Discover the New Releases Audiobooks in Classics, European Literature

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Snow White and Other Stories

Author: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Charles Perrault

Narrator: Rebecca Burns

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-12

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Collected and published by the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800s, "Snow White" is a classic and timeless tale. The jealous queen's multiple attempts to take the beautiful Snow White's life are foiled by the sympathetic dwarfs. Eventually, Snow White gets her happily ever after with the prince, while the queen receives her comeuppance.

Included in this book are this and 20 more tales from the Grimm Brothers' collection and by Charles Perrault: "Cinderella", "Rumpelstiltskin", "The Fisherman and His Wife", "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood", "Hans in Luck", "The Golden Bird", "Little Red Riding Hood", "King Thrushbeard", "Rapunzel", "The Fairies", "Hansel and Gretel", "The Galant Tailor", "Snow White and Rose Red", "The Raven", "The Brother and Sister", "Ricky of the Tuft", "The Twelve Brothers", "The Frog Prince", "Little Tom Thumb", and "The Golden Goose".

Members Reviews:

terrible narrator

a robot could read better. couldnt finish the book because the terrible narrator. cant recommend this one

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: She Who Runs on the Waves [Russian Edition]

Author: Alexander Grin

Narrator: Yuri Mazikhin

Format: Abridged

Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-12

Publisher: IDDK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Loved by generations of devoted fans, She Who Runs the Waves stands as one of the most famous and well-received science fiction novels of Russian author Alexander Grin (1880-1932). Grin, who has a peculiar history of being nationally adored and internationally ignored, is at his best here. With its fanciful descriptions of whimsical landscapes, She Who Runs the Waves is undoubtedly the work of an imagination that knew no bounds.

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Fru Marie Grubbe

Author: J. P. Jacobsen

Narrator: Dan Schlosser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-12

Publisher: Viatone

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Fru Marie Grubbe fortller om 1600-tallets historiske adelsfrue, Marie Grubbe og hendes helt usdvanlige liv, hvor hun bevidst bryder sit gteskab med Frederik IIIs sn Ulrik Frederik Gyldenlve og forlader sin privilegerede stilling ved hoffet for at realisere sine erotiske drifter og leve et gte liv i overensstemmelse med sin natur sammen med den simple ladefoged Sren. Hun ender sine dage som fattig frgekone, men uden fortrydelse eller beklagelse. - Fru Marie Grubbe er medtaget som et af de 12 mest betydningsfulde litterre vrker i den danske Kulturkanon. - "Vor tids fineste krlighedsroman Tom Kristensen

Please note: This audiobook is in Danish.

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://hotaudiobook.com

Título: El hombre de la máscara de hierro [The Man in the Iron Mask]

Autor: Alejandro Dumas

Narrador: Fernando Caride

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 13 hrs and 9 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 01-23-12

Editor: Audiomol

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 9 votos

Categorías: Classics, European Literature

Resumen del editor:

La última aventura de los tres mosqueteros, El Hombre de la Mascara de Hierro original de Alejandro Dumas. Los veteranos mosqueteros Aramis y Portos, traman un plan para derrocar al inepto y corrupto Rey Luís XIV de su trono y poner en su lugar a su hermano gemelo Felipe, quien se encuentra injustamente encarcelado dentro del castillo de la Bastilla. Los tres mosqueteros y Dartañan se encuentran en el centro de un conflicto que no sólo pone en juego su amistad de toda la vida, sino también el trono de Francia.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

No es la versión completa "unabridged", cuidado!

Cuando adquirí este audiolibro lo hice entusiasmado, de que por fin, se publicara en español la versión completa de una de las mejores novelas de Alejandro Dumas.

Muy a mi pesar, al escuchar el audiolibro, y compararlo con la versión completa le faltan varios capítulos enteros. Como dato importante la versión completa en inglés dura aproximadamente 22 horas, mientras a la versión en español le faltan como 5 horas.

Para dar un ejemplo al final del audiolibro, omite el capítulo que describe el último encuentro entre Aramis y D'Artagnan, cuando Aramis regresa a Francia, después de su fuga, como embajador de España.

No entiendo porque se promueve este libro como unabridged.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Crime and Punishment [Russian Edition]

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrator: Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-11

