Classics audiobooks

The Statement of Randolph Carter

By: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Adriel Brandt

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Randolph Carter, a recurring character in many of Lovecraft’s stories, begins the story telling the harrowing tale to those who found him stumbling through the swamp. Carter and his friend, the occultist Harley Warren, went to investigate the location of a supposed portal to the underworld – near Big Cypress Swamp in Florida. Upon discovery of a... Read more

The Street

By: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Adriel Brandt

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Though The Street tries to remain in the realm of horror and the supernatural, what it really amounts to is one of the earliest written documents of Lovecraft’s political stance and stance on other races. In this story, the street is the protagonist. Lovecraft documents its growth from quaint and colonial New England town to downtrodden and... Read more

The Terrible Old Man

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Adriel Brandt

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A lot happens in this very short story by H.P. Lovecraft, but it begins as the title might lend itself to imagine – with a terrible old man. As three thieves find out about this old man’s treasures, they decide to visit with the man with the intent to steal his riches. Their plan goes horribly
wrong when one of the three hears screaming from the... Read more

The Tomb

By: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Adriel Brandt

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The tomb is the story of Jervas, a little boy whose whole life begins to revolve around the tomb of the Hyde family. A childhood spent sneaking out to sleep beside the tomb eventually turns into a young adulthood of sleeping in a tomb with his name on it. After a stormy night and after
heading for the tomb, he turns back and sees that the Hyde... Read more

The Tree

By: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Adriel Brandt

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlike many of Lovecraft’s stories, this story takes place in Greece, and more importantly on a mountain that was supposedly watched over by Pan. Kalos and Musides, two friends, live here and when Kalos falls ill and dies, Musides decides to use his sculpting powers to use. He erects a great monument to Kalos over his tomb, but an oak tree... Read more

The White Ship

By: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Adriel Brandt

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Basil Elton is a lighthouse keeper prone to fantasies – especially one recurring fantasy of a man in white robes on a white ship that only appears on a full moon. During this fantasy, Elton goes with the man on his ship, following an azure bird. Despite the man’s warnings that no man has ever returned from one of these realms, Elton asks that he... Read more

To Build a Fire

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Michael Jerod Smith

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A man treks through the frigid Yukon with his dog. When night falls, the temperature drops to negative 75°, and they struggle to keep warm. This classic tale of man vs. wild draws on classic themes of adventure, perseverance, and survival as the two try to make it through the night. First published in 1908, it became one of the most anthologized... Read more

Saratoga Trunk

By: Edna Ferber

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for the classic film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, Saratoga Trunk is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's enthralling saga of love, greed, and power set in New Orleans and Saratoga during the late nineteenth century.Saratoga Trunk unfolds the story of Clio Dulaine, an ambitious Creole beauty who more than meets her... Read more

Collection of Sand

By: Italo Calvino

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The first English-language translation of the great Italian author’s final collection of essays.

Collection of Sand is the last of Italo Calvino's works to appear during the author's lifetime. This eye-opening collection embraces both the world and the word, and the themes of stone and sand implicit in the title are evident in many of these... Read more

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Craig Watkins

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A man stands on Owl Creek Bridge with his hands tied, preparing to face death by hanging. Then the ground slips out from under him, the rope breaks, and he has a moment to reimagine his future. Praised for its experimental shifts in time and surprise ending, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is not one to miss. It has been hailed by Kurt... Read more

The Diary of a Madman

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Michael Jerod Smith

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The public mourns when a beloved magistrate dies, a man of upstanding character who had a reputation for bringing criminals to justice. Yet when our tale’s narrator stumbles upon the man’s diary, he discovers another side to this public servant. One entry reads: “It must be a pleasure, unique and full of zest, to kill.” Find out why Guy de... Read more

नबी के कथाएँ

By: Aldivan Teixeira Torres

Narrated by: Charu Behl

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

सीज़र की कहानियां सीज़र द्वारा प्रकाशित सर्वोत्तम कहानियों का संग्रह है। उद्देश्य एक पाठ में इकट्ठा करना है जो जीवन विश्लेषण और सकारात्मक प्रतिस्थापन के लिए आवश्यक सहायता है, यहां तक कि हताहतों की असफलताओं के सामने भी। यह संग्रह प्रेरणादायक है और आप अद्वितीय कीमत के लिए खो नहीं सकते हैं। Read more

