer. Aber da ist ja noch Ellis neue Liebe, der... Read more

Der ewige Spiesser - Abridged

By: Ödön von Horwath

Narrated by: Erwin Ebenbauer

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der "erbauliche Roman" besteht aus drei Teilen, die verschiedene Typen des "neuen Mittelstands" nach dem ersten Weltkrieg charakterisieren. Horváth beschreibt seine Figuren mit grimmiger Ironie und Abscheu, aber auch voll Sympathie und Herzenswärme. Im ersten Teil, einem Reiseroman, fährt der habgierige, amoralische Münchner Geschäftsmann... Read more

Jugend ohne Gott - Abridged

By: Ödön von Horvath

Narrated by: Till Firit

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der dritte Roman Horváths ist sein erfolgreichster. Er wurde 1937 veröffentlicht und spielt in ebendieser Zeit. Die Gestapo nahm das Werk 1938 in die "Liste des schädlichen und unerwünschten Schrifttums" auf. Deutschland nach der Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten: Ein junger Lehrer gerät in Bedrängnis, als er in einem Schüleraufsatz... Read more

Die Welt von gestern - Abridged

By: Stefan Zweig

Narrated by: Peter Vilnai

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Peter Vilnai wurde 1945 in Niederösterreich geboren. Absolvent der Schauspielschule von Prof. Krauss in Wien. 1974 Debüt am Theater für Vorarlberg in Bregenz. Nach Gastspielen am Theater Tribüne, wo er auch als künstlerischer Leiter tätig war, und Die Courage in Wien kam er 1980 ans Wiener Volkstheater. Spielte in mehreren Fernseh- und... Read more

Der Spieler - Abridged

By: Fjodor M. Dostojewski

Narrated by: Till Firit

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In nur 26 Tagen entstand Dostojewskis Klassiker 'Der Spieler'. Der mehrfach verfilmte Roman spielt im fiktiven Kurort Roulettenburg. Aleksej der als Hauslehrer in der Reisegesellschaft einer wohlhabenden russischen Familie anreist verfällt sowohl der Stieftochter seines Arbeitgebers dem 'General' als auch dem Roulette. Dem Bann des Spiels... Read more

Spiel im Morgengrauen - Abridged

By: Arthur Schnitzler

Narrated by: Christian Dolezal

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der junge Leutnant Wilhelm Kasda wird von seinem ehemaligen Dienstkamerad aufgesucht, der ihn um 960 Gulden anfleht, da er sich aus der Firmenkasse bedient hat und nun Angst hat, dies könnte ans Tageslicht kommen. Da Wilhelm jedoch selbst nur 120 Gulden besitzt, beschließt er das Geld für seinen Freund am Spieltisch zu gewinnen. Beim Kartenspiel... Read more

Ein Kind unserer Zeit - Abridged

By: Ödön von Horvath

Narrated by: Raphael von Bargen

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Horváths letzter Roman "Ein Kind unserer Zeit" spielt während einer Diktatur zwischen zwei Kriegen. Erschienen ist das Werk postum 1938. Der Erzähler ist von Beruf Soldat und identifiziert sich auf ganzer Linie mit den Anschauungen des Nationalsozialismus. Der Einzelne zählt für ihn nicht, er ist lediglich Teil des "Volkskörpers". Krieg steht... Read more

City of Lost Dreams

By: Magnus Flyte

Narrated by: Natalie Gold

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The exhilarating, genre-bending sequel to the sensational New York Times bestseller City of Dark Magic

In this action-packed sequel to City of Dark Magic, we find musicologist Sarah Weston in Vienna in search of a cure for her friend Pollina, who is now gravely ill and who may not have much time left. Meanwhile, Nicolas Pertusato, in London in... Read more

The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Matthew Steward

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Commonly considered to be Jack London's tour de force, The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a domesticated dog ripped from a comfortable life when he is stolen from his home on a California ranch. Sold to a pair of men in Canada, Buck is trained as a sled dog in cold wilderness of the Klondike region. However, Buck's ordeal has only... Read more

White Fang

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Matthew Steward

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Five wolf pups are born, but only one survives. The lone pup and its mother must fend for themselves when the pup's father is killed by a lynx. Later, the pair is discovered by Native Americans. Grey Beaver, who recognizes the she-wolf as his late brother's wolfdog, adopts the pup and names him 'White Fang.' Targeted by the other pups in the... Read more