Classics audiobooks

House Made of Dawn

By: N. Scott Momaday

Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday & Darrell Dennis

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language it contains.” — The Paris Review
A special 50th anniversary edition of the magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from renowned Kiowa writer and poet N. Scott Momaday,... Read more

Where the Road Bends

By: David Rawlings

Narrated by: Simon Bubb

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

How did I get here? He ripped back the zip, his heart pounding as red dust trickled in and landed on his face. He stood, brushing the dust from his eyes, a sense of vertigo launching itself up his spine. One step from the swag and his eyes snapped open. He started to lean into a void. Over a cliff. Fifteen years after college graduation, four... Read more

Sanditon

By: Jane Austen & Kate Riordan

Narrated by: Alexandra Roach

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of Downton Abbey, Jane Austen's beloved but unfinished masterpiece--often considered her most modern and exciting novel--gets a spectacular second act in this tie-in to a major new limited television series.

Written only months before Austen's death in 1817, Sanditon tells the story of the joyously impulsive, spirited and... Read more

The Stone Lions

By: Julia Iatridis

Narrated by: Yvonne zum Tobel

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman who survived from Smyrna Catastrophe in 1922 started her life from scratch in Greece. She did it thanks to a dream—but with an unexpected end.
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Panoria is a young girl who was miraculously saved from the Great Fire of Smyrna, otherwise known as the Disaster of Asia Minor, in 1922.
She arrives in Athens, along with thousands of... Read more

The Diary of a Madman, and Other Russian Sketches

By: Nikolai Gogol, Leonid Andreyev & Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Centering on the picaresque realism of Nikolai Gogol’s (1809–1852) mid-nineteenth-century visions of the extraordinary in everyday life, this collection mines the ambiance and mind of pre-Revolutionary Russia. These seven stories take us from the Miracle Mile of St. Petersburg’s Nevsky Prospekt, and a summer night in a Ukrainian village, to the... Read more

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol as Told by Mark Redfield

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Mark Redfield

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Redfield narrates from a specially prepared text for performance by Dickens himself, and performs all of your favorite characters, in this beloved Christmas tale of forgiveness and redemption. Since 1843, “A Christmas Carol” has delighted millions around the globe and has come to embody the spirit of Christmas for all who have been touched... Read more

Maggie, a Girl of the Streets & Other New York Stories

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published pseudonymously in 1893, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets follows the tragic tale of Maggie and her life in the harsh streets and tenements of the New York City Bowery district. Initially rejected by publishers for being viewed as too brutal and accurate in its descriptions of poverty and female sexuality, Stephen Crane... Read more

The False Gems & Other Tales of Obsession

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, ...

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short-story genre, producing more than three hundred during his lifetime. These concise stories contain twists and shocking turns, and range from the fantastic and supernatural, with characters descending into madness and their most base desires, to the challenges of marriage and parenthood, and to the... Read more

Little Women

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 19 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is a classic novel originally published in 1868. It tells the story of four sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March, and their coming of age during the American Civil War.

With the help of their beloved mother and their beloved neighbor, Mr. Laurence, the girls learn valuable lessons about love, family, and the... Read more

Twenty Years After

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A new translation picking up twenty years after the conclusion of The Three Musketeers and continuing the adventures of the valiant d’Artagnan and his three loyal friendsThe Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas’s most famous and enduring novel, completed its serial publication in the summer of 1844, and by the time of its book publication at the... Read more

O, Pioneers!

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Nancy Peterson

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Life on the divide was a struggle for the pioneering Bergson family. Alexandra, both tough as nails and tender as a budding blossom, faces and conquers the harsh realities of early settlers in Nebraska.The struggle for life, love, and meaning permeate this timeless classic. Willa Cather captures the imagination with her vivid portrayals of the... Read more

The Legend of Tarzan - Tarzan of the Apes

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Jason Damron

Length: 8 hours 47 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... Read more

La Belle et la Bête

By: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

Narrated by: Matthieu Farcy

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Un riche marchand est condamné à mort par la Bête pour avoir cueilli une rose. Sa fille cadette, Belle, choisi de le sauver en se livrant à sa place. Elle découvre alors le véritable visage du monstre et en tombe amoureuse. Publié dans « Le magasin des enfants » en 1757, La Belle et la Bête est l’œuvre la plus célèbre de Jeanne-Marie de... Read more

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Michael Ward

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This timeless classic by Robert Louis Stevenson of mans struggle with his dual nature is brought to life in this audiobook edition.Narrated by Michael Ward. Read more

Widdershins

By: Oliver Onions

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Rosalyn Landor...

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

At first blush, Widdershins is a conventional haunted house story involving an unsuccessful writer, who moves into an empty house in hope that isolation will help his failing creativity. His sensitivity and imagination are enhanced by his seclusion, but his art, his only friend, and his sanity are all destroyed in the process …The story can be... Read more

The Rover

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

As the Revolution rages in France, a seafarer named Peyrol, a master-gunner in the French republican navy, pirate, and for nearly fifty years “rover of the outer seas,” comes to the end of a lifetime lived on the seas and seeks refuge in a remote farmhouse on the French Riviera. As he attempts to settle into a peaceful existence, Peyrol... Read more

The Fox, The Captain’s Doll & The Ladybird

By: D. H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

D. H. Lawrence portrays human relationships—both tender and cruel—and the destructive effects of war in three classic novellas.In The Fox, two young women living on a small farm during the First World War find their solitary life interrupted. As a fox preys on their poultry, a human predator plans to prey on the women. The Captain’s Doll... Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Nancy Peterson & B. J. Harrison

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A tale of betrayal, revenge, loyalty, and redemption, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a true classic.Hester Prynne settles in a little town in Puritan-era Massachusetts while awaiting her husband’s arrival from England. Hester becomes pregnant, exposing her sin in the eyes of the townsfolk. Her penalty: wearing an embroidered A on... Read more

Roderick Hudson

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Adam Sims

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Roderick Hudson and Rowland Mallet are like two sides of the same coin: while the whimsical and egotistical Roderick recklessly follows his passions in the name of art, altruistic Rowland lives with restraint and measure. The two are bound together almost immediately when Rowland is shown a striking bronze statuette in his cousin’s garden, which... Read more

The Female Quixote

By: Charlotte Lennox

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 17 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Young, wealthy Arabella is obsessed with French romances: brought up by a reclusive widowed father in an isolated castle, she has educated herself through their pages, and been led to believe that their dramas and absurdities are reality. She blindly adheres to their example and interprets her everyday life through their lens, thinking that life... Read more

Rebecca: Booktrack Edition

By: Daphne du Maurier

Narrated by: Anna Massey

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Rebecca: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she... Read more

Women Who Wrote

By: Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront...

Narrated by: Jude Mason, Chloe Dolandis & Tyra Kennedy

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet the women who wrote.  They wrote against all odds. Some wrote defiantly; some wrote desperately. Some wrote while trapped within the confines of status and wealth. Some wrote hand-to-mouth in abject poverty. Some wrote trapped in a room of their father’s house, and some went in search of a room of their own. They had lovers and families.... Read more

Romance in Marseille

By: Claude Mckay

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Published for the first time, the pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, black modernism,
and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition.

Romance in Marseille traces the adventures of a rowdy troupe of dockworkers, prostitutes, and political organizers—
collectively straight and queer,... Read more

Farewell Summer

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The master of American fiction returns to the territory of his beloved classic, Dandelion Wine—a sequel 50 years in the making Some summers refuse to end . . . October 1st, the end of summer. The air is still warm, but fall is in the air. Thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding, his younger brother Tom, and their friends do their best to take... Read more