Fiction audiobooks

The Virginians (Unabridged)

By: W.M. Thackeray

Narrated by: Eric Gillett

Length: 40 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This novels depicts the fortunes of the descendants of Henry Esmond and the once beautiful Beatrix, with a brilliant picture of eighteenth-century London society at the time of the American War of Independence. 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

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

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

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

The Ambassadors

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Walter Zimmerman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Introduction by Colm Tóibín

One of the final masterpieces from one of the world’s greatest authors, Henry James’s The Ambassadors is now available for the first time in a Modern Library edition, with a new Introduction by acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín. A keenly observed tale of a man’s awakening to life, this dark comic novel follows Lewis... 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

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

The Whirlpool (Unabridged)

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Robert Gladwell

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against a background of Imperial Britain, this novel depicts life on the fringes of fashionable London in the 1880's. The author examines a `rational' marriage and the frustrations of an English `Madame Bovary'. Read more

Tom Jones (Unabridged)

By: Henry Fielding

Narrated by: John Richmond

Length: 39 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Jones is brought up by the generous Mr Allworthy on his Somerset estate, where Tom eventually falls in love with his beautiful neighbour, Sophia Western. Because of his partially unknown parentage, however, their respective guardians are against the match. When Tom is banished due to his occasionally heated temper and sexual encounters with... Read more

Vanity Fair (Unabridged)

By: W.M. Thackeray

Narrated by: Eric Gillett

Length: 36 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Vanity Fair is the story of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, who have just completed their studies at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies and are beginning to embark upon the world. The simple-minded nature of Amelia, who comes from a wealthy family, is contrasted with the strong-willed nature of Becky, who will stop at nothing to climb the... 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

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

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

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

That's What Mama's Do

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Storyteller Donald Davis had a very sensible mother. She had a pretty good idea what boys would do, so she was always on the lookout. As Davis later learned, always being on the lookout is what mamas do. His vigilant but gentle mother gave her son multiple gifts in life, and—as we learn in the end—gifts that do not end with her passing. Read more

The Stately Home Murder

By: Catherine Aird

Narrated by: Robin Bailey

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

There's been a murder at the Manor!At this stately home, now open for public tours, visitors revel in the lush atmosphere created by its three hundred rooms, its exceptional display of fine china, its chilling dungeon with historic suits of armor on display, evoking the spirits of knights from a forgotten age. Young Michael's sister, a visitor... Read more

A Hobbit (teljes)

By: J.R.R Tolkien

Narrated by: Kaszás Attila

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A Hobbit, mint Tolkien sok más írása, gyermekeinek szóló történetként indult. Először 1937-ben jelent meg és ma méltán világhírű gyermekmese. De több is ennél. Mindenkihez szól, akiben még ott él a gyermek. A világ, ahol játszódik, korai változata Középföldének. De már megtalálhatók benne Tolkien világának legfontosabb alkotóelemei; tündék,... Read more

How & Why Stories - Abridged

By: Martha Hamilton & Mitch Weiss

Narrated by: Martha Hamilton & Mitch Weiss

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Did you ever look carefully at a spider's web? Did you ever wonder what causes thunder and lightning? Why do dogs chase cats? Why does it look like there's a man in the moon? In this delightful recording of tales from around the world, each story explains why an animal, plant, or natural object looks or acts the way it does. Four of the stories... Read more

Oliver Twist - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Dick Cavett

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Oliver Twist is an orphan, born into the world of workhouses and poverty. Apprenticed at a young age, he runs away and finds himself with a curious collection of thieves, rogues and murderers. Tragedy and death are constantly at his heels. Oliver struggles with the burden of being a child and of being poor in industrial England. In this tale,... Read more

If You Could See Me Now - Abridged

By: Peter Straub

Narrated by: Keir Dullea

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One summer night a boy and his beautiful cousin plunge naked into the moonlit waters of a rural quarry. Twenty years later, the boy, now grown, flees the wreckage of his life and returns to his home town in search of everything he has lost. But for Miles Teagarden, the landscape he had known so well has turned eerie and threatening. And the love... Read more

Father Was a Wise Old Man - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Joe Davis was in his mid-40s when he became a father, and the experience he was able to apply in raising his sons lent creativity to his parenting. The five stories here recall the wisdom of fathers with humor and rich detail: a visit to the Smithsonian inspires father's memory; father "cures" a boy's impulse to try cigarettes; Santa Claus... Read more