Classics audiobooks

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

The Camera Never Lies

By: David Rawlings

Narrated by: Jon Watson

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

One marriage. So many secrets. Can a camera that captures those secrets, exposing them through pictures, save the marriage or send it crashing into the sea?Kelly Whitely is at the height of her career, selling the latest miracle drug to doctors and pharmacies across the country. But concerns about the side effects have her longing for the day... Read more

A Classic Christmas

By: Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens & Hans Chris...

Narrated by: Henry O. Arnold, Brooke Bryant, Nan Gurley, Bar...

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This beautiful, giftable Christmas collection features timeless works from well-known authors that will become a precious holiday keepsake.Perhaps no Christmas novel is more beloved than Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, and no holiday poem more well-known than Clement Clarke Moore’s “’Twas the Night Before Christmas.” Together these classic... Read more

New Atlantis

By: Francis Bacon

Narrated by: Elaine Hidayat

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

New Atlantis is an utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published in 1627. In New Atlantis Bacon portrays a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. The novel depicts the creation of a utopian land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendor, piety and public spirit"... Read more

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Elaine Hidayat

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, released in 1886. The work is also known as , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde The book follows a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry... Read more

A Bell for Adano

By: John Hersey

Narrated by: David Green

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize tells the story of an Italian-American major in World War II who wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700-year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists. Although stituated during one of the most devastating... Read more

Myra Breckinridge

By: Gore Vidal

Narrated by: Michelle Hendley & Camille Paglia

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the bestselling author of Burr, Lincoln, and the National Book Award-winning United States. With a new introduction by Camille Paglia"I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess." So begins the... Read more

On the Black Hill

By: Bruce Chatwin

Narrated by: Simon Mattacks

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Whitbread Award Winner: A novel by the author of In Patagonia, about a pair of twins and their long, remarkable lives in the farmlands of Wales.For forty-two years, identical twins Lewis and Benjamin Jones have shared a bed, a farm, and a life. But the world has scarred and warped them each in different ways. Lewis is sturdy, still strong enough... Read more

Right Ho, Jeeves

By: P.G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

What Ho! Audie and AudioFile Golden Voice award winning narrator Simon Jones revives the classic pairing of Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves in this dazzling new recording of Right Ho, Jeeves. Straight from his role in the eagerly anticipated Downton Abbey movie, Simon Jones brings the charming, wacky world of everyone’s favorite bumbling... Read more

The Lurking Fear, and Other Stories

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos is a primary influence of countless iconic authors, and even now, nearly a century after its publication, its themes of cosmic horror and madness remain at the forefront of supernatural literature, as well as being highly influential in the mediums of music, film, and video games. But Lovecraft’s expansive... Read more

Cane

By: Jean Toomer

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Mirron Willis & Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Harlem Renaissance writer’s innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and NorthJean Toomer’s Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance, and is considered to be a masterpiece in American modernist literature because of its distinct structure and style. First... Read more

The Open Boat, and Other Stories

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Open Boat, and Other Stories features four prized selections by Stephen Crane, recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. “The Open Boat” is based on a harrowing incident in the author’s life: the 1897 sinking of a ship on which he was a passenger; “The Blue Hotel” and “The Bride Comes to Yellow... Read more

The Triumph of the Egg

By: Sherwood Anderson

Narrated by: various narrators, Erica Sullivan, Kate Mulliga...

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

The Triumph of the Egg is a fictional panorama of a great region of our country, unfolded by a writer who—to quote the New York Times—“depicts life in the Midwest as Dostoevsky pictured the many colored life of Russia, with almost as wonderful a touch of genius, with a more concentrated and daring skill.”This coveted 1921 collection is an... Read more

Three Stories and Ten Poems

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1923, Ernest Hemingway’s Three Stories and Ten Poems feature some of the expatriate’s lesser known, but still wonderful, works.The stories and poems include:“Up in Michigan”“Out of Season”“My Old Man”“Chapter Heading”“Montparnasse”“Roosevelt”And more!Originally privately published in Paris, Three Stories and Ten Poems... Read more

The Actual

By: Saul Bellow

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Harry Trellman doesn’t belong. Not in the Chicago orphanage where he is sent by his mother, not in high school (too brainy), not even on the streets. Human attachments? Yes, he has them, but they are like everything else in his life, singular and irregular. People who know him say that he “drowns his feelings in his face,” and that he has a... Read more

A Madman’s Diary, and Other Stories

By: Lu Xun

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This is A Madman’s Diary, and Other Stories by Lu Xun, a renowned writer of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet who wrote both in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese. He became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai in the 1930s. Read more

Henderson the Rain King

By: Saul Bellow

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Saul Bellow evokes all the rich colors and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this acclaimed comic novel about a middle-aged American millionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends upon an African tribe. Henderson’s awesome feats of strength and his unbridled passion for life win him the admiration of the tribe—but it... Read more

A Lost Lady

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant as a man, Mrs. Forrester is... Read more

Mr. Sammler’s Planet

By: Saul Bellow

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr. Artur Sammler is, above all, a man who has lasted, from the civilized pleasures of English life in the 1920s and 30s through the war and death camps in Poland. Moving now through the chaotic and dangerous streets of New York’s Upper West Side, Mr. Sammler is attentive to everything, and appalled by nothing. He brings the same dispassionate... Read more

Joan of Arc

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Jim Hodges

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people are unaware that Mark Twain spent over a decade researching Saint Joan of Arc and wrote what he considered to be his greatest work—Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc—originally published in Harper's Magazine in 1895 as chapters attributed to the fictitious author Sieur Louis de Conte. When the public found out that Twain was... Read more

The Lessons of Tragedy

By: Hal Brands & Charles Edel

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order

The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and... Read more

The House of Brides

By: Jane Cockram

Narrated by: Jaye Rosenberg

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Cockram makes her thrilling debut with this riveting tale of psychological suspense in which a young woman whose life is in tatters flees to the safety of a family estate in England, but instead of comfort finds chilling secrets and lies.Miranda’s life and career has been a roller-coaster ride. Her successful rise to the top of the booming... Read more

The Prime Minister

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker

Length: 31 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

When the liberal government falls and neither party is able to form a cabinet, Plantaganet Palliser is called upon to lead a coalition government. He is reluctant at first, and displays none of the charisma of his predecessors, but eventually he grows into the role. However, his confidence is short-lived as he becomes embroiled in a scandal... Read more

The Betrothed

By: Alessandro Manzoni

Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton

Length: 24 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

After the jealous tyrant Don Rodrigo foils their wedding, young Lombardian peasants Lucia and Lorenzo must separate and flee for their safety. Their difficult path to matrimony takes place against the turbulent backdrop of the Thirty Years War, where lawlessness and exploitation are at their height. Lucia takes refuge in a convent, where she is... Read more