Search results for “George Saunders”

Lincoln in the Bardo

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders, Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, ...

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE AUDIE AWARD FOR AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR  1�7 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  1�7 WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

The “devastatingly moving 1�7 (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters,... Read more

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman...

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.

For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA... Read more

Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders, Tina Fey, Michael McKean, Edi ...

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

MacArthur "genius" and Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of December

The “best short story writer in English 1�7 (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores... Read more

Fox 8

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world.

Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regarded with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until Fox 8... Read more

The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Gappers will get your goat. Literally. If you don't brush them off and return them to the ocean, whence they arrive every day, these bright orange, many-eyed creatures will cover your goats, and the goats will stop giving milk.

In a village called Frip, goat's milk was the entire economy. Three families lived there--the Romos, the Ronsens, and a... Read more

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

In a profoundly strange country called Inner Horner, large enough for only one resident at a time, citizens waiting to enter the country fall under... Read more

Pastoralia

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning collection including the story "Sea Oak," from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "graceful, dark, authentic, and funny," George Saunders gives us, in... Read more

The Braindead Megaphone

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"--not to mention an official "Genius"--his first nonfiction collection ever.

George Saunders's... Read more

Tenth of December

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From the undisputed master of the short story comes a dazzling and disturbing new collection.
A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Divisional Director Todd Birnie sends round a memo to employees he thinks need some inspiration; and in an auction of local celebrities Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue... Read more

The Marquise

By: George Sand

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

George Sand was the pseudonym of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin (1804-1876), and was a much admired French novelist and memoirist. She is equally well known for her much-publicized romantic affairs with a number of celebrities including Frédéric Chopin and Alfred de Musset. It was the way Sand turned her own love affairs into novels and stories... Read more

Memoirs of a Professional Cad

By: George Sanders

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

What might we dare to expect from an actor's autobiography, even one from a star as personable as George Sanders? In the case of Memoirs of A Professional Cad, we possibly get more than we deserve. George Sanders undoubtedly led a colorful, glamorous, and even action-packed life, spanning the peak years of Hollywood's golden age. But the... Read more

Correspondances

By: Alfred de Musset & George Sand

Narrated by: Mélodie Richard & Pierre-François Garel

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Ne crois pas, ne crois pas, Alfred, que je puisse être heureuse avec la pensée d'avoir perdu ton coeur. Que j'aie été ta maîtresse ou ta mère, peu importe. Que je t'aie inspiré de l'amour ou de l'amitié ; que j'aie été heureuse ou malheureuse avec toi, tout cela ne change rien à l'état de mon âme à présent. Je sais que je t'aime et c'est tout.... Read more

Tenth of December

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  1�7 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST  1�7 NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE  1�7 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY AND BUZZFEED  1�7 NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

NAMED ONE... Read more

Congratulations, by the way

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •„1�7b>This inspiring meditation on kindness from the author of Lincoln in the Bardo is based on his popular commencement address.

Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting... Read more

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders & Joshua Ferris

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world.... Read more

In Persuasion Nation

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

Talking candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs, interned teenagers, and moral fables—all in this hilarious and heartbreaking... Read more

Consuelo (UNABRIDGED)

By: George SAND

Narrated by: Gabriela Rice, Davis Cunningham, Shirley Redfie...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This roman à clef follows the musical adventures of Consuelo, a gifted singer under the tutelage of the composer Nicola Porpora. After encountering betrayal in her home city of Venice, she goes to stay with a family of nobles in an isolated castle in Bohemia and teach singing to the baroness who lives there. It is there that she meets Count... Read more

Antonia (UNABRIDGED)

By: George SAND

Narrated by: Michael Washing, Jeanine Jones, Ryan Steele & G...

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Will love conquer all? An entertaining novel of growth in light of societal pressures of propriety, finance and inheritance of 19th century France. Intriguing events and turns of phrase abound. Read more

Mauprat (UNABRIDGED)

By: George SAND

Narrated by: Cora Springer, George James, Christopher Mckitt...

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Bernard Mauprat was raised by lawless brigands and knows no other way of life until age 17. Then everything changes for him when his cousin Edmee is taken hostage in the castle where he lives. After helping her escape, he goes to live with his uncle and is offered the opportunity of an education. He has fallen hopelessly in love with Edmee, but... Read more

The Bagpipers

By: George Sand

Narrated by: Peter Tucker

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This is one of George Sand's late great rural novels, dealing with life among the provincial poor, where customs were already changing when she wrote it. Read more

The Devil's Pool

By: George Sand

Narrated by: J. M. Smallheer

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

With his wife dead and three young children to raise, ploughman Germaine decides that the time has come to marry again. He embarks on a journey to meet a rich widow, Catherine Leonard, in a match that has been approved by his father-in-law; however, he finds her proud and vain and surrounded by other suitors. Germaine prefers the company of... Read more

Indiana

By: George Sand

Narrated by: Mary Herndon Bell

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The first novel that George Sand wrote without a collaborator, this is not only a vivid romance, but also an impassioned plea for change in the inequitable French marriage laws of the time, and for a new view of women. It tells the story of a beautiful and innocent young woman, married at sixteen to a much older man. She falls in love with her... Read more

La Mare au diable

By: George Sand

Narrated by: Ezwa

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Le père Maurice conseille à son beau-fils, Germain, veuf de 28 ans, de se remarier avec une veuve d'un village voisin. Lors du trajet pour aller la rencontrer, Germain se perd dans une forêt et trouve un endroit où se poser pour la nuit, la " Mare au diable ", avec son fils, le petit Pierre, et Marie, une jeune fille de 16 ans douce et belle qui... Read more

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: BD Wong, George Saunders, Glenn Close, Keith Da...

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders, read by George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, BD Wong and Renée Elise Goldsberry.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD AS... Read more