Classics audiobooks

Cotillion

By: Georgette Heyer

Narrated by: Raj Ghatak

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

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Kitty Charing's life-changing inheritance comes with a catch.

Her eccentric and childless guardian, Mr. Penicuik, is leaving Kitty all of his vast fortune - but with one condition. She must marry one of his five grand-nephews.

However, Kitty's clear favourite - the rakish Jack Westruther - doesn't appear at all... Read more

The Sun Also Rises

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Chase Foster

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in the world of post-war disillusionment with "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway, a classic audiobook that captures the essence of the Lost Generation. Follow the journey of Jake Barnes and his circle of expatriate friends as they navigate love, loss, and the search for meaning in the vibrant cities of Paris and... Read more

Beowulf: A New Translation

By: Maria Dahvana Headley

Narrated by: JD Jackson & Maria Dahvana Headley

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator JD Jackson addresses his listener as "bro" in this decidedly contemporary retelling of the classic saga...His brilliant performance captures all the artistry, wit, and immediacy of this fresh translation, and breathes new life into what for most has been a literary fossil." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

A new,... Read more

A Passage to India

By: E.M. Forster

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The lives of Miss Adela Quested and those around her are forever changed when she befriends a young doctor named Aziz during a trip she and her companion Mrs. Moore make to India. The unlikely friendship between Adela and Aziz eventually culminates in a disastrous expedition to the Marabar caves, during which she offends him, an action which... Read more

Passing

By: Nella Larsen

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Nella Larsen's novella follows friends Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, two Black women who can pass as white. Their anxieties about passing culminate in tragedy, revealing the powerful repercussions of hiding one’s identity, including the risks associated with it, and its implications for intimacy in romantic and familial relationships. Larsen... Read more

Beowulf

By: Seamus Heaney

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old... Read more

Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 36 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered one of the great English novels, George Eliot's Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life follows myriad characters and their lives in the eponymous town, Middlemarch, in the 1800s. Utilizing a realistic style, Eliot considers issues such as religion, education, and the status of women—to name just a few. Read more

The Virginia Woolf BBC Radio Drama Collection

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Glen...

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The collected BBC radio adaptations of Virginia Woolf’s pioneering modernist novels, with star casts including Kristin Scott-Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Juliet Stevenson, Laura Fraser, Robert Glenister and Fenella Woolgar.

The Voyage Out
A sea voyage to South America turns into a journey of self-discovery for naïve Rachel Vinrace. Starring Laura... Read more

Albert Camus: The Plague, The Outsider & more

By: Albert Camus

Narrated by: Paul Scofield, John Shrapnel, Ronald Pickup, Cl...

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A study of Albert Camus' life and works which draws together both dramatisations of his novels and documentaries about his life.

One of postwar France’s most influential writers, Albert Camus was fêted for his masterful exploration of the absurdity of the human condition. Included here are adaptations of his three iconic existential novels – The... Read more

Moby Dick

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Chris Ciulla

Length: 24 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, was first published in 1851. Known for its famous opening line, "Call me Ishmael," and for its epic narrative, complex characters, and rich symbolism, it is considered one of the greatest works of American literature. The novel tells the story of a sailor named Ishmael who joins a whaling ship, the Pequod, under... Read more

Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Rachel Atkins

Length: 20 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Orphaned Jane emerges from a cold, hostile upbringing at Lowood Institution to take her place as governess at Thornfield, home of Mr Rochester. Her petulant but loving charge, Adele, and the housekeeper, Mrs Fairfax, are her sole company, while Rochester remains a distant, mysterious and yet imposing presence.
As time goes by, however, Jane's;... Read more

The Sheltering Sky

By: Paul Bowles

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Audio edition of the landmark of 20th Century literature, by acclaimed author Paul Bowles“The Sheltering Sky is one of the most original, even visionary, works of fiction to appear in the twentieth century.” —Tobias Wolff""It stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II.” —New RepublicIn this classic... Read more

The Big Four: The Original 12 Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: John Rubinstein, Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rud...

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.”In The Big Four, Hercule Poirot investigates a string of murders that appear to be disconnected on the surface, but Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective sees the only tiny detail that links them all together. For... Read more

Christmas with Anne

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Anne Shirley has endured generation after generation and catapulted L.M. Montgomery into the ethos of literature. Here, Dreamscape presents a collection of holiday stories featuring Anne and other characters. Disc one includes: Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves; Christmas at Red Butte; Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket; Clorinda's... Read more

The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Joey Clark

Length: 50 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

CONTENTS: 01. The Nameless City 02. The Festival 03-04. The Colour Out of Space 05-07. The Call of Cthulhu 08-17. The Dunwich Horror 18-25. The Whisperer in Darkness 26 . A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson 27-28.The Haunter of the Dark 29-33. The Shadow Over Innsmouth 34. Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" 35-42. The... Read more

Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 25 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless.The Iliad can justly be called the world's greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy... Read more

The Pilgrims Progress

By: John Bunyan

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan is one of the most important works of English literature. Initially published in 1678, this religious allegory details the journey of the protagonist, Christian, from his hometown to the Celestial City. Along the way, Christian encounters various symbolic characters and obstacles that represent the trials... Read more

The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories

By: Jessica Harrison

Narrated by: Shaniqua Okwok

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

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Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the Christmases of Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Bowen, while Dostoyevsky, Daphne du Maurier and Italo Calvino take a cynical... Read more

Homer and His Iliad

By: Robin Lane Fox

Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking reassessment of the Iliad, uncovering how the poem was written and why it remains enduringly powerful 

The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem—heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and... Read more

The Divine Comedy (Unabridged)

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Bryan Godwin

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia Italian pronunciation is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature[1] and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the... Read more

Winnie-the-Pooh

By: Alan Alexander Milne

Narrated by: Taylor Seth Hall

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Enjoy the beloved book that started it all, featuring Christopher Robin and his friends! Join the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and the rest for delightful mishaps and adventures filled with Warmth, Whimsy, and Honey. Rediscover the charming tales that have captured hearts for generations. Read more

The Uses of Literature

By: Italo Calvino

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself made the selection of pieces to be included in this volume. Read more

Le père Goriot

By: Honoré de Balzac

Narrated by: Bernard

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Étudiant désargenté, Eugène de Rastignac est monté à Paris pour y faire son droit et y acquérir gloire et pouvoir. Il loge dans une pension miteuse et rencontre le père Goriot. Ancien négociant, il s'est ruiné pour ses filles qui, après leur mariage, ne lui témoignent qu'indifférence et mépris. Rastignac est alors confronté aux calculs sordides... Read more

Death Comes for the Archbishop

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Ako Mitchell

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Ako Mitchell. Ako directed and co-wrote I'm in the Corner with the Bluebells. He has performed extensively on the West End, starring in The Lion King and Sister Act among others.

'Quite simply a masterpiece ... I am completely bowled over by it; by the power of its writing, by the... Read more