The opening of The Institute by Stephen King, read by Nathaniel. Try the other narrators below, then drop your own copy and hear the whole book.
Narrated by
Nathaniel
Gravelly male voice, with a time-worn quality
In the middle of the night, on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV.
The operation takes less than two minutes.
About this sample
Stephen King’s two-minute abduction is reported like a news item. Nathaniel’s gravel gives it the weight of a story told after the fact.
This is exactly what you hear in the app. Every narrator above is ready for your own books, along with the rest of our 265 narrators in 42 languages.
Hear all of The Institute
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Get a DRM-free ebook of The Institute. Our guide to DRM-free ebooks shows where to look.
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Drop the file above. Chapters are found and the front matter is skipped, so you start at chapter one.
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Pick Nathaniel or any other narrator and press play. Narration starts in seconds and your place syncs across the web, iPhone and iPad, and Mac (Windows coming soon).
Your copy, your audiobook
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