Classics audiobooks

Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard

By: Stéphane Mallarmé

Narrated by: Denis Lavant

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Mallarmé explore les différentes possibilités du langage, syntaxiques, phonétiques, jusqu'à élaborer cette grande partition poétique d'une typographie libérée qu'est Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard. Read more

Sense and Sensibility - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Julie Christie

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Listen to audio presented by Literary Affairs: Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.View our feature on Jane Austen.

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo.... Read more

Mrs Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Sophie Chauveau

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Née à Londres en 1882, Virginia Woolf est une femme de lettres reconnue pour la complexité et la modernité de son œuvre ainsi que pour son engagement pour la cause féministe. Elle commence sa carrière d'écrivain en 1905 en travaillant pour le supplément du Times et publie son premier roman La Traversée des apparences en 1915. Par leur audace et... Read more

La Odisea - Abridged

By: Homer

Narrated by: Daniel Quintero

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Los viajes y aventuras de Ulises. La anecdota suele regodearse sobre la figura legendaria de Homero, supuesto juglar ciego que iba de pueblo en pueblo cantando sus grandes narraciones epicas. La Iliada, una narracion de la Guerra de Troya, originada en el rapto que hizo Paris de la mujer mas bella del mundo, Helena y La Odisea, la descripcion de... Read more

La Iliada - Abridged

By: Homer

Narrated by: Daniel Quintero

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

La historia de la guerra de Troya. La anecdota suele regodearse sobre la figura legendaria de Homero, supuesto juglar ciego que iba de pueblo en pueblo cantando sus grandes narraciones epicas. La Iliada, una narracion de la Guerra de Troya, originada en el rapto que hizo Paris de la mujer mas bella del mundo, Helena y La Odisea, la descripcion... Read more

The Short Stories Volume II

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938.

Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image.... Read more

Lord of the Flies

By: William Golding

Narrated by: William Golding

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and riveting works in modern fiction. The tale begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys, aged six to twelve on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive and impose order quickly evolves from a battle... Read more

Spoon River Anthology - Abridged

By: Edgar Lee Masters

Narrated by: Patrick Fraley, Edward Asner & a full cast

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deemed "essential" in the canon of American literature, this audiobook masterpiece performed in its entirety by a full cast of fifty makes the classic accessible to everyone. From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their... Read more

The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938.

Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image.... Read more

Science Fiction Favorites - Abridged

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Isaac Asimov

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

CONTENTS: Introduction; I Just Make Them Up, See; Someday; The Feeling of Power; Living Space; Satisfaction Guaranteed; The Last Question; Jokester; The Immortal Bard; Spell My Name With an "S"; The Ugly Little Boy Read more

My Antonia - Abridged

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Joan Allen

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

My Antonia tells of the wholesome friendship and affection between a boy and girl and the shared childhood bonds that tie them together. At the end of the 19th century, fourteen-year-old Ántonia Shimerda has realized the immigrant's dream. She has just arrived in rural Nebraska with her Bohemian (Czech) family at the same time as... Read more

Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Bronte

Narrated by: Juliet Mills

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In this classic gothic romance, plain and poor orphan Jane Eyre relies on her independent nature and inner strength as she is subjected to a cruel life in the mid-19th century. After she endures great emotional and physical abuse at the hands of her aunt and cousins, Jane is subsequently shipped off to a Christian boarding school for poor and... Read more

Gargantua

By: François Rabelais

Narrated by: Jacques Bonnaffé

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

De Gargantua (La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel, fils de Grandgousier), les Éditions Thélème ont surtout retenu la devise énoncée par les Thélémistes « Fay ce que voudras » ! L'utopique abbaye de Thélème, inventée par Rabelais, fut bâtie par le géant Gargantua pour son ami Frère Jean des Entommeures. Ce lieu avait... Read more

