Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Dracula Author: Bram Stoker Narrator: Nick Sandys Format: Unabridged Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins Language: English Release date: 01-30-18 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula - the pinnacle of Gothic horror for generations - rises again with hauntingly dramatic digital artwork from two-time Eisner Award winner J. H. Williams III. When young English lawyer Jonathan Harker arrives in Transylvania on the eve of Saint George's Day, he cannot shake a strange feeling of uneasiness. Dogs howl throughout the night, villagers speak fearfully of evil omens, and the air grows colder as he arrives at his destination: the castle of Count Dracula. Jonathan has been summoned by the count for business, and while he finds his new host obliging and polite, he can't help but notice the man's pallid skin, odd lack of appetite, and long daytime absences. Puzzled, the young solicitor begins to search the castle for clues - and unearths a deadly secret that could endanger him and those he loves most. Journey through the Carpathian Mountains, lose yourself in the shadowy streets of London, and experience all the action, suspense, and terror of this classic tale. Just be sure to leave a light on. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Matthias the Hunter's Stories Author: Peter Christen Asbjörnsen Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 17 mins Language: English Release date: 01-17-18 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: Peter Christen Asbjrnsen (1812-1885) was a Norwegian writer, scholar and collector of traditional folktales. 'Matthias the Hunter's Stories' is one of the sets of tales he collected and tells accounts of encounters with the Hulda (woodland or bogland fairy) and the brownie. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Candide Author: Voltaire Narrator: Kevin Kollins Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 1 min Language: English Release date: 01-10-18 Publisher: Kevin Kollins Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: "Candide is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, 'we must cultivate our garden', in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, 'all is for the best' in the 'best of all possible worlds'. "Candide is characterised by its sarcastic tone as well as by its erratic, fantastical, and fast-moving plot. A picaresque novel with a story similar to that of a more serious coming-of-age narrative (Bildungsroman), it parodies many adventure and romance clichés, the struggles of which are caricatured in a tone that is mordantly matter-of-fact. Still, the events discussed are often based on historical happenings, such as the Seven Years' War and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. As philosophers of Voltaire's day contended with the problem of evil, so too does Candide in this short novel, albeit more directly and humorously. Voltaire ridicules religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and philosophers through allegory; most conspicuously, he assaults Leibniz and his optimism. "As expected by Voltaire, Candide has enjoyed both great success and great scandal. Immediately after its secretive publication, the book was widely banned because it contained religious blasphemy, political sedition and intellectual hostility hidden under a thin veil of naïveté. However, with its sharp wit and insightful portrayal of the human condition, the novel has since inspired many later authors and artists to mimic and adapt it. Today, Candide is recognized as Voltaire's magnum opus." [Wikipedia] Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Metamorphosis Author: Franz Kafka Narrator: Benedict Cumberbatch Format: Abridged Length: 1 hr and 38 mins Language: English Release date: 01-04-18 Publisher: BBC Digital Audio Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: Benedict Cumberbatch reads Franz Kafka's famous story of man-turned-insect, Metamorphosis. After a night of troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a huge, monstrous, cockroach-like creature, with an armour-plated back and multiple limbs. Gradually, he comes to terms with his new state - but his parents and sister are horrified and increasingly revolted. To them, Gregor is unclean, verminous and entirely repellent, and as he becomes more and more of a burden, their horror turns to a terrible indifference.... First published in 1915, Kafka's surreal existential novella explores concepts such as the absurdity of life, alienation and the disconnect between mind and body. Read by Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Star Trek, The Imitation Game), this tale - often described as one of the greatest in the history of fiction - is chilling, captivating and darkly comic. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Thus Spoke Zarathustra Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Narrator: Kevin Theis Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins Language: English Release date: 01-04-18 Publisher: Bassett Publishing Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: Written in the mid 1880's by Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a critically-acclaimed work centered around the "death of God" and the rise of a superhuman. A philosophical and moral examination of good versus evil, divine versus mortal, and power versus submission are all encapsulated in the musings of Zarathustra. Zarathustra's doctrine is the idea of eternal recurrence, which claims that all events repeat themselves, and that to achieve a higher state of mind, man must accept each moment as it comes. Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a compelling, thought-provoking piece on what it means to understand internal peace and to conflict with the mundane repetition of life on Earth. