Classics audiobooks

Alice in Wonderland - Abridged

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Catherine O'Hara

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Join Alice as she goes down into the mysterious rabbit hole and then enters a land of wonder and curiosity. This all-time classic tale by Lewis Carroll as told by Catherine O’Hara will simply delight and enchant every listener. Read more

The Last of the Mohicans - Abridged

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: Theodore Bickel

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In danger of Indian raids at all times, a small party of colonial Americans flee before the British and their Indian allies during the French and Indian wars. Hawkeye, the scout, is the great figure in this classic story; the climax comes in the tragic encounter between two rival Indians, Magwa and Uncas, the last Mohican chief. Read more

A Tale of Two Cities - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Tom Baker

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set against the bloody background of the French Revolution, this is perhaps Dickens' most famous work. Doctor Manette, his devoted daughter Lucie, and the young French aristocrat Charles Darnay are memorable characters. Above all the others rises the reckless Sidney Carton, whose selfless love makes him one of literature's great heroes. Read more

Martin Chuzzlewit - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This Charles Dickens classic is the powerful satiric novel of selfish hypocrisy and financial speculation as it bloomed in insular England and in the spacious but narrow minds of the U.S. It is a novel that has retains its relevance to today’s issues. Read more

The Sea Wolf - Abridged

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Theodore Bickel

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The is a tale of Humphrey Van Weydon, unwilling captive and crewman on a sealing ship of cutthroats, thrown in with the treacherous outcasts that man the ship, and ruled by Wolf Larsen - the Sea Wolf, a brooding, violent brute... the captain. Read more

The Gift of the Magi/The Last Leaf

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A poor young couple demonstrates the meaning of love and self-sacrifice in the Christmas Classic, "The Gift of the Magi". Also included is "The Last Leaf". This tale follows a young woman artist who is stricken with pneumonia. She watches the leafy vine opposite her window with hollow eyes, and she determines to stay alive until the last leaf... Read more

The Magical Monarch of Mo

By: L. Frank Baum

Narrated by: James Jordan

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The Magical Monarch of Mo (1898) was the first full-length children's fantasy book by L. Frank Baum. Originally published in 1899 as 'A New Wonderland', the book was reissued in 1903 with a new title in order to capitalize upon the alliterative title of Baum's successful 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'. An amazing collection of juvenile short... Read more

The House of Mirth, with eBook

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming one of the many women who will succeed in those circles. Though her desire for a comfortable life means that she cannot marry for love without money, her... Read more

The Bible and the Roots of Western Literature

By: Adam Potkay & Monica Brzezinski Potkay

Narrated by: Adam Potkay

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bible is renowned as a rich source of myth and parable, prose and poetry. Indeed, much of Western Literature owes an enormous debt to the unique and widely varied writings in this important religious text. Read more

The Moviegoer

By: Walker Percy

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A winner of the National Book Award, The Moviegoer established Walker Percy as an insightful and grimly humorous storyteller. It is the tale of Binx Bolling, a small-time stockbroker who lives quietly in suburban New Orleans, pursuing an interest in the movies, affairs with his secretaries, and living out his days. But soon he finds himself on a... Read more

Children’s Stories by Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Stephen Fry

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable Children’s short stories written by one of our most successful playwrights of all time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital download only. Immerse yourself in a... Read more

Atlas Shrugged

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 62 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for... Read more

The Castle

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This edition of Kafka's terrifying and comic masterpiece is the product of an international team of experts who used Kafka's original text and notes to render this story as close to the author's vision as possible. Kafka's final novel tells the haunting tale of a man's relentless struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the... Read more

Short stories by Anton Chekhov

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Stephen Fry

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories of our time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital download only. Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more... Read more

The Courtship of Miles Standish

By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Complete and unabridged, and read with meticulous care, in this story Miles Standish and John Alden both seek the hand of the fair Priscilla. See the Mayflower abandon the first settlers as it returns to England. Feel the heated vision of the Indians, perpetually keeping their watch in the dark forest. Love and adventure collide in one of... Read more

Eternal Chalice

By: Monica Brzezinski Potkay

Narrated by: Monica Brzezinski Potkay

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The goal of this course is to provide an overview of the many different ways writers of fiction and nonfiction have imagined, and reimagined, the object known as the Grail. We'll look at how the Grail was invented as a powerful literary symbol in the late 12th and early 13th centuries by a group of medieval romancers who celebrated the Grail as... Read more

The Graduate

By: Charles Webb

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for the acclaimed 1967 film, this novel about a naïve college graduate adrift in the shifting social and sexual mores of the 1960s captures with hilarity and insight the alienation of youth and the disillusionment of an era.When Benjamin Braddock graduates from college and moves back to his parents’ house, everyone wants to know what... Read more

The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated by: various narrators, Ric Jerrom, Cameron Stewart,...

Length: 22 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language—and for good reason: it is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language has rendered... Read more

The Reader

By: Bernhard Schlink

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.

When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time... Read more

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Harlan Ellison

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This 1871 sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll’s inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Whereas the first book has the deck of cards as a theme, this book is loosely based on a game of chess, played on a giant chessboard with fields for squares. Alice encounters talking flowers, madcap kings and... Read more

The Invisible Man

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

On a freezing February day, a stranger emerges from out of the gray to request a room at a local provincial inn. Who is this out-of-season traveler? More confounding is the thick mask of bandages obscuring his face. Why does he disguise himself in this manner and keep himself hidden away in his room?Aroused by trepidation and curiosity, the... Read more

My Brilliant Career

By: Miles Franklin

Narrated by: Megan E Rees

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

'I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman. You will draw away as though I were a snake when you hear.' With this warning, Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome suitor that she is given to writing stories and bound, therefore, on a brilliant career. In this ironically titled and exuberant novel by Miles Franklin,... Read more

Look Homeward, Angel

By: Thomas Wolfe

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 26 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving are fueled by a prodigious appetite for drink. "... rich and ambitious and intensely... Read more

Favorite Stories of Christmas Past, with eBook

By: Louisa May Alcott, Christopher Andersen, Franci...

Narrated by: Renée Raudman & Alan Sklar

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Tantor Media presents a collection of some of the most popular Christmas stories read by award-winning narrators Renée Raudman and Alan Sklar. This special anthology will transport listeners back to the Christmases of their youth, when they first heard these holiday tales. From "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," Clement C. Moore's classic... Read more