The Corpse Shroud

By: Alexander Afanasyev

Narrated by: Madeleine Mayfair

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Witches, devils, the undead—all kinds of supernatural beings haunt the folk tales of Russia. In this story, a brazen young woman proves her fearlessness by stealing the shroud from a corpse… but she pays a hefty price! Listen to this spooky story today. It’s Russian folklore told in English. Read more

The Devil's Drunken Horse

By: Alexander Afanasyev

Narrated by: Madeleine Mayfair

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Witches, devils, the undead—all kinds of supernatural beings haunt the folk tales of Russia. In this story, a grief-stricken young man seeks to outwit the Devil in order to save his father’s soul. Listen to this spooky story today. It’s Russian folklore told in English. Read more

The Bright Side of Life

By: Emile Zola

Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 17 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame Chanteau and their son Lazare, in the village of Bonneville on the wild Normandy coast. Her presence enlivens the household and Pauline is the only one who can ease Chanteau's gout-ridden agony. Her love of... Read more

The Baron in the Trees

By: Italo Calvino

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms

Cosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an existence in the... Read more

The Nonexistent Knight

By: Italo Calvino

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An empty suit of armor is the hero in this witty novella, a picaresque gem-now available in an independent volume for the first time-that brilliantly parodies medieval knighthood. Set in the time of Charlemagne and narrated by a nun with her own secrets to keep, The Nonexistent Knight tells the story of Agilulf, a gleaming white suit of armor... Read more

The Path to the Spiders' Nests

By: Italo Calvino

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amuses the adult patrons.

After a mishap with a Nazi... Read more

La obra maestra desconocida

By: Honorato de Balzac

Narrated by: Enrique Aparicio

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

En 1612 el joven Nicolas Poussin (18 años), lleno de ambición y ansiedad, se presenta en el taller de François Porbus (42 años), pintor en plena madurez que había estado al servicio de Enrique IV y que, tras su asesinato en 1610, fue “abandonado” por la regente María de Medicis. Allí Poussin coincide con Frenhofer, otro pintor ya anciano, muy... Read more

Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Joan Mora www.joanmoralocutor.com

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer es el relato de unos meses en la vida de este niño que vive en una ciudad pequeña del suroeste de Estados Unidos a orillas del Mississippi. Criado por su tía Polly que lo quiere de corazón pero que lo somete a una disciplina que se le hace absurda y desagradable Tom contempla el mundo de una manera muy distinta a como... Read more

Estudio en escarlata

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Jesús Manuel Rois Frey

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Se trata de un asesinato cometido en Londres a finales del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX. Por aquel entonces Sherlock Holmes ayudaba a la policía en los crímenes._x000D_ Todo empieza en la amistad de Sherlock Holmes con el doctor Watson. Se conocen de compañeros de habitación. Serlock se dedicaba a ayudar a los detectives de Londres. Uno de... Read more

Historia de dos ciudades

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Jesús Manuel Rois Frey

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Tomando como punto de referencia la revolución francesa, Dickens muestra los problemas sociales y políticos de Inglaterra, temiendo que la historia se repitiera en su país natal cuando el escribía esta novela._x000D_ _x000D_ En el contraste de estas dos ciudades presentadas, Inglaterra se presenta como la confianza, la tranquilidad, el futuro... Read more

El principito (Latino)

By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Narrated by: Ingrid Jocelyn García

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

El principito habita un pequeñísimo asteroide, que comparte con una flor caprichosa y tres volcanes. Pero tiene "problemas" con la flor y empieza a experimentar las soledad. Hasta que decide abandonar el planeta en busca de un amigo. Buscando esa amistad recorre varios planetas, habitados sucesivamente por un rey, un vanidoso, un borracho, un... Read more

Little Women, Special Edition

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Andrea Emmes

Length: 18 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood... Read more