Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Drei Schwestern Und Dazu Die Mutter - Abridged

By: Pierre Louys

Narrated by: Diverse

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Drei Schwestern und dazu die Mutter: Ein klassisches Erotik-Highlight von Pierre Louys!!! Pierre zieht in eine neue Wohnung ein - und erhält dort Besuch von drei freizügigen Schwestern - und ihrer Mutter. Erstmals als Hörbuch! Ungekürzte Version, gelesen von xxx - der erotischsten weiblichen Hörbuchstimme Deutschlands! Achtung: Nur für... Read more

The Famous Race between the Hearse and the Steamroller

By: Sidney Keyes

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Sidney Keyes' great allegorical tale of a race between a newfangled steamroller with a top speed of five miles per hour and a horse-drawn hearse, whose two old nags are accustomed to a stately pace appropriate to the transportation of the dead.



The race takes on a wider significance as an allegory of progress and the advent of the age of the... Read more

Appointment in Samarra

By: John O'Hara

Narrated by: Christian Camargo

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The writer whom Fran Lebowitz compared to the author of The Great Gatsby, calling him “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald,” makes his Penguin Classics debut with this beautiful deluxe edition of his best-loved book.

One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement. In December 1930, just... Read more

The Waterworks

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction.”
–The Washington Post Book World

One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. While trying to unravel the mystery, Pemberton... Read more

Timeless Short Stories

By: Guy de Maupassant, Stacy Aumonier & Various Aut...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"A timeless collection of classic short stories by some of the master storytellers of the world.

• Old Iron by Stacy Aumonier

• Odour of Chrysanthemums by D. H. Lawrence

• The Idiot by Arnold Bennett

• Miss Harriet by Guy de Maupassant

• Red Hanrahan by W. B. Yeats

• The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield

• The Devil's Spectacles by Wilkie Collins

•... Read more

Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The small minded and prudish sister of an English clergyman travels on her own to a hotel in Bordeaux. When she closes the door of her room after returning from a bath, she finds a man asleep on the bed.

She realises then she is in the wrong room, but the door handle has come off in her hand, and she can’t get out. Then she discovers the man is... Read more

When the World Shook

By: H. Rider Haggard

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

When three adventurers, Bastin, Bickley, and Arbuthnot, are marooned on a South Sea island, they discover an ancient crystal sepulchre. Inside are two Atlanteans who have been in a state of suspended animation for 250,000 years! One of the awakened sleepers, Lord Oro, is the last of the Sons of Wisdom, a superior race who'd relied on their... Read more

Old Fags

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobel Prize winner (and Forsyte Saga author) John Galsworthy described Stacy Aumonier as ‘one of the best short-story writers of all time’ and predicted that, through the best of his stories, he would ‘outlive all the writers of his day’. "Old Fags" is one of Stacy Aumonier's most memorable stories. Set in a miserable and overcrowded block of... Read more

Ship of Theseus

By: V. M. Straka

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Please note: In S., J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst conceived of a multi-layered novel-within-a-novel that involves handwritten notes in the margins and physical objects slipped between the pages. Because an audio edition is unable to recreate those innately visual pieces and thus the full experience of S., only the text of Ship of Theseus, the... Read more

Spindleberries

By: John Galsworthy

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

John Galsworthy (1867 – 1933) was an English playwright and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. "Spindleberries" is a haunting short story, describing the increasingly eccentric Alicia, a nature-loving artist, via four memories which are conjured up in her cousin's brain as he contemplates four spindleberries which... Read more

The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful collection of ten of Guy de Maupassant's most famous tales:
• The Parrot
• The Love of Long Ago
• Mademoiselle Fifi
• Miss Harriet
• An Uncomfortable Bed
• A Queer Night in Paris
• My Uncle Jules
• The Piece of String
• The Necklace
• Found on a Drowned Man Read more

Someone Else's Love Story

By: Joshilyn Jackson

Narrated by: Joshilyn Jackson

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Someone Else's Love Story is beloved and highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson's funny, charming, and poignant novel about science and miracles, secrets and truths, faith and forgiveness; about falling in love, and learning that things aren't always what they seem—or what we hope they will be.Shandi Pierce is... Read more

The Short Stories of Stacy Aumonier

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Stacy Aumonier was a British writer, best known for his outstanding short stories. Nobel prize winner, John Galsworthy described Aumonier as "one of the best short-story writers of all time" and predicted that he would "outlive all the writers of his day".

