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Whether you've read them ten times over, or experiencing them for the first time, Audible's selection of Classics is well worth listening to again and again. You'll discover a whole new way to engage with authors like Jane Austen, Harper Lee, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Homer, Joseph Conrad and more.Most Popular
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Dune Messiah
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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The sci-fi series continues! The second Dune volume journeys through the changes of planet Arrakis's social order and surreal environment.
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Better than the first Dune book
- By Anonymous User on 26-12-2020
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Children of Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile....
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A solid instalment
- By Anonymous User on 26-12-2020
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Meditations
- By: Marcus Aurelius, George Long - translator, Duncan Steen - translator
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most significant books ever written by a head of state, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius....
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Meditations
- By PD on 09-05-2019
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The Silmarillion
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
- Narrated by: Andy Serkis
- Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron....
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Perfect match of voice to the epic of Tolkien!
- By Costa on 26-06-2023
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 52 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason....
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my favorite book performed brilliantly
- By Michael on 29-12-2014
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Atlas Shrugged
- By: Ayn Rand
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 62 hrs and 56 mins
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Tremendous in scope and breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, an electrifying moral defense of capitalism and free enterprise....
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Hate/enjoyed this
- By Matthew L on 21-11-2018
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Dune Messiah
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The sci-fi series continues! The second Dune volume journeys through the changes of planet Arrakis's social order and surreal environment.
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Better than the first Dune book
- By Anonymous User on 26-12-2020
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Children of Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile....
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A solid instalment
- By Anonymous User on 26-12-2020
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Meditations
- By: Marcus Aurelius, George Long - translator, Duncan Steen - translator
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
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One of the most significant books ever written by a head of state, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius....
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Meditations
- By PD on 09-05-2019
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The Silmarillion
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
- Narrated by: Andy Serkis
- Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron....
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Perfect match of voice to the epic of Tolkien!
- By Costa on 26-06-2023
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 52 hrs and 41 mins
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On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason....
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my favorite book performed brilliantly
- By Michael on 29-12-2014
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Atlas Shrugged
- By: Ayn Rand
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 62 hrs and 56 mins
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Tremendous in scope and breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, an electrifying moral defense of capitalism and free enterprise....
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Hate/enjoyed this
- By Matthew L on 21-11-2018
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The Wandering Inn
- The Wandering Inn, Book 1
- By: pirateaba
- Narrated by: Andrea Parsneau
- Length: 43 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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An inn is a place to rest, a place to share stories, a place to find adventure, or a starting ground for quests and legends. It is in this world, at least. To Erin Solstice, an inn seems like a medieval relic from the past. But here she is, running from Goblins and trying to survive....
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Man people don't understand shock and trauma
- By Amazon Customer on 14-04-2020
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The Haunting of Hill House
- By: Shirley Jackson
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits….
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ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE NARRATOR AND STORY
- By Anonymous User on 20-03-2020
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Crime and Punishment
- Penguin Classics
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Oliver Ready
- Narrated by: Don Warrington
- Length: 25 hrs and 2 mins
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This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before....
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A classic
- By David Graieg on 31-10-2020
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The Old Man and the Sea
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Donald Sutherland
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed Hemingway's power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature....
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Character building
- By Damien Carson on 16-10-2018
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Crooked Kingdom
- By: Leigh Bardugo
- Narrated by: Roger Clark, Jay Snyder, Elizabeth Evans, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
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Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives....
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Amazing conclusion to a great duology
- By Kristin on 18-03-2017
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The Charles Dickens Collection: 10 Novels
- Great Expectations; A Tale of Two Cities; Nicholas Nickleby; Oliver Twist; Bleak House; Our Mutual Friend; The Old Curiosity Shop; Dombey and Son; Little Dorrit; A Christmas Carol
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Mil Nicholson, Bob Neufeld
- Length: 264 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Unabridged recordings of A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Great Expectations, The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Our Mutual Friend, Little Dorrit, Dombey and Son and A Christmas Carol....
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Great listen
- By Gale on 17-02-2024
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Fahrenheit 451
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Tim Robbins
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of 20th-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, narrated here by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins....
