Classics audiobooks

Stalky and Co., with eBook

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on Rudyard Kipling's own adolescent experiences, Stalky and Co. is a cunning story of mischievous nineteenth-century British schoolboys attempting scholastic mutiny. The faculty and headmaster of a boys' private school repeatedly pursue a trio of poetic pranksters—"Stalky," "Beetle," and "Turkey"—as they wage war on fellow students and the... Read more

Marie, with eBook

By: Henry Rider Haggard

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This first novel in Henry Rider Haggard's Zulu trilogy depicts the tumultuous political era of the 1830s involving the trek-Boers, the French colonists, and the Zulu tribe in the Cape colony of South Africa. Hate and suspicion run high between the home government and the Dutch subjects.



Allan Quatermain accompanies the ill-fated Pieter Retief and... Read more

Beyond the City, with eBook

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Destiny brings three peculiar households together in the placid English countryside. The desire for money and romance drives these Victorians beyond the natural boundaries of their middle-class lives. As the web of lust and deceit draws these accidental neighbors ever closer, a financial scandal befalls one of them. An outside "rank pirate" is... Read more

800 Leagues on the Amazon, with eBook

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Joam Garral of Iquitos, Peru, concedes to his daughter's wishes to travel to Belem, Brazil, where she can marry Manuel Valdez in the presence of Manuel's invalid mother. The Garrals plan to make the journey to Belem down the Amazon River via a giant raft. Along the way, Joam plans to get his good name restored, as he is still wanted in Brazil... Read more

The Survivors of the Chancellor, with eBook

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr. Kazallon thought that booking passage on a cargo ship from Charleston to Liverpool would be a charming way to return to his English homeland. If he only knew! A crazed sea captain, a disaster in the hold, storms, oppressive heat, sharks, and starvation are just some of the many travails that beset both passengers and crew. Will any of them... Read more

The Path of the King, with eBook

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Path of the King offers a tapestry of historical episodes, from the Vikings through centuries of Norman and French, Flemish, English, Scottish, and American social, economic, and political life. Famous events such as the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, the adventures of Daniel Boone, and much else provide the background for the men and... Read more

Typhoon, with eBook

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Calm, stoic captain Mac Whirr has just been given command of a new steamship, the Nan-Shan. He and his crew are transporting Asian workers across the China Sea when a sudden drop in atmospheric pressure alerts Mac Whirr of "some uncommonly dirty weather knocking about."



Soon the steamship, her crew, and the human cargo are caught in the midst of... Read more

The Ring of Thoth and Other Tales, with eBook

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In "The Ring of Thoth," Mr. John Vansittart Smith, a British student of Egyptology, goes to the Egyptian Room of the Louvre to study. There he meets a curious looking attendant, but he is otherwise alone in the great hall. Not long afterwards, the quiet surroundings and his inability to concentrate cause him to drift off to sleep. When Smith... Read more

The Sea-Hawk, with eBook

By: Rafael Sabatini

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman who helped defeat the Spanish Armada, is betrayed by his jealous half-brother. When the ship he is on is captured by the Spanish, he is made a galley slave. Freed from slavery by Barbary pirates, he joins up with them and becomes a follower of Islam and the scourge of European ships. Taking the name... Read more

The Magic Skin, with eBook

By: Honore de Balzac

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"The possession of power, no matter how enormous, does not bring the knowledge how to use it."



Raphael, a failed writer, finds himself deep in debt and unrequited in love, so he decides to take a suicidal plunge into the Seine River. Before he can, however, he discovers a magic leather skin in an antiquity shop. Its supernatural powers grant him... Read more

The Evil Genius, with eBook

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Kitty is the child of Herbert and Catherine Linley, a spoiled, coddled little girl who is at the same time—in the tradition of all Victorian children—adorable. The Evil Genius begins with the story of Kitty's ill-fated governess Sydney Westerfield, a girl thrown aside in the grand tradition of Jane Eyre and David Copperfield.



And now an "evil... Read more

The Mutiny of the Elsinore, with eBook

By: Jack London

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Life has lost its savor for Mr. Pathurst. New York, fame, women, and the arts have all become tedious. Searching for excitement, he books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle on a route that travels around the treacherous Cape Horn. Pathurst encounters more than he ever expected in rough seas, turbulent storms, and a... Read more

The World Set Free, with eBook

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Last War erupts in Europe, rapidly escalating from bloody trench warfare and vicious aerial duels into a world-consuming atomic holocaust. Paris is engulfed by an atomic maelstrom, Berlin is an ever-flaming crater, and the cold waters of the North Sea roar past Dutch dikes and sweep across the Low Countries. Moscow, Chicago, Tokyo, London,... Read more

The Last of the Mohicans, with eBook

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: William Costello

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Last of the Mohicans is a classic portrait of a man of moral courage who severs all connections with a society whose values he can no longer accept. Despite his chosen exile, the frontier scout Natty Bumppo, known as "Hawkeye," risks his life to escort two sisters through hostile Indian country. On this dangerous journey, he enlists the aid... Read more

The House of the Seven Gables, with eBook

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The wealthy Colonel Pyncheon covets the carpenter Mathew Maule's land. A few years later, during the witch hysteria in Salem, Maule is brought before a judge on witchcraft charges and is sentenced to death. Before his execution, Maule curses the Pyncheon family. The Colonel, undaunted, continues to build an extravagant house on Maule's property.... Read more

Northanger Abbey, with eBook

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naive but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the... Read more

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, with eBook

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is... Read more

The Jungle, with eBook

By: Upton Sinclair

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this powerful book, we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where New World visions perish in a jungle of human suffering.



Upton... Read more

Uncle Tom's Cabin, with eBook

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 20 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncle Tom's Cabin opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife, Emily Shelby, believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them—Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and... Read more

The Red Badge of Courage, with eBook

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Red Badge of Courage tells the story of Henry Fielding, a farm boy who sets out in search of glory by running away from home to join the Civil War, only to find himself running away from the battlefield in terror during the first skirmish. Mortified by his cowardice, Henry yearns for a wound, his own red badge of courage, which would... Read more

The Turn of the Screw, with eBook

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for Miles. But Peter Quint is dead.



To all immediate... Read more

Hard Times, with eBook

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Red brick, machinery, and smoke-darkened chimneys. Reason, facts, and statistics. This is the world of Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dickens's most powerful and unforgettable novels.



The highest priority for Thomas Gradgrind, head of the Gradgrind model day school, is his version of education—feeding the... Read more

The House of Mirth, with eBook

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming one of the many women who will succeed in those circles. Though her desire for a comfortable life means that she cannot marry for love without money, her... Read more

Washington Square

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Washington Square is the story of Catherine Sloper, a young heiress who is wooed by Morris Townsend, a handsome gentleman who is more interested in Catherine's inheritance than he is in her. When the two get engaged against the wishes of her stubborn father, Catherine must make a choice between the only man she will ever love and the wealth that... Read more