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A Perfect Spy - listen book free online

John le Carré is a giant of 20th-century fiction. This British author was born on 19 October 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England. Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality, le Carré's first two novels, are mystery fiction. Le Carre had walked away from a career in British intelligence and set about writing one of the most respected and cynical series of novels about intelligence and espionage in his... Read More

Black Friday - listen book free online

James Brendan Patterson is an American author and philanthropist. Patterson was born on March 22, 1947, in Newburgh, New York, the son of Isabelle, a homemaker and teacher, and Charles Patterson, an insurance broker. In 1996 Patterson quit his advertising job to concentrate on writing. While continuing to work on the profitable Alex Cross series, he began to branch out into other literary genre... Read More

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - listen book free online

Milan Kundera is a Czech-born French writer. Originally, he wrote in Czech. From 1993 onwards, he has written his novels in French. Between 1985 and 1987 he undertook the revision of the French translations of his earlier works. He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in bookstores." In his teens, he joined the Commu... Read More

Rabbit Is Rich - listen book free online
Author: John Updike
Categories: Classic Literature
Reader: Arthur Morey

American author John Updike mirrored his America in poems, short stories, essays, and novels, especially the four-volume "Rabbit" series. At the age of twenty-two, Updike began his writing career when he published his first story "Friends from Philadelphia," in the New Yorker in 1954. Since childhood, Updike had admired the New Yorker and always dreamed of becoming a cartoonist for the magazine... Read More

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Stephen Edwin King is an American novelist and short-story writer whose books were credited with reviving the genre of horror fiction in the late 20th century. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in English. While writing short stories he supported himself by teaching and working as a janitor, among other jobs. Stephen King’s 1986 novel It is widely consid... Read More

The Talisman - listen book free online

The Talisman was one of the first of a series of collaborations by the masters of the Horror genre through the eighties, nineties, and beyond. The idea of writing The Talisman first took form when Stephen King moved with his family to London in early 1977. It was there he met Peter and Susan Straub, and their children. The two writers became friends, both being fans of each other's work. King a... Read More

The Mist - listen book free online

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. The Mist was first published as the first and longest story of the horror anthology Dark Forces in 1980. A slightly edited version wa... Read More

Firestarter - listen book free online

Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. In 1973, King's novel Carrie was accepted by publishing house Doubleday. Carrie was King's fourth novel, but it was the first to be published. In his later fiction, exemplified by Dolores Claiborne, King... Read More

Pet Sematary - listen book free online

Stephen Edwin King is an American author best known for his enormously popular horror novels. King was the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation. After graduating from the University of Maine, King earned a certificate to teach high school but, unable to find a teaching post immediately, initially supplemented his labouring wage by selling short stories to men's magazines such as Caval... Read More

Midnight's Children - listen book free online

Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues by means of surreal characters, brooding humour, and an effusive and melodramatic prose style. His treatment of sensitive religious and political subjects made him a controversial figure. In 1983 Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the UK's senior lit... Read More

Satanic Verses - listen book free online

Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist best known for the novels Midnight's Children. He studied in India and England, reading History at King's College, Cambridge. His first novel, Grimus, was published in 1975. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migra... Read More

The Wasp Factory - listen book free online

Iain Banks was born in Fife in 1954 and was educated at Stirling University, where he studied English Literature, Philosophy and Psychology. He came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. His first science fiction novel, Consider Phlebas, was published in 1987. He continued to write both mainstream fiction and science fi... Read More

The Gunslinger - listen book free online

Author Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. King is recognized as one of the most famous and successful horror writers of all time. His parents, Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King, split up when he was very young, and he and his brother David divided their time between Indiana and Connecticut for several years. King later moved back to Maine with his mother... Read More

The Drawing of the Three - listen book free online

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. When King was three years old, his father, Donald Edwin King, deserted his family under the lie of "going to buy a pack of cigarettes". His mother, Nellie Ruth Pillsbury, raised King and his adopted older brother David by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. The family m... Read More

The Dark Half - listen book free online

Stephen King is a bestselling novelist who made his name in the horror and fantasy genres. By the early 1990s King’s books had sold more than 100 million copies worldwide, and his name had become synonymous with the genre of horror fiction. His short fiction was collected in such volumes as Night Shift, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Hearts in Atlantis, Just After Sunset, and The Bazaar of Bad Dre... Read More

The Tommyknockers - listen book free online

Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. In 1973, King's novel Carrie was accepted by publishing house Doubleday. Carrie was King's fourth novel, but it was the first to be published. In his later fiction, exemplified by Dolores Claiborne, King... Read More

Christine - listen book free online

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. The idea for Christine was hatched back in 1978 when King was walking home one day and thinking about his dying Pinto. It tells the s... Read More

The Lazarus Effect - listen book free online

The Lazarus Effect is the third science fiction novel set in the Destination: Void universe by the American author Frank Herbert and poet Bill Ransom. It takes after the events in The Jesus Incident. The book deals with concepts such as artificial intelligence, worship and the inherent problems of totalitarianism. It also addresses the issues of clones, genetic engineering and racism. The senti... Read More

The Ascension Factor - listen book free online

The Ascension Factor is the third to be co-authored by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom. It takes place about twenty-five years after The Lazarus Effect. It completes the story of the humans descended from those left by the Voidship Earthling on the planet Pandora approximately 480 years earlier. Dying before its completion, Herbert was unable to oversee the entire composition of his last novel. T... Read More

God Emperor of Dune - listen book free online

Frank Herbert was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. He is best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Herbert began researching Dune in 1959. He was able to devote himself wholeheartedly to his writing career because his wife returned to work full-time as an advertising writer for department stores, becoming the breadwinner during the 19... Read More