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great story poorly presented
- By Richard Try on 11-05-2015
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White Sand: Volume Three [Dramatized Adaptation]
- White Sand, Book 3
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Terence Aselford, Alexander Strain, Dawn Ursula, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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Underpowered and overwhelmed, Kenton tries to hold the Sand Masters together as forces political and personal conspire against them....
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Changes: The Dresden Files, Book 12
- By: Jim Butcher
- Narrated by: James Marsters
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
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Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court....
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Absolutely Amazing Emotional Rollercoaster
- By Kindle Customer on 14-11-2018
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Les Misérables
- By: Victor Hugo
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 67 hrs and 53 mins
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Les Misérables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and backstreets, we encounter "the wolf-like tread of crime"....
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An epic story but not quite so epic performance
- By Rodney Hrvatin on 09-03-2017
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
- By: Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa - translator
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
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One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career....
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Oh for Armando Duran...
- By Kim on 06-09-2018
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The Master and Margarita
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
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The Devil comes to Moscow; but he isn't all bad. Pontius Pilate sentences a charismatic leader to his death, but yearns for redemption. And a writer tries to destroy his greatest tale....
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Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Read it!
- By jdk on 25-07-2016
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Gilgamesh: The New Translation
- By: Gerald J. Davis
- Narrated by: John Hanks
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
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The tale of the fifth king of the first dynasty of Uruk (in what is modern-day Iraq), who reigned for 126 years, according to the ancient Sumerian list of kings....
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Good
- By Duncan Macfarlane on 25-06-2022
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White Sand: Volume Two [Dramatized Adaptation]
- White Sand, Book 2
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Terence Aselford, Alexander Strain, Dawn Ursula, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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Following the loss of most of his colleagues in a violent ambush, Kenton has become Lord Mastrell of the few remaining Sand Masters, magicians who can manipulate sand to do their bidding....
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Great performances and Graphic Audio production
- By Peter on 13-12-2023
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The Left Hand of Darkness
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender....
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Excellent story, but narration does not work well
- By Kaz on 04-10-2019
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: James Franco
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
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Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness....
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Excellent detail and black humour
- By Cyndi on 19-05-2016
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Crime and Punishment
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
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A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers....
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One of the greatest literary feats
- By Georgeorges on 28-07-2020
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Knights of Dark Renown
- By: David Gemmell
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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The Knights of the Gabala were legendary protectors of the Nine Duchies - until they disappeared through a demon-haunted gateway between worlds....
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Well read
- By Danny Rowland on 03-11-2023
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Waylander
- Drenai Series
- By: David Gemmell
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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The Drenai King is dead - murdered by a ruthless assassin. Enemy troops swarm into Drenai lands. Their orders are simple - kill every man, woman and child. But there is hope....
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Wonderful
- By Andries on 29-06-2018
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Watership Down
- By: Richard Adams
- Narrated by: Peter Capaldi
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
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One of the most beloved novels of our time, Watership Down is an epic journey, a stirring tale of adventure, courage, and survival....
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17 hrs and 31 mins of pleasure
- By Alison on 02-07-2019
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Death Masks
- The Dresden Files, Book 5
- By: Jim Butcher
- Narrated by: James Marsters
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change....
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Excellent as always
- By Anonymous User on 28-01-2024
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Moby-Dick
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
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Its famous opening line, "Call me Ishmael", dramatic in its stark simplicity, begins an epic that is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written by an American....
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Fabulous
- By Anonymous User on 19-05-2023
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Ulysses
- Penguin Classics
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Patrick Gibson
- Length: 32 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife, Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human condition....
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Perfect Voice for this Epic Work of Literature
- By Simon Rashleigh on 13-12-2020
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The Land: Raiders: A LitRPG Saga
- Chaos Seeds, Book 6
- By: Aleron Kong
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The time of hiding has passed. The Mist Village will make itself known. Goblins have invaded Richter’s lands. Though the first incursion has been defeated, the anger of Chaos Seed remains....
