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The Birds - listen book free online

Daphne du Maurier’s novels are famous for their passion, tension and alarmingly candid psychological takes on men and women, often trapped in unhealthily obsessive relationships. Her writing was noted as being so strongly cinematic that Alfred Hitchcock made three films based on her work: Jamaica Inn, The Birds and Rebecca, while Don’t Look Now, the classic horror film by Nicolas Roeg, was base... Read More

The Thorn Birds - listen book free online

Colleen Margaretta McCullough was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and The Ladies of Missalonghi. Before her tertiary education, McCullough earned a living as a teacher, librarian and journalist. In her first year of medical studies at the University of Sydney, she suffered dermatitis from surgical soap and was told to abandon her dreams of be... Read More

The Magician of Lublin - listen book free online

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born American writer of novels, short stories, and essays in Yiddish. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish. He was also awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw and one in Fiction for his collection A Cr... Read More

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights - listen book free online

John Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a reinterpretation of the Arthurian legend, based on the Winchester Manuscript text of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. This book by Sir Thomas Malory was the first book that John Steinbeck ever loved. In the latter half of the 1950s, having already won lasting fame as the author of Of Mic... Read More

Swann in Love - listen book free online

In the original French, Swann in Love is known as Un amour de Swann. It is a section of the novel sequence In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time was published in France between 1913 and 1927. Proust paid for the publication of the first volume after it had been turned down by leading editors who had been offered the manuscript in longhand. Proust eventually arranged wi... Read More

Time Regained - listen book free online

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. In Search of Lost Time follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood during the late 19th century to early 20th century aristocratic France, while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of... Read More

The Fugitive - listen book free online

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist. Born in 1871 in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil, Marcel Proust led an active social life in his youth, penetrating the highest circles of wealth and aristocracy. He suffered from severe asthma, which worsened as he grew older, and his illness prompted him to withdraw from society and... Read More

The Prisoner - listen book free online

The Prisoner, also translated as The Captive, is the first volume of the section within In Search of Lost Time known as the Albertine novel. The name "Albertine" first appears in Proust's notebooks in 1913. The material in volumes 5 and 6 were developed during the hiatus between the publication of volumes 1 and 2 and they are a departure of the original three-volume series originally planned by... Read More

Sodom and Gomorrah - listen book free online

Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. Sodome et Gomorrhe, sometimes translated as Cities of the Plain, was originally published in two volumes. It was the last volume over which Proust supervised publication before his death in November 1922. The publication of the remaining volumes was carried out by his brother, R... Read More

The Guermantes Way - listen book free online

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist. Proust was involved in writing and publishing from an early age. In addition to the literary magazines with which he was associated, and in which he published while at school, from 1890 to 1891 he published a regular society column in the journal Le Mensuel. Marcel Proust is best kn... Read More

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - listen book free online

Marcel  Proust was born in the Paris Borough of Auteuil on 10 July 1871, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Franco-Prussian War. He was born during the violence that surrounded the suppression of the Paris Commune, and his childhood corresponded with the consolidation of the French Third Republic. Much of In Search of Lost Time concerns the vast changes, most particular... Read More

Swann's Way - listen book free online

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel In Search of Lost Time; earlier rendered as Remembrance of Things Past. In Search of Lost Time follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood during the late 19th century to early 20th century aristocratic France,... Read More

All Quiet on the Western Front - listen book free online

Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist who created many works about the horrors of war. During World War I, Remarque was conscripted into the German Army at the age of 18. On 31 July, he was wounded by shrapnel in the left leg, right arm and neck, and was repatriated to an army hospital in Germany where he spent the rest of the war. With All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque emerged as a... Read More

Mammon and the Archer - listen book free online

O. Henry, a former convict, is best known for his witty short stories with unexpected endings. Born William Sydney Porter, this author decided to use a pen name for his writings while he was in prison and afterwards. Now known as O. Henry, it is quite clear that he was inspired by the twists and turns of his own life.  In many of his pieces, O. Henry used his own life and wit as inspiration to... Read More

The Hunchback of Notre Dame - listen book free online

French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement Victor Marie Hugo was born in 1802 in Besançon in the eastern region of Franche-Comté. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. He was at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement with his play Cromwell and drama Hernani. In 1831, Victor Hugo published his most famous novel, “The Hunchback of... Read More

The Iliad - listen book free online
Author: Homer
If you consider antic literature to be something boring and tiresome, you should try ‘The Iliad’. This epic poem was written in Ancient Greece around 8th century BC, but it contains everything a good blockbuster needs: love, betrayal, war, divine intervention. The poem itself is about the last days of Trojan War. The war itself lasted for ten years, and its reason was love. Helen, the most beautif... Read More
The Odyssey - listen book free online
Author: Homer
Probably, everyone has once heard about Odyssey, the Greek hero who traveled the seas, trying to get back home. But a rare person can boast of reading the complete poem. Now we would like to give you an opportunity to listen online to this masterpiece, as audiobook 'The Odyssey' is released. It is said to be the second oldest writing in the Western literature, which was first written in the 8th ce... Read More