Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Wie man über Bücher spricht, die man nicht gelesen hat - Abridged

By: Pierre Bayard

Narrated by: Hanns Zischler & Stefan Benson

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sie haben Joyces "Ulysses" nicht gelesen? Haben neulich Proust zitiert, ohne sein Werk zu kennen, über den neuen Nobelpreisträger geplaudert, obwohl Sie sich nicht mal an den Buchtitel erinnern konnten? Kein Problem, sagt der französische Literaturprofessor Pierre Bayard. Sie befinden sich in bester Gesellschaft. Schluss mit Heuchelei und... Read more

Adam Bede

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 19 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

George Eliot's first full-length novel is the moving, realistic portrait of three people troubled by unwise love.Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, who delights only in her baubles—and the delusion that the careless Captain... Read more

The 19th Wife

By: David Ebershoff

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Rebecca Lowman, Arthur Morey & D...

Length: 18 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.

Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense.

It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her... Read more

Iodine

By: Haven Kimmel

Narrated by: Haven Kimmel

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Brilliant, unconventional college senior Trace Pennington has eked out an impoverished, solitary, but highly functional existence in the years since she ran away from her abusive home. But when Trace finds love with a much older man, her life is upended and she is forced to face herself and her past. After recovering a horrific, long-suppressed... Read more

The Last Theorem

By: Arthur C. Clarke & Frederik Pohl

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Two of science fiction’s most renowned writers join forces for a storytelling sensation. The historic collaboration between Frederik Pohl and his fellow founding father of the genre, Arthur C. Clarke, is both a momentous literary event and a fittingly grand farewell from the late, great visionary author of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The Last Theorem... Read more

Blindness

By: José Saramago

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark... Read more

Ethan Frome, with eBook

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer, is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena's cold, conniving character. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately taken by Mattie's warm, vivacious personality. They fall... Read more

The Trial

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Josef K. is an employee at a bank, an Everyman without any particular qualities or ambitions. His inconsequence makes doubly strange his “arrest” by an officer of the court, made with no formal charges or explanation. Disoriented and consumed with guilt for a “crime” he does not understand, Josef K. must justify his life to a “court” with which... Read more

The Scarlet Letter, with eBook

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1642 in the Puritan town of Boston. Hester Prynne has been found guilty of adultery and has borne an illegitimate child. In lieu of being put to death, she is condemned to wear the scarlet letter A on her dress as a reminder of her shameful act.



Hester's husband had been lost at sea years earlier and was presumed dead, but he reappears in... Read more

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

By: Annie Barrows & Mary Ann Shaffer

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Susan Duerden, Rosalyn Landor, Jo...

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX FILM • A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.

“Treat yourself to this book, please—I can’t recommend it highly enough.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there... Read more

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing... Read more

Treasure Island, with eBook

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Jim Hawkins lives a quiet life as the son of an innkeeper. This all changes when an ancient sailor takes up lodging at the inn. Jim is both horrified and fascinated by the captain's bloody stories. But when the old man dies without paying his bill, Jim must search the sailor's one possession, a large sea chest, for payment. In doing so, he... Read more

Heart of Darkness, with eBook

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Horror awaits Charlie Marlow, a seaman assigned by an ivory company to retrieve a cargo boat along with one of its employees, Mr. Kurtz, who is stranded deep in the heart of the Belgian Congo. Marlow's journey up the brooding dark river soon becomes a struggle to maintain his own sanity as he witnesses the brutalization of the natives by white... Read more

Emma

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The most perfect of Jane Austen's perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people's lives—for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax,... Read more

The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 23 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Mixing a bit of seventeenth-century French history with a great deal of invention, Alexandre Dumas tells the tale of young D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades, Porthos, Athos, and Aramis. Together they fight to foil the schemes of the brilliant, dangerous Cardinal Richelieu, who pretends to support the king while plotting to advance his own... Read more

Tarzan of the Apes, with eBook

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Born of noble stock to parents who become marooned on the savage West African coast, the young Lord Greystoke is orphaned in his first year of life. Named Tarzan by the great apes that raise him, he must learn the law of the jungle to survive. As he matures, his strength and agility develop to match those of the beasts that he is surrounded by,... Read more

The Glimmer Palace

By: Beatrice Colin

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A celebration of cabaret in Berlin and the birth of cinema, set against the rise and fall of Germany between World War I and World War II

As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. The illegitimate, soon orphaned daughter of a cabaret performer, she lands at a Catholic orphanage where she... Read more

Goethe und das Hunde-Theater - Abridged

By: Ehm Welk & Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Narrated by: Martin Seifert

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Warum Goethe seine Tätigkeit als Theaterdirektor in Weimar nur wegen eines Hundes aufgab, erfährt der Hörer im ersten Teil der Hörbuches, einer Episode aus Ehm Welks "Der Pudel Simson". Geschichten von Menschen und Tieren". In Teil zwei sind Auszüge aus Goethes "Doktor Faust" zu hören, gelesen von Martin Seifert. Die Tracks: - Goethe und das... Read more

The Financier

By: Theodore Dreiser

Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A master of literary naturalism, Dreiser is known for his great intensity and keen journalistic eye as he examines real-life subjects. This powerful novel explores the dynamics of the financial world during the Civil War and after the stock-market panic caused by the Great Chicago Fire.The first in a "trilogy of desire,"The Financiertells the... Read more

My Antonia, with eBook

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

After the death of his parents, Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska plains. By chance, on that same train is Ántonia, a bright-eyed girl who will become his neighbor and lifelong friend. Her family has emigrated from Bohemia to start a new life farming but soon lose their money and must work hard just to survive.... Read more

Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Bronte

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy lord, sending Heathcliff on a lifelong quest to avenge himself upon those who stole... Read more

Saving Agnes

By: Rachel Cusk

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the British Whitbread First Novel Award, Saving Agnes is a delight to the ear of any listener who enjoys the English language at its best. Rachel Cusk's prose, rich with poetic imagery and insight, is spell-binding. Agnes Day is not quite certain of her own identity. Defining herself by her past failures and fearful of her future, she... Read more

The Kingdom by the Sea

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Ron Keith

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

American-born Paul Theroux had lived in England for 11 years when he realized he'd explored dozens of exotic locations without discovering anything about his adopted home. So, with a knapsack on his back, he set out to explore by walking and by short train trips. The result is a witty, observant and often acerbic look at an ever eccentric... Read more

The House in Amalfi

By: Elizabeth Adler

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Elizabeth Adler is a master at depicting lush scenery, gourmet food, and the joys of travel. Here she tells the story of Lamour Harrington, a recent widow. She's immersed herself in landscape architecture, but even creating beautiful outdoor "rooms" can't bring back her happiness. When she's faced with a devastating truth about the husband she... Read more