Classics audiobooks

A Modest Proposal and Other Writings

By: Jonathan Swift

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In "A Modest Proposal," first published in 1729, Jonathan Swift heaps scorn on then-current political theory and reveals the appalling suffering taking place in Ireland - not through direct reporting, but through mock suggestions on what to do with the poor; they should sell their children for food. "The chief end I propose to myself in all my... Read more

Siddhartha

By: Hermann Hesse

Narrated by: Horacio Mancilla

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha la historia de Buda novelada por Herman Hesse. Esta novela, ambientada en la India tradicional, relata la vida de Siddhartha, un hombre para quien el camino de la verdad pasa por la renuncia y la comprensión de la unidad que subyace en todo lo existente. En este audiolibro, podemos escuchar todas las opciones espirituales del hombre que... Read more

The Man He Never Was

By: James L. Rubart

Narrated by: James L. Rubart

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fresh take on the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, James L. Rubart explores the war between good and evil within each of us—and one man’s only chance to overcome the greatest divide of the soul.What if you woke up one morning and the darkest parts of yourself were gone?Torren Daniels vanished eight months back, and his wife and kids have... Read more

What Maisie Knew

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Maureen O’Brien

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. And when both take lovers and remarry, Maisie—solitary, observant, and wise beyond her years—is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual... Read more

The Two Destinies

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Samuel West

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

George and Mary were childhood friends. But then George’s father discovers his thirteen-year-old son feels true passion for his bailiff’s daughter. Determined to end the affair, George’s father sacks the bailiff and takes his son to America. Years later George returns to his native Suffolk to trace his lost love. Though she has long gone, George... Read more

The Professor

By: Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: James Wilby

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This story of William Crimsworth, who goes to Brussels to seek his fortune and falls in love with Frances, a schoolteacher and lace-maker while he is himself pursued by Madamoiselle Reuter, is a subtle portrayal of a self-made man and his relationships in a society that worships property and propriety. Read more

King Solomon’s Mines

By: H. Rider Haggard

Narrated by: Toby Stephens

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Allan Quatermain and a group of fellow adventurers set out to find a missing member of their party. This is the beginning of their adventures in an unfamiliar and unexplored region of inner Africa. The first adventure novel to take place in Africa, King Solomon's Mines achieved wide-spread popularity as soon as it was published in 1885. Read more

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: David Buck

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Having outwitted a band of pirates to obtain a map disclosing the whereabouts of Captain Flint’s treasure, Young Jim sets sail for Treasure Island. But the crew of the Hispaniola are not what they seem. Revealing themselves as another gang of cut throats, led by the villainous Long John Silver, they are hell-bent on seizing both the ship and the... Read more

Emma

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Jenny Agutter

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoiled, vain, and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village, but her attempts at matchmaking lead to misunderstandings and potential heartbreak. Only her friend and neighbor Mr. Knightley dares to point out the... Read more

The Europeans

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Eugenia, a baroness divorced from a German prince, and her bohemian brother, Felix, are coming back to America. Raised and cultured in Europe, they are returning destitute to New England to seek out their rich and innocent cousins.Eugenia wins the attentions of Robert Acton, the most appropriate suitor in the area, while also seducing her... Read more

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

F. Scott Fitzgerald makes antebellum Baltimore his setting for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a fantastical tale with some Poe-like overtones about a baby born at age seventy who then lives life in reverse, his hair turning “in the dozen years of his life from white to iron-gray, the network of wrinkles on his face becoming less... Read more

Penguin Island

By: Anatole France

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin Island is Anatole France’s most searching and satirical novel. A humorous critique of customs and laws, rituals and rites, its subject is human nature, but its characters are penguins in the mythical land of Penguinia. The story of the strutting penguins and their virtues and vices is not merely a burlesque allegory of French history,... Read more

Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Greg Wise & Saskia Reeves

Length: 18 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Told in journal fragments that cannot provide any single perspective, Bram Stoker’s masterpiece is at the same time intensely romantic and very modern. It unfolds the story of a Transylvanian Don Juan, the aristocratic vampire Count Dracula who preys on damsels, and the mission launched from a lunatic asylum to destroy him. Read more

The Best of Richard Matheson

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: various narrators, Donald Corren, Peter Berkrot...

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The first career retrospective of terrifying stories by “one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century” (Ray Bradbury), as selected by award-winning author Victor LaValleAmong the greats of twentieth-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by many for novels like I Am Legend and his sixteen... Read more

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: David Linski

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

During the year 1866, ships of several nations spot a mysterious sea monster, which some suggest to be a giant narwhal. The United States government assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destroy the monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist and narrator of the story, who happens to be in New York at the time,... Read more

Great American Women’s Fiction

By: various authors

Narrated by: various narrators, Chris McGlasson, Tamara Walt...

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Enduring stories that are as relevant today as they were when written at the turn of the century by influential women writers. This audio recording includes: On the Divide and The Garden Lodge by Willa Cather; A Point at Issue, Desiree's Baby, A Pair of Silk Stockings, and The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin; Three Thanksgivings and The Yellow... Read more

Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen and Caroline Jane Knight

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Following her critically acclaimed narration of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with songs from Regency England, Emma, Persuasion & Poems and Northanger Abbey & The History of England, award-winning narrator Alison Larkin is back, bringing her light comedic touch to this delightful recording of Austen’s first published novel.
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The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Matt Montanez

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly considered to be the definitive work on military strategy and tactics of its time. It has been the most famous and... Read more

The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Matt Montanez

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, comic masterpieces of all time, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, in 1895. Considered one of the greatest THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is a farce, playing with love, religion, and truth as it tells the tale of two men. Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who bend the truth in order to add... Read more

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Matt Montanez

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story follows Benjamin's life from his birth. However he is no ordinary child, as he has the appearance of a 70 year old man, already capable of speech. His family soon realizes that Benjamin is aging in reverse, becoming younger as the years go by. The fascinating... Read more

A Study in Scarlet

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Johan F Girado

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book, Dr. Watson meets the detective for the first time and we ride along with them to the scene of a murder. The crime baffles the Scotland Yard detectives, but of course Holmes solves it easily. In the second... Read more

Time Regained

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: Neville Jason

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature. Neville Jason’s unabridged recording of the work runs to 150 hours. Time Regained is the final volume. Lost in the blacked-out streets of Paris during the First World War, Marcel stumbles into a brothel and accidentally witnesses a shocking scene involving the Baron... Read more

The Once and Future King

By: Thomas Hanbury White

Narrated by: Neville Jason

Length: 33 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The complete box set of T.H. White’s magnificent retelling of the Arthurian legend. The novel is made up of five parts: The Sword in the Stone, The Witch in the Wood, The Ill-Made Knight, The Candle in the Wind, and The Book of Merlyn. Humane, warmly funny and deeply touching, White’s epic fantasy novel is a true classic. Read more

Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Gabriel Oak is a young shepherd. With the savings of a frugal life, and a loan, he has leased and stocked a sheep-farm. He falls in love with a newcomer eight years his junior, Bathsheba Everdene, a proud beauty who arrives to live with her aunt, Mrs. Hurst. She comes to like him well enough, and even... Read more