A Child of the Jago
By: Arthur Morrison
Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Published in 1896, A Child of the Jago is a gritty and realistic portrayal of life in the slums of London’s East End during the late 19th century. The novel is set in an area known as the Old Jago (based on a real-life slum called the Old Nichol) and vividly describes the poverty, crime and squalor that characterised the impoverished... Read more
View audiobookThe Treasury of Victorian Poetry
By: Robert Browning, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Christin...
Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud, Peter Orr, Gwen Watford & Dav...
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. A... Read more
View audiobookDon Quixote
By: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 39 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Don Quixote is the classic story. Called the first modern novel, this marvelous book has stood the test of time to become irrevocably intertwined with the fabric of society. Sixteenth-century Spanish gentleman Don Quixote, fed by his own delusional fantasies, takes to the road in search of chivalrous adventures. But his quest leads to more... Read more
View audiobookMythology
By: Edith Hamilton
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Dive into the timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling A-to-Z encyclopedia detailing classic myths and legends—perfect for curious readers and academics alike. Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the... 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 children’s tale of redemption and transformation is full of so many priceless lessons. 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. On her... Read more
View audiobookThe Remains of the Day
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of... Read more
The Odyssey
By: Homer
Narrated by: Ian McKellen
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of every man's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, the energy and poetry of Homer's original is captured in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an edition of The Odyssey that is a joy to listen to, worth savoring treasuring for its sheer lyrical mastery. This... 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 audiobookMoby Dick
By: Herman Melville
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 23 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Widely considered one of the great American novels, Herman Melville's masterpiece went largely unread during his lifetime and was out of print at the time of his death in 1891. Called the greatest book about the sea ever written by D.H. Lawrence, Moby Dick features detailed descriptions of whale hunting and whale oil extraction as well as... Read more
View audiobookMost Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix
By: Gabe Cole Novoa
Narrated by: Harrison Knights
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This bittersweet Pride & Prejudice remix follows a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of longing... Read more
View audiobookThe Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrated by: Luke Thompson
Length: 43 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Luke Thompson, best known for his role in the hit Netflix drama Bridgerton. This definitive recording includes an introduction by David McDuff.
The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with... Read more
The Great Gatsby
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Sean Astin
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The year is 1922, and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg, where he discovers that his neighbor is the eclectic millionaire Jay Gatsby. As he and Gatsby become acquainted, Nick is thrown into a world full of dazzling parties, unrequited love, and unchecked idealism. Gatsby, surrounded by riches, yearns for the love of a woman... Read more
View audiobookThe Complete Oz Collection
By: L. Frank Baum
Narrated by: Tara Sands, Erin Yuen, John Pruden, George Newb...
Length: 70 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Noted as one of the most popular series in American literature, the works of L. Frank Baum have been brought together in this singular collection that ensures the fun never stops! Embark on the journey that has capitated audiences for over a century. This collection contains the following: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Marvelous Land of Oz Ozma... Read more
View audiobookSherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: David Clarke
Length: 67 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive... Read more
View audiobookKristin Lavransdatter
By: Sigrid Undset
Narrated by: Nina Yndis & Stephen Graybill
Length: 47 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
"The finest historical novel our 20th century has yet produced; indeed it dwarfs most of the fiction of any kind that Europe has produced in the last twenty years."
-- Contemporary Movements in European Literature, edited by William Rose and J. Isaacs
"As a novel it must be ranked with the greatest the world knows today." -- Montreal Star
"Sigrid... Read more
One Hundred Years of Solitude
By: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Coming soon to Netflix as a highly anticipated series adaptation starring Claudio Cataño, Jerónimo Barón, and Marco GonzálezOne of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.The novel tells... Read more
View audiobookLord 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 audiobookLove in the Time of Cholera
By: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: Armando Durán
Length: 15 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Nobel Prize–winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people’s lives together for more than half a century.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born... Read more
View audiobookThe Great Gatsby
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Tim Robbins
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
An undisputed masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, perfect for Fitzgerald lovers and classics collectors alike.
Set against a backdrop of jazz music, bootlegging, and lavish parties, The Great Gatsby is the story of Midwesterner Nick Carraway’s curious introduction to the decadent world of his mysterious, wealthy neighbor Jay Gatsby,... Read more
Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino
Narrated by: Richard Higgins
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” — from Invisible Cities
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo — Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed... Read more
Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle de Cuir
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
“I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”Virginia Woolf’s Orlando is the extraordinary biography of a young nobleman in the court of Elizabeth I who transforms into a woman and lives for over three centuries. In his youth, Orlando is a passionate lover and poet. He dotes on the Queen, serves King James faithfully, falls deeply... Read more
View audiobookMy Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix
By: Kalynn Bayron
Narrated by: Clifford Samuel
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"Clifford Samuel's low, melodious voice sounds like it was made for this atmospheric queer retelling of the Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde story." - AudioFile Magazine
A teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance—and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger—in misty Victorian London, in Kalynn Bayron's My... Read more
The Enchanted April
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
Narrated by: Lucy Scott
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Two unhappily married women, Rose Arbuthnot and Lotty Wilkins, respond to an advertisement offering a month’s rental of a small medieval Italian castle. In order to defray the not inconsiderable cost of such a venture, two other ladies, Lady Caroline Dester and the formidable Miss Fisher, are invited to join them, and thus the four embark on... Read more
View audiobookThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 2 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious—during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner... Read more
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