Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600965 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diamonds are Forever: A James Bond Novel Series: #4 of James Bond Author: Ian Fleming Narrator: Pippa Bennett-Warner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 17, 2024 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: USING HIS FORMIDABLE SKILLS OF DECEPTION, JAMES BOND WORKS TO TAKE DOWN AN AMERICAN GANG The Spangled Mob are no ordinary American gangsters. They prey on the addictions of the wealthy and treat the poor as collateral. Their ruthless desire for power and fierce brotherly loyalty make them deadly and invincible. Now James Bond must go deep undercover in his urgent new assignment: to destroy their millionaire masterminds, Jack and Seraffimo Spang. But the Spangs’ cruel influence is everywhere, from dusty African diamond mines to the frenzied gambling dens of Las Vegas. Can Bond find his men before his cover is blown?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Moonraker: A James Bond Novel Series: #3 of James Bond Author: Ian Fleming Narrator: Alex Kingston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: JAMES BOND INVESTIGATES A VILLAIN WITH THE POWER TO LAUNCH A NUCLEAR WARHEAD Sir Hugo Drax is a multimillionaire tycoon and war hero, revered by the British public for his new Moonraker missile defense system. But there’s more to this enigmatic millionaire than he lets on. When M suspects Drax of cheating at cards, he is baffled that the patriot would risk his reputation and his rocket program on a game, so he assigns Bond to infiltrate Drax’s circle. As 007 probes the activities at the Moonraker base in the days leading up to the beloved rocket’s maiden launch, he learns the truth about Drax’s battle scars, his wartime allegiances—and his murderous plans for the deployment of Moonraker.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Casino Royale: A James Bond Novel Series: #1 of James Bond Author: Ian Fleming Narrator: Richard Armitage Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Read by Richard Armitage JAMES BOND PLAYS A DEADLY GAME OF CHANCE IN IAN FLEMING’S LEGENDARY FIRST 007 NOVEL “Le Chiffre” is a ruthless operative and the accountant for a soviet SMERSH cell in France, but he’s on the verge of disaster after gambling away his client’s money. Taking the last of his stash, he lures a dozen wealthy players to a high-stakes baccarat game, hoping to hustle his way whole. The British Secret Service would like to see this red thorn plucked from the hide of Europe, and sends their best card sharp, James Bond, to bankrupt Le Chiffre for good. With the cards running against him and SMERSH operatives threatening to kill him and his beautiful ally, Vesper Lynd, 007 needs his luck to turn before he wagers away their lives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Live and Let Die: A James Bond Novel Series: #2 of James Bond Author: Ian Fleming Narrator: Adjoa Andoh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Read by Adjoa Andoh LEGENDARY AGENT JAMES BOND CONFRONTS AN ENEMY UNLIKE ANY HE’S FACED BEFORE James Bond is not an easily intimidated man, but it’s hard not to feel unnerved in the presence of Mr. Big. A ruthless Harlem gangster who uses superstition and fear to control his vast criminal empire, he’s also one of SMERSH’s top American operatives. Mr. Big has been smuggling British pirate treasure to New York from a remote Jamaican island and funneling the proceeds to Moscow. With help from Solitaire, Mr. Big’s beautiful and enigmatic Creole fortune teller, and his old friend Felix Leiter of the CIA, 007 must locate the crime lord’s hideout, sabotage his operation, and reclaim the pirate hoard for England.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599731 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alice Through the Looking-Glass (Dramatized) Author: Lewis Carroll Narrator: a full cast, John Jarvis, Georgia Lee Schultz, Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 23 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Alice’s adventures continue in this dramatized version of the timeless classic. Join Alice as she steps through a mirror into a strange new world where she encounters very peculiar characters, including a giant egg named Humpty Dumpty, the two odd brothers Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Tiger Lily, and the White Knight. Featuring stellar performances by a full cast of talented voice actors with music and sound effects. Expect the unexpected in this incredible journey into fantasy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stone Blind: A Novel Author: Natalie Haynes Narrator: Natalie Haynes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.73 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.45 of Total 11 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023 ''Haynes is master of her trade . . . She succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories.”