Fiction - Literary audiobooks
The King Must Die - Abridged
By: Mary Renault
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 2 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Set in ancient Greece, a powerful novel about Theseus by Mary Renault.This is the story of the young Theseus: Prince of Troizen, King of Eleusis and Athens, and slayer of the Minotaur. Acclaimed novelist Mary Renault weaves myth, legend, history, and fiction into the story of a young hero's search for his destiny and the countless challenges he... Read more
View audiobookThe Scarlet Letter - Abridged
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: Michael Learned
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Written in the winter of 1849, The Scarlet Letter unfolds the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman branded as an adulteress in the harsh Puritan world of seventeenth-century New England. As Hester calls on her inner strength to transcend her shame, the scarlet letter ceases to be a stigma and finally becomes Hester's symbol of self-affirmation.... Read more
View audiobookThe Scarlet Letter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: Annie Wauters
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not to tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers -- stern and wild ones -- and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
As she emerges from the prison of a Puritan New England town, Hester Prynne defies the dark gloom... Read more