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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Hugo's last novel returns to the year the Revolution turned on itself. In 1793, with the king executed and France at war with most of Europe, the royalist peasants of the Vendée rise against the Republic, and three men are set against one another: the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The book in which Nietzsche wrote "God is dead" — and, four hundred aphorisms later, first posed the eternal recurrence: what if a demon told you that you must live this life again and again, unchanged, forever? Would you curse him, or call him a god?...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Perrine is thirteen when her father dies in Paris and her mother, gravely ill, sets out with her on a donkey cart toward the north of France — toward the family that disowned her father for marrying an Indian woman. The mother dies on the road. The...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Long before In Search of Lost Time, the young Marcel Proust published a single volume of stories, sketches, prose poems and verse. Pleasures and Days appeared in 1896, handsomely illustrated and prefaced by Anatole France, and it already holds the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Thérèse is married off to her sickly cousin Camille and installed behind the counter of a dim haberdashery in a covered Paris arcade, where the days pass in silence broken only by the Thursday domino games. Then Camille brings home a friend from work...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Milton's sequel to Paradise Lost, published in 1671, takes as its subject not the fall of man but the refusal to fall. Its action is the temptation in the wilderness: Satan, defeated in the earlier poem but undeterred, approaches the Son of God during...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A man lies awake remembering. Then, decades later, he tastes a madeleine dipped in tea and the whole vanished world of his childhood at Combray rises up complete — the garden, the church steeple, the two walks, the agony of waiting for his mother's...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. He robs only those who deserve it, returns what has sentimental value, signs his thefts, and warns his victims in advance. He is a master of disguise, an escape artist, and an incorrigible show-off — and when Maurice Leblanc introduced him in 1905...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. At a small pension on the Riviera, ten years before the war, the guests are scandalised: Madame Henriette, a respectable married woman, has run off with a young Frenchman she met only the day before. Around the dinner table the argument turns ugly, and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The whole of Hugo's novel in one edition — all five volumes, unabridged, from the bishop's candlesticks to the last word spoken in the Rue de l'Homme-Armé. Jean Valjean serves nineteen years for a stolen loaf and comes out with a yellow passport that...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Gustav von Aschenbach is a celebrated German writer, ennobled for a lifetime of disciplined work, widowed young and devoted to the idea that great art comes from iron self-control. Exhausted and restless in Munich, he gives in to a sudden longing to...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Alonso Quixano is a minor country gentleman of La Mancha who has read so many romances of chivalry that his brain dries up, and he decides the sensible response is to become a knight-errant himself. He renames himself Don Quixote, dresses an old suit of...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Rodion Raskolnikov, a former student living in a coffin-sized room in St Petersburg, has talked himself into a theory: an extraordinary man may step over the moral law if his purpose is great enough. To prove it he kills an old pawnbroker with an axe -...

Step into a hidden world where gentle kindness heals the magic of the nightSome secrets are meant to be found when the moon is high, and the world is quiet. When ten-year-old Luna discovers an ornate silver key hidden in her family's attic, she never expects it to pulse with a light that matches...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man." So begins the confession of a retired civil servant living alone in a shabby room on the edge of St Petersburg, addressing an audience he insists is not listening. In the first half he...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Julien Sorel is the clever, ambitious son of a carpenter in a small town in France after the fall of Napoleon. He worships the Emperor, but the road to glory through the army is closed, so he chooses the other colour of success: the black of the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A modest carriage rolls into the provincial Russian town of N—, carrying a gentleman of no particular distinction who nonetheless makes it his business, within days, to be liked by everyone who matters. Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov calls on officials...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a narrow old house in Hamburg, the brilliant and impatient Professor Otto Lidenbrock finds a scrap of parchment hidden in a rare Icelandic saga. Written in runes and in code, it is a message from Arne Saknussemm, a sixteenth-century alchemist, who...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. It is Christmas in the Helmer household. Nora is happy: her husband Torvald has just been made manager of the bank, the money worries of the past are over, and the house is full of presents. Torvald calls her his little lark and his squirrel, and treats...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Cécile Volanges has just left the convent, innocent, eager to please, and utterly unprepared for the world she is about to enter. That makes her the perfect instrument for the Marquise de Merteuil, who wants her seduced and ruined before she can marry...