Classics audiobooks

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Abridged

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Sally Field

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In an enchanting performance, two-time Academy Award® winner Sally Field takes us on a topsy-turvy adventure through Wonderland. Irresistibly delightful, fascinating and funny, Ms. Field's stunning interpretation brings Alice, the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat and all of Lewis Carroll's remarkable characters to life.

Produced in... Read more

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 Dark Frigate - Abridged

By: Charles Boardman Hawes

Narrated by: Dominick Allen

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In seventeenth century England, a terrible accident forces orphaned Philip Marsham to flee London in fear for his life. Bred to the sea, he signs on with the "Rose of Devon," a dark frigate bound for the quiet shores of Newfoundland.

Philip's bold spirit and knowledge of the sea soon win him his captain's regard. But when the "Rose of Devon" is... 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 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

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

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

Born in Exile (Unabridged)

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Crawford Logan

Length: 17 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Godwin Peak leaves his lowly Midlands home to carve out a career as a journalist in London. His poverty and origins hamper him at every turn, but at last one of his articles - attacking the hypocrisy of the Victoria Church - is accepted. Then catastrophically, Peak falls in love with devout well-born Sidwell Warricombe. To be acceptable to her,... Read more

Evelina (Unabridged)

By: Fanny Burney

Narrated by: Gretel Davis

Length: 19 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Evelina, the title character, is the unacknowledged but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat. Her dubious birth has seen her raised in rural seclusion until her seventeenth year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns how to navigate the... 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

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

The Whirlpool (Unabridged)

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Robert Gladwell

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against a background of Imperial Britain, this novel depicts life on the fringes of fashionable London in the 1880's. The author examines a `rational' marriage and the frustrations of an English `Madame Bovary'. 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

The Vicar of Wakefield (Unabridged)

By: Oliver Goldsmith

Narrated by: Arthur Bush

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This novel depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful heroine and the machinations of an aristocratic villain. By turns comic and sentimental, the novel's popularity owes much to its recognizable depiction... Read more

The Return of the Soldier (Unabridged)

By: Rebecca West

Narrated by: Pauline Munro

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A shell-shocked soldier returns from the First World War. There are three women who love him and who are waiting for him. But he can only remember two of them as they were years ago, and he cannot remember his wife at all. The three women have a choice - to leave him or to "cure" him. Read more

The private papers of Henry Ryecroft (Unabridged)

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: David Dunhill

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft is a semi-fictional autobiographical work by George Gissing in which the author casts himself as the editor of the diary of a deceased acquaintance, selecting essays for posthumous publication. Observing "how suitable many of the reflections were to the month with which they were dated", he explains that he... Read more

The Odd Women (Unabridged)

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Gretel Davis

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Odd Women reflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late nineteenth century. Set in a grimy, fog-ridden London, Gissing's 'odd' women range from the idealistic, financially self-sufficient Mary Barfoot to the Madden sisters who struggle to subsist in low paying jobs and little chance for joy. With narrative detachment, Gissing... Read more

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (Unabridged)

By: W.M. Thackeray

Narrated by: John Cormack

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair, a ruined Barry volunteers for the British army. After seeing service in Germany he deserts and, after a brief spell as a spy, pursues the career of... Read more

The House of Mirth (Unabridged)

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Judith Whale

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a novel of the aristocratic society of New York in the early 1900s. Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepted by 'old money' and courted by the growing tribe of nouveaux riches. But as she nears thirty, her foothold becomes precarious; a poor girl with expensive tastes, she needs a husband to preserve her social... Read more

The History of Pendennis (Unabridged)

By: W.M. Thackeray

Narrated by: Eric Gillett

Length: 39 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The author plunders his own past to create the character of Arthur Pendennis and the world in which he lives: from miserable schoolboy to striving journalist, from carefree Oxbridge to the high (and low) life of London. The result is a panoramic blend of people, action and background. The true ebb and flow of life is caught and the credibility... Read more

The Castle of Otranto (Unabridged)

By: Horace Walpole

Narrated by: Nigel Graham

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself, despite the fact he is already married. But a series of terrifying supernatural omens soon threaten this unlawful... Read more