Classics audiobooks

Anne of Avonlea, with eBook

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In the first sequel to Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery's feisty, redheaded heroine is now sixteen and a schoolteacher in the small village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. Although older, Anne Shirley isn't necessarily wiser—and she hasn't outgrown her mischievous ways. Anne learns how complicated life can be when she takes two new... Read more

Middlemarch, with eBook

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 31 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Middlemarch is a recognized masterpiece that explores the complex social world of nineteenth-century England. It is concerned with the lives of several ordinary people, albeit ones with high social standing.



The novel is set in the small town of Middlemarch and follows the interrelated lives of several characters. At the heart of the book is... Read more

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with eBook

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When a brute of a man tramples an innocent girl, apparently out of spite, two bystanders catch the fellow and force him to pay reparations to the girl's family. The brute's name is Edward Hyde. A respected lawyer, Utterson, hears this story and begins to unravel the seemingly manic behavior of his best friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and his... Read more

The Invisible Man, with eBook

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Once a brilliant scientist, Griffin has been gradually consumed by his research. When he finally achieves his goal—becoming completely invisible—the final result is his departure from humanity. He feels no remorse in using his invisibility to gratify his increasing desires. As he gradually loses his mind, it is hard to determine if it is a... Read more

Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Short Stories, with eBook

By: Bret Harte

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Society has forgiven Jo Corbin for killing a man, but can he forgive himself? Will the postmistress lose all in a bid to help a friend escape justice? Will the new teaching assistant's unorthodox ways tame the unruly pioneer children? These are just three of the nine wonderful short stories from Bret Harte, set in wild and woolly... Read more

The Scarlet Letter, with eBook

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1642 in the Puritan town of Boston. Hester Prynne has been found guilty of adultery and has borne an illegitimate child. In lieu of being put to death, she is condemned to wear the scarlet letter A on her dress as a reminder of her shameful act.



Hester's husband had been lost at sea years earlier and was presumed dead, but he reappears in... Read more

Ethan Frome, with eBook

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer, is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena's cold, conniving character. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately taken by Mattie's warm, vivacious personality. They fall... Read more

Tarzan of the Apes, with eBook

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Born of noble stock to parents who become marooned on the savage West African coast, the young Lord Greystoke is orphaned in his first year of life. Named Tarzan by the great apes that raise him, he must learn the law of the jungle to survive. As he matures, his strength and agility develop to match those of the beasts that he is surrounded by,... Read more

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, with eBook

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

French professor Pierre Aronnax and his servant join the Abraham Lincoln, an American frigate, on a mission to find and destroy a "sea-unicorn of colossal dimensions, armed not with a halberd, but with a real spur, as the armored frigates." The undersea monster is thought to be responsible for the disappearance of over 200 ships. When they... Read more

Treasure Island, with eBook

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Jim Hawkins lives a quiet life as the son of an innkeeper. This all changes when an ancient sailor takes up lodging at the inn. Jim is both horrified and fascinated by the captain's bloody stories. But when the old man dies without paying his bill, Jim must search the sailor's one possession, a large sea chest, for payment. In doing so, he... Read more

Heart of Darkness, with eBook

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Horror awaits Charlie Marlow, a seaman assigned by an ivory company to retrieve a cargo boat along with one of its employees, Mr. Kurtz, who is stranded deep in the heart of the Belgian Congo. Marlow's journey up the brooding dark river soon becomes a struggle to maintain his own sanity as he witnesses the brutalization of the natives by white... Read more

My Antonia, with eBook

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

After the death of his parents, Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska plains. By chance, on that same train is Ántonia, a bright-eyed girl who will become his neighbor and lifelong friend. Her family has emigrated from Bohemia to start a new life farming but soon lose their money and must work hard just to survive.... Read more

More Favorite Stories of Christmas Past

By: Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Cha...

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Simon Prebble

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Tantor Media presents a collection of some of the most popular Christmas stories read by two award-winning narrators. This special anthology will transport listeners back to the Christmases of their youth, when they first heard these holiday tales. From Henry Van Dyke's classic Christmas blessing, "Keeping Christmas," to Charles Dickens's... Read more

The Man in Lower Ten

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by: Rebecca Burns

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Roberts Rinehart has often been called the mistress of mystery. In fact, the phrase "The butler did it" originated in one of her books. In 1905 Rinehart entered a field exclusive to men: detective fiction. Now, nearly a century after she began her ground-breaking career, her celebrated thrillers still remain un-put-down-able... Read more

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

By: Gaston Leroux

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is Gaston Leroux's masterpiece, and it turned out to be his most successful book during his lifetime. It is one of the classics of early-twentieth-century detective fiction.



At the heart of the novel is this enigma: how could a murder take place inside a locked room that shows no sign of being entered? The novel is... Read more

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. This volume of selected stories represent an... Read more

Tales of the Fish Patrol

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this classic collection of stories drawn from his own experiences, author Jack London looks back on his days as a teenager aboard the fishing boats of San Francisco Bay. In the early 1900s, men of all stripes descended on these waters to plunder its rich oyster beds. To stop the run on the waters, a patrol was established. London began his... Read more

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing... Read more

Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice Bathsheba makes, she discovers the terrible consequences of an inconstant heart.



Far... Read more

The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 21 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Portrait of a Lady is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period—in the 1860s and '70s, when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs this... Read more

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps James Joyce's most personal work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature's most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus. Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, Joyce evokes Stephen's youth, from his impressionable... Read more

Oliver Twist

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 16 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Charles Dickens's most popular novels, Oliver Twist is the story of a young orphan who dares to say, "Please, sir, I want some more." After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins.... Read more

Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 28 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A deliciously satirical attack on a money-mad society, Vanity Fair, which first appeared in 1847, is an immensely moral novel, and an immensely witty one. Vanity Fair features two heroines: the faithful, loyal Amelia Sedley, and the beautiful and scheming social climber Becky Sharp. It also engages a huge cast of wonderful supporting characters... Read more

Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely regarded as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular and influential adventure stories of all time. This classic tale of shipwreck and survival on an uninhabited island was an instant success when first published in 1719, and it has inspired countless imitations.



In his own words, Robinson Crusoe... Read more