Timeless Classics

The Three Musketeers (The d'Artagnan Romances vol. 1)

By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: John Van Stan
Length: 26 hours 24 minutes

One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tell the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman d’Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King’s Musketeers: Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the... Read more

The Count of Monte Cristo

By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 46 hours 56 minutes

Now a television miniseries directed by Bille August and starring Sam Claflin Dashing young Edmond Dantes has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him.Falsely accused of a political crime, Edmond... Read more

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll
Narrated by: Shannon Parks
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

“I’ve always had an overactive imagination, and as a child, I would spend an entire day lost in the magical world of Wonderland. It was just as enjoyable to go back as an adult and read it with an adult perspective. Nonsense at its best. Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom and Huck Series: Book #1

By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? From Tom’s sly trickery with the whitewashed fence to his and Becky Thatcher’s calamities in Bat Cave, the enjoyment never ends.Just what did boys do in a small town during the mid-1800s, a time when there were no televisions, no arcades, and no videos? They whitewashed... Read more

The Hobbit

Lord of the Rings: Book #0

By: J.R.R. Tolkien
Narrated by: Rob Inglis
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Like every other hobbit, Bilbo Baggins likes nothing better than a quiet evening in his snug hole in the ground, dining on a sumptuous dinner in front of a fire. But when a wandering wizard captivates him with tales of the unknown, Bilbo becomes restless. Soon he joins the wizard's band of homeless dwarves in search of giant spiders, savage... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

“Dorian sells his soul so that his portrait will age instead of him. He embarks on a hedonistic self-indulgent lifestyle as his portrait becomes hideously unrecognizable. This was assigned reading for me in the 11th grade and now has a permanent home on my favorite bookshelf. Read more

The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Known as one of the greatest comedies written in English, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest attacks Victorian manners and morals in what can only be described as the most maliciously delicious way. A witty satire of Victorian social hypocrisy, Wilde pulls the strings on his cast of late-Victorian characters making them appear, first... Read more

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin (Arsène Lupin Book 1)

By: Maurice Leblanc
Narrated by: Cate Barratt
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

The classic series that inspired the hit show Lupin: On a transatlantic voyage, Europe’s greatest criminal plots a daring caper . . . The ship is several days out to sea when the telegram comes through with a warning: Among the passengers is a disguised criminal: the fearsome Arsène Lupin. For months, Paris society has quaked at the name of... Read more

A Study in Scarlet

The Sherlock Holmes Series: Book #1887

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Two American travelers have been killed—one with poison, the other with a knife through the heart—and the only clues at the scene are a woman's wedding ring and the German word for "vengeance" written in blood. The military surgeon Dr. John Watson is brought in to investigate, along with his clever, arrogant new roommate, Sherlock Holmes. Thus... Read more

Frankenstein

or The Modern Prometheus

By: Mary Shelley
Narrated by: Anthony Heald, Stefan Rudnicki & Simon Templeman
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Soon to be a major new film adaptation written and directed by Guillermo del ToroThis special unabridged, multivoiced production of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothic horror is narrated by film and television star Anthony Heald, joined by Grammy winner Stefan Rudnicki and actor Simon Templeman, under the direction of... Read more

Gulliver’s Travels

By: Jonathan Swift
Narrated by: Pamela Garelick
Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

This enduring classic tells of the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon who becomes a castaway in strange and faraway lands. Shipwrecked upon the shores of Lilliput, he encounters the six-inch-high Lilliputians, whose petty wars, civil strife, and vanities are human follies so reduced in scale as to be rendered... Read more

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Perhaps Stevenson’s best-known work, this adventure novel set in the eighteenth century is inspired by the actual exploits of pirate Captain Kidd and the search for his buried treasure. For pure imaginative delight, Treasure Island is unsurpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins meets the blind pirate Pew at the Admiral Benbow inn, to the... Read more

Dracula

By: Bram Stoker
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

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