Fiction audiobooks

The Brook Kerith (Unabridged)

By: George Moore

Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The premise of this story is Jesus of Nazareth doesn't die on the cross but is indeed saved by Joseph of Arimathea. The novel depicts the live of Jesus, continued for a quarter of a century after the cruxifiction. Read more

The Four Just Men (Unabridged)

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Foreign Secretary Sir Philip Ramon receives a threatening, greenish-grey letter signed FOUR JUST MEN, he remains determined to see his Aliens Extradition Bill made law. A device in the members' smoke room and a sudden magnesium flash that could easily have been nitro-glycerine leave Scotland Yard baffled. Even Fleet Street cannot... Read more

Jo's boys (Unabridged)

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: James Tillitt

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Beginning 10 years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits Plumfield, the New England school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo's boys, including rebellious Dan, sailor Emil, and promising musician Nat, are grown. Jo herself remains at the heart of this tale, holding her boys fast through shipwreck, storm,... Read more

Mansfield Park (Unabridged)

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Kim Medcalf

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless... Read more

Dubliners

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Cosham reads with a gentle accent that enhances Joyce's Dublin... Recommended for most collections." -- Library Journal
James Joyce, 1882-1941, is one of the world's greatest writers. Dubliners, his first and most accessible fiction, was started in in 1904 and completed in 1905. Because it was considered explicit and critical of the Church, it... Read more

Henry Esmond (Unabridged)

By: W.M. Thackeray

Narrated by: Eric Gillett

Length: 21 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the reign of Queen Anne, this novel follows the troubled progress of Henry Esmond Esq, a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army. Enamoured of the Jacobite Lady Castlewood and her wayward daughter Beatrix, he distinguishes himself in Marlborough's campaigns against Louis XIV. Esmond comes to grief in an attempt to depose George I... Read more

Good wives (Unabridged)

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Judy Franklin

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Three years on from Little Women, the March girls and their friend Laurie are young adults with their futures ahead of them. Although they all face painful trials along the way - from Meg's sad lesson in housekeeping to Laurie's disappointment in love and a tragedy which touches them all. Each of the girls finally finds happiness, if not always... Read more

The Black Monk and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Chekhov can characterize with a single well-selected detail. He sums up relationships among a group of people, or the beliefs held by an entire country, by finding those key objects that crystallize his characters' strongest emotions. These four stories dramatize an array of obsessions that are at once purely Russian and deeply universal. Ralph... Read more

Ethan Frome (Unabridged)

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: William Roberts

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a love triangle, set in the rural isolation of New England, which has devastating consequences. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds... Read more

The Vicar of Wakefield (Unabridged)

By: Oliver Goldsmith

Narrated by: Arthur Bush

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This novel depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful heroine and the machinations of an aristocratic villain. By turns comic and sentimental, the novel's popularity owes much to its recognizable depiction... Read more

Diana of the Crossways (Unabridged)

By: George Meredith

Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf

Length: 16 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The witty Irish beauty Diana marries a man insensitive to her qualities. She then falls in love with another man, but they part because of a betrayed political secret. Ultimately she marries a man of sufficient understanding to appreciate her. Read more

Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Holmes encounters one of his most formidable adversaries and must unlock the mystery of the demonic hound, the curse of the Baskerville family. Published in The Strand magazine in episodes between August 1901 and April 1902, The Hound of the Baskervilles became one of the most popular of all the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.

Arthur Conan Doyle... Read more

Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the enigmatic Kurtz and his outpost in deepest Congo as told by Marlow is an adventure story that examines the intent and effects of colonization. It remains one of the most controversial and profound writings of world literature.

Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski, on December 3, 1857, in Russian... Read more

Moll Flanders (Unabridged)

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Robert Gladwell

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Moll Flanders tells her own story, a vivid and racy tale of a woman's experience in the seamy side of life in late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century England and America. Born in Newgate prison, and seduced in the home of her adoptive family, she learns to live off her wits, defying the traditional depiction of women as helpless... Read more

Daniel Derona (Unabridged)

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf

Length: 32 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The author created in Daniel Deronda possibly the most likeable character of all her novels. Through the actions and reactions of society life in the mid-nineteenth century there emerges a clear picture of the life of the European Jew, no longer actively persecuted yet made aware of English prejudice. Read more

Clarissa (Unabridged)

By: Samuel Richardson

Narrated by: Pauline Munro

Length: 93 hours

Abridged: No

Clarissa is of lower birth than her would-be lover: the Harlowes are indeed country gentry, but only recently enriched in the city, while the devious Lovelace is a young nobleman. This is a margin sufficient to breed suspicion on the one side and arrogance on the other; a story of male determination pitted against feminine principles and told in... Read more

Born in Exile (Unabridged)

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Crawford Logan

Length: 17 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Godwin Peak leaves his lowly Midlands home to carve out a career as a journalist in London. His poverty and origins hamper him at every turn, but at last one of his articles - attacking the hypocrisy of the Victoria Church - is accepted. Then catastrophically, Peak falls in love with devout well-born Sidwell Warricombe. To be acceptable to her,... Read more

My brilliant Career (Unabridged)

By: Miles Franklin

Narrated by: Vivien Creegor

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1901, this Australian classic recounts the live of 16-year-old Sybylla Melvyn. Trapped on her parents' outback farm, she simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. Whisked away to live on her grandmother's gracious property, she falls under the eye of the rich and handsome Harry Beecham. And soon... Read more

New Grub Street (Unabridged)

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes

Length: 21 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had experienced it. His novel is at once a major social document and a story that draws us irresistibly into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acquaintances in Grub Street including Jasper Milvain, an ambitious... Read more

Bayou Stories

By: Kate Chopin

Narrated by: Jacqueline Kinlow

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of nine short stories takes the listener back to nineteenth-century Louisiana. Universal themes of love and death are intertwined with the issues of slavery and racism. Each story, steeped in the religious and social culture of the bayou, holds an unexpected turn or two. Read more

Evelina (Unabridged)

By: Fanny Burney

Narrated by: Gretel Davis

Length: 19 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Evelina, the title character, is the unacknowledged but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat. Her dubious birth has seen her raised in rural seclusion until her seventeenth year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns how to navigate the... Read more

Joseph Andrews (Unabridged)

By: Henry Fielding

Narrated by: Terence Wilton

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This riotous tale of innocents in a corrupt world was one of the earliest English novels. Published in 1742, it tells the story of a chaste servant. After being sacked for spurning the advances of the lascivious Lady Booby, Joseph Andrews takes to the road, accompanied by his beloved Fanny Goodwill and the absent-minded, much put-upon Parson... Read more

Little men (Unabridged)

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Barrie Shore

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Men picks up the story of fiery, headstrong Jo where Good Wives left off. The novel is set at a rather unusual boarding school run by Jo and her husband, where the pupils are encouraged to pillow fight and keep pets. When the penniless but talented orphan Nat Blake shows up on her doorstep, Jo takes him in, and his arrival sets in motion... Read more

New England Stories

By: Sarah Orne Jewett

Narrated by: Tana Hicken

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of four short stories, nineteenth-century writer Sarah Orne Jewett explores the theme of female friendship. Tana Hicken brings authenticity to the New England towns in which each story is set. The skillful reading and vivid descriptions conjure images of strong country women living simple, inspirational, lives.

In... Read more