Classics audiobooks

The Mill on the Floss - Abridged

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Irene Sutcliffe

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actress Irene Sutcliffe.

If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?

Tragic and moving, The Mill on the Floss is a novel of grand passions and tormented... Read more

North and South - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Diana Quick

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actress Diana Quick.

'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?'

Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate,... Read more

The Return of the Native - Abridged

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Steven Pacey

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actor Steven Pacey.

'Do I desire unreasonably much in wanting what is called life - music, poetry, passion, war, and all the beating and pulsing that is going on in the... Read more

Heart of Darkness - Abridged

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: David Threlfall

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by David Threlfall, the star of the hit Channel 4 series, Shameless.

'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.... Read more

Tom Jones - Abridged

By: Henry Fielding

Narrated by: Robert Lindsay

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actor Robert Lindsay.

'"Sir, I am concerned at the Trouble I give you; nay indeed my Nakedness may well make me ashamed to look you in the Face ..." Jones offered her his Coat; but,... Read more

Jude the Obscure - Abridged

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Samuel West

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Samuel West.

'As you got older, ... you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises... Read more

Sons and Lovers - Abridged

By: D. H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Copley

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Paul Copley.

'"She was a brazen hussy."
"She wasn't. - And she was pretty, wasn't she?"
"I didn't look ... And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're... Read more

Tristram Shandy - Abridged

By: Laurence Sterne

Narrated by: Steven Pacey

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Steven Pacey.

'I am got, I know not how, into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing, and cannot take a plumb-lift out of it for my... Read more

Ethan Frome - Abridged

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Nathan Osgood

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Nathan Osgood.

'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'

Ethan Frome... Read more

Nostromo - Abridged

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Michael Pennington

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Michael Pennington.

'There is something in a treasure that fastens upon a man's mind. He will pray and blaspheme and still persevere, and will curse the day he ever heard of it, and will... Read more

Wives and Daughters - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Penelope Wilton

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Elizabeth Gaskell, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Penelope Wilton.

"Eh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing ways ..."

Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry,... Read more

Washington Square - Abridged

By: Henry James

Narrated by: William Hope

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Henry James' Washington Square, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by William Hope.

"Why, you must take me or leave me ... You can't please your father and me both; you must choose between us"

When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing... Read more

Pride and Prejudice - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Joanna David

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Joanna David.

'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly... Read more

Wuthering Heights - Abridged

By: Emily Brontë

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actress Juliet Stevenson.

"May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then"

Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak... Read more

The Hound of the Baskervilles - Abridged

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Freddie Jones

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Freddie Jones.

"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"

The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body:... Read more

Poesie unterwegs - Abridged

By: Josepf von Eichendorff, Georg Trakl, Heinrich H...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz & Jürgen Goslar

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ob im Zug, im Auto, im Bus, oder im Flugzeug. Ob der Weg das Ziel ist, das Büro oder die Westküste der USA: Unterwegs sein ist immer etwas Besonderes. Hier sind wir dem Alltagstrott entrissen, hier fühlen und sehen wir ständig Neues - und schärfen somit auch die Sinne für neues Hören. Als idealer Begleiter für unterwegs präsentiert sich das... Read more

Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare on the Fly - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Annie Vollmers

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Romeo and Juliet - the most famous lovers in the world, made immortal by William Shakespeare. However, many students have a hard time fighting through the bard's master pieces - because the old English is sometimes hard to understand. For those in need of understandable English we give you the new series "Shakespeare on the Fly":... Read more

Küßt mir aus der Brust das Leben - Abridged

By: Heinrich Heine

Narrated by: Ernst Matthias Friedrich

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lyrik und Prosa - gesprochen von Ernst Matthias Friedrich. Das Vergnügen, Heine zu hören, ist unvergleichlich, komplex und vielschichtig, genussreich, aber auch fordernd, aufstörend und verunsichernd. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) war einer der reichsten lyrischen Begabungen der Spätromantik. Zu bewusst und zu gespalten, um sich dem Pathos einer... Read more

