Classics audiobooks

The Age of Innocence, with eBook

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made it an instant classic, and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.



Newland Archer, Wharton's... Read more

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales, with eBook

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the greatest American writers, is best known for The Great Gatsby, considered by many to be the most important novel of the twentieth century. But Fitzgerald also made his living as a short story writer, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales collects four of his best.



The title story is a... Read more

Dracula, with eBook

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1897, Dracula by Bram Stoker has become the standard against which all other vampire stories are compared and the inspiration for countless film and stage adaptations. Indeed, the name "Dracula" has been synonymous with the undead for at least a century, and the original novel still has the power to chill.



Come then to Castle... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray, with eBook

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for astute social observation and sparkling prose to The Picture of Dorian Gray, his dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. This dandy, who remains forever unchanged—petulant, hedonistic, vain, and amoral—while a painting of him ages and grows increasingly hideous... Read more

Betty Zane, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Betty Zane is the story of the first settlers in the Ohio Valley and their fight for survival during the Revolutionary War. The British have organized and incited the various eastern tribes to attack American "Rebels" in this lesser-known theater of the war.



Betty is a fiery beauty whose quest for romance with Alfred Clarke is interrupted time... Read more

The Valley of Fear, with eBook

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"A great brain in London and a dead man in Sussex. It's the chain between that we are going to trace."



The famous detective Sherlock Holmes has been summoned by a coded message to the house of a man called Douglas. But he and his faithful associate Dr. Watson arrive to find they are too late: Douglas has been murdered, with a mysterious calling... Read more

The Border Legion, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Cleve has been deemed "a good guy" all of his life, and it agitates him to no end. Even his girlfriend, Joan Randle, has scorned him for this "weakness," telling Jim, "You haven't it in you even to be bad!" Dejected and hurt, Jim abandons the life he has known for the gold mining camps along Alder Gulch in southern Montana. It is here, among... Read more

The Rainbow Trail, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

John Shefford rode into Utah's valley in search of a new life, and when he met Fay Larkin, he knew he had found it. Even when she was charged with murder, he did not care. He had to have her. She was worth life itself.



Breaking her out of jail was the easy part. After that he had posses to worry about, violent bands of Indians to outrun, a... Read more

The Man of the Forest, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Milt Dale is the Man of the Forest. Living alone in a camp in the wilderness called Paradise Park, he prefers the company of bears, cougars, and wolves to that of the surrounding ranchers and troublemakers. But one day he overhears a conversation that changes his life and convinces him to leave his wild paradise to save a young woman from... Read more

A Study in Scarlet, with eBook

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Derek Partridge

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Convalescing in London after a disastrous experience of war in Afghanistan, Dr. John Watson finds himself sharing rooms with his enigmatic new acquaintance Sherlock Holmes. But their quiet bachelor life at 221B Baker Street is soon interrupted by the grisly discovery of a dead man in a grimy "ill-omened" house in southeast London, his face... Read more

The Black Tulip, with eBook

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The tulip craze of seventeenth-century Holland has a dark side! Cornelius van Baerle, a wealthy but naive tulip grower, finds himself entangled in the deadly politics of his time. Cornelius's one desire is to grow the perfect black tulip. But after his godfather is murdered, he finds himself in prison, facing a death sentence. His jailer's... Read more

The Beasts of Tarzan, with eBook

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

After renouncing his savage life in the jungle for the sake of his wife, Jane, and newborn son, Tarzan finds his trust in civilization has again been betrayed. Tarzan, now the rich Lord Greystoke, becomes the target of sinister criminals. When he and Jane try to save their abducted son, Jane is kidnapped and Tarzan is stranded on a deserted... Read more

Desert Gold, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Gale, a college football star, travels to Mexico to prove himself after failing in every business opportunity that his wealthy father had handed him. When he arrives at an Arizona border town, a chance meeting with an old friend launches him into an adventure to save a young Spanish beauty from a ruthless Mexican bandit.



Within the... Read more

The Gods of Mars, with eBook

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 8 hours 22 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

The Return of Tarzan, with eBook

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Tarzan had renounced his right to the woman he loved, and civilization held no pleasure for him. After a brief and harrowing period among men, he turned back to the African jungle where he had grown to manhood. It was there he first heart of Opar, the city of gold, left over from fabled Atlantis.



It was a city of hideous men—and of beautiful,... Read more

The Lone Star Ranger, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

As the son of an infamous gunfighter, Buck Duane has the natural instincts and lightning-quick reflexes of his father. After killing a man in self-defense, he becomes an outlaw living amongst gunfighters and bandits on the Texas-Mexico border.



Despite his perilous position as a hunted fugitive, Duane risks his life as he tries to rescue a young... Read more

The Warlord of Mars, with eBook

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 5 hours 44 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

The Call of the Canyon, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the master of the western comes a tale of love tested by the rugged life of the American Southwest. Carley Burch, a beautiful young woman, must leave her glamorous high-society life of New York to follow her fiance, Glenn Kilbourne, to the rugged Wild West. She braves fierce ruffians, brutal elements, and lack of civilization in an attempt... Read more

The Last Trail, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Last Trail is the third and final novel in Zane Grey's Ohio River trilogy. In many ways, this concluding volume of the saga is one of perpetuation. The wilderness along the Ohio has been rapidly disappearing. Forests have been replaced by farms. Woodsmen, hunters, and frontiersmen are becoming farmers. This is true, in fact, for almost... Read more

The Spirit of the Border, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

As the Revolutionary War draws to an end, the violence on the frontier only accelerates. The infamous Girty brothers incite Indians to a number of massacres, but when the Village of Peace, a Christian utopian settlement, is destroyed, the settlers know they will have to hunt Chief Wingenund down.



Lewis Wetzel, known to the Indians as the Death... Read more

The Lost World, with eBook

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

On a zoology expedition up the Amazon River, Professor Challenger makes an inexplicable discovery. Back in London, his claims are ridiculed throughout the professional community. Reluctantly, he recounts to journalist Edward Malone, "Curupuri is the spirit of the woods, something terrible, something malevolent, something to be avoided. None can... Read more

The Chessmen of Mars, with eBook

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Tara, Princess of Helium—beautiful, fiery-tempered, and impetuous—found that following a whim could be dangerous. Lost in her flier in the midst of a Martian tempest, she was at the mercy of the mad wind and could only pray to be set down unharmed. Her hope of survival in the ancient, mysterious region of Barsoom would have been small indeed had... Read more

The Son of Tarzan, with eBook

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to The Beasts of Tarzan, the Lord of the Apes' old nemesis, Alexis Paulvitch, lures Tarzan's son, Jack, to Africa, where he plans to kill him. His plan is foiled when Jack escapes with the help of Akut, the great ape. The pair flee to the jungle where Tarzan was raised a generation earlier, and Jack establishes his own reputation... Read more

Thuvia, Maid of Mars, with eBook

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fourth novel of Edgar Rice Burroughs's popular Barsoom series, the focus shifts from John Carter, Warlord of Mars, and Dejah Thoris of Helium (protagonists of the first three books in the series) to their son, Carthoris, prince of Helium, and Thuvia, princess of Ptarth.



When Thuvia is abducted, blame is cast upon Carthoris. But both are... Read more