Classics audiobooks

Beau Geste, with eBook

By: Percival Wren

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A column of French Legionnaires finds one of their fortresses manned by dead men. It looks like the sergeant was killed by one of his own troops. Who could have done it?



A flashback then unravels the mystery of the three English Geste brothers. The brothers, orphaned early in life, are raised by an aunt. Their raucous youths are filled with the... Read more

The Window at the White Cat, with eBook

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by: Rebecca Burns

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful girl seeks the help of an attorney when her father, State Treasurer Fleming, vanishes. Before long, her aunt also disappears—from a locked house in the dead of night. The search leads to the infamous White Cat, a seedy nightclub frequented by crooked politicians, where Fleming is found murdered.



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The After House, with eBook

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by: Rebecca Burns

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Just out of the hospital and totally out of funds, Ralph Leslie jumped at the chance to sign aboard millionaire Marshall Turner's luxurious super-yacht as steward to the passengers lodged in its after house. His job was easy sailing until one sultry summer night, when the dream voyage suddenly became a nightmare of blood and terror. One ship's... Read more

The Amazing Interlude, with eBook

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Driven by a sense of duty and a fear of monotony, Sara Lee leaves her comfortable life and fiancé in Philadelphia to serve the Red Cross in Belgium during World War I. The spirited heroine finds a niche for herself helping wounded soldiers. Then she meets a mysterious gentleman and falls into a haunting romance.



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The Adventures of Gerard, with eBook

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Brigadier Gerard is an officer in Napoleon's army—recklessly brave, engagingly openhearted, and unshakable (if not a little absurd) in his devotion to the enigmatic emperor. Arthur Conan Doyle's wonderful stories about the brigadier are as funny as they are hair-raising, and the brigadier himself has long since found a place in the hearts of his... Read more

The Golden Scorpion, with eBook

By: Sax Rohmer

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Four brilliant men have died mysteriously—and the only clue is the carved tail of a golden scorpion left beside their bodies. The man behind the horror calls himself "The Scorpion," and he is clearly a man of superior cunning. When the finest detectives of France and England—Gaston Max and Inspector Dunbar—join forces to stop the Scorpion before... Read more

The Yellow Claw, with eBook

By: Sax Rohmer

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The elusive Oriental villain known as "Mr. King" masterminds an insidious plot to hold London's wealthy at his mercy. His henchmen have already killed one socialite, and more are threatened. Hot on the trail are two of Sax Rohmer's greatest detectives, Gaston Max and Inspector Dunbar, as they undertake a case that threatens to destroy the cream... Read more

The Circular Staircase, with eBook

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by: Rebecca Burns

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Wealthy, middle-aged spinster Rachel Innes is persuaded by her niece Gertrude and nephew Halsey to take a house in the country for the summer. Rachel is unaware that the house hides a sinister secret, and soon unexplained happenings and murder follow.



The Circular Staircase is perhaps Mary Roberts Rinehart's most famous story. The tale mixes... Read more

Trent's Last Case, with eBook

By: E. C. Bentley

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered by many to be the first modern mystery novel, Trent's Last Case introduces the gentleman sleuth Philip Trent, a freelance reporter and investigator. Trent becomes involved in the case of the murder of millionaire American financier Sigsbee Manderson, slain while on holiday in England. During the course of his investigation, Trent... Read more

The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu, with eBook

By: Sax Rohmer

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"Imagine a person tall, lean and feline, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long magnetic eyes of the true cat green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect. Imagine that awful being and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu."



