Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary Fiction

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Title: Mutiny On The Bounty

Author: James Norman Hall

Narrator: Orson Welles

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 0 minutes

Release date: May 4, 2017

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Captain Bligh leaves London for Tahiti in charge of his crew on the Bounty. At sea he shows himself to be a brutal tyrant and cruel whilst enforcing discipline which includes flogging the men, cutting rations and over zealously working them too hard. On the return voyage, first mate Fletcher Christian, wonderfully played here by Orson Welles, leads the crew to mutiny and sets Bligh and his supporters adrift on a boat. What they did not count on is the Captain's return in this gripping tense drama.

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Title: How Green Was My Valley

Author: Richard Llewellyn

Narrator: Walter Pidgeon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 59 minutes

Release date: May 4, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Based in a mining village in Wales at the turn of the 19th century, How Green Was My Valley catches the impossible dilemmas that were created in society's irreversible shift from pastoral to industrial through Huw, the youngest son of seven. Loyalty, education, economics and manhood are examined in this pre union tightly knit mining community. Sentimentalised with lots of atmosphere this is a moving account of an important chapter in British history that affects every corner of the world.

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Title: All About Eve

Author: Joseph L Mankiewicz

Narrator: Bette Davis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 56 minutes

Release date: May 4, 2017

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Broadway star Margo Channing, played to perfection here by Tallulah Bankhead, is at the top of her game and has successful collaborations with her husband, playwright Lloyd Richards and close friend, director Bill Sampson. Enter centre stage, Eve Harrington, a manipulative minx that uses and abuses the lives of Margo and her friends to fulfil her ambitions of theatre stardom. As she manoeuvres her way into taking over Margo's part in the current Broadway hit.

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Title: It's A Wonderful Life

Author: Phillip Van Doren Stern

Narrator: James B. Stewart

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Release date: May 4, 2017

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Reprising his film role in this memorable classic James Stewart has a perfect life. A loving wife, Mary (Donna Reed), four young children, and his own business, which he inherited from his father. Facing a financial crisis one Christmas Eve he contemplates suicide. This being Hollywood he is saved at the last moment by the intervention of his guardian angel who takes him on a tour of how the world would be without him. His friendly Main Street America town is sad, impoverished and bleak.

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Title: Mrs Miniver

Author: Arthur Wimperis

Narrator: Greer Garson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Release date: May 4, 2017

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Oscar winning performances contributed to this moving war movie's status as a classic and once again Greer Garson shows why she deserved such an honour. Based in England, the Minivers are a middle class family who are forced to cope with small inconveniences and great tragedies that emerge at the outbreak of World War II. Through all this, their son courts Lady Beldonï's granddaughter.

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Title: Anything is Possible

Author: Elizabeth Strout

Narrator: Kimberly Farr

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Release date: May 4, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout, read by Kimberly Farr. An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and Man Booker long-listed author of My Name is Lucy Barton Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Anything is Possible tells the story of the inhabitants of rural, dusty Amgash, Illinois, the hometown of Lucy Barton, a successful New York writer who finally returns, after seventeen years of absence, to visit the siblings she left behind. Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Strout's place as one of America's most respected and cherished authors.

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Title: [Spanish] - Las viudas de los jueves

Author: Claudia Piñeiro

Narrator: Flavia Pittella

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Release date: May 1, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