—Telegraph (UK) The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar returns with a fresh and stunningly perceptive take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered woman. They will fear you and flee you and call you a monster.  The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. When the sea god Poseidon assaults Medusa in Athene’s temple, the goddess is enraged. Furious by the violation of her sacred space, Athene takes revenge—on the young woman. Punished for Poseidon’s actions, Medusa is forever transformed. Writhing snakes replace her hair and her gaze will turn any living creature to stone. Cursed with the power to destroy all she loves with one look, Medusa condemns herself to a life of solitude. Until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon . . . In Stone Blind, classicist and comedian Natalie Haynes turns our understanding of this legendary myth on its head, bringing empathy and nuance to one of the earliest stories in which a woman—injured by a powerful man—is blamed, punished, and monstered for the assault. Delving into the origins of this mythic tale, Haynes revitalizes and reconstructs Medusa’s story with her passion and fierce wit, offering a timely retelling of this classic myth that speaks to us today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Decameron: A BBC Radio drama adaptation of the Renaissance classic Author: Giovanni Boccaccio Narrator: Tameka Empson, Colin Mcfarlane, Paul Ritter, Tim Mcinnerny, Samuel Barnett, Louise Brealey, John Finnemore, Terry Jones, Neil Pearson, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 22 minutes Release date: December 15, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Terry Jones introduces ten dramatisations of choice Florentine Fancies, adapted from Giovanni Boccaccio's classic human comedy by the BBC Monty Python star and medieval historian Terry Jones presents ten BBC Radio dramatisations of tales from Giovanni Boccaccio's humane and comic masterpiece. Composed in the early 1350s, in the wake of the Black Death, The Decameron comprises 100 short stories from all over the world, reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes of Renaissance Italy. Their universal themes - love, sex, religion, fate, morality - resonate with us to this day, and their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern. Beautifully realised in vivid, vernacular prose, they have become a bedrock of our storytelling tradition, mined ever since by authors from Chaucer to Shakespeare, Keats, Molière and Thomas Mann. The scene is the onset of the Black Death, Italy and a group of seven young women and three young men escape to the countryside to shelter in a secluded villa just outside of Florence in order to escape the Plague. There, they tell each other tales from all over the world. These ten radio retellings are performed by a stellar cast, including John Finnemore, Ingrid Oliver, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Lydia Leonard, Tim McInnerny, Samuel Barnett, Neil Pearson, Louise Brealey, and Tameka Empson. Cast and credits Saint Ciappelletto Ciappelletto - Colin McFarlane Musciatto - Sam Dale Holy Friar - Michael Bertenshaw The Burgundians - Monty d'Inverno & Paul Heath Doctor - Ian Conningham Federigo and His Falcon Federigo degli Alberighi - John Finnemore Monna - Ingrid Oliver Elena - Carrie Quinlan Beppo - Shaun Mason Niccolo - Adam Thomas Wright How Elena Blew Hot and Cold Elena - Lydia Leonard Violante - Elaine Claxton Rinieri - Cyril Nri Pyrrhus - Paul Heath How to Get It Off Your Chest Zeppa - Ian Conningham Mrs Zeppa - Hannah Genesius Spinelloccio - Shaun Mason Mrs Spinelloccio - Bettrys Jones Narrator - Jude Akuwudike Kind Hearts and Bayonets Mithridanes - Samuel Barnett Nathan - Sam Dale Beggarmaid - Bettrys Jones The Sweetest Young Man in Perugia Pietro - Tim McInnerny Madam - Hannah Genesius Pandara - Jane Slavin Masetto - Monty d'Inverno Ercolano - David Acton The Wager Musciatto - Michael Bertenshaw Ambrogiuolo - Geoffrey Streatfeild Bernabo - Paul Ritter Zinevra - Louise Brealey Sultan - Jude Akuwudike Captain - Shaun Mason A Job for the Boys Masetto - Neil Pearson Sister Donna - Tameka Empson Sister Lisa - Rhiannon Neads Hildegard - Jane Slavin Nuto - Sam Dale Steward - Michael Bertenshaw Love Lies Sleeping Silvestra - Laura Molyneux Beppo - Rudi Dharmalingam Giovanni - Joseph Drake Mother - Jane Slavin Rinaldo - David Acton A Quiet Night in Naples Andreuccio - Gunnar Cauthery Filomena - Roslyn Hill Scarabone - Shaun Mason Neighbour - David Acton Ludo - Paul Heath Bruno - Ian Conningham Sister Lisa - Elaine Claxton Sister Donna - Hannah Genesius First broadcast BBC Radio 3, 1-12 December 2014 Written by Giovanni Boccaccio Adapted by Robin Brooks Music arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth and Paula Chateauneuf Translations by Silvia Reseghetti Script consultant: Guyda Armstrong Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: North and South: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Narrator: James Cartwright, Patsy Ferran, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 37 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: A major BBC Radio dramatisation of Elizabeth Gaskell's famous Victorian novel of pride, prejudice, politics and passion When 19-year-old Margaret Hale is uprooted from her home in the rural South of England and transplanted to the industrial North, she struggles to adapt. Smoky, grimy and ugly, Milton seems like a different country - one run by men with very different beliefs to her own, like charismatic mill owner John Thornton. A self-made entrepreneur and pragmatic capitalist, Thornton represents everything the idealistic Margaret hates. Witnessing the conditions at his mill, her social conscience is awakened, and she clashes fiercely with him over his ruthless treatment of the workers. But when a strike turns into a violent riot, and Thornton is put in danger, Margaret is forced to face up to her conflicted feelings. Can the duo overcome their ideological differences and find love? Also included is the fascinating programme In Our Time: North and South, in which Melvyn Bragg and guests examine how Margaret Hale's experiences echo the author's own life, and discuss Gaskell's insights into social conflicts and the changing world in which she lived. Written by Elizabeth Gaskell Dramatised by Lin Coghlan Cast Margaret ­- Patsy Ferran Mr Hale - Paul Chahidi Mrs Hale - Ruth Everett Dixon - Felicity Montagu John Thornton - James Cartwright Mrs Thornton - Pooky Quesnel Higgins - Sean Gilder Bessy - Olivia Barrowclough Aunt Shaw - Joanna Monro Henry Lennox - Jonathan Forbes Henderson - David Hounslow Boucher - Lloyd Thomas Frederick - Colin Ryan Mr Bell - Roger Ringrose Mrs Boucher - Evie Killip Leonards - Luke Nunn Directed by Sally Avens First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 4-18 September 2022 In Our Time: North and South Presented by Melvyn Bragg With Sally Shuttleworth, Dinah Birch and Jenny Uglow Produced by Simon Tillotson First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 9 March 2017 © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Custom of the Country Author: Edith Wharton Narrator: Christine Kiphart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: The Spraggs, a wealthy family of Midwesterners, are visiting New York City to marry off their beautiful daughter Undine. While Undine's beauty catches the attention of several high-society men, she finds it difficult to fit in with the old-money social circles that rule New York. When she finally marries Ralph Marvell, she embraces a life full of frivolities, which eventually leads to her tumultuous demise. Best known for inspiring the hit series Downton Abbey, this classic novel is a scathing critique of ambition featuring one of the most ruthless heroines in literature.