Fiction audiobooks

South Sea Tales

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A rare pearl is fought over during a hurricane on a South Sea island. A zealous missionary sets out to spread the gospel in a land of cannibals. The son of a Polynesian chief becomes the slave of a white man. These stories and others portray life in the South Seas in the days of tall ships over a century ago. In powerful and compelling language... Read more

Wives and Daughters

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 25 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in nineteenth-century England, Wives and Daughters centers on the story of the youthful Molly Gibson, raised by her doctor father. When he remarries, a new stepsister enters Molly’s quiet life, the loveable but worldly and troubling Cynthia. The narrative traces the development of the two girls into womanhood within the gossiping and... Read more

Jesus Is Here

By: Charles M. Sheldon

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

What if Jesus suddenly appeared on the streets of your own city? This is the premise of Jesus Is Here, Charles M. Sheldon’s sequel to his classic novel In His Steps, the book that introduced the slogan, “What Would Jesus Do?”Years ago, members of the First Church of Raymond pledged to consider “What would Jesus do?” before taking any action,... Read more

Tales of the Alhambra

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in 1831, Washington Irving’s dreamlike description of the Alhambra, the beautiful Moorish castle that defined the height of Moorish civilization, and of the surrounding territory of Granada remains one of the most romantic and entertaining travelogues ever written of this region in Spain.Enhanced here with exquisite Spanish guitar music,... Read more

The Ice Harvest

By: Scott Phillips

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s Christmas Eve, 1979, in Wichita, and Charlie Arglist, a crooked lawyer and strip-club owner, is drunkenly making the rounds before he blows town for good. Getting progressively drunker and deeper in trouble, Charlie needs to drop off a photograph of a local official in a compromising position and steal some drug money. Before it’s all over,... Read more

The Lion of St. Mark

By: G. A. Henty

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Francis, an English lad, lives in fourteenth-century Venice, during a period when the city’s strength and splendor were put to the severest of tests by a war with Hungary, Padua, and Genoa. This young hero displays wisdom and manliness in the face of conflict, and such traits carry him safely through an atmosphere of intrigue, crime, and... Read more

Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Cranford is Elizabeth Gaskell’s gently comic picture of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s. It describes the small adventures in the lives of two middle-aged sisters in reduced circumstances, Matilda and Deborah Jenkyns, who do their best to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. At the center... Read more

The Lost Girl

By: D. H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps D. H. Lawrence’s most beautiful, thoroughly contemporary love story, The Lost Girl charts the journey of a woman caught between two worlds and two lives: one mired in convention in industrial England, the other promising sensual liberation in the vibrant landscape of Italy. Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper,... Read more

The Cave Girl

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"In an instant there sloughed from the heart and mind and soul of Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones every particle of civilization and culture and refinement that had required countless ages in the building, stripping him naked, age on age, down to the primordial beast that had begot his first human progenitor. He saw red as he leaped for the throat of... Read more

The Talisman

By: Walter Scott

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Encamped in the Holy Land, the crusaders are torn by the dissensions and jealousies of their leaders. The army’s impotence is accentuated by the illness of their chief, Richard I of England. Meanwhile, a poor but doughty Scottish crusader known as Sir Kenneth, on a mission far from the camp, encounters a Saracen Emir. After an inconclusive... Read more

Elsie’s Girlhood

By: Martha Finley

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

As Elsie Dinsmore grows up, her family undergoes major changes. Her father, Horace Dinsmore, falls in love and marries sweet Rose Allison, whom Elsie has loved since childhood. Soon two new members, Horace Jr. and Rosebud, join the happy family.Elsie has grown into a graceful, accomplished, and beautiful young woman of fifteen who faces the... Read more

The Deerslayer

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Set during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer vividly captures the violence and rugged beauty of the American frontier. In the wilds of New York, where tensions rage between tribal Indians and white pioneers, a white hunter known as Deerslayer is initiated into the moral codes of wilderness society. When he and his loyal Mohican friend... Read more

