Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Mark Twain: 50 humorvolle Kurzgeschichten - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hören Sie 50 der bekanntesten und lustigsten Kurzgeschichten des beliebtesten Autoren der USA! Ein türkisches Bad, Wie ich ein landwirtschaftliches Blatt herausgab, Beobachtung in Paris, Käptn Jones erklärt die Bibel, Ein Besuch des Niagara, Wagnermusik, Staatswirtschaft, Ein toller Prozess, Ein geheimnisvoller Besuch, Zeitungswesen in... Read more

The Bluest Eye - Abridged

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison & Ruby Dee

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace.
 
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America... Read more

Turn of the Century - Abridged

By: Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As big and exciting as the next century, this is a novel of real life at our giddy, feverish, topsy-turvy edge of the millennium. Turn of the Century is a good old-fashioned novel about the day after tomorrow--an uproarious, exquisitely observed panorama of our world as the twentieth century morphs into the twenty-first, transforming family,... Read more

The Mermaids Singing - Abridged

By: Lisa Carey

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There is an island off the west coast of Ireland called Inis Muruch—the Island of the Mermaids—a world where myth is more powerful than truth, where the sea sings with the healing and haunting voices of women, and where death is never as strong as the redemptive power of family and love. It is here that Lisa Carey sets her lyrical and sensual... Read more

Vanity Fair: May 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Special Sisters Issue with America's kid sister, Amy Schumer! She's smart, funny, and loyal—so why is she such a lightning rod? Plus: Love stories (and even some hate stories) from high-profile sisters The intimate bond between Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret The rivalry between Jackie O and Lee Radziwill Plus: Olivia De Havilland,... Read more

The Count of Monte Cristo, with eBook - Abridged

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is an Abridged Edition



For Edmond Dantes, life couldn't be better. At nineteen, he is soon to be captain of his own ship and about to be married to his true love, Mercedes. But his life is suddenly turned upside down when, on his wedding day, he is arrested. Without a fair trial, he is condemned to solitary confinement in the miserable... Read more

Vanity Fair: March 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jennifer Garner on the rebound! The actress opens up about men, Ben, and why her kids—not their nanny—are her focus.Plus:The cheating allegations rocking the Bridge worldNew England’s newest prep-school sex scandalThe battle for PicassoLondon’s Great Hatton Garden heist of 2015Lin-Manuel Miranda, Robert Mapplethorpe, and more!Vanity Fair is a... Read more

I Am Charlotte Simmons - Abridged

By: Tom Wolfe

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2005 Audie Award Finalist

America's "peerless observer" (People) uncovers college life—from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating—plus race, class, sex, and basketball

Dupont University—the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition...Or so it appears to... Read more

Transmission - Abridged

By: Hari Kunzru

Narrated by: Hari Kunzru

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a networked world, anything can change n an instant, and sometimes everything does....

Transmission, Hari Kunzru's new novel of love and lunacy, immigration and immunity, introduces a daydreaming Indian computer geek whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer.
Lonely and naïve, Arjun... Read more

Vanity Fair: January–March 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 19 hours 38 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

Vanity Fair: April 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Becoming Meryl Streep: how personal tragedy and offscreen battles fueled the multiple Academy Award winner’s breakthrough performancePlus:On the road with the Rolling StonesAl Sharpton on the election and the controversies he can’t shakeSumner Redstone’s last chapterThe F. Scott Fitzgerald of CartooningPlus: Titus Burgess, Elizabeth Barlow... Read more

模仿罪 - Abridged

By: 发威

Narrated by: 海浪，七胖，老信等

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: Yes

内容简介：女记者成奚蕊失踪了。她的男友刑警安晓峰陷入了漫长的寻人过程，终于发现她在失踪前，正在走访一起女大学生失踪案。正当他在调查这两起失踪案之间的联系时，那名女大学生的尸体被找到了，她被人处以了奇特而又残酷的绞刑。安晓峰坚信，女友的失踪跟女大学生被害案有着直接关联。当他终于锁定并抓捕了嫌凶后，却仍然没有找到女友的下落。更糟糕的是，嫌凶落网后，市里竟然又接连发生了好几起同样犯罪手法的命案。安晓峰发现，想要制止这场“模仿犯罪”的狂欢，就必须找到失踪的女友。可他好几次明明感受到女友成奚蕊就在自己的身边不远，却就是不出现……作者简介：发威（FAR-AWAY），男，原名金晓旭，青年制片人、编剧、作家。曾就职于多家业内头部公司，职位涉及编剧、编导、制作人、项目开发总监、文学总监等，目前主要从事影... Read more

