Classics audiobooks

Stauffer an Krüsi antworten - Abridged

By: Hans Krüsi & Michael Stauffer

Narrated by: Vanessa Stern, Mirjam Hofmann & Christian Ahlers

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dichter Stauffer ruft Hans Krüsi. Dies ist die Konstellation des Projektes "Stauffer an Krüsi antworten". Der Aussenseiterkünstler Hans Krüsi, 1995 in St. Gallen gestorben, gibt selber keine Antwort mehr. Aber sein Werk spricht noch immer in unverwechselbarer Deutlichkeit. Dichter Stauffer taucht ein in das noch längst nicht gebändigte Material... Read more

Our Mutual Friend - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: David Timson

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Out of the dust-heaps and dirty streets of mid-Victorian London Dickens creates a classic murder-mystery tale. A dead man is fished out of the Thames by a scavenger and his daughter. Who is he, and how did he get there? His death affects members of all levels of a society permeated by greed. Dickens presents an array of characters both touching... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..." - so opens one of the best loved and most often quoted classics. With dramatic eloquence, Charles Dickens pens this thrilling tale of the inhabitants of two cities - Paris and London - as they are swept into the dangerous tide of the French Revolution.

When the starving French masses rise... Read more

Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Margaret Hilton

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The villagers of Ravelo had the weaver Silas Marner marked as a miser but the only thing golden about Silas Marner was his heart. Silas Marner is a modest weaver accused of stealing the congregation's funds. The thief may really be Silas' best friend, William Dane, who has framed him but Silas is found guilty none-the-less. His fiancE abandons... Read more

The Vicar of Wakefield

By: Oliver Goldsmith

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver Goldsmith earned instant acclaim when he published The Vicar of Wakefield, a marvelous mixture of burlesque and satire. The simple village vicar, Mr. Primrose, is living with his wife and six children in complete tranquility until unexpected calamities force them to weather one hilarious adventure after another. Goldsmith plays out this... Read more

The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 20 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Handsome and ambitious, Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life-by adopting the code of hypocrisy by which his society operates. Julien ultimately commits a crime-out of passion, principle, or insanity-that will bring about his downfall. The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical... Read more

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Smiley was a betting man. He bet on horse races, dog-fights, cat-fights, even how long it took a straddle-bug to cross the border into Mexico. If there was a bet to be made, chances were the "uncommonly lucky" Smiley was behind it. So it seemed life easy money when a gullible stranger came to town and Smiley boasted to him that his pet... Read more

My Ántonia

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Antonia Shimerdas moves to the harsh Nebraska heartland with her impoverished Bohemian family when she is still a girl. For young Jim Burden, who lives with his grandparents on a homestead nearby, Antonia is an embodiment of the female pioneer-self-sufficient, vigorous, and determined to withstand the daily challenges of maintaining home and... Read more

The Phantom of the Opera

By: Gaston Leroux

Narrated by: Henry Butler

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Gaston Leroux is one of the originators of the detective story, and The Phantom of the Opera is his tour de force, as well as being the basis for the hit Broadway musical. A superb suspense story and a dark tale of obsession, The Phantom of the Opera has thrilled and entertained audiences in adaptations throughout the century. This new... Read more

The Warden

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Margaret Hilton

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Known for such masterpieces as The Way We Live Now and Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope was one of the foremost English novelists of the Victorian era. The first of his beloved novels featuring the fictional county of Barsetshire, The Warden, introduces listeners to Septimus Harding, the warden and kindly caretaker at Hiram' s Hospital for... Read more

Walking

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Peter Johnson

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A meandering ode to the simple act and accomplished art of taking a walk. Profound and humorous, companionable and curmudgeonly. Walking, by America's first nature writer, is your personal and portable guide to the activity that, like no other, awakens the senses and soul to the 'absolute freedom and wildness' of nature. Read more

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Flo Gibson

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living... Read more

Le Pere Goriot

By: Honoré de Balzac

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

One of renowned French author HonorE de Balzac's finest works, PEre Goriot provides a fascinating glimpse into Parisian life of the early 19th century. The rich character studies and themes of class, personal ambition, and materiality make this insightful novel as compelling today as when it was first published. At the shabby boarding house in... Read more

The Prince and the Pauper

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the more famous stories in children' s literature, The Prince and the Pauper has become an adult classic as well. Twain' s tall tale about a bedraggled street urchin who becomes king for a day, and his twin, the pampered Prince of Wales left to fend for himself among his seedier subjects, showcases the author' s satirical wit and his... Read more

The Time Machine

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Time Machine is the fascinating oral diary of the Time Traveler-the first man to journey beyond the conventional limits of time. As the first of H.G. Wells' visionary novels, it created the science fiction genre by giving us a tantalizing glimpse at the future. When the Time Traveler crash-lands in the year 802,701, he is surrounded by lush... Read more

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction.

Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of... Read more

A Modest Proposal and Other Writings

By: Jonathan Swift

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In "A Modest Proposal," first published in 1729, Jonathan Swift heaps scorn on then-current political theory and reveals the appalling suffering taking place in Ireland - not through direct reporting, but through mock suggestions on what to do with the poor; they should sell their children for food. "The chief end I propose to myself in all my... Read more

Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Flo Gibson

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Mansfield Park is the chronicle of the trials of Fanny Price. Sweet, innocent, sensitive, and thoroughly proper, Fanny is taken from her family and raised by wealthy, but selfish relatives. All her qualities are tested when she becomes the object of the unwanted attentions of an insincere rake. Read more

Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Silas Marner, a gentle linen weaver, is framed by his best friend for a heinous theft. Exiled from his small community, Marner retreats into bitter and miserly reclusion, caring only for the gold he receives for his work. When his small treasure horde is stolen, Marner feels betrayed by life yet again—until one fateful New Year's Eve, an... Read more

Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is America ... its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere ..." With the first line of his novel, Sinclair Lewis captures an America on the brink of change. Main Street vividly draws the lines of tension between tradition and progress in ways that make them timeless, yet still new. Carol Milford, educated, sophisticated,... Read more

The Devil and Tom Walker, and Hurst of Hurstcote

By: Washington Irving & E. Nesbit

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Washington Irving paints an effulgent portrait of the New England countryside as Tom Walker walks with the Devil. Would you dare to bargain with the Devil for your soul?

This audiobook also includes "Hurst of Hurstcote", by E. Nesbit. Here, a young man is so stricken by the passing of his wife that his sanity begins to stray. And, as madness... Read more

Love and Friendship

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in Love and Friendship, a collection of essays on relationships. "Before him, I may think aloud. I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them." Read more

Little Women - Abridged

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Kate Harper

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A timeless classic story, Louisa Alcott's Little Women is brought to life on this abridged, downloadable audiobook by Kate Harper.

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there's Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together they are... Read more

Journey to the Center of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor Von Hardwigg found the old Icelandic parchment in a bookstore, and his nephew Harry soon deciphered its secret Runic message: there was a path to the center of the earth, and an Icelandic explorer had found it 300 years earlier. The professor, Harry, and their guide Hans are soon plunged into an adventure that includes an underground... Read more