- European Literature (3,932)
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Length: 35 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 222
Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best way to experience Anna Karenina
- By Brookethechicken on 11-10-2016
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Crime and Punishment
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 141
A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow, this is something
- By Chris Lee on 27-08-2018
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The Snow Queen
- By: Hans Christian Andersen
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44
This classic tale is a fantastical fable of two dear friends - one of whom goes astray and is literally lost to the north woods, while the other undertakes an epic journey to rescue him....
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5 out of 5 stars
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the real deal
- By Variety on 03-10-2019
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War and Peace
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 61 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 74
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great text, terrible reading
- By Fahim Ahmad on 26-02-2018
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Length: 35 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 222
Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best way to experience Anna Karenina
- By Brookethechicken on 11-10-2016
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Crime and Punishment
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 141
A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow, this is something
- By Chris Lee on 27-08-2018
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The Snow Queen
- By: Hans Christian Andersen
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44
This classic tale is a fantastical fable of two dear friends - one of whom goes astray and is literally lost to the north woods, while the other undertakes an epic journey to rescue him....
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5 out of 5 stars
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the real deal
- By Variety on 03-10-2019
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War and Peace
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 61 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 74
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great text, terrible reading
- By Fahim Ahmad on 26-02-2018
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 179
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 171
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Story5 out of 5 stars 172
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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5 out of 5 stars
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my favorite book performed brilliantly
- By Michael on 29-12-2014
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War and Peace, Volume 1
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature....
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3 out of 5 stars
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So slow, though a good performance by the narrator
- By Ed on 03-08-2016
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Don Quixote
- By: Miguel de Cervantes, John Ormsby (translated by)
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 36 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 81
The most influential work of the entire Spanish literary canon and a founding work of modern Western literature, Don Quixote is also one of the greatest works ever written....
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4 out of 5 stars
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worth it
- By Anonymous User on 30-11-2017
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 79
The great adventure story tells of Odysseus, a veteran of the Trojan War, who - through a landscape peopled with monsters, sea nymphs, evil enchantresses, and vengeful gods....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A classic but trying
- By Ryan Morrow on 04-04-2018
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The Phantom of the Opera (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Gaston Leroux
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A phantom has haunted the Paris Opera House for years. Now he is infatuated with singer Christine Daaé. Despite an astonishing debut performance, Christine fails to win the lead in Faust....
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The Wealth of Nations
- By: Adam Smith
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14
The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Classic underlying
- By Kindle Customer on 19-04-2018
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The Mysterious Island (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Jules Verne
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American Civil War. Seven thousand miles later, they drop from the clouds onto an uncharted volcanic island in the Pacific. They endeavor to build a colony from scratch....
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Les Misérables
- By: Victor Hugo
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 67 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story5 out of 5 stars 25
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- By Clara Paganin on 16-11-2017
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The Story of My Life, Volume 3
- By: Giacomo Casanova
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 38 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
The Story of My Life is the explosive and exhilarating autobiography by the infamous libertine Giacomo Casanova....
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The Story of My Life, Volume 1
- By: Giacomo Casanova
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 47 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The Story of My Life is the explosive and exhilarating autobiography by the infamous libertine Giacomo Casanova. Intense and scandalous, Casanova's extraordinary adventures take the listener on an incredible voyage across 18th-century Europe....
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Crime and Punishment (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 2
Living in a squalid room in St. Petersburg, the indigent but proud Rodion Raskolnikov believes he is above society. Obsessed with the idea of breaking the law, Raskolnikov resolves to kill an old pawnbroker for her cash....
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The Monster Collection
- By: Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Dan Stevens, Greg Wise, and others
- Length: 30 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 117
Audible presents a special edition of three Gothic masterpieces....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stories coming to LIVE
- By Telaga on 02-12-2017
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The Stranger
- By: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Albert Camus' The Stranger is one of the most widely read novels in the world, with millions of copies sold....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful
- By Amazon Customer on 13-11-2019
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The Prince
- By: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrated by: David McCallion
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4 out of 5 stars 34
In an attempt to appeal to the Medici family during the Italian Renaissance, Machiavelli outlines the way to acquire and retain political power, and how great men should behave in a princely government....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overrated
- By Amazon Customer on 24-11-2018
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- By: Jules Verne
- Narrated by: Peter Husmann
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
A mysterious sea monster, theorized by some to be a giant narwhal, is sighted by ships of several nations......
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4 out of 5 stars
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Like a cookie.
- By Joshua on 22-02-2016
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The Divine Comedy
- By: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
One of the greatest works in literature, Dante's story-poem is an allegory that represents mankind....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astounding!
- By Robyn on 22-02-2019
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The Idiot
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16
Prince Lyov Nikolayevitch Myshkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naïve? Find out....
