Classics audiobooks

Ramona

By: Helen Hunt Jackson

Narrated by: Boots Martin

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This extraordinarily popular novel weaves together romance, history, and a passionate protest against the oppression of Native Americans in the 1800s. Termed the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of the southwestern Indians and the first protest novel of California, the story vividly portrays three cultures—Indian, Mexican, and Anglo—locked in combat. The... Read more

The Red-Headed League

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Edward Hardwicke

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Red-Headed League, the legendary Sherlock Holmes catches one of London's most daring criminals while investigating the strange business of the League, a suspicious organization that gives its members money for "nominal work."The story is read by a true master, Edward Hardwicke, a talented actor who plays Sherlock Holmes' associate Dr.... Read more

A Scandal in Bohemia

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Edward Hardwicke

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"A Scandal in Bohemia" tells of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes' encounter with Irene Adler, a beautiful and intelligent woman, in a story of love, intrigue, and political scandal. The story is read by a true master, Edward Hardwicke, a talented actor who plays Sherlock Holmes's associate Dr. Watson in the popular PBS series Mystery! Read more

The Adventure of the Priory School

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Edward Hardwicke

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Motivated by greed and jealousy, the criminal in this classic Sherlock Holmes mystery The Adventure of the Priory School aims to kidnap a young lord—but causes a far greater tragedy. Read more

The Greek Interpreter

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Edward Hardwicke

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes's brother, Mycroft, appears in this classic mystery, The Greek Interpreter, to lead Holmes and Watson to a hideous murder and the betrayal of a foreign heiress. Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer & Stephen Mitchell

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Tolstoy called The Iliad a miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homer's story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or written. But until now, even the best English translations haven't been able to re-create the energy and simplicity, the speed, grace, and pulsing... Read more

The Naval Treaty

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Edward Hardwicke

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Naval Treaty, a classic Sherlock Holmes tale of treachery, murder, and theft, an innocent man's honor, position, and health are at stake when a treaty of the utmost importance is stolen from his office. The story is read by a true master, Edward Hardwicke, a talented actor who plays Sherlock Holmes's associate, Dr. Watson, in the popular... Read more

The Prisoner of Zenda

By: Anthony Hope

Narrated by: James Wilby

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This swashbuckling romance transports a droll young English gentleman from his comfortable life in London to a fast-moving adventure in a mythical country steeped in political intrigue. Rudolf Rassendyll, pondering his life’s purpose, sets out on a journey to the tiny European kingdom of Ruritania, where he discovers that he bears a marked... Read more

The Sea-Wolf

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Stuart Whitman

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Torn by a quirk of fate from his life as a dilettante and intellectual, Humphrey van Weydon finds himself at the whim of the ruthless Wolf Larsen. The two men—one youthful, idealistic, and upper-class while the other ruthless, dangerous, self-taught, and self-determined—inevitably become adversaries. As he does in Call of the Wild and White... Read more

The Years

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Finty Williams

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in 1937, The Years was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime. It explores a rich variety of themes such as sex, feminism, family life, education, and politics in English society from 1800 to the 1930s, as they affect one large upper-class London family.The principal theme of this ambitious book is time,... Read more

To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Phyllida Law

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny, and bitterness.Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence, and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it... Read more

Under the Greenwood Tree

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Robert Hardy

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy’s most charming novel using, as it does, the four seasons of the Wessex year as a backdrop for the delightful romance of the young Dick Dewy and Fancy Day, the local school mistress. The story of the ups and downs of their courtship is set alongside the story of the rustics who form the Mellstock church choir... Read more

Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

Narrated by: Terry Bregy

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of stories set in a fictitious town in the 1890s, has long been considered Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece. This groundbreaking work set the stage for a new era in writing, greatly influencing Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck, among many others. Anderson wrote simply, brilliantly crafting a... Read more

Women in Love

By: D. H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Maureen O’Brien

Length: 18 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions,” wrote D. H. Lawrence in Women in Love, his masterpiece heralding the erotic consciousness of the twentieth century. Lawrence explores love, sex, passion, and marriage through the eyes of two sisters,... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Peter Baker

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to accept that Christmas is a time for peace and goodwill to all men. While those less fortunate than him are charitable, Scrooge remains set in his curmudgeonly ways. One Christmas Eve, however, his outlook begins to change with a visit from the ghost of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley’s ghost... Read more

Brown Wolf, and Other Short Stories

By: Jack London

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Western writer and historian Dale L. Walker writes, "London's true genius lay in the short form, 7,500 words and under, where the flood of images in his teeming brain and the innate power of his narrative gift were at once constrained and freed. His stories that run longer than the magic 7,500 generally—but certainly not always—could have... Read more

Daisy Miller

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When Frederick, an American expatriate traveling in Europe, meets the newly rich Miller family from New York, he is charmed by the daughter, Daisy, and her “inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence.” The Millers have no perception of the complex behavioral code that underlies European society, and Winterbourne is astonished at the... Read more

Jeeves Takes Charge & Extricating Young Gussie

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Two great stories featuring the inimitable Jeeves! In “Jeeves Takes Charge,” the ubiquitous butler comes to the rescue of his new master, Bertie Wooster, from a fate worse than death, so they say. And in the second tale, “Extricating Young Gussie,” poor Bertie is summarily dispatched to New York by an overbearing aunt to extract his cousin from... Read more

Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman & various narrators

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy, provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering, corruption, and downfall. A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of... Read more

Miss Bertha and the Yankee

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating short story by the renowned author of The Woman in WhiteCaptain Stanwick and Lionel Varleigh are old friends, but after falling out over their attentions to Bertha Laroche, they fight an illegal duel in Herne Wood. Stanwick, wrongly convinced he has killed Varleigh, goes mad and attempts to kill himself with a razor … when his... Read more

The Age of Fable, Part 1

By: Thomas Bulfinch

Narrated by: David Thorn & Bobbie Frohman

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Bulfinch, as one reviewer put it, "created an anthology of mythology." This audiobook contains the first fourteen chapters of The Age of Fable, the first of three volumes, comprising Bulfinch's complete work. The Age of Fable recounts stories of Greek gods, demigods, and best-known characters in mythology. In our times, many references... Read more

The Aspern Papers

By: Henry James

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry James’ acclaimed suspense novelSet in a crumbling Venetian villa, The Aspern Papers is the story of an American editor’s determination to acquire a collection of unpublished letters … at any cost. The letters were written by the editor’s favorite Romantic poet, Jeffrey Asper, to his mistress.In hopes of gaining access to the letters, he... Read more

The Man Who Was Thursday

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely considered to be Chesterton’s masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday is a spellbinding psychological thriller which defies easy classification. Both a fascinating detective mystery and a surreal exploration of truth and relativism, it centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of... Read more

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

By: Howard Pyle

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are Howard Pyle's exciting and hilarious tales of Robin Hood and his merry band of outlaws who reigned over Sherwood Forest doing many good deeds for the poor—and deserved misdeeds for the pompous and haughty rich. Follow along as Robin makes his breathtaking escapes from his archenemy, the Sheriff of Nottingham, while classic characters... Read more