Classics audiobooks

A Universal History of Iniquity

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Narrated by: Castulo Guerra

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal betrayal, and bloodthirsty revenge. Sparkling with the... Read more

The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Narrated by: Castulo Guerra

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed translation of Borges's valedictory stories, in its first stand-alone edition

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of his life. Brilliantly... Read more

Brodie's Report

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Narrated by: Castulo Guerra

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie’s Report, he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these stories, including “Unworthy” and “The Other Duel,” are set in the macho Argentinean underworld, and even... Read more

Vergil

By: Sarah Ruden

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A biography of Vergil, Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid
The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creating this epic poem, Vergil (70–19 BCE) became the world’s first media celebrity, a living legend.
But... Read more

The Aleph and Other Stories

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Narrated by: Castulo Guerra

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s “killer,” and a man awaiting his... Read more

The Picture OF Dorian Grey

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Kenny Davis

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is a philosophical novel written by Oscar Wilde and first published as a serial in 1890. The story revolves around a young man named Dorian Gray who has his portrait painted by the talented Basil Hallward. Influenced by the hedonistic Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian wishes that he could always remain as young and beautiful... Read more

The Man Who Disappeared (America)

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The first of Kafka’s three great novels, The Man Who Disappeared (America) follows the picaresque adventures of Karl Rossman, who is banished to America following a family scandal. Upon his arrival, Karl immediately happens upon his uncle, and from there follows a pattern of wandering, adoption and expulsion as Karl marches inexorably on towards... Read more

At the Edge of the Night

By: Friedo Lampe

Narrated by: Jot Davies

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Banned by the Nazis, the haunting novel At the Edge of the Night (Am Rande der Nacht), by the German writer Friedo Lampe, is a work of magic realism. This poignant book, beautifully translated by Simon Beattie, was, in Lampe’s own words, ‘born into a regime where it could not breathe’; he hoped that one day it might rise again. It evokes the... Read more

Le Grand Meaulnes

By: Alain-Fournier

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A new pupil, Augustin Meaulnes, arrives at a rural school, and his bravado and charisma make an immediate impact on all those around him, including the 15-year-old François Seurel. The newcomer suddenly disappears for several days, during which time he stumbles across a mysterious manor house, which is home to a beautiful girl, Yvonne de Galais.... Read more

Distrazione

By: Luigi Pirandello

Narrated by: Gianluca Testa

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Nero tra il baglior polverulento d'un sole d'agosto che non dava respiro, un carro funebre di terza classe si fermò davanti al portone accostato d'una casa nuova d'una delle tante vie nuove di Roma, nel quartiere dei Prati di Castello. Potevano esser le tre del pomeriggio... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Arthur Lane

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Dive into the chilling world of Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray.' Handsome Dorian Gray remains untouched by age or vice, while his hidden portrait grotesquely ages and decays. His sinister secret? His sins are etched not on him, but his portrait. A thrilling exploration of vanity and corruption, Wilde's masterpiece questions the price... Read more

Viaje al centro de la tierra

By: Julio Verne

Narrated by: Horacio Lanci

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

En “Un viaje al centro de la tierra” (1884), Julio Verne (1828 – 1905) nos dejó uno de los mejores ejemplos de su imaginación fantástica y científica a la vez.Más allá de la imposibilidad de la teoría del Profesor Lidenbrock (el audaz protagonista de la increíble aventura) sobre la inexistencia de calor en el núcleo terrestre, su descenso a las... Read more

Die Originale: Das Landhaus in Hampshire (Ungekürzt)

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Valentin Ladstätter

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Landhaus in Hampshire (The Copper Beeches) erschien erstmals im Juni 1892 im Strand Magazine. Noch im selben Jahr wurde der Fall in Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes veröffentlicht. Handlungszeitpunkt: Vorfrühling 1890: Der arbeitslosen Miss Violet Hunter wird ein verlockendes und gleichzeitig seltsamens Arbeitsangebot gemacht: Für 120 Pfund... Read more