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The Secret Adversary, with eBook

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Some secret plans have survived the sinking of the Lusitania, and amateur sleuths Tommy and Tuppence are on the trail of international spies in order to recover them. "Young Adventurers Limited" is a brand new private detective agency, set up by the dashing Tommy Beresford and the resourceful Tuppence Cowley. Their first assignment is to track... Read more

The Mysterious Affair at Styles, with eBook

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Essex in the English countryside, The Mysterious Affair at Styles is one of the great classic murder mysteries. The victim, Mrs. Emily Inglethorp, is the wealthy mistress of Styles Court. After an evening of entertaining family and guests, she is found poisoned in her locked bedroom. The long list of suspects includes her gold-digging new... Read more

The Prague Orgy

By: Philip Roth

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also... Read more

Look Homeward, Angel

By: Thomas Wolfe

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 26 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving are fueled by a prodigious appetite for drink. "... rich and ambitious and intensely... Read more

Middle Passage

By: Charles Johnson

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

After the Confederacy falls, newly freed slave Rutherford Calhoun is eager to avoid marrying a prim schoolteacher and boards the first ship he finds moored at a New Orleans port. Unbeknownst to Calhoun, the vessel is a slave ship enroute to Africa. On the return trip, Calhoun is put to work as a cabin boy and quickly assists the newly captured... Read more

My Jim

By: Nancy Rawles

Narrated by: Brenda Pressley & Lizzie Cooper Davis

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

American Book Award winner Nancy Rawles pens a moving story about Huck Finn's slave friend Jim, told through the eyes of the wife Jim was forced to leave behind. Sadie shares her story of loss with her granddaughter as they weave Sadie's most treasured items-her mother's knife, a piece of a bowl from Africa, a piece of Jim's hat found when he... Read more

The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Bianca Amato & Jefferson Mays

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Turn of the Screw is a fireside tale of evil and mystery. Filled with extraordinary drama, Henry James' story has been widely popular ever since its publication in 1898. It also inspired a film, a play, and an opera. A governess has been hired to care for two orphaned young children in their uncle' s English country home. But soon after she... Read more

Walking

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Peter Johnson

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A meandering ode to the simple act and accomplished art of taking a walk. Profound and humorous, companionable and curmudgeonly. Walking, by America's first nature writer, is your personal and portable guide to the activity that, like no other, awakens the senses and soul to the 'absolute freedom and wildness' of nature. Read more

Typee

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Herman Melville is one of the greatest figures in literary history. His classic Moby Dick is generally considered the finest novel ever written by an American. Yet in Melville's day, Typee was a far more popular book. Largely autobiographical, this classic adventure story is set in the South Seas, where a runaway sailor is captured by the... Read more

Villette

By: Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 22 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as Charlotte BrontE' s " finest novel" by Virginia Woolf, Villette is the timeless semi-autobiographical tale of Lucy Snowe. Left with no family and no money, Lucy goes against her own timid nature and travels to the small city of Villette, France, where she becomes a school teacher in Madame Beck' s school for girls. During her stay, she... Read more

Washington Square

By: Henry James

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry James' stories are classic gems of subtle wit and irony. Set in the exacting social landscape of New York City at the turn of the century, Washington Square is the tale of a wealthy but shy young woman caught between conflicting family expectations. John McDonough's warm narration traces her remarkable inner journey. Read more

The Valley of Fear

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When a strange coded message arrives at 221B Baker Street, sent by a member of Professor Moriarty's criminal organization, Sherlock Holmes soon deciphers it and finds a warning: someone is about to be murdered. A visit from a Scotland Yard inspector confirms that one John Douglas has been mysteriously killed in Sussex. Even Sherlock Holmes, well... Read more

The Vicar of Wakefield

By: Oliver Goldsmith

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver Goldsmith earned instant acclaim when he published The Vicar of Wakefield, a marvelous mixture of burlesque and satire. The simple village vicar, Mr. Primrose, is living with his wife and six children in complete tranquility until unexpected calamities force them to weather one hilarious adventure after another. Goldsmith plays out this... Read more

Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winesburg, Ohio is a little-known masterpiece that forever changed the course of American storytelling. Bittersweet and richly insightful, it reveals Sherwood Anderson's special talent for taking the small moments of life and transforming them into timeless folk tales-a talent that inspired a generation of writers including William Faulkner,... Read more