Classics

The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce....

Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society....

This is an intense detective thriller instilled with philosophical, religious, and social commentary....

A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of the first book in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy....

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....

Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N. Owen....

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness....

Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature....

This is a sensitive exploration of the joys and pleasures of physical consummation....

This collection of three of Henrik Ibsen's most well-known and important plays is voiced by a sparkling cast and features music, SFX and a full soundscape....

A wonderful tale of a young man’s coming of age, Zorba the Greek has been a classic of world literature since it was first translated into English in 1952 ....

The short story is considered to be one of the most challenging genres because of the need for compact plotlines and the ability to conjure up atmosphere and character in a few sentences....

Fontanes berühmter und zugleich letzter Roman, der am Brandenburger Stechlinsee spielt: Im Zentrum des Romans stehen neben der märkischen Adelsfamilie um den Witwer Dubslav von Stechlin und dessen Sohn Woldemar die vielen Gespräche mit verschiedenen Personen über aktuelle Ereignisse, wobei sich immer wieder die alte konservative und die neue sozialdemokratische Sichtweise gegenüberstehen.

Bereits vor seiner einmaligen Karriere als Filmschauspieler bewies Klaus Kinski sein darstellerisches Können - mit seiner Stimme. In nur fünf Jahren, von 1957 bis 1962, nahm er allein 30 Sprechplatten auf. Darüber hinaus wirkte er in diversen Hörspielproduktionen mit. Kinski sprach zahlreiche Werke der Weltliteratur neu und in seiner unverwechselbaren Art ein. Zu diesen Rezitationen gehört "Kinski singt und spricht Brecht", aufgenommen im Jahr 1959 zum überwiegenden Teil live in der Wiener Stadthalle. 

Payer une taxe pour traverser le détroit de Constantinople à Scutari! On n'a jamais vu ça! Ces messieurs du nouveau gouvernement sont allés trop loin! " s'écrie le riche marchand turc Kéraban, grand défenseur des traditions. Or, précisément, Kéraban doit se rendre de Constantinople à Scutari, et donc traverser le Bosphore. " J'irai et je ne paierai pas ! clame Kéraban-le-Têtu. - Vous paierez ou vous n'irez pas ! " rétorque le fonctionnaire chargé de collecter la taxe. Qu'à cela ne tienne! Kéraban n'ira pas à Scutari par le détroit, mais par la terre ferme.

Esta versión del audiolibro La República es la más barata que también tiene audio de calidad superior. Nosotros editamos el audio para su placer. Usamos procesos de la computadora y trabajo manual para crear una experiencia buena de volumen y calidad sin ruidos malos. ¡Es nuestro distinto placer presentarle nuestra versión de La República por Platón, narrado por Vanesa Amezquita!

A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's "Journey by Moonlight" is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty and desire. 'On the train, everything seemed fine. The trouble began in Venice ...' Mihály has dreamt of Italy all his life. When he finally travels there, on his honeymoon with Erszi, he soon abandon his new wife in order to find himself, haunted by old friends from his turbulent teenage days: beautiful, kind Tamas, brash and wicked Janos, and the sexless yet unforgettable Eva.

In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, Catherine Morland's overactive imagination makes her life more complicated than she would have wished.... Catherine is obsessed with Gothic novels, often getting swept up by her taste for the dramatic and tragic. Did Mrs Tilney really die nine years previously, or has she been murdered or imprisoned in her chambers this whole time? Meanwhile, she is torn between two suitors, the handsome and clever Henry Tilney and the arrogant John Thorpe....