Classics audiobooks

The Adventure of the Three Students

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Adventure of the Three Students, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in a university town when a tutor and lecturer of St Luke's College, Mr. Hilton Soames, brings him an... Read more

The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. It was originally published in The Strand Magazine in 1904 with illustrations by Sidney Paget.Mr. Cyril Overton of Trinity College, Cambridge,... Read more

The Adventure of the Abbey Grange

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.Holmes wakes Doctor Watson up early one winter morning to rush to a murder scene at the Abbey Grange near Chislehurst. Sir Eustace Brackenstall has been... Read more

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow, and is the second and final appearance of Mycroft Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" fourteenth in a list of his nineteen... Read more

The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Adventure of the Cardboard Box is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the second of the twelve Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in most British editions of the canon, and the second of the eight stories from His Last Bow in most American versions. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine... Read more

The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Adventure of the Devil's Foot is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow.Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" ninth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves at Poldhu in Cornwall one... Read more

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of the eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow, and one of the few stories in which for much of the plot Watson must act alone and try his best with Holmes left in the background.Holmes sends Dr.... Read more

The Adventure of the Dying Detective

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Adventure of the Dying Detective, in some editions simply titled "The Dying Detective" (first published 1913), is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Together with seven other stories, it is collected as His Last Bow (published 1917).Dr. Watson is called to tend Holmes, who is apparently dying of a... Read more

An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

His Last Bow An Epilogue Of Sherlock Holmes, is one of 56 short stories about Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in Strand Magazine. The narration is in the third person, instead of the first person narration usually provided by the character of Dr. Watson, and it is a spy story, rather than a detective... Read more

The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in the Strand Magazine in October 1921.Watson arrives in 221B Baker Street where the page boy Billy shows him a wax effigy of Holmes placed near a curtained window in the sitting room.... Read more

The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes stories collected between 1921 and 1927 as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in the January 1924 issues of The Strand Magazine in London and Hearst's International Magazine in New York.Holmes receives an odd... Read more

The Adventure of the Three Garridebs

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (1924), one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.According to Dr. Watson's opening narration, this story is set at "the latter end of June, 1902 ... the same month that Holmes... Read more

The Adventure of the Creeping Man

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Adventure of the Creeping Man (1923) is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle collected in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927). The story was first published in the Strand Magazine in the UK and Hearst's International in the US in March 1923.A man named Trevor Bennett comes to Holmes with a most unusual problem.... Read more

The Adventure of the Illustrious Client

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Adventure of the Illustrious Client (1924) is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of the 12 stories collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.Sir James Damery comes to see Holmes and Watson about his illustrious client's problem (the client's identity is never revealed to... Read more

The Problem of Thor Bridge

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Problem of Thor Bridge is a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1922 in The Strand Magazine (UK) and Hearst's International (US).Neil Gibson, the Gold King and former Senator from "some Western state", approaches Holmes to investigate the murder of his wife Maria in... Read more

The Two Barques

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Two Barques is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Pearson's Magazine in march 1897. 2nd story of the Captain Sharkey saga.In Kingston, an elderly logwood-cutter saw Captain Sharkey's pirate barque, the Happy Delivery, careening at Torbec on the south-west of Hispaniola, as well as Sharkey himself, with four men,... Read more

The Governor of St. Kitt's

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Governor of St. Kitt's is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Pearson's Magazine in january 1897. 1st story of the Captain Sharkey saga.Captain John Scarrow, of the ship Morning Star, rescues Hiram Evanson, the sole survivor of a schooner which had been scuttled by the dreadful pirate Sharkey. When they sail... Read more

The Green Flag

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"The Green Flag," penned by Arthur Conan Doyle and initially featured in the June 1893 edition of the Pall Mall Magazine, unfolds a captivating tale. This narrative delves into intricate webs of mystery and suspense, showcasing Doyle's mastery in storytelling. Read more

The Crime of the Brigadier

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Crime of the Brigadier is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in The Cosmopolitan in december 1899. 10th story of the Gerard saga. Read more

The Field Bazaar

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Field Bazaar is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on November 20, 1896 in a special "Bazaar Number" of The Student, a publication of the students' representative council at Edinburgh University. It is a Sherlock Holmes story, published under Conan Doyle's byline and featuring both Holmes and his partner, Dr. John Watson.... Read more

How Watson Learnt the Trick

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

How Watson Learnt the Trick is a Sherlock Holmes parody written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1924. It concerns Doctor Watson attempting to demonstrate to Holmes how he has learned the latter's "superficial trick" of logical deduction by giving a summary of Holmes' current state of mind and plans for the day ahead, only for Holmes to then reveal that... Read more

The Adventure of the Tall Man

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

When searching through Conan Doyle's papers, Hesketh Pearson, a biographer of his, came across a plan for an unwritten story. As Richard Lancelyn Green notes, "there is no evidence to show that it is by [Conan Doyle] and strong internal evidence to suggest that it's not". Various authors have attempted to complete the story (named "The Adventure... Read more

The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a mysterious problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon. One was shattered in Morse... Read more

Panchatantra

By: Hendrik Wiethase

Narrated by: Hendrik Wiethase

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Panchatantra gilt als das wichtigste literarische Werk Indiens. Das Buch besteht aus fünf Teilen, die allesamt wiederum aus inein- ander verwobenen, moralischen Fabeln und Gleichnissen bestehen. Die Übersetzung von Dr. Ludwig Fritze ist an vielen Stellen Basis dieser Neufassung, insbesondere in Form der gereimten Zeilen. Die alten Schriften... Read more