Classics

The Magnificent Ambersons

By: Booth Tarkington
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Set in the Midwest in the early twentieth century—the dawn of the automobile age—The Magnificent Ambersons begins by introducing the Ambersons, the richest family in town. Exemplifying aristocratic excess, the Ambersons have everything money can buy—and more. But George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled grandson of the family patriarch, is unable to... Read more

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 30 hours 35 minutes

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is closely modelled on the eighteenth-century novels that Charles Dickens loved as a child, such as Robinson Crusoe, in which the fortunes of a hero shape the plot. The likeable young Nicholas, left penniless on the death of his father, sets off in search of better prospects. His meandering route to... Read more

Nostromo

A Tale of the Seaboard

By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo reenacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. In Sulaco, a harbor town in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, a vivid cast of characters is caught up in a civil war to decide whether its... Read more

Wives and Daughters

By: Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
Length: 26 hours 49 minutes

Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's presence he feels she lacks, but until the arrival of Cynthia, her dazzling stepsister, Molly finds... Read more

Agnes Grey

By: Anne Bronte
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Written when women—and workers generally—had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared... Read more

The Virginian

By: Owen Wister
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

A strong, silent stranger rides into the lawless lands of the western frontier, battles horse thieves, deals with unyielding scoundrels, and wins the heart of a schoolmarm. Owen Wister's 1902 classic—the first great novel of the American West—is rich in moral drama and vernacular wit. His hero—like knights of old—lives by an enduring code of... Read more

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

By: James Weldon Johnson
Narrated by: Alan Bomar Jones
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction. The first fictional memoir ever written by a black, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man influenced a generation of writers during the Harlem Renaissance... Read more

King Solomon's Mines

By: Henry Rider Haggard
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

One of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth century, King Solomon's Mines has inspired dozens of adventure stories, including Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan books and the Indiana Jones movies. Vivid and enormously action-packed, Henry Rider Haggard's tale of danger and discovery continues to shock and thrill, as it has since it was first... Read more

Scaramouche

A Romance of the French Revolution

By: Rafael Sabatini
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

The passionate Andre-Louis Moreau makes an unexpected entrance into the French Revolution when he vows to avenge his best friend's death. His target: Monsieur de La Tour d'Azyr, the aristocratic villain who killed his friend. Andre-Louis rallies the underclass to join him in his mission against the supreme power of the nobility. Soon the rebel... Read more

The Duel and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Anton Chekhov was a Russian short story writer and a playwright. His playwriting career produced four classics, while his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics alike. As his writing evolved, Chekhov made formal innovations that have influenced the evolution of the modern short story.



This collection of short stories... Read more

The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Rachel Vinrace, Virginia Woolf's first heroine, is a motherless young woman who, at twenty-four, embarks on a sea voyage with a party of other English folk to South America. Guileless, and with only a smattering of education, Rachel is taken under the wing of her aunt Helen, who wishes to teach Rachel "how to live." Arriving in Santa Marina, a... Read more

Ben-Hur

A Tale of the Christ

By: Lew Wallace
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
Length: 23 hours 12 minutes

A classic of faith, fortitude, and inspiration, this faithful New Testament tale combines the events of the life of Jesus with grand historical spectacle in the exciting story of Judah of the House of Hur, a man who finds extraordinary redemption for himself and his family.



Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at... Read more

Hunger

A Novel

By: Knut Hamsun
Narrated by: Kevin Foley
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Knut Hamsun's Hunger, first published in 1890 and hailed as the literary beginning of the twentieth century, is a masterpiece of psychologically driven fiction. The story of a struggling artist living on the edge of starvation, the novel portrays the unnamed first-person narrator's descent into paranoia, despair, and madness as hunger overtakes... Read more

An American Tragedy

By: Theodore Dreiser
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 34 hours 11 minutes

An American Tragedy is the story of Clyde Griffiths, who spends his life in the desperate pursuit of success. On a deeper, more profound level, it is the masterful portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's ambitions and seal his fate; it is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of... Read more

Caleb

Shadow Wranglers

By: Sarah McCarty
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

The loss of control. The fear of desire.



Allie always thought that mysteriously sexy rancher Caleb Johnson wanted her as much as she wanted him. But since he never acted on it, she was ready to admit defeat. Until the night she was attacked by a vicious wolf, only to be rescued by another. In the triumphant, bloodied male, there was something... Read more

Jared

Shadow Wranglers

By: Sarah McCarty
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Her source of power is her greatest weakness.



Tough, ruthless, and loyal, Jared Johnson has always been a force to be reckoned with: first as an outlaw and now as a vampire. Caught in a war between immortals, he doesn't have time to waste. But when a female vampire is attacked, he can't just walk away. He expects a quick good-bye, but what he... Read more

Jace

Shadow Wranglers

By: Sarah McCarty
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

He had one need.... She had one hope.... They have one chance.



Jace Johnson never thought of himself as a family man. He felt much more at home as a vampire raising hell out on the range. But when he met Miri, that all changed. Their relationship was forbidden and tumultuous, and it came to a gut-wrenching end the day Miri disappeared. When after... Read more

Jude the Obscure

By: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
Length: 17 hours 51 minutes

When the great Thomas Hardy published this heart-wrenching novel, he had no idea it would be his last. But the book stirred so much controversy and protest, Hardy vowed to never write fiction again. Jude the Obscure tells the story of a stonemason, tricked into a loveless marriage, who craves a formal education and a finer existence. Separated... Read more

Typee

A Peep at Polynesian Life

By: Herman Melville
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Herman Melville is one of the greatest figures in literary history. His classic Moby Dick is generally considered the finest novel ever written by an American. Yet in Melville's day, Typee was a far more popular book. Largely autobiographical, this classic adventure story is set in the South Seas, where a runaway sailor is captured by the... Read more

About Love

By: Anton Chekhov
Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier
Length: 26 minutes

About Love' is the musings of several friends about love and the great mystery surrounding it. After trying to figure out the love existing between an abusive, ugly cook and the lovely girl that doted on him, one of the men, Alehin, begins sharing his story of love and heartbreak. He recounts the tale of his love for the beautiful Anna... Read more