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Jeff Hayes is amazing, aleron Kong is dishonest
- By Kindle person on 08-09-2019
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Little Women 2
- By: Louisa May Alcott
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Little Women (Part 2): Three years later, Meg and John marry and learn how to live together. When they have twins, Meg is a devoted mother but John begins to feel neglected and left out. Meg seeks advice from Marmee, who helps her find balance in her married life by making more time for wifely duties and encouraging John to become more involved with child rearing. - Laurie graduates from college, having put in the effort to do well in his last year with Jo's prompting. Amy is chosen over Jo to go on a European tour with her aunt.
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The Fyodor Dostoyevsky Complete Collection
- The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; Notes from the Underground; The Demons; Novellas; Complete Short Stories; Essays; and Letters
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble, Malk Williams, and others
- Length: 264 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevky's greatest works: 15 novels and novellas, 18 short stories, a short study of Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf, and two books of non-fiction - his Letters and European travel journal.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Novels Collection
- The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; Notes from the Underground; Demons; Poor Folk; and More
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble, Malk Williams, and others
- Length: 225 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 15 novels and novellas.
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Count Luna and Baron Bagge
- Two Stories
- By: Alexander Lernet-Holenia
- Narrated by: John Sackville, Michael Golab
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer stationed in Eastern Europe during the First World War receives orders to ride into a platoon of Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a strangely peaceful land where festivities are in full swing. In Count Luna, Alexander Jessiersky, Austrian aristocrat and shipping magnate, finds the Nazis distasteful - but in war and in business, distaste can lead to negligence.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Short Stories Collection
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 22 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of an extensive range of Fyodor Dostotevsky's short stories.
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F Marion Crawford - A Short Story Collection
- By: F. Marion Crawford
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Francis Marion Crawford, an only child, was born on 2nd August 1854 at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. He was a nephew to Julia Ward Howe, the American poet and writer of ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’. In the late 1890s, Crawford began work on his historical works which would later include ‘Corleone’, in 1897, the first major treatment of the Mafia in literature. Crawford is also exceedingly popular and anthologized as a short story writer of bizarre and creepy tales.
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Little Women 2
- By: Louisa May Alcott
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Little Women (Part 2): Three years later, Meg and John marry and learn how to live together. When they have twins, Meg is a devoted mother but John begins to feel neglected and left out. Meg seeks advice from Marmee, who helps her find balance in her married life by making more time for wifely duties and encouraging John to become more involved with child rearing. - Laurie graduates from college, having put in the effort to do well in his last year with Jo's prompting. Amy is chosen over Jo to go on a European tour with her aunt.
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The Fyodor Dostoyevsky Complete Collection
- The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; Notes from the Underground; The Demons; Novellas; Complete Short Stories; Essays; and Letters
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble, Malk Williams, and others
- Length: 264 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevky's greatest works: 15 novels and novellas, 18 short stories, a short study of Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf, and two books of non-fiction - his Letters and European travel journal.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Novels Collection
- The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; Notes from the Underground; Demons; Poor Folk; and More
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble, Malk Williams, and others
- Length: 225 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 15 novels and novellas.
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Count Luna and Baron Bagge
- Two Stories
- By: Alexander Lernet-Holenia
- Narrated by: John Sackville, Michael Golab
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer stationed in Eastern Europe during the First World War receives orders to ride into a platoon of Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a strangely peaceful land where festivities are in full swing. In Count Luna, Alexander Jessiersky, Austrian aristocrat and shipping magnate, finds the Nazis distasteful - but in war and in business, distaste can lead to negligence.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Short Stories Collection
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 22 hrs and 46 mins
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This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of an extensive range of Fyodor Dostotevsky's short stories.
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F Marion Crawford - A Short Story Collection
- By: F. Marion Crawford
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Francis Marion Crawford, an only child, was born on 2nd August 1854 at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. He was a nephew to Julia Ward Howe, the American poet and writer of ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’. In the late 1890s, Crawford began work on his historical works which would later include ‘Corleone’, in 1897, the first major treatment of the Mafia in literature. Crawford is also exceedingly popular and anthologized as a short story writer of bizarre and creepy tales.
