Classics audiobooks

The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Phil Chenevert

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The Importance of Being Earnest is a very popular play written by Oscar Wilde. In the satire, Algernon and Jack are two young members of the English gentry who pursue their romantic desires dishonestly. Both men want to adopt the name "Ernest," who is Jack's imaginary younger brother. The idea of name changing comes about when Algernon wants to... Read more

The Oval Portrait

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Shawn Michael Hogan

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Oval Portrait is a short horror story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. Our protagonist takes refuge in an abandoned castle and discovers a room with a series of paintings accompanied by a small book describing them. His attention is attracted by an oval portrait depicting a young woman of rare beauty. Read more

The Shadow

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Claudine Chen

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Read more

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Mark Smith

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Louis Stevenson's swash-buckling high seas adventure! Now with waves crashing and swords clashing, a pirate tale like you've never read before! Read more

White Fang

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Mark Smith

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Yukon Territory, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, Jack London's White Fang is a gripping tale about a domesticated dog trying to survive in the wild. Dealing with other complex themes such as redemption and morality, White Fang is an incendiary story that examines humanity through the viewpoint of a wild wolfdog. Read more

Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Mark F. Smith

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Buck is living a happy life in California until he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must toughen up and learn the harsher rules of survival in the North. One of the first of these is how to deal with being harnessed in the same team as a dog that wants to kill him.Large, strong and smart, Buck... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Mil Nicholson

Length: 20 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unflaggingly suspenseful story of aspirations and moral redemption, humble, orphaned Pip, a ward of his short-tempered older sister and her husband, Joe, is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman. And, indeed, it seems as though that dream is destined to come to pass—because one day, under... Read more

The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: David Barnes

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. Read more

Purloined Letter

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: James Christopher

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The Paris police prefect approaches amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin with a puzzle: a cabinet minister has stolen a letter from a woman of royalty whom he is now blackmailing. Despite a painstaking search of the minister’s rooms, the police find nothing. When the prefect returns a month later and mentions a large reward for the letter, Dupin... Read more

Silence - A Fable

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Kasper

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Demon recounts the story of how he tormented a man in the Congo. The man was seated on a rock on the edge of a churning river. The river was bordered by water-lillies and surrounded by a forest of poisonous flowers. The man trembled in fear but did not run from the world he saw. Demon then cast a spell that turned the world into a violent one.... Read more

Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Adams

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported from France to England. It would seem that they could take up the threads of their lives in peace. As fate would have it though, the pair are summoned to the Old Bailey to testify against a young Frenchman—Charles... Read more

A Chain of Evidence

By: Carolyn Wells

Narrated by: Richard Kilmer

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to A Chain of Evidence with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience.The Mystery: ”Mr. Stone," I began, "if three persons spent the night in an apartment so securely locked on the inside that there was no possible means of ingress, and if in the morning it was found that one of those three persons had been murdered... Read more

After London

By: Richard Jeffries

Narrated by: Ruth Golding

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to After London with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience.Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction." After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life.The first part... Read more

Arizona Nights

By: Stewart Edward White

Narrated by: A. E. Maroney

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to Arizona Nights with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience.A series of stories loosely connected by the narrative device of different speakers swapping yarns around the campfire at the end of each trail-riding day."A series of spirited tales emphasizing some phase of the life of the ranch, plains and desert, and... Read more

Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931

By: Sewell Peaslea Wright, H. Thompson Rich, C. D. ...

Narrated by: Bill Boerst

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

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This issue contains "The Dark Side of Antri" by Sewell Peaslea Wright, "The Sunken Empire" by H. Thompson Rich, "The Gate to Xoran" by Hal K. Wells, "The Eye of Allah" by C. D. Willard, "The Fifth-Dimension Catapult" by Murray Leinster, and "The... Read more

At the Earths Core

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Great Plains

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to At the Earths Core with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience.Dr. Abner Perry (Peter Cushing) is an English scientist who has invented a massive drill that can dig deep into the earth. Joined by his adventure-seeking American backer, David Innes (Doug McClure), Perry accidentally discovers an underground... Read more

Bat Wing

By: Sax Rohmer

Narrated by: Mark Nelson

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to Bat Wing with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience.Private detective Paul Harley investigates a mysterious case involving voodoo, vampirism, and macabre murder in the heart of London. The first book in the Paul Harley series, written by Sax Rohmer, author of The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Read more

Black Beauty

By: Anna Sewell

Narrated by: Cori Samuel

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to Black Beauty with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience.Lessons in life, human nature, and compassion, though the eyes of our unlikely hero--a horse that goes by the name of Black Beauty. Read more

Blue Lagoon

By: H. De Vere Stacpoole

Narrated by: Adrian Praetzellis

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to Blue Lagoon with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience.Two shipwrecked children grow up on a South Pacific island. This beautiful story of adventure and innocent love was H.D. Stacpoole’s most popular work. Read more

Burning Daylight

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Richard Kilmer

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to Burning Daylight with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience.Burning Daylight, Jack London's fictional novel published in 1910, was one of the best selling books of that year and it was his best selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed... Read more

Captain of the Polestar

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Richard Kilmer

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to Captain of the Polestar with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience.The Captain of the Pole-Star is a collection of strange mystery tales that are independent of each other, sometimes involving ship voyages, shipwrecks, amnesia, lost love, grand thefts, comedy, and fairy tales. Read more

Citadel Of Fear

By: Gertrude Barrows Bennett

Narrated by: Mark Nelson

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to Citadel Of Fear with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience.Citadel of Fear is considered Francis Stevens' masterpiece, by Lovecraft's acclaim. Two adventurers discover a lost city in the Mexican jungle. One is taken over by an evil god while the other falls in love with a woman from the ancient Mexican city of... Read more

Conjuror's House

By: Stewart Edward White

Narrated by: Roger Melin

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to Conjuror's House with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience.In the northern outreaches of the Canadian wilderness, it was understood that the Hudson Bay Company governed all trading, and one factor named Galen Albret took his position seriously. Free traders, or those who dared try to do their trading outside... Read more

Dangerous Days

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by: Nicholas Clifford

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to Dangerous Days with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience.Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central Powers in the first world war. Clayton Spencer, a successful industrialist and owner of a munitions plant, finds... Read more