Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Clásicos

Narrator Dan Stevens ( Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.

Written at the request of Charles Dickens, North and South is a book about rebellion that poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. Gaskell expertly blends individual feeling with social concern and her heroine, Margaret Hale, is one of the most original creations of Victorian literature. When Margaret Hale's father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience she is forced to leave her comfortable home in the tranquil countryside of Hampshire....

Fantasy, love and an exuberant celebration of English life and literature, Orlando is a uniquely entertaining story. Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to the family of her friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando's central character, a fictional embodiment of Sackville-West, changes sex from a man to a woman and lives throughout the centuries, whilst meeting historical figures of English literature.

A sus dieciocho años, Aloma es una joven solitaria y soñadora. Cuando su cuñado, Robert, llega de América para establecerse en la casa familiar de Barcelona por un tiempo, se verá sorprendida por sentimientos tan contradictorios como desconocidos para ella. Es esta una historia de amor desgraciado, la historia del fracaso de una relación compleja en un ambiente familiar desgastado, narrada a través de componentes líricos y simbólicos alrededor de la condición humana más profunda. Porque Aloma, desengañada y triste, deberá abandonar sus ideales adolescentes y aprender a plantar cara a la vida.

"If it were I who were to be always young and the picture to grow old, I would give my soul for it." So says Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's brilliant creation who sells his soul for youth and beauty.

Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.

Countess Ellen Olenska, separated from her European husband, returns to old New York society. She bears with her an independence and an awareness of life which stirs the educated sensitivity of the charming Newland Archer, engaged to be married to her cousin, May Welland. Though he accepts the society's standards and rules he is acutely aware of their limitations. He knows May will assure him a conventional future but Ellen, scandalously separated from her husband, forces Archer to question his values and beliefs.

Myles y sus compañeros no han conseguido recuperar la caja misteriosa, un jerarca nazi la ha transportado a Berlín. Tras su regreso a Londres comprobarán que los alemanes están intentando fabricar una máquina del tiempo. Con la ayuda de Albert Einstein intentarán descubrir la posibilidad de viajar en el tiempo. Myles tendrá que escapar del corazón mismo del Tercer Reich y averiguar que planean los nazis, para ello tendrán que enfrentarse al temible Franz Althein y viajar al pasado.

War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death. Allow yourself to get lost in the lives of three Russian aristocratic families, whose triumphs and challenges are every bit as resonant to today’s listener as they were to original readers. Thandiwe Newton inhabits each character with such flair that it is easy to forget that you are listening to one voice.

When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which leads him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak, and friendship and betrayal.

Paradise Lost — Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light. British poet and polemicist John Milton (December 9, 1608–November 8, 1674) is best known for his epic poem, Paradise Lost. Almost 11,000 lines long, Paradise Lost was published in 10 books in 1667 and then in 12 books in 1674. In the poem, Milton chronicles the downfall of Adam and Eve, the confrontation between the Son of God and Satan, and the redemption of mankind through the Son's supreme act of sacrifice.

Una autèntica obra mestra de la narrativa curta contemporània. La vetllada nadalenca a casa de les senyoretes Morkan és l'esdeveniment anual per excel·lència. La llar s'omple de riures, música i ball per al gaudi de convidats i amfitriones. Però també del sord silenci dels que ja no hi són. La memòria dels que se n'han anat portarà els personatges d'aquesta història a recórrer camins que s'havien oblidat.

Admunsen, el alter ego del propio Vázquez Montalbán y protagonista de la novela, es un joven intelectual frustrado entre las demandas alienantes de la sociedad de consumo, la realización personal y la concienciación política. Tras pasar un par de años en la cárcel, su vida transcurre en una serie de intentos fallidos de desarrollarse como escritor, reconstruir su relación de pareja y de evitar las presiones por integrarse en el sistema, hasta que, desencantado, tendrá que decidir si implicarse en la causa o renunciar a sus principios y poner en peligro su integridad moral.

A Signature Performance: Kenneth Branagh plays this like a campfire ghost story, told by a haunted, slightly insane Marlow.

Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down.

匂宮は宇治へ行き、薫と偽って浮舟と契りを交わす。浮舟は匂宮の情熱に惹かれるが、二人の関係が薫に知られ、入水を決意する。浮舟の愛と性愛、その結末とは…。「浮舟」から「夢浮橋」まで収録の完結巻。

Fue en un apartamento lúgubre de Vanves, durante su exilio francés, donde Tsvietáieva escribió el presente texto, que relata el encuentro de la pequeña Marina con el diablo en la habitación de su hermana, donde se refugiaba para leer libros prohibidos. Con una prosa burlona, ora exaltada, ora gélida, pero siempre hechizante, la poeta relata el despertar de su fascinación por las palabras, encarnadas en la figura del diablo, que su implacable mirada transforma en una criatura tan temible como seductora.

Ambientada en la vida agreste y salvaje de una frontera que trasciende su mero carácter físico para convertirse en encarnación del conflicto entre la naturaleza y un ser humano alienado de ella, Colmillo blanco es una de las obras más célebres de Jack London (1872-1916).

The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.

"Parecía de seda y otros cuentos (1978)" acerca al lector una recopilación de cuentos de Mercè Rodoreda, reconocida novelista que demuestra ser también una excelente cuentista. La recopilación, con cuentos de épocas muy diversas, ofrece la posibilidad de seguir de cerca la escritura de la autora, a lo largo de unos relatos de gran fuerza expresiva. Los cuentos utilizan técnicas diferentes, desde la objetiva hasta la más intimista e incluso fantástica.