Fiction audiobooks

Le Morte d’Arthur, Vol. 2

By: Sir Thomas Malory

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 17 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous influence upon literature.The story begins with King Uther Pendragon’s... Read more

Le Morte d’Arthur, Vol. 1

By: Sir Thomas Malory

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous influence upon literature.The story begins with King Uther Pendragon’s... Read more

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Anne Brontë

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson & Wanda McCaddon

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Like her sisters Emily and Charlotte, Anne Brontë published under a male pseudonym, yet still this novel was scorned by many for its exposure of the abusive male chauvinism that was concealed, like all things sexual, during the Victorian Era.Just as Anne had to use a male pseudonym in order to publish, Helen Graham, the novel’s protagonist and a... Read more

One of Ours

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Kristen Underwood

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells of the making of a young American soldier.Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by... Read more

Paul Temple And The Gilbert Case

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Marjorie Westbury & Peter Coke

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

For thirty years the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham... Read more

Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This blood-curdling tale of thirsty vampires continues to hold audiences spellbound more than a century after its publication.Summoned to assist with legal matters regarding a real estate transaction, young Englishman Jonathan Harker journeys to the dismal, dreary castle of Count Dracula in Transylvania. The fledgling solicitor is completely... Read more

Bloodlist

By: P. N. Elrod

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Flavoring the hard-boiled detective story with a taste of the supernatural, this is the first book in the highly entertaining Vampire Files series."I've always had a weak spot for strange ladies. One very beautiful girl had even warned me that she was—get this—a vampire. But did I listen? No."Before you know it, I'm being chased by an ugly thug... Read more

Addie

By: Lee Thompson

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The time is the mid-1880s, when Florida south of St. Augustine is a virtual wilderness and Daytona, Miami, and Tampa are little more than dots on the maritime charts. Addie is a “beanery queen” who ekes out a living from her canteen at the convergence of two primitive railroads. She is popular with the train crews but is disdained by most of the... Read more

Daniel Deronda

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 30 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the masterpieces of English literature, Daniel Deronda tells the intertwined stories of two different characters as they each come to discover of the truth of their natures.Gwendolen Harleth is the high-spirited beauty of an impoverished upper-class family. In order to restore their fortunes, she unwittingly traps herself in an oppressive... Read more

The Hope Before Us

By: Elyse Larson

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Contending valiantly against the Nazi threat in war-torn Europe, two sisters unite to thwart a sinister plan, in this third book in Elyse Larson’s Women of Valor series.When Marge Emerson uncovers a diabolical Nazi plot she is secretly reassigned to a medical post in France. There she meets a conscientious objector whose outspoken belief in God... Read more

Madame de Treymes and Two Novellas

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Madame de Treymes follows the fortunes of two innocents abroad: Fanny Frisbee of New York, unhappily married to the dissolute Marquis de Malrive, scion of a great house of the Faubourg St. Germain; and John Durham, her childhood friend, who arrives in Paris intent on persuading Fanny to divorce her husband and marry him instead. A scintillating... Read more

Trilby

By: George du Maurier

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Trilby opens in the Latin Quarter of nineteenth-century Paris, where Trilby O'Ferrall is working as an artist's model. Her grace and ingenuous charm make a poignant contrast to the cruel magnetism of Svengali, under whose spell she falls. Using hypnotic powers, Svengali shapes her into a virtuoso singer—Europe's most captivating soprano—but her... Read more

Beau Geste

By: P. C. Wren

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A shot rang out. The Arabs surged forward under a savage fusillade of heavy fire. As they advanced, Geste rushed up and down his side of the roof, shooting constantly to trick the Arabs into believing the fort was heavily manned. They couldn’t be allowed to learn the grave truth—that of all those hard-bitten veterans who had yelled their... Read more

The Glimpses of the Moon

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in New York in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, two high-society hangers-on with the right connections but a lack of funds. To maintain their status, they decide to marry and spend a year or so sponging off their wealthy friends, honeymooning in their mansions and villas.... Read more

Jo’s Boys

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This treasured classic by one of America's best-loved writers concludes the adventures and misadventures of the March family first introduced in Little Women and continued in Little Men. Jo's Boys is entertaining, surprising, and an overall joy to listen to.Set ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits the one-time members of that... Read more

The Adventures of Sally

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Pretty, impecunious Sally Nicholas never dreamed a fortune could prove a disadvantage, until she becomes an heiress and watches in bewilderment as her orderly existence goes haywire. Coping first with her brother’s wild theatrical ambitions, then with the defection of her fiancé and his immediate replacement by a much more appropriate but... Read more

The Elusive Pimpernel

By: Baroness Emma Orczy

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the early days of the French Republic, and Robespierre's revolutionaries find their wicked schemes repeatedly thwarted by the cunning and heroic Pimpernel—in reality, Sir Percival Blakeney. Now, Monsieur Chauvelin devises a dastardly plot to annihilate both Sir Percy and his beautiful wife Marguerite once and for all. Lured to France, where... Read more

Songmaster

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Kidnapped at an early age, Ansset has been raised in isolation at a mystical retreat called the Songhouse. His life is filled with music, and having only songs for companions, he develops a voice that is unlike any other.But Ansset's voice is both a blessing and a curse—for it reflects all the hopes and fears of his audience, and, by magnifying... Read more

War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 61 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once a historical war epic, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit.Noted for its mastery of realistic detail and psychological analysis, War and Peace follows the metamorphosis of five aristocratic families against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars.... Read more

The Lone Star Ranger

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

After killing a man in self defense, Buck Duane becomes an outlaw, a companion of the gunfighters and rustlers who live along the Texas border.In a camp on the Mexican side of the river, he finds a young girl held prisoner and, in attempting to rescue her, brings down upon himself the wrath of her captors. Henceforth, he is forced to live a... Read more

Don Quixote de la Mancha

By: Miguel de Cervantes

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 36 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

With a wealth of fancy and an irrepressible high spirit, this beloved adventure story pokes fun at the exaggerated social and literary conventions of Cervantes’ day. Driven mad by reading too many chivalric romances, Don Quixote decks himself out in rusty armor and a cardboard helmet, determined to become a knight-errant and roam the world... Read more

The Age of Chivalry

By: Thomas Bulfinch

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Age of Chivalry, Thomas Bulfinch’s masterpiece of history and fable, recounts the legend of Arthur and the Round Table. A timeless tale retold by Milton, Dryden, Tennyson, and writers before and since, the Arthurian legend has metamorphosed from medieval Welsh texts to the French vernacular romances of Chrétien de Troyes, from obscure... Read more

Short Stories by Saki

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson & Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Hector Monro, writing under the pseudonym of Saki, is justly renowned for his urbane and witty short stories. His eccentric characters, humorous dialogue, and engaging domestic situations all reveal a penetrating and sometimes disturbing insight into human nature. As a quixotic tour guide, Saki leads the reader from garden party to pig sty to... Read more

Hour of the Cat

By: Peter Quinn

Narrated by: Ned Schmidtke

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of World War II, a murder in New York City draws two vastly different men, an American detective and a German intelligence officer, into the gathering storm.The death of a spinster nurse killed in her apartment was one of hundreds of simple homicides, indistinguishable from any other in 1938. A suspect was caught and convicted. Then... Read more