Classic Noir Fiction
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Mildred Pierce
- By: James M. Cain
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.
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Great book well read
- By S Martin on 10-03-22
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Mildred Pierce
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 28-03-07
- Language: English
- Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination....
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USA Noir
- By: Johnny Temple - editor
- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury, James Colby, L. J. Gallo, and others
- Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books has published over 60 volumes in its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Featuring Noir Series stories from: Dennis Lehane, Don Winslow, Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, Susan Straight, Jonathan Safran Foer, Laura Lippman, Pete Hamill, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Terrance Hayes, and more.
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An anthology that lasts… and delivers stone cold excellence
- By Christopher Warren on 12-11-24
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USA Noir
- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury, James Colby, L. J. Gallo, Korey Jackson, Jennifer Kidwell
- Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 14-01-14
- Language: English
- Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books has published over 60 volumes in its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies....
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Le rouge et le noir
- By: Stendhal
- Narrated by: Michel Vuillermoz
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Abridged
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Overall13
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Performance10
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Story10
Publié en 1830, "Le rouge et le noir" est un monument de la littérature française. Roman réaliste où l'ambition côtoie la cruauté d'une jeunesse inconsciente. Julien Sorel, fil de charpentier, veut gravir les échelon de la société,pour cela deux carrières s'offrent à lui : le clergé ou le militaire ; c'est finalement par les femmes que Julien parviendra à ses fins.
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Glitchy playback
- By TeamPalmer on 04-02-22
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Le rouge et le noir
- Narrated by: Michel Vuillermoz
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 12-08-16
- Language: French
- Publié en 1830, "Le rouge et le noir" est un monument de la littérature française. Roman réaliste où l'ambition côtoie la cruauté...
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The Philosophy of Film Noir
- The Philosophy of Popular Culture
- By: Mark T. Conard
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Noir emerged as a prominent American film genre in the early 1940s, distinguishable by its use of unusual lighting, sinister plots, mysterious characters, and dark themes. From The Maltese Falcon (1941) to Touch of Evil (1958), films from this classic period reflect an atmosphere of corruption and social decay that attracted such accomplished directors as John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles.
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Film Noir : Genre Or Style ?
- By Stephen Gott on 28-01-20
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The Philosophy of Film Noir
- The Philosophy of Popular Culture
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-02-15
- Language: English
- Noir emerged as a prominent American film genre in the early 1940s, distinguishable by its use of unusual lighting, sinister plots, mysterious characters, and dark themes....
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Le Rouge et le Noir
- Narrated by: Yvan Le Bolloc'h
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-10-11
- Language: French
- "Le Rouge et le Noir", publié en 1830, est le premier grand roman de Stendhal...
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Classic Thrillers
- Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- By: Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley
- Narrated by: Brian Cox, Heathcote Williams, Full Cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Abridged
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Overall11
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Performance6
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Story6
For a century Bram Stoker's Dracula has reigned supreme as the undisputed masterpiece of horror writing. We have all grown up under the shadow of the elegant Count, at once an attractive, brutal and erotic creature of the night. The gothic tale of Frankenstein and his construction of a human being which runs amok, has, with the help of numerous films, become one of the most vivid horror stories.
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Very disappointing.
- By Mrs E. on 28-05-20
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Classic Thrillers
- Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Narrated by: Brian Cox, Heathcote Williams, Full Cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 26-12-04
- Language: English
- Take delight in two of the most retold and famous horror stories of all time....
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La Tulipe noire
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Mathurin Voltz
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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"La Tulipe noire" est un des romans les plus connus d'Alexandre Dumas. On y trouve tous les thèmes chers à l'auteur : l'aventure, le courage, la grande histoire qui se mêle à la petite... Pourtant ici, Cornélius van Baerle n'a pas d'ambition militaire ou sociale, il veut avant tout créer et faire pousser une tulipe noire. Hélas, ses projets seront contrariés car notre héros n'est autre que le neveu du chef de l'État hollandais, Corneille de Witt, qui vient d'être renversé.
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La Tulipe noire
- Narrated by: Mathurin Voltz
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 12-07-16
- Language: French
- "La Tulipe noire" est un des romans les plus connus d'Alexandre Dumas. On y trouve tous les thèmes chers à l'auteur...
