Classics audiobooks

Great American Stories

By: Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce & Jac...

Narrated by: Patrick Fraley, Bruce Robertson, Patrick Hagan ...

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

These ten treasured stories from the most influential authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are selected for their literary importance as well as their dramatic, oral qualities. The following stories are included in this collection:“The One-Million-Pound Bank Note” by Mark Twain“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”... Read more

The Last Gentleman

By: Walker Percy

Narrated by: Wolfram Kandinsky

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Williston Bibb Barrett is a rather unusual and inquisitive young Southerner with a special gift for cultivating the possibilities of life. He suffers from occasional bouts of amnesia and disconcerting attacks of déjà vu. He clings to certain old-fashioned notions of behavior, and yet he finds himself constantly impelled to eavesdrop on other... Read more

Persuasion - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Glenda Jackson

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This rich and charming novel about a virtuous young woman's search for love amidst the fickle world of country gentry in Regency England is one of Jane Austen' s most memorable works. Anne Elliot exists in a world where shallowness and hypocrisy present a challenge to her centered values and tender emotions. Anne vies for the... Read more

Schindler's List - Abridged

By: Thomas Keneally

Narrated by: Ben Kingsley

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and “masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), returns with an all-new introduction by the author.

An... Read more

The Fir T - Abridged

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The great Hans Christian Andersen creates a fir-tree with a voice, a soul, and thoughts we can briefly share. An audio-dramatisation with full cast, sound effects, and 'audio-ambience' created for you by AudioscapePlayers. Read more

The Wild Swans - Abridged

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A wicked queen, (and a step-mother to boot......there were lots of them in those days), changed eleven young princes into swans - simply because they weren't as ugly as she thought they should be. Their sister, Elise, was whisked away by the queen's henchmen, to be brought up as peasants. The queen thought she would live happily ever after,... Read more

The Travelling Companion - Abridged

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This enchanting tale of the journey taken by a youngster together with his mysterious friend, leads the listener into a unverse of magic and mystery: a princess who is a witch, a giant who likes to eat human eyes, a miserable king, a garden of bones......these are some of the ingredients of this fetching story. An audio-dramatization with... Read more

Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Orwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a penniless man living in Paris in the early 1930s. The narrator's poverty brings him into contact with strange incidents and characters, which he manages to chronicle with great sensitivity and graphic power. The latter half of the book takes the English narrator to his... Read more

White Fang - Abridged

By: Jack London

Narrated by: John Ritter

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the story of a magnificent wolf-dog, born in the wild, who struggles to survive in the harsh Yukon. White Fang is the lone survivor of his family and soon learns to follow the brutal law of the North— kill or be killed. Isolated and mistreated, White Fang becomes a mortal fighter, feared by all. Only through kindness and... Read more

Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Heart of Darkness tells of the conflicting drives of two men—Charles Marlow, the captain of a steamboat, and Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious figure who oversees a trading post in Africa. After an arduous journey, Marlow finally encounters Kurtz, and the men come to grips with their differences—and their similarities. Joseph Conrad's most famous work is... Read more

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Huckleberry Finn— the casual rebel, the homeless waif, the sometime liar and thief, the boy nobody wanted— finds, for the first time in his life, a sense of responsibility, acceptance, and love when he befriends a runaway slave named Jim. Fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft, Huck courageously violates social convention... Read more

Where Angels Fear to Tread

By: E.M. Forster

Narrated by: Jill Masters

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! Look at this letter! The man who wrote it will marry her, or murder her, or do for her somehow. He's a bounder, but he's not an English bounder. He's mysterious and terrible. He's got a country behind him that's upset people from the beginning of the world."

When a... Read more

The Three Musketeers - Abridged

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This swashbuckling epic of intrigue, romance, and swordplay has earned a reputation as one of the most thrilling adventure novels ever written. A young Gascon nobleman, D'Artagnan, makes his way to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers, a legion of heroes held in high esteem by the king. D'Artagnan quickly proves he has the heart of a Musketeer... Read more

The Adventures of Augie March

By: Saul Bellow

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 22 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This grand-scale heroic comedy tells the story of the exuberant young Augie, a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Depression.While his neighborhood friends all settle down into their various chosen professions, Augie, as particular as an aristocrat, demands a special destiny. He latches on to a wild succession of occupations, proudly... Read more

The Heart of It

By: Elizabeth McNamer

Narrated by: Elizabeth McNamer

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Illiad & The Odyssey are two epic poems by Greek author Homer, works that have been entertaining— and perhaps exasperating— readers for centuries. In a series of lectures, literary scholar Elizabeth McNamer provides engaging insights into these two iconic works. McNamer first discusses how The Iliad portrays love,... Read more

Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Robert Whitfield

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An unabridged edition of the horror classic read by Golden Globe winner Edward Woodward.Count Dracula travels from his castle in the Carpathian mountains to England on a ship in which the entire crew is lost. Upon his arrival, the count entrances Lucy Westenra and Mina Harker, both women doomed to become vampires— unless Jonathan... Read more

Dracula - Abridged

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Edward Woodward

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A masterpieces of horror literature, Dracula brilliantly evokes a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and illuminates the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire. Count Dracula travels from his castle in the Carpathian Mountains to England on a ship in which the entire crew is lost. Upon his arrival, the count entrances Lucy... Read more

The Last of the Mohicans - Abridged

By: James Cooper

Narrated by: Lou Diamond Phillips

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is 1757, the third year of the French and Indian War. Deep in the forests of New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye and his loyal Mohican friends become involved in the bloody French and Indian War. Hawkeye, a colonial scout, Chingachgook, the Mohican chief, and Uncas, his son, risk their lives to guide two English sisters through hostile... Read more

Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Ghost Chamber” is the story of a wife's destruction and the love of a young man for an imprisoned girl. “Mr. Testator's Visitation” portrays an eerie character who visits an impoverished, unhappy lawyer. “A Child's Dream of a Star” is the sad story of a little girl who becomes an angel and waits for her brother to join her. “The Signal-Man”... Read more

Atlas Shrugged

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 52 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Atlas Shrugged is the “second most influential book for Americans today” after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991.In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

On Christmas Eve, miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, who warns Scrooge that three more ghosts will visit him before the night is over—the ghost of Christmases Past, the ghost of Christmas present, and the ghost of Christmas yet to come.One of the greatest Christmas stories ever written... Read more

Great Expectations - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Pip— the orphaned hero of Great Expectations— is one of Charles Dickens's best-loved characters. Young Philip Pirrip— nicknamed Pip— is apprenticed to his blacksmith brother-in-law, but an anonymous benefactor changes the boy' s future. After he is lifted to what seems a higher station... Read more

Nicholas Nickleby - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

The welfare of children— a theme of many novels by Charles Dickens— is central to Nicholas Nickleby, the story of a fatherless young man, his mother, and his sister who find themselves at the mercy of a greedy and unscrupulous relative. Nicholas Nickleby is both a vivid indictment of the exploitive, brutal boarding... Read more

The Count of Monte Cristo

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 43 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling... Read more