Classics audiobooks

All the King's Men

By: Robert Penn Warren

Narrated by: Michael Emerson

Length: 20 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This landmark book is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, one of the nation's most astounding politicians. All the King's Men tells the story of Willie Stark, a southern-fried politician who builds support by appealing to the common man and playing dirty politics with the best of the back-room deal-makers. Though... Read more

Emma

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Victoria Morgan

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Emma is the golden girl-beautiful, capable and clever-who's got the world in the palm of her hand. Whatever doesn't quite measure up in Emma's sparkling universe can easily be rearranged. But life becomes much less manageable when one of Emma's matchmaking schemes goes terribly awry, and the least expected happens-she falls in love. Read more

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Leo Tolstoy is quite simply one of the greatest writers to ever set pen to paper. Immortalized by such epic novels as War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's genius was also readily apparent in his short fiction. The Death of Ivan Ilych follows the career of the unremarkable title character, who does not question his desire to live an "easy,... Read more

Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A young man struggles to rise above the intellectual and spiritual impoverishment of a small New England community through his forbidden love for his cousin Mattie Silver. Read more

The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Firdous Bamji

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, including the classic Crime and Punishment, secured the great Russian writer an exalted position in the literary pantheon of 20th-century authors. The Gambler stands as one of the literary genius' most highly regarded shorter works. At the casino in Roulettenburg, Germany, a Russian family awaits word that a... Read more

Gilgamesh

By: Stephen Mitchell

Narrated by: George Guidall & John McDonough

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This brilliant new treatment of the oldest epic in the world is a literary event. Esteemed translator and best-selling author Stephen Mitchell breathes life into a 3,700-year-old classic, delivering a lithe and muscular rendering that shows how startlingly alive Gilgamesh is, how filled with intelligence and beauty. It is the story of... Read more

Joshua in a Troubled World

By: Joseph F. Girzone

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This provocative addition to the best-selling Joshua series finds Joshua in post-9/11 America trying to unite Muslims, Jews, and Christians. His Arabic appearance and lack of ID prompt anti-terrorist agents to shadow him as he travels from D.C. to Beirut to Oslo in his quest to convince political and religious leaders to form a lasting peace. Read more

Whirlwind

By: James Clavell

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 52 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping epic novel of the 1979 Iranian Revolution by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James ClavellTehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions finally explode, and the Iranian people rise up against the Shah. The country, once secular, is now thrown back into an orthodoxy that... Read more

The Lifted Veil

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in 1859 and has now become one of the author’s most widely read and critically discussed stories. Told from the point of view of a young, egocentric, and morbid clairvoyant man, Latimer, it is a dark fantasy portrait of an artist whose visionary powers merely... Read more

The Poor Clare

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally written for Charles Dickens’ Household Words magazine, The Poor Clare is a dark, gothic short novel of thwarted love and a family curse that vividly illustrates the social tensions of Victorian England.The intentional killing of a woman’s dog unleashes a torrent of rage. In her desire for revenge, the woman curses the dog’s killer:... Read more

If Beale Street Could Talk

By: James Baldwin

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless” (The New York Times Book Review)."One of the best... Read more

Two on a Tower

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Hardy’s moving story of star-crossed lovers shows human beings at the mercy of forces beyond their control, setting a tragic drama of human passion against a backdrop of space and scientific discovery.Unhappily married, Lady Constantine defies social standards when she falls in love with the youthful and socially inferior Swithin St.... Read more

Love of Life, and Other Stories

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

John Griffith “Jack” London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White... Read more

Noble House

By: James Clavell

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 54 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic novel of espionage, betrayal and turbulence in 1960s Hong Kong by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James ClavellTaking place over the course of an eventful week in 1963 Hong Kong, James Clavell’s Noble House is a masterfully woven novel of true suspense.Ian Dunross, the current... Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer & Caroline Alexander

Narrated by: Dominic Keating

Length: 19 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan WarComposed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion.... Read more

Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 36 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." This is the famous opening sentence of Tolstoi's epic love story between Anna Arkadyevna Karenina and her Count Vronsky. Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy is a classic story of love and tragedy against the backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia. The extravagant and... Read more

The Aspern Papers

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Adrian Cronauer

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The unnamed narrator of Henry James' novella is an editor and literary critic obsessed with the life and work of Jeffrey Aspern, a long-deceased American poet, who died at an appropriately Romantic and tragic young age. No one is going to prevent him from bringing the secrets hidden in the paper to light for a curious public, least of all an old... Read more

A Lost Lady

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them. 

To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers... Read more

Lucy Gayheart

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of My Ántonia performs crystalline variations on the themes that preoccupy her greatest fiction: the impermanence of innocence, the opposition between prairie and city, provincial American values and world culture, and the grandeur, elation, and heartache that await a gifted... Read more

Death Comes for the Archbishop

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times), an epic story of a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. With a new introduction by Claire Messud.

In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a... Read more

Sapphira and the Slave Girl

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful slave. One of Cather's later works. Read more

My Mortal Enemy

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1926, this book is Willa Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic happiness.

As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this... Read more

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: Peter Riegert

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

he New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback—“an excellent, hyperliterate, genre-pantsing detective novel that deserves every inch of its…blockbuster superfame” (New York).For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a ""temporary"" safe haven created in the wake of the... Read more

A Laodicean

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Paula Power, the daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions a young architect from London, George Somerset, to undertake the work. Somerset falls in love with Paula. But Paula, the Laodicean of the title, meaning a person who is lukewarm or halfhearted, is torn... Read more