Classics audiobooks

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Caleveras County

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Leonidas W. Smiley would bet on anything. Horse races, dog fights, cat fights, chicken fights - all were fair game to the gambling nature of Smiley. But he meets his match when a stranger comes into town, and puts his champion jumping frog to the test. Read more

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Hardy's novel of seduction and abandonment introduced his most memorable tragic heroine, the unworldly maiden Tess. On her morning journey to earn money for her impoverished family, Tess' horse has an accident, forcing her to seek assistance from some newly rich relatives. There, she is vigorously pursued by Alec, who corners her in a... Read more

Moby Dick

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 21 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Its famous opening line, "Call me Ishmael," dramatic in its stark simplicity, begins an epic that is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written by an American. Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory, and a drama of heroic conflict, Moby Dick is first... Read more

The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In Henry Flemming, Stephen Crane creates a great and realistic study of the mind of an inexperienced soldier trapped in the fury and turmoil of war. Flemming dashes into battle, at first tormented by fear, then bolstered with courage in time for the final confrontation.Although the exact battle is never identified, Crane based this story of a... Read more

The Door in the Wall

By: Marguerite de Angeli

Narrated by: Roger Rees

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the fourteenth century, the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses the use of his legs. Read more

The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack London’s masterpiece describing the timeless bonds between man, dog, and wildernessBuck, half St. Bernard and half Scotch shepherd, is a bold-spirited dog living the good life in the Santa Clara Valley. But when a treacherous act of betrayal results in his kidnapping, he is stripped from his comfortable life on the California estate and... Read more

Another Trio of Saki

By: Saki

Narrated by: Joy Gelardi

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro (December 18, 1870 - November 13, 1916), a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged... Read more

A Trio of Saki

By: Saki

Narrated by: Joy Gelardi

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro (December 18, 1870 - November 13, 1916), a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged... Read more

The Monkey's Paw

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When Sergeant Major Morris brings a mummified monkey’s paw to the White family, they embrace it as a morbid curiosity. When they learn that an old Fakir has enchanted the paw, they continue to treat the thing lightly. But the workings of the paw, once set in motion, cannot be undone, no matter what they try. Read more

The Song of the Lark

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Thea Kronberg has a voice that can call down angels and the soul of a Colorado pioneer girl. But as she develops her talents and devotes herself to the life of an artist, she must consider the cost of the creative path she follows. Willa Cather's classic novel is full of the breathtaking beauty of the American frontier and the spirit of the... Read more

Barnaby Rudge

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 23 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Dickens' first historical novel is set in 1780s England at the time of the Gordon Riots. In a case of mistaken identity, Barnaby Rudge—a pale half-wit with long red hair who dresses all in green and carries a large raven on his back—is arrested as the leader of a mob of anti-Catholic rioters. He is condemned to death on the gallows, but an... Read more

Cry, the Beloved Country

By: Alan Paton

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A worldwide bestseller when it was first published in 1948, Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu pastor, and his son, Absalom. Set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s, it is also... Read more

The Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in nineteenth-century England, this great novel of domestic realism sympathetically portrays a young woman’s vain efforts to adapt to her provincial world.Maggie Tulliver, whose father owns a mill perched on the banks of the River Floss, is intelligent and imaginative beyond the understanding of her community, her relatives, and particularly... Read more

Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 35 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Wealthy and old, Martin Chuzzlewit Sr. is surrounded by greedy relatives hoping to obtain a portion of his estate upon his death. His two descendants, Martin Jr. and Jonas, have been born and bred in the same heritage of selfishness, the Chuzzlewit tradition.Set partly in America, of which Dickens offers a searing satire, this novel follows and... Read more

In Our Time

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A strikingly original collection of short stories and accompanying vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingway’s American debut.

When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was widely praised for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and earned Hemingway a place among the most promising American... Read more

The Magic Shop

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Simple magic tricks are what a little boy is looking for when he drags his father into a quaint, old shop. The proprietor seems to be a master of illusion - a genius at slight of hand. But, as the son becomes mesmerized, the father feels an icy hand grip his heart. Read more

Birdy

By: William Wharton

Narrated by: James Colby & James Yaegashi

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This masterful National Book Award winner explores the shattering effects of war on the human mind. Growing up, Birdy dreams of flying like a bird and shares these fantasies with his best friend Al. Years later, World War II sends both men to hospitals-Al for physical wounds, and Birdy for psychological trauma. When Birdy falls into a catatonic... Read more

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

By: Howard Pyle

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it a shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath naught to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one, these pages are not for you."—from the bookHere are the beloved adventures of the mischievous hero... Read more

La chartreuse de Parme

By: Stendhal

Narrated by: Guillaume Galliennne

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Publié en 1839, La chartreuse de Parme a été écrit en 53 jours par Stendhal. L'oeuvre a pour décor l'Italie si chère à Stendhal. La Sanseverina possède toutes les dimensions de la femme amoureuse et objet d'amour passionné, tandis que le héros, Fabrice del Dongo, est un enfant béni des dieux. Mais leur fougue et leur sentimentalisme vont les... Read more

Oil!

By: Upton Sinclair

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 19 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is the inspiration for the Academy Award-nominated film, There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis.As he did so masterfully in The Jungle, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Upton Sinclair interweaves social criticism with human tragedy to create an unforgettable portrait of Southern California’s early oil industry.Enraged by the oil... Read more

Men without Women

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Classic short stories from a master of American fiction exploring relationships, war, and sportsmanship.

First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway’s most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war,... Read more

Winner Take Nothing

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Ernest Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. Some stories included are “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” a story about one man’s night in a café; “Homage to Switzerland”... Read more

Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse

Narrated by: Peter Weller

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesse’s best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literature’s most poetic evocations of the soul’s journey to liberationHarry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps the best-loved nineteenth-century American novel, Mark Twain's tale of boyhood adventure overflows with comedy, warmth, and slapstick energy. It brings to life an array of irresistible characters—the awesomely self-confident Tom, his best buddy Huck Finn, indulgent Aunt Polly, and the lovely, beguiling Becky—as well as such unforgettable... Read more