Fiction - Literary audiobooks
Shadow Song - Abridged
By: Terry Kay
Narrated by: Terry Kay
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: Yes
It was a wonderful summer, a great memory, the kind of love everybody ought to have. It changed my life -- or almost did -- and I think about it more than I should, but that was a long time ago.
In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine hill inn, where the eccentric Avrum Feldman became his unlikely... Read more
Forrest Gump - Abridged
By: Winston Groom
Narrated by: Winston Groom
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Bein' a idiot is no box of chocolates," but "at least I ain't led no hum-drum life," says Forrest Gump, the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this wonderful comic tale.
When the University of Alabama's football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, that's only the beginning! He flunks out--and goes on to be a Vietnam war hero, a... Read more
Charms for the Easy Life - Abridged
By: Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. In a sad and singular era, they are unique among women of their time. For radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy and brilliant daughter Margaret possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that all too... Read more
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Second Nature - Abridged
By: Alice Hoffman
Narrated by: Kate Nelligan
Length: 2 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more
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Mr. and Mrs. Bridge - Abridged
By: Evan Connell
Narrated by: Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge is the saga of a clean-cut, “upper-class” couple who increasingly find their post-WWII world and traditional belief systems challenged by a changing society. For Walter Bridge, an ambitious lawyer, and his wife, whose focus is her household, affluence and material comforts create a cocoon of community respectability that... Read more
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Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Orwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a penniless man living in Paris in the early 1930s. The narrator's poverty brings him into contact with strange incidents and characters, which he manages to chronicle with great sensitivity and graphic power. The latter half of the book takes the English narrator to his... Read more
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Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Richard Thomas
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Heart of Darkness tells of the conflicting drives of two men—Charles Marlow, the captain of a steamboat, and Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious figure who oversees a trading post in Africa. After an arduous journey, Marlow finally encounters Kurtz, and the men come to grips with their differences—and their similarities. Joseph Conrad's most famous work is... Read more
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Black Water - Abridged
By: Joyce Oates
Narrated by: Amanda Plummer
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Twenty-six-year-old Kelly Kelleher longs for something interesting to happen to her, so when she meets a senator and he invites her to his hotel room, she says yes. Even though the man is old enough to be her father and even though he has perhaps been drinking too heavily, saying yes is an exciting part of the adventure Kelly is finally going to... Read more
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The Three Musketeers - Abridged
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This swashbuckling epic of intrigue, romance, and swordplay has earned a reputation as one of the most thrilling adventure novels ever written. A young Gascon nobleman, D'Artagnan, makes his way to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers, a legion of heroes held in high esteem by the king. D'Artagnan quickly proves he has the heart of a Musketeer... Read more
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The Adventures of Augie March
By: Saul Bellow
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 22 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
This grand-scale heroic comedy tells the story of the exuberant young Augie, a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Depression.While his neighborhood friends all settle down into their various chosen professions, Augie, as particular as an aristocrat, demands a special destiny. He latches on to a wild succession of occupations, proudly... Read more
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The Inklings
By: Humphrey Carpenter
Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
During the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams—remarkable friends, writers, and scholars—met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature and to read aloud from their own works in progress. Calling themselves the Inklings, their circle grew. It was in this company that such classics as The Lord of the Rings,... Read more
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Because It is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart - Abridged
By: Joyce Oates
Narrated by: Contance Towers
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: Yes
In the early 1950s— the decade before the Civil rights movement— racial boundaries kept people apart or brought them together in explosive and dramatic ways. Iris Courtney, a young white woman, begins a clandestine relationship with Jinx Fairchild, a Black man who defended her in a fatal street fight with a white man.... Read more
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Picturing Will - Abridged
By: Ann Beattie
Narrated by: Ann Beattie
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A complex look at adulthood through the eyes of one remarkable child.Five-year-old Will is the precocious child of Jody and Wayne. Jody is a woman who dreams of becoming a celebrity and is having an affair with a man named Mel, while Wayne is no stranger to infidelity, either. The details of their intertwined lives form an intricate and often... Read more
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Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray
Narrated by: Jill Masters
Length: 32 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
"I do not say there is no character as well drawn in Shakespeare [as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly."
--Robert Louis Stevenson
"The lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeers shows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his own nature in the persons of his heroes, was responding to that craving for action,... Read more
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
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The 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
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The 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
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