Classics audiobooks

DragonSpell

By: Donita K. Paul

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Once a slave, Kale is given the unexpected opportunity to become a servant to Paladin. Yet this young girl has much to learn about the difference between slavery and service. A Desperate Search Begins… A small band of Paladin’s servants rescue Kale from danger but turn her from her destination: The Hall, where she was to be trained. Feeling... Read more

DragonKnight

By: Donita K. Paul

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Before vowing his allegiance to Wulder as a knight, Bardon heads to the mountains for solitude. His life is suddenly complicated by a woman and her granddaughter, N’Rae, on a mission to rescue the woman’s son trapped in a chamber of sleep. Bardon learns that more of Paladin’s knights are imprisoned—and suspects one of them is Dragon Keeper... Read more

DragonFire

By: Donita K. Paul

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Three years of strife have passed since Kale and Bardon freed Paladin’s knights. Now, fiery dragons scorch their beautiful countryside as an evil husband-and-wife wizard duo fight for supremacy. The people of Amara just want to be left alone, hoping the conflict will disappear. But Paladin is dying, and Bardon and Kale — now married — must... Read more

DragonLight

By: Donita K. Paul

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The breathtaking conclusion to the DragonKeeper chronicles! The fantastic land of Amara is recovering from years of war as well as from the spiritual apathy corroding the Amarans’ hearts. With Kale and her father serving as dragon keepers for Paladin, the dragon populace has exploded. It’s a peaceful, exciting time of rebuilding. And yet, an... Read more

The Sign of Four

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1890, The Sign of Four is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second book starring legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. The story is complex, involving a secret between four ex-cons from India and a hidden treasure. More complex than the first Holmes novel, The Sign of Four also introduces the detective's drug habit and leaves... Read more

A Study in Scarlet

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Doctor Watson, returned fresh from Afghanistan with an injured arm and shattered nerves from illness, moves to London on a pension. He is most introduced to Sherlock Holmes, with whom he rooms for some time. He is skeptical about Holmes' self-professed deductive powers, and so Holmes allows him to tag along on a case that the police cannot... Read more

Mary

By: Vladimir Nabokov

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of serio-comic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and the idyllic ambience of pre-revolutionary Russia. In stark contrast is the decidedly... Read more

The Enchanter

By: Vladimir Nabokov

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov’s classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom. “Masterly . . . brilliant.” —... Read more

The Dragons of Chiril

By: Donita K. Paul

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Tipper has been caring for her family’s estate for years now, ever since her father disappeared, making a living by selling off his famous artwork. Then she learns that three statues she sold were carved from an ancient foundation stone, and the fabric of her reality is crumbling. She must free her father and save the world. But she can’t do... Read more

The War of the Worlds

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Bill Weideman

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own.…”So begins The War of the Worlds, the novel that made Wells famous and has enthralled and terrified readers and listeners for almost 100 years. Ten huge and... Read more

A Gay and Melancholy Sound

By: Merle Miller

Length: 21 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in nationally renowned librarian Nancy Pearl’s new Book Lust Rediscoveries series, this lost literary classic is available for the first time in decades. As funny and entertaining as it is captivating and heartrending, A Gay and Melancholy Sound is a shattering depiction of modern disconnection and the tragic consequences of a... Read more

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 58 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2014 Audie Award for ClassicsSir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction. Included in this collection are all four full-length Holmes novels and more than forty short masterpieces—from the inaugural adventure A Study in Scarlet to timeless favorites like... Read more

Oz Reimagined

By: John Joseph Adams (Editor) & Douglas Cohen (Edi...

Narrated by: Nick Podehl & Tanya Eby

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

FOREWORD BY GREGORY MAGUIRE, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WICKED.When L. Frank Baum introduced Dorothy and friends to the American public in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz became an instant, bestselling hit. Today the whimsical tale remains a cultural phenomenon that continues to spawn wildly popular books, movies, and musicals. Now,... Read more

Artful

By: Peter David

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver Twist is one of the most well-known stories ever told, about a young orphan who has to survive the mean streets of London before ultimately being rescued by a kindly benefactor.But it is his friend, the Artful Dodger, who has the far more intriguing tale, filled with more adventure and excitement than anything boring Oliver could possibly... Read more

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1865, Lewis Carroll's endearing tales of an imaginative child's dream world are written with charming simplicity.While delighting children with a heroine who represents their own thoughts and feelings about growing up, the tale is appreciated by adults as a gentle satire on education, politics, literature, and Victorian life... Read more

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The narrator of this timeless adventure story is the lad, Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow, an inn on the west coast of England in the 18th century. An old buccaneer takes up residence at the inn. He has in his sea chest a map to the hiding place of Captain Flint's treasure.A gang of cutthroats are determined to get his... Read more

Little Women

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 18 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Top 10 Finalist on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018Louisa May Alcott’s heartwarming tale of the indelible bond between sistersThis treasured novel, drawn in part from Louisa May Alcott’s personal experience, brings to life the provincial yet abundantly full lives of the March sisters. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy manage to lead an interesting... Read more

Kidnapped

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Tensions run deep, survival runs deeper.Set in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Kidnapped (1886) is a gripping narrative told by David Balfour, a young Whig and Lowlander, who is tracked by his miserly uncle, survives attempted murder, kidnap and shipwreck and, in the company of Alan Breck, a Jacobite, escapes through the... Read more

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the pen of America's master, Mark Twain, comes this classic and beloved story of boyhood freedom.When we first met "the pariah of the village…the son of the drunkard" in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom was "under strict orders not to play with him," so he played with him every time he got the chance. Twain took his most outrageous and... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018Mark Twain’s classic coming-of-age novel that captured the imagination of AmericaGenerations of readers and listeners have enjoyed the ingenuous triumphs and feckless mishaps of boyhood days on the Mississippi. This classic of American wit and storytelling introduced Tom Sawyer, Becky... Read more

Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Tom Casaletto

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The son of a middle-class Englishman, Robinson Crusoe takes to the sea to find adventure.And find it he does when he is shipwrecked on a deserted South American island for thirty-five years.After scavenging his broken ship for useful items, he had only his skills and ingenuity to keep him alive. For twenty-four years there was to be no one else... Read more

The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 23 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel of camaraderie which brought us the resounding cry: “All for one and one for all!”The young and headstrong D’Artagnan, having proven his bravery by dueling with each, becomes a friend of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, members of the King’s Musketeers. At the urging of the woman he loves, he and his friends head for... Read more

The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Roger Dressler

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry Fleming is primed to prove his patriotism and to earn that “red badge of courage.”Bored with farm life, and anxious for some excitement, Henry Fleming sets off to join the Union troops fighting the Civil War. An inexperienced fighter, he is anxious to get into battle to prove his worth. He swaggers to keep up his spirits waiting for... Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic American story of Hester Prynne, accused of adultery, ostracized by her Puritan community, and abandoned by both her lover and her husbandThe story opens in Puritan Boston, a settlement only fifteen or twenty years old. A young woman stands on a scaffold clasping a three-month-old baby. As a married woman with a... Read more