La novela que consagró a Claudia Piñeiro y que presenta un cuadro implacable de la decadencia social de la Argentina del cambio de siglo. Detrás de las altas paredes perimetrales, más allá de los portones reforzados por barreras y flanqueados por garitas de vigilancia, se encuentra Altos de la Cascada. Afuera, la ruta, la barriada popular de Santa María de los Tigrecitos, la autopista, la ciudad, el resto del mundo. En Altos de la Cascada viven familias que llevan un mismo estilo de vida y que quieren mantenerlo cueste lo que cueste. Allí, en el country, un grupo de amigos se reúne semanalmente lejos de las miradas de sus hijos, sus empleadas domésticas y sus esposas, quienes, excluidas del encuentro varonil, se autodenominan, bromeando, 'las viudas de los jueves'. Pero una noche la rutina se quiebra y ese hecho permite descubrir, en un país que se desmorona, el lado oscuro de una vida 'perfecta'. «Claudia Piñeiro inicia su novela con una cita de Tennessee Williams: 'La época en que transcurre la acción es el lejano período en que la enorme clase media de los Estados Unidos se matriculaba en una escuela para ciegos'. Y esa es la clave de su mirada sobre la crisis que desemboca en el estallido social de diciembre de 2001, centrada en los sectores del privilegio, los que celebraron las causas que provocaron una de las mayores crisis de la historia argentina. Con el aire de un thriller realiza una indagación acerca del sector social funcional a las políticas que generan la decadencia, el que aplaude y celebra su aplicación, y que también termina victimizado por ellas. Esos amplios sectores que viven matriculándose en una escuela para ciegos.» Marcelo Piñeyro, director y co-guionista de la película Las viudas de los jueves «Esta novela atrapó un relámpago dentro de una botella: pocas historias han representado mejor la mezquindad autodestructiva de un sector de la sociedad argentina. Y ya que estamos hablando de botellas: dado que esa mezquindad está lejos de desaparecer, Las viudas de los jueves solo mejora a medida que añeja.» Marcelo Figueras, co-guionista de la película Las viudas de los jueves «Un elemento que, creo, resultó inicialmente atractivo en su escritura fue el de develar un mundo relativamente oculto y hasta ese momento no escrito: la intimidad del country. Ese mundo aparece a la vez dentro de un relato policial, que tiene un público propio, fiel e interesado en nuevas variantes. La parte más abierta y saludable de la crítica valoró también que sus novelas abordaran indirectamente las consecuencias sociales del menemismo y el derrumbe de 2001, lo que les da el plus de seriedad, más allá de lo 'meramente policial' que parece necesitar la crítica para aceptar una novela policial.» Guillermo Martínez «Quizás la palabra 'country' sea la clave. Las viudas de los jueves transcurre en un country, claro, una forma de vivir -de juntarse con los iguales y poner guardias que dejen afuera la realidad- que es un ícono de los años 90. Pero 'country' es algo más: en inglés, es una forma de decir 'país'. Piñeiro mostró con detalles cómo era ese country, cómo era ese país. No ahorró ninguna crueldad: el clasismo, el racismo, el antisemitismo. Fue un éxito: había puesto el dedo en la llaga.» Patricia Kolesnicov

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Title: [Spanish] - La pregunta de sus ojos

Author: Eduardo Sacheri

Narrator: Gustavo Bonfigli

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Release date: May 1, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

La atrapante novela policial que inspiró la película de Juan José Campanella ganadora del Oscar. Treinta años atrás, cuando Benjamín Chaparro era prosecretario en un juzgado de instrucción, llegó a su oficina la causa de un homicidio que no pudo olvidar. Ahora, ya jubilado, repasa buena parte de su vida, las instancias de ese caso y sus insospechadas derivaciones, y la historia de un amor secreto que lo mantiene acorralado entre la pasión y el silencio. Una historia protagonizada por hombres que hicieron de la búsqueda de la verdad un destino; de la memoria, un camino imprescindible; y de la lealtad, un culto que trasciende el tiempo, las distancias y la muerte. Una trama policial ambientada en los años sesenta y setenta, en una Argentina que paulatinamente se sumerge en la violencia política y cuyos personajes luchan contra la impunidad, la burocracia del sistema judicial y las miserias propias y ajenas.

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Title: The Shape of Bones

Author: Daniel Galera

Narrator: Charlie Anson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Release date: April 6, 2017

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Penguin presents the complete unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Shape of Bones by Daniel Galera, read by Charlie Anson. From one of Brazil's foremost literary voices comes a gripping, visceral new novel about youth, power and the nature of manhood A man rises at 5 a.m. and leaves his home. He does not wake his wife or child to bid them goodbye. He starts his car - an SUV filled with survival gear - but does not drive to his friend's house as planned. Instead he glides through the sleeping streets of Porto Alegre, haunted by ghosts of himself: the fearless boy riding a battered stunt bike, the silent adolescent fascinated by bodies and violence, the obsessive young surgeon, the distant husband. As the dawn comes on and people slowly fill the streets, the man drives unthinkingly, inexorably, toward the old neighbourhood of his youth. What is pulling him back there? Perhaps the need to make something happen, perhaps just nostalgia. Or perhaps the search for absolution - from a crime he has carried in his heart for fifteen years.

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Title: Homer and Langley

Author: E.L. Doctorow

Narrator: William Hope

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Release date: May 7, 2015

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers – one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets. Yet even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, and government agents.