The 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 Odyssey
By: Homer
Narrated by: Ian McKellen
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The OdysseyĀ 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 ofĀ The OdysseyĀ that is a joy to listen to, worth savoring treasuring for its sheer lyrical mastery. This... 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 audiobookTroy
By: Stephen Fry
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
In this brilliant conclusion to his bestselling Mythos trilogy, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War.
Full of tragic heroes, intoxicating love stories, and the unstoppable force of fate, there is no conflict more iconic than the Trojan War. Troy is the story of the epic battle retold by Fry with drama, humor,... Read more
Jane Austen Collection: The Complete Novels (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion...)
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Karen Savage & Elizabeth Klett
Length: 69 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook contains the complete novels of Jane Austen in the chronological order of their original publication. - Lady Susan (starts at Chapter 1) - Sense and Sensibility (starts at Chapter 44) - Pride and Prejudice (starts at Chapter 96) - Mansfield Park (starts at Chapter 159) - Emma (starts at Chapter 209) - Persuasion (starts at... 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
Don 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 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
The Sea, the Sea
By: Iris Murdoch
Narrated by: Simon Vance & Kimberly Farr
Length: 20 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work... Read more
View audiobookWar and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 59 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives. Balls and... Read more
View audiobookFoundation (Apple Series Tie-in Edition)
By: Isaac Asimov
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The first novel in Isaac Asimovās classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series
THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THEĀ APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION ā¢Ā Nominated as one of Americaās best-loved novels by PBSās The Great American Read
Ā
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator... Read more
Native Son
By: Richard Wright
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
Length: 17 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
One ofĀ The Atlanticās Great American NovelsāIf one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication ofĀ Native Son.ā ā Henry Louis Gates Jr.""The most powerful American novel to appear sinceĀ The Grapes of Wrath.""Ā āThe New YorkerWhen it was... Read more
View audiobookCrime and Punishment (Unabridged)
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrated by: David Rintoul
Length: 22 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police... Read more
View audiobook1984
By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Jason Smith
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
"1984" is a dystopian novel written by George Orwell and published in 1949. The story is set in a totalitarian society ruled by the Party and its leader, Big Brother. The protagonist, Winston Smith, works for the Party rewriting historical records to fit its propaganda. As he begins to rebel against the oppressive regime, he faces severe... Read more
View audiobookAs I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
Narrated by: Various
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
From the Modern Libraryās new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulknerāalso available are Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short Stories
One of William Faulknerās finest novels, As I Lay Dying,... Read more
Little 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 audiobookThey Were Sisters
By: Dorothy Whipple
Narrated by: Sara Poyzer
Length: 14 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
When three sisters marry very different men, the choices they make determine whether they will flourish, be tamed or be repressed. Set in 1930ās middle-class England, the classic domestic drama, They Were Sisters, is a compelling but harrowing novel by Dorothy Whipple.
Meet three women with contrasting partners: Lucy's husband is her beloved... Read more
O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of Shirley Jacksonās We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern classic of Scottish literature about a doomed adolescent growing up in the mid-19th centuryāfeaturing a new introduction by Maggie OāFarrell, award-winning author of Hamnet.
Janet lies murdered beneath the castle stairs, attired in her motherās... Read more
Cannery Row
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Jerry Farden
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
SteinbeckĆ¢ā¬ā¢s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survivalPublished in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of... 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 audiobookThe Naked Sun
By: Isaac Asimov
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history:Ā Ā the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.Ā Ā On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants.Ā Ā To this... Read more
View audiobookPerelandra
By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
C. S. Lewisās Space Trilogy, of which Perelandra is the second volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camusās The Plague and George Orwellās 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of the moral concerns.Readers who fall in... Read more
View audiobookWilliam - an Englishman
By: Cicely Hamilton
Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A satirical view of the suffragette movement and an unblinking yet compassionate story that chronicles the impact of the First World War on an ordinary young couple, William ā an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton won the first Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse prize in 1919.
Written in a hospital tent to the sound of gunfire and shells falling, Cicely... Read more