Classics Audiobooks

To Kill a Mockingbird

By: Harper Lee
Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

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, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook.

One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than... Read More »

Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes
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 »

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... 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 swept... 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. This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why... Read More »

Animal Farm

By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

This astonishing allegory, one of the most scathing satires in literary history, remains as fresh and relevant as the day it was published. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable. The... 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 »

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 »

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 »

A Handful of Dust

By: Evelyn Waugh
Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No

After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. In a novel that combines tragedy, comedy, and savage irony, Evelyn... 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 »

Old Yeller

By: Fred Gipson
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No

The stray dog was ugly, and a thieving rascal, too. But he sure was clever, and a smart dog could be a big help on the wild Texas frontier, especially with Papa away on a long cattle drive up to Abilene.

Strong and courageous, Old Yeller proved that he could protect Travis's family from any... Read More »

Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley
Narrated by: Anthony Heald, Stefan Rudnicki & Simon Templeman
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No

A masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothic horror, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein also has the distinction of being the first science fiction novel. Dr. Victor Frankenstein, an ambitious young scientist, is consumed by a fanatic desire to create a living being. He fashions an eight-foot creature and succeeds in animating him but, horrified by his... Read More »

Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
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 »

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 »

Native Son

By: Richard Wright
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
Length: 17 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is... Read More »

Crime and Punishment

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky & Constance Garnett
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 20 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No

One of the greatest works of fiction ever written, Crime and Punishment is at once an intense psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a fascinating detective thriller instilled with philosophical, religious, and social commentary. Dostoevsky studies the psychological impact upon a desperate and impoverished student when he murders... Read More »

Moby-Dick

By: Herman Melville
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 23 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

One of the great works of American literature, Moby-Dick is the epic tale of one man's fight against a force of nature. The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship. The Pequod sails under the command of the one-legged Captain Ahab, who has set himself on a... Read More »

Brideshead Revisited

By: Evelyn Waugh
Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No

The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece-a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire. Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts... Read More »

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll
Narrated by: Shannon Parks
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No

This tale, beloved by children and adults everywhere, follows Alice as she falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world, where she meets The Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat-each character more eccentric than the last. Lewis Carroll, the master of sublime nonsense, has created one of the... Read More »

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
Length: 14 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." It was the French Revolution. Unjustly imprisoned for years in the Bastille, Dr. Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported from France to England where they hope to return to their quiet lives. However, they are summoned to the Old Bailey in the trial of Charles... Read More »