Classics audiobooks

Love in the Ruins

By: Walker Percy

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The auto age is defunct. Buicks, Chryslers, and Pontiacs disfigure the landscape. Vines sprout in Manhattan. Wolves are seen in downtown Cleveland. And psychiatrist, mental hospital outpatient, and inventor Dr. Tom More has created a miraculous instrument: the ontological lapsometer, a kind of stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he plans... Read more

Songs on Bronze

By: Nigel Spivey

Narrated by: Yuri Rasovsky

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Songs on Bronze is the first major retelling of Greek mythology in half a century; a set of lively, racy, dramatic versions of the great myths which, in a multicultural society, are recognized more than ever as stories without equal.Modern translations of the Greek myths have often sought to instruct, to edify, or to impart a personal... Read more

Persuasion

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Greta Scacchi

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In Persuasion, Austen’s last novel, she reveals the tale of love and marriage told with irony, insight, and an evaluation of human conduct. The characters, Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot, have met and separated years before. A reunion forces the recognition of the false values that drove them apart. Read more

The Lottery, and Seven Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

Narrated by: Carol Jordan Stewart

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Who can forget the first time they heard the story? Considered one of the masterpieces of American literature, “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker. Since then it has become one of the most anthologized stories in American literature. Powerful and haunting, subtle and horrifying, the tale demonstrates... Read more

Going to Meet the Man

By: James Baldwin

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“There’s no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.” The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their heads above water. It may be the heroin that... Read more

Young Men in Spats

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author whom the Times called “a comic genius” and “an old master of farce” come eleven further stories featuring such eccentric characters as Freddie Widgeon, Cyril (Barmy) Fotheringay Phipps, Percy Wimbolt, and Pongo. This collection includes the stories “Fate,” “Tried in the Furnace,” “Trouble Down at Tudsleigh,” “The Amazing Hat... Read more

Galahad at Blandings

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jeremy Sinden

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Galahad can’t abide broken hearts. So when Sam Bagshott and Sandy, Lord Emsworth’s current secretary, have a falling-out over a bet, Galahad determines to reunite the warring couple. Sam stands to win a sackful if Tipton Plimsoll marries Veronica Wedge, Lord Emsworth’s niece, but there’s a rumor that Tipton is deep in the financial soup.... Read more

The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated by: various narrators, Ric Jerrom, Cameron Stewart,...

Length: 22 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language—and for good reason: it is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language has rendered... Read more

Full Moon

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jeremy Sinden

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite marriage to a millionaire's daughter and success as a vice-president of Donaldson's, Inc., manufacturers of the world-famous Donaldson's Dog-Joy, Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth's younger son, still goes in fear of his aunts when at Blandings Castle. Full Moon tells the story of how he faces them down while promoting the love of Bill... Read more

Great Classic Ghost Stories

By: various authors

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of short ghost stories includes some of the best-known classics in the genre, as well as some that may be new to ghost story fans. This recording includes: “The Damned Thing,” by Ambrose Bierce; “The Empty House,” by Algernon Blackwood;“The Consequences,” by Willa Cather; “How It Happened,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; “A Ghost,”... Read more

Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Phyllida Law

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved.In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness. Smith’s day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax.Past, present, and... Read more

Right Ho, Jeeves

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Mayhem has broken out at Brinkley Court and there would seem to be a desperate need for Jeeves. But Bertie is fed up with the assumption that he is merely an addendum to his personal attendant. There are more brains in the Wooster household than just Jeeves, you know! Stand back—Bertram Wooster is on the case. Read more

Uncle Dynamite

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A chance meeting on a train brought together Lord Ickenham and Bill Oakshott—although being told that the love of his life, Hermione, was engaged to none other than Pongo, Lord Ickenham’s nephew, did make Bill feel like he’d been struck behind the ear. But Pongo has troubles of his own to deal with when he accidently breaks one of Hermione’s... Read more

Barmy in Wonderland

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

One of P. G. Wodehouse's most enticing later works, Barmy in Wonderland is a gem of a novel from the master of social satire and comedy.Cyril Fotheringay-Phipps, known to his friends as Barmy, has made a poor decision. He has invested ten thousand dollars in a stage production that seems doomed from the start in order to be near the woman of his... Read more

Notes from a Dead House

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation—certain to become the definitive version—of the first great prison memoir, a fictionalized account of Fyodor Dostoevsky's life-changing penal servitude in Siberia.Sentenced to death for advocating socialism in 1849, Dostoevsky served a commuted sentence of... Read more

The Bride of Lammermoor

By: Sir Walter Scott

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

When Edgar plans to acquire his family’s ancient estate from the corrupt lord keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, he is met with the complexities of the legal and political situations following the 1707 Act of Union. To complicate matters further, Edgar is falling in love with his enemy’s beautiful daughter Lucy.First published in 1819, this... Read more

The Ghost Writer

By: Philip Roth

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the great books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff.At Lonoff’s, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate... Read more

The Counterlife

By: Philip Roth

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate.Illuminating... Read more

The Short Story Collection

By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe & Saki

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone, Mark Hammer & Alexander Spencer

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Abandon yourself to the spell of six short stories filled with thrills and dark suspense. Here are tales by the masters of mystery and horror-- A. Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, Oscar Wilde and Ambrose Bierce-- taking on a new energy and force through performances by Recorded Books' critically-acclaimed narrators. Ranging from dungeons to... Read more

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1904, Great Britain was at the height of its prosperity; but G. K. Chesterton saw the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy eating away at the eccentricity and spontaneity of the human spirit. In The Napoleon of Notting Hill, his first novel, Chesterton creates a witty satire of staid government, set in a London of the future.Auberon Quin, a... Read more

The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosencreutz

By: Johann Valentin Andreae & John Crowley

Narrated by: John Crowley

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Often described as an alchemical allegory, John Crowley instead decided this is “the first science fiction novel.” After all, “it’s fiction; it’s about the possibilities of a science; and it’s a novel.” No matter what else it might be, it’s definitely one of the great outlandish stories in Western literature. Read more

A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas

By: Charles Dickens and Clement Clarke Moore with a...

Narrated by: Derek Perkins and Alison Larkin

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas are as different as England and America themselves. And yet almost two centuries later these iconic works remain the most famous Christmas stories ever told and a beloved part of Christmas tradition all over the world.
Now they are brought together for the first time in this very special holiday... Read more

Pride and Prejudice with Songs from Regency England

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Austen's most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice is brought to sparkling new life in this “wonderful, unforgettable” recording from AudioFile Earphones award-winning narrator Alison Larkin.
A witty and always original voice Alison Larkin follows her "hugely entertaining" narration of Pride and Prejudice with Songs from Regency England, to... Read more

White Fang

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

White Fang is the titular character and a novel by American author Jack London. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th-century, and details a wild wolfdog's journey to domestication. White Fang is a companion novel (and... Read more