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War and Peace, Volume 2
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 31 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature....
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5 out of 5 stars
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... And then the sun came up (on finishing)
- By Patrick on 12-06-2016
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Notes from the Underground
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
A dark and politically charged novel, Notes From Underground is Dostoyevsky at his best....
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Colin Farrell
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7
This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood and is notable for being the first work in which Joyce uses his innovative “stream of consciousness” writing style.....
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist....
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The Classic Tales Podcast Season One
- By: Various
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 23 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
The first award-winning season of The Classic Tales Podcast, topping the iTunes charts as the #3 overall podcast....
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Ulysses
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Donal Donnelly
- Length: 42 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3 out of 5 stars 2
The first authorized, unabridged release of this timeless classic and exclusively available from Recorded Books. Ulysses records the events of a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland....
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All Quiet on the Western Front
- By: Erich Maria Remarque
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 115
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Story5 out of 5 stars 107
The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see all the realities of war....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Harrowing
- By Anonymous User on 03-04-2018
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The Red Fairy Book
- The Andrew Lang Fairy Book Series
- By: Andrew Lang
- Narrated by: Claire Bloom, Paul Boehmer, Orson Scott Card, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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It is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of fairyland. Three-headed trolls, horses that carry their masters up mountains of glass, giants and dwarfs, monsters and magicians, fairies and ogres - these are the companions....
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The Guermantes Way
- Remembrance of Things Past, Volume 3
- By: Marcel Proust
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 28 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
The narrator penetrates the inner sanctum of Paris high society and falls in love with the fascinating Duchesse de Guermantes....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yes.
- By Tempo House on 01-10-2019
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The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy
- By: Frances Milton Trollope
- Narrated by: Frances Milton Trollope
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a reproduction of the original artifact. Generally, these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended....
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At Swim-Two-Birds
- By: Flann O'Brien
- Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Published in 1939, At Swim-Two-Birds is a madcap exploration of Irish literature and mythology, and the unending possibilities of fiction....
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Crime and Punishment
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (translator)
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
This is an intense detective thriller instilled with philosophical, religious, and social commentary....
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5 out of 5 stars
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My favourite book
- By Anonymous User on 22-05-2017
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The Little Prince
- By: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Michael Morpurgo - translator
- Narrated by: Richard E. Grant, Michael Morpurgo - introduction
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story5 out of 5 stars 23
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Michael Morpurgo. Read by Richard E. Grant, with an introduction read by Michael Morpurgo....
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5 out of 5 stars
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absolutely beautiful.
- By kris on 05-03-2019
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Madame Bovary
- By: Gustave Flaubert, Gerard Hopkins (translator)
- Narrated by: Ronald Pickup
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
Before marrying, Emma Bovary believed she would enter a life of luxury and passion like the sentimental stories she'd read in her novels and magazines....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Why are women always portrayed this way?
- By Danelle Kenny on 05-10-2014
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The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz
- A Romance in Eight Days
- By: Johann Valentin Andreae, John Crowley - translator
- Narrated by: John Crowley
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Often described as an alchemical allegory, John Crowley instead decided this is "the first science fiction novel". After all, "it's fiction; it's about the possibilities of a science....
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Boyhood
- By: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Chris Harvey
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Tolstoy was born in 1828 and he was in his 20s when he wrote this early work. He his famous for detailed physical descriptions combined with emotional drama. For example, try that wonderful short story "Master and Man" that combines those two elements. The present work has the detailed descriptions but lacks the emotional appeal and lacks the great characters that we see in other works, i.e.: a crying youth because he is humiliated is hardly a great emotional experience.
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Monsieur Lecoq: Volume I
- By: Emile Gaboriau
- Narrated by: Cate Barratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Emile Gaboriau first introduced the young police officer and detective Monsieur Lecoq in his novel L'Affaire Lerouge. He based his character on an actual thief who later became no less than the head of the Paris police -- Eugine Francois Vidocq. As a character, Lecoq would later influence Arthur Conan Doyle in his creation of Sherlock Holmes. In this, his first foray into detection, Lecoq reveals his mastery of the art of disguise and his zeal for detection. Monsieur Lecoq: Volume I is the first of a two-part novel and details the crime and ensuing investigation.
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What's Wrong with the World
- By: G.K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In What's Wrong With the World, G.K. Chesterton discusses big business, education, government, feminism, and more. The work draws on thousands of essays Chesterton contributed to newspapers and periodicals over his lifetime. Eloquently opposing materialism, hypocrisy, and snobbery, Chesterton was a steadfast champion of family, faith, and the working man. The work includes a discussion of humankind and its nature, the power of spirituality and the consequences of increasing secularism in the modern world, and the role of education in shaping the young to fit into the society.