The Scarlet Plague

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Evan Schmitt

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A grandfather tells his grandchildren of a previous world, one before a global pandemic wipes out nearly all mankind. Raw and melancholy, The Scarlet Plague is Jack London’s apocalyptic story about how one civilization rose and fell. Originally published in 1912 by London Magazine. Read more

A Christmas Carol - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Mathew Jones

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sink into the classic tale of Victorian Christmas and the redemption of London’s most memorable miser, as we follow Scrooge through his encounters with the spirits of Christmas.Taken from the reading text that Dickens used when giving his own performances of this classic Christmas tale, this shortened version of the original book is ideal for... Read more

Incontro di vecchi amici

By: Italo Svevo

Narrated by: Gianluca Testa

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Roberto Erlis era nato di buona ma non ricca famiglia. Aveva raggiunto e oltrepassato il trentesimo anno di età in posizione piuttosto umile. Poi – come soleva dire lui – s'era arrabbiato, aveva abbandonato ubbie e sogni e s'era gettato nella vita degli affari con la risolutezza di chi non vuol perdere tempo. Fece degli affari buoni da prima... Read more

Rasik Sampadak

By: Munshi Premchand

Narrated by: Sunita Das

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Rasik Sampadak is a classic hindi story written by Munshi Premchand, one of the stalwarts of Hindi literature, The book beautifully captures the nature of Men and how they act when things dont go their way. A must read for all Premchand fans, this is an abridged version of the book. Read more

Новеллы

By: Стендаль

Narrated by: Илья Акинтьев

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Французский писатель Мари-Анри Бейль (1783-1842), публиковавшийся под именем Стендаль, был одним из основоположников психологического романа. Но наряду с всемирно известными произведениями «Красное и черное», «Пармская обитель» и другими, перу Стендаля принадлежат многочисленные жизнеописания, трактаты, воспоминания, мемуары, путевые очерки,... Read more

Witch Wood

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: Angus King

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

…for Witch Wood specially I am always grateful; all that devilment sprouting up out of a beginning like Galt's Annals of the Parish. That's the way to do it. — C. S. Lewis Published in 1927, Scottish writer John Buchan's Witch Wood is set in a rural parish located in the Scottish Borders during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The story centers... Read more

It's a Battlefield

By: Graham Greene

Narrated by: Graham Mack

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An "adventurous . . . intelligent . . . ingenious" novel of crime and punishment in pre–World War II London (V. S. Pritchett).



During a demonstration in Hyde Park, Communist bus driver Jim Drover acts on instinct to protect his wife by stabbing to death the policeman set to strike her down. Sentenced to hang—whether as a martyr, tool, or... Read more

A la sombra de las muchachas en flor

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: Joan Mora

Length: 21 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

El elegante París y la tranquila localidad balnearia de Balbec son los dos grandes escenarios en los que se mueve A la sombra de las muchachas en flor, relato centrado en la iniciación del narrador en asuntos amorosos y pasionales, así como en la vívida descripción de sus primeros contactos con el arte y el acto creativo. Por los senderos de la... Read more

Por la parte de Swann

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: Joan Mora

Length: 18 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

La primera parte de una obra maestra sobre al amor, las relaciones humanas y el devenir del tiempo. En 1913 vio la luz esta primera entrega de uno de los ciclos novelísticos más admirables de la historia de la literatura: En busca del tiempo perdido, un camino iniciático y un análisis, de hondo calado filosófico, de la compleja relación del... Read more

The Big Four: The Original 12 Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: John Rubinstein, Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rud...

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.”In The Big Four, Hercule Poirot investigates a string of murders that appear to be disconnected on the surface, but Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective sees the only tiny detail that links them all together. For... Read more

Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Catherine Bilson, Terah Tucker, Graham Scott, L...

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Sense and Sensibility follows the fortunes of sensible Elinor and her volatile younger sister, Marianne, as each searches for a spouse—a quest made urgent by the family’s financial embarrassment. While Elinor pursues the heart of clergyman, Edward Ferrars, Marianne impulsively falls in love with a glamorous but unscrupulous adventurer,... Read more