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Title: Siddhartha

Author: Hermann Hesse

Narrator: James Langton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-22-09

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Hermann Hesse's famous and influential novel Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling allegory produced in the last hundred years. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and moving empathy for humanity, has touched the lives of millions since its original publication in 1922.

Set in India, Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's search for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism, through the illusory joys of sensual love with a beautiful courtesan and of wealth and fame to the painful struggles with his son and the ultimate wisdom of renunciation.

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Title: Crime and Punishment

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrator: Nigel Anthony

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-07-09

Publisher: CSA Word

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Raskolnikov, a student in St. Petersburg, murders an old woman, a money-lender, to prove his theory that violence purifies the strong. But no sooner is the deed done than Raskolnikov begins to feel remorse. What follows is one of the greatest psychological studies in world literature.

Public Domain true(P)2009 CSA Word

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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Narrator: Andrew Timothy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 50 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-09

Publisher: RNIB

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 296 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Published in 1844, it is often considered one of the great thrillers of all time and, along with The Three Musketeers, Dumas' most popular work.

Falsely accused of treason, the young sailor Edmund Dantes is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau d'If. After staging a dramatic escape, he sets out to discover the treasure of Monte Cristo and catch up with his enemies.

Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure, which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world.

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Title: Louise de La Vallière

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-16-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 195 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

As part of the d'Artagnan Romances following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After, and devoted in large part to romantic events at the court of France's King Louis XIV, Louise de La Valliere is the second part of Alexandre Dumas's 268 chapter novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, which first appeared in serial form between 1847 and 1850. Filled with behind-the-scenes intrigue, the novel brings the aging Musketeers and d'Artagnan out of retirement to face an impending crisis within the royal court of France.

(P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"One of the very best of the series, mixing amorous and political intrigue with an élan peculiar to Dumas...this quasi-historical series remains remarkably readable" (The Irish Times, Dublin)

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Title: Les Misérables

Author: Victor Hugo, Lee Fahnestock, Norman MacAfee

Narrator: Mark McKerracher

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-09

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 48 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Its hero is Jean Valjean, the noble peasant imprisoned. A sweeping story of love and honor in the depths of the Parisian underworld, immerses us in an epic struggle between good and evil, and carries us onto the barricades during the uprising of 1832 with a realism that is unsurpassed in modern literature.

We experience the desperation of the prostitute, Fantine; the amorality of the rogue, Thenardier; and the unquenchable desire of all human beings to be genuinely free.

Hugo saw Les Misérables as a means of dramatizing his bitter criticism of French society, but the novel that resulted transcends its own time and place. It's an ever-fascinating story, a sweeping spectacle that dazzles the senses as it touches the heart, and this audio edition captures its lasting greatness.

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Title: The Vicomte de Bragelonne

Subtitle: Ten Years After

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 266 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon he learns that his old comrades already have great projects in hand. Athos seeks the restoration of Charles II, while Aramis, with Porthos in tow, has a secret plan involving a masked prisoner and the fortification of the island of Belle-Ile.

D'Artagnan finds a thread leading him to the French court, the banks of the Tyne, the beaches of Holland, and the dunes of Brittany.

Critic Reviews:

"Alternately melodramatic, sentimental, humorous, wordly, and almost always absorbing." (

Irish Times)"I would sit down with

The Vicomte de Bragelonne for a long, silent, solitary, lamplit evening by the fire." (Robert Louis Stevenson)

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Title: The Brothers Karamazov

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, David Magarshack (translator)

Narrator: Gabriel Woolf

Format: Unabridged

Length: 37 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-17-09

Publisher: RNIB

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 175 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Fydor Karamazov, a mean and disreputable landowner, has three sons, Dmitry, a profligate army officer; Ivan, a writer with revolutionary ideas; and Alexey, a religious novice. A drama of patricide and fraternal jealousy unfolds, involving the questions of anarchism and atheism, and giving a portrait of Russian society in the turbulent 1870s.

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) was a Russian fiction writer, essayist, and philosopher whose works have been acclaimed all over the world by thinkers as diverse as Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein.

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Translated by David Magarshack

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Titel: Der Prozess

Autor:: Franz Kafka

Erzähler: Erich Räuker

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 8 hrs and 11 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 01-29-09

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Bewertung: 4.5 von 5 von 11 Stimmen

Kategorien: Classics, European Literature

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

>> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung ist ausschließlich im Download erhältlich.

Der Autor:

Franz Kafka, 1883 bis 1924, wurde als Sohn eines jüdischen Kaufmanns in Prag geboren. Er studierte zunächst kurze Zeit Germanistik, anschließend Jura. Nach der Promotion zum Dr. jur. ging er 1908 als Jurist zur "Arbeiter-Unfall-Versicherungs-Anstalt", wo er bis zu seiner Pensionierung im Jahre 1922 blieb. Ende 1917 erlitt Franz Kafka einen Blutsturz, es war der Beginn einer Tuberkulose, an der er einige Jahre später starb. Zum größeren Teil wurden Kafkas Werke erst nach seinem Tod von Max Brod, einem Schriftstellerkollegen und engen Freund, veröffentlicht. Sie übten bleibenden Einfluss auf die Weltliteratur des 20. Jahrhunderts aus.

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Title: The Modern Scholar

Subtitle: The Giants of Russian Literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov

Author: Liza Knapp

Narrator: Liza Knapp

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-08

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 68 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Russian literature of the 19th century is among the richest, most profound, and most human traditions in the world. This course explores this tradition by focusing on four giants: Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Anton Chekhov. Their works had an enormous impact on Russian understanding of the human condition. And, just as importantly, these works have been one of Russia's most significant exports: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov have become part of our literary heritage. And our understanding of the novel is based in large part on the masterpieces of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, while Chekhov has defined modern notions of the short story. In this course, Knapp acquaints you with the authors, their lives and their times, and their most important works.

©2006 Liza Knapp; (P)2006 Recorded Books

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Title: The House of the Dead

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrator: Walter Covell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-08

Publisher: Jimcin Recordings

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 38 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The book is a loosely-knit collection of facts and events connected to life in a Siberian prison, organized by "theme" rather than as a continuous story. Dostoevsky himself spent four years as a political prisoner in such a camp. This experience allowed him to describe with great authenticity the conditions of prison life and the characters of the convicts. Thus, though presented as a work of fiction, The House of the Dead is actually a thinly veiled autobiography of one portion of the author's life.

Although not Dostoevsky's greatest work, The House of the Dead is still a fascinating portrait of life in a Siberian prison camp - a life of great hardship and deprivation, yet filled with simple moments of humanity showing mankind's ability to adapt and survive in the most extreme of circumstances.

Dostoevsky tells his story in a chronological order, from his character's arrival and his sense of alienation to his gradual adjustment to prison and the return of hope as he realises that he can survive and will have a life after the completion of his term. The book is universally acknowledged as a classic and is a fascinating story, especially for those familiar with Dostoevsky and his other works.

Editorial Reviews:

A harrowing story of forced servitude and deprivation in a Siberian penal institution, The House of the Dead draws heavily on the authors own experience in such a prison camp. Fyodor Dostoevskys fact-based fiction portrays wanton destruction of human life, the brutality of sadistic prison guards, and the cruelty visited on one another by fellow inmates. In his sober, lucid baritone, performer Walter Covell is at turns dour, dismayed, and redemptive as he relives protagonist Aleksandr Goryanchikovs torturous confinement. Amid these dire circumstances, Goryanchikov undergoes a spiritual transformation, finding hope in the kindness he observes in a handful of inmates.

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