Classics audiobooks

Overture To Death - Abridged

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Anton Lesser

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. But its execution was doomed when Miss Campanula sat down to play. A chord was struck, a shot rang out and Miss Campanula was dead. A case of sinister infatuation for the brilliant Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn. Read more

Time, Flow Softly

By: Nancy Cato

Narrated by: Kate Hosking

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Whilst living in Echuca, Philadelphia Gordon has developed a strong attachment to the river, and a fascination for paddle steamers. When she becomes the owner of a paddle steamer she wishes that she had been born a male and not bound by the conventions society imposes upon females. When Delie meets a young handsome riverman, Brenton Edwards,... Read more

Bony and the Black Virgin

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called to the drought-stricken outback for this, his latest case. At a desolate sheep station two men have been savagely beaten to death and it's Bony's job to make an arrest. This isn't an easy case, since clues are scarce in this sun-baked, sand-blown country, but Bony's understanding of the bush and... Read more

The Mayor of Casterbridge

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the backdrop of peaceful southwest England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author's unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our lives.



Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his... Read more

Martín Fierro

By: José Hernández

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Obra cumbre de la literatura argentina y latinoamericana, el Martín Fierro es un extenso poema narrativo escrito por José Hernández, que describe el carácter independiente y sacrificado del hombre de campo. Las peripecias del gaucho Fierro son narradas con precisión y virtuosismo en esta nueva versión. Read more

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

By: Henry Fielding

Narrated by: Ken Danziger

Length: 35 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry Fielding’s bawdy, colorful, high-spirited novel painted human vices and virtues with unprecedented honesty and good humor, making Tom Jones as fresh and entertaining today as it was when first published nearly three hundred years ago.A foundling of mysterious parentage, Tom Jones is brought up by the benevolent and wealthy Squire Allworthy... Read more

Washington Square

By: Henry James

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry James' stories are classic gems of subtle wit and irony. Set in the exacting social landscape of New York City at the turn of the century, Washington Square is the tale of a wealthy but shy young woman caught between conflicting family expectations. John McDonough's warm narration traces her remarkable inner journey. Read more

The Confession of Brother Haluin

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

When a monk survives a tragic injury, he enlists Brother Cadfael to help him right the wrongs revealed in his deathbed confessionWinter arrived early in 1142, bringing with it a heavy snowfall. The safety of the guest-hall roof at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul comes into jeopardy, and the brothers are called upon to effect... Read more

Monk's Hood

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Brother Cadfael is confounded when his own potion is used to kill his former love’s new husbandGervase Bonel is a guest of Shrewsbury Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul when he suddenly takes ill. Luckily, the Abbey boasts the services of the clever and kindly Brother Cadfael, a skilled herbalist. Cadfael hurries to the man's bedside, only to... Read more

The Song of Roland

By: unknown

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic epic revolves around the battle between the Franks and the Moors in 778.Though he has grown up in poverty in a cave in Italy, Roland is in fact descended from great heroes of old. Since his youth, his mother has taught him that someday he will be a brave hero like his father, Milon, and serve with the great army of his uncle,... Read more

Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Matt Armstrong

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Victor Frankenstein was a brilliant and driven scientist with a passion for discovering the way the world worked. In a fit of madness, Frankenstein perfects a method for reanimating dead tissue, and uses it to form a creature. Terrified by his own creation, he is forced to face the consequences of creating a being with superhuman powers and a... Read more

The Importance Of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde, Maurice Denham, Prunella Scales &...

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Algernon Moncrieff, a bachelor-about-town, has invented an invalid friend called Bunbury in order to get out of tiresome family engagements. At the same time, his friend Jack Worthing has invented a wicked brother called Ernest to disguise his own misdemeanours. When Algernon poses as Ernest to win the heart of Cecily Cardew, confusion reigns,... Read more

The Forsyte Saga, Volume 2

By: John Galsworthy

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this, the second volume of the Saga to be released in an unabridged recording by Assembled Stories, Soames’ house continues to be built as his marriage disintegrates. Is Irene having an affair? Certainly her relationship with the architect Bosinney is causing ructions in the family. While attempting reconciliation with his son, Old Jolyon,... Read more

The Man in the Iron Mask

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 22 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty-five years after the events of The Three Musketeers, D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis find themselves caught between conflicting loyalties in a power struggle that could change the face of the French monarchy.For eight long years, a young prisoner has languished within the dreaded Bastille, his face hidden in an iron mask. He knows... Read more

The Red Chief

By: Ion Idriess

Narrated by: James Condon

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In times past there was an Aboriginal man called Cumbo Gunnerah. His people called him The Red Kangaroo. He was a clever chief and a mighty fighter (this man from Gunnedah). Later, the white people of this place called him The Red Chief. It would be hard to find a more satisfying hero than the young warrior Red Kangaroo, who by his mental and... Read more

Saint Joan - Abridged

By: George Bernard Shaw & Yuri Rasovsky

Narrated by: a distinguished cast

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Joan of Arc, a village girl from the Vosges, was born about 1412—burnt for heresy, witchcraft, and sorcery in 1431—rehabilitated after a fashion in 1456—designated Venerable in 1904—declared Blessed in 1908—and finally canonized in 1920. She is the most notable Warrior-Saint in the Christian calendar, and the queerest fish among the eccentric... Read more

Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Marco Scala

Length: 17 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Il capolavoro di Flaubert, per cui fu accusato di immoralità, che racconta l'insoddisfazione e l'irrequietudine della seconda moglie di Charles Bovary. Read more

The Picture Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

With a dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty, Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for sparkling prose and astute social observation to The Picture of Dorian Gray.

After the artist, Basil Hallward, paints his portrait, Dorian Gray frivolously wishes that the picture change, yet he remain the same.... Read more

The Sorrows Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sorrows of Young Werther is a loosely based autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was first published in 1774 and is one of the most famous-and infamous-works in the history of literature.

Werther, a sensitive young man falls in love with Lotte, a sweet-natured girl he meets while visitng an idyllic German village.... Read more

Tales from Shakespeare

By: Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This retelling in prose of twenty of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays was originally published just for children. Keeping Shakespeare’s own words whenever possible but making the plots and language easily understandable, this very listenable collection has entertained and informed generations of adults as well. With such classic stories as A... Read more

A Study in Scarlet

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Two American travelers have been killed—one with poison, the other with a knife through the heart—and the only clues at the scene are a woman's wedding ring and the German word for "vengeance" written in blood. The military surgeon Dr. John Watson is brought in to investigate, along with his clever, arrogant new roommate, Sherlock Holmes. Thus... Read more

The Return of the Native

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Thomas Hardy's classic statements about modern love, courtship, and marriage, The Return of the Native is set in the pastoral village of Egdon Heath. The fiery Eustacia Vye, wishing only for passionate love, believes that her escape from Egdon lies in her marriage to Clym Yeobright, the returning "native," home from Paris and discontented... Read more

Il Castigamatti II

By: Eugenia "La Sfinge" Codronchi Argeli

Narrated by: Bibo Fossa

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Continua la serie di novelle tratte da Il Castigamatti con "Il perdono" e Fugge l'ora" Read more

Lord Jim

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a novel about a man's lifelong efforts to atone for an act of instinctive cowardice. Young Jim, chief mate of the Patna, dreams of being a hero. He has taken to the seas with the hopes of adventure and the chance to prove his mettle. When the Patna threatens to sink and the cowardly officers decide to save their own skins and escape in... Read more