Classics audiobooks

The Cattle-Dealers

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The old man Malakhin, accompanied by his rather useless son Yasha, makes a journey to Saint Petersburg in a freight train with the view of selling his cattle. Everybody around is bent on extorting the money from him. The train driver simply refuses to move the train without being paid, and the uber-conductor has to have his reward too. Malakhin... Read more

Rappaccini’s Daughter and Other Stories

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Various

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Step into a world of mystery, intrigue, and dark enchantment with this captivating collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Immerse yourself in timeless tales that have inspired everything from songs to Batman villains. Let me entice you with the allure of each story:
“The Great Carbuncle”: Venture into the wilderness in search of a legendary gem that... Read more

Selected Poems

By: Robert Frost

Narrated by: Evan Schmitt

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Frost's "Selected Poems," published in 1923 by Henry Holt and Company, is a collection that showcases the poet's mastery of language, rhythm, and imagery. This anthology features a selection of Frost's most celebrated works, providing readers with a glimpse into the breadth and depth of his poetic talent.
The collection opens with Frost's... Read more

Contos de Fadas: Perrault

By: Charles Perrault

Narrated by: Fernanda Resende

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta coletânea é um tesouro literário para quem busca a magia e a emoção dos contos de fadas tradicionais. Contos como O Pequeno Polegar, Barba-Azul, O Gato de Botas e outros que conquistaram celebridade universal vão encantar crianças e adultos por meio das narrativas envolventes recontadas por Perrault. Esta ilustre edição conta, ainda, com... Read more

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

By: Frederick Douglass

Narrated by: Forest Whitaker

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker, this is the most famous American slave narrative ever published and is a rhetorical masterpiece. Douglass self-consciously uses classical rhetorical figures such as hyperbole, personification, metaphor, and irony to show how the pervasive evilness of slavery infects the soul of all that... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 18 hours 40 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

The Beauties

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

One great example of Chekhov's minimalism is found in The Beauties, a very short "story" - I use the term loosely, because it is really just two snapshots, two unrelated anecdotes in which a man describes seeing true beauty in two different women. These women are imperfect, yet enigmatically alluring. Chekhov's genius lies in the way he manages... Read more

Sorrow

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sorrow by Anton Chekhov we have the theme of desperation, struggle, guilt, cruelty, hope, loss and self-pity. Taken from his The Complete Short Stories collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and from the beginning of the story it becomes clear to the reader that Chekhov may be exploring the theme of... Read more

Inspector Hanaud: 3 Mysteries

By: A. E. W. Mason

Narrated by: Graham Scott

Length: 22 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook contains the first three adventures of A. E. W Mason’s enigmatic and mercurial Sûreté detective, Inspector Hanaud—a key inspiration for Agatha Christie’s celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot. First, Hanaud investigates the murder of wealthy Mme Dauvray at the fashionable French resort of Aix-les-Bains. Then, during a visit to London,... Read more

المربية

By: Stefan Zweig

Narrated by: هبة السيد

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

اكتشف "المربية"، إحدى روائع ستيفان زفايغ الأدبية التي تجسد ببراعة النفس البشرية وتعقيداتها. في هذه القصة المثيرة، يروي زفايغ قصة مربية تجد نفسها محاصرة في شبكة من الأسرار والعاطفة والخيانة. من خلال أسلوبه السردي الفريد والغني بالتفاصيل النفسية، يكشف زفايغ عن العمق الإنساني والمشاعر المتضاربة التي تدفع الشخصيات إلى حافة الهاوية.
"المربية" ليست... Read more

The Great Gatsby

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Scott Shepherd

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

When F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby in 1925, the novel was not an instant hit – but you wouldn’t know it now, given its standing in school curricula and pop culture alike. The novel is a classic, following the exploits of its narrator, Nick Carroway, as he enters the glittering world of New York’s elite. A world filled with boozy... Read more

Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

At the beginning of Virginia Woolf's fantastical and satirical 1928 novel, Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan England. At the age of 30, Orlando awakens to have found he's now a woman. Moving through the following centuries, the novel stretches over 300 years, during which time Orlando meets several key figures of English literary history. 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

Ivanhoe

By: Walter Scott

Narrated by: Christopher Preece

Length: 19 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Embark on a captivating journey through medieval England with "Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott, now available as an enthralling audiobook. Set in a time of chivalry, intrigue, and romance, this timeless classic follows the adventures of the noble knight Ivanhoe as he navigates the tumultuous political landscape of King Richard the Lionheart's... Read more

Prijan Lovro

By: August Šenoa

Narrated by: Zoran Čubrilo

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Pripovijetku Prijan Lovro Šenoa je napisao 1873. godine, za vrijeme boravka na studiju u Pragu. Prijatelj vlastelin Šenou pozove na svoje imanje u berbu gdje on, udovici koju ondje zatiče, realistično prepriča život svog praškog cimera. Ova Šenoina ‘praška novela’ je priča o Lovri, mladiću koji se rodio u siromašnoj seoskoj obitelji i zaputio u... 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

West-Running Brook

By: Robert Frost

Narrated by: Evan Schmitt

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"West-Running Brook" is a collection of poetry by the renowned American poet Robert Frost, first published in 1928. The title poem serves as the centerpiece of the collection, with the overarching theme of the flow of time and the interconnectedness of past, present, and future.
In "West-Running Brook," Frost uses the metaphor of a brook that... Read more

Love of Life

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Evan Schmitt

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Love of Life" is a gripping short story by Jack London, first published in 1907. Set in the harsh wilderness of the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, the narrative follows an unnamed man as he struggles for survival against the brutal forces of nature.
The story begins with the man, who is alone and starving after being abandoned by his... Read more

La mano del malato povero

By: Luigi Pirandello

Narrated by: Gianluca Testa

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Eppure è raro che almeno una volta, in un momento felice, non sia avvenuto a ciascuno di vedere all’improvviso il mondo, la vita, con occhi nuovi; d’intravedere in una subita luce un senso nuovo delle cose; d’intuire in un lampo che relazioni insolite, nuove, impensate, si possono forse stabilire con esse, sicché la vita acquisti agli occhi... Read more

The Yellow Wallpaper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrated by: Rebecca LaChance

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's powerful and unsettling story of a young woman descending into psychosis. Confined to her attic bedroom by her husband to ensure rest and recuperation after having her baby, and with nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman slowly becomes obsessed with the old yellow wallpaper covering the walls until she looses her... Read more

Le coeur d'ivoire

By: Max du Veuzit

Narrated by: Emmanuelle Lemée

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Monique Somesnil trouve une situation d'institutrice chez Jack Saint-Angel, dont la soeur, la petite Maë, infirme, réclame des soins attentifs. Une sympathie spontanée naît entre Monique et Maë qui éprouve, au contraire, une hostilité instinctive à l'égard , de la future femme de son frère, Yvonne Le Kervec. Les efforts de Monique pour ... Read more

Natalie

By: Ivan Bunin

Narrated by: Virginia Ferguson

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A lush, romantic, and intense tale of first lust, first love, and the difference between the two. Read more

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Jorge Hartman

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in the whimsical world of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with this captivating audiobook. Written by Lewis Carroll, this beloved classic transports readers of all ages into a magical journey that will ignite their imagination.Narrated by a talented voice artist, this audiobook brings the characters and settings to life, making... Read more

Suan Plateau Tragedy

By: Alexander Grin

Narrated by: Kirk Strickland

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Every once in a while... an evil so great comes along that it takes the greatest test of love, life, and death withstand it. Alexander Grin's Suan Plato Tragedy is a story of just such an evil and just such a test. Read more