Classics audiobooks

A Separate Peace - Abridged

By: John Knowles

Narrated by: Matthew Modine

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual.  Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete.  What happened between them at school one summer  during the early years of World War II is the  subject of A Separate Peace. A  great bestseller for over thirty years--one of the  most starkly moving parables ever written of the  dark forces that... Read more

The Odyssey - Abridged

By: Homer

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The most popular epic of Western culture springs to life in Allen Mandelbaum's magnificent translation.

Homer's masterpiece tells the story of Odysseus, the ideal Greek hero, as he travels home to Ithaca after the Trojan War—a journey of ten years and countless thrilling adventures. Rich in Greek folklore and myth, featuring gods and... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Paul Newman

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.

Originally published in 1876, The Adventures of Tom... Read more

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Jack Lemmon

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows Tom... Read more

Atlas Shrugged - Abridged

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Who is John Galt?" is the immortal question posed at the beginning of Ayn Rand's masterpiece. The answer is the astonishing story of a man who said he would stop the motor of the world—and did. As passionate as it is profound, Atlas Shrugged is one of the most influential novels of our time. In it, Rand dramatizes the main tenets of... Read more

Beowulf - Abridged

By: author

Narrated by: Seamus Heaney

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A New York Times Bestseller and Whitbread Book of the Year.

Heaney's performance reminds us that Beowulf, written near the turn of another millennium, was intended to be heard not read.

Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes... Read more

Great American Suspense

By: various authors

Narrated by: Geraint Wyn Davies

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself. Savor the best storytelling from the greatest authors of the supernatural; the haunting language and brilliant rendition create an extraordinary atmosphere.This audio recording includes:"Ethan Brand" by Nathaniel Hawthorne: a lime-burner and his young son encounter the man searching for the Unpardonable Sin."The Yellow Sign" by... Read more

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An unforgettable story of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will captivate listeners of all ages with its vivid recreation of the history, the people, and the language of the nineteenth-century American South. Read more

Jo's boys (Unabridged)

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: James Tillitt

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Beginning 10 years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits Plumfield, the New England school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo's boys, including rebellious Dan, sailor Emil, and promising musician Nat, are grown. Jo herself remains at the heart of this tale, holding her boys fast through shipwreck, storm,... Read more

Tom Jones (Unabridged)

By: Henry Fielding

Narrated by: John Richmond

Length: 39 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Jones is brought up by the generous Mr Allworthy on his Somerset estate, where Tom eventually falls in love with his beautiful neighbour, Sophia Western. Because of his partially unknown parentage, however, their respective guardians are against the match. When Tom is banished due to his occasionally heated temper and sexual encounters with... Read more

Henry Esmond (Unabridged)

By: W.M. Thackeray

Narrated by: Eric Gillett

Length: 21 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the reign of Queen Anne, this novel follows the troubled progress of Henry Esmond Esq, a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army. Enamoured of the Jacobite Lady Castlewood and her wayward daughter Beatrix, he distinguishes himself in Marlborough's campaigns against Louis XIV. Esmond comes to grief in an attempt to depose George I... Read more

Vanity Fair (Unabridged)

By: W.M. Thackeray

Narrated by: Eric Gillett

Length: 36 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Vanity Fair is the story of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, who have just completed their studies at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies and are beginning to embark upon the world. The simple-minded nature of Amelia, who comes from a wealthy family, is contrasted with the strong-willed nature of Becky, who will stop at nothing to climb the... Read more

Mansfield Park (Unabridged)

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Kim Medcalf

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless... Read more

Felix Holt: the Radical (Unabridged)

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf

Length: 19 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's opportunistic values and Holt's profound beliefs... Read more

Moll Flanders (Unabridged)

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Robert Gladwell

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Moll Flanders tells her own story, a vivid and racy tale of a woman's experience in the seamy side of life in late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century England and America. Born in Newgate prison, and seduced in the home of her adoptive family, she learns to live off her wits, defying the traditional depiction of women as helpless... Read more

Ethan Frome (Unabridged)

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: William Roberts

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a love triangle, set in the rural isolation of New England, which has devastating consequences. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds... Read more

New Grub Street (Unabridged)

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes

Length: 21 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had experienced it. His novel is at once a major social document and a story that draws us irresistibly into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acquaintances in Grub Street including Jasper Milvain, an ambitious... Read more

The Virginians (Unabridged)

By: W.M. Thackeray

Narrated by: Eric Gillett

Length: 40 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This novels depicts the fortunes of the descendants of Henry Esmond and the once beautiful Beatrix, with a brilliant picture of eighteenth-century London society at the time of the American War of Independence. Read more

My brilliant Career (Unabridged)

By: Miles Franklin

Narrated by: Vivien Creegor

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1901, this Australian classic recounts the live of 16-year-old Sybylla Melvyn. Trapped on her parents' outback farm, she simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. Whisked away to live on her grandmother's gracious property, she falls under the eye of the rich and handsome Harry Beecham. And soon... Read more

Joseph Andrews (Unabridged)

By: Henry Fielding

Narrated by: Terence Wilton

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This riotous tale of innocents in a corrupt world was one of the earliest English novels. Published in 1742, it tells the story of a chaste servant. After being sacked for spurning the advances of the lascivious Lady Booby, Joseph Andrews takes to the road, accompanied by his beloved Fanny Goodwill and the absent-minded, much put-upon Parson... Read more

Little men (Unabridged)

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Barrie Shore

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Men picks up the story of fiery, headstrong Jo where Good Wives left off. The novel is set at a rather unusual boarding school run by Jo and her husband, where the pupils are encouraged to pillow fight and keep pets. When the penniless but talented orphan Nat Blake shows up on her doorstep, Jo takes him in, and his arrival sets in motion... Read more

Pamela (Unabridged)

By: Samuel Richardson

Narrated by: Elizabeth Proud

Length: 43 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This novel is told in a series of letters from the heroine, Pamela Andrews, a young low-born maid whose mistress has just died when the story opens. The lady's son, Mr B, attempts to seduce Pamela. Although Pamela finds him loathsome and leaves the house, he pursues her relentlessly. This is a work of pioneering psychological complexity; it is... Read more

Roderick Random (Unabridged)

By: Tobias Smollett

Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf

Length: 20 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Roderick Random is a boisterous and unprincipled hero who answers life's many misfortunes with a sledgehammer. Left penniless, he leaves his native Scotland for London and on the way meets Strap, and old schoolfellow. Together they undergo many adventures at the hands of scoundrels and rogues. Roderick qualifies as a surgeon's mate and is... Read more

The Age of Innocence (Unabridged)

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Gretel Davis

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their... Read more