Classics audiobooks

Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 32 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Bleak House opens in a London shrouded by fog—a fog that swirls most densely about the Court of Chancery, where the obscure case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce lies lost in endless litigation, slowly devouring an inheritance in legal costs.Against this ominous background, Dickens’ rich tapestry of a novel weaves together the fortunes and desires of... Read more

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow along on this fantastic voyage as Professor Arronax, Ned, and Beth set out to capture a terrifying sea monster—before it captures them."The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten…For some time past, vessels had been met by 'an enormous thing,' a... Read more

Queen Lucia

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

England between the wars was a paradise of calm and leisure for the very, very rich. Into this enclave is born Mrs. Emmeline Lucas—La Lucia, as she is known—a woman determined to lead a life quite different from the subdued formality of her class.With her cohort, Georgie Pillson, and her husband, Peppino, Lucia upends the greats of high society:... Read more

Le Morte d’Arthur, Vol. 2

By: Sir Thomas Malory

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 17 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous influence upon literature.The story begins with King Uther Pendragon’s... Read more

Le Morte d’Arthur, Vol. 1

By: Sir Thomas Malory

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous influence upon literature.The story begins with King Uther Pendragon’s... Read more

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Anne Brontë

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson & Wanda McCaddon

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Like her sisters Emily and Charlotte, Anne Brontë published under a male pseudonym, yet still this novel was scorned by many for its exposure of the abusive male chauvinism that was concealed, like all things sexual, during the Victorian Era.Just as Anne had to use a male pseudonym in order to publish, Helen Graham, the novel’s protagonist and a... Read more

One of Ours

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Kristen Underwood

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells of the making of a young American soldier.Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by... Read more

Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This blood-curdling tale of thirsty vampires continues to hold audiences spellbound more than a century after its publication.Summoned to assist with legal matters regarding a real estate transaction, young Englishman Jonathan Harker journeys to the dismal, dreary castle of Count Dracula in Transylvania. The fledgling solicitor is completely... Read more

Daniel Deronda

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 30 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the masterpieces of English literature, Daniel Deronda tells the intertwined stories of two different characters as they each come to discover of the truth of their natures.Gwendolen Harleth is the high-spirited beauty of an impoverished upper-class family. In order to restore their fortunes, she unwittingly traps herself in an oppressive... Read more

Madame de Treymes and Two Novellas

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Madame de Treymes follows the fortunes of two innocents abroad: Fanny Frisbee of New York, unhappily married to the dissolute Marquis de Malrive, scion of a great house of the Faubourg St. Germain; and John Durham, her childhood friend, who arrives in Paris intent on persuading Fanny to divorce her husband and marry him instead. A scintillating... Read more

Trilby

By: George du Maurier

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Trilby opens in the Latin Quarter of nineteenth-century Paris, where Trilby O'Ferrall is working as an artist's model. Her grace and ingenuous charm make a poignant contrast to the cruel magnetism of Svengali, under whose spell she falls. Using hypnotic powers, Svengali shapes her into a virtuoso singer—Europe's most captivating soprano—but her... Read more

Beau Geste

By: P. C. Wren

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A shot rang out. The Arabs surged forward under a savage fusillade of heavy fire. As they advanced, Geste rushed up and down his side of the roof, shooting constantly to trick the Arabs into believing the fort was heavily manned. They couldn’t be allowed to learn the grave truth—that of all those hard-bitten veterans who had yelled their... Read more

The Glimpses of the Moon

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in New York in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, two high-society hangers-on with the right connections but a lack of funds. To maintain their status, they decide to marry and spend a year or so sponging off their wealthy friends, honeymooning in their mansions and villas.... Read more

Jo’s Boys

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This treasured classic by one of America's best-loved writers concludes the adventures and misadventures of the March family first introduced in Little Women and continued in Little Men. Jo's Boys is entertaining, surprising, and an overall joy to listen to.Set ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits the one-time members of that... Read more

The Adventures of Sally

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Pretty, impecunious Sally Nicholas never dreamed a fortune could prove a disadvantage, until she becomes an heiress and watches in bewilderment as her orderly existence goes haywire. Coping first with her brother’s wild theatrical ambitions, then with the defection of her fiancé and his immediate replacement by a much more appropriate but... Read more

The Elusive Pimpernel

By: Baroness Emma Orczy

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the early days of the French Republic, and Robespierre's revolutionaries find their wicked schemes repeatedly thwarted by the cunning and heroic Pimpernel—in reality, Sir Percival Blakeney. Now, Monsieur Chauvelin devises a dastardly plot to annihilate both Sir Percy and his beautiful wife Marguerite once and for all. Lured to France, where... Read more

War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 61 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once a historical war epic, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit.Noted for its mastery of realistic detail and psychological analysis, War and Peace follows the metamorphosis of five aristocratic families against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars.... Read more

Don Quixote de la Mancha

By: Miguel de Cervantes

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 36 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

With a wealth of fancy and an irrepressible high spirit, this beloved adventure story pokes fun at the exaggerated social and literary conventions of Cervantes’ day. Driven mad by reading too many chivalric romances, Don Quixote decks himself out in rusty armor and a cardboard helmet, determined to become a knight-errant and roam the world... Read more

Short Stories by Saki

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson & Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Hector Monro, writing under the pseudonym of Saki, is justly renowned for his urbane and witty short stories. His eccentric characters, humorous dialogue, and engaging domestic situations all reveal a penetrating and sometimes disturbing insight into human nature. As a quixotic tour guide, Saki leads the reader from garden party to pig sty to... Read more

Cabbages and Kings

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

O. Henry wove several stories together into this highly episodic narrative, taking his title and inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter” in Alice in Wonderland.The stories are set in the fictional country of Anchuria in Central America, a banana republic where larceny is rampant and revolution is lurking in every... Read more

Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Often regarded as Edith Wharton's finest achievement,Ethan Fromecontrasts sharply with her usual ironic contemplation of fashionable New York society. Set in the bleak winter landscape of New England farmlands, this keenly-etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century village is a masterpiece of literary realism.Ethan is a... Read more

Under Western Eyes

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as one of Joseph Conrad's finest literary achievements, Under Western Eyes tells the story of a young man unwittingly caught in the political turmoil of pre-revolutionary czarist Russia. It begins with a bomb that kills its intended target, a hated Russian minister of police, along with several innocent bystanders. A young student named... Read more

The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1915, The Voyage Out marked the literary debut of one of the great pioneers of the modern novel, Virginia Woolf.Woolf’s witty and lyrical debut follows a group of lively, eccentric British tourists embarking on a sea voyage from London to South America. For Rachel Vinrace, a shy, motherless young lady traveling under the wing... Read more

Free Air

By: Sinclair Lewis

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Free Air takes one by automobile in search of America, heading toward a West brimming with possibilities for suddenly mobile Americans at the end of a world war. Clair Boltwood and her father drive their Gomez-Dep roadster from Minnesota to Seattle, braving all the perils of early motoring. But the greatest distance to be overcome is the social... Read more