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sonatas: Memorias del marqués de Bradomín Author: Ramón Del Valle-Inclán Narrator: Eugenio Barona Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Un Don Juan inolvidable de la literatura española. Valle-Inclán nos presenta en estas cuatro sonatas la vida de su inigualable personaje: el Marqués de Bradomín, un Don Juan «feo, católico y sentimental». Esta historia, heredera de la mejor tradición literaria española y europea y que marcó un hito para la producción de escritores posteriores, resultó una conmoción para los lectores de la época. El Marqués es un personaje único cuyos ciclos vitales son paralelos a las estaciones del año: su viaje en otoño al pazo donde está a punto de morir su amada Concha; su odisea en México y su aventura con «la Niña Chole» en estío; la primavera italiana, que le nubla la razón en su embelesamiento por una princesa y finalmente, el invierno, que regala al Marqués un periplo en la Guerra Carlista y una recuperación en un convento de Navarra donde intenta seducir a la joven encargada de cuidarle. Este personaje tierno, atrevido y desenfadado lleva siglos encantando a sus lectores y ahora también, a sus oyentes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Story of the Champions of the Round Table Author: Howard Pyle Narrator: Dennis Kleinman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: The Story of the Champions of the Round Table is a 1905 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. The audiobook consists of many Arthurian legends, including those concerning of the young Sir Launcelot, Sir Tristram, and Sir Percival.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Without Laughter Author: Langston Hughes Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Not Without Laughter is drawn in part from the author's own recollections of youth and early manhood. This stirring coming-of-age tale unfolds in 1930s rural Kansas. A poignant portrait of African-American family life in the early twentieth century, it follows the story of young Sandy Rogers as he grows from a boy to a man. We meet Sandy's mother, Annjee, who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy white family; his strong-willed grandmother, Hager; Jimboy, Sandy's father, who travels the country looking for work; Aunt Tempy, the social climber; and Aunt Harriet, the blues singer who has turned away from her faith. A fascinating chronicle of a family's joys and hardships, Not Without Laughter is a vivid exploration of growing up and growing strong in a racially divided society. A rich and important work, it masterfully echoes the black American experience.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El hombre invisible Author: H.G. Wells Narrator: Octavi Pujades Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 4, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: La novela visionaria de H. G. Wells que dio origen a uno de los personajes icónicos de la cultura popular del siglo xx. Traducción de Julio Gómez de la Serna En esta fantasía de 1897, H. G. Wells advierte sobre los peligros de la ciencia mal utilizada y critica ferozmente las ambiciones de sus contemporáneos. La trama se centra en las investigaciones de un brillante científico que descubre la forma de hacerse invisible. Sin embargo, incapaz de revertir sus experimentos y trastornado por los sufrimientos que le causan, decide utilizar la invisibilidad para sembrar el mal, sin detenerse siquiera ante el asesinato. Novela precursora de la ciencia ficción, El hombre invisible ha dado lugar a un sinnúmero de imitaciones y adaptaciones, enraizando como pocas en el imaginario popular. Sobre el autor: «Como Quevedo, como Voltaire, como Goethe, como algún otro más, Wells es menos un literato que una literatura». Jorge Luis Borges «Descubrir a Wells era una experiencia maravillosa [...] Wells era, en general, un verdadero profeta». George Orwell «Wells fue el fundador de la ciencia ficción, y sus utópicas novelas fantásticas han demostrado de un modo inquietante que estaba en lo cierto». Daily Telegraph

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600707 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Uncle Silas Author: Sheridan Le Fanu Narrator: Georgina Sutton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 1, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: The sinister Madame de Rougierre is employed as governess to the young Maud Ruthven, bringing with her a dark cloud of impending doom that hangs over the whole household. The governess eventually leaves, in possession of a dark secret, but that is not the end of her, much to Maud's dismay. Maud is later orphaned and sent to live with Uncle Silas, a man with a mysterious and scandalous past, and she once again meets Madame de la Rougierre, whose role in shaping Maud's destiny becomes all too clear. Occupying the world of spirits, kidnapping and old secrets, Le Fanu's sensation novel is a chilling and ground- breaking psychological thriller.