Pinocchio

By: Carlo Collodi

Narrated by: Konrad Beikircher

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Aus einem Holzscheit schnitzt Meister Geppetto einen kleinen Hampelmann Pinocchio. Der beginnt sofort zu leben und läuft weg. Nach vielen haarsträubenden Abenteuern wird Pinocchio belohnt. Eine Fee macht aus ihm einen richtigen Jungen aus Fleisch und Blut. Die von Konrad Beikircher interpretierte Version wurde von Sonja Hartl, erfahrene... Read more

The Two Towers

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. The Fellowship is broken; the quest to destroy the Ring seems already shrouded in disaster. But as the evil lord Sauron readies his armies for war, Frodo and Sam continue their lonely journey toward Mordor, guided only by Gollum—a deceitful and tortured creature,... Read more

The Return of the King

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. War rages in the west—a titanic battle of will and strategy between the great wizard Gandalf and Sauron, the dark lord. Meanwhile, eastward in Mordor, Frodo and Sam approach the end of their improbable quest, bearing the One Ring ever closer to the Cracks of... Read more

Anthem

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Paul Meier

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Ayn Rand's classic bestseller, Anthem, is the unforgettable tale of a nightmarish totalitarian future—and the ultimate triumph of the individual spirit. First published in 1938, and often compared with Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, this beautifully written story has introduced millions to Rand's provocative worldview.

Rand's... Read more

Historia De Abu-Dir, El Tintorero Y Abu-Sir, El Barbero…

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Laura García

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one... Read more

El Gran Gatsby - Abridged

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Hernando Iván Cano

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cuando F. Scott Fitzgerald escribió El Gran Gatsby al principio de los años veinte, el sueño americano ya estaba en decadencia. Originalmente estaba basado en la idea de que la búsqueda de la felicidad no solo involucraba el éxito material sino también el crecimiento moral y espiritual. Para el tiempo de Fitzgerald el sueño se había enfocado... Read more

Gulliver's Travels - Abridged

By: Jonathan Swift

Narrated by: Joel Grey

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Presenting "Part One: A Voyage to Lilliput"— the most famous segment of a classic 18th century satire. Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself not merely a fish out of water, but a very big fish in a small pond. He awakens to find himself tied to the ground by the natives of Lilliput— tiny people... Read more

Feliz Mundo Nuevo - Abridged

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Laura García

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

La novela sorprendente mundo feliz, originalmente publicado en 1932, presenta la visión mítica de Aldous Huxley de un mundo del mañana completamente transformado. En oscuramente Huxley satírico aún escalofriantemente profética imaginación de un "utópico" el futuro, los seres humanos están genéticamente diseñados y farmacéuticamente anestesiado... Read more

Sin Novedad En El Frente - Abridged

By: Erich Maria Remarque

Narrated by: Pedro Montoya

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

La tragedia que fue la Primera Guerra Mundial (solo superada por la hecatombes de la segunda) produjo una cantidad de obras maestras de inclinacion anti-belica, de las cuales una de las mas famosas fue Sin Novedad en el Frente la historia de las batallas a traves de los ojos prosaicos de unos soldados que luchan y matan sin saber por que lo... Read more

Los Hermanos Karamazov - Abridged

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Daniel Quintero

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Esta es la historia de un parricidio y de cuatro hijos que tenian, cada uno, un motivo para el asesinato: Dmitry el sensual; Ivan el intelectual; Alyosha, el mistico; y el torcido y astuto Smerdyakov. La novela sumerge al lector en un triangulo de amor sordido, una obsesion patologica, y un drama de sala de tribunal. Read more

Ana Karenina - Abridged

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Laura García

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Una de las mas impresionantes caracteristicas de la obra de Tolstoy es su capacidad para hacer un profundo estudio psicologico de sus personajes. En Ana Karenina, que con Guerra y paz conforma el duo de monumentos que el gran escritor ruso lego a la literatura universal, Tolstoy no usa el horizonte epico sino situaciones domesticas para crear... Read more