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Heart of Darkness
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Charles Marlow is a steamboat captain on the River Thames near Gravesend, England. He and his crew work for an ivory trading company. One day he recounts to his fellow crew the story of his life and how he became a captain for the steamboat company. The focus of his story involves the journey Marlow undertook to the outer reaches of the company's operations. Here he tells of his wild encounters with Mr. Kurtz, a man with a great reputation for bringing in the most ivory for the company.
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Heart of Darkness
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 23-02-16
- Language: English
- Charles Marlow is a steamboat captain on the River Thames near Gravesend, England. He and his crew work for an ivory trading company. One day he recounts to his fellow crew the story of his life....
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La dame en noir 2
- By: Emile Richebourg
- Narrated by: Emmanuelle Lemée
- Length: 25 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Nous retrouvons la Dame en noir 20 ans plus tard, toujours seule et cachée du monde. Son fils André a été élevé dans la Maison maternelle avec un orphelin devenu son frère d'adoption Edouard. André fait carrière dans l'administration tandis qu'Edouard essaye désespérément de devenir un peintre reconnu. Mais un sombre personnage revient en France: le comte de Simiane.
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La dame en noir 2
- Narrated by: Emmanuelle Lemée
- Length: 25 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 29-09-20
- Language: French
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Nous retrouvons la Dame en noir 20 ans plus tard, toujours seule et cachée du monde. Son fils André a été élevé dans la Maison maternelle avec...
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La dame en noir 1
- By: Emile Richebourg
- Narrated by: Emmanuelle Lemée
- Length: 29 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Venu à Paris après avoir recueilli l'immense fortune que lui a léguée son père, le jeune André Clavière est mortellement blessé dans un duel avec le baron de Simiane, ami du comte de Rosamont. Le comte a, sous le nom de Lucien Gervois, séduit Marie Sorel, amie d'enfance d'André Clavière. Marie va être mère quand Maxime de Rosamont l'abandonne pour épouser Mlle Louise de Noyon. Mais celui-ci ignore la situation de sa maîtresse.
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La dame en noir 1
- Narrated by: Emmanuelle Lemée
- Length: 29 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 29-09-20
- Language: French
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Venu à Paris après avoir recueilli l'immense fortune que lui a léguée son père, le jeune André Clavière est mortellement blessé...
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Les indes noires
- Voyages Extraordinaires
- Narrated by: Renaud Duhesdin
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-06-11
- Language: French
- Dans les houillères épuisées d'Aberfoyle en Ecosse, ne vivent plus que le vieux contremaître Simon Ford, sa femme et son fils.
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Le Chat Noir
- Annotated by Paul Viandox
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Gancho Jérôme
- Length: 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Le Chat noir (The Black Cat), publié en 1843, est une autre des nouvelles emblématiques d'Edgar Allan Poe. Comme dans Le Cœur révélateur, cette histoire plonge dans les thèmes de la folie, de la culpabilité et de la violence, tout en explorant les conséquences de l'alcoolisme et du mal-être psychologique. C’est un récit d’horreur qui examine la dégradation d’un homme sous l’influence de ses obsessions et de ses vices.
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Le Chat Noir
- Annotated by Paul Viandox
- Narrated by: Gancho Jérôme
- Length: 29 mins
- Release date: 13-03-25
- Language: French
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Le Chat noir (The Black Cat), publié en 1843, est une autre des nouvelles emblématiques d'Edgar Allan Poe.
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Black
- A Classic Hard-Boiled Tale from the Original Black Mask
- By: Paul Cain
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald, Christine Williams, Malcolm Hillgartner, and others
- Length: 26 mins
- Unabridged
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A big-city tough guy comes to a small Minnesota town to settle a deadly fight between the local crime boss and his chief rival - his son.
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Great Listen for Hard-Boiled Fans
- By Rima Deford on 01-12-13
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Black
- A Classic Hard-Boiled Tale from the Original Black Mask
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald, Christine Williams, Malcolm Hillgartner, Grover Gardner, Burt Ross
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 02-05-08
- Language: English
- A big-city tough guy comes to a small Minnesota town to settle a deadly fight between the local crime boss and his chief rival - his son....