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The Five Hells of Orion
- By: Frederick Pohl
- Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Herrell McCray was on the run from Earth to Betelgeuse Nine, when he finds himself ripped from his station on the ship and imprisoned in a pitch-black room. What power in the universe could have kidnapped a man from a ship travelling beyond the speed of light? FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Pohl's classic 1963 story.
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The Complete Adventures Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Abigail Reno, Sharon Plummer
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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This book includes two wonderful novels The Adventures of Tom Sawer Adventures (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by (1885) a famous American writer Mark Twain. Tom adores adventures, he runs away from home in order to become a pirate and to live on an island; he wanders in a mysterious cave, finds treasure and shares it with his friend Huckleberry Finn. But Huck as well is a big fan of adventures about which he tells himself in the second book by Mark Twain.
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Little Women 1
- By: Louisa May Alcott
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Little Women (Part 1): Four sisters and their mother, whom they call Marmee, live in a new neighborhood (loosely based on Concord) in Massachusetts in genteel poverty. Having lost all his money, their father is serving as a chaplain for the Union Army in the American Civil War, far from home. The mother and daughters face their first Christmas without him. When Marmee asks her daughters to give their Christmas breakfast away to an impoverished family, the girls and their mother venture into town laden with baskets to feed the hungry children.
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Uncle Vanya
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897. The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yelena, to the rural estate that supports their urban lifestyle. Two friends—Vanya, brother of the professor's late first wife, who has long managed the estate, and Astrov, the local doctor—both fall under Yelena's spell while bemoaning the ennui of their provincial existence. Sonya, the professor's daughter by his first wife, who has worked with Vanya to keep the estate going, suffers from her unrequited feelings for Astrov.
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What Stumped the Blue Jays
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 13 mins
- Unabridged
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What Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark Twain, is about animals' ability to speak, converse, and act like humans—mainly the blue jays. The blue jays, as Mark Twain claims, are like humans: they can speak, out-swear miners, have good grammar, and have a good sense of humor.
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No Longer Human
- By: Osamu Dazai
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s NO LONGER HUMAN narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a “clown” to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: John Lowell
- Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The novel focuses on love, society norms, and freedom, centered on Anna’s affair with Count Vronsky.
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Middlemarch
- By: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin
- Length: 36 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Considered one of the great English novels, George Eliot's Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life follows myriad characters and their lives in the eponymous town, Middlemarch, in the 1800s. Utilizing a realistic style, Eliot considers issues such as religion, education, and the status of women—to name just a few.
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Orlando
- A Biography
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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At the beginning of Virginia Woolf's fantastical and satirical 1928 novel, Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan, England. At the age of 30, Orlando awakens to have found he's now a woman. Moving through the following centuries, the novel stretches over 300 years, during which time Orlando meets several key figures of English literary history.
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The Marvelous Land of Oz
- Oz, Book 2
- By: L. Frank Baum
- Narrated by: Toni Maddocks
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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After the orphan boy Tip escapes from the evil witch Mombi with the help of Jack Pumpkinhead (yes, his head is a pumpkin, and yes, magic is involved), they set out for the Emerald City. But they find the City in turmoil as the fierce General Jinjur and her all-female Army of Revolt try to overthrow the Scarecrow's male rule.
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Orlando: A Biography; O Pioneers!; So Big
- Feminist Literary Classics, Volume III
- By: Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Edna Ferber
- Narrated by: Sara Nichols
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Presented here is Volume III of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three of the most important feminist novels ever written: Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf, O Pioneers! by Willa Cather and So Big by Edna Ferber. The first book in this collection is Orlando: A Biography, a groundbreaking English novel by Virginia Woolf that explores English history, gender roles and sexual politics in a way few books have before or since.
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Ozma of Oz
- Oz, Book 3
- By: L. Frank Baum
- Narrated by: Rachanee Lumayno
- Length: 4 hrs
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When a storm blows Dorothy overboard on an ocean voyage to Australia, she washes ashore in the Land of Ev, which has been taken over by the evil Nome King. If she and her companions (Billina the Talking Hen, Princess Ozma of Oz, and Tik-Tok the Mechanical Man) can't find a way to defeat the Nome King's powerful magic, they'll all be turned into ornaments for his collection!