Classics audiobooks

The Secret Adversary

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Just after World War I, Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley are desperately short of money.With a shortage of job opportunities, they form a partnership, hiring themselves out as “young adventurers, willing to do anything, go anywhere.” In their first dangerous assignment, they must use all their ingenuity to save not only their own lives but... Read more

Il Castigamatti

By: Eugenia "La Sfinge" Codronchi Argeli

Narrated by: Bibo Fossa

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

La nemica inerme, "La virtù calunniata" e "Il marito di Laura. Intrighi e vicissitudini che si svolgono in luoghi di villeggiatura. Read more

Mund auf, Wort raus - Abridged

By: Patrick Armbruster, Simon Chen, Tom Combo, Dani...

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein Land, ein Wort: Poetry Slam in der Schweiz: Seit Ende der 1990er-Jahre lesen auch in der Schweiz Poetinnen und Poeten an Poetry Slams um die Wette. Inzwischen ist der Dichterwettstreit eine Selbst- verständlichkeit im Kulturbetrieb, die Szene so gross wie noch nie. Von Aarau bis Zofingen, in grossen Städten und kleinen Dörfern finden... Read more

Krneta, Greis & Apfelböck: Winnetou Bühler - Abridged

By: Guy Krneta & Jakob Apfelböck

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hier treffen zwei auf den ersten Blick unterschiedliche Künstler aufeinander: der Schriftsteller Guy Krneta und der Rapper Greis. Gemeinsam mit dem Musiker Jakob Apfelböck entsteht dabei weder Rap noch Literatur, sondern beides zuammen: Literaptur. Erzählt wird die Legende von Winnetou Bühler, Sohn der Comic-Zeichnerin Maya Bühler und des... Read more

Moby-Dick

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 23 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the great works of American literature, Moby-Dick is the epic tale of one man’s fight against a force of nature.The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship. The Pequod sails under the command of the one-legged Captain Ahab, who has set himself on a... Read more

Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English (1922)

By: author

Narrated by: Joy Gelardi

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An unusual treatise on sex education, dating back to 1922 in America. There is a strong bias towards abstinence and indeed there are threats of hellfire and brimstone as a result of, shall we say, 'interference'? With its hectoring tone and finger wagging stance, it is alarming to think that this book was treated as a serious authority on the... Read more

The Selfish Giant, The Happy Prince

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Joy Gelardi

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar Wilde (1854 –1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.

This audiobook brings together two of his well known short stories. In ‘The... Read more

Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic novel has been thrice adapted for the screen by the BBC. Mary Smith relates the story of her time with middle-aged spinster sisters Miss Matty and Miss Deborah. Witty, poignant, and often ironic, Cranford is the tale of what these two women will do to remain respectable, proper, and kind with only moderate means. "... an extremely... Read more

Three Men in a Boat

By: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’ve never read anything by Jerome K. Jerome, you’d be well advised to heed this warning by the Glasgow Herald: “It would be dangerous to [listen to] this book in any place––say a full railway compartment––where the reader was not at perfect liberty to laugh as loudly and as long as he chose.” The passage of time has not altered that... Read more

Odyssey of the West II

By: Timothy B. Shutt

Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universi- ties. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures dis- cussed. The lectures address a... Read more

Odyssey of the West I

By: Timothy B. Shutt

Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures discussed. The lectures address-in... Read more

Meditations on First Philosophy

By: Rene Descartes

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark in the history of thought, RenE Descartes' Meditations helped bring critical thinking and skepticism to the Western world. Modern philosophers are still captivated by Descartes' radical and controversial departure from his previous beliefs, which has both inspired reverence and provoked anger. Read more

Hard Times, with eBook

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Red brick, machinery, and smoke-darkened chimneys. Reason, facts, and statistics. This is the world of Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dickens's most powerful and unforgettable novels.

The highest priority for Thomas Gradgrind, head of the Gradgrind model day school, is his version of education—feeding... Read more

Martin Eden

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 16 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The phrase ‘this book will change your life’ has become one of the clichés of the publishing world but ‘Martin Eden’ is certainly a novel that merits that observation.Set in turn of the century San Francisco, Jack London’s semi-autobiographical narrative tells of working class sailor Eden’s struggle to elevate himself to a level of society... Read more

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Hans Conried

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete unabridged version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of "pirates and buried gold". Read more

Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship between art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media generally, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American... Read more

Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Emma Bovary is a sensuous, sentimental young woman whose romantic ideals make her dissatisfied with her humdrum married life. Attempting to escape into an exciting world of passion and dreams, she drifts into sordid affairs with Rodolphe Boulanger and Léon Dupuis. The first of these lovers, an older man, dominates the affair, while the second,... Read more

The Ugly Duckling and Other Stories

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Uncredited

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a collection of four of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, Thumbellina and The Constant Tin Soldier.  Read more

Смок Беллью

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Dmitry Tairov

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Издание включает сборник рассказов выдающегося американского писателя Джека Лондона (1876-1916 гг.) о приключениях Кристофера Беллью во время Клондайкской "золотой лихорадки".
Действие происходит в конце XIX века в США. В 1896 году Америку охватила золотая лихорадка, на Аляске были найдены богатые золотые россыпи. Тысячи искателей приключений... Read more

The Nightingale Collection

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Tom Bosley

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Bosley continues to mesmerize children of all ages in performing the classic tale of The Nightingale. We travel to ancient China and participate in the search for the only creature who could make the miserable emperor happy. The Nightingale Collection also includes such classics as Windbird and the Sun, The Tinderbox, The Steadfast Tin... Read more

How Fear Came

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

During a drought, Mowgli and the animals gather at a shrunken river for a “water truce,” during which Hathi the elephant tells the story of how the first tiger got his stripes. Read more

The Moonstone

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 19 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This is heralded as the very first mystery novel. Collins, in his great work, created the guidelines for the genre as we know it today: a fabulous diamond stolen, everyone in the house is suspected, three mysterious Indians sworn to protect the jewel at all costs, the upstairs/downstairs tension from the servants, and a brilliant detective who... Read more

A Princess of Mars

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This novel was first published episodically in 1912, a year before Burroughs released Tarzan of the Apes, which would catapult him to international fame. This novel helped to define an emerging genre: science fiction.

John Carter, Confederate Civil War veteran, is mysteriously transported to Mars, where he finds that the new environment gives him... Read more

Captain Blood

By: Raphael Sabatini

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Doctor. Scholar. Soldier. Peter Blood has been all these. But when he is exiled and sold unjustly into slavery, he finds there is another title he must own - Pirate. Now a man without a country, he wreaks his revenge upon the Spanish Main as a buccaneer. The only thing that saves him from absolute dissolution is the love he still harbors for... Read more