Obtenez votre premier livre audio gratuitement
-
The Metamorphosis
- A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini, Victor Bevine, Christa Lewis
- Durée: 2 h et 33 min
- Catégories: Littérature et fiction, Classiques
Les clients qui ont acheté ceci ont aussi acheté...
-
Metamorphosis
- A BBC Radio 4 Reading
- Auteur(s): Franz Kafka
- Narrateur(s): Benedict Cumberbatch
- Durée: 1 h et 38 min
- Version abrégée
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Benedict Cumberbatch reads the enduring classic of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. He attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repelled by the horrible creature he has become. First published in 1915, Kafka's darkly comic novella explores concepts such as the absurdity of life, alienation and the disconnect between mind and body.
-
The Trial
- Auteur(s): Franz Kafka
- Narrateur(s): Geoffrey Howard
- Durée: 7 h et 46 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Joseph K. is an Everyman. His inconsequence makes doubly strange his arrest by an officer of the court, made with no formal charges or explanation. Disoriented and consumed with guilt for a "crime" he does not understand, Josef K. must justify his life to a "court" with which he cannot communicate. Through the court's relentless bureaucratic proceedings and absurd juxtapositions of different hypotheses of cause and effect, the whole rational structure of the world is undermined.
-
-
A great work of literature...But...
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-09-12
-
The Metamorphosis
- Auteur(s): Franz Kafka
- Narrateur(s): Deaver Brown
- Durée: 2 h et 18 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
The classic transformation story by Kafka. A man is transformed into a bug and how everyone deals with the situation from his mother and father, to his employer and paying boarders, and himself.
-
-
Awful audible
- Écrit par Ty-Ara le 2021-01-21
-
Slaughterhouse-Five
- Auteur(s): Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrateur(s): James Franco
- Durée: 5 h et 13 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
-
-
Weird But Enjoyable. Bad Narration
- Écrit par Langer le 2020-06-11
-
To the Lighthouse
- Auteur(s): Virginia Woolf
- Narrateur(s): Juliet Stevenson
- Durée: 7 h et 38 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
To the Lighthouse is a landmark work of English fiction. Virginia Woolf explores perception and meaning in some of the most beautiful prose ever written, minutely detailing the characters thoughts and impressions. This unabridged version is read by Juliet Stevenson.
-
The Canterbury Tales
- Penguin Classics
- Auteur(s): Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (Translation)
- Narrateur(s): Lesley Manville, Daniel Weyman, Derek Jacobi, Autres
- Durée: 16 h et 44 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.
-
Metamorphosis
- A BBC Radio 4 Reading
- Auteur(s): Franz Kafka
- Narrateur(s): Benedict Cumberbatch
- Durée: 1 h et 38 min
- Version abrégée
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Benedict Cumberbatch reads the enduring classic of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. He attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repelled by the horrible creature he has become. First published in 1915, Kafka's darkly comic novella explores concepts such as the absurdity of life, alienation and the disconnect between mind and body.
-
The Trial
- Auteur(s): Franz Kafka
- Narrateur(s): Geoffrey Howard
- Durée: 7 h et 46 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Joseph K. is an Everyman. His inconsequence makes doubly strange his arrest by an officer of the court, made with no formal charges or explanation. Disoriented and consumed with guilt for a "crime" he does not understand, Josef K. must justify his life to a "court" with which he cannot communicate. Through the court's relentless bureaucratic proceedings and absurd juxtapositions of different hypotheses of cause and effect, the whole rational structure of the world is undermined.
-
-
A great work of literature...But...
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-09-12
-
The Metamorphosis
- Auteur(s): Franz Kafka
- Narrateur(s): Deaver Brown
- Durée: 2 h et 18 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
The classic transformation story by Kafka. A man is transformed into a bug and how everyone deals with the situation from his mother and father, to his employer and paying boarders, and himself.
-
-
Awful audible
- Écrit par Ty-Ara le 2021-01-21
-
Slaughterhouse-Five
- Auteur(s): Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrateur(s): James Franco
- Durée: 5 h et 13 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
-
-
Weird But Enjoyable. Bad Narration
- Écrit par Langer le 2020-06-11
-
To the Lighthouse
- Auteur(s): Virginia Woolf
- Narrateur(s): Juliet Stevenson
- Durée: 7 h et 38 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
To the Lighthouse is a landmark work of English fiction. Virginia Woolf explores perception and meaning in some of the most beautiful prose ever written, minutely detailing the characters thoughts and impressions. This unabridged version is read by Juliet Stevenson.
