Classics

The Fountainhead

By: Ayn Rand
Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
Length: 32 hours 5 minutes

One of the century’s most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three... Read more

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Hercule Poirot Mysteries: Book #1920

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

There were not less than seven people at the fashionable estate in Essex, England, who might have abided Emily Inglethorp if she were more dead than alive. There were not less than seven motives and no fewer than seven apparently fool-proof alibis when the wealthy lady of Styles lay dead in her own bed. Had the perfect crime been committed?Here... Read more

The Swiss Family Robinson

By: Johann David Wyss
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Swept off course by a raging storm, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and their four sons are shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island.As they struggle to survive in the wilderness, the Robinsons discover their own amazing ingenuity and courage, each of the sons utilizing his own unique nature as their adventures lead to difficult challenges.... Read more

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 17 hours 32 minutes

Set amid the riot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris, Victor Hugo’s masterful tale of heroism and adventure has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in 1831. It is the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral, who falls in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, who shows him kindness... Read more

The House of Mirth

By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Set among the elegant brownstones and opulent country houses of turn-of-the-century upper-class New York, Edith Wharton’s first great novel is a precise, satiric portrayal of what the author herself called “a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers.”Her brilliantly complex characterization of the doomed Lily Bart, whose stunning beauty and... Read more

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

By: Howard Pyle
Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

"You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it a shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath naught to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one, these pages are not for you."—from the bookHere are the beloved adventures of the mischievous hero... Read more

The Jungle

By: Upton Sinclair
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Here is the dramatic expos├® of the Chicago meatpacking industry at the turn of the century that prompted the investigation by Theodore Roosevelt which culminated in the pure-food legislation of 1906.The Jungle is the story of Jurgis Rudkus, a Slavic immigrant who marries frail Ona Lukoszaite and seeks security and happiness as a workman in the... Read more

The Comedy of Errors - Abridged

The Arkangel Shakespeare Collection

By: Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Copen, William Shakespeare, Pierre Arthur Laure & Robert T. Kiyosaki
Narrated by: a full cast, David Tennant & Brendan Coyle
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Chaos and confusion mount to a crescendo in a wild and fast-paced comedy of mistaken identity, one of Shakespeare's earliest plays.Young Antipholus of Syracuse is searching the world for his identical twin brother, separated from him at birth. With him is his servant Dromio, who lost his twin brother at the same time. The pair arrive in Ephesus... Read more

Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis
Narrated by: Edward Asner, Rene Auberjonois, Bonnie Bedelia, Ed Begley Jr., Georgia Brown, Roscoe Lee Browne, Jack Coleman, Bud Cort, Ted Danson, William Devane, Richard Dreyfuss, Hector Elizondo, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Foxworth, Harry Hamlin, Julie Harris, Helen Hunt, Amy Irving, Stacy Keach, John Lithgow, Nan Martin, Marsha Mason, Richard Masur, Marian Mercer, Joanna Miles, Holly Palance, Judge Reinhold, Franklyn Seales, David Selby, Ally Sheedy, Madolyn Smith, James Whitmore, JoBeth Williams & Michael York
Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

With an all-star cast including Stacy Keach, Helen Hunt, Edward Asner, Ted Danson and Richard Dreyfuss, this epic of the booming 1920’s uniquely captures the relentless culture of American business. Babbitt is a true classic about conformity in small town America - celebrated for its comic tone, satire, and vivid dialogue. The play is based on... Read more

Summer

By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Lyssa Browne
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Summer, set in New England, is a novel by Edith Wharton published in 1917. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, eighteen year-old, Charity Royall, and her cruel treatment by the father of her child. Only moderately well received when originally published, Summer has had a resurgence in critical popularity since the 1960s. Read more

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Don Hagen
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain has been popular since it was first published in 1884. Told in the first person by "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer. it is known for its colorful and often scathng look at the people and places along the Mississippi River at a time when racism was an entrenched attitude in the... Read more

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

By: Richard Ferrone & Thornton Wilder
Narrated by: Sam Waterston
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder's second novel, won him the first of his three Pulitzer Prizes. The novel opens in the aftermath of an inexplicable tragedy—a tiny footbridge in Peru breaks, and five travelers hurtle to their deaths. Most townspeople think to themselves with secret joy, "Within 10 minutes myself...." But for Brother... Read more

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Abridged

By: Ken Kesey
Narrated by: Ken Kesey
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Ken Kesey’s story of life in a state mental hospital is a classic of American literature. Read more

Les Miserables - Abridged

By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: Mark McKerracher
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

The classic novel--and hit Broadway show--about escaped convict Jean Valjean has been adapted with easy-to-read text, large type, and short chapters.  This engaging adaptation of the timeless tale is ideal for reluctant readers and kids not yet ready to tackle the original. Read more

The Overcoat

A Nikolai Gogol Story

By: Nikolai Gogol
Narrated by: Deaver Brown
Length: TBA

The author of Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky said, “We all come out from Gogol's the Overcoat." The story centers on an impoverished clerk who is dedicated to his job as a routine copyist though not recognized for his hard work. Younger clerks mock him for his dedication. His threadbare overcoat is mocked, as he is. He saves to get a... Read more

The Red Badge of Courage

The World of Henry Fleming

By: Stephen Crane
Narrated by: Deaver Brown
Length: TBA

The Red Badge of Courage was Stephen Crane's best known novel. It was one of his two great ones, the other being the under rated, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, which was also a ground breaking novel taking up the subject of women's plights in industrial society as the Red Badge takes up men's plight in wartime.

The story is a cerebral one, about... Read more

The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer
Narrated by: Martin Jarvis & a full cast
Length: 20 hours 48 minutes

At the Tabard Inn, thirty travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Becket’s shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time and that the host of the inn will judge the tales and reward the best storyteller with a free supper upon their... Read more

Where the Red Fern Grows

By: Wilson Rawls
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

A beloved classic that captures the powerful bond between man and man’s best friend.
 
Billy has long dreamt of owning not one, but two, dogs. So when he’s finally able to save up enough money for two pups to call his own—Old Dan and Little Ann—he’s ecstatic. It doesn’t matter that times are tough; together they’ll roam the hills of the... Read more

The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Jack London’s masterpiece describing the timeless bonds between man, dog, and wildernessBuck, half St. Bernard and half Scotch shepherd, is a bold-spirited dog living the good life in the Santa Clara Valley. But when a treacherous act of betrayal results in his kidnapping, he is stripped from his comfortable life on the California estate and... Read more

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 21 hours 59 minutes

Uncle Tom is a high-minded, devoutly Christian black slave to a kind family, the Shelbys. Beset by financial difficulties, the Shelbys sell Tom to a slave trader. Young George Shelby promises to someday redeem him. The story relates Uncle Tom’s trials, suffering, and religious fortitude.Uncle Tom’s Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its... Read more