Classics audiobooks

Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories, with eBook

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

You are probably familiar with the popularized stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," but have you heard the original unabridged versions by Washington Irving? His skillfully written and colorful tales have much more meaning and depth. In "Rip Van Winkle," Irving makes a profound social comment about the changes that were... Read more

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

By: Gaston Leroux

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is Gaston Leroux's masterpiece, and it turned out to be his most successful book during his lifetime. It is one of the classics of early-twentieth-century detective fiction.



At the heart of the novel is this enigma: how could a murder take place inside a locked room that shows no sign of being entered? The novel is... Read more

The Baron of Grogswig

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Baron of Grogswig abandons his riotous ways of carousal and gaiety, and settles down - only to discover that simple domesticity is not the peaceful life he had envisioned. But, just when the Baron feels he can't take it any more, an unexpected visitor changes everything. Read more

Monsters, Gods, and Heroes

By: Timothy B. Shutt

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the very outset in the West-from the time of Homer himself in about 750 BCE-the epic has been the most highly regarded of literary genres. It is rivaled only by tragedy, which arose a bit more than two centuries later, as the most respected, the most influential, and, from a slightly different vantage point, the most prestigious mode of... Read more

God's Trombones

By: James Weldon Johnson

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson 

James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God's Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational... Read more

Les Miserables - Abridged

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Mark McKerracher

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The classic novel--and hit Broadway show--about escaped convict Jean Valjean has been adapted with easy-to-read text, large type, and short chapters.  This engaging adaptation of the timeless tale is ideal for reluctant readers and kids not yet ready to tackle the original. Read more

Madame Bovary - Abridged

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Claire Bloom

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure... Read more

Howards End - Abridged

By: E. M. Forster

Narrated by: Emma Thompson

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz.

At its heart lie two families—the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the... Read more

Dubliners - Abridged

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Gerald McSorley

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed.  The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound.  The first three stories in... Read more

La danza degli gnomi e altre fiabe

By: Guido Gozzano

Narrated by: Daniela Pieri

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Dall’incipit del libro:

Piumadoro era orfana e viveva col nonno nella capanna del bosco. Il nonno era carbonaio ed essa lo aiutava nel raccattar fascine e nel far carbone. La bimba cresceva buona, amata dalle amiche e dalle vecchiette degli altri casolari, e bella, bella come una regina.
Un giorno di primavera vide sui garofani della sua finestra... Read more

Sterntaler - Weihnachtslieder und Märchen - Abridged

By: Hermann Löns & Hans Chritian Andersen

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sterntaler, beheimatet in Dornburg im Westerwald, ist seit Jahrzehnten führender Hersteller in Sachen Babybekleidung und Spielsachen für Kleinkinder und jede Familie liebt diese wunderschönen und vor allem hochwertigen Produkte. In der Branche bezeichnet man Sterntaler auch als den "Hugo Boss" der Babybekleidung. Auf dieser Produktion... Read more

Küßt mir aus der Brust das Leben - Abridged

By: Heinrich Heine

Narrated by: Ernst Matthias Friedrich

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lyrik und Prosa - gesprochen von Ernst Matthias Friedrich. Das Vergnügen, Heine zu hören, ist unvergleichlich, komplex und vielschichtig, genussreich, aber auch fordernd, aufstörend und verunsichernd. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) war einer der reichsten lyrischen Begabungen der Spätromantik. Zu bewusst und zu gespalten, um sich dem Pathos einer... Read more

An Old Man’s Love

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty-year-old William Whittlestaff becomes guardian to Mary Lawrie, the orphaned and penniless daughter of an old friend, and gradually finds himself falling in love with her. But Mary has already given her heart to the young John Gordon, who has gone to seek his fortune in the Kimberley diamond fields of South Africa. Gordon’s sudden return... Read more

The Return of the Soldier

By: Rebecca West

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When Captain Chris Baldry, a World War I soldier, is sent home with a severe case of shellshock amnesia, he is a stranger to his wife, Kitty, and his adoring cousin, Jenny. Recoiling from the horrors of war and disillusioned with years of superficial married life, his mind has regressed fifteen years, where his heart may take refuge once again... Read more

My Name Is Red

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 20 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, a brilliant symposium on the power of art, and a “modern classic … rich and essential” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)—set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of... Read more

Richard III (Ungekürzt)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Katharina Thalbach

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Richard III", Teil 5 der Shakespeare/Brasch-Edition, ist eines der frühesten historischen Stücke des großen Dramatikers und zugleich eines der blutigsten. Der hässliche und missgebildete Richard, Herzog von Gloster, kennt nur ein Ziel: er will die Krone Englands. Hinterhältig bringt er seine Brüder um, heiratet eine der Witwen, lässt seine... Read more

Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From its sharply satiric opening sentence, Mansfield Park deals with money and marriage, and how strongly they affect each other. Shy, fragile Fanny Price is the consummate "poor relation." Sent to live with her wealthy uncle Thomas, she clashes with his spoiled, selfish daughters and falls in love with his son. Their lives are further... Read more

Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch - Abridged

By: Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Narrated by: Hans Clarin & Rolf Schult

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der große Schelmen- und Abenteuerroman des Barock in einer sprachklugen, musikalischen Hörspielinszenierung: Der einfältigen Tölpel Simplicius wird in den Wirren des 30jährigen Krieges zum Hausnarren des Gouverneurs von Hanau, dann zum Jäger von Soest und schließlich zu einem Weisen. Auf all seinen Stationen hält er der Zeit den Narrenspiegel... Read more

Death In A White Tie - Abridged

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The season had begun. Débutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim.

But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up. He had already planted his friend Lord Robert Gospell at the scene.

But someone else got there... Read more

The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis & a full cast

Length: 20 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

At the Tabard Inn, thirty travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Becket’s shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time and that the host of the inn will judge the tales and reward the best storyteller with a free supper upon their... Read more

The Winter of Our Discontent

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers—a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis

A Penguin Classic

In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an... Read more

Middlemarch, with eBook

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 31 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Middlemarch is a recognized masterpiece that explores the complex social world of nineteenth-century England. It is concerned with the lives of several ordinary people, albeit ones with high social standing.

The novel is set in the small town of Middlemarch and follows the interrelated lives of several characters. At the heart of the book is... Read more

Aus der verrückten Welt des Joachim Ringelnatz - Abridged

By: Joachim Ringelnatz

Narrated by: Erik Grun

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als reisender Artist im Matrosenanzug tingelte Joachim Ringelnatz ab 1920 durch die Kabaretts in ganz Deutschland und trug seine Gedichte vor. Freilich, seine "Turngedichte" und die Erzählungen und Lieder des Seefahrers "Kuttel Daddeldu" waren ausgesprochen erfolgreich. Live war Ringelnatz jedoch schlichtweg umwerfend. Bis er 1933 von den... Read more

The Inimitable Jeeves

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When Bingo falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into the mulligatawny, there's work for a wet nurse. Who better than Jeeves?This is the first Jeeves and Wooster story the author ever wrote. Wodehouse weaves his wit through a wide collection of terrifying aunts, miserly uncles, love-sick friends, and unwanted... Read more