Classics audiobooks

El libro de la selva / El segundo libro de la selva

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Las mejores novelas en formato audiolibro. Entre el viaje iniciático y la novela de aventuras, la obra maestra de Kipling es una de las grandes narraciones de todos los tiempos. «La selva tiene muchas lenguas. Yo me las sé todas.» Este audiolibro contiene las dos historias que conforman una de las colecciones de cuentos más famosas de la... Read more

Marcovaldo

By: Italo Calvino

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams-but the results are never the expected ones. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book Read more

The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than eighty never-before-published poems.Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of... Read more

Giant

By: Edna Ferber

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for the classic film starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson, Giant is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's sweeping generational tale of power, love, cattle barons, and oil tycoons, set in Texas during the first half of the twentieth century.When larger-than-life cattle rancher Jordan ""Bick"" Benedict arrives at... Read more

The Maltese Falcon

By: Dashiell Hammett

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive masterpiece of the hard-boiled detective genre, The Maltese Falcon first appeared in the pages of Black Mask magazine in 1929 and was almost immediately acknowledged as not only a great crime novel but an enduring masterpiece of American fiction.Tough, cynical PI Sam Spade—a man who, as his creator explained, is “able to take care... Read more

Sister Carrie

By: Theodore Dreiser

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A magnificent portrayal of 1890s America and the harsh realities of a dog-eat-dog world, Sister Carrie lies at the forefront of American Naturalism. When poor young provincial woman Carrie Meeber arrives in Chicago, she little expects to be catapulted from lower-class woman to prominent Broadway actress. Passive and yielding, she lets... Read more

Clarissa, Volume 1

By: Samuel Richardson

Narrated by: Samuel West, Lucy Scott & Roger May et al.

Length: 33 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A milestone in the history of the novel, Samuel Richardson’s epistolary and elaborate Clarissa follows the life of a chaste young woman desperate to protect her virtue. When beautiful Clarissa Harlowe is forced to marry the rich but repulsive Mr. Solmes, she refuses, much to her family’s chagrin. She escapes their persecution with the help of... Read more

The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 25 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Wealthy Maggie Verver has everything she could ever ask for - except for a husband, and a title. While in Italy, acquiring art for his museum back in the states, Maggie’s millionaire father Adam decides to remedy this and acquire a husband for Maggie. Enter Prince Amerigo, of a titled, but now poor, aristocratic Florentine family. Amerigo is the... Read more

Justine

By: Marquis de Sade

Narrated by: Polly Edsell with Nicholas Boulton

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Underneath the patina of civilized society lies the Sadean demimonde: a bundle of lustful appetites fueled by momentary impulse and a desire for unfettered indulgence. And the target of this savagery: Justine de Bertole, a pious and virginal heroine. While her amoral sister Juliette gets all the wonders in the world, virtuous and faithful... Read more

Every Man Dies Alone

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 20 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"The greatest book ever written about the German resistance to the Nazis."—Primo Levi This unflinching masterpiece based on a true story of resistance is more timely than ever, as fascist forces in the 20th century find their home in the rhetoric of the modern right wing political agenda. Entering its 15th year of English translation, the... Read more

Una Arruga en el Tiempo

By: Madeleine L'Engle

Narrated by: Susana Ballesteros

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Física cuántica y romance adolescente en una alocada odisea espacial. Un nuevo clásico para la literatura juvenil.Meg Murry, nuestra protagonista, tiene problemas para adaptarse en la escuela… es difícil adivinar que sus padres son científicos. Papá desapareció tiempo atrás en extrañas circunstancias, pero mamá no ha perdido la esperanza de... Read more

Nana

By: Émile Zola

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 17 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Nana Coupeau is a beautiful woman, able to attract men of enormous wealth with the crook of her finger. Part-time prostitute, part-time actress, she makes her debut in a mediocre operetta The Blonde Venus at the bustling Paris World’s Fair of 1867. She can’t sing, act or dance, yet she is stunning. Nana soon rockets through elite Parisian... Read more

Other Voices, Other Rooms

By: Truman Capote

Narrated by: Cody Roberts

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South.



