Classics audiobooks

Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Tom Casaletto, Fredric Scadron, Mary Beth Quill...

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Bram Stoker’s classic Gothic horror novel about a vampire’s search for new blood…Perhaps the most famous vampire story of all time, Dracula is an awesome tale of a thrillingly bloodthirsty vampire whose nocturnal atrocities embody the dark underside of an outwardly moralistic age. As he searches for new prey, desirous to spread the undead curse,... Read more

Frankenstein

By: Mary W. Shelley

Narrated by: Tom Casaletto

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018A classic tale of Gothic horror, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has been a world favorite since it was first published in 1818.Originally published as part of a contest between Mary Shelley, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron, Frankenstein has since captured countless... Read more

Uncle Tom's Cabin

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrated by: Buck Schirner

Length: 18 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Neither before nor after the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin has a woman ever so moved America to take action against injustice as Harriet Beecher Stowe.Published in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the abolitionists' message to the public conscience. Indeed, Abraham Lincoln greeted Stowe in 1863 as "the little lady who made this big war."Eliza... 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

Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Top 10 Finalist on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018The stark and beautiful romance of a governess and the master of a house with long-kept secrets.After a sad and neglected childhood as an orphan, Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester as governess for his ward. Jane is pleased with the quiet country life at Thornfield, with the beautiful... Read more

My Ántonia

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredible novel strength and resilience that celebrates the tremendous spirit of the immigrant pioneers in AmericaMy Ántonia chronicles the life of Ántonia, a Bohemian immigrant woman, as seen through the eyes of Jim, the man unable to forget her. Jim, now a successful New York lawyer, recollects his upbringing on a Nebraska farm. Even after... Read more

Persuasion

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth exemplify the country gentry in Regency England in Jane Austen's endearing tale.Anne Elliot is a young woman of perfect breeding and unwavering integrity. Seven years after she is persuaded to reject Captain Wentworth's offer of marriage, her feelings for him are still strong. By the time she realizes this,... Read more

Emma

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The funny and heartwarming story of a young lady whose zeal, snobbishness, and self-satisfaction lead to several errors in judgmentEmma takes Harriet Smith, a young woman previously unknown to good society, under her wing, scheming for her advancement through an advantageous marriage. Her efforts to find Harriet a suitor occupy all of Emma's... Read more

The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 21 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Civility and society come head to head in Henry James’ seminal work.The heroine of this powerful novel is the spirited young American Isabel Archer. Blessed by nature and fortune, she journeys to Europe to seek her future, but what she finds may prove to be her undoing. She is courted by three men: an English aristocrat, an American gentleman,... Read more

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Sharon Williams

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Top 5 Finalist on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018Jane Austen’s insightful and sometimes wry Pride and Prejudice provides today’s listeners with a fascinating look into the British society during the nineteenth century.This delightful novel of manners follows the Bennets, a family of five daughters and humble fortune. With her savory wit... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Buck Schirner

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."From the author of David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol comes a novel which is among the most celebrated works in the history of literary fiction.Dickens' two cities are London and Paris during the time of the... Read more

This Side of Paradise

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The book that launched F. Scott Fitzgerald to stardomThis Side of Paradise was first published in 1920 and was considered daring and intellectual in its day. Its enormous popularity helped to launch young Fitzgerald's career as a major writer.Amory Blaine has been brought-up by a wealthy, idiosyncratic, and alcoholic mother. Snobbish because he... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 18 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018Dickens’ extraordinary novel of Victorian valuesGreat Expectations chronicles the progress of Pip from childhood through adulthood. As he moves from the marshes of Kent to London society, he encounters a variety of extraordinary characters: from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss... Read more

Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Brontë

Narrated by: Michael Page & Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018Emily Bronte’s time-tested story of love turned on itself and the violence and misery that result from thwarted passionA novel of immense power, Wuthering Heights is filled with the raw beauty of the English moors and a deep compassion for the conflicting destinies of men and women. The... Read more

The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York's high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland.Countess Ellen Olenska is May's cousin, and wants a divorce from the Polish nobleman she married. Intelligent and beautiful, she comes back to New York where she tries to fit into the high... Read more

Moll Flanders

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A Puritan tale of sin, repentance, conversion, and redemption from the acclaimed author of Robinson Crusoe. Moll Flanders, Defoe's 18th century classic novel, is at once a novel of sin and redemption and a playful and beguiling social commentary set between the Puritan age and the Age of Reason. Taking center stage in this whorl of irony, humor,... Read more

The Moon and Sixpence

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

One of W. Somerset Maugham’s best-known and well-loved novelsThe Moon and Sixpence is a fictionalized biography of the artist Paul Gauguin. Charles Strickland, a thinly veiled Gauguin, deserts his wife and children to become a painter. In Paris, he is indifferent to the friendship offered by a fellow artist, Dirk Stroeve, but it is Stroeve and... Read more

Around the World in 80 Days

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Verne's most outrageous "voyage extraordinaire"—a hasty world tour taken up on a gentleman's club wager!Mr. Phileas Fogg, master of precision, enters into the strangest wager ever made over the whist table—that he will circle the globe in 80 days. The news astounds Jean Passepartout, sometime wandering minstrel, bareback rider, funambulist,... Read more

The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Roger Dressler

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018One of the most powerful and triumphant stories ever told about a proud and admirable dogThe Call of the Wild, written in 1903, brought Jack London to the world's attention. It is the story of Buck, part St. Bernard and part Scotch shepherd dog, who shows the strengths of both breeds when he... Read more

Captains Courageous

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: David Stuart

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Characters come alive in Rudyard Kipling’s Captains Courageous.Young Harvey Cheyne is rich, spoiled, prejudiced, and totally lacking in the real experiences of life. When the fifteen-year-old is accidentally washed overboard a great ocean liner headed for Europe, he is picked up by a fisherman and brought aboard the fishing schooner We're Here.... Read more

The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Buck Schirner

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Scarlet Letter comes a landmark of American literature, an embodiment of the greed which can compel people to treacherous actions.Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables is a study of guilt and renewal from generation to generation. At the time of the Salem witch trials, the patriarch of the Pyncheon family finds himself... Read more

Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 18 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A century has passed since the Norman Conquest, and England is still a colony of foreign warlords.Prince John is plotting to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lion-Hearted, and Robin Hood and his merry band are making fools out of the Sheriff of Nottingham.Wilfred, knight of Ivanhoe, the son of Cedric the Saxon, is in love with his... Read more

Journey to the Center of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Witness Jules Verne’s uncanny ability to predict the future possibilities of science.…On their quest to reach the very core of the earth, Professor Lindenbrock and his nephew Axel, gain access to the interior by travelling north to cold and barren Iceland, where they enter the subterranean regions through the cone of the extinct volcano... Read more

The Last of the Mohicans

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: Bill Weideman

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Last of the Mohicans is an epic story of romance and adventure on the American frontier. It is a story of love and loyalty, and of America's coming of age.While the French and Indians besiege Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, are on their way to join him. They are accompanied by Major Duncan... Read more