In 1937, Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight", For Whom the Bell Tolls.

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.

Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the complete works of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and five collections of short stories.

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

Nach dem Tod seiner Eltern kommt der mittellose dänische Adlige Malte Laurids Brigge um 1900 nach Paris, um sich dort als Dichter durchzuschlagen. Doch die Stadt seiner Träume erweist sich als Ort des Elends und der Hässlichkeit. Überwältigt vom Geruch der Armut schildert der 28-Jährige seine Eindrücke in Tagebucheinträgen voller Eindringlichkeit und Poesie. Rilkes Werk über Schicksal und Identität, Kunst und Gesellschaft gilt als erster großer Roman der literarischen Moderne.