The Iliad
By: Homer & Caroline Alexander
Narrated by: Dominic Keating
Length: 19 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homerās timeless epic of the Trojan WarComposed around 730 B.C., Homerās Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion.... Read more
View audiobookThe Secret Garden
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrated by: Tamaryn Payne
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Told in the beautiful and charming words of Frances Hodgson Burnett, this classic childrenās tale of redemption and transformation is full of so many priceless lessons. Ā After losing both of her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from the lively and bustling world of India to the cold and secretive manor of an aloof relative in England.Ā On her... Read more
View audiobookThe Grapes of Wrath
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
Length: 21 hours
Abridged: No
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'... Read more
View audiobookRebecca
By: Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by: Anna Massey
Length: 14 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The classic Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier -- winner of the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century -- is now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Armie Hammer.Ā
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .
The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and... Read more
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Miss Marple: The Complete Story Collection gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christieās short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple. Itās an unparalleled compendium of murder, mayhem, mystery, and detection that represents some of the finest short form fiction in the crime fiction field, and is... Read more
View audiobookThe Outsiders
By: S. E. Hinton
Narrated by: Jim Fyfe
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
50 years of an iconic classic!Ā This international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie is aĀ heroic story of friendship and belonging.
No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his... Read more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Unabridged)
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In the sequel to Tom Sawyer, his sidekick Huckleberry Finn takes centre stage. Innocent and well-intentioned, Huck is brought face to face with the reality of slavery in the southern states as he helps his friend Jim escape to freedom. Read more
View audiobookLittle Women
By: Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by: Susie Berneis
Length: 19 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Based loosely on Louisa May Alcott's own upbringing, Little Women follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March. Each girl has a vision of what their ideal future will bring, though ultimately experiencing, as most young do, something completely different. Little Women, originally written as two volumes, was a great commercial... Read more
View audiobookA Canticle for Leibowitz
By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Millerās A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literatureāa chilling and still-provocative look at a postapocalyptic future.In a nightmarish, ruined... Read more
View audiobookGravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 37 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award,Ā Gravity's RainbowĀ is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce'sĀ UlyssesĀ was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
For more... Read more
Lord of the Flies
By: William Golding
Narrated by: William Golding
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and riveting works in modern fiction. The tale begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys, aged six to twelve on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive and impose order quickly evolves from a battle... Read more
View audiobookFoundation and Empire
By: Isaac Asimov
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The second novel in Isaac Asimovās classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series
Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science andĀ technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empireāthe... Read more
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
By: Ken Kesey
Narrated by: John C. Reilly
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Ken Kesey's searing American classic. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity on their heads, the novel tells the unforgettable story of a mental... Read more
View audiobookThe Other Wind
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. The dead are pulling him to them at night. Through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea. Alder seeks advice from Ged, once Archmage. Ged tells him to go to Tenar, Tehanu, and the young king at Havnor. They are joined by amber-eyed Irian, a fierce dragon able to assume the shape of a woman. The threat... Read more
View audiobookThe Old Man and the Sea
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Donald Sutherland
Length: 2 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
2007 Audie Award Finalist for Solo NarrationāMale
*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize*
āA beautiful tale, awash in the seasalt and sweat, bait and beer of the Havana coast. It tells a fundamental human truth: in a volatile world, from our first breath to our last wish, through triumphs and pitfalls both trivial and profound, what sustains us,... Read more
Villette
By: Charlotte Bronte
Narrated by: Charlotte Ritchie
Length: 21 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Charlotte Ritchie, best known for her roles as Oregon in Channel 4's Fresh Meat, Hannah in the BBC Three comedy Siblings, and as Barbara Gilbert in BBC drama Call the Midwife.
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding... Read more
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
By: Melinda Taub
Narrated by: Amy Hoggart
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A sparkling, witchy reimagining of Pride and Prejudice, told from the perspective of the troublesome andāaccording to herāmuch-maligned youngest Bennet sister, Lydia.
In this exuberant retelling of Jane Austenās Pride and Prejudice, Lydia Bennet puts pen to paper to relate the real events and aftermath of the classic story. Some facts are well... Read more
Around the World in Eighty Days
By: Jules Verne
Narrated by: Anna Isaksen
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Embark on the adventure of a lifetime with Jules Verne's classic, Around the World in Eighty Days. Follow Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout as they race against time to circle the globe. A story that brilliantly captures the spirit of exploration and the wonders of the 19th-century world, this masterpiece combines suspense, humor, and a... Read more
View audiobookFoundation's Edge
By: Isaac Asimov
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 16 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The fourth novel in Isaac Asimovās classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series
THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THEĀ APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION
At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations has come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation have proved victorious, and now they return to Hari Seldonās long... Read more
The Prince of Tides
By: Pat Conroy
Narrated by: Alan Carlson
Length: 25 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
āA masterpiece that can compare with SteinbeckāsĀ East of Eden.Ā ā¦ Some books make you laugh; some make you cry; some make you think.Ā The Prince of TidesĀ is a rarity: It does all three.ā āĀ Detroit Free PressA modern American classic and a family saga that spans decades, this is the story of the volatile Tom Wingo, his brilliant but troubled twin... Read more
View audiobookStranger in a Strange Land
By: Robert A. Heinlein
Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
Length: 16 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with āpsiā powersātelepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis, teleportation, pyrolysis, and the ability to take control of the minds of othersāand complete innocence regarding the mores of man.After... Read more
View audiobookThe Sun Also Rises
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Peter Coates
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, his first, that portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San FermĆn in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but... Read more
View audiobookFoundation and Earth
By: Isaac Asimov
Narrated by: Larry McKeever
Length: 18 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The fifth novel in Isaac Asimovās classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series
THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THEĀ APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION
Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is a holistic planet with a common consciousness so intensely united that... Read more
Stoner
By: John Williams
Narrated by: Robin Field
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholarās life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.Yet as the years pass, William Stoner encounters a... Read more
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