Classics audiobooks

The August Strindberg BBC Radio Collection

By: August Strindberg

Narrated by: Fiona Shaw, Andrew Garfield, Maurice Denham, Pe...

Length: 19 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive selection of August Strindberg’s finest works, featuring an all-star cast and original music

Hailed by Arthur Miller as ‘the mad inventor of modern theatre’, Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, poet and novelist whose groundbreaking works mingled naturalism and psychology and paved the way for Expressionist drama. A... Read more

Immorality Unmasked: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

By: William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Os...

Narrated by: Lenny Henry, Conrad Nelson, David Tennant, Stua...

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC radio dramatisations of classic novels featuring some of literature’s most devious and compelling villainsCunning. Corrupt. Charismatic. The degenerate characters in this collection shun conventional morality, and will stop at nothing to get what they want... These five sensational dramas, set in locations ranging from 16th century Venice to... Read more

A Child's Garden of Verses

By: ‎Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: David Miles

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collectionA Child's Garden of Verses of 64 poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood, from sailing boats down a river, to waiting for the lamplighter, to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination.  Nothing has ever been... Read more

Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Brontë

Narrated by: Selena Simmons

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres (as an adjective, wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent... Read more

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

By: Jonathan Swift

Narrated by: Anna Isaksen

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Dive into the heart of satire with Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a timeless masterpiece that has captivated readers for centuries. Beyond the surface of this enchanting tale of shipwrecks and fantastical realms lies a sharp critique of society, politics, and human nature. Through the extraordinary voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, Swift takes... Read more

Émile Zola: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

By: Emile Zola

Narrated by: Charlotte Riley, David Bradley, Claire Goose, M...

Length: 16 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC radio adaptations of novels and short stories by Émile Zola, plus a fascinating short documentary and an original drama

Novelist, journalist and literature’s greatest whistleblower, Émile Zola was one of the 19th century’s pre-eminent authors. He is renowned for his philosophy of naturalism, which informed his 20-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle,... Read more

The Great Gatsby: The Original 1925 Edition

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Joseph Bayda

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
The novel was inspired by a youthful... Read more

The Space Between Us

By: Mimi Xue

Narrated by: Myriam Berger

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Sophie has a long-held crush on her best friend’s brother. He soon begins to take interest in her, not that it is for good. She struggles to fight between her love for him when she finds realizes there’s a little problem. Will she help him, when he has only been cruel to her? Read more

Tales of the Jazz Age

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Kenneth Elliot

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The collection Tales of the Jazz Age includes the short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald:  The Jelly-Bean May Day Porcelain and Pink Tarquin of Cheapside Oh Russet Witch! The Lees of Happiness Mr. Icky Jemina, The Mountain Girl Read more

Erzählungen und kurze Prosa

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Marco Neumann

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Franz Kafka (1883- 1924) war ein deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller. Sein Hauptwerk bilden neben drei Romanfragmenten (Der Process, Das Schloss und Der Verschollene) zahlreiche Erzählungen. Kafkas Werke wurden zum größeren Teil erst nach seinem Tod und gegen seine letztwillige Verfügung von Max Brod veröffentlicht, einem engen Freund und... Read more

Українська література. Хрестоматія. 6 клас

By: Микола Вороний, Леонід Глібов, Степан Васильчен...

Narrated by: Лючія Свєтлая

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Зміст збірки Хрестоматії з української літератури для 6 класу: - Микола Вороний. «Євшан-зілля»; - Збірка «Із пісенних скарбів»  - Леонід Глібов. Байки;  - Степан Васильченко. «Бусурмен»; - Збірка «Календарно-обрядові пісні»; - Степан Руданський. «Козак і король»; - Спиридон Черкасенко. «Маленький горбань»;  - Павло Глазовий. «Найважча... Read more

All Gold Canyon

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Set in the beauty of the Sierra Nevada mountains, "All Gold Canyon" is at once a depiction of the quotidian realities of a hard-working gold miner's life, a meditation on the fragility of nature in the face of man's ambition, and a thrilling, no-holds-barred tale of Wild West violence.  Read more

