Classics audiobooks

The Golden Scorpion, with eBook

By: Sax Rohmer

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Four brilliant men have died mysteriously—and the only clue is the carved tail of a golden scorpion left beside their bodies. The man behind the horror calls himself "The Scorpion," and he is clearly a man of superior cunning. When the finest detectives of France and England—Gaston Max and Inspector Dunbar—join forces to stop the Scorpion before... Read more

La Odisea

By: Homero

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Desde que Homero contó las andanzas y desventuras de Ulises, el hombre occidental conoce dos expresivas metáforas sobre la vida del hombre y su destino: el viaje y el mar, ese espacio mágico donde todo puede ocurrir. Esta edición ofrece el texto de "La Odisea" centrándose en los episodios que hacen avanzar la acción y suprimiendo aquellos que la... Read more

La Vuelta al Mundo en 80 Días

By: Julio Verne

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

La obra, protagonizada por Rubén Stella, Chichilo Viale, Rolando Agüero y Jorge Mansilla, relata las aventuras del joven Felipe y su atolondrado acompañante Picaporte, en su intento por dar la vuelta al mundo en 80 días. En esta nueva versión, la historia se colma de ingredientes cómicos y desopilantes. Read more

La Ilíada

By: Homero

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

La Ilíada es una epopeya griega y el poema más antiguo escrito de la literatura occidental, atribuido tradicionalmente a Homero. Narra la historia del héroe griego Aquiles quien es ofendido por su superior, Agamenón, retirándose por esto de la batalla. Una recreación dramática de la contienda entre griegos y troyanos. Read more

DragonKnight

By: Donita K. Paul

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Before vowing his allegiance to Wulder as a knight, Bardon heads to the mountains for solitude. His life is suddenly complicated by a woman and her granddaughter, N’Rae, on a mission to rescue the woman’s son trapped in a chamber of sleep. Bardon learns that more of Paladin’s knights are imprisoned—and suspects one of them is Dragon Keeper... Read more

Lifeguard

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

The Bulgarian Poetess

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

The Family Meadow

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Foreword

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Gesturing

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Killing

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Ace in the Hole

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

The Orphaned Swimming Pool

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

The Persistence of Desire

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Snowing in Greenwich Village

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Your Lover Just Called

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Lot No. 249

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Unexplained events are happening at Oxford these days. Several students have been attacked at night by some strange form of wild animal. It can scale walls with cat-like agility. Its arms are as thin and as strong as steel bands. And there is one student who conducts midnight studies in his room with certain Egyptian artifacts. The most... Read more

The Dream Woman

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Wake up! Wake up, there! Murder!” A hostler spits out these vehement words while he turbulently sleeps. He is haunted by a phantasm. It is a phantasm with a droop in the left eye, long flaxen hair, and a long buckhorn clasp knife. Read more

Jane Eyre - Abridged

By: Charlotte Bronte

Narrated by: Penelope Wilton

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jane begins life penniless and plain: an unlikely romantic heroine. But she is as indomitable in spirit as she is frail in appearance. Taking a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall, her relationship with her employer, the enigmatic Mr Rochester intensifies, until she is forced to choose between the desires of her heart and the demands of a... Read more

A Princess of Mars

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Ex–Confederate Army captain John Carter finds himself suddenly and unwittingly transported to Mars while fleeing Apache Indians. This new world is populated by a race of monstrous Martians whose culture is based on the ability to fight for their race. Captured by the savage green men of Thark, John discovers that the gravitational difference... Read more

The Time Machine

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Full Cast, Robert Glenister & William Gaunt

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Wells' thrilling story of an inventor who travels in time and discovers a nightmarish dystopian future has been adapted several times for TV and film. This first ever UK radio adaptation, starring Robert Glenister as the Time Traveller and William Gaunt as H. G. Wells, brings Wells' fascinating ideas and extraordinary visions to vivid life. It... Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Since Doyle created the immortal Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, no other mystery writer has come close to eclipsing him as the standard bearer in crime fiction. A brilliant London-based “consulting detective,” Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive... Read more

She

By: Henry Rider Haggard

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Ludwig Horace Holly, a Cambridge professor, travels to Africa with his adopted son Leo to investigate the death of Kallicrates, Leo’s ancestor, who was murdered by an unknown woman centuries before.They encounter the Amahagger, a fierce tribe of cannibals who live in the caves of Kôr, a huge burial ground of an ancient civilisation decimated... Read more