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Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for 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 Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Classics, European Literature Publisher's 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]

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Metamorphosis Subtitle: A BBC Radio 4 Reading 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 Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes Genres: Classics, European Literature Publisher's 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.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for 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 Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Classics, European Literature Publisher's 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.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for 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 Publisher's 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.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for 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 Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes Genres: Classics, European Literature Publisher's 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.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Possessed Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator Narrator: Constantine Gregory Format: Unabridged Length: 27 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 11-18-17 Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Classics, European Literature Publisher's Summary: Also known as Demons, The Possessed is a powerful socio-political novel about revolutionary ideas and the radicals behind them. It follows the career of Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky, a political terrorist who leads a group of nihilists on a demonic quest for societal breakdown. They are consumed by their desires and ideals, and have surrendered themselves fully to the darkness of their "demons". This possession leads them to engulf a quiet provincial town and subject it to a storm of violence. Inspired by a real political killing in 1869, the book is an impassioned response to the ideologies of European liberalism and nihilism, which threatened Russian Orthodoxy; it eerily predicted the Russian Revolution, which would take place 50 years later. Funny, shocking, and tragic, it is a profound and affecting work with deep philosophical discourses about God, human freedom and political revolution. Translation by Constance Garnett; appendix translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Aesop's Fables Author: Aesop Narrator: Heidi Gregory Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins Language: English Release date: 11-08-17 Publisher: Our Life Publishing Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Classics, European Literature Publisher's Summary: Aesop's Fables is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media. The fables originally belonged to the oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop's death. By that time a variety of other stories, jokes and proverbs were being ascribed to him, although some of that material was from sources earlier than him or came from beyond the Greek cultural sphere. The process of inclusion has continued until the present, with some of the fables unrecorded before the later Middle Ages and others arriving from outside Europe. The process is continuous and new stories are still being added to the Aesop corpus, even when they are demonstrably more recent work and sometimes from known authors.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Journey to the Center of the Earth (AmazonClassics Edition) Author: Jules Verne Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins Language: English Release date: 10-24-17 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes Genres: Classics, European Literature Publisher's Summary: A sixteenth-century cryptogram spurs modern geologist Otto Liedenbrock to embark on the most remarkable human quest ever taken. With his nephew and guide, he leads the descent from a dormant Icelandic volcano into the unexplored realm beneath their feet. There, a vast subterranean ocean, prehistoric creatures, and natural phenomena are but a few of the wonders hidden from all but the boldest eyes. Journey to the Center of the Earth epitomizes the subterranean fiction genre. Author Jules Verne leads listeners deep below the world's surface to the core of his inventive, visionary mind. AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to listen to a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature's most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Dracula Author: Bram Stoker Narrator: Greg Wise, Saskia Reeves Format: Unabridged Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins Language: English Release date: 10-03-17 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Classics, European Literature Publisher's Summary: Told in journal fragments that cannot provide any single perspective, Bram Stoker's masterpiece is at the same time intensely romantic and very modern. It unfolds the story of a Transylvanian Don Juan, the aristocratic vampire Count Dracula who preys on damsels, and the mission launched from a lunatic asylum to destroy him.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Crime and Punishment Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Narrator: Mark Nelson Format: Unabridged Length: 21 hrs and 50 mins Language: English Release date: 09-18-17 Publisher: Paperless Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Classics, European Literature Publisher's Summary: Crime and Punishment (Russian: " " translated "Prestupleniye i nakazaniye") is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in 12 monthly installments during 1866. Later, it was published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from five years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Four Arthurian Romances Author: Chrétien de Troyes Narrator: Nicholas Boulton Format: Unabridged Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins Language: English Release date: 09-11-17 Publisher: Ukemi Audiobooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Classics, European Literature Publisher's Summary: The Arthurian Romances by Chrétien de Troyes form the wellspring of