Страх

By: Стефан Цвейг

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Новеллы Стефана Цвейга. Золотая классика европейского психологического реализма начала XX века. Их экранизировали гении европейского и американского кино времен его «золотого века»: Роберт Ланд и Макс Офюльс, Этьен Перье и Роберт Сьодмак. На них выросли поколения европейских и российских читателей. Каждая из этих новелл и сейчас восхищает,... Read more

White Fang

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Kenneth Elliot

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London  — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906.  The story details White Fang's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. It is a companion... Read more

The Law of Life

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"The Law of Life" is a short story by the American naturalist writer Jack London. It was first published in McClure's Magazine, Vol.16, March, 1901. In 1902, it was published in a collection of Jack London's stories, The Children of Frost, by Macmillan Publishers. This short story covers the last 5 hours of the old and dying Inuit chief... Read more

Where the Trail Forks

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Where the Trail Forks is a late 19th century work of literature and is fiction. London's main purpose in this text is to entertain his readers by revealing to them an exciting fictitious event. London ties his story in with naturalism by describing natures terrain and landscape in many instances. Throughout the story there are many encounters... Read more

Улица в лунном свете

By: Стефан Цвейг

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Новеллы Стефана Цвейга. Золотая классика европейского психологического реализма начала XX века. Их экранизировали гении европейского и американского кино времен его «золотого века»: Роберт Ланд и Макс Офюльс, Этьен Перье и Роберт Сьодмак. На них выросли поколения европейских и российских читателей. Каждая из этих новелл и сейчас восхищает,... Read more

Летняя новелла

By: Стефан Цвейг

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Новеллы Стефана Цвейга. Золотая классика европейского психологического реализма начала XX века. Их экранизировали гении европейского и американского кино времен его «золотого века»: Роберт Ланд и Макс Офюльс, Этьен Перье и Роберт Сьодмак. На них выросли поколения европейских и российских читателей. Каждая из этих новелл и сейчас восхищает,... Read more

The Heathen

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Heathen" is a short story by the American writer Jack London. It was first published in Everybody's Magazine in August 1910. In the story, two people, from different cultural and racial backgrounds, are the only survivors of a ship that encounters a hurricane in the Pacific, and they remain together. The narrator, a pearl buyer named... Read more

Письмо незнакомки

By: Стефан Цвейг

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Новеллы Стефана Цвейга. Золотая классика европейского психологического реализма начала XX века. Их экранизировали гении европейского и американского кино времен его «золотого века»: Роберт Ланд и Макс Офюльс, Этьен Перье и Роберт Сьодмак. На них выросли поколения европейских и российских читателей. Каждая из этих новелл и сейчас восхищает,... Read more

Фантастическая ночь

By: Стефан Цвейг

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Новеллы Стефана Цвейга. Золотая классика европейского психологического реализма начала XX века. Их экранизировали гении европейского и американского кино времен его «золотого века»: Роберт Ланд и Макс Офюльс, Этьен Перье и Роберт Сьодмак. На них выросли поколения европейских и российских читателей. Каждая из этих новелл и сейчас восхищает,... Read more

The Iron Heel

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Mark Bowen

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The Iron Heel is a science fiction novel novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.  It is considered to be "the earliest of the modern dystopian" fiction, it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. In The Iron Heel, Jack London's socialist views are explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft... Read more

Love of Life

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Joe Phoenix

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack London — a writer whose works are enthusiastically read all over the world. His collection "Love of Life" is one of the brilliant pearls of his Northern stories cycle. Alaska is the place where each person should reveal their own real features. The North makes equal the poor and the rich; the intense cold does not take into account the... Read more

To the Man On the Trail

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"To the Man On the Trail " is a classic adventure short story  by the American writer Jack London, was published in 1900. This is f story about a stranger who stops to rest at Malemute Kid's cabin. He tells the other men a little about himself. A little later, the men hear another story about the stranger from the authorities.  Read more