Classics audiobooks

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

War of the Cards

By: Colleen Oakes

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Colleen Oakes’s twisted reimagining of the Queen of Hearts origin story comes to a thrilling conclusion in War of the Cards.Dinah has lost everyone she ever loved. Her brother was brutally murdered. The wicked man she believed was her father betrayed her. Her loyal subjects have been devastated by war. And the boy she gave her heart to broke it... Read more

Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Margaret Hilton

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The villagers of Ravelo had the weaver Silas Marner marked as a miser but the only thing golden about Silas Marner was his heart. Silas Marner is a modest weaver accused of stealing the congregation's funds. The thief may really be Silas' best friend, William Dane, who has framed him but Silas is found guilty none-the-less. His fiancE abandons... Read more

The Song of the Lark

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Thea Kronberg has a voice that can call down angels and the soul of a Colorado pioneer girl. But as she develops her talents and devotes herself to the life of an artist, she must consider the cost of the creative path she follows. Willa Cather's classic novel is full of the breathtaking beauty of the American frontier and the spirit of the... Read more

Sons and Lovers

By: D.H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 18 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Sons and Lovers is widely considered by critics and readers alike as D.H. Lawrence' s masterpiece and a classic interpretation of the oedipal complex. Surely one of the greatest autobiographical novels ever written, it tells the story of Paul Morel, a sensitive artist with a far stronger attachment to his mother than his working-class, alcoholic... Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Flo Gibson

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

America's first psychological novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a dark tale of love, crime, and revenge set in colonial New England. It revolves around a single, forbidden act of passion that forever alters the lives of three members of a small Puritan community: Hester Prynne, an ardent and fierce woman who bears the punishment... Read more

Swann's Way

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 22 hours

Abridged: No

Swann's Way is the first and best-known part of Proust's monumental work, Remembrance of Things Past. Often compared to a symphony, this complex masterpiece is ideally suited for audio. Listening lets you appreciate anew the incredible beauty of Proust's language and the uniqueness of his style.

The novel's narrator, Marcel, finds the true... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..." - so opens one of the best loved and most often quoted classics. With dramatic eloquence, Charles Dickens pens this thrilling tale of the inhabitants of two cities - Paris and London - as they are swept into the dangerous tide of the French Revolution.

When the starving French masses rise... Read more

The Jungle

By: Upton Sinclair

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 15 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Few books have so affected radical social changes as The Jungle, first published serially in 1906. Exposing unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry in Chicago, Sinclair's novel gripped Americans by the stomach, contributing to the passage of the first Food and Drug Act. If you've never read this classic novel, don't be put off by its... Read more

El Lazarillo de Tormes/ Rinconete y Cortadillo

By: Anonymous & Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Narrated by: Francisco Rivela

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Estos dos clasicos del siglo de oro espanol marcan el comienzo de la novela picaresca. La vida de ambos en Lazarillo de Tormes, y Rinconete y Cortadillo, esta protagonizada por picaros viviendo de su ingenio, sus aventuras y fortunas en ciudades y campos. Conviviendo entre sacerdotes corruptos, asesinos, prostitutas y mendigos. En Lazarillo de... Read more

Victory

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the greatest modern writers in world literature comes a magnificent story of love, adventure and rescue played out against the shimmering South Seas. Alone on a tropical island, a Swedish baron and a beautiful violinist discover the long-lost joys of love. But when two treasure hunters arrive on the beach, the lovers know that evil... Read more

Siddhartha

By: Hermann Hesse

Narrated by: Firdous Bamji

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life -- the... Read more

The Keepers of the House

By: Shirley Ann Grau

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Entrenched on the same land since the early 1800s, the Howlands have for seven generations been pillars of their Southern community. Extraordinary family lore has been passed down to Abigail—the last remaining member of the esteemed family and the last keeper of the house—but not all of it.When shocking facts come to light about the late William... Read more

Unforgivable Love

By: Sophfronia Scott

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this vivid reimagining of the French classic Les Liaisons Dangereuses, it’s the summer when Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball’s color barrier and a sweltering stretch has Harlem’s elite fleeing the city for Westchester County’s breezier climes, two predators stalk amidst the manicured gardens and fine old homes.Heiress Mae Malveaux... Read more

Canción de Navidad

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Jordi Boixaderas

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha donde quieras Canción de Navidad, el más famoso de los cuentos navideños y evocadores de la infancia escritos por Dickens El viejo Scrooge es un brillante hombre de negocios y un avaro incorregible. La víspera de Navidad recibe la visita del fantasma de su viejo compañero de negocios y amigo Jacob Marley. Marley ha vuelto del más allá... Read more

El hombre bicentenario

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Raúl Lloréns

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Un clásico entre los clásicos de la ciencia ficción, ahora disponible en formato audiolibro. «Esta historia, que apareció por primera vez en 1976, fue mi exposición más clarividente del desarrollo de los robots. Trataba del deseo de un robot de convertirse en hombre y la forma en que realizaba este deseo, paso a paso. No tenía intención de... Read more

La última pregunta

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Raúl Lloréns

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

La última pregunta, una obra maestra de la ciencia ficción, es, tal y como afirmó su autor en repetidas ocasiones, «por encima de toda duda, mi favorita entre todas las historias que he escrito en mi carrera». ¿Es posible revertir el inevitable final del Universo, o el mundo debe acabar de todas formas? es la pregunta que desde un día del siglo... Read more

El diario de Adán y Eva

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga & Natalia Helo

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Un relato en el que Mark Twain pone de manifiesto sus hilarantes y poco ortodoxas opiniones sobre la religión, ahora para escuchar. «Me gusta una buena historia bien contada. Por esta razón, a veces me veo obligado a contarlas yo mismo». Con estas palabras Mark Twain, según Hemingway, el padre indiscutible de la literatura estadounidense,... Read more

Las olas

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Jordi Boixaderas, Gemma Ibáñez, Carlos Vicente,...

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora esta obra cumbre de la narrativa de Virginia Woolf, Las olas, un clásico intemporal que acompaña al lector a lo largo de los años como el recuerdo de un verano lejano e irrepetiblemente feliz. Desde que se publicara en 1931, Las olas ha sido considerada una de las obras capitales de la narrativa del siglo XX, tanto por la... Read more

La señora Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Neus Sendra

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora la primera de las novelas con que Virginia Woolf revolucionó la narrativa de su tiempo. La señora Dalloway relata un día en la vida londinense de Clarissa, una dama de alta alcurnia casada con un diputado conservador y madre de una adolescente. La historia comienza una soleada mañana de 1923 y termina esa misma noche, cuando... Read more

1984 (edición definitiva avalada por The Orwell Estate)

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Arturo López

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

«No creo que la sociedad que he descrito en 1984 necesariamente llegue a ser una realidad, pero sí creo que puede llegar a existir algo parecido», escribía Orwell después de publicar su novela. Escucha ahora este clásico de la ciencia ficción que se ha convertido en un manifiesto de la realidad. En el año 1984 Londres es una ciudad lúgubre en... Read more

The Confession of Brother Haluin

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

When a monk survives a tragic injury, he enlists Brother Cadfael to help him right the wrongs revealed in his deathbed confession

Winter arrived early in 1142, bringing with it a heavy snowfall. The safety of the guest-hall roof at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul comes into jeopardy, and the brothers are called upon to effect... Read more