Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Miss Dollar - Abridged

By: Machado de Assis

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Miss Dollar", um conto de Machado de Assis, narra a história de um cachorro perdido e os eventos que se desenrolam ao seu redor. A trama se desenrola em torno da busca pelo cão, revelando as complexidades das relações humanas e a ironia das circunstâncias. O conto destaca temas de amor, perda e acaso, tecendo uma crítica sutil às convenções... Read more

За закрытой дверью - Abridged

By: Б. Э. Пэрис

Narrated by: Варвара Шалагина

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: Yes

Жизнь Джека и Грейс Энджел, недавно ставших мужем и женой, представляется идеальной. Джек — увлеченный своей профессией адвокат, не проигравший ни одного дела. Грейс — счастливая домохозяйка и безупречная хранительница домашнего очага, она прекрасно готовит и умело ухаживает за садом. Кажется, в их жизни есть все. Их званые вечера проходят... Read more

Walter Niklaus liest Stefan Zweig "Die schlaflose Welt" - Abridged

By: Uwe Steimle

Narrated by: Walter Niklaus

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

DIE SCHLAFLOSE WELT " von Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig wurde im ersten Weltkrieg zum Pazifisten. Als ich 1982 zur NVA einberufen wurde und im Spind meinen Stefan Zweig im Essensfach versteckte, wurde ich durch diese geistige Nahrung auch zum Kriegshasser. Nein, der Krieg ist nicht der Vater aller Dinge. Hier irren ausnahmsweise die alten... Read more

Selected Stories of Grace Paley - Abridged

By: Grace Paley

Narrated by: Grace Paley

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now available for the first time in audio as a digital download, a selection of stories from Grace Paley.

Whether writing about relationships, little girls, loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, GRACE PALEY captured the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of the... Read more

American Wife - Abridged

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeously written novel that weaves class, wealth, race, and fate into a brilliant portrait of a first lady—from the author of Rodham and Eligible

“Terrific . . . an intelligent, bighearted novel about a controversial political dynasty.”—Entertainment Weekly
 
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time •... Read more

El Retrato de Dorian Gray - Abridged

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

La obra retrata al propio Wilde y a buena parte de su mundo íntimo, poderosamente vinculado con la pasión estética. Dorian Gray, muchacho de belleza espléndida, se dedica a apurar los momentos de su vida, convirtiéndola en pasión absoluta, ajeno a cualquier moral, inalterablemente joven, mientras un retrato suyo va envejeciendo y recibiendo en... Read more

Conditions of Faith - Abridged

By: Alex Miller

Narrated by: Essie Davis

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With university behind her, Emily Stanton finds herself on the threshold of life. Introduced to a Scottish engineer, the exoticism of his life in Paris beckons, and she leaves her family home in twenties Melbourne to become his wife. But far from providing answers, her conventional marriage awakens in her an ardent desire to find a reason for... Read more

Self-Reliance - Abridged

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Extraordinary Manifesto of Independent Living
-Newly Abridged and Introduced in this Powerful Condensation

Self-Reliance is a life-changing experience—its message of nonconformity, self-expression, and personal independence can awaken you to a new, and better, way of living.

Now, historian and New Thought scholar Mitch Horowitz has deftly and... Read more

Crime and Punishment - Abridged

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police... Read more

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

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Abridged

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrated by: Ruby Dee

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love... Read more

Feast Day of Fools - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the 2012 Audie Award for Mystery

The critically acclaimed thirtieth entry from New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke, featuring Texas Sheriff Hackberry Holland in an epic tale that is equal parts thriller, Western, and literary masterpiece.

