Classics audiobooks

El cuento de la serpiente verde - Abridged

By: J. W. von Goethe

Narrated by: Miguel de Ugarte

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

La Serpiente Verde es uno de los cuentos fantásticos más seductores de J. W. Goethe. La alquimia de sus palabras domina y doblega las fuerzas mágicas de la naturaleza hasta convertir los sueños en realidad y transformar las enojosas cargas de la vida en nuevas esperanzas e ilusiones. Gracias a una refinada búsqueda filosófica y estética del... Read more

The Jane Austen Collection - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Prunella Scales

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. ... Read more

The M. R. James Collection - Abridged

By: M. R. James

Narrated by: Sir Michael Hordern

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. ... Read more

El Retrato - Abridged

By: Nikolái Gógol

Narrated by: Leonel Arial

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

La compra de un cuadro muy insólito transforma total y completamente la vida de Chartkov, quien es un joven pintor, en el mencionado retrato subsiste una fuerza maligna sobrenatural que provoca cosas malas en todos los que se acercan a él. Una mezcla de sátira social, fantasía, realismo y compasión, muchas situaciones y disyuntivas atravesará... Read more

The Lost World - Abridged

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Robert Hardy

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. ... Read more

El club de los suicidas - Abridged

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Leonel Arial

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Una noche el príncipe Florizel de Bohemia y su asistente el coronel Geraldine, de incógnito en una taberna de Londres, conocen a un curioso joven que les introduce en un extraño y exclusivo club: el de los Suicidas, en el que cada noche el azar decide quién debe morir y quien debe ser el ejecutor de esta muerte... A partir de aquí, se... Read more

La abadía de Northanger - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Victoria Ansera

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

La abadía de Northanger narra la historia de Catherine Morland, una joven ingenua y aficionada a la lectura de novelas góticas, llenas de pasadizos ocultos, mazmorras y misterios. Invitada por los Tilney a pasar una temporada en su casa de campo, se dedicará a investigar tortuosos e imaginarios secretos de familia. Pero cuando finalmente todo se... Read more

El Anticristo - Abridged

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Jorge Mansilla

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"El anticristo" fue el primer inédito que padeció las operaciones de falseamiento y mutilación que llevó a cabo Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche. El texto que aquí se ofrece, restablecido, subsana todas esas manipulaciones y nos devuelve las páginas que resultaron la quintaesencia de la última gran obra proyectada por el pensador, "La voluntad de... Read more

Moby-Dick - Abridged

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: William Hootkins

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Moby-Dick is one of the great epics in all of literature. Captain Ahab's hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace, while Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, on the sublime indifference of nature, and on the grimy physical details of the extraction of oil provide a reflective counterpoint to the headlong... Read more

Cranford - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Prunella Scales

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. ... Read more

Daisy Miller - Abridged

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Victoria Ansera

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Miss Daisy, una muchacha americana hermosa y libre de mediados del siglo XIX, pasa unas semanas en Suiza para continuar después su periplo europeo en Roma. Su belleza y comportamiento desenfadado deslumbran al joven Winterboune, y a su vez irrita a la tía del joven, paradigma de la rígida sociedad de la época. La libertad alegre de Miss Daisy,... Read more

Frankenstein - Abridged

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Richard Pasco

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as... Read more

Gulliver’s Travels - Abridged

By: Jonathan Swift

Narrated by: Martin Shaw

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Swift’s scornful satire, written “to vex the world rather than divert it”, takes a caustic look at those most contemporary concerns irrational prejudice, social inequality, ivory tower elitism and the correct way to open a boiled egg. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little... Read more

Far from the Madding Crowd - Abridged

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Martin Shaw

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hardy’s classic ‘pastoral tale’ of wilful and capricious Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, the faithful shepherd, the lonely widower and the dashing but faithless soldier. An immediate success when it was first published in 1874, Thomas Hardy’s ‘pastoral tale’ of the wilful and capricious Bathsheba Everdene, her... Read more

Heart of Darkness - Abridged

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Joss Ackland

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.’ At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way... Read more

Doña Perfecta - Abridged

By: Benito Pérez Galdós

Narrated by: Leonel Arial

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pepe Rey, hombre de ideas liberales, acude a Orbajosa, pequeña ciudad episcopal castellana, donde piensa casarse con una prima suya, Rosario, matrimonio acordado por su padre, Juan, y por la hermana de éste, la madre de la novia, Perfecta, viuda de Polentinos. Los novios se gustan de inmediato, apenas conocerse, y se declaran amor eterno, pero... Read more

Una Habitación propia - Abridged

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Mavi Lacovara

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

En 1928 a Virginia Woolf le propusieron dar una serie de charlas sobre el tema de la mujer y la novela. Lejos de cualquier dogmatismo o presunción, planteó la cuestión desde un punto de vista realista, valiente y muy particular. Una pregunta: ¿qué necesitan las mujeres para escribir buenas novelas? Una sola respuesta: independencia económica y... Read more

Man and Superman - Abridged

By: George Bernard Shaw

Narrated by: Dame Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes & a full cast

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Man and Superman was the first drama to be broadcast on the BBC’s Third Program on October 1, 1946. To celebrate Radio 3’s fiftieth anniversary, the play was directed by Sir Peter Hall, and preserved for all time in this lush audio dramatization.“A comedy and a philosophy,” Man and Superman is based on the Don Juan theme, and using all the... Read more

Der Gehülfe - Abridged

By: Robert Walser

Narrated by: Martin Hofer & Heinz Müller

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Vor den Augen des scheinbar von einer Reise herkommenden Mannes war auf einem Emailleschild zu lesen: C. Tobler, technisches Bureau. Er wartete noch einen Moment, wie um über irgend etwas gewiß sehr Belangloses nachzudenken, dann drückte er auf den Knopf der elektrischen Klingel, worauf eine Person kam, allem Anschein nach eine Magd, um ihn... Read more

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, is a detective narrative that explores Dupin's investigation into the mysterious disappearance and subsequent death of a young woman in Paris, based on a real case in New York, highlighting analysis and logical deduction. Read more

El jardín secreto - Abridged

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrated by: Victoria Ansera

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Una enfermedad mata a los padres de Mary y la deja huérfana. Mary es enviada a Reino Unido a vivir con un tío suyo llamado Archibald Craven, viudo y con un hijo muy enfermo, en una lujosa mansión de Yorkshire, en la que viven sumidos en un ambiente irrespirable. Para mayor desasosiego se le unen las malas artes de la señora Medlock, la estricta... Read more

Felicidad conyugal - Abridged

By: León Tolstói

Narrated by: Victoria Clariá

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

En esta bellísima historia, Tolstói nos habla del amor y del matrimonio a través de la historia de Masha y Serguéi. Ella es doce años más joven que él, pero entre ambos surge un amor que se consuma en un dichoso matrimonio. Se casa con él, y al principio viven tiempos felices, sin embargo, su felicidad conyugal se verá alterada cuando la pareja... Read more

Little Women - Abridged

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Little Women begins the much-loved story of the March sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. The girls grow up amidst the turmoils, adventures, and hardships of the American Civil War.There is Meg, the eldest, plump and fair; Jo, the tomboy who longs to be a writer and fights against the constraints of her sex; Beth, shy, timid, and delicate, who... Read more

Вечер накануне Ивана Купала (радиопостановка) - Abridged

By: Николай Гоголь

Narrated by: Анатолий Папанов

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Вечер накануне Ивана Купала - из цикла «Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки». Исполняет Анатолий Папанов. Read more