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House of Names
By: Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Charlie Anson & Pippa Nixon
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
* Winner of the 2018 Audie Award for Best Literary Fiction/Classic
* A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year
* Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, St. Louis Dispatch
From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra—a spectacularly... Read More »
Marley
By: Jon Clinch
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
“By some uncanny act of artistic appropriation, [Clinch] has, without imitating Dickens, entered into the phantasmagoric realm that is the great novelist’s quintessential territory…Startling and creative…Remarkable… Masterly.” —The New York Times Book Review
From the acclaimed author of Finn comes a masterful reimagining of Dickens’s classic A... 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
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 his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as... Read More »
Heroes
By: Stephen Fry
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Length: 15 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In this sequel to the bestselling Mythos, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry moves from the exploits of the Olympian gods to the deeds of mortal heroes.
Perseus. Jason. Atalanta. Theseus. Heracles. Rediscover the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths. Whether recounting a tender love affair or a heroic triumph, Fry deftly... Read More »
The 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 »
If Beale Street Could Talk
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad.Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is... 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 »
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 »
Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
James Baldwin’s stunning first novel is now an American classic. With startling realism that brings Harlem and the black experience vividly to life, this is a work that touches the heart with emotion while it stimulates the mind with its narrative style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism in America. Moving through time from the rural... 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 »
Pride and Prejudice
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Introduction by Anna Quindlen
Commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”... Read More »
War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy & Constance Garnett
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 61 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once a historical war epic, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Noted for its mastery of realistic detail and psychological analysis, it follows the metamorphosis of five aristocratic families against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Individual... Read More »
Middlemarch
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 31 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Dorothea Brooke is a thoughtful and idealistic young woman determined to make a difference with her life. Enamored of a man whom she believes is setting this example, she unwittingly traps herself into a loveless marriage. Her parallel is Tertius Lydgate, a visionary young doctor from the city, whose passionate ambition to spread the new science... Read More »
Around the World in 80 Days
By: Jules Verne
Narrated by: Jim Dale
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid... Read More »
Ringworld
By: Larry Niven
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The artifact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its center. Pierson’s puppeteers—strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens—discovered this “Ringworld” in a hitherto unexplored part of the galaxy. Curious about the immense structure, but frightened by the prospect of meeting the builders, they set... Read More »
Persuasion
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Greta Scacchi
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In Persuasion, Austen’s last novel, she reveals the tale of love and marriage told with irony, insight, and an evaluation of human conduct. The characters, Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot, have met and separated years before. A reunion forces the recognition of the false values that drove them apart. Read More »
The Iliad - Abridged
By: Homer, Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox
Narrated by: Derek Jacobi & Maria Tucci
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Dating to the ninth century BC, Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb Introduction... Read More »
One of Ours
By: Willa Cather
Narrated by: Kristen Underwood
Length: 14 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells of the making of a young American soldier.
Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by... Read More »
Romola
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 21 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
"There is no book of mine about which I more thoroughly feel that I swear by every sentence as having been written with my best blood." Thus wrote George Eliot about Romola, the book which is central in her career as a novelist and amongst her most colorful, fluent, and persuasive works.
Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and... Read More »
The Scarlet Letter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: Adam Sims
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The Scarlet Letter is one of the great classics of American literature. Set in the harsh Puritan environment of 17th-century Boston, it describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman who stands alone against society. Having given birth to a child after an illicit affair, she refuses to name the father and is forced to wear... Read More »
Sense and Sensibility
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Jane Austen's debut novel is a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly in which two sisters who represent "sense" and "sensibility," or restraint and emotionalism, experience love and heartbreak in their two separate ways. The impetuous Marianne falls passionately in love with the dashing John Willoughby and makes no secret of her... Read More »
Phantastes
By: George Macdonald
Narrated by: Brad Powers
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A young man named Anodos experiences dream like adventures in Fairy Land, where he meets tree spirits, endures the presence of the overwhelming shadow, journeys to the palace of the fairy queen, and searches for the spirit of the earth. The story conveys a profound sadness and a poignant longing for death. Read More »
Treasure Island
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Part adventure tale and part-coming-of-age story, Treasure Island follows Jim Hawkins, an innkeeper's son, as he embarks on a sea adventure after obtaining a treasure map. In his quest to recover a share of the loot, he must negotiate relationships with a colorful cast of pirates, sea captains, noblemen, and castaways. Full of classic pirate... 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 »