Classics audiobooks

A Journal of the Plague Year

By: Daniel Defoe & Jason Goodwin

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The plague of 1665 was followed by the Great Fire of London in 1666: great disasters evoking great responses. Those events re-fashioned the London landscape, and Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year re-fashioned English literature. Read more

Journey to the Center of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor Von Hardwigg found the old Icelandic parchment in a bookstore, and his nephew Harry soon deciphered its secret Runic message: there was a path to the center of the earth, and an Icelandic explorer had found it 300 years earlier. The professor, Harry, and their guide Hans are soon plunged into an adventure that includes an underground... Read more

Le rouge et le noir

By: Stendhal

Narrated by: Michel Vuillermoz

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Publié en 1830, Le Rouge et le noir est un monument de la littérature française. Roman réaliste où l'ambition côtoie la cruauté d'une jeunesse inconsciente. Julien Sorel, fil de charpentier, veut gravir les échelon de la société,pour cela deux carrières s'offrent à lui : le clergé ou le militaire ; c'est finalement par les femmes que Julien... Read more

Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Anthony Heald, Stefan Rudnicki & Simon Templeman

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This special unabridged, multivoiced production of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothic horror is narrated by film and television star Anthony Heald, joined by Grammy winner Stefan Rudnicki and actor Simon Templeman, under the direction of award-winning audio producer Yuri Rasovsky.Dr. Victor Frankenstein, an ambitious young... Read more

The Innocence of Father Brown

By: G.K. Chesterton

Narrated by: John Horton

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

One of English literature's most famous amateur sleuths, the innocent appearing Catholic priest, Father Brown, attacks cases with an uncanny understanding of the criminal mind. The Innocence of Father Brown Mysteries brings you 12 of the most enthralling Father Brown short stories. Read more

Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Flo Gibson

Length: 18 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Eyre is the story of a small, plain-faced, intelligent, and passionate English orphan. Jane is abused by her aunt and cousin and then attends a harsh charity school. Through it all she remains strong and determinedly refuses to allow a cruel world to crush her independence or her strength of will. A masterful story of a woman's quest for... Read more

Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Flo Gibson

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious... Read more

Anne of the Island

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and frivolous new pal Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with... Read more

Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Michael Thompson

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the myth behind... Read more

Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Whimsy, imagination, and sentiment have been banned in the Gradgrinds' upper-class household, but in Coketown, whose working class inhabitants fight for their very survival, the ban becomes a merciless creed. There, all that matters are the grinding wheels of production. Hard Times reflects a harsh world of grueling labor and pitiless... Read more

The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

At Baskerville Hall on the grim moors of Devonshire, a legendary curse has apparently claimed one more victim. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead. There are no signs of violence, but his face is hideously distorted with terror. Years earlier, a hound-like beast with blazing eyes and dripping jaws was reported to have torn out the throat... Read more

The House of Mirth

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

What Galsworthy did for Edwardian England, Wharton did for turn-of-the-century New York, and she did it to perfection in The House of Mirth. Hackles bristle discreetly, lips curl ever-so politely, and every breach of good taste is carefully recorded, as social aspirant Lily Bart launches a desperate bid for a place on the city's elite social... Read more

The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Roslyn Alexander

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The House of the Seven Gables, a fixture in Hawthorne's Salem, serves as the ancestral home of the fictional Pyncheon family-whose distinguished legacy is tainted by pious thievery. When country cousin Phoebe arrives at the house, she is like a cool breeze, refreshing a room that has been sealed for too long. The resulting mixture of dark and... Read more

Howards End

By: E.M. Forster

Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Edwardian England, Howards End is the portrait of a lost era, a deceptively golden time before the First World War that would change values and lifestyles forever. To illuminate these changing times, Forster throws together three vastly dissimilar classes of people: the Schlegels-Helen and Margaret-educated, compassionate and... Read more

Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most famous works in English literature, this classic enjoys enduring popularity. For generations, its sharp humor has appealed to adults, and its lively fantasy has charmed children. Gulliver's Travels relates the adventures encountered by a ship's surgeon, Lemuel Gulliver, on four remarkable voyages. The first is to Lilliput, whose... Read more