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
- By: Maurice LeBlanc
- Narrated by: Cordwainer Raconteur
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (1864 -1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories. His famous character, Arsène Lupin, is a master of disguise, a historian, gentleman, and a burglar. In these adventures, Lupin organises a series of flamboyant heists under the nose of the determined Inspector Ganimard. He carries out the most amazing burglaries without ever leaving a clue. The innocent and poor have nothing to fear from him, but the rich and powerful, and the detective who tries to ruin the fun, are the targets of Arsene’s mischief.
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The Godson
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Michael Richards
- Length: 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Leo Tolstoy, best known for the novels Anna Karenina and War and Peace, also wrote short stories that expound on Christianity. The Godson is a moving parable about a man finding a way to understand himself, the events around him, and his purpose in life. The story is about a son who was born to a poor peasant who rejoiced and went to a neighbour to ask him to become godfather to the boy.
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At Swim-Two-Birds
- By: Flann O'Brien
- Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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More preoccupied with drinking, sleeping, and writing, an unnamed student neglects his studies and invents three separate openings for a novel. The first introduces the Pooka MacPhellimey, "a member of the devil class", the second involves Mr. John Furriskey, a character belonging to another of the student's creations (writer Dermot Trellis), while the final opening features legendary Irish heroes Finn Mac Cool and Mad King Sweeny. Soon, Trellis' creations rebel against him, doing as they like while he sleeps, and the characters begin wandering in and out of each other's tales.
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Boyhood
- By: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Chris Harvey
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Tolstoy was born in 1828 and he was in his 20s when he wrote this early work. He his famous for detailed physical descriptions combined with emotional drama. For example, try that wonderful short story "Master and Man" that combines those two elements. The present work has the detailed descriptions but lacks the emotional appeal and lacks the great characters that we see in other works, i.e.: a crying youth because he is humiliated is hardly a great emotional experience.
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Monsieur Lecoq: Volume I
- By: Emile Gaboriau
- Narrated by: Cate Barratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Emile Gaboriau first introduced the young police officer and detective Monsieur Lecoq in his novel L'Affaire Lerouge. He based his character on an actual thief who later became no less than the head of the Paris police -- Eugine Francois Vidocq. As a character, Lecoq would later influence Arthur Conan Doyle in his creation of Sherlock Holmes. In this, his first foray into detection, Lecoq reveals his mastery of the art of disguise and his zeal for detection. Monsieur Lecoq: Volume I is the first of a two-part novel and details the crime and ensuing investigation.
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What's Wrong with the World
- By: G.K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In What's Wrong With the World, G.K. Chesterton discusses big business, education, government, feminism, and more. The work draws on thousands of essays Chesterton contributed to newspapers and periodicals over his lifetime. Eloquently opposing materialism, hypocrisy, and snobbery, Chesterton was a steadfast champion of family, faith, and the working man. The work includes a discussion of humankind and its nature, the power of spirituality and the consequences of increasing secularism in the modern world, and the role of education in shaping the young to fit into the society.
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
- By: Maurice LeBlanc
- Narrated by: Cordwainer Raconteur
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (1864 -1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories. His famous character, Arsène Lupin, is a master of disguise, a historian, gentleman, and a burglar. In these adventures, Lupin organises a series of flamboyant heists under the nose of the determined Inspector Ganimard. He carries out the most amazing burglaries without ever leaving a clue. The innocent and poor have nothing to fear from him, but the rich and powerful, and the detective who tries to ruin the fun, are the targets of Arsene’s mischief.
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The Godson
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Michael Richards
- Length: 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Leo Tolstoy, best known for the novels Anna Karenina and War and Peace, also wrote short stories that expound on Christianity. The Godson is a moving parable about a man finding a way to understand himself, the events around him, and his purpose in life. The story is about a son who was born to a poor peasant who rejoiced and went to a neighbour to ask him to become godfather to the boy.
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At Swim-Two-Birds
- By: Flann O'Brien
- Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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More preoccupied with drinking, sleeping, and writing, an unnamed student neglects his studies and invents three separate openings for a novel. The first introduces the Pooka MacPhellimey, "a member of the devil class", the second involves Mr. John Furriskey, a character belonging to another of the student's creations (writer Dermot Trellis), while the final opening features legendary Irish heroes Finn Mac Cool and Mad King Sweeny. Soon, Trellis' creations rebel against him, doing as they like while he sleeps, and the characters begin wandering in and out of each other's tales.
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On Duty with Inspector Field
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Bella Thomas
- Length: 41 mins
- Unabridged
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"On Duty with Inspector Field" is a nonfiction article by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), first published in 1851 in the magazine Household Words. Dickens authored 15 novels, five novellas, and countless short stories and articles. In this one, Inspector Charles Frederick Field and his men are accompanied by the narrator on an all-night journey through the most dangerous establishments of London’s underworld.