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Story of Don Quixote, Volume I Author: Miguel de Cervantes, Arvid Paulson - translator, Clayton Edwards - translator Narrator: Jack Chekijian Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins Language: English Release date: 01-04-18 Publisher: Spoken Realms Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: Literature's famous gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha, his trusty squire Sancho Panza, and their adventures and mishaps, are told in this centuries-old classic, which features challenges with windmill monsters, castles masquerading as inns, as well as innkeepers, prostitutes, goat herders, soldiers, priests, escaped convicts, and scorned lovers. Don Quixote must do battle with all of these for the sake of chivalry and knighthood - at least, that is what he believes. Volume one of Cervantes' celebrated 1605 Spanish novel is translated here by Arvid Paulson and Clayton Edwards, as originally published in 1922 by The Hampton Publishing Company in New York. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained Author: John Milton Narrator: Denis Quilley, full cast, Ian McDiarmid, Robert Glenister Format: Original Recording Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins Language: English Release date: 01-04-18 Publisher: BBC Digital Audio Genres: Classics, Drama Summary: The highly-acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Milton's epic poem telling the story of the fall of man and also its sequel, Paradise Regained. Out of chaos shall come order and out of darkness shall come light. Paradise is lost - and then regained. John Milton's epic, biblically-inspired poems are wonderfully dramatised for BBC Radio starring Denis Quilley as Milton, Ian McDiarmid as Satan and Robert Glenister as Christ, enhanced by specially composed music. First published in 1667, Paradise Lost describes Satan's plot to ruin God's new and most favoured creation, Mankind, and recounts the temptation of Adam and Eve and their banishment from the Garden of Eden. Paradise Regained, published in 1671, tells of the temptation of Christ by Satan as he wanders in the wilderness for 40 days and nights. Full cast: Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Under the Sunset Author: Bram Stoker Narrator: Gerry O'Brien Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins Language: English Release date: 12-27-17 Publisher: Punch Audio Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: Under the Sunset was Bram Stoker's first collection of short stories. It is a collection of eight stories for children with 33 illustrations by W. Fitzgerald and W. V. Cockburn. It was first published in the UK in November 1881 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Candide (AmazonClassics Edition) Author: Voltaire Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins Language: English Release date: 12-22-17 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: Candide, the illegitimate nephew of a German baron and student of eternal optimist Pangloss, is living a simple and sheltered life in "the best of all possible worlds." But when Candide falls in love with the wrong woman, his uncle's young daughter, he is exiled from the baron's castle and suffers great tragedy and catastrophe, which leaves him disillusioned and questioning the goodness of the universe. Penned in just three days - and published in secret because of its blasphemous and seditious nature - Voltaire's legendary satire deftly skewers religious, romantic, and political naïveté with an acerbic and ribald wit that delights to this day. Revised edition: Previously published as Candide, this edition of Candide (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Metamorphosis Author: Franz Kafka Narrator: J.D. Kelly Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins Language: English Release date: 12-15-17 Publisher: Lyon Audio Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: The Metamorphosis is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Homers Odyssey: An Audio Course Author: Fr. Gregory I. Carlson SJ DPhil Narrator: Fr. Gregory I. Carlson SJ DPhil Format: Original Recording Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins Language: English Release date: 12-12-17 Publisher: Now You Know Media Inc. Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: Discover fresh insights into one of the greatest works of literature ever composed: Homer's Odyssey. Why does this ancient epic poem continue to mesmerize listeners from all walks of life? You're undoubtedly familiar with the Odyssey in some form. Now, this exciting literature course invites you to hear Homer's text with new eyes. Your presenter, Rev. Gregory Carlson, SJ (DPhil, University of Heidelberg), is a renowned classicist and award-winning literature professor who has taught at Georgetown University, the College of the Holy Cross, and Creighton University. In his 12 lively lectures, the Western world's most engaging story comes alive again with all its poetry, drama, and action. As you voyage through the Odyssey book by book, you will gain profound insights into Homer's artistry. In this course, you will journey to fantastic lands filled with sea monsters and sirens, gods and giants, and a colorful cast of characters. Rev. Carlson brings familiar stories alive by drawing out their implications and challenges for the unusual hero Odysseus. As Rev. Carlson brings the poem to life, you will be surprised by the poem's enduring relevance to our day and age. Indeed, Homer will challenge your perceptions about success, women, friendship, and human identity. Odysseus was born for challenges, and this course in turn invites you to challenge yourself. Follow Odysseus on his journey today. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: A Study in Scarlet Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Narrator: Bob Neufeld Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins Language: English Release date: 12-12-17 Publisher: Paperless Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become two of the most famous characters in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet." Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Short Stories by Anton Chekhov, Volume 6 Author: Anton Chekhov Narrator: Max Bollinger Format: Unabridged Length: 46 mins Language: English Release date: 12-01-17 Publisher: Interactive Media Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: Chekhov has always been huge inspiration for many great writers who came in contact with Chekhov's art. Thomas Mann wrote that Chekhov's short stories attain full epic stature and can even surpass in intensity the great towering novels. 