RecentAudiobook
Cover of A Bell for Adano

A Bell for Adano

John Hersey

Narrated by David Green

Released
October 15, 2010
Length
8 hrs 33 mins
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Publisher
Recorded Books
Follow John Hersey View on Audible amazonapple
In John Hersey's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Bell for Adano, Major Victor Joppolo serves as the American civil affairs officer in a Sicilian town during World War II. Tasked with bringing democracy to a place that has long been deprived of choice, he learns that the townspeople yearn not just for governance, but for the restoration of their spirit symbolized by a lost bell. Amidst the challenges of military bureaucracy and the harsh realities of war, Joppolo's journey highlights the resilience of humanity and the pursuit of hope.
generalhistorical fictionliterary fictionmilitary fiction

RecentAudiobook tracks John Hersey and over 137,000 other authors for new releases.

Follow the authors you love and hear about every new audiobook the day it lands.

Get startedBrowse authors

Related audiobooks

Cover of A Bell for Adano

A Bell for Adano

John Hersey

Cover of The Wall

The Wall

John Hersey

Cover of The Big Secret of How

The Big Secret of How

David Green

Cover of It Was Never Just the Game

It Was Never Just the Game

David Green

Cover of East of Eden

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

Cover of Facing the Mountain (Adapted for Young Readers)

Facing the Mountain (Adapted for Young Readers)

Daniel James Brown

Cover of The 19th Century Classics Collection: 13 Stories From Tolstoy, Brontë, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Eliot, Verne, & Much More

The 19th Century Classics Collection: 13 Stories From Tolstoy, Brontë, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Eliot, Verne, & Much More

Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, H.G. Wells, Anne Brontë, Bram Stoker, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herbert George Wells

Cover of The Ultimate Classics Collection: 10 Novels From Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Austen, Tolstoy, Wells, Joyce, Brontë, & More

The Ultimate Classics Collection: 10 Novels From Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Austen, Tolstoy, Wells, Joyce, Brontë, & More

Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Mann, George Eliot, H.G. Wells, Herbert George Wells, F Scott Fitzgerald

Cover of The Ultimate Modern Classics Collection: Volume 2 - 23 Novels and Stories from E. M. Forster, William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, & Much More

The Ultimate Modern Classics Collection: Volume 2 - 23 Novels and Stories from E. M. Forster, William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, & Much More

James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Agatha Christie, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Somerset Maughm, William Faulkner, Dorothy L. Sayers, Willa Cather, E. F. Benson, James Weldon Johnson, E.F. Benson, F Scott Fitzgerald, William Somerset Maugham

Cover of The Top 10 Short Stories - The 20th Century - The American Women

The Top 10 Short Stories - The 20th Century - The American Women

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, L.M. Montgomery, Zona Gale, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Dorothy Parker, Alice Dunbar Nelson, L. M. Montgomery

Cover of Furies of Calderon

Furies of Calderon

Jim Butcher

Cover of The Indifferent Stars Above

The Indifferent Stars Above

Daniel James Brown