Classics audiobooks

Jason and the Argonauts

By: Apollonios of Rhodes

Narrated by: David Timson

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Under the order of King Pelias, Jason embarks on a perilous journey to steal the Golden Fleece from the Land of Colchis. Far from heroic, Jason is the typical everyman. He is given to intense bouts of nervousness and anxiety, and is saved on more than one occasion by the sorceress Medea, Jason’s love interest, and his band of heroes: Castor and... Read more

What Maisie Knew

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Following a violent and messy divorce, young Maisie Farange floats back and forth between her parents, Beale and Ida, who use her as a weapon to torment each other in their on-going, internecine war. Eventually the parents remarry, and it becomes clear that the new spouses care more for Maisie than her own parents. Beale and Ida soon embark on a... Read more

So Big

By: Edna Ferber

Narrated by: Karen Commins

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Edna Ferber described the story of SO BIG as being about a "material man, son of his earth-grubbing, idealistic mother." Left an orphan at 19 years old in the late 1880s, Selina Peake needs to support herself. She leaves the city life she has known to become a teacher in the farming community of High Prairie, IL. Her father had told her... Read more

It Happened In Japan

By: Baroness Albert d'Anethan

Narrated by: Elaine Hidayat

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

It happened in Japan is a 1923 romantic drama following a group of Western diplomats stationed in Japan during the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th Century. Focused on the main character Pearl, the book gives a great description of how life for a Westerner was in Japan during the period.
The book mixes silly and melodramatic... Read more

Italian Folktales

By: Italo Calvino

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 28 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are “a treasure” (Los Angeles Times).

Filled with kings and peasants, saints and ogres—as well as some quite extraordinary plants and animals—these two hundred tales bring to life Italy’s folklore, sometimes with earthy humor,... Read more

Misericordia

By: Benito Pérez Galdós

Narrated by: Israel Elejalde

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Una novela emblemática sobre la marginación social. Una crítica atemporal a la sociedad y a los valores que la sustentan. Edición de Gregorio Torres Nebrera, Catedrático de Literatura Española de la Universidad de Extremadura Galdós siempre vivió entregado a la tarea de escribir. Uno entre los muchos hitos de su dilatada trayectoria es... Read more

The War of the Worlds

By: H G Wells

Narrated by: Michael Ward

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This timeless science fiction classic, depicting mans struggle by technologically superior invaders from Mars.Narrated by Michael Ward Read more

The Night in Lisbon

By: Erich Maria Remarque

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

History and fate collide as the Nazis rise to power in The Night in Lisbon, a classic tale of survival from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front. With the world slowly sliding into war, it is crucial that enemies of the Reich flee Europe at once. But so many routes are closed, and so much money is needed. Then one night in... Read more

Tales of Mystery & Imagination

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Christopher Perkin

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Christopher Perkin does an excellent job of voicing Poe's extraordinary works. His recitation of "Hopfrog", "The Tell-Tale Heart", and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue" are some of the masterpieces included in this creepfest. Read more

Tarzan of the Apes

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Jason Damron

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged classic adventure novel from 1914 tells of an aristocratic English infant, abandoned on the death of his parents in the African jungle, who is reared by apes. Story includes riveting encounters with man-eating beasts, Tarzan's love affair with the beautiful Jane Porter, buried treasure, and much more.Listen to this amazing dramatized... Read more

Under the Jaguar Sun

By: Italo Calvino

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“The thought … called up the flavors of an elaborate and bold cuisine, bent on making the flavors’ highest notes vibrate, juxtaposing them in modulations, in chords, and especially in dissonances that would assert themselves as an incomparable experience.”—from Under the Jaguar Sun

These intoxicating stories delve down to the core of our senses... Read more

The Cabala

By: Thornton Wilder

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

""Thornton Wilder's 1926 debut novel probes the inscrutable mystery of the ancient, fabulous wealth that confers a kind of immortality on its custodians, allowing their natures to form without concession or compromise to life beyond their privileged enclave. . . . [It] established Wilder as one of the most accomplished stylists of his... Read more