The Christmas Stories

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

No writer is more identified with the modern idea of Christmas than Charles Dickens. In some ways, Dickens helped define the holiday that we now celebrate by immortalizing it as a time of warmth and sharing, with an emphasis on family and friends.Dickens wrote all the stories presented here during the 1850s as contributions to the special... Read more

Thuvia, Maid of Mars

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The winds of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars blow across a world where danger, daring, and adventure are the lifeblood of its untamed inhabitants. Here are magnificent cities glistening with barbaric splendor and peopled by the noble red men of Mars…savage, rampaging hordes of giant, multilimbed green men who roam the Martian plains…fierce beasts of... Read more

The Other House

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This terse and startling novel is the story of a struggle for possession—and of its devastating consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections of one man, while he, in turn, tries to satisfy them all. But in the middle of this contest of wills stands his unwitting and vulnerable young daughter. The conclusion of The Other House makes it... Read more

Tales for a Winter’s Night

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: William Sutherland

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Tales for a Winter's Night brings together eight Arthur Conan Doyle mystery classics that originally appeared in the Strand between July 1898 and January 1899. When first gathered into one volume in 1908, the book was entitled Round the Fire Stories, since the author recommended that they be read ideally "round the fire" upon a winter's... Read more

Transcendence

By: Charles Sheffield

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The search for the Builders, the legendary alien race whose unfathomable constructs continued to perplex scholars and explorers alike, had led Builder expert Darya Lang, adventurer Hans Rebka, and treasure hunters Louis Nenda and Atvar H’sial to an unknown Builder artifact far outside the spiral arm. There they found the Zardalu, once the... Read more

Under Drake’s Flag

By: G. A. Henty

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In the days when England and Spain struggled for the supremacy of the sea, a young lad sails with Sir Francis Drake, the daring sixteenth-century privateer, in this action-packed story based on true historical events. Drake’s superb navigational skill enabled him to outrun or outmaneuver his incessant pursuers. He escaped so often and so... Read more

Daisy Miller

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“What the European male fails to understand is that the American Girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent; and that her purity depends upon nothing she says or does…”—Leslie FiedlerWhen Frederick, an American expatriate traveling in Europe, meets the newly rich Miller family from New York, he is charmed by the daughter, Daisy, and her... Read more

To the Last Man

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

To the Last Man is Zane Grey's archetypal tale of a bitter feud between two unforgiving factions: the ranchers led by Jean Isbel and, on the other side, Lee Jorth and his band of cattle rustlers. In the grip of a relentless code of loyalty to their own people, they fight the war of the Tonto Basin, desperately, doggedly, to the last man, neither... Read more

Miss Mapp

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Elizabeth Mapp, magnificent grande dame and heiress, is always on the lookout lest her neighbors fall outside the bounds of perfect, exemplary manners. Opera glasses and notebook in hand, she gazes out her window, ever the vigilant sentinel. But her tightly controlled world is soon beset on all sides by interlopers, first in the... Read more

Washington Square

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

On New York City’s Washington Square lives Catherine Sloper, a shy and plain young woman who is tyrannized by her wealthy, overbearing father. When young Morris Townsend begins to court her, Dr. Sloper distrusts his motives, believing that the young man could not possibly love his daughter. Both lovers are obstinate in their affections; but when... Read more

Captain David Grief

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain David Grief, South Pacific tycoon, owns plantations and trading stations from New Guinea to Samoa, pearling fisheries in the Paumotus, and rubber acreages in the Louisiades. His own vessels recruit contract labor, and he operates three steamers on ocean runs. He came to the South Seas at the age of twenty and, blessed with a blond skin... Read more

Looking Backward

By: Edward Bellamy

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The time is tomorrow. The place: a utopian America. The hero: anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. This is the backdrop for Edward Bellamy’s prophetic novel about a young Boston gentleman who is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century—and from a world of war and want to a world of peace and... Read more