James Lee Burke returns to the Texas border town of his bestseller Rain Gods, where a... Read more

Am Leben - Notarzt im Rettungshubschrauber - Abridged

By: Tino Lorenz

Narrated by: Henk Flemming

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Mehrfach täglich donnert ein Rettungshubschrauber über unsere Köpfe hinweg. Wir haben uns schon fast daran gewöhnt. Oft fragen wir uns, zu welchem schweren Verkehrsunfall oder welchem tragischen Schicksal dieses hoch spezialisierte Team gerade unterwegs ist? Welchen Patienten sie wohl an Bord haben? Ob sie gerade um sein Leben kämpfen? Dr. Tino... Read more

Beach Music - Abridged

By: Pat Conroy

Narrated by: Peter MacNicol

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of
families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the dark memories that haunt generations, in a story
that spans South Carolina and Rome and reaches back... Read more

Q & A - Abridged

By: Vikas Swarup

Narrated by: Kerry Shale

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through... Read more

Tom Jones - Abridged

By: Henry Fielding

Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Martin Jarvis & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fielding’s rollicking comic masterpiece sparkles with life in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization. Abandoned child Tom is raised by the rich and benevolent squire Mr. Allworthy, much to the chagrin of Allworthy’s mean-natured nephew Blifil, and develops into a good-natured rake. But Tom’s inability to resist a pretty face lands him in hot... Read more

This Year It Will Be Different - Abridged

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Circle of Friends and The Glass Lake comes This Year It Will Be Different, a stunning new work that brings us the magic and spirit of Christmas in fifteen stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius. Instead of nostalgia, Binchy evokes contemporary life;... Read more

Moby-Dick - Abridged

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: William Hootkins

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Moby-Dick is one of the great epics in all of literature. Captain Ahab's hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace, while Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, on the sublime indifference of nature, and on the grimy physical details of the extraction of oil provide a reflective counterpoint to the headlong... Read more

自我与本我 - Abridged

By: 西格蒙德·弗洛伊德

Narrated by: 倾城

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

内容简介：本书收录了最能代表弗洛伊德后期思想的三篇作品，分别是《超越唯乐原则》《集体心理学和自我分析》《自我与本我》。《超越唯乐原则》提出唯乐原则和现实原则是控制心理活动的两种原则，并借助对移情现象的观察，推论出生的本能与死亡本能的对立。《集体心理学和自我分析》借助力比多理论阐释集体心理结构，将个体心理现象与集体心理现象相联系，并认为这些心理现象是一种原始部落状态的残留。最后，推论出自我与自我理想的对立。《自我与本我》通过将人类精神生活区分为意识、无意识以及潜意识，并借助前两文的结论，构建出人格结构三分法（本我、自我、超我）。作者简介：西格蒙德•弗洛伊德（SidmundFreud），奥地利心理学家、精神病医师、精神分析学派创始人。1895年正式提出精神分析的概念。1899年出版《梦的解... Read more

Trust Me - Abridged

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short stories: Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands, and time undermines all. Love pangs, a favorite subject of the author, take on a new urgency as earthquakes, illnesses, lost wallets, and deaths of distant friends besiege... Read more

The Stories of Tevye the Dairyman - Abridged

By: Sholem Aleichem

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the buoyant, ingenious, compassionate, resilient, irrepressible, anxious, philosophical, God-loving, God-fearing, Bible-quoting dairyman whose life embodies the existence of a Jew in Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.This program presents six of the... Read more

Creole Belle - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“America’s best novelist” James Lee Burke returns with another New York Times bestselling entry in the Dave Robicheaux thriller series (The Denver Post).

Set against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, rife with “the menaces of greed and violence and man-made horror” (The Christian Science Monitor), Creole Belle finds Dave Robicheaux... Read more

Auf meine Kappe - Abridged

By: Finn-Ole Heinrich

Narrated by: Finn-Ole Heinrich

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als Zivildienstleistender las Finn-Ole Heinrich ein Jahr lang einem Mann vor, der vollständig gelähmt war. Nur noch seine Augen konnte er bewegen – aber er konnte zuhören. Auf diese Weise erlernte Finn-Ole Heinrich seine eindringliche Art des Vorlesens, die den Hörer nicht mehr loslässt. Nach hunderten von Lesungen in den vergangenen Jahren... Read more

The Wishbones - Abridged

By: Tom Perrotta

Narrated by: Jack Hawkins

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In The Wishbones, Tom Perrotta's characters are 90s adults still clinging to their 70s dreams. Thirty-one-year-old Dave Raymond has an adoring girlfriend and a steady gig as guitarist for The Wishbones, a New Jersey wedding band. He still lives with his parents, but that's a small price to pay for the freedom to play the music he loves.
Dave's... Read more