Classics audiobooks

Twenty Years After

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 27 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1845 as a sequel to The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.Two decades have passed since the three musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for... Read more

The Titan

By: Theodore Dreiser

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 19 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Titan is the second volume in what the author called his “trilogy of desire,” featuring the character of Frank Cowperwood—a powerful, irresistibly compelling man driven by his own need for power, beautiful women, and social prestige.Having married his former mistress, Aileen Butler, and moved to Chicago, Cowperwood almost succeeds in his... Read more

The Call of the Canyon, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the master of the western comes a tale of love tested by the rugged life of the American Southwest. Carley Burch, a beautiful young woman, must leave her glamorous high-society life of New York to follow her fiance, Glenn Kilbourne, to the rugged Wild West. She braves fierce ruffians, brutal elements, and lack of civilization in an attempt... Read more

The Decameron

By: Giovanni Boccaccio

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 29 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1348, the year of the Black Death, seven ladies and three gentlemen escape the dying, corrupt city of Florence to pass ten days in the hills of Fiesole telling each other stories. Reveling in their enchanted dreamworld of beauty and luxury, they take turns playing king or queen for the day, with the designated ruler naming the stipulations... Read more

The Lost World, with eBook

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

On a zoology expedition up the Amazon River, Professor Challenger makes an inexplicable discovery. Back in London, his claims are ridiculed throughout the professional community. Reluctantly, he recounts to journalist Edward Malone, "Curupuri is the spirit of the woods, something terrible, something malevolent, something to be avoided. None can... Read more

The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories, with eBook

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective fiction genre with his mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to solving crime, these tales brought Poe fame and fortune. Years later, Dorothy Sayers would describe "The Murders in the Rue... Read more

The Signalman

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A man seeks answers to his premonitions of approaching doom. Read more

The Open Window

By: Saki

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An old family ghost story may have more truth to it than one man can handle. Read more

The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A house servant is bewitched by his master's vulture-like eye. Read more

The Outsider

By: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A lonely man struggles to escape his solitary prison. Read more

August Heat

By: William Harvey

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An artist unknowingly foretells his own doom presented by Renegade Arts Entertainment. Read more

The Beast with Five Fingers

By: William Harvey

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Evil, made flesh and bone, in a human hand, unceasingly torments one man. Read more

Little Lord Fauntleroy

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"The best version of the Cinderella story in modern idiom that exists," is how Marghanita Laski describes Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy. It is the charming story of a seven-year-old American boy, Ceddie Errol, who lives on the edge of poverty in New York. One day he is visited by a gruff lawyer at the tiny house he shares with... Read more

The Diary of a Nobody

By: George Grossmith & Weedon Grossmith

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Says Charles Pooter, “I fail to see—because I do not happen to be a ‘somebody’—why my diary should not be interesting.” Surprisingly, Mr. Pooter’s life is fascinating. The fascination is two-fold: firstly, his astounding arrogance that we should care about his domestic trivia and narcissistic scribblings. Secondly, we can all sympathize with... Read more

The Aunt and Amabel

By: E. Nesbit

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Journey to the roots of Narnia. C.S. Lewis enjoyed the writings of E. Nesbit from the time he was a child. And the story of Amabel and her journey through a mahogany wardrobe so struck him, that he later created his whimsical masterpiece, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Discover the tale that inspired the great C.S. Lewis, and journey to... Read more

Thuvia, Maid of Mars, with eBook

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fourth novel of Edgar Rice Burroughs's popular Barsoom series, the focus shifts from John Carter, Warlord of Mars, and Dejah Thoris of Helium (protagonists of the first three books in the series) to their son, Carthoris, prince of Helium, and Thuvia, princess of Ptarth.



When Thuvia is abducted, blame is cast upon Carthoris. But both are... Read more

The Chessmen of Mars, with eBook

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Tara, Princess of Helium—beautiful, fiery-tempered, and impetuous—found that following a whim could be dangerous. Lost in her flier in the midst of a Martian tempest, she was at the mercy of the mad wind and could only pray to be set down unharmed. Her hope of survival in the ancient, mysterious region of Barsoom would have been small indeed had... Read more

Orgoglio E Pregiudizio

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Claudia Giannelli

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Tutti ormai conoscono questo romanzo che ha ispirato più volte il grande schermo, con Laurence Olivier o Donald Sutherland e Keira Knithley, e che rappresenta, con un umorismo tutto inglese, la vita dell’alta borghesia che fa da sfondo ad una storia d’amore in una società dove un buon matrimonio e l’ambizione è l’obbiettivo di tutte le donne. Read more

The Hobbit

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. Bilbo Baggins, a gentle hobbit who loves the comforts of home, reluctantly joins a company of dwarves on a journey to recover plundered gold from a fierce dragon. It's a tale of high adventure and astonishing courage—and a magical prelude to the Lord of the Rings... Read more

The Last of the Mohicans

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1757, the English and French are engaged in a savage, bloody war for control of the North American continent. Making tenuous, shifting alliances with various Indian tribes, the two European powers struggle to gain the upper hand on unfamiliar, forested battlegrounds.Caught in the middle is Hawkeye, a white scout who was raised among the... Read more

The Secret Adversary, with eBook

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Some secret plans have survived the sinking of the Lusitania, and amateur sleuths Tommy and Tuppence are on the trail of international spies in order to recover them. "Young Adventurers Limited" is a brand new private detective agency, set up by the dashing Tommy Beresford and the resourceful Tuppence Cowley. Their first assignment is to track... Read more

Amerika

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A Brilliant new translation of the great writer’s least Kafkaesque novel, based on a German-language text that was produced by a team of international scholars and that is more faithful to Kafka’s original manuscript than anything we have had before. With the same expert balance of precision and nuance that marked his translation of Kafka’s The... Read more

Riders of the Purple Sage, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A gentile sage rider is about to be whipped by the Mormons to coerce the rich and beautiful Jane Withersteen to marry against her will. In desperation, Jane whispers a prayer, "Whence cometh my help!" Just then, an unlikely hero, the infamous gunfighter Lassiter, routs the persecutors and is drawn into this conflict on the Utah-Arizona... Read more

The Mysterious Affair at Styles, with eBook

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Essex in the English countryside, The Mysterious Affair at Styles is one of the great classic murder mysteries. The victim, Mrs. Emily Inglethorp, is the wealthy mistress of Styles Court. After an evening of entertaining family and guests, she is found poisoned in her locked bedroom. The long list of suspects includes her gold-digging new... Read more