Traumfängerin - Abridged

By: Rea Revekka Poulharidou

Narrated by: Rea Revekka Poulharidou

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rea Revekka Poulharidou fängt Träume ein, verdichtet sie in einer faszinierenden Sprache zu eindrücklichen und ausdrucksstarken Bildern, die den Leserinnen und Lesern darüber hinaus viel Raum für eigenes Träumen lassen. Es geht in den Gedichten um den Fluss des Lebens, um Liebe, Sehnsucht, Zerstörung und Hoffnung. Rea Revekka Poulharidous Lyrik... Read more

Orte der Liebe - Abridged

By: Barbara Krohn

Narrated by: Barbara Krohn

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Barbara Krohn hat sich primär als Autorin von Kriminalromanen einen Namen gemacht. Und doch sind "Der Tote unter der Piazza", "Weg vom Fenster" und "Rosas Rückkehr" (alle Aufbau-Verlagsgruppe) nur ein Teil im Schaffen von Barbara Krohn. "Vor allem dient ihr die Tugend des genauen Hinsehens dazu, atmosphärisch dichte Porträts zu zeichnen:... Read more

Die schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten der deutschen Literatur - Abridged

By: Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodor Storm, Hans Chritia...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

CD 1: Theodor Storm, der Vertreter des deutschen literarischen Realismus schlechthin, nimmt sich hier des überaus romantisierten Themas Weihnachten an. Weihnachtsabend I: "An die hellen Fenster kommt er gegangen..." (Gedicht) Unter dem Tannenbaum (Erzählung) Weihnachtsabend II: "Die fremde Stadt durchschritt ich sorgenvoll..."... Read more

Die schönsten Gedichte - Abridged

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die schönsten Gedichte von der Klassik bis zur Neuromantik! Werke Johann Wolfgang von Goethes, Friedrich Schillers, Theodor Fontanes, Rainer Maria Rilkes und vieler anderer werden überragend von Sven Görtz gelesen. Sven Görtz wird am 13. November 1967 im Westerwald geboren. Er studierte Philosophie, Anglistik und Germanistik in Gießen. Neben... Read more

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Leo Tolstoy is quite simply one of the greatest writers to ever set pen to paper. Immortalized by such epic novels as War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's genius was also readily apparent in his short fiction. The Death of Ivan Ilych follows the career of the unremarkable title character, who does not question his desire to live an "easy,... Read more

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When Hank Morgan is cracked on the head by a crowbar in 19th-century Connecticut, one of literature's most extraordinary fantasy tales begins to unfold. Humorous, devilishly insightful, and resoundingly contemporary, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court remains one of the most celebrated stories in the canon of American writing. Awakening... Read more

Heinrich Heine - Gedichte - Abridged

By: Heinrich Heine

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Heinrich Heines Gedichtswerk stellt das Zentrum seines umfangreichen literarischen Schaffens dar. In seiner Lyrik zeigt sich der 1797 in Düsseldorf geborene Dichter in seiner ganzen inhaltlichen wie stilistischen Vielfalt: heiter und ausgelassen, politisch engagiert, traurig, romantisch und ironisch, stets voller Esprit und Wohlklang. Heine ist... Read more

Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mark Twain wurde von seinen Lesern geliebt, weil er es wie kein zweiter verstand, Gesellschaftskritik in humoristische Erzählungen zu verpacken. Viele seiner Geschichten leben vom Lokalkolorit und erzählen von Personen und Ereignissen, die, obgleich im ernsten Ton geschrieben, schier unglaublich sind - und es auch sein sollen. Besonderes... Read more

Galgenlieder - Abridged

By: Christoph Morgenroth

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bevor Christian Morgenstern, in München geboren, sich dem Studium der Philosophie und Kunstgeschichte zuwandte, hatte er Volkswirtschaft und Jura studiert. Danach zog es ihn zur Poesie: Die grotesk-absurde Heiterkeit seiner 75 Galgenlieder, die von manchen auch als "Unsinnslyrik" bezeichnet wurde, fand schnell eine große Anhängerschaft. Die... Read more