-
The Canterbury Tales
- Penguin Classics
- Auteur(s): Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (Translation)
- Narrateur(s): Lesley Manville, Daniel Weyman, Derek Jacobi, Autres
- Durée: 16 h et 44 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.
-
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim (translator)
- Narrateur(s): Richmond Hoxie
- Durée: 9 h et 37 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals—while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel “the unbearable lightness of being."
-
-
one of my favorite books
- Écrit par Noah le 2019-01-18
-
The Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
- Auteur(s): The Great Courses, Kathleen M. Higgins, Robert C. Solomon
- Narrateur(s): Kathleen M. Higgins, Robert C. Solomon
- Durée: 12 h et 17 min
- Production originale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Who was Friedrich Nietzsche? This lonely and chronically ill, yet passionate, daring, and complex man is perhaps the most mysterious and least understood of all contemporary philosophers. Why are his brilliant insights so relevant for today? How did he become the most misinterpreted and unfairly maligned intellectual figure of the last two centuries?
-
-
A Will to Listen
- Écrit par brady le 2018-09-25
-
Buddenbrooks
- The Decline of a Family
- Auteur(s): Thomas Mann
- Narrateur(s): David Rintoul
- Durée: 26 h et 57 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
First published in 1900, when Thomas Mann was 25, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family - a work so true to life that it scandalized the author’s former neighbours in his native Lübeck.
-
-
A humanist masterpiece.
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-05-13
-
The Fall
- Auteur(s): Albert Camus
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini
- Durée: 3 h et 5 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.
-
The Old Man and the Sea
- Auteur(s): Ernest Hemingway
- Narrateur(s): Donald Sutherland
- Durée: 2 h et 28 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal, a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss.
-
-
Great book
- Écrit par Matt le 2020-05-27
-
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Auteur(s): Thomas Hardy
- Narrateur(s): Davina Porter
- Durée: 17 h et 6 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Tess Durbeyfield has become one of the most famous female protagonists in 19th-century British literature. Betrayed by the two men in her life - Alec D’Urberville, her seducer/rapist and father of her fated child; and Angel, her intellectual and pious husband - Tess takes justice, and her own destiny, into her delicate hands. In telling her desperate and passionate story, Hardy brings Tess to life with an extraordinary vividness that makes her live in the heart of the reader long after the novel is concluded.
-
Catch-22
- Auteur(s): Joseph Heller
- Narrateur(s): Jay O. Sanders
- Durée: 19 h et 58 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he's assigned, he'll be in violation of Catch-22.
-
-
Great book, tough as audiobook
- Écrit par Andrew S le 2018-02-15
-
The Second World War: Milestones to Disaster
- Auteur(s): Winston Churchill
- Narrateur(s): Christian Rodska
- Durée: 10 h et 42 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction.
-
-
Historical Treasure
- Écrit par Doug Glaum le 2020-01-30
-
The Bell Jar
- Auteur(s): Sylvia Plath
- Narrateur(s): Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Durée: 7 h et 24 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Read by the critically acclaimed actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship at a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women's aspirations seriously.
-
-
Wonderfully Read!
- Écrit par Sandi le 2020-02-13
-
Jane Eyre
- Auteur(s): Charlotte Bronte
- Narrateur(s): Thandie Newton
- Durée: 19 h et 10 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Following Jane from her childhood as an orphan in Northern England through her experience as a governess at Thornfield Hall, Charlotte Brontë's Gothic classic is an early exploration of women's independence in the mid-19th century and the pervasive societal challenges women had to endure. At Thornfield, Jane meets the complex and mysterious Mr. Rochester, with whom she shares a complicated relationship that ultimately forces her to reconcile the conflicting passions of romantic love and religious piety.
-
-
A Love Like Never Before ....
- Écrit par Margaretha le 2019-04-17
-
Ubik
- Auteur(s): Philip K. Dick
- Narrateur(s): Luke Daniels
- Durée: 7 h et 56 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business - deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in "half-life," a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter's face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time.
-
-
Reality Bending
- Écrit par Austin Fusilier le 2019-06-28
-
Crime and Punishment (Recorded Books Edition)
- Auteur(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrateur(s): George Guidall
- Durée: 25 h et 1 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is universally regarded as one of literature's finest achievements, as the great Russian novelist explores the inner workings of a troubled intellectual. Raskolnikov, a nihilistic young man in the midst of a spiritual crisis, makes the fateful decision to murder a cruel pawnbroker, justifying his actions by relying on science and reason, and creating his own morality system. Dehumanized yet sympathetic, exhausted yet hopeful, Raskolnikov represents the best and worst elements of modern intellectualism. The aftermath of his crime and Petrovich's murder investigation result in an utterly compelling, truly unforgettable cat-and-mouse game. This stunning dramatization of Dostoevsky's magnum opus brings the slums of St. Petersburg and the demons of Raskolnikov's tortured mind vividly to life.
