Classics audiobooks

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

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

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 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

Beauty and the Beast

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Catherine O'Hara

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A daughter accepted captivity for the love of her father. A new love stirred that was blind to the ugliness of the beast. Read more

Kaa's Hunting

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Mowgli is abducted by monkeys. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther set out to rescue him with the aid of Chil the Kite and Kaa the python. Read more

The Oval Portrait

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Victor Garber

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The story involves a young woman haunted by the vengeful spirit of a young bride, whose soul had been trapped for decades within the woman's portrait (painted by her insane husband). 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

Eclipse of the Crescent Moon

By: Géza Gárdonyi

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 19 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1541, and the crown of Hungary is up for grabs. King John, seeing that the Austrians are attacking with an innumerable force, petitions the Turks for assistance. King John then dies, leaving an infant son. While the Turkish army is en route, the Hungarians rally their forces, and beat back the Austrians themselves. Then, just as the... Read more

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Dick Cavett

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of the greatest of all American classic tales, Huck Finn can no longer stand his life at home so he fakes his own death. While camping, he discovers the runaway slave, Jim. Together, Huck and Jim travel down the mighty Mississippi River in a series of adventures with a cast of unforgettable characters. Read more

A Tale of Two Cities - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Tom Baker

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set against the bloody background of the French Revolution, this is perhaps Dickens' most famous work. Doctor Manette, his devoted daughter Lucie, and the young French aristocrat Charles Darnay are memorable characters. Above all the others rises the reckless Sidney Carton, whose selfless love makes him one of literature's great heroes. Read more

The Last of the Mohicans - Abridged

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: Theodore Bickel

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In danger of Indian raids at all times, a small party of colonial Americans flee before the British and their Indian allies during the French and Indian wars. Hawkeye, the scout, is the great figure in this classic story; the climax comes in the tragic encounter between two rival Indians, Magwa and Uncas, the last Mohican chief. Read more

Alice in Wonderland - Abridged

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Catherine O'Hara

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Join Alice as she goes down into the mysterious rabbit hole and then enters a land of wonder and curiosity. This all-time classic tale by Lewis Carroll as told by Catherine O’Hara will simply delight and enchant every listener. Read more

The Red Badge of Courage - Abridged

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Richard Crenna

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Red Badge of Courage is a masterpiece about a young private in the Union Army whose youthful enthusiasm about the glory of battle gives way to increasing doubt and worry that when he comes to be tested in his first encounter on the battlefield, he will be found deficient of courage. Read more

Lord Jim - Abridged

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Simon McCorkindale

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jim is a young and naive clerk on a cargo ship plying Asian waters. He harbors romantic fantasies of adventure and heroism which are promptly scuttled one night when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink. Stripped of his seaman's license, convinced of his own cowardice, Jim sets out on a tragic and transcendent search for... Read more

Moby Dick - Abridged

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: George Kennedy

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

"Call me Ishmael." Ishmael, a sailor, recounts the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab, who is in search of the white whale that crippled him. Herman Melville uses stylized language, symbolism, and metaphor to explore a variety of complex themes. Moby Dick is considered one of the greatest novels in the English... Read more

The Call of the Wild - Abridged

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Theodore Bickel

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Call of the Wild is one of the most powerful dog stories ever told, the story of Buck, a dog born to luxury but stolen and sold as a sledge dog. Buck is a proud dog who escapes captivity and rises magnificently above all his enemies to become one of the most feared and admired dog in the North. Read more

White Fang - Abridged

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Theodore Bickel

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

His world was the cruel, savage world of the wild. His introduction to the "man-gods" was brutal and bloody. White Fang was forced to accept a way of life innate to his kind-kill or be killed, destroy or be destroyed and in him developed a hatred so strong that no man or beast could tame him. Until Weedon Scott. Read more

A Little Princess - Abridged

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrated by: Julie Harris

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sara Crew is the spoiled little daughter of rich parents. After her mother's death she is sent to a “Select Seminary For Young Ladies”.Then, Sara suddenly loses her father and money and faces the misery of existing on charity. Read more

Wuthering Heights - Abridged

By: Emily Brontë

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Heathcliff was to serve as the name for the ragged, dark-skinned orphan whom Mr. Earnshaw found abandoned in the streets of Liverpool and took home to live with his own children, Cathy and Hindley, at Wuthering Heights. The stormy life of the mysterious Heathcliff, his love for Cathy and his relationships with the people who lived at Wuthering... Read more

Pride and Prejudice - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Jane Lapotaire

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of the greatest of all English novels, a finely etched satire about the scatterbrained Mrs. Bennett whose aim in life is to see her five daughters married. Meet Jane Austen's rich and varied characters: the proud Mr. Darcy; the pompous parson Mr. Collins, who seeks the most advantageous match for himself; good-humored Mr. Bingley; and, of... Read more

The Scarlet Pimpernel - Abridged

By: Baroness Orczy

Narrated by: Simon Williams

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Paris, 1792 and the French Revolution. The guillotine claims lives each day. But working in ever-changing disguise is the Scarlet Pimpernel and his band of meddlesome Englishmen. Read more

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Christopher Plummer

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1827, Arthur Gordon Pym stowed away on the brig Grampus, set for the South Seas. Thus, begins a saga of mutiny and butchery, recapture of the vessel by a loyal few, subsequent shipwreck and sufferings, and deliverance.   Read more

David Copperfield - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Callow

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

David Copperfield was Dickens's favorite novel. Strikingly autobiographical in its childhood scenes, it relates David's history from birth to manhood, and the classic Dickensian characters he meets on his journey of self-knowledge: Mr. Micawber, the Peggottys, Betsey Trotwood, Steerforth and Uriah Heep among many. Read more