Classics audiobooks

Lettres à un jeune poète

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrated by: Redjep Mitrovitsa

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Lettres à un jeune poète regroupe les correspondances qu'échangèrent Rainer Maria Rilke et son élève Kappu entre 1903 et 1908. Rilke a alors 27 ans, mais sa démarche est tellement détachée des velléités d'un jeune poète, qu'on le croirait déjà revenu d'une longue habitude. Aux envies d'honneur, il répond par la nécessité de créer. Il préconise... Read more

The Scarlet Pimpernel

By: Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel “has almost reached its... Read more

Le rosier de Madame Husson

By: Guy De Maupassant

Narrated by: Lou Saintagne

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Il y avait autrefois dans cette ville une vieille dame, très vertueuse et protectrice de la vertu, qui s'appelait Madame Husson. Tu sais, je te dis les noms véritables et pas des noms de fantaisie. Mme Husson s'occupait particulièrement des bonnes oeuvres, de secourir les pauvres et d'encourager les méritants. Et donc, cette Madame Husson va... Read more

Der kleine Prinz (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Narrated by: Ulrich Mühe

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut. Das Wesentliche ist für die Augen unsichtbar." Der Kleine Prinz lebt zusammen mit seiner Rose auf dem Planeten Asteroid B 612 und besucht die Erde. Hier lernt er neben dem Erzähler, der mit seinem Flugzeug in der Wüste notlandete, unter anderem den Fuchs kennen, der ihm das Vertraut-machen erklärt: "Du bist... Read more

Romola

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 21 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"There is no book of mine about which I more thoroughly feel that I swear by every sentence as having been written with my best blood." Thus wrote George Eliot about Romola, the book which is central in her career as a novelist and amongst her most colorful, fluent, and persuasive works. Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and... Read more

Burmese Days

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Colonial politics in 1930 Kyauktada, India, come to a head when the European Club, previously for whites only, is ordered to elect one token native member. The deeply racist members do their best to manipulate the situation, resulting in the loss not only of reputations, but of lives.Amidst this cynical setting, timber merchant James Flory... Read more

The Heart of the Matter

By: Graham Greene

Narrated by: Joseph Porter

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this widely acclaimed modern classic, Graham Greene delves deep into character to tell the dramatic, suspenseful story of a good man’s conflict between passion and faith.A police commissioner in a British-governed, war-torn West African state, Scobie is bound by the strictest integrity and sense of duty both for his colonial responsibilities... Read more

Catherine Carmier

By: Ernest J. Gaines

Narrated by: D. M. Greene

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Catherine Carmier is a compelling love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence. When Jackson returns home to his family after an absence of ten years, he discovers that his bonds to them have been irreparably rent by his absence. In the midst of his alienation, he... Read more

The Rum Diary - Abridged

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary—a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book—is Hunter S. Thompson’s brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean.

Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy,... Read more

Oliver Twist - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A pauper's child reared in a workhouse, young Oliver Twist serves an apprenticeship in a loveless house. Despairing, he runs away and is befriended by a gang of young pickpockets who offer him the only welcome home he has ever known. Falling under the influence of villainous company, the young orphan struggles to escape from a life of poverty... Read more

Classic Tales of Horror

By: Martin Greenberg, Ramsey Campbell, Ray Bradbury...

Narrated by: Susan Anspach

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of classic horror stories is sure to give you goosebumps, raise the hair on the back of your neck, and put some fright in your night. These dark tales from renowned authors such as Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and Ramsey Campbell are sure to please everyone— from campfire storytellers to die-hard horror fans. Stories... Read more

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon - Abridged

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Polly Holliday

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate is a woman at war with herself. Born to privilege on a James River plantation, she grows up increasingly aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of slavery.

As she tells her story in 1900, she is still prey to her childhood, to the memories of a life... Read more

The Pickwick Papers - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nearly two centuries after The Pickwick Papers first appeared in 1837, listeners continue to enjoy the vigorous humor and heartwarming optimism of Dickens' first great literary achievement. Actor Paul Scofield evokes all the warmth and laughter of the unlikely adventures of the immortal Samuel Pickwick, Esq., and the other members of the... Read more

Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: David Case

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy” Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk... Read more

A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears... Read more

The Old Curiosity Shop - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In London, Little Nell lives in The Old Curiosity Shop with her grandfather, who has a weakness for gambling. Hoping to mend his finances, the old man borrows money from Quilp, a moneylender and swindler. After losing that money as well, the grandfather flees to the country with Nell in a desperate attempt to escape the clutches of Quilp, who... Read more

A Virtuous Woman - Abridged

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Terry Beaver & Kaye Gibbons

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a... Read more

Underworld - Abridged

By: Don DeLillo

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books

“A great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner.” —San Francisco Chronicle

*With a... Read more

Contact - Abridged

By: Carl Sagan

Narrated by: Jodie Foster

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!

The future is here...in an adventure of cosmic dimension.

In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own. Read more

The Hero of Swine Pump Creek - Abridged

By: Barbara Cooley

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nightshade Racoon and his merry friends Hayward Chipmunk and Nettley Mouse, are charmingly animated in this dramatisation of the trials and tribulations of Swine Pump Creek's creature residents. Read more

A Room With a View

By: E.M. Forster

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Published in 1908, A Room with a View was one of Forster's earliest novels and it has become one of his most famous and popular. The story is set in Florence, Italy, and Surrey, England and centers on young Lucy Honeychurch's choice between propriety and love. It is an accomplished and beautiful love story, full of generous insights.
Edward... Read more

Don Quixote de la Mancha - Abridged

By: Miguel Cervantes

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Entranced by romantic tales of heroism and chivalry, Don Quixote— self-proclaimed knight errant— embarks on a delusional quest for fame and adventure. The eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his companion Sancho encounter an array of unforgettable characters and undertake some of the most famously foolhardy exploits... Read more

The House of the Seven Gables - Abridged

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Joan Allen

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A dark, many-gabled mansion in a small New England village— haunted by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death— houses the distinguished Pyncheon family. They are plagued by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin on its last four members. The arrival of Phoebe Pyncheon from... Read more

Visions of Cody - Abridged

By: Jack Kerouac

Narrated by: Graham Parker

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“To read On the Road but not Visions of Cody is to take a nice sightseeing tour but to forgo the spectacular rapids of Jack Kerouac’s wildest writings.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“The centerpiece of all [Kerouac’s] novels.”—The Washington Post
 
Originally written in 1951–1952, Visions of Cody was an underground classic by the time it was... Read more