The Pilgrimage
By: Paulo Coelho
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The Pilgrimage paved the way to Paulo Coehlo's international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In many ways, these two volumes are companions—to truly comprehend one, you must read the other.Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coehlo's pilgrimage along the road to Santiago. This fascinating parable explores the need to find one's own... Read more
View audiobookMiss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
By: Winifred Watson
Narrated by: Frances McDormand
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in 1930s London, Winifred Watson’s Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day recounts twenty-four hours in the life of a governess who turns up for a very unexpected first day at work. Watson’s comedic, light-hearted novel is read by Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand, who plays Miss Pettigrew in the 2008 film production.
Middle-aged... Read more
That Hideous Strength
By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the final book in C. S. Lewis’s acclaimed Ransom Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra. A classic work of fantasy as much for the wonder of its storytelling as for its insights into the human condition, the trilogy stages an epic battle between forces of light and darkness across a canvas of other worlds.In That... Read more
View audiobookUnderworld
By: Don DeLillo
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 31 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books
“A great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner.” —San Francisco Chronicle
*With a... Read more
Emma
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Often considered Jane Austen’s finest work, Emma is the story of a charmingly self-deluded heroine whose naive matchmaking schemes often lead to substantial mortification. Emma, “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one... Read more
View audiobookFyodor Dostoyevsky: The Short Stories Collection
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrated by: Malk Williams
Length: 22 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of an extensive range of Fyodor Dostotevsky's short stories, including:
The Landlady
Mr. Prokharchin
The Little Orphan
Novel in Nine Letters
Another Man’s Wife
A Faint Heart
An Honest Thief
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
White Nights
A Little Hero
Polzunkov
An... Read more
Our Man in Havana
By: Graham Greene
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true . . .
First published... Read more
The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
Narrated by: Colin Mace
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Summer, 1947. A bizarre catastrophe rocks a seaside village in Cornwall when a cliff tumbles down on the Pendizack Manor Hotel. The hotel is obliterated, and seven guests are killed in the disaster. Everyone else makes a narrow escape. As the survivors tell their stories, the events of the previous week are revealed, and a parade of sins... Read more
View audiobookDracula & Frankenstein
By: Bram Stoker & Mary Shelley
Narrated by: Jake Urry
Length: 27 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
This bundle features two classic horror stories narrated by Jake Urry.Dracula"Dracula" by Bram Stoker is a timeless horror classic that has captivated readers for over a century. The novel tells the story of Count Dracula, a powerful and mysterious vampire from Transylvania, who sets his sights on Victorian-era London. As Dracula seeks to... Read more
View audiobookPlutarch's Lives
By: Plutarch
Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
Length: 37 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
This epic chronicle by Plutarch (A.D. 46-120) continues with the lives of great Grecians and Romans. These biographies of the men who created the ancient world are brought to life in this new, high-quality recording. Legends such as Caesar, Alexander, Cicero, Demosthenes, and many others come alive as their politics, economy, and their... Read more
View audiobookGreat Expectations
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Length: 22 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The inimitable Stephen Fry reads this definitive edition of Dickens' most beloved novel, Great Expectations.
"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip."
Great Expectations follows Pip's... Read more
Anne of Windy Poplars (Unabridged)
By: L. M. Montgomery
Narrated by: Maria Cusick
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside--and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into... Read more
View audiobookNarcissus and Goldmund
By: Hermann Hesse
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual, restless Goldmund, who is immediately drawn to his teacher's fierce intellect... Read more
View audiobookThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Well over a century has passed since the publication of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876, but time has done little to diminish the appeal and enjoyment of this classic story of growing up in midwestern America. The world Mark Twain envisioned for his precocious hero is a "boy-perfect" one, where life is perpetual vacation, where good and... Read more
View audiobookThe Plague Dogs
By: Richard Adams
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 15 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf.After being horribly mistreated at a government animal-research facility, Snitter and Rowf escape into the isolation—and terror—of the wilderness. Aided only by a fox they call... Read more
View audiobookA Jewish State
By: Theodor Herzl
Narrated by: Adrian Praetzellis
Length: 3 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Der Judenstaat (German, literally The Jews' State, commonly rendered as The Jewish State) is a pamphlet written by Theodor Herzl and published in February 1896 in Leipzig and Vienna by M. Breitenstein's Verlags-Buchhandlung. It is subtitled with Versuch einer modernen Lösung der Judenfrage (Proposal of a modern solution for the Jewish question)... Read more
View audiobookSwiss Family Robinson
By: Johan David Wyss
Narrated by: Robert Noel & The Force
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Johann David Wyss's "Swiss Family Robinson" is an adventurous and heartwarming tale of survival, resilience, and family bonds. The story unfolds when a Swiss family—comprising the resourceful Robinson parents, their four sons, and a plethora of domesticated animals—finds themselves shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. Forced to rely on... Read more
View audiobookFall Asleep to Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
By: Lewis Carroll
Narrated by: Elizabeth Grace
Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Immerse yourself in the enchanting narrative of Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, the beloved sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, brought to life by the gentle and engaging voice of Elizabeth Grace from Slumber Studios.Are restless nights keeping you awake? Whether it's insomnia or the day's worries that disturb your... Read more
View audiobookPersuasion
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Cynthia Erivo
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrated by Tony Award-winning actress and musician Cynthia Erivo, Persuasion is one of the most moving love stories Austen ever penned. It's the story of Anne Elliott, Jane Austen's only aging heroine, who has devoted her life to caring for her financially irresponsible family. Just when she is growing content with her uneventful lifestyle, a... Read more
View audiobookHumour and Madness: Early Restoration Comedies
By: William Wycherley, Aphra Behn, John Dryden, Geo...
Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Prunella Scales, Maggie Smith, Jo...
Length: 16 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A sparkling collection of nine witty full-cast comedies from the early Restoration era
Raunchy, risqué and rebellious, early Restoration comedies were a breath of fresh air for 17th century theatregoers. With Charles II restored to the throne in 1660, Oliver Cromwell's ban on stage performances was rescinded, and for the first time, women were... Read more
To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Phil Benson
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Set on an island off the Scottish coast, To the Lighthouse minutely examines the fleeting impressions of a large cast of family, friends, lovers, and hangers-on. Who can we be, Virginia Woolf invites us to ask, if no one can ever know our hearts - if they're unknowable even to ourselves? To the Lighthouse remains one of the most important... Read more
View audiobookLes Miserables
By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: Full Cast, Joss Ackland & Roger Allam
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Joss Ackland, Roger Allam and Leslie Phillips star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel.
When poverty drives Jean Valjean to steal a loaf of bread from a baker’s window, it is an action that will haunt him for the rest of his life. A citizen of post-revolutionary France, he is sentenced to nineteen years’... Read more
Hancock’s Half Hour: Selected TV Soundtracks & more
By: Ray Galton & Alan Simpson
Narrated by: Tony Hancock, Sid James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth Wil...
Length: 17 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Over 30 brilliant BBC recordings, including TV shows, radio highlights and a wealth of previously unreleased material
Tony Hancock was one of Britain's best-loved and most influential postwar comedians. Collected here are some of the very best radio and TV episodes from Hancock's Half Hour, plus celebrations, compilations, interviews, original... Read more
The 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
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