Classics audiobooks

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

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories, with eBook

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Jonathan Kent

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain's fantastical last novelette, took him twelve years—and three long drafts—to complete. Based on boyhood memories of the Mississippi River Valley and of the print shops of Hannibal, the story is set in medieval Austria at the dawn of the printing craft. It is a psychic adventure, full of phantasmagoric effects,... Read more

The Underground City, with eBook

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

How can humans survive and prosper 1,500 feet below the earth's surface? Jules Verne successfully weaves a dark yet magnificent story into this equally dark world. The book takes place in a revived and now prosperous coal mine. Amazingly, life in the mine has everything that one could desire, including a lake, fish, and attractive homes. Yet... Read more

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, with eBook

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Two half brothers look so similar as infants that no one can tell them apart. One, the legitimate son of a rich man, is destined for a life of comfort, while the other is condemned to be a slave because he is part black. The mother of the would-be slave is also the nurse of the other; to give her son the best life possible, she switches the... Read more

Riders of the Purple Sage, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A gentile sage rider is about to be whipped by the Mormons to coerce the rich and beautiful Jane Withersteen to marry against her will. In desperation, Jane whispers a prayer, "Whence cometh my help!" Just then, an unlikely hero, the infamous gunfighter Lassiter, routs the persecutors and is drawn into this conflict on the Utah-Arizona... Read more

Favorite Stories of Christmas Past, with eBook

By: Louisa May Alcott, Christopher Andersen, Franci...

Narrated by: Renée Raudman & Alan Sklar

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Tantor Media presents a collection of some of the most popular Christmas stories read by award-winning narrators Renée Raudman and Alan Sklar. This special anthology will transport listeners back to the Christmases of their youth, when they first heard these holiday tales. From "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," Clement C. Moore's classic... Read more

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, with eBook

By: Howard Pyle

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In Merry England, in the time of old when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest near Nottingham Town a famous outlaw whose name was Robin Hood. No archer ever lived that could speed a gray goose shaft with such skill and cunning as his, nor were there ever such yeomen as the sevenscore... Read more

The Black Arrow, with eBook

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

England is in the throes of the War of the Roses. As the houses of Lancaster and York vie for the crown, young Richard Shelton eagerly serves under his guardian, Sir Daniel Brackley, whose lessons he hopes will make him worthy of becoming a knight.



But Sir Daniel and his allies have been targeted by the outlaws known as the fellowship of the... Read more

A Princess of Mars, with eBook

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Two years before Edgar Rice Burroughs became a worldwide celebrity with the publication of Tarzan of the Apes, he published A Princess of Mars. A futuristic sci-fi fantasy romance, A Princess of Mars tells the story of John Carter, a Civil War veteran who inexplicably finds himself held prisoner on the planet Mars by the Green Men of Thark.... Read more

The Time Machine, with eBook

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"I've had a most amazing time..."



So begins the Time Traveler's astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H. G. Wells's successful career and earned him the reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave... Read more

Bleak House, with eBook

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 39 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely regarded as Dickens's masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which "whole families have inherited legendary hatreds." Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther's romantic coming-of-age and, in classic Dickensian style, the gradual revelation of... Read more

The Awakening, with eBook

By: Kate Chopin

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Edna Pontellier is married, twenty-eight, and at a crossroads in her life. She is passionate and artistic but has no one who understands her deep yearnings. She jumps at the chance to spend a summer away from her husband and the heat of New Orleans at a small coastal retreat.



Enveloped by a small circle of friends, she begins to throw off the... Read more

Around the World in Eighty Days, with eBook

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A fastidious English gentleman makes a remarkable wager: He will travel around the world in eighty days or forfeit his life's savings. Thus begins Jules Verne's classic novel—one that remains unsurpassed in sheer storytelling entertainment and pure adventure.



Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant, Jean Passepartout, embark on a fantastic... Read more

Sister Carrie, with eBook

By: Theodore Dreiser

Narrated by: Rebecca Burns

Length: 18 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Alone in the city, a young woman meets a man who promises to make her dreams come true. Eighteen-year-old Carrie is drawn to the glamour, wealth, and excitement of Chicago. But to be part of this glittering world, she will need much more money than she can even imagine. The only jobs she can find offer harsh conditions and little pay. Finally,... Read more

Madame Bovary, with eBook

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the acknowledged masterpieces of nineteenth-century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Gustave Flaubert's legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, and his unmatched ability to convey a... Read more

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with eBook

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 18 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in medieval Paris, Victor Hugo's powerful historical romance The Hunchback of Notre Dame has resonated with succeeding generations ever since its initial publication in 1837. It tells the story of the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the tormented archdeacon Claude Frollo, who lusts after her. Quasimodo, the deformed bell... Read more

Gulliver's Travels, with eBook

By: Jonathan Swift

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Shipwrecked and cast adrift, English surgeon Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters—with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos—give him new, bitter... Read more

Don Quixote, with eBook

By: Miguel de Cervantes

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 39 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Don Quixote is a middle-aged gentleman from the region of La Mancha in central Spain. Obsessed with the chivalrous ideals touted in the many books he has read, he decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked. After a first failed adventure, he sets out on a second one with a somewhat befuddled laborer... Read more

Les Misérables, with eBook

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an Abridged Edition



Victor Hugo began writing Les Misérables twenty years before its eventual publication in 1862. Les Misérables is primarily a great humanitarian work that encourages compassion and hope in the face of adversity and injustice. It is also a historical novel of great scope, and provides a detailed vision of... Read more

The Phantom of the Opera, with eBook

By: Gaston Leroux

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Under the Paris Opera House lives a disfigured musical genius who uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer.



The actors, singers, and patrons of the Paris Opera House say that a ghost haunts the labyrinthine chambers beneath its stage. Those who laugh off such superstitions always do so nervously, in the bright light of day. Nearly... Read more

The Hound of the Baskervilles, with eBook

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1901, The Hound of the Baskervilles tells the story of Sir Henry Baskerville, who arrives at Baskerville Hall to investigate the mysterious death of his uncle, Sir Charles. Charles's strange and unexpected death resurrects long-ignored fears about a gigantic ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his family for... Read more

Adam Bede, with eBook

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 20 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Adam and Seth Bede work as carpenters in Hayslope. Seth proposes to Dinah Morris, a gifted Methodist preacher. However, she prefers to devote herself to God's work. Meanwhile, Adam Bede woos Dinah's cousin Hetty Sorrel. But she is distracted by the attentions of Captain Arthur Donnithorne. When Adam finds out about Arthur's intentions toward... Read more

Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories, with eBook

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

You are probably familiar with the popularized stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," but have you heard the original unabridged versions by Washington Irving? His skillfully written and colorful tales have much more meaning and depth. In "Rip Van Winkle," Irving makes a profound social comment about the changes that were... Read more