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Psyche
- By: Alexander Kuprin
- Narrated by: Cory Thomas Hutcheson
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged
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It is one thing to read the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea in a book and swoon over the romance of it all. It is a different thing entirely when the myth comes tumbling into your life and turns it upside down. "Be careful what you wish for", warns Alexander Kuprin in this chilling tale of art and obsession.
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
- By: Gustave Le Bon
- Narrated by: Glen Reed
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (1841 - 1931) was a French polymath who wrote on anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind’, which is considered a seminal work of crowd psychology. In the book, Le Bon identifies the primary characteristics of crowd psychology as impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason, the absence of critical judgement, and the exaggeration of feelings.
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The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy
- By: Frances Milton Trollope
- Narrated by: Frances Milton Trollope
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a reproduction of the original artifact. Generally, these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
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The Rover
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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As the Revolution rages in France, a seafarer named Peyrol, a master-gunner in the French republican navy, pirate, and for nearly 50 years, rover of the outer seas, comes to the end of a lifetime lived on the seas and seeks refuge in a remote farmhouse on the French Riviera. As he attempts to settle into a peaceful existence, Peyrol struggles to redefine himself and returns to the sea for one final voyage.
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Micromegas (Complete with Biography, Discography and Study Guide)
- A Modern Review of Philosophical History
- By: Voltaire, Causal Learning
- Narrated by: Casual Learning
- Length: 55 mins
- Unabridged
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This is an annotated version of a classic containing a detailed biography, a free study guide, and discography by the original author, Voltaire. Micromegas is a 1752 novella by Voltaire, a French satirist. Along with his story "Plato's Dream", it is an early example of science fiction and is a significant historical development in literature. Over seven chapters, we see how a tall entity on a faraway planet writes a book about other tall creatures. In a book where a man who is 6,000 feet tall is a dwarf, we see a friendship between the two as they embark on a journey to earth.
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The Lost Estate
- By: Henri Alain-Fournier
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Alain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri-Alban Fournier (1886 - 1914), a French author who died in World War I. His only novel, The Lost Estate, is set in a small French town and narrated by the boy François Seurel, in a dream-like style, like a fable. The hero is the slightly older and highly charismatic boy Augustin Meaulnes. One day, he disappears for a few days and on his return tells a riveting story of how he lost his way and found himself in a seemingly abandoned estate with a chateau in which a party was going on.
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The Lesson of the Master
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Marie Ludington
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The Lesson of the Master is a novella by Henry James about life and art, the choice that an artist must make, and the life that art makes. It’s the story of a young writer, Paul Overt, who becomes friends with Henry St. George, a famous author, at about the same time that he meets the love of his life. St. George tells Paul that he ought to dedicate himself to writing, and warns him against the distraction of a wife and family; he goes out of his way to persuade the young writer that marriage would destroy his creativity.
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Parzival, Volume I
- By: Wolfram Von Eschenbach
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Parzival is a medieval epic poem written by the knight-poet Wolfram von Eschenbach. It is divided into 16 books, each composed of several 30-line stanzas of rhyming couplets. Regarded as one of the literary masterpieces of the Middle Ages, the romantic poem commonly dated to the early part of the 13th century. The verse narrative focuses on the Arthurian hero Parzival and his long quest for the Holy Grail after his initial failure to achieve it.
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Parzival, Volume II
- By: Wolfram Von Eschenbach
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Wolfram von Eschenbach, a knight and a poet from 13th century Germany, is the author of this Arthurian romance. Parzival is the revival and completion of a narrative left incomplete by its initiator Chrétien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight at the court of King Arthur to his ultimate achievement as King of the Temple of the Grail. This is both a tale of chivalry, and an epic quest for spiritual insight, as the hero Parzival must overcome his pride, and learn to be humble before he can finally win the Holy Grail.
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Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: God Is Dead!
- ABSURD's Pure Wisdom Series, Book 2
- By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Zakir Hossain
- Narrated by: Richard Eckman
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a rare breed: unlike many other philosophers whose philosophy was only of the mind, he was rooted deep in the heart - he was not only a philosopher but also a mystic - a born mystic. Hence, he was able to write a book like Thus Spoke Zarathustra - it was undoubtedly his best of the best philosophical and literary works.
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Phantastes
- A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
- By: George Macdonald
- Narrated by: Joel Allen
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel by the Scottish author George MacDonald, first published in 1858. It is the story of a young man, Anodos, who enters a dreamlike realm where he experiences breathtaking adventures, while encountering a host of entities like tree spirits, gnomes, monsters, and giants as well as his own shadow. All the time, he searches for his ideal of female beauty, in the form of the "Marble Lady". After having been killed in Fairy Land, Anodos wakes up on Earth, retaining the memory of his adventures in the realm of dreams.