Classics audiobooks

Nelson Algren Reading from The Man with the Golden Arm

By: Nelson Algren

Narrated by: Nelson Algren

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Nelson Algren reads from his award-winning novel, The Man with the Golden Arm. The passage tells of Frankie Machine's wife, Sophie, who confined to a wheelchair since a drunk-driving accident caused by Frankie. The narration implies that Sophie's paralysis is psychological in origin, and is unconsciously used to keep Frankie with her.... Read more

Philip Roth Reading from Letting Go

By: Philip Roth

Narrated by: Philip Roth

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This recording, made early in Roth's career, is drawn from his first novel, Letting Go. Set in the 1950s, it portrays the social constraints of the period as they affect several graduate students at critical points in their lives. The scene Roth reads shows the rather diffident Paul Herz confronted by two of his ancient rooming-house neighbors... Read more

James Jones Reading from The Thin Red Line

By: James Jones

Narrated by: James Jones

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Thin Red Line, Jones' second war novel, is set in Guadalcanal and is notable for its explicit and harrowing depiction of battle. As in From Here to Eternity, its characters are enlisted men and officers who feel trapped in a situation they can neither control nor often understand. The book is a telling commentary on the violence done to... Read more

Great American Authors Read from Their Works

By: John Updike, Philip Roth, James Baldwin, Bernar...

Narrated by: John Updike, Philip Roth, James Baldwin, Bernar...

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

These recordings of twentieth-century American authors interpreting their own works were highly praised when first released in the 1960s. Today the cultural and historical value of these recordings makes them an essential part of our literary heritage.In this collection, James Baldwin reads from Giovanni's Room and Another Country, exploring the... Read more

John Updike Reading “Lifeguard” from Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This well-known short story appears in Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, one of John Updike's earliest books and is narrated by a divinity student at his summer job. From the heights of his wooden throne, the fastidious and aloof young narrator delivers a silent sermon addressed to the beachgoers—"the middle-aged, burdened with children and... Read more

The Castle of Crossed Destinies

By: Italo Calvino

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their stories. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal and chaotic history of all human consciousness. Read more

The Thirty-Nine Steps

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: Michael Ward

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The first of five novels by Buchan featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations, the 39 Steps pits the adventurer against German agents in a tense backdrop of a Europe weeks away from the first world war. The story places him in a desperate game of cat and... Read more

While We Wait

By: Megan Campbell

Narrated by: Kate Marcin

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

While We Wait is a collection of poems extracted from the author’s blog of the same name and is largely inspired by her work, her faith, and the nature in and around Sydney. Read more

The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Michael Ward

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic comedy by the great Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest is his short farce consisting of numerous noms de plume, a case of mistaken identity, an identity left in a case by mistake, and the mistake of revealing ones identity in the presence of a previous employer, which may result post-script in a case for Scotland Yard. Or to... Read more

An Ideal Husband

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Michael Ward

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of twenty-four hours.Together with The Importance of Being Earnest, it is often considered... Read more

Four in the Garden: A Spiritual Allegory About Trust

By: Rick Hocker

Narrated by: Nicholas Messina

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

What would it be like if you were the only human made by Creator and He wanted a relationship with you, but you found it difficult to relate to Him? This award-winning book challenges readers to trust in God in spite of our fears and misconceptions. A compelling, emotional, and thought-provoking allegory of one’s relationship with God.
In this... Read more

The Swiss Family Robinson; The Final Adventures, Castaways of the Flag

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Rusty Nelson

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Jules Verne achieved a triumph when his imagination, fired by Rudolph Wyss’ “The Swiss Family Robinson,” was impelled to carry the story a step farther in “The Castaways of the Flag.” An island was ever his spiritual home; and no one was ever happier upon one. “The Castaways of the Flag” is a satisfactory sequel to “The Swiss Family Robinson”... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens & Freely Adapted by Alison Larkin

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 20 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling novelist and award-winning audiobook narrator Alison Larkin changes the gender of Dicken’s most famous character in this dazzling new recording of Great Expectations.

It's the same thrilling story of youthful innocence, unexpected escape from cruel poverty, an old woman jilted at the altar, and a mysterious financial gift that... Read more

Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street & Other Stories

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are short stories by the incomparable Virginia Woolf, including the story that was the original basis for the novel Mrs. Dalloway. Read more

The Dunwich Horror

By: H P Lovecraft

Narrated by: Michael Ward

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This spine chilling tale by HP Lovecraft, depicts an unimaginable horror arising in the isolated village of Dunwich, which poses a threat to the whole world. Narrated by Michael Ward Read more

The First Man

By: Albert Camus

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own.
Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by
poverty and a father’s death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy’s
attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. Published thirty-five years after its discovery
amid... Read more

Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Jordi Boixaderas

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

La historia original de uno de los monstruos más famosos de la historia de la literatura. Traducción de Silvia Alemany Vilalta Introducción de Alberto Manguel En el verano de 1816, el poeta Percy B. Shelley y su esposa Mary se reunieron con Lord Byron y su médico en una villa a orillas del lago Leman. A instancias de Lord Byron y para animar... Read more

Alison Larkin Presents: A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens & Freely Adapted by Alison Larkin

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Following her recent adaptation of Great Expectations, bestselling novelist and award-winning audiobook narrator Alison Larkin changes the gender of Scrooge in this exciting new recording of A Christmas Carol.

It's the same beloved Christmas story, only one thing has changed. In this version, Scrooge is a woman.
Everything else, though, is... Read more

Two on a Tower

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep in the grounds of Welland House lies an ancient memorial tower, surrounded by a prehistoric wilderness that isolates it from the rest of the land. When one day Viviette Constantine, the wife of the estate’s owner, investigates the tower, she there discovers Swithin St Cleeve, a young astronomer who introduces her to the majesty and wonders... Read more

The Professor

By: Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Unpublished at the time of her death, The Professor is the first novel written by Charlotte Brontë, and the seed of her later books, Jane Eyre and Villette. The narrator of the tale, William Crimsworth, tells a story of courage and ambition among jealousy and envy: orphaned from a young age, William rejects life in the clergy, and then as a... Read more

The Haunted Hotel

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lord Montbarry dies suddenly in his Venice palace, and his courier goes missing, suspicion is instantly thrown on his new wife, the beautiful Countess Narona, who has collected his life insurance and fled to America. Montbarry’s former fiancé Agnes, still harbouring feelings for him, and Henry Westwick, Montbarry’s younger brother, decide... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Michael Ward

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Dickens timeless classic, narrated by Michael Ward. Read more

The Kiss

By: Kate Chopin

Narrated by: Lyssa Browne

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

American author Kate Chopin's "The Kiss" was written on September 19, 1894, and first published in Vogue on January 17, 1895. It is a short story about a woman scheming to marry a wealthy man. Read more

A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An essential collection of classic stories that established Flannery O’Connor’s reputation as an American master of fiction—now with a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff In 1955, with the title story and others in this critical edition, Flannery O’Connor firmly laid claim to her place as one of the most original... Read more