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 »
To Kill a Mockingbird
By: Harper Lee
Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold... Read More »
The Hobbit
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
Narrated by: Ensemble cast
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio.
Bilbo Baggins, a gentle hobbit who loves the comforts of home, reluctantly joins a company of dwarves on a journey to recover plundered gold from a fierce dragon. It's a tale of high adventure and astonishing courage—and a magical prelude to the Lord of the Rings... Read More »
East of Eden
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 25 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a sprawling epic in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence. Read More »
Frankenstein
By: Mary Shelley
Narrated by: Anthony Heald, Stefan Rudnicki & Simon Templeman
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
This special unabridged, multivoiced production of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothic horror is narrated by film and television star Anthony Heald, joined by Grammy winner Stefan Rudnicki and actor Simon Templeman, under the direction of award-winning audio producer Yuri Rasovsky.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, an ambitious young... Read More »
1984
By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this immensely popular book.
George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police, a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities’ will and people live tepid lives by rote.
Winston Smith, the hero with... Read More »
The Count of Monte Cristo
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 46 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Dashing young Edmond Dantès has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him. Falsely accused of a political crime, Dantès is locked away for life in the infamous Chateau d’If prison. But it is there... Read More »
Pride and Prejudice
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The provincial Bennet family, home to five unmarried daughters, is turned upside down when a wealthy bachelor takes up a house nearby. Mr. Bingley enhances his instant popularity by hosting a ball and taking an interest in the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane. Meanwhile, Mr. Darcy, Bingley’s even wealthier friend, makes himself equally unpopular by... Read More »
Jane Eyre
By: Charlotte Brontë
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 18 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Jane Eyre, the plain yet spirited governess, introduced a new kind of heroine to literature: one whose virtuous integrity, sharp intellect, and tireless perseverance broke through class barriers to win equal stature with the man she loved.
Orphaned and subject to a cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit... Read More »
Native Son
By: Richard Wright
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
Length: 17 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Now an HBO Film!
“If 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 of Native Son.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was... Read More »
A Handful of Dust
By: Evelyn Waugh
Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this "absolutely delightful" novel (New York Times) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disintegration of English society in the years after World War I.
After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with... Read More »
Brave New World
By: Aldous Huxley
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media—has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller’s genius, he weaves these ethical... Read More »
Rebecca
By: Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by: Anna Massey
Length: 14 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
"Rebecca is a work of immense intelligence and wit, elegantly written, thematically solid, suspenseful.." --Washington Post
"Daphne du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their feelings." --Stephen King
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .
The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is... Read More »
Great Expectations
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 18 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most revered works in English literature, Great Expectations traces the coming-of-age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of maturity. From the chilling opening confrontation with an escaped convict to the grand but eerily disheveled estate of bitter old Miss Havisham, all is not what it seems in... Read More »
Les Miserables
By: Victor Hugo & Charles E. Wilbour
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in the Parisian underworld of the early nineteenth century, Les Miserables follows the adventures of Jean Valjean, once an honest peasant, who was imprisoned for nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving family. A hardened and bitter criminal upon his release, Valjean is transformed when an act of compassion... Read More »
Brideshead Revisited
By: Evelyn Waugh
Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory set in the years just before World War Two.
The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus... Read More »
David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 33 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
David Copperfield is the timeless tale of a thoughtful orphan discovering how to live and love in a cutthroat, indifferent adult world. It firmly embraces all the eternal freshness, the comic delights, the tender warmth, and the ghastly horrors of childhood.
Of all Charles Dickens’ novels, this is perhaps the most revealing, both of Dickens... Read More »
The Grapes of Wrath
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
Length: 20 hours 59 minutes
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 »
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
By: Leo Tolstoy & Constance Garnett
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Hailed as one of the world’s masterpieces of psychological realism, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high-court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own... Read More »
Nicholas Nickleby
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 31 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens’ novels, Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in nineteenth-century England. Nicholas, a gentleman’s son fallen upon hard times, must set out to make his way in the world. His journey is accompanied by some of the most swaggering scoundrels and unforgettable... Read More »
Atlas Shrugged
By: Ayn Rand
Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
Length: 52 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Atlas Shrugged is the “second most influential book for Americans today” after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991.
In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of... 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 »
Atlas Shrugged
By: Ayn Rand & Leonard Peikoff
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 62 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Atlas Shrugged is the “second most influential book for Americans today” after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991.
In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of... Read More »
The Fellowship of the Ring
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
Narrated by: Ensemble Cast
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The original American dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. Read More »
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