Publisher: New Internet Technologies

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a former student, lives in a tiny garret on the top floor of a run-down apartment building in St. Petersburg. He is sickly, dressed in rags, short on money, and talks to himself, but he is also handsome, proud, and intelligent. He is contemplating committing an awful crime, but the nature of the crime is not yet clear. He goes to the apartment of an old pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanovna, to get money for a watch and to plan the crime. Afterward, he stops for a drink at a tavern, where he meets a man named Marmeladov, who, in a fit of drunkenness, has abandoned his job and proceeded on a five-day drinking binge, afraid to return home to his family. Marmeladov tells Raskolnikov about his sickly wife, Katerina Ivanovna, and his daughter, Sonya, who has been forced into prostitution to support the family. Raskolnikov walks with Marmeladov to Marmeladov's apartment, where he meets Katerina and sees firsthand the squalid conditions in which they live. The next day, Raskolnikov receives a letter from his mother informing him that his sister, Dunya, is engaged to a government official named Luzhin and that they are all moving to St. Petersburg. He goes to another tavern, where he overhears a student talking about how society would be better off if the old pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna were dead. Later, in the streets, Raskolnikov hears that the pawnbroker will be alone in her apartment the next evening. He sleeps fitfully and wakes up the next day, finds an ax, and fashions a fake item to pawn to distract the pawnbroker. That night, he goes to her apartment and kills her. While he is rummaging through her bedroom, looking for money, her sister walks in, and Raskolnikov kills her as well. He barely escapes from the apartment without being seen, then returns to his apartment and collapses on the sofa. Thus begins Crime and Punishment with all the twists and turns and philosophical questions that permeate Dostoyevsky's writing. A world classic!

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Members Reviews:

Great Book, but...

I loved this story, it's slow and methodical but I like that. Only minor problem I had is with audio editing. There were too many repeat phrases at times, and at times rough seams between the recorded takes, I guess. Just wish they would have taken the time to edit it better. But that's just a minor side note. I loved the narrator and the story. I'll miss it

Must listen.

Very enjoyable. Could be hard to comprehend. but. if able to fallow the story . It will be very rewarding. story starts to fall together after very long introduction of the characters. primarily main characters. never the less. every character gets it's fill as a story progresses. and after 1/4 of the book. you will be drawn to this book. Intesipating next move of the characters and unfolding of the story. At the end of the book. Without spoiling the book. I was satisfied with the ending. Which is rare occasion for me...

The reader is so horrid

Big fan of the book was looking forward to hearing it, but the reader is so terrible its really impossible to listen to it... audible has one narrator, the audio actually names a different narrator... but this guy makes you want to tune him out...

Great Russian classic

I always loved this book and now enjoyed listening to it too.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: The Possessed [Russian Edition]

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrator: Yuriy Zaborovskiy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 35 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-11

Publisher: New Internet Technologies

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Possessed, also called Demons, is Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel about life in Russia at the end of the 19th century. In this highly political novel, Dostoevsky portrays the revolutionaries as demons or devils as they plot ruin and eventually turn on each other.

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Moll Flanders

Author: Daniel Defoe

Narrator: Virginia Leishman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 44 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Daniel Defoes novel is a delightful 18th century classic. Called the truest realism in English literature and the tale of a hot, earthy wench, it meets both expectations while also offering a remarkable portrayal of an ingenious mind. Moll is born in Newgate prison to a petty thief and is soon left at the mercy of whoever will take her in. From this unfavorable beginning, the lusty, resourceful Moll loves and bargains her way from rags to riches, from prostitution in the streets of London to prosperity on a Virginia plantation. Along the way, she offers a charmingly candid view of her life and times. His colorful characters like Robinson Crusoe earned Daniel Defoe instant popular acclaim. In Moll Flanders, he created a beautiful woman who still holds a unique place in British literature. Through Virginia Leishmans sparkling narration, she steps from the pages full of exuberance and spontaneity.

Editorial Reviews:

Moll Flanders was, according to the long title of this work, "twelve year a Whore, five time a Wife (whereof once to her own brother), twelve year a Thief, eight year a transported Felon in Virginia," etc. Virginia Leishman's rendering of this novel is virtually flawless; it's well modulated, with no mispronunciations, stumbles or pauses. Still, it must be said that she seems overly controlled, too flat, more suitable for Jane Austen's well-appointed sitting rooms than for Moll Flanders' rumpled sheets. Earthiness, sensuality, high drama in the storytelling are needed to breathe excitement into an exciting narrative.

Members Reviews:

Excellent Narration of Quite and Odd Book

The best part of this book is the historical perspective of just how bawdy and irreverent a book written in 1722 could be. The narration is particularly good, often rising to an excellent performance (not just a reading). To a listener with a modern perspective there is little sensational, exciting or even very amusing about Moll Flanders. I had an occasional chuckle or sigh and I learned some things, but not very often. I am sure when this was written it was much more exciting than it now seems. I liked Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year quite a bit better than Moll Flanders. This is very dated, but is not at all badly written, and is historically interesting.

A Classic that is timeless and almost poetry

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I love this book! It a rare account of women's trials in the late 17th century, but oddly those trials still exist today. Good versus evil is a theme throughout. This novel helps explain that evil has 2 categories; evil for neccesity and evil for evil's sake. It causes the reader to question if the first is really evil?

What was one of the most memorable moments of Moll Flanders?

Moll Flander's redemption and personal awareness of the choices that she's made while in Newgate.

Which scene was your favorite?

I loved the scene when Moll helps one of her husbands escape. Her love of men despite their ill treatment of her is dumbfounding.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

The way this book was written made me feel as though I was listening to music.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Selections from The Decameron

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio

Narrator: Teresa Gallagher, James Goode, Polly Hayes, Jonathan Keeble, Siri O'Neal, Alison Pettit, Daniel Philpott, Nickie Rainsford

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-11

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Here are 16 tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic, and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccios answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dantes Divine Comedy.

