Classics audiobooks

The Comedy of Errors

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Susan Bones & Zacharias Prewett

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's earliest and shortest plays. This comedy utilizes slapstick humor, word play, and mistaken identities to create a series of farcical accidents. Over time, the play's title has become an idiom used to describe "an event or series of events made ridiculous by the number of errors that were made... Read more

Uncle's Dream

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Greg Giordano

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncle's Dream (Russian: Дядюшкин сон, Dyadyushkin son) is an 1859 novella by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. The first work of Dostoevsky after a long pause, the novella was written during the author's stay in Semipalatinsk. It was first published in the Russian magazine Russkoye Slovo (1859, No. 3). Read more

Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Cori Samuel

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. Inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most popular novels; Orlando is a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Cynthia Franklin & David Crandall

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843 and the first edition, published on 19th December, was so successful that it sold out in just six days. The publishers had to produce two further editions between Christmas and the new year to meet the demand, and the novella has never been out of print. A Christmas Carol tells the story of a... Read more

Життя і дивовижні пригоди Робінзона Крузо

By: Даніель Дефо

Narrated by: Артем Окороков

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Одна з найвідоміших пригодницьких книг у світі — «Робінзон Крузо» — розповідає про дивовижні пригоди моряка, чий корабель затонув серед моря. Волею долі він був викинутий на берег безлюдного острова і провів багато років, борючись за своє виживання. Книга була написано Даніелем Дефо на основі реальних подій і служить прекрасним прикладом... Read more

Más allá de los campos de lavanda

By: Arlem Hawks

Narrated by: Estela Benita

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

Francia, 1789. Gilles Étienne trabaja en Marsella, en una fábrica de jabón. La vida es dura, pero desde París llegan aires de revolución. Convencido de los ideales de igualdad, libertad y fraternidad, planea ir con sus amigos a la capital para provocar la caída de la odiada monarquía. Sin embargo, esos planes no resultan tan fáciles de cumplir... Read more

The Velveteen Rabbit

By: Margery Williams

Narrated by: Andrew Coleman

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Velveteen Rabbit (or How Toys Become Real) is a British children's book written by Margery Williams (also known as Margery Williams Bianco) and illustrated by William Nicholson. It chronicles the story of a stuffed rabbit's desire to become real through the love of his owner. The story was first published in Harper's Bazaar in 1921 featuring... Read more

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 20 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative... Read more

Christmas and Thanksgiving

By: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Narrated by: David Wales

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Introducing "Christmas and Thanksgiving": A Timeless Collection of Heartwarming Tales 
Step into the enchanting world of the early 20th century with "Christmas and Thanksgiving," a captivating digital audiobook collection that transports you to the cherished traditions and heartwarming celebrations of yesteryears. Curated from the timeless works... Read more

The Return Of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Bruce Lieberman

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This 1904 collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures was a revival of the character after his supposed death in ‘The Final Problem’. In the first story, ‘The Adventure of the Empty House’, Sherlock reappears in London and meets his friend to tell him how he had pushed Moriarty off the ledge in Switzerland, and then escaped fatal attacks at the... Read more

제임스

By: Italo Svevo

Narrated by: Gianluca Testa

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

자코모는 화자가 프리울리 시골을 산책하는 동안 만나 자신의 이야기를 들려주는 농부입니다. 자코모는 일자리를 찾을 때마다 항의하고 동료 직원들에게 최적의 근무 조건을 요구하도록 설득하기 위한 선전과 토론에 나서며 항상 고용주에게 큰 문제를 야기합니다. 더 이상 일자리를 찾지 못한 그는 유목민이 되어 잘 정리된 일자리를 찾았으나 헛수고가 됩니다. 따라서 사실상 존재하지 않습니다. 어느 날 그는 특정한 일을 위해 고향으로 다시 부름을 받기 전까지… Read more

The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allen Poe

Narrated by: Calvin Lowe

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic gothic tale of madness by Edgar Allen Poe! Read more

The Golden Ass or Metamorphoses

By: Apuleius

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This tale of a man who, when tinkering with magic, becomes changed into an ass is one of the most entertaining and remarkable stories from classic Latin literature. It is funny, bawdy and completely approachable - but also shows life from the point of view of a beast of burden in the Roman Empire of the second century CE.