Aumonier wrote over 85 short stories in his lifetime. He has been described as the "British... Read more

Ship of Theseus

By: V. M. Straka

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: In S., J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst conceived of a multi-layered novel-within-a-novel that involves handwritten notes in the margins and physical objects slipped between the pages. Because an audio edition is unable to recreate those innately visual pieces and thus the full experience of S., only the text of Ship of Theseus, the novel... Read more

Where Was Wych Street?

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Everybody remembers Wych Street, a road in London which no longer exists. But nobody can agree on exactly where it used to run.

Stacy Aumonier's classic story follows the catastrophic events sparked by a dispute over the location of the elusive street, from pub brawls and murders, to the infamous siege of Aztec Street, to the ignominious ending... Read more

The Brothers

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of two brothers, who could not be more opposite, experience the Great War in different ways.

Giles, the elder, popular, sporty brother enlists as a soldier. Robin, the younger, sickly brother is rejected when he tries to join up. Yet a mysterious bond exists between the brothers.

When Giles leaves for the trenches, it is as though Robin... Read more

Juxtapositions

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Stacy Aumonier's best loved short stories, telling the story of a surprising evening with Colin St Clair Chasseloup: "the kind of man who always looked as though he had just had a cold bath, done Swedish drill, and then passed through the hairdresser’s on his way to your presence." Chasseloup and the narrator are dragged along by their... Read more

A Source of Irritation

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobel Prize winner (and Forsyte Saga author) John Galsworthy described Stacy Aumonier as ‘one of the best short-story writers of all time’ and predicted that, through the best of his stories, he would ‘outlive all the writers of his day’. A Source of Irritation is one such story.

Sam Gates, an elderly and somewhat irritable agricultural labourer,... Read more

The Girl who was Tired of Love

By: Leonard Merrick

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Leonard Merrick (1864 – 1939) was a well known English novelist, who was popular with the likes of such as H. G. Wells, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton and William Dean Howells. Many of his stories have, over the years, been adapted to the screen. J. M. Barrie called Merrick the ""novelist's novelist.""



In ""The Girl who was Tired of Love"",... Read more

Thirteen Hundred Rats

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the New Yorker.When Gerald Loomis loses his wife, friends and neighbors try to rally him with food and suggestions for pets to keep him company. But Gerald has already picked a pet, a Burmese Python he's named Siddhartha. During a cold snap, Gerald ventures out to the... Read more

The Idiot

By: Arnold Bennett

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When William Froyle, ostler at the Queen's Arms at Moorthorne, learns that his betrothed has betrayed him, he determines to hang himself in the inn's coach house. His first, unsuccessful attempt, is witnessed by Daft Jimmy, the village idiot. Daft Jimmy offers to help with the process of fixing the noose and takes a great deal of interest and... Read more

Ash Monday

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the New Yorker.Thirteen-year-old Dill has a tendency to get in trouble, to act out, and perhaps it is due to his mother's latest boyfriend, Grady, leaving them behind. Meanwhile Sanjuro Ichyguro and his wife have moved from Japan to the United States and are having... Read more

Admiral

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in Harper's and selected for The Best American Short Stories, 2008 by Salman Rushdie.In high school Nisha worked as a dog-sitter for the Strikers, eccentric millionaires, taking care of their prized Afghan, Admiral. When she returns after college to tend to her ill mother,... Read more

The Unlucky Mother of Aquiles Maldonado

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in Playboy.Marita Vallalba is revered in her Venezuelan village, and not just because her son, Aquiles Maldonado, is a big league baseball player in the United States. In fact, it is because of her son and his multimillion-dollar contract that has been splashed across the... Read more