A complete list of narrators includes Giovanni Boccaccio, Teresa Gallagher, James Goode, Polly Hayes, Jonathan Keeble, Siri O'Neal, Alison Pettit, Daniel Philpott, Nickie Rainsford and Stephen Thorne.

Editorial Reviews:

This fourteenth-century Italian tome, which inspired Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Balzac, remains one of the most enjoyable anthologies of short stories ever written. Nice capable British narrators represent the storytellers in Naxos's sampling of a graceful translation. Some young unmarried nobles, the "beautiful people" of the age, decide to wait out the Florentine plague in their country estates, amusing each other every evening with earthy stories, some outright bawdy, others pointing to a moral. The narrators capture the language and style with keen understanding. Well-chosen music adds to the atmosphere.

Members Reviews:

Shakespeare liked it. And I do, too.

Very interesting insight into the minds of young adults in 14th century Italy.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: The Red and The Black

Author: Stendhal

Narrator: Bill Homewood

Format: Abridged

Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-11

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The tale of social-climbing arriviste Julien Sorel brilliantly captures the contradictions and hypocrisies permeating French society under the Bourbon Restoration. Using his formidable intellect, innate cunning and charm, the tale of social-climbing arriviste Julien Sorel brilliantly captures the contradictions and hypocrisies permeating French society under the Bourbon Restoration. Using his formidable intellect, innate cunning and charm, Julien clambers his way to the top, manipulating and seducing those who have the power to give him the social status he desires. clambers his way to the top, manipulating and seducing those who have the power to give him the social status he desires. However, Juliens idealism and Napoleonic ambitions are always simmering just below the surface, threatening to erupt and jeopardize his designs. For how long will he be able to smother his true feelings? Bill Homewoods reading masterfully portrays the psychological tension and intrigue of this French classic.

Editorial Reviews:

British actor Bill Homewood has a deep, sonorous voice and narrates with almost musical refinement. Stendhal's wonderful chronicle of the nineteenth century tells the story of his hypocritical protagonist, Julien Sorel. A poor youth and brilliant scholar, Julien begins a career in the church despite his liberal views and his disgust for his superiors. His pious front gives him access to aristocratic households as a tutor, but his ambition for social prestige leads him to scandal and ruin. Homewood is chameleon-like in his versatility with vocal characterizations, easily switching from the youthful Julien's timid, earnest voice to the condescending tone of Monsieur de Renal. Masterful in his narration, Homewood captures all the nuances in the tone and language of Stendhal's writing.

Members Reviews:

The Red and the Black

Julien is an ambitious young man thrown into society. He steadily gains success, but in the end he gets in his own way by committing an unthinkable act.

Any English major will enjoy this book. It encapsulates a time period beautifully and is darkly humorous. It is a bit slow at times, but Julien is an interesting enough character that even the longest psychological monologues are interesting.

Why is this version Identified as Annotated? Annotation would vastly improve apreciation.

Stendhal has written a sharp, dark satire of post revolutionary France. The humor is dark, trending into melodrama. So much of the content is based in the history of that moment that an annotated version is very much needed. Despite the presence of the word "Annotated" in the title, this edition is not annotated. The error does not appear to belong to Amazon

Having read Stendhal's The Charterhouse of ParmaThe Charterhouse of Parma (Penguin Classics), I find this book to be more of a pleasure to read. The translation may be more modern, but I was looking to avoid some of the older writing styles. Even so I would love to know if there was a better translation of whatever French word was returned as "Wiseacres".

One does not hear or read the word 'droll' very often. (Dictionary.com: amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.) Droll is down played, roguish rather than slapstick. The wink of a non-glinting eye. Definitely not a pie in the face. Directed to the mind, not the belly.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Gods and Fighting Men - The Fianna

Author: Lady Gregory, Felicity Hays-McCoy

Narrator: Felicity Hays-McCoy

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-11

Publisher: Crimson Cats Audio Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Some of the classic collection of Lady Gregory's translations of the Irish stories of Finn McCool.

Lady Gregory's translation of these old Irish stories was described by the poet W. B. Yeats as "the best book that has come out of Ireland in my time." It contains translations by Lady Gregory of medieval manuscript versions of myths and legends drawn from a pre-historic oral tradition that still survives today. This adaptation for audio allows the listener to experience some of these stories through the spoken voice, as when they were first told by country people and in the courts of kings.

Reader Felicity Hays-McCoy is an Irish writer and actress whose knowledge and love of these stories goes back to her childhood, when she first heard them in the Irish language.

Critic Reviews:

"Felicity Hays-McCoy's reading is brisk, matter-of-fact, business like. 'So now,' she says, 'here's how it happened...' I love it. You almost expect her to add 'and don't be tormenting me with questions.' We wouldn't, there's no need. Once you're there with the Fianna, fighting, feasting, chasing enchanted pigs, meeting princesses as dazzling as Niamh, you just listen and marvel. And want more." (Sue Arnold, the Guardian)

Members Reviews:

great stroy

this is well worth it, it is a rich story and you will enjoy it