Classics audiobooks

Jennie Gerhardt

By: Theodore Dreiser

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Jennie Gerhardt is the tragic story of an innocent, caring, beautiful young girl from an extremely poor family who throughout her life is drawn into affairs with two different men from a much higher social class. How members of her family, the family of one of the wealthy men, and society in general react to her situation is the basis of this... Read more

Just above My Head

By: James Baldwin

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 20 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni’s Room, and to the political fire that inflames his... Read more

The Confidence-Man

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In his ninth and final novel, cultural observer, novelist, and poet Herman Melville gives us a picture of everything wrong with America in the decade preceding the Civil War.Evoking Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this is a story of interlocking tales from a group of steamboat passengers traveling down the Mississippi toward New Orleans. Aboard the... Read more

Pierre

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 19 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Pierre Glendinning is the nineteen-year-old heir to the manor at Saddle Meadows in upstate New York. Engaged to the blonde Lucy Tartan in a match approved by his domineering mother, Pierre encounters the dark and mysterious Isabel Banford, who claims to be his half-sister, the illegitimate and orphaned child of his father and a European refugee.... Read more

Candide

By: Name Voltaire

Narrated by: Donal Donnelly

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When Baron Thunder-ten-trockh catches his daughter Cunegonde beginning to replicate this experiment in cause-and-effect with Candide, the young lad is unceremoniously kicked out of the castle, tutor included, and so begins one of literature's most famous and bizarre journeys.

Candide - young, innocent and guileless - and his tutor, the good and... Read more

The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Call of the Wild is a novel by American author Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush-a period when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in California as the story opens. Stolen from his home and... Read more

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When Hank Morgan is cracked on the head by a crowbar in 19th-century Connecticut, one of literature's most extraordinary fantasy tales begins to unfold. Humorous, devilishly insightful, and resoundingly contemporary, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court remains one of the most celebrated stories in the canon of American writing. Awakening... Read more

Crime and Punishment

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 25 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the novel that ensured Fyodor Dostoevsky's place as a giant of Russian literature. First published in 1866, this legendary work continues to enthrall readers around the world and earn Dostoevsky legions of fans with every printing.

Timeless, and breathtaking in scope, Crime and Punishment - the story of a young Russian intellectual's... Read more

Crossing to Safety

By: Wallace Stegner

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the finest American authors of the 20th century, Wallace Stegner compiled an impressive collection of accolades during his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Book Award, and three O. Henry Awards. His final novel, Crossing to Safety is the quiet yet stirring tale of two couples that meet during the Great... Read more

Daisy Miller

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Daisy is as free as the air, but an innocent abroad. Her garden of earthly delights bristles with the thorns of youth, tradition and of love. "Hearing Daisy Miller, listeners will recognize the tragic difficulties of youth, love, and tradition. Flo Gibson reads splendidly and portrays Daisy with requisite innocence and insolence."-Booklist Read more

Under The Sunset Short Story Collection

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Walter Dixon, Rose Itzcovitz, James Langton & K...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Under the Sunset" was Bram Stoker's first short story collection written in 1881. These short stories were intended for children and includes the following stories: "Under The Sunset", "The Rose Prince", "The Invisible Giant", and much more.






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Continental Drift

By: Russell Banks

Narrated by: Zach Villa

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“The most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America . . . a great American novel.”— James Atlas, The Atlantic MonthlyFrom acclaimed author Russell Banks, a masterful novel of hope lost and gained—a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seductions and realities of the... Read more

It Can’t Happen Here

By: Sinclair Lewis

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1935, when Americans were still largely oblivious to the rise of Hitler in Europe, this prescient novel tells a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy and offers an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people... Read more

Shadows on the Rock

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Superbly written, with that sensitivity to sunset and afterglow that has always been Miss Cather's."
—The New York Times

Willa Cather wrote Shadows on the Rock immediately after her historical masterpiece, Death Comes for the Archbishop. Like its predecessor, this novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American... Read more

The Secret Adversary

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning narrator Alison Larkin's reading of Agatha Christie’s second novel, The Secret Adversary, set in London in 1919, received glowing reviews.. Publishers Weekly said "her performance captures that sense of carefree enthusiasm for life before the crash. Her reading is champagne bubbly and engaging throughout. A jaunty, jolly good... Read more

Peter Pan and The Inconsiderate Waiter

By: J.M. Barrie

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed by The Times (London) as "hugely entertaining - marvelously light-footed":, award winning narrator Alison Larkin brings her signature wit and charm to this Audiofile Earphones Award winning recording.
“The well-known characters in the much-loved story of PETER PAN are enlivened with humor and excitement in this gem. Narrator Alison... Read more

Blood of Wonderland

By: Colleen Oakes

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Revolution is rising in Wonderland. Dinah’s battle has begun.Colleen Oakes’s twisted reimagining of the Queen of Hearts origin story continues in this thrilling sequel, Blood of Wonderland.Dinah has been exiled from Wonderland. The vicious father she always feared has framed her for the brutal murder of her brother and turned the kingdom against... Read more

Zuckerman Unbound

By: Philip Roth

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky (“Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?”), he also finds himself... Read more

David Copperfield

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 38 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The endearing story of David Copperfield's endeavor to become the hero of his own life, with its intriguing correspondence to the author's own life, has delighted readers for generations. Dickens himself called this book his "favourite child," and it is his most quoted novel. Now you can have the pleasure of hearing Patrick Tull's brilliant... Read more

Dawn

By: Elie Wiesel

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

With the coming of dawn is the coming of death for a captured English officer in British-controlled Palestine. Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter, is his executioner. Ordered to kill the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner, Elisha thinks about his past-a sorrowful memory of the nightmare of Nazi death camps. As... Read more

Entremeses de Cervantes

By: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Narrated by: Eva Cristina Vazquez, Adriana Sananes, Francisc...

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

En el Madrid de 1615, Miguel de Cervantes publica sus Entremeses, siguiendo el estilo de Lope de Rueda quien los llamaba Pasos. El fin del dichos Entremeses es llenar los huecos en las representaciones del teatro "serio", como la duracion de las obras eran muy larga, los Entremeses aligeraban la estancia del publico en los teatros, poco a poco... Read more

Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

You're in for a delightful surprise if you're one of the many people who believe all Russian literature is daunting and difficult. Ivan Turgenev's stories have enchanted generations with delicate prose, marvelously subtle irony, and richly crafted characters. Set against the serene backdrop of the Russian countryside, Fathers and Sons is the... Read more

Gone With the Wind

By: Margaret Mitchell

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 49 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell's great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies. To date, it has been translated into 25 languages, and more than 28 million copies have been sold. Here are the... Read more

Camille

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, John McDonough & Firdous Bamji

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1848, Camille captivated Paris and has inspired countless adaptations. This classic story of love and loss is based on the author's real-life affair with courtesan Marie Duplessis. Also known as The Lady of the Camellias, the novel follows the courtesan Marguerite Gautier through her tumultuous love affair with handsome-but... Read more