Sterntaler - Weihnachtslieder und Märchen - Abridged

By: Hermann Löns & Hans Chritian Andersen

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sterntaler, beheimatet in Dornburg im Westerwald, ist seit Jahrzehnten führender Hersteller in Sachen Babybekleidung und Spielsachen für Kleinkinder und jede Familie liebt diese wunderschönen und vor allem hochwertigen Produkte. In der Branche bezeichnet man Sterntaler auch als den "Hugo Boss" der Babybekleidung. Auf dieser Produktion... Read more

Aus der verrückten Welt des Joachim Ringelnatz - Abridged

By: Joachim Ringelnatz

Narrated by: Erik Grun

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als reisender Artist im Matrosenanzug tingelte Joachim Ringelnatz ab 1920 durch die Kabaretts in ganz Deutschland und trug seine Gedichte vor. Freilich, seine "Turngedichte" und die Erzählungen und Lieder des Seefahrers "Kuttel Daddeldu" waren ausgesprochen erfolgreich. Live war Ringelnatz jedoch schlichtweg umwerfend. Bis er 1933 von den... Read more

Mund auf, Wort raus - Abridged

By: Patrick Armbruster, Simon Chen, Tom Combo, Dani...

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein Land, ein Wort: Poetry Slam in der Schweiz: Seit Ende der 1990er-Jahre lesen auch in der Schweiz Poetinnen und Poeten an Poetry Slams um die Wette. Inzwischen ist der Dichterwettstreit eine Selbst- verständlichkeit im Kulturbetrieb, die Szene so gross wie noch nie. Von Aarau bis Zofingen, in grossen Städten und kleinen Dörfern finden... Read more

Krneta, Greis & Apfelböck: Winnetou Bühler - Abridged

By: Guy Krneta & Jakob Apfelböck

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hier treffen zwei auf den ersten Blick unterschiedliche Künstler aufeinander: der Schriftsteller Guy Krneta und der Rapper Greis. Gemeinsam mit dem Musiker Jakob Apfelböck entsteht dabei weder Rap noch Literatur, sondern beides zuammen: Literaptur. Erzählt wird die Legende von Winnetou Bühler, Sohn der Comic-Zeichnerin Maya Bühler und des... Read more

Rebecca - Abridged

By: author

Narrated by: Sean Pratt & Various

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An Unforgettable Masterpiece That Will Enrich Your Life

The 1940 film Rebecca is acclaimed as one of the greatest achievements of the legendary director Alfred Hitchcock. This audio recording is an adaptation of the screenplay of this Academy Award winning motion picture featuring the original cast, including Sir Laurence Olivier and Joan... Read more

西游记（青少版） - Abridged

By: 吴承恩

Narrated by: 苍洁

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

内容简介：《西游记》是中国古典小说四大名著之一，成书于16世纪明朝中叶，主要描写了唐僧、孙悟空、猪八戒、沙悟净师徒四人去西天取经，历经九九八十一难的故事。《西游记》自问世以来在中国乃至世界各地广为流传，被翻译成多种语言。孙悟空的形象，以其鲜明的个性特征，在中国文学史上立起了一座不朽的艺术丰碑。《西游记》不仅内容极其丰富，故事情节完整严谨，而且人物塑造鲜活、丰满，想象多姿多彩，语言也朴实通达，在思想境界、艺术境界上都达到了前所未有的高度，可谓集大成者。作者简介：吴承恩，字汝忠，号射阳山人，江苏淮安人，中国明代杰出小说家。《天启淮安府志》评价他：“性敏而多慧，博极群书，为诗文下笔立成，清雅流丽，有秦少游之风。复善谐谑，所著杂记几种，名震一时。”一生创作丰富，但由于家贫，又没有子女，作品多散... Read more