Classics audiobooks

The Mortal Immortal

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An ancient alchemist drags out his weary life in search of the elixir of immortality. But, when his vengeful assistant quaffs the mixture, he discovers that the effects of the draft of immortality may never wear off. Mary Shelley explores the concept of immortality, following a character that never ages through a ponderous and thought provoking... Read more

Adam Bede

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 19 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

George Eliot's first full-length novel is the moving, realistic portrait of three people troubled by unwise love.Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, who delights only in her baubles—and the delusion that the careless Captain... Read more

Demian

By: Hermann Hesse

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man's quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its 1919 publication. A landmark in the history of twentieth-century literature, it reflects Hermann Hesse's preoccupation with the duality of human nature and the pursuit of spiritual... Read more

The Trial

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Josef K. is an employee at a bank, an Everyman without any particular qualities or ambitions. His inconsequence makes doubly strange his “arrest” by an officer of the court, made with no formal charges or explanation. Disoriented and consumed with guilt for a “crime” he does not understand, Josef K. must justify his life to a “court” with which... Read more

Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Short Stories, with eBook

By: Bret Harte

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Society has forgiven Jo Corbin for killing a man, but can he forgive himself? Will the postmistress lose all in a bid to help a friend escape justice? Will the new teaching assistant's unorthodox ways tame the unruly pioneer children? These are just three of the nine wonderful short stories from Bret Harte, set in wild and woolly... Read more

El Lazarillo de Tormes/ Rinconete y Cortadillo

By: Anonymous & Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Narrated by: Francisco Rivela

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Estos dos clasicos del siglo de oro espanol marcan el comienzo de la novela picaresca. La vida de ambos en Lazarillo de Tormes, y Rinconete y Cortadillo, esta protagonizada por picaros viviendo de su ingenio, sus aventuras y fortunas en ciudades y campos. Conviviendo entre sacerdotes corruptos, asesinos, prostitutas y mendigos. En Lazarillo de... Read more

Heart of Darkness, with eBook

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Horror awaits Charlie Marlow, a seaman assigned by an ivory company to retrieve a cargo boat along with one of its employees, Mr. Kurtz, who is stranded deep in the heart of the Belgian Congo. Marlow's journey up the brooding dark river soon becomes a struggle to maintain his own sanity as he witnesses the brutalization of the natives by white... Read more

The Financier

By: Theodore Dreiser

Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A master of literary naturalism, Dreiser is known for his great intensity and keen journalistic eye as he examines real-life subjects. This powerful novel explores the dynamics of the financial world during the Civil War and after the stock-market panic caused by the Great Chicago Fire.The first in a "trilogy of desire,"The Financiertells the... Read more

The Captain of the Pole Star

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Word goes among the crew of the Pole Star that the captain is haunted by demons. And after the days turn into weeks in the frigid Arctic Ocean, stories begin to circulate of ghosts and midnight hauntings. Read more

Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Shipwrecked and cast ashore on an uninhabited island, Robinson Crusoe ingeniously carves out a solitary, primitive existence for twenty-four years. Eventually, he meets a young native whom he saves from death at the hands of cannibals. He calls him Friday and makes him his companion and servant. Crusoe and Friday share in a variety of... Read more

Poesie unterwegs - Abridged

By: Josepf von Eichendorff, Georg Trakl, Heinrich H...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz & Jürgen Goslar

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ob im Zug, im Auto, im Bus, oder im Flugzeug. Ob der Weg das Ziel ist, das Büro oder die Westküste der USA: Unterwegs sein ist immer etwas Besonderes. Hier sind wir dem Alltagstrott entrissen, hier fühlen und sehen wir ständig Neues - und schärfen somit auch die Sinne für neues Hören. Als idealer Begleiter für unterwegs präsentiert sich das... Read more

Oliver Twist

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 16 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Charles Dickens's most popular novels, Oliver Twist is the story of a young orphan who dares to say, "Please, sir, I want some more." After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins.... Read more

Alice Adams

By: Booth Tarkington

Narrated by: Traci Svendsgaard

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Plucky and romantic Alice tries to rise above the crudities of her hopelessly shabby background in this Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about ambition and self-delusion.The lower-middle class Adams family faces a slow disintegration in a small Midwestern town. Alice, a social climber, is ashamed of her unsuccessful family and determined to... Read more

Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Full Cast & Roy Marsden

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor. Paying no attention to his parents’ warnings he runs away to sea to embark on a series of thrilling adventures: struggles with Barbary pirates, a shipwreck and the extraordinary meeting with Man Friday... Roy Marsden plays the older Robinson Crusoe looking back on a life of... Read more

Journey to the Center of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Geologist Otto Lidenbrock is perusing an ancient Icelandic manuscript when he discovers a mysterious encrypted note. The message reveals the account of a sixteenth-century explorer who claims to have found a passageway to the center of the earth.In his quest to penetrate the planet’s primordial secrets, the impetuous professor, together with his... Read more

Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare on the Fly - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Annie Vollmers

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Romeo and Juliet - the most famous lovers in the world, made immortal by William Shakespeare. However, many students have a hard time fighting through the bard's master pieces - because the old English is sometimes hard to understand. For those in need of understandable English we give you the new series "Shakespeare on the Fly":... Read more

Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice Bathsheba makes, she discovers the terrible consequences of an inconstant heart.



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The Count of Monte Cristo

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 46 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Dashing young Edmond Dantes has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him.Falsely accused of a political crime, Edmond Dantes is locked away for life in the infamous prison at the French Chateau d’If.... Read more

An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Stefan Rudnicki, Mary Lamb & Charles Lamb

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this second volume of Blackstone’s audio theater production of An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment, a full cast of award-winning narrators present miscellaneous scenes and soliloquies from Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest. Based on Tales from Shakespeare by Charles... Read more

The Best of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Edward Blake

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The best and most revered works of famed poet and author, Edgar Allen Poe. Read more

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Alexander Spencer

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabriel Utterson is intrigued by the sinister figure of Mr Hyde, and the latter's strange relationship with Utterson's good friend, Dr Jekyll. When Mr Hyde beats a Member of Parliament to death, Gabriel Utterson tries to get to the bottom of the mystery and eventually discovers Dr Jekyll's dark secret. Read more

Butcher’s Crossing

By: John Williams

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of... Read more

Antigone

By: Jean Anouilh

Narrated by: Lutz Schäfer, Johannes Steck, Torsten Münchow, ...

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Drama, mit dem Jean Anouilh seinen Weltruhm begründete. Gegen den Willen des unbarmherzigen Statthalters Kreon bestattet Antigone, Tochter des Ödipus, ihren Bruder Polyneikes. Doch mit dieser trotzigen Tat und ihrer Reuelosigkeit löst sie eine Katastrophe aus, die unweigerlich ihr eigenes Leben kostet. Ein klassisches Drama, das bis heute... Read more

Candide ou l'optimisme

By: Name Voltaire

Narrated by: Lou Saintagne

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

« Tous les événements sont enchaînés dans le meilleur des mondes possibles : car enfin si vous n'aviez pas été chassé d'un beau château à grands coups de pied dans le derrière pour l'amour de mademoiselle Cunégonde, si vous n'aviez pas été mis à l'Inquisition, si vous n'aviez pas donné un bon coup d'épée au baron, si vous n'aviez pas perdu vos... Read more