'If I understood that better in later life than in my youth, this was largely owing to my growing intimacy with Chekhov's art; for his short stories rank with all that is greatest and best in European literature,' he concluded. But what is it that makes Chekhov's stories so poignant, so striking and so inspiring? This volume offers some Chekhov's best stories, including: 'An Inadvertence', 'A Tripping Tongue', 'Boots', 'In An Hotel' and 'Ladies'. Read in English, unabridged. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: An Old Fashioned Christmas Eve Author: Peter Christen Asbjörnsen Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 27 mins Language: English Release date: 12-01-17 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: Peter Christen Asbjrnsen (1812-1885) was a Norwegian writer, scholar and collector of traditional folktales. 'An Old Fashioned Christmas Eve' describes a young Norwegian soldier recovering from an illness who finds himself stranded on Christmas Eve with a family who sit around the fire telling a series of quite extraordinary folktales and ghost stories. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Ladies Author: Anton Chekhov Narrator: Max Bollinger Format: Unabridged Length: 8 mins Language: English Release date: 12-01-17 Publisher: Interactive Media Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: The importance of women and their influence can never be underestimated. This story vividly shows how in 19th century Russia, women pulled strings behind scenes to influence even the most principled and seemingly unbreakable of decision makers. And only Chekhov knew how to express such delicate matters in the most enjoyable and humorous way. Read in English, unabridged. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Ballad of Reading Gaol Author: Oscar Wilde, Frank Harris Narrator: Denis Daly Format: Unabridged Length: 33 mins Language: English Release date: 11-30-17 Publisher: Spoken Realms Genres: Classics, British Literature Summary: Between 1895 and 1897 Oscar Wilde served a prison sentence for offences "of gross indecency". Most of this time was spent at Reading Gaol, where Wilde encountered another prisoner, Harles Thomas Wooldridge, a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards, who had been sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. Wooldrige was hanged at the gaol on 7th July, 1896. Wilde wrote the poem in France in 1897 after his release from prison. The first published version identified the author only as C.3.3, the name allocated to Wilde as a prisoner. The poem is a long reflection on the inequity and ineffectiveness of statutory punishment and the redeeming power of the Christian message of forgiveness. In his foreword, Frank Harris wrote: I venture to repeat here what I have said in various ways for nearly twenty years now, that Oscar Wilde's condemnation of prisons and punishment must lead directly to their abolition. The old bad past will die and Oscar Wilde's ballad helped to kill it. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: A Tripping Tongue Author: Anton Chekhov Narrator: Max Bollinger Format: Unabridged Length: 8 mins Language: English Release date: 11-21-17 Publisher: Interactive Media Genres: Classics, Drama Summary: Natalya just returned from Yalta, Crimea, and is telling her husband over dinner of all the charms of Crimea. Her husband, delighted, gazes tenderly at her enthusiastic face, listens, and from time to time puts in a question. Natalya's never-ceasing babble gets her into serious trouble, however. She is eager to expose her friend Yulia for some indiscretion with a local guide, and this leads to revelations of Natalya's own 'gay' times with one of the Tatar guides. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: An Inadvertence Author: Anton Chekhov Narrator: Max Bollinger Format: Unabridged Length: 11 mins Language: English Release date: 11-21-17 Publisher: Interactive Media Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: Strizhin, who normally leads a sober and regular life, comes home from a christening party where he had permitted himself to drink four glasses of vodka and a glass of wine, the taste of which suggested something midway between vinegar and castor oil. And of course spirituous liquors being like sea-water and glory: the more you imbibe of them the greater your thirst, Strizhin felt an overwhelming craving for another drink. He accidentally downed a glass of paraffin instead of vodka, and in desperate search for a doctor at 4 a.m. he found that a doctor is only readily found when he is not wanted. Read in English, unabridged. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Boots Author: Anton Chekhov Narrator: Max Bollinger Format: Unabridged Length: 10 mins Language: English Release date: 11-21-17 Publisher: Interactive Media Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: A piano tuner called Murkin, a close-shaven man with a yellow face, with a nose stained with snuff and cotton wool in his ears, came out of his hotel room into the passage. And looking at his frightened face one might have supposed that the ceiling had fallen in on him or that he had just seen a ghost in his room. 'Upon my word, Semyon!' he cried, seeing the attendant running towards him. 'What is the meaning of it? I am a rheumatic, delicate man and you make me go barefoot! Why is it you don't give me my boots all this time? Where are they?' Read in English, unabridged. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Marcovaldo Author: Italo Calvino, William Weaver - translator Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins Language: English Release date: 11-18-17 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Classics, European Literature Summary: Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams - but the results are never the expected ones. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com