At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel... Read more

Orgullo y prejuicio

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Nuria Mediavilla

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Los mejores libros disponibles para escuchar. Publicada originalmente en 1813, Orgullo y prejuicio es una de las obras maestras de la literatura inglesa de todos los tiempos, escúchala ahora. A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisión de un mecanismo de relojería, Jane Austen perfila una galería de personajes que conforman un perfecto... Read more

The Day of the Locust

By: Nathanael West

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the best one hundred English-language novels by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture. Bob Dylan wrote the classic song “Day of the Locusts” in homage, and Matt Groening’s Homer Simpson is named... Read more

How the Elephant Got Its Trunk and Other Wild Animal Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Virginia McKenna

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“In the High and Far-Off Times…there was one Elephant--a new Elephant--an Elephant's Child--who was full of 'satiable curiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions...”
Rudyard Kipling's famous Just So Stories provide imaginative answers to the many questions children ask about the world and the animals we share it with.
In this... Read more

Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice with Songs from Regency England

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 27 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this delightful double bill, narrator Alison Larkin’s AudioFile Earphones award-winning recording of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice are followed by Songs from Regency England to give listeners a sense of what after dinner family entertainment might have sounded like in Jane Austen’s time.
Recorded in a drawing room... Read more

Northanger Abbey and Persuasion with The History of England and Poems

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 19 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning narrator and internationally acclaimed writer/comedienne, Alison Larkin brings depth and wit to this rich, hugely entertaining audio production of Jane Austen's last two great novels Northanger Abbey & Persuasion.
The novels are followed by The History of England, a short satirical piece in which the teenage Austen writes about... Read more

Mansfield Park and Emma with Opinions from Austen’s Family and Friends

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 34 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In this richly rewarding listening experience, Alison Larkin’s acclaimed recordings of Jane Austen’s iconic novels Mansfield Park and Emma are followed by opinions from Austen’s family and friends never before heard on audio.
Like most writers, Jane Austen was interested in what the people closest to her thought of her books. She wrote down their... Read more

Why Read the Classics?

By: Italo Calvino

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics.”—from Why Read the Classics?

Classics, according to Italo Calvino, are not only works of enduring cultural value, but also something much more personal: talismans, touchstones, books through which we understand our world and ourselves. In Why Read the... Read more

The Repairer of Reputations

By: Robert W. Chambers

Narrated by: George Keller

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This story, first published in 1855, takes place in 1920’s New York City. Chambers creates a utopian future in which America holds colonial power and government-assisted suicide is legal. The story follows Hildred Castaigne, a young man who spent time in a mental asylum following a head injury, and Mr. Wilde, the eponymous “Repairer of... Read more

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Seek

By: Anthony O'Neill

Narrated by: Simon Mattacks

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this dark, atmospheric sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s timeless classic, the strange case continues with the return of Dr. Jekyll . . .Seven years after the death of Edward Hyde, a stylish gentleman shows up in foggy London claiming to be Dr. Henry Jekyll. Only Mr. Utterson, Jekyll’s faithful lawyer and confidant, knows that he must be an... Read more

Tales Of The Seer

By: Aldivan Teixeira Torres

Narrated by: Guy Elan

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Tales of the Seer is a collection of the best stories published by the seer. The objective is to gather in a text the necessary help for a life analysis and positive replacement even in the face of casualties failures. This collection is inspiring and you can not lose for a price unique. Read more

The Model Millionaire

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: George Keller

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar Wilde upholds his reputation for literary wit from the first line of this 1887 short story: “Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow.” The young Hugh Erskine wants to get married, but his bride’s father declares him too poor. Dejected, Erskine gives his last coin to a beggar who is posing for a portrait. This... Read more