Lucius is an active... Read more

The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Werther, a sensitive young artist, finds himself in Wahlheim, a quiet, attractive village in Germany where he seeks solace from the turmoils of love. It is a young spring, and he hopes that arcadian solitude will prove a genial balm to his mind. But his romantic tendency rules otherwise, and he falls in love with Charlotte - Lotte - even though... Read more

Le Grand Meaulnes [The Wanderer]

By: Henri Alain-Fournier

Narrated by: John Hollingworth

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Le Grand Meaulnes is one of the great classics of French literature, a mysterious, even impressionistic tale of adolescence in the French countryside in the dying years of the 19th century.

A teenager, Agustin Meaulnes, arrives in a country school, and his strong personality immediately affects its rural atmosphere, especially in the eyes of his... Read more

Murphy

By: Samuel Beckett

Narrated by: Stephen Hogan

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

'The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.' So opens Murphy, Samuel Beckett's first novel, published in 1938. Its work-shy eponymous hero, adrift in London, realises that desire can never be satisfied and withdraws from life, in search of stupor. Murphy's lovestruck fiancée, Celia, tries with tragic pathos to draw him back, but... Read more

The Mabinogion

By: Charlotte Guest

Narrated by: Richard Mitchley

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mabinogion, the earliest literary jewel of Wales, is a collection of ancient tales and legends compiled around the 12th and 13th century deriving from storytelling and the songs of bards handed down over the ages. It is a remarkable document in many ways. From an historical perspective, it is the earliest prose literature of Britain. But it... Read more

Against Nature

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans

Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Against Nature was one of the most shocking French novels of the 19th century. When it was published in 1884, it thrilled the aesthetes, the poets, and the intellectuals of Europe on both sides of the Channel (notably Oscar Wilde) because for all its lofty tone, it had, as its core, an unbridled decadence, and it was this same character that... Read more

The Provincial Lady Goes Further

By: E. M. Delafield

Narrated by: Georgina Sutton

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Provincial Lady Goes Further is the immediate sequel to Diary of a Provincial Lady - and life mirrors art.

Our Provincial Lady has found herself, unexpectedly, with a literary success on her hands! She is suddenly 'somebody', both in her Devonshire environs and in London, where she establishes a bolthole - ostensibly so she could concentrate... Read more

Jason and the Golden Fleece

By: Apollonius Rhodius

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Jason and the Golden Fleece is one of the finest tales of Ancient Greece, an epic journey of adventure and trial standing beside similar stories of Perseus, Theseus and the Labours of Heracles. The finest classic account comes from Apollonius of Rhodes, the Greek poet of the 3rd century BCE and librarian at Alexandria. Though less well-known... Read more

The Satyricon

By: Petronius

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Libidinous, licentious, salacious and very, very funny, The Satyricon is one of the most remarkable documents from ancient Rome. It tells the ribald story of Encolpius, a man of active and varied appetites (powered notably by his passion for his favourite lover, the handsome Giton), who plunges without inhibition into the life of Roman... Read more

The Marquise of O and Other Works

By: Heinrich Von Kleist

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A respectable young widow and mother of two children, the Marquise of O— finds herself inexplicably pregnant after being rescued by a Russian officer from the attentions of his soldiers during the storming of her town's citadel. Convinced of her own innocence and wishing to vindicate her own integrity, the Marquise places an advert in the... Read more

The Eclogues and Georgics

By: Vergil

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Jamie Parker, Paul Panting & Ro...

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Though it is for the sparkling epic, Aeneid, that the Roman poet Virgil is best known, it was these two poems, The Eclogues and Georgics, which first established his reputation. Cast in the tradition of pastoral poetry, The Eclogues were written between 41 BCE and 37 BCE when Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, to give him his full name) was in his... Read more

The Diary of a Provincial Lady

By: E. M. Delafield

Narrated by: Georgina Sutton

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

'Lady B. stays to tea. (Mem.: Bread-and-butter too thick. Speak to Ethel.) We talk some more about bulbs, the Dutch School of Painting, our Vicar's wife, sciatica, and All Quiet on the Western Front. (Query: is it possible to cultivate the art of conversation when living in the country all the year round?)'

If the question suggests a qualified... Read more