Classics audiobooks

Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Flo Gibson

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Mansfield Park is the chronicle of the trials of Fanny Price. Sweet, innocent, sensitive, and thoroughly proper, Fanny is taken from her family and raised by wealthy, but selfish relatives. All her qualities are tested when she becomes the object of the unwanted attentions of an insincere rake. Read more

An Odyssey

By: Daniel Mendelsohn

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday
A Kirkus Best Memoir of 2017
Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize

From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's... Read more

Sons

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The second installment in Pearl S. Buck’s acclaimed Good Earth trilogy: the powerful story of three brothers whose greed will bring their family to the brink of ruinSons begins where The Good Earth ended: revolution is sweeping through China. Wang Lung is on his deathbed in the house of his fathers, and his three sons stand ready to inherit his... Read more

The Last of the Mohicans

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Cooper was one of the first writers to treat America's westward expansion as a great and ongoing epic; it was a theme of conflict-between civilization and the untouched wild, white culture and its insistent encroachments on the cultures of native America. Cooper fills his novels with legend and folklore, tall-tales, romance, and an earthy... Read more

The Leper of Saint Giles

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The nearing December-May marriage between a wealthy merchant and a resigned bride has one of the lepers at Saint Giles nursing bitter plans for revenge. Read more

The Island of Dr. Moreau

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by H.G. Wells, the great visionary author, this legendary novel is both timeless and thought provoking. Listeners will thrill to this chilling masterpiece as man boldly takes evolution into his own hands for the first time. Dr. Moreau, a scientist expelled from his homeland for his cruel experiments, continues his transplantations on a... Read more

A House Divided

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The conclusion to Buck’s celebrated Good Earth trilogy: the story of a man’s return to a homeland embroiled in revolutionOn the eve of a popular rebellion, the Chinese government starts to crack down in cities across the country. Fleeing the turmoil, Wang Yuan, the son of a famous general and grandson of the patriarch of The Good Earth, leaves... Read more

Fairy Tales of the Fiercer Sex

By: The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Fl...

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Award winning audiobook narrator, bestselling author and comedienne Alison Larkin selects and introduces fairytales of strong, independent, brave, at times irreverent girls and women who take charge of their lives, go on their own adventures, rescue themselves and sometimes even save the men they love. These are not stories of helpless females... Read more

Birdy

By: William Wharton

Narrated by: James Colby & James Yaegashi

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This masterful National Book Award winner explores the shattering effects of war on the human mind. Growing up, Birdy dreams of flying like a bird and shares these fantasies with his best friend Al. Years later, World War II sends both men to hospitals-Al for physical wounds, and Birdy for psychological trauma. When Birdy falls into a catatonic... Read more

Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Does the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville really exist? And if he does, will he meet his match in the Otis family? Or will the rambunctious Otis children be the very death of him? The answers lie in these witty, hilarious tales. Read more

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Alexander Spencer

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabriel Utterson is intrigued by the sinister figure of Mr Hyde, and the latter's strange relationship with Utterson's good friend, Dr Jekyll. When Mr Hyde beats a Member of Parliament to death, Gabriel Utterson tries to get to the bottom of the mystery and eventually discovers Dr Jekyll's dark secret. Read more

Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

On the deck of his ice-imprisoned ship, explorer Robert Walton watches from a great distance as an enormous apparition travels with much haste across the frozen shore. The next day, Walton fishes from the sea a melancholy scientist named Frankenstein, who shares with Walton the horrifying account of his life and of the "hideous progeny" he set... Read more

Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Whimsy, imagination, and sentiment have been banned in the Gradgrinds' upper-class household, but in Coketown, whose working class inhabitants fight for their very survival, the ban becomes a merciless creed. There, all that matters are the grinding wheels of production. Hard Times reflects a harsh world of grueling labor and pitiless... Read more

The Hermit of Eyton Forest

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Brother Cadfael's pastoral life is upended by the disappearance of a young boy and the arrival of a saintly hermit

The year is 1142, and England is in the grip of civil war. Within the cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, there begins a chain of events no less momentous than the upheavals of the outside world.

It... Read more

The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

At Baskerville Hall on the grim moors of Devonshire, a legendary curse has apparently claimed one more victim. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead. There are no signs of violence, but his face is hideously distorted with terror. Years earlier, a hound-like beast with blazing eyes and dripping jaws was reported to have torn out the throat... Read more

The House of Mirth

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

What Galsworthy did for Edwardian England, Wharton did for turn-of-the-century New York, and she did it to perfection in The House of Mirth. Hackles bristle discreetly, lips curl ever-so politely, and every breach of good taste is carefully recorded, as social aspirant Lily Bart launches a desperate bid for a place on the city's elite social... Read more

The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Roslyn Alexander

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The House of the Seven Gables, a fixture in Hawthorne's Salem, serves as the ancestral home of the fictional Pyncheon family-whose distinguished legacy is tainted by pious thievery. When country cousin Phoebe arrives at the house, she is like a cool breeze, refreshing a room that has been sealed for too long. The resulting mixture of dark and... Read more

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 22 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

-Written in 1831 before Hugo was forced to flee from Louis Napoleon's France. In this novel-perhaps his most popular-Hugo paints a vivid portrait of medieval Paris. Quasimodo, the one-eyed, hunchbacked refugee; Esmeralda, the dancing gypsy girl, threatened by the gallows; and a world where chaos is in charge-Hugo captures them all in this... Read more

Beowulf

By: Seamus Heaney

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old... Read more

A Confederate General from Big Sur

By: Richard Brautigan

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

California, 1957. Lee Mellon believes he is the descendant of the only Confederate general to have come from Big Sur and is himself a seeker of truth in his own modern-day war against the status quo. For the first time in audio, A Confederate General from Big Sur was the late Richard Brautigan’s first published novel, written when he was... Read more

Amiable with Big Teeth

By: Claude McKay

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The unexpected discovery in 2009 of a completed manuscript of Claude McKay’s final novel was celebrated as one of the most significant literary events in recent years. Building on the already extraordinary legacy of McKay’s life and work, this colorful, dramatic novel centers on the efforts by Harlem intelligentsia to organize support for the... Read more

Gilded Age

By: Mark Twain

Length: 19 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America-an age of corruption when crooked land speculators, ruthless bankers, and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his... Read more

Sketches New and Old

By: Mark Twain

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Sketches New and Old is a compilation of fictional stories written by Mark Twain. Among them is "A Ghost Story". In each story, one can catch a great sense of Twain's humor and creativity. These classic sketches from Twain are no longer than 10 minutes, but all show his quick witted humor in response to the events of the day.A real storyteller... Read more

Christian Science

By: Mark Twain

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Having just lost a daughter to meningitis, Mark Twain wrote this book out of outrage toward the Christian Science movement and its founder Mary Baker Eddy. This movement emphasized the effects of prayer on healing the body and relieving sicknesses and other ailments. Although the founder of Christian Science appears to be altruistic with good... Read more