Classics audiobooks

The Secret Agent

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by an actual attempted terrorist attack in nineteenth-century London, The Secret Agent offers a chillingly prophetic portrait of contemporary terrorism, even famously inspiring the Unabomber. The literary precursor to the espionage novels of such writers as Graham Greene and John le Carr├®, Conrad's intense political thriller resonates... Read more

McTeague

By: Frank Norris

Narrated by: Wolfram Kandinsky

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Few works have captured the seamy side of American urban life with such graphic immediacy as Frank Norris’ McTeague. Heredity and environment play the role of fate in this portrayal of human degradation in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.McTeague, a successful but naive dentist, marries Trina, introduced to him by her cousin Marcus Schouler.... Read more

The Border Legion, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Cleve has been deemed "a good guy" all of his life, and it agitates him to no end. Even his girlfriend, Joan Randle, has scorned him for this "weakness," telling Jim, "You haven't it in you even to be bad!" Dejected and hurt, Jim abandons the life he has known for the gold mining camps along Alder Gulch in southern Montana. It is here, among... Read more

The Aspern Papers

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in a crumbling Venetian villa, The Aspern Papers is a story about the heart’s romantic ambitions and the pragmatic methods we use to pursue them. An American editor arrives in Venice on a quest to acquire some unpublished letters written by his favorite Romantic poet, Jeffrey Aspern. He tracks down the mistress to whom the letters were... Read more

Trent’s Last Case

By: E. C. Bentley

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in 1912 as a light-hearted reaction against the solemnity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Trent’s Last Case, with its ingeniously twisting plot and cheerfully self-mocking hero, is the first classic of the golden age of English detective fiction.When a powerful and ruthless American millionaire is found murdered in his English country... Read more

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: a full cast, Al Bedrosian, James Aylward, Laure...

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This delightful collection of lesser-known gems by Mark Twain begins with the story of a town called Hadleyburg, which prides itself on the honesty of its citizens. One day a citizen of Hadleyburg offends a stranger passing through, who vows to take his revenge by revealing just how corruptible the sanctimonious town really is. Twain is at his... Read more

Otto of the Silver Hand

By: Howard Pyle

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“This tale that I am about to tell is of a little boy who lived and suffered in those dark middle ages; of how he saw both the good and the bad of men, and of how, by gentleness and love and not by strife and hatred, he came at last to stand above other men and to be looked up to by all.”—from the bookYoung Otto is born into a warring household... Read more

Tanglewood Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Nathaniel Hawthorne masterfully grabs the imagination of children with these timeless tales of adventure based on the incomparable Greek mythological heroes’ escapades. Children will enter a world of magic and intrigue as they face ferocious beasts, clever enchantresses, and tricky gods, alongside the greatest heroes of all time. Will Theseus... Read more

The Man of the Forest, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Milt Dale is the Man of the Forest. Living alone in a camp in the wilderness called Paradise Park, he prefers the company of bears, cougars, and wolves to that of the surrounding ranchers and troublemakers. But one day he overhears a conversation that changes his life and convinces him to leave his wild paradise to save a young woman from... Read more

The Rainbow Trail, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

John Shefford rode into Utah's valley in search of a new life, and when he met Fay Larkin, he knew he had found it. Even when she was charged with murder, he did not care. He had to have her. She was worth life itself.



Breaking her out of jail was the easy part. After that he had posses to worry about, violent bands of Indians to outrun, a... Read more

The Double

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin.Mr. Golyadkin, a minor government official, is a rather middling man. Then one day he meets his "double"—a man with the same name, face, and background. Initially charmed by the coincidence, Golyadkin soon notices a discernable cooling in the reaction of his friends and colleagues, while his double... Read more

The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu, with eBook

By: Sax Rohmer

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"Imagine a person tall, lean and feline, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long magnetic eyes of the true cat green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect. Imagine that awful being and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu."

Dr.... Read more

The Light in the Forest

By: Conrad Richter

Narrated by: Joel Fabiani

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"True Son's heart felt like a stone. How could this fantastic and inferior figure in a long fawn-colored garment like a woman's be possibly anything to him-this pallid creature who revealed his feelings in front of all! In the boy's mind came the picture of his Indian father. How differently he would have looked and acted. With what dignity and... Read more

The Vicomte de Bragelonne

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 22 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Dumas continues his Musketeer Romances with a final trilogy. The Vicomte de Bragelonne opens an epic adventure which continues with Louise de la Vallière and reaches its climax in The Man in the Iron Mask.It is May 1660, and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on... Read more

Narcissus and Goldmund

By: Hermann Hesse

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual, restless Goldmund, who is immediately drawn to his teacher's fierce intellect... Read more

The Oval Portrait

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A man's obsession for recreating life-like art leads him to forsake reality with terrible consequences. Read more

Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Volume Two

By: Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan...

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Volume Two, presents four classic stories from the masters of horror literature.

It kicks off with Charles Dickens' friend and collaborator Wilkie Collins' eerie tale of a man's dream of his own murder that comes too true 'The Dream Woman'. Second on the bill is the master of American literature Edgar Allan Poe's... Read more

The Tomb

By: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A self-confessed day-dreamer develops an obsession to get into his family's tomb. Read more

The Ring of Thoth

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A doomed love story spanning the millennia presented by Renegade Arts Entertainment. Read more

The Dream Woman

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A man's recurring dream of his demise becomes a living nightmare. Read more

Desert Gold, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Gale, a college football star, travels to Mexico to prove himself after failing in every business opportunity that his wealthy father had handed him. When he arrives at an Arizona border town, a chance meeting with an old friend launches him into an adventure to save a young Spanish beauty from a ruthless Mexican bandit.



Within the... Read more

La Leggenda Del Santo Bevitore

By: Joseph Roth

Narrated by: Teresa Ciampolini

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Un clochard e il suo incontro con la piccola Santa Teresa. Read more

The Quiet American

By: Graham Greene

Narrated by: Joseph Porter

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Alden Pyle, an idealistic young American, is sent to Vietnam to promote democracy amidst the intrigue and violence of the French war with the Vietminh. His friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, looks on but soon finds it difficult to remain simply an observer. Fowler’s mistress, a beautiful native girl, creates a catalyst for jealousy... Read more

Paradise - Abridged

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New... Read more