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Unicorn Author: Peter S. Beagle Narrator: Joshua Kane, Orlagh Cassidy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: INCLUDES A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PATRICK ROTHFUSS Experience one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century and the book that The Atlantic has called “one of the best fantasy novels ever.” The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone... ...so she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest on a quest for others of her kind. Joined along the way by the bumbling magician Schmendrick and the indomitable Molly Grue, the unicorn learns all about the joys and sorrows of life and love before meeting her destiny in the castle of a despondent monarch—and confronting the creature that would drive her kind to extinction.... In The Last Unicorn, renowned and beloved novelist Peter S. Beagle spins a poignant tale of love, loss, and wonder that has resonated with millions of readers around the world. “Peter S. Beagle illuminates with his own particular magic.”—Ursula K. Le Guin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth Author: H.G. Wells Narrator: Alex C. Telander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 12 minutes Release date: July 15, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: What happens when science tampers with nature? A riveting, cautionary tale with disastrous results reveals the chilling answer. Hoping to create a new growth agent for food with beneficial uses to mankind, two scientists find that the spread of the material is uncontrollable. Giant chickens, rats, and insects run amok, and children given the food stuffs experience incredible growth--and serious illnesses. Over the years, people who have eaten these specially treated foods find themselves unable to fit into a society where ignorance and hypocrisy rule. These 'giants,' with their extraordinary mental powers, find themselves shut away from an older, more traditional society. Intolerance and hatred increase as the line of distinction between ordinary people and giants is drawn across communities and families. One of H. G. Wells' lesser-known works, The Food of the Gods has been retold many times in many forms since it was first published in 1904. The gripping, newly relevant tale combines fast-paced entertainment with social commentary as it considers the ethics involved in genetic engineering.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599922 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anne of Green Gables Author: L.M. Montgomery Narrator: Elizabeth Klett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert try to adopt a boy to help out with their farm on Prince Edward Island, they are completely unprepared for the 11-year-old girl who is mistakenly sent instead. Anne is feisty, red-haired, and never stops talking. She is also smart and incredibly imaginative, with a huge capacity for love that wins over shy Matthew, crusty Marilla, and their entire community of Avonlea. L. M. Montgomery’s beloved classic has been winning readers’ hearts since it was first published in 1908.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Bóvedas de acero (Serie de los robots 2) Series: #2 of Serie de los robots Author: Isaac Asimov Narrator: Guillermo Romero Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Esta excelente novela de ciencia ficción de Isaac Asimov, maestro del género, es el segundo libro de la «Serie de los robots», primer bloque de su famosa «Saga de la Fundación». En el Enclave Espacial, a las afueras de la Ciudad de Nueva York, un científico de los Mundos Exteriores ha aparecido asesinado. El detective Elijah Baley tiene que ocuparse de este caso en la para él inquietante y odiosa compañía de un robot humanoide: R. Daneel Olivaw. La investigación es delicada ya que puede terminar con el equilibrio entre los descendientes de la colonización estelar, en perfecta comunión con sus robots, y los habitantes de la Tierra, que, refugiados en grandes metrópolis subterráneas a las que llaman Ciudades, sobreviven precariamente a la falta de recursos naturales y temen a los robots. Reseña: «La clásica representación de la ciudad como útero, la metrópoli como madre, que ha quedado fijada en la imaginación desde entonces... Bóvedas de acero y El sol desnudo son los mejores libros que jamás escribió Asimov.» The Guardian