-
-
Great story, amazing narrator
- Écrit par Christophe Hotte le 2018-12-19
Description
"This fine version, with David Cronenberg's inspired introduction and the new translator's beguiling afterword, is, I suspect, the most disturbing though the most comforting of all so far; others will follow, but don't hesitate: this is the transforming text for you." (Richard Howard)
Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury, while continuing to unsettle millions of readers.
In her new translation of Kafka's masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in this macabre tale, underscoring the ways in which Gregor Samsa's grotesque metamorphosis is just the physical manifestation of his longstanding spiritual impoverishment.
D'autres livres audio du même...
auteur:
narrateur:
Ce que les auditeurs disent de The Metamorphosis
Évaluations – Cliquez sur les onglets pour changer la source des évaluations.
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2020-10-08
Great listen!!
Interesting read / story. Well read, I enjoyed this one. Kafka is on point given our current world view.
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Lampros
- 2016-12-12
Excellent!
A beautiful fictional story, with a powerful metaphor that can bring tears to your eyes. Exceptional translation and narration. Highly recommended!
2 les gens ont trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Tad Davis
- 2015-05-02
Mysterious and beautiful
Edoardo Ballerini is a wonderful narrator, and this is a wonderful story.
Is it an allegory? What did Kafka mean by having Gregor Samsa turn overnight into a giant, repellent bug? (He certainly is repellent: some of the passages in this translation are very hard to listen to.) One possibility is a moral failing of some kind; another is a terrible wasting disease like cancer. And of course it's also possible that no allegory is intended, that Kafka simply wanted to put this family in an extreme situation so we could watch their reactions. And in fact, by the end, Gregor's family is every bit as metamorphosed as he is himself.
Whatever the "meaning," the story is a mysterious and beautiful one, and this audiobook is well worth the short time it takes to listen to it.
9 les gens ont trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Angel
- 2019-12-21
Engaging and poignant! ..A must for workaholics.
Narration was performed beautifully. It was easy to drift off and allow the novella to spur visuals via imagination.
1 personne a trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- David S. Mathew
- 2017-10-17
Sympathy for Insects
The Metamorphosis is possibly Kafka's most iconic work. It is the story of a man, the sole provider for his family, waking up to discover that he is now a giant bug. I wouldn't dare risk any spoilers for this, but if you've never experienced this story you are in for a real treat. Further, Edoardo Ballerini's narration really brings Gregor's plight to life. Very highly recommended!
1 personne a trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Ishay
- 2016-12-26
best of kafka
kafka at its best a joy to listen to recommended to anyone on a long ride or on a dreary winters morning
1 personne a trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Josh Morgan
- 2015-02-06
A wonderful experience.
The narration is wonderful. He didn't detract but, rather, he accompanied the tone of the author, I believe.
As for the story, personally I enjoyed The Stranger more than this experience. The artistry of Kaka's syntax made for an enjoyable read. But the former book had me raptured by the end. Maybe with some more growth in my part will make for a better experience the second time around.
My time spent was well worth it. This is the only translation I have read.
7 les gens ont trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Francisco Montas
- 2020-04-15
In My Top 10 Books Of All Time
I've always had a copy of this book in my library, but this version offers a better translation, an awesome intro by David Cronenberg and it's a great addition to a long time favorite book of mine.
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- JH
- 2020-02-03
Best Narrator Ever!
First and foremost Edoardo Ballerini is perhaps the best narrator I have ever heard. Perfect voice, perfect cadence and inflection. Just everything you want in a good narration was delivered. I will now search out all books with him as a narrator. Absolutely fantastic. The story was difficult for me. I felt bad for poor heir Samsa. Sad at the alienation from his family. Short but good book. Worth the few hours especially if you are looking for something quick.
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2020-01-26
Great for a Book Report
Good commentary from the translator and Cronenberg are included if you want book report stuff.
The voice is great for this classic piece, not over the top but with enough emotion.
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Equalismkitty
- 2019-10-03
Bleak, Humorous, Tragic--All the Best Stuff
Narration was solid. And the story ... it makes me want to learn German so I can more fully savor the nuance Kafka has embedded in his bleak fairy tale.