Classics audiobooks

Adios A Las Armas - Abridged

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Hernando Iván Cano

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

El metodo casi periodistico y descarnado de Hemingway muestra al joven idealista Frederick Henry, quien despues de cumplir como voluntario en el ejercito, se enamora y huye, para encontrarse con dramas incluso superiores a los del campo de batalla. Es una novela llena de significados y con un fondo, que a pesar de su realismo es de un... 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

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

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

Eugenia Grandet - Abridged

By: Honoré de Balzac

Narrated by: Laura García

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Una de las novelas mas impresionantes de su ciclo "La comedia humana", y considerada por muchos como su obra maestra, en Eugenia Grandet, Balzac pinto un retrato inolvidable y elocuente de un avaro a quien nada le importa ni tiene escrupulo alguno con alguien, ni siquiera con su hija, con tal de aumentar sus riquezas. Las maquinaciones del viejo... Read more

La Buena Tierra - Abridged

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Laura García

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Con La Buena Tierra la escritora estadounidense Pearl Buck gano el Premio Nobel de 1938, ya que este retrato de un campesino chino, pobrisimo, que a medida que va consiguiendo riquezas se vuelve mas depravado y se llena de vicios, tiene características universales y su hermoso lirismo, ademas de lo fuerte del argumento convirtio la novela en un... 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

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

Moby Dick - Abridged

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Burt Reynolds

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Herman Melville's high-seas adventure of whaling lore and legend is told through the eyes of Ishmael, a sailor aboard the ship Pequod. Under the command of the relentless madman Captain Ahab, whose sole quest is to hunt down and kill the whale who took his leg, Moby Dick is the tale of an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and... Read more

Uncle Dynamite

By: Aaron Dennis, RE Johnston, Novoneel Chakraborty...

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A chance meeting on a train brought together Lord Ickenham and Bill Oakshott—although being told that the love of his life, Hermione, was engaged to none other than Pongo, Lord Ickenham’s nephew, did make Bill feel like he’d been struck behind the ear. But Pongo has troubles of his own to deal with when he accidently breaks one of Hermione’s... Read more

The Shipping News - Abridged

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Robert Joy

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family.

Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday... Read more

Ivanhoe - Abridged

By: Sir Scott

Narrated by: David Warner

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ivanhoe, a trusted ally of Richard-the-Lionhearted, returns from the Crusades to reclaim the inheritance his father denied him. Ivanhoe defends Rebecca, a vibrant, beautiful Jewish woman, against a charge of witchcraft— but it is Lady Rowena who is Ivanhoe's true love. Richard's brother, the wicked Prince John, plots to usurp... Read more

Young Men in Spats

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author whom the Times called “a comic genius” and “an old master of farce” come eleven further stories featuring such eccentric characters as Freddie Widgeon, Cyril (Barmy) Fotheringay Phipps, Percy Wimbolt, and Pongo. This collection includes the stories “Fate,” “Tried in the Furnace,” “Trouble Down at Tudsleigh,” “The Amazing Hat... Read more

Huckleberry Finn - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Yadira Sanchez

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

El muchacho que pudo surgir. Los navegantes de los rios del sur de Estados Unidos gritaban Mark Twain para indicar que habia suficiente profundidad para que sus barcos no encallaran y Mark Twain fue el seudonimo escogido por Samuel Langhorne Clemens para sus cuentos y novelas que retratan con un humor unico la vida rural de fines del siglo XIX.... Read more

La Vuelta Al Mundo En 80 Días - Abridged

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Fabio Camero

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Las aventuras alrededor del mundo de un ingles. A Julio Verne le consideran como uno de los precursores de la novela de ficcion cientifica, por que escribio sobre temas como los viajes submarinos o la llegada a la luna, que en esos tiempos eran casi un imposible. Pero lo mas imposible de todo era hacer un viaje alrededor del mundo en poco menos... Read more

Oliverio Twist - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Fabio Camero

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dickens fue un maestro de la narrativa y entre sus obras se destacan Las aventuras de Oliverio Twist, una novela de aventuras con trasfondo social, que cuenta la historia de un muchacho al que la vida ha destinado a ser delincuente pero que es salvado por su personalidad. El autor, ademas de mostrar que la vida del bandido no tiene el... Read more

Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterpiece by Edith Wharton, author of The Age of Innocence.Winter in a Massachusetts village serves as a backdrop to Edith Wharton' s masterpiece about a man with little hope of escaping his bleak future. Married to an older woman named Zeena, Ethan Frome finds himself drawn to his wife' s cousin, Mattie. Although he... Read more

36 Stunden - Die Geschichte vom Fräullein Pollinger (Ungekürzt)

By: Ödön von Horváth

Narrated by: Ulrich Tukur

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sie hatte halt so ihre Geschichten, das Fräulein Pollinger aus der Schellingstraße in München. Sie fiel bei den besseren Herren nirgends besonders auf, denn sie hatte nur eine Durchschnittsfigur und ein Durchschnittsgesicht, nicht unangenehm, aber auch nicht hübsch, nur nett. Aber an jenem schwülen Augustabend des Jahres 1928 fällt Agnes... Read more

What Is Man?

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Carl Reiner

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

Locked in his desk for 25 years, What Is Man? was Twain's most serious, philosophical, and private work. The narrative appears in the form of a Socratic dialogue between a romantic young idealist and an elderly cynic. The pair debate issues of mankind, such as whether man is free to act or is more of a machine, whether personal merit is... Read more

Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda Leopard

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"O'Brian was only 15 when [Caesar] was published, but he already possessed an instinct for deft plotting and uncomplicated narrative."―The New York Times

A stark tale encompassing the cruelty and beauty of the natural world, and a clear demonstration of the storytelling gift that would later flower in the Aubrey/Maturin series. When he was... Read more

Flatland - Abridged

By: Edwin Abbott

Narrated by: Patrick Frederic

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

     Flatland, like our own world, is on the verge of the millenium. On the last day of the year 1999, a Square—hitherto undistinguished from the other shapes of his two-dimensional world—receives the Gospel of Three Dimensions, revealed to that world's flat inhabitants only once every a thousand years. Transformed by a truth he is unable to... Read more

The Body Artist

By: Don DeLillo

Narrated by: Laurie Anderson

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award–winning author of White Noise and Underworld.

Since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is... Read more

Ich glaube, er hat Schluß gemacht (Ungekürzt)

By: Christine Westermann

Narrated by: Christine Westermann

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In ihren Geschichten erzählt die Fernsehjournalistin und Bestsellerautorin Christine Westermann von großen und kleinen Katastrophen des Lebens. Es tauchen auf: Butterkekse, die einen von der Arbeit abhalten, Sterndeuter und Herzensbrecher, eine Nilpferdsammlung und der innere Schweinehund. Unter anderem natürlich. Auch Familie, Freunde und der... Read more

The Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, Odysseus must pass through the land of the Cyclopes, encounter Circe the Enchantress, and face the terrible Charybdis and the six headed serpent Scylla.Little is known about the Ancient Greek oral poet, Homer, the supposed 8th Century BC author of the world-read Iliad and his later masterpiece... Read more