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cuentos esenciales Author: Guy De Maupassant Narrator: Diego Rousselon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 39 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Los cuentos de un escritor esencial en la tradición literaria francesa y europea, imprescindibles. Traducción de José Ramón Monreal Selección de Marie-Helène Badoux El portentoso talento de Maupassant, discípulo literario de Flaubert y miembro relevante del grupo de jóvenes escritores naturalistas que se formó alrededor de Zola, encontró su forma ideal en el cuento, género que consolidó y renovó, y en el que no tiene rival. Realista, romántico, fantasmagórico, terrorífico, fantástico o poético, Maupassant transitó en sus cuentos por todos los caminos de la imaginación. La presente edición recoge los relatos esenciales de su narrativa e incorpora muchas piezas que habían circulado poco o nada en nuestro idioma. La crítica ha dicho... «Estos Cuentos esenciales proporcionan un placer tan seguro como desasosegante.» Manuel Hidalgo, El Mundo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Bajo el volcán Author: Malcolm Lowry Narrator: David Carrillo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Una de las grandes obras maestras del siglo XX. Bajo el volcán relata las últimas horas de un hombre en su descenso moral y físico hacia las profundidades del fracaso y la muerte. Es Día de Muertos y Geoffrey Firmin pasea por las cantinas de Quauhnáhuac mientras dos volcanes, el Popocatépetl y el Iztaccíhuatl, se asoman como trágico recordatorio de la crisis que tiene con Yvonne, quien acaba de regresar a México como último recurso para evitar la caída de su matrimonio y de Firmin, su esposo. En 1947 Malcolm Lowry publicó en lengua inglesa una de las obras fundamentales para las letras mexicanas: Bajo el volcán, una suerte de premonición que deviene en profecía, el relato delirante de un hombre arruinado por el alcohol, de los amantes fuera de su elemento, su Edén... Quauhnáhuac es esa ciudad tempestad -tan real como imaginada- de tabernas para beber hasta la sobriedad, de perros callejeros, de indígenas moribundos, de calles serpenteantes por las que desciende una procesión durante el Día de Muertos. Una ciudad poética, el mito de la autodestrucción dominado por dos volcanes y esgrimido por medio de la cábala y el mezcal. Reseñas: «Ejemplo magno de la novela-como-idioma. En mi opinión, no sé si mejor (pero para mí mucho más disfrutable) que esa otra novela-como-idioma que también transcurre en un día: Ulises de James Joyce.» Rodrigo Fresán «Indispensable. Quizás, la novela que mejor expresa el estado etílico. Nadie le ha dedicado tantas páginas a una borrachera como el alcohólico Lowry en esta obra maestra. La ambigüedad de su prosa hace que incluso el lector se sienta ebrio al empaparse de cada párrafo. Para colmo, la estructura se apoya en la célebre Divina Comedia de Dante. Una genialidad.» Carlos Mayoral «Una de las obras más importantes de la literatura del siglo pasado. Lo importante de la novela es lo que no se ve, lo que no se cuenta: la abundancia, el exceso de energía oscura que subyace en cada una de sus líneas y que da forma al periplo mientras los volcanes asoman en el paisaje de una ciudad poética, trágica y bella, como la prosa que fluye en sus páginas». Montero Glez, El País «Una de las novelas más sobresalientes del siglo XX.» The New York Times «La obra maestra de Lowry tiene todos los ingredientes para ser considerado uno de los diez libros de ficción más relevantes del siglo XX.» Los Angeles Times «Una de las grandes muestras de prosa inglesa en el crepúsculo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial [...] su recorrido ha sido potente e internacional, figurando a menudo en las listas de 'mejores novelas'. Hoy en día es reconocida como un clásico.» Robert McCrum, The Guardian «Acudí al libro conociendo de éste solo su reputación como obra maestra del modernismo inglés. Terminé la lectura considerándolo una de las grandes novelas del siglo XX.» Chris Power, The Guardian «Bajo el volcán es un gran libro sobre la pérdida de la dignidad, sobre la tragedia específica que reside en la incapacidad de escoger la tragedia que uno quiere.» Michael Wood, The New York Review of Books «Un retrato vertiginoso de autodestrucción visto a través de los ojos de un hombre todavía lo suficientemente lúcido como para relatar los detalles más desgarradores.» Time