Classics audiobooks
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
View audiobookThe Once and Future King
By: Thomas Hanbury White
Narrated by: Neville Jason
Length: 33 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The complete box set of T.H. White’s magnificent retelling of the Arthurian legend. The novel is made up of five parts: The Sword in the Stone, The Witch in the Wood, The Ill-Made Knight, The Candle in the Wind, and The Book of Merlyn. Humane, warmly funny and deeply touching, White’s epic fantasy novel is a true classic. Read more
View audiobookThe Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James
Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin
Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the world’s most famous intellectual ghost stories, The Turn of the Screw is a haunting tale of suspected supernatural possession. A governess at a country house claims that Miles and Flora, two orphaned children in her care, are being controlled by spirits for some evil purpose. No one else can see the ghosts, and the children themselves... Read more
View audiobookThe Riddle of the Sands
By: Erskine Childers
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret German plot to invade England. Widely recognized as the first modern spy thriller, this lone masterpiece by World War I Royal Navy officer Erskine Childers was written in 1903 as a wake-up call to the British government to attend to its North Sea... Read more
View audiobookThe Mark of the Beast
By: Rudyard Kipling
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 33 minutes
Abridged: No
When a carousing Englishman disgraces the consecrated effigy of Hanuman, a leprous "Silver Man" marks him with a hideous curse. The ensuing night brings new terrors to the house of the doomed man. Read more
View audiobookMore Favorite Stories of Christmas Past
By: Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Cha...
Narrated by: Simon Prebble & Joyce Bean
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Tantor Media presents a collection of some of the most popular Christmas stories read by two award-winning narrators. This special anthology will transport listeners back to the Christmases of their youth, when they first heard these holiday tales. From Henry Van Dyke's classic Christmas blessing, "Keeping Christmas," to Charles Dickens's... Read more
View audiobookCasa Di Bambola
By: Henrik Ibsen
Narrated by: Teresa Ciampolini & Claudia Giannelli
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Un dramma sulle condizioni e contraddizioni delle donne. Read more
View audiobookThe Hand
By: Guy de Maupassant
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A withered, shriveled, severed human hand is kept chained in a corner. The "owner" of this morbid trophy always keeps three loaded revolvers in the same room. Nothing seems too suspicious until the hand is mysteriously reclaimed. Read more
View audiobookThe Glass Bead Game
By: Hermann Hesse
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 21 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literatureSet in the twenty-third century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his... Read more
View audiobookDer kleine Prinz
By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Narrated by: Lorenz Christian Köhler, Bruno Ganz, Armin Rohd...
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Ein Hörspiel mit vielen bekannten Schauspielern, die den Figuren aus dem kleinen Prinzen ihre Stimme gaben. Die Inszenierung orientiert sich eng an der Vorlage des Autors, verzichtet aber keineswegs auf eigene Akzente. In bester Theatertradition werden einige Abläufe dramaturgisch verändert, um deren Sinn zu verdeutlichen und den Zuhörern ein... Read more
View audiobookSerena
By: Ron Rash
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive in North Carolina to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her... Read more
View audiobookThe Four Feathers
By: A. E. W. Mason
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Just before his regiment sails off to war in the Sudan, British officer Harry Feversham resigns his commission, wanting desperately to be free of his family’s proud military heritage and terrified of risking his life. He is immediately given four white feathers as symbols of cowardice, one by each of his three best friends and one by his... Read more
View audiobookThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Benjamin Button was literally born an old man. He lived a backwards life, for his body grew younger as the years passed him by. Come and listen to the original, unabridged story by F. Scott Fitzgerald which inspired the movie. Read more
View audiobookOdyssey
By: Homer
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the great masterpieces of Western literature, Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars. Though the stormy, vengeful god of the ocean is determined to keep him off course, Odysseus is clever and has the brilliant goddess Athena on his side. With wit,... Read more
View audiobookHomer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey
By: Homer
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 25 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless.The Iliad can justly be called the world's greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy... Read more
View audiobookIliad
By: Homer
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Homer’s Iliad can justly be called the world’s greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns, the heroism and treachery of its combatants unmatched in song and story. Driven by fierce passions and loyalties, men and gods battle to a devastating conclusion.“Homer is full of merriment, full... Read more
View audiobookParadise Lost
By: John Milton
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Often considered the greatest epic in any modern language, Paradise Lost tells the story of the revolt of Satan, his banishment from Heaven, and the ensuing fall of Man with his expulsion from Eden. It is a tale of immense drama and excitement, of innocence pitted against corruption, of rebellion and treachery, in which God and Satan fight a... Read more
View audiobookRip Van Winkle and Other Stories, with eBook
By: Washington Irving
Narrated by: Donada Peters
Length: 4 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
You are probably familiar with the popularized stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," but have you heard the original unabridged versions by Washington Irving? His skillfully written and colorful tales have much more meaning and depth. In "Rip Van Winkle," Irving makes a profound social comment about the changes that were... Read more
View audiobookThe Baron of Grogswig
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The Baron of Grogswig abandons his riotous ways of carousal and gaiety, and settles down - only to discover that simple domesticity is not the peaceful life he had envisioned. But, just when the Baron feels he can't take it any more, an unexpected visitor changes everything. Read more
View audiobookMonsters, Gods, and Heroes
By: Timothy B. Shutt
Narrated by: Richard Davidson
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
From the very outset in the West-from the time of Homer himself in about 750 BCE-the epic has been the most highly regarded of literary genres. It is rivaled only by tragedy, which arose a bit more than two centuries later, as the most respected, the most influential, and, from a slightly different vantage point, the most prestigious mode of... Read more
View audiobookGod's Trombones
By: James Weldon Johnson
Narrated by: Various
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God's Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational... Read more
Les Miserables - Abridged
By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: Mark McKerracher
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The classic novel--and hit Broadway show--about escaped convict Jean Valjean has been adapted with easy-to-read text, large type, and short chapters. This engaging adaptation of the timeless tale is ideal for reluctant readers and kids not yet ready to tackle the original. Read more
View audiobookDubliners - Abridged
By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Gerald McSorley
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in... Read more
View audiobookHowards End - Abridged
By: E. M. Forster
Narrated by: Emma Thompson
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz.
At its heart lie two families—the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the... Read more