Escalera interior - Abridged

By: Almudena Grandes

Narrated by: Neus Sendra

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

El libro que faltaba de Almudena Grandes. Las historias y las escenas cotidianas que resumen el mundo de una escritora irrepetible. Escalera interior es el murmullo de los patios de luces que recogen olores de guisos, ruidos de cacharros y cucharones, risas, confidencias susurradas a media voz, buenos días y buenas noches que se intercambian en... Read more

House of the Rising Sun - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author James Lee Burke’s “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) masterpiece is the story of a father and son separated by war, circumstance, and a race for the Holy Grail—a thrilling entry in the Holland family saga.

After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland escapes the... Read more

The Gods of Newport - Abridged

By: John Jakes

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island, was a cauldron of money, excess, and unapologetic greed, where reputations were made and lost in a whirlwind of parties and fancied slights. But amid the glamour of yacht races, tennis matches, and costume balls raged undeclared class warfare, scandalous doings, even madness.

In 1893,... Read more

Good Harbor - Abridged

By: Anita Diamant

Narrated by: Linda Emond

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Anita Diamant, whose rich portrayal of the biblical world of women illuminated her acclaimed international bestseller The Red Tent, now crafts a moving novel of contemporary female friendship.

Good Harbor is the long stretch of Cape Ann beach where two women friends walk and talk, sharing their personal histories and learning life's lessons from... Read more

Vanity Fair: June 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 4 hours 47 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

Die Schwarzen Musketiere - Abridged

By: Oliver Pötzsch

Narrated by: Götz Otto

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fesselnd bis zum Ende Als Lukas Mutter als Hexe angeklagt wird und sein Vater beim Versuch, sie zu retten, stirbt, ändert sich alles. Während er selbst vor dem Inquisitor Waldemar von Schönborn fliehen kann, bleibt seine kleine Schwester Elsa zurück. Auf sich allein gestellt, hat der junge Grafensohn nur noch ein Ziel: seine Schwester zu finden... Read more

Vanity Fair: December 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FREE DOWNLOAD: DONALD TRUMP’S HAIR SPEAKS!In this issue: Editor’s Letter: Graydon Carter’s introduction to the November issue All about Bill Murray’s Netflix Christmas special Dispatches from Miami Beach, London, and Palo Alto Burt Reynolds on love, money, and what cost him the most Plus: Lucky Blue Smith, Annabel Astor, and much more!Vanity... Read more

Gerhart Hauptmann: Bahnwärter Thiel - Abridged

By: Gerhart Hauptmann

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bahnwärter Thiel erledigt seine Arbeit an der Expresszugstrecke mit größter Gewissenhaftigkeit – sonst scheint er vom Leben nichts zu erwarten. Umso überraschender heiratet er und wird Vater. Nach dem Tod seiner Frau benötigt er Hilfe bei der Erziehung des Sohnes – und heiratet erneut. Doch die neue Frau erweist sich in jeder Hinsicht als ihm... Read more

Vanity Fair: September–December 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 20 hours 44 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

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything - Abridged

By: Janelle Brown

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer from the author of Watch Me Disappear and Pretty Things

When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for—until she... Read more

Wozu wir da sind - Abridged

By: Axel Hacke

Narrated by: Axel Hacke

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In diesem dritten der gemeinsamen – teils preisgekrönten – Hörbücher von Ursula Mauder und Axel Hacke begleiten Mauders Songs (zum ersten Mal Eigenkompositionen) Hackes Texte aus Wozu wir da sind nicht nur, sie ergänzen und vertiefen Walter Wemuts Gedanken über das gelungene Leben vielmehr auf eigene Weise, sind Frage oder Antwort, Beruhigung... Read more

Die Schwarzen Musketiere 2 - Abridged

By: Oliver Pötzsch

Narrated by: Götz Otto

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lukas und seine drei Freunde wollen nur eins die zerstörte Burg Lohenstein wiederaufbauen. Doch da taucht der Sterndeuter Senno auf und hat beunruhigende Neuigkeiten für die vier Kampfgenossen: Ihr alter Widersacher, der Inquisitor Waldemar von Schönborn, hat die legendären Reichsinsignien Schwert, Krone und Zepter , die für die Krönung eines... Read more