Classics audiobooks

The After House, with eBook

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by: Rebecca Burns

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Just out of the hospital and totally out of funds, Ralph Leslie jumped at the chance to sign aboard millionaire Marshall Turner's luxurious super-yacht as steward to the passengers lodged in its after house. His job was easy sailing until one sultry summer night, when the dream voyage suddenly became a nightmare of blood and terror. One ship's... Read more

Sur la lecture

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: André Dussolier

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Sur la lecture est un petit texte de Marcel Proust, qui servit de préface à la traduction du livre Sésame et les lys de Ruskin. Il propose une introduction à la lecture, par le biais de la description d'une journée d'enfance en compagnie d'un « livre préféré ». Proust refuse de voir dans la lecture une communication avec le monde, un accès à... Read more

Tobacco Road

By: Erskine Caldwell

Narrated by: John MacDonald

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them. Debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are preoccupied by their hunger, sexual... Read more

Paradise Lost, with eBook

By: John Milton

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three... Read more

Les Misérables

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 57 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the Parisian underworld of the early nineteenth century, Les Misérables follows the adventures of Jean Valjean, once an honest peasant, who spent nineteen years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving family.A hardened and bitter criminal upon his release, Valjean is transformed when an act of compassion by a... Read more

Les Misérables - Abridged

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in the Parisian underworld of the early nineteenth century, Les Misérables follows the adventures of Jean Valjean, once an honest peasant, who was imprisoned for nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving family. A hardened and bitter criminal upon his release, Valjean is transformed when an act of compassion... Read more

The Vampyre

By: John Polidori

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Young, impressionable Aubrey is fascinated by the enigmatic Lord Ruthven, and accompanies him on a tour to Europe. But Aubrey develops a growing distaste for Lord Ruthven’s sinister and grotesque conduct - especially as it concerns human blood.

This novella, penned during that tempestuous night in Switzerland amongst such notables as Percy... Read more

The Last Cavalier

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 35 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The discovery of Dumas's last, incomplete novel, lost and completely unknown to historians for more than a century, was a literary bombshell. The Last Cavalier is Dumas's swan song, a rousing adventure that completes his epic retelling of French history from the Renaissance (La Reine Margot) to his present day (The Count of Monte Cristo) by... Read more

DragonLight

By: Donita K. Paul

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The breathtaking conclusion to the DragonKeeper chronicles! The fantastic land of Amara is recovering from years of war as well as from the spiritual apathy corroding the Amarans’ hearts. With Kale and her father serving as dragon keepers for Paladin, the dragon populace has exploded. It’s a peaceful, exciting time of rebuilding. And yet, an... Read more

Le diable au corps

By: Raymond Radiguet

Narrated by: Élodie Huber

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Le diable au corps est les confidences d'un jeune homme qui retrace sa rencontre amoureuse alors qu'il était adolescent, avec une jeune fille tout juste mariée à un soldat parti au front. Le contexte de la première guerre mondiale est abordé avec cynisme et détachement : c'est avant tout la possibilité d'un dérèglement des moeurs, d'une grande... Read more

Wilhelm Busch: Eduards Traum - Abridged

By: Wilhelm Busch

Narrated by: Andreas Muthesius

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eduard hat einen Traum. Einen dieser Träume, in denen alles möglich ist. Und so verlässt Eduard seinen Körper und saust durch das Universum. Er begegnet wunderlichen Dingen und Lebewesen - darunter den allerwunderlichsten, den Menschen. Groteskes Spätwerk des Meisters. Read more

Wilhelm Busch: Poesie & Prosa - Abridged

By: Wilhelm Busch

Narrated by: Andreas Muthesius

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Weltbekannt wurde er durch seine Bildergeschichten wie Max und Moritz oder Die Fromme Helene. Wilhelm Busch (1832 - 1908) war ein ambitionierter Schriftsteller, dessen Werke auch ohne kongenialen Tuschestrich bestehen konnten. Read more

Sketches by Boz: Volume 3

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Queen Victoria... and Prince Albert were married in 1840. Dickens uses this event as an ingenious ploy to salute and promote domestic felicity, advising young ladies upon several examples of the different types of male available as partners. There follows a section describing various married couples from whom the young ladies could possibly... Read more

Lady Vernon and Her Daughter

By: Jane Rubino & Caitlen Rubino-Bradway

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In Lady Vernon and Her Daughter, Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway have taken Jane Austen's novella, Lady Susan, and transformed it into a vivid and richly developed novel of love lost and found--and the complex relationships between women, men, and money in Regency England.

Lady Vernon and her daughter, Frederica, are left penniless and... Read more

Anthem

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil.” Deep issues of conscience are explored in Ayn Rand’s dystopian tale of a man who dares to fight against a system that invades his very mind and identity. Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Kristen Underwood

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne'sThe Scarlet Letterreaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact of a single passionate act on the lives of three... Read more

White Fang

By: Jack London

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack London’s tales are more than epics of hardship and survival—they are morality plays in which good wins over evil.In the desolate, frozen wilds of northwest Canada, a wolf cub finds himself the sole survivor of his litter. Son of Kiche, half-wolf, half-dog, and the ageing wolf One Eye, he is thrust into a savage world where each day renews... Read more

Ninety-Three

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1793 in France—the year of the guillotine. Already, Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaffold, and terror reigns. Ideals topple in the face of political necessity, alliances founder, and intrigue is a way of life.The architects of the Revolution—Marat, Danton, and Robespierre—have set up an embryo parliament called the Convention,... Read more

Quo Vadis

By: Henryk Sienkiewicz

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 22 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Written nearly a century ago and translated into over fifty languages, this masterpiece of historical fiction is one of the best-selling novels in history and the inspiration for the MGM motion picture of 1951. An epic of love and courage in Nero's time, it illustrates the conflict of moral ideas within the Roman Empire at the dawn of... Read more

Don Quixote

By: Miguel De Cervantes

Narrated by: Andrew Sachs

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

DON QUIXOTE - by far the most famous book in Spanish literature - was originally intended by Cervantes as a skit on traditional popular ballads, but he also parodied the romances of chivalry. As a result he produced one of the most entertaining adventure stories of all time and created, in Don Quixote and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, two... Read more

The Looking Glass War

By: John le Carré

Narrated by: Full Cast, Ian McDiarmid, Philip Jackson & Simo...

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess ‘the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin’. When word reaches 'The Department' - an ailing section of British intelligence -... Read more

Ivanhoe

By: Walter Scott

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 19 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in England during Richard I's reign, Sir Walter Scott's fanciful, vivid reinterpretation of medieval life is a successful blend of fact, myth, and romance.Upon returning from the Crusades, where he served with King Richard I, Wilfred of Ivanhoe is met with his father's disapproval, having fallen in love with Rowena, his father's ward. When... Read more

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 17 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Set amid the riot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris, Victor Hugo’s masterful tale of heroism and adventure has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in 1831. It is the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral, who falls in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, who shows him kindness... Read more

Teresa

By: Neera

Narrated by: Claudia Giannelli

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Teresa: primo capitolo di una triologia che affronta le condizioni della donna alla fine dell'ottocento. Read more