Classics audiobooks

Diaries of Adam and Eve

By: Mark Twain

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Twain spills his wit and whimsical sense of humor onto the pages of his novel The Diaries of Adam and Eve. The story tells of the events that took place in the Garden of Eden prior to the entrance of the deceitful serpent. Adam and Eve are not exactly getting along. Through the struggles listed in their diaries, one can safely assume that... Read more

Tom Sawyer, Detective

By: Mark Twain

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This 1896 novel follows the Mark Twain series of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom finds himself on another exciting adventure as he serves as detective for a mysterious murder in the banks of the Mississippi. Listen to this suspenseful, yet whimsical story of Tom and... Read more

Tom Sawyer Abroad

By: Mark Twain

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Continuing in the aftermath of the preceding book Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer cannot seem to stay out of trouble. Traveling across the Atlantic in a hot air balloon, Tom, Huck, and Jim are in quite a predicament.Listen to this classic, literary masterpiece, following the adventures of Tom, Huck, and Jim as they find themselves in the hands of a... Read more

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic story, told in the first person by Jim Hawkins, whose mother kept the Admiral Benbow Inn, and who shared in the adventures from start to finish. An old sea dog comes to this peaceful inn one day, apparently intending to finish his life there. He hires Jim to keep a watch out for other sailors, but despite all precautions, he is... Read more

Mother Goose: Volland Popular Edition

By: Eulalie Osgood Grover

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Mother Goose's melodies belong to the children, and no addition or change should be made except by those who are in such close sympathy with the child-heart that they may act with the child's authority.This present edition of "Mother Goose" preserves the best of the verses which became so popular in England and America as to first demand their... Read more

Paradise Regained

By: John Milton

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In Paradise Regained, Satan again is on the prowl, having successfully tempted Adam and Eve, and forced their departure from the Garden of Eden, here he sets out to tempt again - this time Jesus himself, as he comes to the end of his 40 days in the desert. The magisterial poetry of Milton enriches the encounter and, while not matching the... Read more

White Fang

By: Jack London

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

1. “In order to face the constant danger of hurt and even of destruction...he became quicker of movement than the other dogs...more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived”.So writes Jack London of White Fang, the title character in one of his most well-known... Read more

Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack London's The Call of the Wild was written in 1903, but Buck's gripping adventure makes for a thrilling listen on audio more than 100 years after it was first published. This gripping story follows the adventures of the loyal dog Buck, who is stolen from his comfortable family home and forced into the harsh life of an Alaskan sled dog.... Read more

Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Prince Myshkin has just returned to Russia after several years in a Swiss sanitarium and soon finds himself in a complicated love triangle. Myshkin's honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him.This new abridgement was completed exclusively for Mission Books by Russian Studies scholar... Read more

Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman and Hall and first released on 19 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visitations of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and... Read more

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

By: Mark Twain

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Regarded by many as the most luminous example of Twain's work, this historical novel chronicles the French heroine's life, as purportedly told by her longtime friend--Sieur Louis de Conte. A panorama of stirring scenes recount Joan's childhood in Domremy, the story of her voices, the fight for Orleans, the splendid march to Rheims, and much... Read more

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

While Mark Twain is most often identified with his childhood home on the Mississippi, he wrote many of his enduring classics during the years he lived in Hartford, Connecticut. He had come a long way from Hannibal when he focused his irreverent humor on medieval tales, and wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The hit on the head... Read more

Shepherd of The Hills

By: Harold Bell Wright

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1907, The Shepherd of the Hills is Harold Bell Wright's most famous work. In The Shepherd of the Hills, Wright spins a tale of universal truths across the years to the modern-day reader. His Eden in the Ozarks has a bountiful share of life's enchantments, but is not without its serpents. While Wright rejoices in the... Read more

Invisible Man

By: G.K. Chesterton

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Listeners will delight in these masterful chronicles of the adventures and mishaps of Father Brown. Small, round-faced and engagingly innocent, Brown is a Roman Catholic priest from East Anglia. He also happens to be a top-notch detective, possessing that rarest of all gifts - an intuition that never fails. Read more

Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Huckleberry Finn may be the greater book, but Tom Sawyer has always been more widely read. Moreover, it is a book that can be enjoyed equally by both children and adults. Twain, who called it a "hymn" to boyhood. Read more

Prince and the Pauper

By: Mark Twain

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

After the young Prince Edward VI of England and a peasant boy switch places, the "little king" tries to escape from a world in which he must beg for food, sleep with rodents, face ridicule, and avoid assassination. Meanwhile, the peasant, who is now the prince, dreads exposure and possible execution; members of the Court believe he has gone mad.... Read more

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious.... Read more

Pilgrim's Progress Unabridged

By: John Bunyan

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

John Bunyan was a simple maker and mender of pots and kettles who received very little education. In spite of that, he penned the most successful allegory ever written. He lost his first wife and was imprisoned for twelve years for his compelling—but unlicensed—preaching. Nevertheless, his preaching about the gravity of sin, salvation by grace,... Read more

Aristotle: On Poetry

By: Aristotle

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristotle’s Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first fully intact philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, the respected Greek sage offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (which the Greeks understood to literally mean "making"), examining its "first principles" and identifying its genres and... Read more

Prometheus Bound

By: Aeschylus & E.H. Plumptre

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When a jealous Zeus discovers that the compassionate Titan, Prometheus, has introduced the gift of fire to liberate mere mortals from oppression and servitude, he has Prometheus bound to a rocky prison in the Scythian desert, where the god discloses the reason for his punishment – And in one brief sentence learn the whole at once—All arts among... Read more

Shakespeare's Greatest Hits

By: William Shakespeare

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hey nonny, nonny,” the Bard’s “greatest hits” are all here! Performed with a lively full musical cast interspersed with engaging and informative introductory narrative, this imaginative recording uses song and sonnet from Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies to highlight his works, in his own words. Whether listeners are long-time Shakespearean... Read more

Tolstoy: Father Sergius & Other Short Stories

By: Leo Tolstoy

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Tolstoy is perhaps best recognized as the author of the classic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. While he was able to sustain complex and moving plots though large novels, his ability as a great writer also is demonstrated in his many short stories. Tolstoy brings to these brief tales the same psychological depth and spiritual insight... Read more

Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Master and Man

By: Leo Tolstoy

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In these two famous short novels, Leo Tolstoy takes readers to the brink of despair. At the end of life worldly ambition offers no consolation for the spiritually empty soul. But Tolstoy is the master of themes of redemption. He turns his morbid topic into hope, leading toward spiritual awakening. Tolstoy offers his readers a lifetime of... Read more

Resurrection

By: Leo Tolstoy

Length: 16 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Leo Tolstoy stands tall among the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century. In fact he fellowships with a handful of great story tellers of all time, the men and women who write literary masterpieces. Tolstoy based Resurrection, the last of his novels, on a true story of a philanderer whose misuse of a beautiful young orphan girl leads... Read more