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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Marguerite Gautier is the most sought-after courtesan in Paris, kept in flowers and opera boxes by a rotating cast of wealthy admirers, and dying, slowly and in plain sight, of consumption. Armand Duval is a young man of modest means who has loved her...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Twenty of Voltaire's tales, dialogues and satires, each aimed at a different piece of received wisdom. It opens with three of the best known. In The World as It Goes, a young Scythian is dispatched by his tutor to observe the great city of Persepolis...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. An unnamed young writer walks the streets of Kristiania with nothing to eat. He pawns his waistcoat, then his blanket, chews wood shavings, and composes brilliant sentences in his head that he cannot sell. When money comes he gives it away. When help is...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Edmond Dantès is nineteen, about to be made captain of his own ship, and days from marrying the woman he loves, when three men who each have something to gain from his ruin — a rival for his fiancée, a jealous shipmate, and an ambitious prosecutor...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Candide grows up in the castle of a Westphalian baron, tutored by the philosopher Pangloss in the doctrine that this is the best of all possible worlds and every disaster in it serves some invisible good. He believes this completely, right up until he...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Rémi is eight years old when he learns that the woman he calls Mother found him abandoned as a baby, wrapped in fine linen, on a Paris street. Her husband, back from years away and crippled by an accident, sells the boy to a travelling showman for...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Paris, 1482. On the day of the Feast of Fools, the crowd crowns the ugliest face in the city: Quasimodo, the deaf, half-blind bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, abandoned as an infant and raised inside the cathedral by the archdeacon Claude Frollo. In the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The battle for AI supremacy that began with ChatGPT is being fought by a surprisingly small cast of people. Sam Altman, the Stanford dropout who became Silicon Valley's kingmaker and survived a five-day boardroom coup. Dario Amodei, the leather...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a narrow old house in Hamburg, the brilliant and impatient Professor Otto Lidenbrock finds a scrap of parchment hidden in a rare Icelandic saga. Written in runes and in code, it is a message from Arne Saknussemm, a sixteenth-century alchemist, who...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The whole of Hugo's novel in one edition — all five volumes, unabridged, from the bishop's candlesticks to the last word spoken in the Rue de l'Homme-Armé. Jean Valjean serves nineteen years for a stolen loaf and comes out with a yellow passport that...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Perrine is thirteen when her father dies in Paris and her mother, gravely ill, sets out with her on a donkey cart toward the north of France — toward the family that disowned her father for marrying an Indian woman. The mother dies on the road. The...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Hugo's last novel returns to the year the Revolution turned on itself. In 1793, with the king executed and France at war with most of Europe, the royalist peasants of the Vendée rise against the Republic, and three men are set against one another: the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The book in which Nietzsche wrote "God is dead" — and, four hundred aphorisms later, first posed the eternal recurrence: what if a demon told you that you must live this life again and again, unchanged, forever? Would you curse him, or call him a god?...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Thérèse is married off to her sickly cousin Camille and installed behind the counter of a dim haberdashery in a covered Paris arcade, where the days pass in silence broken only by the Thursday domino games. Then Camille brings home a friend from work...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Long before In Search of Lost Time, the young Marcel Proust published a single volume of stories, sketches, prose poems and verse. Pleasures and Days appeared in 1896, handsomely illustrated and prefaced by Anatole France, and it already holds the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Milton's sequel to Paradise Lost, published in 1671, takes as its subject not the fall of man but the refusal to fall. Its action is the temptation in the wilderness: Satan, defeated in the earlier poem but undeterred, approaches the Son of God during...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A man lies awake remembering. Then, decades later, he tastes a madeleine dipped in tea and the whole vanished world of his childhood at Combray rises up complete — the garden, the church steeple, the two walks, the agony of waiting for his mother's...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. He robs only those who deserve it, returns what has sentimental value, signs his thefts, and warns his victims in advance. He is a master of disguise, an escape artist, and an incorrigible show-off — and when Maurice Leblanc introduced him in 1905...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. At a small pension on the Riviera, ten years before the war, the guests are scandalised: Madame Henriette, a respectable married woman, has run off with a young Frenchman she met only the day before. Around the dinner table the argument turns ugly, and...

Step into a hidden world where gentle kindness heals the magic of the nightSome secrets are meant to be found when the moon is high, and the world is quiet. When ten-year-old Luna discovers an ornate silver key hidden in her family's attic, she never expects it to pulse with a light that matches...