Fiction - Literary audiobooks

So sinn sa galt, die fränkischa Frecker - Abridged

By: Wilhelm Wolpert

Narrated by: Wilhelm Wolpert

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

Die besten und humorvollsten Geschichten und Gedichte aus dem Buch 'Fränkischa Frecker' von Wilhelm Wolpert finden sich auf dieser CD. Live aufgenommen wurde das Programm während eines stimmungsvollen Abends auf einer fränkischen Kleinkunstbühne. Seit nunmehr über 50 Jahren ist Wilhelm Wolpert auf seiner fränkischen Mundartbühne zu Hause. Zehn... Read more

Mein erster Selbstmord - Abridged

By: Carola Wolff

Narrated by: Caroline du Fresne

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Wenn Sie immer schon mal wissen wollten, aber sich nicht zu fragen trauten:Wie sich manischer Sex anfühlt. Warum die englische Küche besser ist als ihr Ruf. Was passiert, wenn man vom Europa Center springen will. Und wenn Sie auf Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll stehen (nicht unbedingt in dieser Reihenfolge). Dann fragen sie Maxi. Maxi Winter,... Read more

Tara Road - Abridged

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Terry Donnelly

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. By a chance phone call, Ria meets Marilyn, a woman from New England unable to come to terms with her only son's... Read more

Vanity Fair: October 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Exclusive! Bruce Springsteen bares his soul and art in an astonishing new memoir.Plus…William Langewiesche on the Internet’s darkest cornersThe outrageous fortune of Sir Phillip GreenInside a Silicon Valley implosionThe secret architects of celebrity social mediaJordan Barrett, Taraji P. Henson, and more!Vanity Fair is a cultural filter,... Read more

Wonderful Town - Abridged

By: David Remnick

Narrated by: Tyne Daly, Maria Tucci, Joe Morton & Timothy Je...

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its... Read more

The Glass Lake - Abridged

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the serene waters of Lough Glass. Until the day she disappeared, leaving only a boat drifting upside down on the unfathomable lake that gave the town its name. Ravishing Helen McMahon, the Dubliner with film-star looks and unfulfilled dreams, never belonged in Lough Glass, not the way her... Read more

Hermines Tür - Abridged

By: Kerstin Michelsen

Narrated by: Caroline du Fresne

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die über siebzig jährige Hermine führt ein trostloses Dasein in Einsamkeit. Seit über dreißig Jahren lebt sie zurück gezogen, in der stetig verfallenden Villa ihrer einst angesehenen Familie. Als sie durch einen Brief plötzlich vom Tod ihres geschiedenen Ehemannes Wilhelm erfährt, kommen alte Gedanken und Erinnerungen in ihr... Read more

Rosso Malpelo - Abridged

By: Giovanni Verga

Narrated by: Librinpillole

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Rosso Malpelo" di Giovanni Verga, pubblicato per la prima volta su Il Fanfulla nel 1878 e successivamente incluso nella raccolta "Vita dei campi" del 1880, narra la storia di un ragazzo dai capelli rossi emarginato in una cava a causa dei pregiudizi. L'unico alleato, il padre, muore tragicamente nella miniera, lasciando il giovane solo con una... Read more

Bea geht - Abridged

By: Sebastian Willing

Narrated by: Mike Langhans

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dieses Buch beschreibt den Abschied von einem Kind, einem geliebten Menschen, einem Baby. Es begleitet drei Menschen auf einem Weg, dessen Ende bereits bekannt ist, dem Kampf zwischen Herz und Verstand, in dem Wissen, dass keiner von beiden gewinnen kann. Es gibt keinen Gewinner, wenn man sein Kind verabschieden, sich von seinem Baby trennen... Read more

Vanity Fair: July 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world's most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Ian Richardson

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the... Read more

Evening Class - Abridged

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Kate Binchy

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It was the quiet ones you had to watch. That's where the real passion was lurking.

They came together at Mountainview College, a down-at-the-heels secondary school on the seamy side of Dublin, to take a course in Italian. It was Latin teacher Aidan Dunne's last chance to revive a failing marriage and a dead-end career. But Aidan's dream... Read more

City of Light - Abridged

By: Lauren Belfer

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Breathtaking . . . a remarkable blend of murder mystery, love story, political intrigue, and tragedy of manners.”—USA Today

The year is 1901. Buffalo, New York, is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning.

Louisa Barrett has made... Read more

The Little Friend - Abridged

By: Donna Tartt

Narrated by: Donna Tartt

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History—a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times—The Little Friend is even more transfixing and resonant.

In a small Mississippi town, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes grows up in the shadow of her brother, who—when she was only a... Read more

The Copper Beech - Abridged

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Copper Beech is as soothing as a cup of tea.”—People
 
In the little Irish town of Shancarrig, the young people carve their initials—and those of their loves—into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig’s closed... Read more

High Plains Tango - Abridged

By: Robert James Waller

Narrated by: Sam Freed

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

With over 10 million copies sold, bestselling author Robert James Waller returns with the haunting, evocative story of a small town, a beautiful and mysterious woman, and the man forever changed by both.

The wild places are where no one is looking anymore. Out there on the high plains, among the Sioux reservations and the silent buttes, among the... 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

Light Of the World - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dave Robicheaux battles the most diabolical villain he has ever faced in this atmospheric thriller.

Sadist and serial killer Asa Surrette narrowly escaped the death penalty for the string of heinous murders he committed while capital punishment was outlawed in Kansas. But following a series of damning articles written by Dave Robicheaux’s... Read more

Flower Net - Abridged

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Flower Net, Lisa See gives us a China not often seen: An extraordinary nation that is at once admirable and frightening.

Here the veil is ripped away from modern China--its venerable culture, its teeming economy, its institutionalized cruelty--and the inextricable link between China's fortunes and America's  is underscored.

In the depths of a... Read more

Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas - Abridged

By: Machado de Assis

Narrated by: Equipe Multicast

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Machado de Assis escreveu em 1880 as Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, o romance fundamental de nossa literatura. Em uma narrativa provocativa e irônica, que parte das digressões do defunto Brás Cubas, o personagem expõe já no início o relato de sua própria morte e funeral. Por seu caráter bastante peculiar, aliado a seu autor defunto, o romance... Read more

Hércules no Eta - Abridged

By: José Geraldo Heleno

Narrated by: Equipe Multicast

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O estoicismo de Sêneca apresenta traços que refletem sua condição pessoal de homem novo, de ator na história do Império Romano e de um pensador bastante livre. As linhas de seu pensamento, que se podem chamar de estoico-senequianas, estão presentes em toda sua obra. A tragédia Hércules no Eta, juntamente com sua tradução, constituem a 1ª parte... Read more

Vanity Fair: September 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alicia Vikander is our September Issue cover girl: winning an Oscar, falling in love with a co-star, and that's just for starters! Plus: Ingrid Sischy on the shop that defined 80s style The making of Boyz N the Hood Happy hour with French comedian Gad Elmaleh Robert Gottlieb on editing Hollywood's grandest dames The half-century long literary... Read more

Swift As Desire - Abridged

By: Laura Esquivel

Narrated by: Elizabeth Pena

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A magical, sensuous new love story from the author of the international bestseller Like Water for Chocolate.

Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, Jublio was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sind and insects whisper. Even as a young boy, acting as... Read more

A Christmas Carol - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Bah Humbug!" That's how Ebeneezer Scrooge feels about Christmas--until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future decide to show the crotchety old miser the error of his ways. Together they travel through time, revisiting all the people who have played an important role in Scrooge's life. And as their journey concludes, Scrooge is... Read more