Classics audiobooks

The Courtship of Miles Standish

By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Complete and unabridged, and read with meticulous care, in this story Miles Standish and John Alden both seek the hand of the fair Priscilla. See the Mayflower abandon the first settlers as it returns to England. Feel the heated vision of the Indians, perpetually keeping their watch in the dark forest. Love and adventure collide in one of... Read more

Eternal Chalice

By: Monica Brzezinski Potkay

Narrated by: Monica Brzezinski Potkay

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The goal of this course is to provide an overview of the many different ways writers of fiction and nonfiction have imagined, and reimagined, the object known as the Grail. We'll look at how the Grail was invented as a powerful literary symbol in the late 12th and early 13th centuries by a group of medieval romancers who celebrated the Grail as... Read more

The Graduate

By: Charles Webb

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for the acclaimed 1967 film, this novel about a naïve college graduate adrift in the shifting social and sexual mores of the 1960s captures with hilarity and insight the alienation of youth and the disillusionment of an era.When Benjamin Braddock graduates from college and moves back to his parents’ house, everyone wants to know what... Read more

The Reader

By: Bernhard Schlink

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.

When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time... Read more

The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated by: various narrators, Ric Jerrom, Cameron Stewart,...

Length: 22 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language—and for good reason: it is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language has rendered... Read more

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Harlan Ellison

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This 1871 sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll’s inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Whereas the first book has the deck of cards as a theme, this book is loosely based on a game of chess, played on a giant chessboard with fields for squares. Alice encounters talking flowers, madcap kings and... Read more

The Invisible Man

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

On a freezing February day, a stranger emerges from out of the gray to request a room at a local provincial inn. Who is this out-of-season traveler? More confounding is the thick mask of bandages obscuring his face. Why does he disguise himself in this manner and keep himself hidden away in his room?Aroused by trepidation and curiosity, the... Read more

Look Homeward, Angel

By: Thomas Wolfe

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 26 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving are fueled by a prodigious appetite for drink. "... rich and ambitious and intensely... Read more

Favorite Stories of Christmas Past, with eBook

By: Louisa May Alcott, Christopher Andersen, Franci...

Narrated by: Renée Raudman & Alan Sklar

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Tantor Media presents a collection of some of the most popular Christmas stories read by award-winning narrators Renée Raudman and Alan Sklar. This special anthology will transport listeners back to the Christmases of their youth, when they first heard these holiday tales. From "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," Clement C. Moore's classic... Read more

The Once and Future King

By: Thomas Hanbury White

Narrated by: Neville Jason

Length: 33 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The complete box set of T.H. White’s magnificent retelling of the Arthurian legend. The novel is made up of five parts: The Sword in the Stone, The Witch in the Wood, The Ill-Made Knight, The Candle in the Wind, and The Book of Merlyn. Humane, warmly funny and deeply touching, White’s epic fantasy novel is a true classic. Read more

The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world’s most famous intellectual ghost stories, The Turn of the Screw is a haunting tale of suspected supernatural possession. A governess at a country house claims that Miles and Flora, two orphaned children in her care, are being controlled by spirits for some evil purpose. No one else can see the ghosts, and the children themselves... Read more

The Riddle of the Sands

By: Erskine Childers

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret German plot to invade England. Widely recognized as the first modern spy thriller, this lone masterpiece by World War I Royal Navy officer Erskine Childers was written in 1903 as a wake-up call to the British government to attend to its North Sea... Read more

More Favorite Stories of Christmas Past

By: Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Cha...

Narrated by: Simon Prebble & Joyce Bean

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Tantor Media presents a collection of some of the most popular Christmas stories read by two award-winning narrators. This special anthology will transport listeners back to the Christmases of their youth, when they first heard these holiday tales. From Henry Van Dyke's classic Christmas blessing, "Keeping Christmas," to Charles Dickens's... Read more

The Mark of the Beast

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

When a carousing Englishman disgraces the consecrated effigy of Hanuman, a leprous "Silver Man" marks him with a hideous curse. The ensuing night brings new terrors to the house of the doomed man. Read more

Casa Di Bambola

By: Henrik Ibsen

Narrated by: Teresa Ciampolini & Claudia Giannelli

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Un dramma sulle condizioni e contraddizioni delle donne. Read more

The Hand

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A withered, shriveled, severed human hand is kept chained in a corner. The "owner" of this morbid trophy always keeps three loaded revolvers in the same room. Nothing seems too suspicious until the hand is mysteriously reclaimed. Read more

The Glass Bead Game

By: Hermann Hesse

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 21 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literatureSet in the twenty-third century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his... Read more

Serena

By: Ron Rash

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive in North Carolina to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her... Read more

Der kleine Prinz

By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Narrated by: Lorenz Christian Köhler, Bruno Ganz, Armin Rohd...

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Hörspiel mit vielen bekannten Schauspielern, die den Figuren aus dem kleinen Prinzen ihre Stimme gaben. Die Inszenierung orientiert sich eng an der Vorlage des Autors, verzichtet aber keineswegs auf eigene Akzente. In bester Theatertradition werden einige Abläufe dramaturgisch verändert, um deren Sinn zu verdeutlichen und den Zuhörern ein... Read more

The Four Feathers

By: A. E. W. Mason

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Just before his regiment sails off to war in the Sudan, British officer Harry Feversham resigns his commission, wanting desperately to be free of his family’s proud military heritage and terrified of risking his life. He is immediately given four white feathers as symbols of cowardice, one by each of his three best friends and one by his... Read more

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Button was literally born an old man. He lived a backwards life, for his body grew younger as the years passed him by. Come and listen to the original, unabridged story by F. Scott Fitzgerald which inspired the movie. Read more

Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the great masterpieces of Western literature, Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars. Though the stormy, vengeful god of the ocean is determined to keep him off course, Odysseus is clever and has the brilliant goddess Athena on his side. With wit,... Read more

Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 25 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless.The Iliad can justly be called the world's greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy... Read more

Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Often considered the greatest epic in any modern language, Paradise Lost tells the story of the revolt of Satan, his banishment from Heaven, and the ensuing fall of Man with his expulsion from Eden. It is a tale of immense drama and excitement, of innocence pitted against corruption, of rebellion and treachery, in which God and Satan fight a... Read more