Classics audiobooks

Divining Women

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful new novel from the bestselling author of Ellen Foster
Autumn, 1918: Rumors of peace are spreading across America, but spreading even faster are the first cases of Spanish influenza, whispering of the epidemic to come. Maureen Ross, well past a safe childbearing age, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy. Her husband, Troop -- cold... Read more

The John Updike Audio Collection

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

By: Richard Ferrone & Thornton Wilder

Narrated by: Sam Waterston

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder's second novel, won him the first of his three Pulitzer Prizes. The novel opens in the aftermath of an inexplicable tragedy—a tiny footbridge in Peru breaks, and five travelers hurtle to their deaths. Most townspeople think to themselves with secret joy, "Within 10 minutes myself...." But for Brother... Read more

The John Cheever Audio Collection

By: John Cheever

Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a... Read more

Bless the Beasts & Children

By: Glendon Swarthout

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Send Us A Boy. . . We’ll Send You A Cowboy!” is the slogan of the Box County Boy’s Camp. But for the nail-biters, thumb-suckers and teeth-grinders—the cast-away offspring of parents who are busy traveling, being divorced, remarrying, and garnering fortunes—it’s just another place to find rejection. The other campers and counselors pick upon... Read more

Great Authors – Mark Twain: Collected Stories

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Thomas Becker

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeen of Twain's best-loved and funniest shorter works, including "The Jumping Frog of Calavarous County", "The Story of Old Ram", "Buck Fanshaw's Funeral", "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses", "Tom Quartz", and "The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut".Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens November 30, 1835... Read more

El corazón delator

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Rafael Oñate Regojo

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Un relato espeluznante con el que te costará conciliar del sueño Read more

Moby Dick

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Francisco López

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

La obra de Melville bajo una adaptación sonora magistral a cargo de Pago Segura Read more

Gato negro

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Rafael Oñate Regojo

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Gato Negro": Terror enfermizo del maestro Poe. Read more

La casa de los deseos

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Enrique Aparicio Robles

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"La Casa de los Deseos": Un relato fantástico de Rudyard Kipling. Read more

Lady Susan

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Ana Blanco Rozada

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Inteligente y genial novela epistolar de Jane Austen Read more

The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Universally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid, Edgar Allan Poe’s dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre.Now, Caedmon Audio presents a classic collection of Poe’s most terrifying tales performed by two of the most brilliant interpreters of his work, Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. Between... Read more

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Paul Scofield & (Null) Cast

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

""How shall we beguile the lazy time,if not with some delight?""

Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the WildThings Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Discseries. An introductory essay by Harvard scholar Harold Bloom accompanies the CD. Read more

Romeo and Juliet - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Claire Bloom & Albert Finney

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A pair of star-cross'd lovers   -PrologueRomeo and Juliet was Shakespeare's first great tragedy, a richly lyrical love story that has long been one of the author's most popular plays for performer and audience alike. Romeo and Juliet is a simple but dramatic cautionary tale about the blindness that both love and hate can engender. As performed... Read more

Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 36 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." This is the famous opening sentence of Tolstoi's epic love story between Anna Arkadyevna Karenina and her Count Vronsky. Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy is a classic story of love and tragedy against the backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia. The extravagant and... Read more

The Bloodstone Chronicles

By: Bill Myers

Narrated by: Bill Myers

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Moonlight strikes the mysterious Bloodstone, symbol of God’s great love for mankind, and three children are whisked through a portal into strange and wonderful worlds. Adventure awaits Denise, Nathan, and Joshua in the Sea of Mirrors, where the children are nearly crushed by the weight of their sins . . . The Menagerie, whose prisoners are... Read more

The Short Stories Gift Edition

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this definitive audio collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain bald... Read more

Tar Baby - Abridged

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Alfre Woodard

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones—of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the people... Read more

A Passage to India

By: E. M. Forster

Narrated by: Sam Dastor

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

When Adela and her elderly companion, Mrs. Moore, arrive in the town of Chandrapore, India, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community.Determined to explore the “real India,” they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr. Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are... Read more

Das Urteil

By: Hildegard Knef

Narrated by: Hildegard Knef

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Nach der 55. OP die Diagnose Brustkrebs: Das Urteil. Eine beeindruckende Geschichte, die eine starke, kämpferische, zynische Knef zeigt und die Abgründe und ihre Leiden nur erahnen lässt. "Alles, was ich bei diesem Buch überwinden musste, war meine Eitelkeit. Kein hoher Preis, wenn man bedenkt, dass manche Autoren ihre Freiheit und ihr Leben... Read more

Alice im Wunderland - Abridged

By: Lewis Caroll

Narrated by: Christiane Paul

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mit ihrer einzigartigen, skurrilen Phantasie und ihren absurd-witzigen Sprachspielen gehören die Abenteuer der kleinen Alice mit zu dem Schönsten, was die englische Kinderliteratur hervorgebracht hat. Immer noch begeistern sie Groß und Klein und entführen in eine Welt, in der manches auf dem Kopf steht und seinen eigenen Regeln... Read more

Maître et serviteur

By: Léon Tolstoï

Narrated by: Claude Lesko

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Préoccupé depuis son plus jeune âge par les rapports hiérarchiques qui maintiennent les hommes dans l'état de servitude, Tolstoï montre à travers ce récit combien il est difficile de s'extraire des relations de domination, qui sont elles-mêmes le fruit de la cupidité et de la crainte de l'autre. Seule la peur de la mort permet au maître et à son... Read more

The Short Stories Volume III

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this definitive audio collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain bold... Read more

The Fountainhead - Abridged

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Fountainhead studies the conflict between artistic genius and social convention, a theme Ayn Rand later developed into the idealistic philosophy knows as Objectivism. Rand's hero is Howard Roark, a brilliant young architect who won't compromise his integrity, especially in the unconventional buildings he designs. Roark is engaged in... Read more