Classics audiobooks

Orgoglio E Pregiudizio

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Claudia Giannelli

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Tutti ormai conoscono questo romanzo che ha ispirato più volte il grande schermo, con Laurence Olivier o Donald Sutherland e Keira Knithley, e che rappresenta, con un umorismo tutto inglese, la vita dell’alta borghesia che fa da sfondo ad una storia d’amore in una società dove un buon matrimonio e l’ambizione è l’obbiettivo di tutte le donne. Read more

The Last of the Mohicans

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1757, the English and French are engaged in a savage, bloody war for control of the North American continent. Making tenuous, shifting alliances with various Indian tribes, the two European powers struggle to gain the upper hand on unfamiliar, forested battlegrounds.Caught in the middle is Hawkeye, a white scout who was raised among the... Read more

The Secret Adversary, with eBook

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Some secret plans have survived the sinking of the Lusitania, and amateur sleuths Tommy and Tuppence are on the trail of international spies in order to recover them. "Young Adventurers Limited" is a brand new private detective agency, set up by the dashing Tommy Beresford and the resourceful Tuppence Cowley. Their first assignment is to track... Read more

Amerika

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A Brilliant new translation of the great writer’s least Kafkaesque novel, based on a German-language text that was produced by a team of international scholars and that is more faithful to Kafka’s original manuscript than anything we have had before.

With the same expert balance of precision and nuance that marked his translation of Kafka’s The... Read more

Riders of the Purple Sage, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A gentile sage rider is about to be whipped by the Mormons to coerce the rich and beautiful Jane Withersteen to marry against her will. In desperation, Jane whispers a prayer, "Whence cometh my help!" Just then, an unlikely hero, the infamous gunfighter Lassiter, routs the persecutors and is drawn into this conflict on the Utah-Arizona... Read more

The Mysterious Affair at Styles, with eBook

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Essex in the English countryside, The Mysterious Affair at Styles is one of the great classic murder mysteries. The victim, Mrs. Emily Inglethorp, is the wealthy mistress of Styles Court. After an evening of entertaining family and guests, she is found poisoned in her locked bedroom. The long list of suspects includes her gold-digging new... Read more

Bony and the White Savage

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

By a lonely roadside in the south-west corner of Western Australia, old-timer Karl Mueller is roused from his drink sodden sleep by approaching footsteps and the sound of whistling. What he sees on waking (or thinks he sees) is enough to make him stiffen with fear, and more than enough to worry the police into calling for Detective-Inspector... Read more

The Will of the Tribe

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Aborigines, who knew how many eagles flew over their inland desert, must have known who put the dead white man into Lucifer's Couch. But no one in Hall's Creek, white or black, reported seeing the stranger - and there were no tracks around the meteor crater. Was the murder done by whites or blacks or by both in collusion? Bony listened to... Read more

The Mystery of Swordfish Reef

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

An intriguing case for Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside town. Three men set out to sea for a day's fishing... and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace of the men or their boat is found until, weeks later, a passing trawler hauls in a gruesome catch - the head of one of... Read more

The Devil's Steps

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte leaves his familiar outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort on special assignment for Military Intelligence. Although out of his element among city people, Bony displays his characteristic skills to interpret some puzzling clues and catch a murderer - providing the ingredients for... Read more

Venom House

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of 'Venom House'. Perhaps that's because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, the treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. Perhaps it's because of the unquiet ghosts of the Aborigines slaughtered by Answerth ancestors. Or perhaps... Read more

The Secret Adversary

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Just after World War I, Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley are desperately short of money.With a shortage of job opportunities, they form a partnership, hiring themselves out as “young adventurers, willing to do anything, go anywhere.” In their first dangerous assignment, they must use all their ingenuity to save not only their own lives but... Read more

Psycho

By: Robert Bloch

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates Motel. Exhausted, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was eager for a hot shower and a bed for the night. Her room was musty but clean, and the manager seemed nice, if a little odd.Norman Bates loves his mother. She has been dead for... Read more

Il Castigamatti

By: Eugenia "La Sfinge" Codronchi Argeli

Narrated by: Bibo Fossa

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

La nemica inerme, "La virtù calunniata" e "Il marito di Laura. Intrighi e vicissitudini che si svolgono in luoghi di villeggiatura. Read more

Mund auf, Wort raus - Abridged

By: Patrick Armbruster, Simon Chen, Tom Combo, Dani...

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein Land, ein Wort: Poetry Slam in der Schweiz: Seit Ende der 1990er-Jahre lesen auch in der Schweiz Poetinnen und Poeten an Poetry Slams um die Wette. Inzwischen ist der Dichterwettstreit eine Selbst- verständlichkeit im Kulturbetrieb, die Szene so gross wie noch nie. Von Aarau bis Zofingen, in grossen Städten und kleinen Dörfern finden... Read more

Krneta, Greis & Apfelböck: Winnetou Bühler - Abridged

By: Guy Krneta & Jakob Apfelböck

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hier treffen zwei auf den ersten Blick unterschiedliche Künstler aufeinander: der Schriftsteller Guy Krneta und der Rapper Greis. Gemeinsam mit dem Musiker Jakob Apfelböck entsteht dabei weder Rap noch Literatur, sondern beides zuammen: Literaptur. Erzählt wird die Legende von Winnetou Bühler, Sohn der Comic-Zeichnerin Maya Bühler und des... Read more

Moby-Dick

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 23 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the great works of American literature, Moby-Dick is the epic tale of one man’s fight against a force of nature.The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship. The Pequod sails under the command of the one-legged Captain Ahab, who has set himself on a... Read more

Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English (1922)

By: author

Narrated by: Joy Gelardi

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An unusual treatise on sex education, dating back to 1922 in America. There is a strong bias towards abstinence and indeed there are threats of hellfire and brimstone as a result of, shall we say, 'interference'? With its hectoring tone and finger wagging stance, it is alarming to think that this book was treated as a serious authority on the... Read more

The Selfish Giant, The Happy Prince

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Joy Gelardi

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar Wilde (1854 –1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.

This audiobook brings together two of his well known short stories. In ‘The... Read more

Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic novel has been thrice adapted for the screen by the BBC. Mary Smith relates the story of her time with middle-aged spinster sisters Miss Matty and Miss Deborah. Witty, poignant, and often ironic, Cranford is the tale of what these two women will do to remain respectable, proper, and kind with only moderate means. "... an extremely... Read more

Three Men in a Boat

By: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’ve never read anything by Jerome K. Jerome, you’d be well advised to heed this warning by the Glasgow Herald: “It would be dangerous to [listen to] this book in any place––say a full railway compartment––where the reader was not at perfect liberty to laugh as loudly and as long as he chose.” The passage of time has not altered that... Read more

Odyssey of the West I

By: Timothy B. Shutt

Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures discussed. The lectures address-in... Read more

Odyssey of the West II

By: Timothy B. Shutt

Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universi- ties. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures dis- cussed. The lectures address a... Read more

Meditations on First Philosophy

By: Rene Descartes

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark in the history of thought, RenE Descartes' Meditations helped bring critical thinking and skepticism to the Western world. Modern philosophers are still captivated by Descartes' radical and controversial departure from his previous beliefs, which has both inspired reverence and provoked anger. Read more