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Le Moine noir
- By: Anton Tchekhov
- Narrated by: Christian Baltauss
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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"Nulle part ailleurs André n'avait vu des roses, des lis, des camélias aussi merveilleux, ni des tulipes aussi diverses de couleurs, depuis les blanches comme du lait jusqu'aux noires comme du charbon ; jamais il n'eût imaginé une telle opulence florale. Le printemps commençait à peine, et les vrais trésors du jardin étaient encore abrités dans les serres chaudes ; mais les plantes qu'on voyait fleurir le long des allées et dans les plates-bandes suffisaient pour transporter le promeneur dans un royaume de couleurs tendres, surtout aux heures matinales où chaque pétale étincelle de rosée."
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Le Moine noir
- Narrated by: Christian Baltauss
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-12-21
- Language: French
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"Nulle part ailleurs André n'avait vu des roses, des lis, des camélias aussi merveilleux, ni des tulipes aussi diverses de couleurs, depuis..."
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Le chat noir et autres nouvelles
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Jacques Bonnaffé
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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"Le chat noir", "Le masque de la mort rouge" et "Le portrait ovale" : trois nouvelles, qui tiennent l'auditeur en haleine et posent de façon magistrale l'univers noir de ce maître du suspens que fut Edgar Allan Poe. Avant de mourir, un meurtrier rédige sa confession : un chat noir l'a amené à l'échafaud ; une forme spectrale sème la terreur dans une salle de bal ; dans une veille demeure, un homme est emporté par la contemplation d'un portrait énigmatique.
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Le chat noir et autres nouvelles
- Narrated by: Jacques Bonnaffé
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Release date: 02-06-15
- Language: French
- "Le chat noir", "Le masque de la mort rouge" et "Le portrait ovale" : trois nouvelles, qui tiennent l'auditeur en haleine...
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La Perle Noire [The Black Pearl]
- By: Victorien Sardou
- Narrated by: Etombé Edembe
- Length: 32 mins
- Unabridged
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La Perle Noire de Victorien Sardou est une œuvre captivante qui mêle mystère, romance et drame dans un décor somptueux de l'Europe du XIXe siècle. Ce récit enchanteur tourne autour d'une perle noire mystérieuse, un symbole de richesse et de secrets cachés, qui devient le pivot d'intrigues complexes et de relations tumultueuses. À travers des personnages profondément humains et des rebondissements inattendus, Sardou explore des thèmes intemporels tels que la cupidité, l’amour et la quête de vérité.
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La Perle Noire [The Black Pearl]
- Narrated by: Etombé Edembe
- Length: 32 mins
- Release date: 23-01-25
- Language: English
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La Perle Noire de Victorien Sardou est une œuvre captivante qui mêle mystère, romance et drame dans un décor somptueux de l'Europe du XIXe siècle.
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Le Chat noir
- Narrated by: Alain Couchot
- Length: 31 mins
- Release date: 22-05-14
- Language: French
- Le Chat noir relate l'implacable chute d'un homme. C'est l'une des nouvelles qui ont assuré la célébrité d'Edgar Poe, et ont décidé Charles Baudelaire...
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The Tête Noire
- By: Charles Allston Collins
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Charles Allston Collins (1828-1873) was the younger brother of the novelist Wilkie Collins, and was married to Charles Dickens's daughter Kate. He is well known both as a painter and a novelist. In The Tête Noire, he describes a racy tale of a commercial traveler and his dog who stayed at a most disreputable French coaching inn, whose landlord would appear to be a cunning criminal, and his young daughter just as wicked.
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The Tête Noire
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 43 mins
- Release date: 05-06-14
- Language: English
- Charles Allston Collins (1828-1873) was the younger brother of the novelist Wilkie Collins, and was married to Charles Dickens's daughter Kate....
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Rough Justice: A Classic Hard-Boiled Tale from the Original Black Mask
- By: Frederick Nebel
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner, Anthony Heald, Tom Weiner, and others
- Length: 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A Manhattan gumshoe pursues a convict to St. Louis, where he gets mixed up in a cop killing and nearly loses his own life at the hands of a B girl.
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Rough Justice: A Classic Hard-Boiled Tale from the Original Black Mask
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner, Anthony Heald, Tom Weiner, Grover Gardner, Bill Hughes, Christine Williams, Burt Ross
- Length: 29 mins
- Release date: 05-05-08
- Language: English
- Mississippi heat....A Manhattan gumshoe pursues a convict to St. Louis....
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