Classics audiobooks

Escape

By: James Clavell

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 16 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Tehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions explode and the Shah is forced to flee Iran. A British helicopter company—secretly owned by the Noble House of Hong Kong—with a fleet of helicopters registered in Iran faces bankruptcy if their copters are claimed or destroyed by the uprising. The pilots need to escape, but they’ve built lives in... Read more

John Carter in The Warlord of Mars

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For six long Martian months, John Carter has haunted the terrifying Temple of the Sun. Inside the walls of this mysterious revolving tower is his beloved wife, Dejah Thoris, the beautiful princess of Barsoom. Worse yet, his wife is trapped there with the lovely but wicked Phaidor, who has sworn to make John Carter her own—even if it means... Read more

John Carter in The Gods of Mars

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Soldier and adventurer John Carter tells the story of how he returns to the planet Mars to be reunited with his love, the Martian princess Dejah Thoris. With his great friend Tars Tarkas, mighty Jeddak of Thark, Carter sets out in search of his princess. But Dejah Thoris has vanished. And Carter becomes trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars,... Read more

John Carter in A Princess of Mars

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Civil War veteran John Carter is transported to a dying planet, where he must elude capture by giant green barbarians to rescue a Martian princess from certain doom. In this landmark of science fiction, the myths and mystery of the red planet supply a vibrant backdrop for a swashbuckling epic.

Published in 1911, A Princess of Mars introduced a... Read more

The Story of the Volsungs

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally written in Icelandic in the thirteenth century AD by an anonymous author, The Story of The Volsungs is a legendary saga based on Norse mythology. The epic describes the legendary history and heroic feats of several generations of mythic Viking families and derives from many sources, including preexisting Edda, or heroic poems, Norse... Read more

The Trial

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1925, The Trial tells the story of a man arrested for an unknown crime by a remote, inaccessible authority and his struggle for control over the increasing absurdity of his life. One of Franz Kafka's best-known works, The Trial has been variously interpreted as an examination of political power, a satirical depiction of... Read more

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and other Stories

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1893, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is the first published fiction work of American author Stephen Crane. A harrowing depiction of a pretty young girl's life in the slums of turn-of-the-century New York City and her eventual decline into prostitution, Crane's novel is a starkly realistic examination of poverty and the... Read more

To Build a Fire and Other Stories

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"To Build a Fire," the best-known of Jack London's many short stories, tells the tale of a solitary traveler on the Yukon Trail accompanied only by his dog as they endure the extreme cold. A classic narrative of a battle for survival against the forces of nature, "To Build a Fire" is London at his best. Also included here are "The Red One," "All... Read more

Daddy-Long-Legs

By: Jean Webster

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1912, Daddy-Long-Legs is an epistolary novel that follows orphan Jerusha "Judy" Abbott through her college years through a series of letters written to her anonymous benefactor, whom she nicknames "Daddy-Long-Legs." As Judy learns to navigate the complex world of studies, social life, and romance, her letters convey her growth... Read more

The Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mill on the Floss, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom as they grow from children to young adults in the small rural town of St. Ogg's, England. Intelligent and passionate, Maggie yearns to develop her mind and break free of the constraints of her provincial village. Though she loves her brother... Read more

An American Tragedy

By: Theodore Dreiser

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 34 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection brings together twelve of the finest short stories of prominent American feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. "The Yellow Wallpaper," Gilman's best-known work, was first published in 1892 and represents an important examination of nineteenth-century attitudes toward women's physical and mental health. Written as a collection... Read more

Herland

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, first published in 1915, is a feminist utopian novel that describes an isolated society composed entirely of women—a progressive, environmentally conscious land where peace and rationality reign and poverty is unknown. Told from the perspective of Vandyk Jennings, a male sociology student who sets out with his... Read more

Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Ben-Hur

By: Lew Wallace

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 23 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 15 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these "souls" as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient... Read more

The Deerslayer

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 21 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Natty Bumppo , one of the greatest heroes in American literature, is the rugged frontiersman of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels that includes The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer. Although it was the final volume to be written, The Deerslayer is the first in the chronology of Natty Bumppo's life,... Read more

The Custom of the Country

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York to Europe, the apartments of the nouveau riche to ancient French estates, Edith Wharton tells the story of Undine Spragg, a girl from a Midwestern town with unquenchable social aspirations. Though Undine is narcissistic, pampered, and incredibly selfish, she is a beguiling heroine whose marital initiation into New York high society... Read more

Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

By: Richard F. Burton

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Bawdy and exotic, Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night features the wily, seductive Scheherazade, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformation, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain and appease the brutal King Shahryar.



First introduced in the West in... Read more

Lady Chatterley's Lover

By: D. H. Lawrence

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The last and most famous of D. H. Lawrence's novels, Lady Chatterley's Lover was published in 1928 and banned in England and the United States as pornographic. While sexually tame by today's standards, the book is memorable for better reasons—Lawrence's masterful and lyrical prose, and a vibrant story that takes us bodily into the world of its... Read more

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

By: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them just fine. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather forecasts, and tins of pineapple chunks—not to mention the devastation left in the wake of... Read more

Rilla of Ingleside

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne's children were almost grown up, except for pretty, high-spirited Rilla. No one could resist her bright hazel eyes and dazzling smile. Rilla, almost fifteen, can't think any further ahead than going to her very first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse and getting her first kiss from handsome Kenneth Ford. But undreamed-of challenges await... Read more

Fanny Hill

By: John Cleland

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963, an unexpurgated edition was the subject of a trial, yet in the eighteenth century John Cleland's open celebration of sexual enjoyment was a bestselling novel. Fanny's story, as she falls into prostitution and then rises to... Read more

The Best of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The name Edgar Allan Poe conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, and of love that extends beyond the grave. The richness of Poe's writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death.



Poe's stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and... Read more