Classics audiobooks

Madame Bovary - Abridged

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hoping to escape from a future without horizon, Emma marries the good and kind Charles Bovary, a doctor. Finding herslf in another sort of prison however, she seeks comfort in the arms of lovers, and plays into the hands of opportunists. She has not, after all, moved upwards, but rather sideways, into an even more claustrophobic existence.... Read more

The Moonston - Abridged

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Moonstone is a classic detective story. John Herncastle, an English officer, kills three guards, and steals a precious jewel from the head of a Hindu moon-god, during the battle of Seringapatam. It passes into the hands of Miss Verinder, on the celebration of her eighteenth birthday. The Brahmins then come to regain it. That night the... Read more

The Woman in Whit - Abridged

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Walter Hartright, a young Drawing teacher, encounters a woman at night, dressed in white, on his way to take up his post. He does not know that she has escaped from an asylum. She appeals to him for help - and then seems to vanish. An audio-dramatisation with full cast, sound effects, and 'audio-ambience' created for you by... Read more

Pride and Prejudic - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Mrs. Fenwick learns of Mr.D'Arcy's income, she envisages the end to one of the five principle problems in her life. If her single-minded daughter Elizabeth can be married off to someone of means, her four remaining problems might be less daunting. However, Mr. D'Arcy and Miss Elizabeth appear to take an instant dislike to each other - not... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pranks, adventures, fence painting, and murder— young Tom Sawyer and friends Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher encounter all of this and more in a small river town in the pre-Civil War South. Ever the mischief-maker, Tom is often on the wrong side of the rules at school and at home, under the watchful eye of his Aunt Polly. The Adventures... Read more

Time and Again - Abridged

By: Jack Finney

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 50th anniversary edition of the beloved classic that Stephen King has called “THE great time-travel story.” Featuring a brand-new introduction by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion, Blake Crouch.

When advertising artist Si Morley is recruited to join a covert government operation exploring the possibility of time travel, he... Read more

The Red Badge of Courage - Abridged

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, The Red Badge of Courage tells the story of Henry Fleming, a young private in the Union Army who flees from the horror of battle and then struggles with shame and self-loathing. Outstanding in its portrayal of the quiet tension and violent emotion of war, this powerful psychological study of a... Read more

The Fountainhead

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 32 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the century’s most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three... Read more

Frankenstein - Abridged

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

A timeless, terrifying tale of one man’s obsession to create life—and the monster that became his legacy. “If ever a book needed to be placed in context, it’s Frankenstein” (The New York Times Book Review).

A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create life—and the monster that became his legacy.

This edition includes:
-A concise... Read more

The Comedians

By: Graham Greene

Narrated by: Joseph Porter

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, where corruption and terror reign under the dictatorship of Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Disillusioned and noncommittal, they are the “comedians” of Greene’s title. Brown is a disenchanted English hotel owner; the Smiths are an American couple on a good-will mission;... 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

The Thirty-Nine Steps

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most original and best adventure stories ever told, with spies, thrilling chase scenes, and explosions. With an introduction by Stella Rimington.

May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising... Read more

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

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