Heaven's My Destination

By: Thornton Wilder

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“If John Steinbeck’s mighty Grapes of Wrath is the tragic novel of the Great Depression, then Heaven’s My Destination is its comic masterpiece. —J.D. McClatchyA hilarious tale about goodness in a fallen world, Heaven’s My Destination introduces George Marvin Brush, one of Thornton Wilder's most memorable characters. Brush, a traveling textbook... Read more

The Eighth Day

By: Thornton Wilder

Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 18 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Wilder's] finest and most beautiful novel. . . . Spanning two continents and several generations, it begins as a murder mystery and goes on to tell a story, at once dramatic and philosophical, about the range of human courage, aspirations, steadfastness, weakness, defeat and victory.” — New York PostThis beautiful edition of Thornton Wilder’s... Read more

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

By: Thornton Wilder

Narrated by: Thom Rivera

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

""As close to perfect a moral fable as we are ever likely to get in American literature."" —Russell Banks""There are books that haunt you down the years, books that seem to touch and stir something deep inside you. . . . Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey is of this kind."" —The Independent (London)The authorized, original edition of Thornton... Read more

The Woman of Andros

By: Thornton Wilder

Narrated by: Jane Copland

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“From the earliest pages of his first novels and plays, Wilder examined the universal quandaries encapsulated in the questions the young man Pamphilus asks in The Woman of Andros: “How does one live? What does one do first?” — Penelope Niven Thornton Wilder’s celebrated novel The Woman of Andros, set before the birth of Christ on an obscure... Read more

Theophilus North

By: Thornton Wilder

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The last of Thornton Wilder’s works published during his lifetime, Theophilus North is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventures of Wilder’s twin brother who died at birth. This edition features an updated afterword from Wilder’s nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating material about the novelist, story and setting.Setting out to... Read more

The Ides of March

By: Thornton Wilder

Narrated by: Derek Perkins, Piper Goodeve, Jane Copland, Gar...

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Mr. Wilder has brought to his character the warmth which was totally lacking in the Caesar of schoolbooks and Shakespeare, and in his hero’s destruction there is the true catharsis.”—Edward Weeks, AtlanticFirst published in 1948, The Ides of March is a brilliant epistolary novel of the Rome of Julius Caesar. Through imaginary letters and... Read more

Murder on the Links

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: James Warwick

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“Warwick's characterization of Poirot is spot-on." AudioFile Magazine

In Agatha Christie's second Hercule Poirot novel, the great detective travels to France in response to a desperate cry for help - only to find his client stabbed to death on a golf course, with a passionate love letter in his pocket. Then another identical murder... Read more

Numbers in the Dark

By: Italo Calvino

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody … Distance has been the warp that supports the weft of every love story.”—from Numbers in the Dark

Written between 1943 and 1984, the stories in Numbers in the Darkspan the career of one of fiction’s modern masters: from Italo Calvino’s earliest fables, to... Read more

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

By: Erich Maria Remarque

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the quintessential author of wartime Germany, A Time to Love and a Time to Die echoes the harrowing insights of his masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front. After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks' leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he... Read more

Lazarillo de Tormes

By: Anónimo

Narrated by: Pere Arquillué

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Los mejores libros de todos los tiempos disponibles para escuchar El Lazarillo de Tormes inauguró el género de la novela picaresca. Relata las desventuras que un joven de origen humilde sufre al servicio de sus amos, entre los que se cuentan un ciego, un clérigo y un hidalgo pobre. Los avatares por los que pasa Lázaro son un magnífico pretexto... Read more

Long Live Latin

By: Nicola Gardini

Narrated by: Todd Portnowitz

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"It's a genuine pleasure to hear spoken Latin--lots of it, and by many of the great classical authors, including Cicero, Ovid, and Virgil--and to follow the story of Gardini's lifelong infatuation with a language that is nowhere and everywhere in our modern lives... This is an audiobook to appreciate on many levels, most of all, to hear the... Read more

Interview with the Antichrist

By: Jeff Kinley

Narrated by: James Parker

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The story you are about to hear is told from the perspective of Julien, a young journalist in close proximity to a person the Bible calls the “Beast.” Julien will give us a window into the character of the Antichrist and how our last days could unfold according to Scripture’s ultimate plot. This imagined prophetic narrative will also reveal how... Read more