the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Stories of knightly valour in the Welsh Marches had existed before the 12th century, but it was the magnificent poetry and imagination of Chrétien, the 12th century French poet and trouvère, which brought alive the great characters of Arthur, his wife Guinevere, Lancelot and others. In fact, it was here, in these romances, that the tale of Lancelot of the Lake and his fated love for Guinevere first made its appearance in European literature. And far from being trapped in formal medieval stanzas, their passion has come down to us in words that still resonate: 'From the moment he caught sight of her, he did not turn or take his eyes and face from her.' From these four romances emerge a chivalric Arthurian vision as vivid and human as the more familiar telling by Sir Thomas Malory three centuries later. The three other stories are equally rich and compelling, painting images of knightly ethics, courageous deeds and above all love, honour and service. Chrétien's telling is the outstanding Arthurian literary source, bringing together as it does the British plot, the characters and the adventures with a French courtly sensitivity. Though less known than Lancelot and Guinevere, the story of the trials leading to the love between Eric and Enide is just as memorable; in Cligès, the young hero travels between Greece and Arthur's court in order to win his spurs and his love; and in Yvain, the knight is helped by a faithful lion to achieve his aim. These Four Arthurian Romances are read with full commitment by Nicholas Boulton using the translation by W. W. Comfort.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Prince Subtitle: Strategy of Niccolo Machiavelli Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Narrator: Roberto Scarlato Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins Language: English Release date: 09-08-17 Publisher: Dreamtown Publishing Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 9 votes Genres: Classics, European Literature Publisher's Summary: The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence, a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici Pope Clement VII, but long before then, in fact since the first appearance of The Prince in manuscript, controversy had swirled about his writings". Although it was written as if it were a traditional work in the mirrors for princes style, it is generally agreed that it was especially innovative. This is only partly because it was written in the vernacular Italian rather than Latin, a practice which had become increasingly popular since the publication of Dante's Divine Comedy and other works of Renaissance literature. The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning politics and ethics. Although it is relatively short, the treatise is the most remembered of Machiavelli's works and the one most responsible for bringing the word "Machiavellian" into usage as a pejorative. It even contributed to the modern negative connotations of the words "politics" and "politician" in western countries. In terms of subject matter, it overlaps with the much longer Discourses on Livy, which was written a few years later. In its use of near-contemporary Italians as examples of people who perpetrated criminal deeds for politics, another lesser-known work by Machiavelli which The Prince has been compared to is The Life of Castruccio Castracani.

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://hotaudiobook.com Título: El conde de Montecristo [The Count of Monte Cristo] Autor: Alexander Dumas Narrador: Joan M Martinez Formato: Unabridged Duración: 45 hrs and 59 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 07-18-17 Editor: Sonolibro Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 34 votos Categorías: Classics, European Literature Resumen del editor: Ésta es sin duda, la novela de aventuras más famosa de la historia de la literatura. El joven Edmundo Dantés llega al puerto de Marsella, feliz por poder ver a Mercedes, de la que está enamorado. Pero otros pretendientes de Mercedes, van a hacerle la vida imposible, consiguiendo que el mismo día de la boda sea detenido, acusado de traición al rey y enviado directamente a la terrible prisión del castillo de If. Después de varios años de encierro y de padecimientos de todas clases, Edmundo conoce a otro preso, el abate Faria con el que entabla una gran amistad. Faria se convierte en su tutor, y cuando es esta punto de morir, da razón a Edmundo de un increíble tesoro escondido en la isla de Montecristo.Una vez que éste consigue escapar, del castillo de If, se jura asimismo que se vengará de todos aquellos que le han hecho perder la tercera parte de su vida en prisión. Esta, es la versión original de la obra, con un total de 46 horas de grabación, que se hacen extremadamente agradables de escuchar gracias al buen hacer del narrador de la misma y a la música y efectos introducidos en posproducción. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://hotaudiobook.com Título: Don Quijote de la Mancha Autor: Miguel de Cervantes Narrador: Eladio Ramos, Jesús Ramos Formato: Unabridged Duración: 37 hrs and 50 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 06-15-17 Editor: Audiomol Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 8 votos Categorías: Classics, European Literature Resumen del editor: Tras saber que el Turco baja por la costa con una peligrosa armada, Don Alonso Quijano, el caballero don Quijote de la Mancha, saldrá, una vez más, y con la oposición de su sobrina y de su ama, a una nueva batalla que empezará en la Mancha y terminará en. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Écoutez ce livre audio dans son intégralité gratuitement sur https://hotaudiobook.com Titre: Du côté de chez Swann ("À la recherche du temps perdu" lu par de grands acteurs 1) Auteur: Marcel Proust Narrateur: André Dussollier, Lambert Wilson Format: Unabridged Durée: 17 hrs and 25 mins Langue: Français Date de publication: 05-24-17 Éditeur: Éditions Thélème Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 2 votes Genres: Classics, European Literature Résumé de l'éditeur: Du côté de chez Swann est à la fois l'ouverture de toute l'œuvre, et un roman complet, pourvu d'une conclusion, certes provisoire, mais dont la désillusion peut paraître, à qui ne lirait pas plus loin, le dernier mot de La recherche. Cet audio est accompagné d'un document annexe se trouvant dans votre bibliothèque après achat. © domaine public (P)1994 Éditions Thélème