Classics audiobooks

Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Emma Bovary, the bored wife of a French provincial doctor, scans her solitude with desperate eyes, like a shipwrecked sailor searching for a white sail on the distant horizon. And when Emma's ship finally comes in, it carries with it vast and tragic consequences upon which her own life and the lives of those around her are wrecked. Read more

Manhattan Transfer

By: John Dos Passos

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles... Read more

In His Steps

By: Charles M. Sheldon

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Over one hundred years ago, Reverend Charles Sheldon stepped up to the pulpit to deliver a sermon to his little flock of Congregationalists. Little did he know that his humble parable would evolve into a novel that would be published in 45 languages and affect the lives of at least 15 million people. A desperate, unemployed printer, looking for... Read more

Benito Cereno

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: George Keller

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When an American sea captain sees a Spanish slave ship in distress, he reaches out with an offer to help. Once on board, however, the odd behavior of the captain, crew, and slaves leave him with an uneasy feeling that something is not as it seems. Melville based the plot of this novella on real events that occurred off the coast of Chile in... Read more

Lilith

By: George MacDonald

Narrated by: Rebecca K. Reynolds

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the story of Mr. Vane, an orphan and heir to a large house -- a house in which he has a vision that leads him through a large old mirror into another world. In chronicling the five trips Mr. Vane makes to this other world, MacDonald hauntingly explores the ultimate mystery of evil. Read more

America Is in the Heart

By: Carlos Bulosan

Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine CastilloPoet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer, and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911–1956)... Read more

The Fall

By: Albert Camus

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NOBEL PRIZE–WINNING AUTHOR

One of the most widely read novels of all time—from one of the best-known writers of all time—about a lawyer from Paris who brilliantly illuminates the human condition.

Elegantly styled, Camus’ profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer’s confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.

Nobel Prize WINNER 1957 Read more

The Road Back

By: Erich Maria Remarque

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The sequel to the masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front, The Road Back is a classic novel of the slow return of peace to Europe in the years following World War I.

After four grueling years, the Great War has finally ended. Now Ernst and the few men left from his company cannot help wondering what will become of them. The town they departed... Read more

A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of Today

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 17 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Subtitled "A Story of To-day," A Laodicean occupies a unique place in the Thomas Hardy canon. Departing from pre-industrial Wessex, Hardy brings his themes of social constraint, fate, chance and miscommunication to the very modern world of the 1880s – complete with falsified telegraphs, fake photographs, and perilous train tracks. The story... Read more

Oedipus Rex (unabridged)

By: Sophocles

Narrated by: John H. Fehskens

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Rediscover an enduring classic in a transformative new light. "Oedipus Rex," the remarkable tragedy penned by Sophocles, has been masterfully revitalized in this riveting and immersive audiobook experience.
Regarded as a cornerstone of Western literature, Oedipus Rex's timeless tale of fate, power, and the relentless pursuit of truth continues to... Read more

The Black Obelisk

By: Erich Maria Remarque

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A hardened young veteran from the First World War, Ludwig now works for a monument company, selling stone markers to the survivors of deceased loved ones. Though ambivalent about his job, he suspects there's more to life than earning a living off other people's misfortunes. A self-professed poet, Ludwig soon senses a growing change in his... Read more

The Adventure of the Cheap Fiat

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s short story, “The Adventure of the Cheap Flat,” Poirot’s suspicions are aroused when he hears of a sweetheart deal on a flat. Doing a little freelance investigating, he soon learns that the flat is at the center of a case of international espionage and a potentially fatal double-cross. This short story originally... Read more

La Nuit Sombre De L'Âme

By: Aldivan Teixeira Torres

Narrated by: Sandro Dell`Orto

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

La vie nous fait vivre des jours sombres, remplis de tristesses dont nous ne souhaitons pas l’existence.     «La nuit obscure de l`âme» est la continuation du livre «Le voyant», étant donné que le personnage principal est revenu à une montagne en quête de réponses par rapport à une trouble période de sa vie, des moments ou il a oublié... Read more

Howards End

By: E.M. Forster

Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Edwardian England, Howards End is the portrait of a lost era, a deceptively golden time before the First World War that would change values and lifestyles forever. To illuminate these changing times, Forster throws together three vastly dissimilar classes of people: the Schlegels-Helen and Margaret-educated, compassionate and... Read more

The Innocence of Father Brown

By: G.K. Chesterton

Narrated by: John Horton

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

One of English literature's most famous amateur sleuths, the innocent appearing Catholic priest, Father Brown, attacks cases with an uncanny understanding of the criminal mind. The Innocence of Father Brown Mysteries brings you 12 of the most enthralling Father Brown short stories. Read more

The Spire

By: William Golding

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever... Read more

Anthem

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Del Muldoon

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Dive into a dystopian world where individuality is a crime, and freedom, a forgotten concept. "Anthem" by Ayn Rand is a gripping audiobook that explores the struggle of one man against the collective society that suppresses his identity.
In this thought-provoking tale, Rand masterfully challenges the concepts of collectivism, urging listeners to... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: James Warwick

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful new recording of Wilde’s famous novel tells the unforgettable story of a hedonistic young man who makes a sinister deal to preserve his youth. When his wish is granted, Dorian Gray slips into a life of sensuality, debauchery, and murder.
In this uncensored version, TV star James Warwick’s inspired, nuanced narration is followed by a... Read more

The Scarlet Pimpernel

By: Baroness Orczy

Narrated by: Bill Homewood

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

With the Reign of Terror at its peak, and the death toll mounting, France’s violent revolutionists suddenly find themselves frustrated by a mysterious vigilante. Known as the Scarlet Pimpernel, the enigmatic hero rescues the country’s ill-fated aristocrats from the doom of the guillotine and whisks them away to safety, with a band of gallant... Read more

The Bostonians

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Adam Sims

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Taking place in Boston, Massachusetts, a decade after the Civil War, The Bostonians tells the story of two cousins who battle for the affections of and control over an enchanting prophetess. While visiting his cousin Olive Chancellor, a fierce feminist deeply involved in the Suffragette movement, Basil Ransom, a Confederate Civil War veteran... Read more

Three Comrades

By: Erich Maria Remarque

Narrated by: Michael Braun

Length: 16 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of All Quiet on the Western Front comes Three Comrades, a harrowing novel that follows a group of friends as they cope with upheaval in Germany between World Wars I and II. The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm... Read more

L’Assommoir

By: Émile Zola

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 15 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Brutal, gripping and heart wrenching, L’Assommoir (also known as The Drinking Den) chronicles the tragic downward spiral of Gervaise Macquart, a good-natured and hardworking laundress who slides into alcoholism and despair. After her lover abandons her and their two children, Gervaise marries a tin worker, Coupeau, who helps her rebuild her... Read more

Country

By: Michael Hughes

Narrated by: Michael Hughes

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to ravishing acclaim in the UK, a fierce and suspenseful reimagining of Homer’s Iliad set in mid-1990s Northern Ireland—a heart pounding tale of honor and revenge that “explodes with verbal invention, rapid juxtaposition, brutality and fun” (Times Literary Supplement).Northern Ireland, 1996.After twenty-five years of vicious conflict,... Read more

Fantastic Tales

By: Italo Calvino

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 23 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"The true theme of the nineteenth-century fantastic tale is the reality of what we see: to believe or not to believe in phantasmagoric apparitions, to glimpse another world, enchanted or infernal, behind everyday appearances." - from Calvino's introduction to Fantastic Tales Vampires, ghosts, and other horrors abound in this collection of... Read more