Classics audiobooks

House of Mirth - Abridged

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Joanna Cassidy

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

House of Mirth is centered on Lily Bart, a New York socialite who attempts to secure a husband and a place in affluent society. It was one of the first novels of manners to emerge in American literature. 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

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 Three Musketeers - Abridged

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Louis Jourdan

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brave, impulsive and infinitely susceptible, D'Artagnan triumphs on the duelling ground and in the boudoir by virtue of his charm, his wit and skills at arms. When these resources prove insufficient his faithful friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis, the Three Musketeers, save the day. Read more

Billy Budd - Abridged

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Billy Budd, a paragon of simple goodness and virile beauty, is press-ganged into the crew of HMS Indomitable in 1797, soon after the mutiny in the British fleet. Billy is popular with everyone on board except Claggart, the master-at-arms, a depraved and wicked man. His malice towards Billy results in a death, a court-martial and an execution at... 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

Far From the Madding Crowd - Abridged

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Julie Christie

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Thomas Hardy's novel is about a British farm girl and her effect on the men who fall in love with her. This rebellious young woman finds her affections a cause for competition between a soldier, a wealthy landowner, and a modest sheep farmer. Read more

Great Expectations - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Tom Baker

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here is the story of Pip and his mysterious rise from abused orphan to gentleman. Magwitch, the brutal convict, withered Miss Havisham, still wearing her yellowed wedding gown, and the heartless and beautiful Estella, are vibrant characters. Listen in to this superb story told with typical Dickensian warmth and humor and woven around... Read more

Northanger Abbey - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Joanna Lumley

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jane Austen skewers the novelistic extremes of her day made popular in many 18th-century Gothic potboilers. Dilapidated castles, locked rooms, inexplicable chests, enigmatic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly sardonic twist. Read more

The Sea Wolf - Abridged

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Theodore Bickel

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The is a tale of Humphrey Van Weydon, unwilling captive and crewman on a sealing ship of cutthroats, thrown in with the treacherous outcasts that man the ship, and ruled by Wolf Larsen - the Sea Wolf, a brooding, violent brute... the captain. Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Robby Benson

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mark Twain's lively tale of the adventures of boyhood is set in Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of escapades many boys can only imagine along with trying to impress girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost (and saved) in a cave, and playing on the... Read more

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Abridged

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Donald Pickering

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dr. Jekyll is a caring doctor who experiments with drugs because he's certain that within each man lurk impulses for both good and evil. He soon discovers a drug to liberate the evil side within himself, becoming the hard drinking, woman-chasing Mr. Hyde. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the formula, unable to control the violent and unstable... Read more

Dracula - Abridged

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Donald Pickering

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Castle Dracula, and its infamous inhabitant Count Dracula, are known to people throughout the world whether or not they are familiar with Bram Stoker's 1897 novel. So powerful was Bram Stoker's portrayal of the ancient vampire legend that his has become the definitive version. 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

The Gift of the Magi/The Last Leaf

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A poor young couple demonstrates the meaning of love and self-sacrifice in the Christmas Classic, "The Gift of the Magi". Also included is "The Last Leaf". This tale follows a young woman artist who is stricken with pneumonia. She watches the leafy vine opposite her window with hollow eyes, and she determines to stay alive until the last leaf... Read more

The House of Mirth, with eBook

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming one of the many women who will succeed in those circles. Though her desire for a comfortable life means that she cannot marry for love without money, her... Read more

The Moviegoer

By: Walker Percy

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A winner of the National Book Award, The Moviegoer established Walker Percy as an insightful and grimly humorous storyteller. It is the tale of Binx Bolling, a small-time stockbroker who lives quietly in suburban New Orleans, pursuing an interest in the movies, affairs with his secretaries, and living out his days. But soon he finds himself on a... Read more

The Bible and the Roots of Western Literature

By: Adam Potkay & Monica Brzezinski Potkay

Narrated by: Adam Potkay

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bible is renowned as a rich source of myth and parable, prose and poetry. Indeed, much of Western Literature owes an enormous debt to the unique and widely varied writings in this important religious text. Read more

Children’s Stories by Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Stephen Fry

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable Children’s short stories written by one of our most successful playwrights of all time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital download only. Immerse yourself in a... Read more

The Castle

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This edition of Kafka's terrifying and comic masterpiece is the product of an international team of experts who used Kafka's original text and notes to render this story as close to the author's vision as possible. Kafka's final novel tells the haunting tale of a man's relentless struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the... Read more

Atlas Shrugged

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 62 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for... Read more

Short stories by Anton Chekhov

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Stephen Fry

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories of our time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital download only. Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more... Read more