Classics audiobooks

El Extranjero

By: Albert Camus

Narrated by: Carlos Araneda

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

El Extranjero es la primera novela del escritor francés Albert Camus, publicada en 1942. El protagonista, Meursault, es un ser indiferente a la realidad por resultarle absurda e inabordable. El progreso tecnológico le ha privado de la participación en las decisiones colectivas y le ha convertido en "extranjero" dentro de lo que debería ser su... Read more

Good Wives: Little Women, Book Two

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Anne Undeland

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Following her critically acclaimed narration of Little Women Part One, narrator Anne Undeland picks up the story from where it left off with Good Wives aka Little Women Part Two.
Three years after the curtain closed on the first book, we're brought back into the March family fold, opening with Meg’s wedding. No longer little girls dreaming of... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: George Taylor & Patricia Horner

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Narration by George announces a new production of the timeless classic tale of restoration and renewal by Charles Dickens – "A Christmas Carol." Come listen to our take on the character of Ebenezer Scrooge, all the Christmas Ghosts – past, present, and future – and the characters who have helped to shape the life of Scrooge up until this... Read more

Doña Perfecta

By: Benito Pérez Galdós

Narrated by: Israel Elejalde

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Temprana novela de Pérez Galdós que cuenta el enamoramiento entre dos jóvenes pertenecientes a dos mundos de una misma España. Edición de José Montero Padilla, Catedrático de lengua española y literatura en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid Benito Pérez Galdós fue un hombre de gran cultura y vitalidad, ávido lector de la literatura inglesa... Read more

Demian

By: Hermann Hesse

Narrated by: Jason McCoy

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?" Generations of readers have recognized the impassioned cry that introduces the young narrator of Demian, and embraced this tale of a troubled young man's struggle toward self-awareness. Initially published in Berlin in... Read more

Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Bronte

Narrated by: Dame Wendy Hiller

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

When Jane Eyre was published under the pseudonym of Currer Bell in 1847, it received immediate recognition. Thackeray, for one, described it as "the masterpiece of a great genius". And indeed, since that time, Jane Eyre has become one of the classics of English literature. This abridgement of Charlotte Bronte's famous novel traces the story of... Read more

Tohtori Jekyll ja Mr. Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Panu Vauhkonen

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Kauhuklassikko vailla vertaa!Lontoon kaduilla liikkuu outo ja salaperäinen mies Mr. Hyde, joka herättää kaupunkilaisissa kauhua. Mr. Hyde talloo tunteettomasti pikkutytön, ja hänet liitetään myös selkäpiitä karmivaan murhaan. Kun Mr. Hydeä ryhdytään etsimään, häntä ei kuitenkaan löydy. Miten se on mahdollista? Ja miten Mr. Hyde liittyy... Read more

Coriolanus

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Christian Sandström

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Lähestyvä nälänhätäkatastrofi uhkaa Roomaa ja jännitys kasvaa tavallisten roomalaisten ja Rooman aristokraattien eli patriisien välillä, koska patriisien epäillään keräävän itselleen ruokavarastoa. Rooman kaduilla vihataan erityisesti ylimielistä Caius Martiusta, joka ei pysty peittämään kansaa kohtaan tuntemaansa inhoa. Vihollisen lähestyessä... Read more

Kuningas Lear

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Christian Sandström

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Kaikkien tyttärien isien on tunnettava legendaarisen kuningas Learin tuska, kun hän tässä Shakespearen tragediassa tulee lastensa nöyryyttämäksi ja tuhoamaksi: jokainen Learin kolmesta tyttärestä kertoo rakastavansa isäänsä, mutta vain yksi heistä puhuu totta. Eikä kuningas Lear välttämättä kaikkein rakastettavin olekaan. Hän on tyrannikuningas,... Read more

Dracula’s Guest, The Chain of Destiny, A Star Trap & Other Stories

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Kate Orsini & ...

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Best known for his masterpiece of horror, Dracula, Bram Stoker wrote a number of other novels and many short stories, all with supernatural themes or filled with a physical terror reminiscent of Poe. The title story, “Dracula’s Guest,” was originally part of the great novel but was excised and published separately. The accompanying stories, such... Read more

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Ryan Glass

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Engaging with a variety of philosophical and religious themes, the works of Dostoevsky explore human psychology in the turbulent political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of nineteenth century Russia. and engage with a... Read more

The Inimitable Jeeves - Unabridged

By: PG Wodehouse

Narrated by: Kevin Theis

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeeves and Wooster return!
In this collection of short stories, P.G. Wodehouse - the Master of British Comedy - puts his affable but daffy protagonist Bertie Wooster through the wringer time and again, only to be saved (usually in the nick of time) by his trusty manservant Jeeves.
Featuring such favorites from the series as Bingo Little, Aunt... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A Christmas Carol has never been out of print since it was first published in 1843, and no wonder! This ghostly little book creates the feeling of Christmas that we still enjoy today. Marley was dead...and so too was Christmas to Scrooge. Haunted by three spirits on Christmas eve the old miser is taken on a journey to his past, his present and... Read more

A Laodicean

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

Our Laodicean Paula Power, the daughter of a wealthy Victorian railway engineer, is the sole inheritor of the ancient De Stancy Castle. The castle requires much modernisation and repair so she sets about securing a young, up and coming architect, George Somerset, to undertake the project. Immediately captivated Somerset falls in love with our... Read more

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce’s semi-autobiographical first novel. It traces the early life of Stephen Dedalus and his inner struggle with the oppression of Irish society and the Catholic church, ending with his awakening as a poet and writer and self-imposed exile from Ireland. Read more

Far From The Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Far From The Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel. It centres on the lives of five characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, Mr. Boldwood, Sgt. Troy and Fanny Robin. The plot involves love, loyalty, death and betrayal and all this is delivered to us in Hardy's most eloquent prose. The images of character and nature are painted for our... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes

Length: 17 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Great Expectations is arguably Dickens' finest work. Chapter one opens up in a lonely graveyard on the marshes in southern England where we first meet young Pip and witness a terrifying meeting with an escaped convict. The novel charts the life of Pip from boy to young man during which Dickens treats us to array of unforgettable characters from... Read more

Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Reputed as Eliot’s favourite novel Silas Marner is set in the early years of the 19th century. Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small congregation in Lantern Yard. Falsely accused of a crime he didn’t commit, he leaves his home and lives a solitary life near the village of Raveloe. Dedicating his life to weaving and hoarding gold for the next... Read more

The Dead

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet. His short story, The Dead, the concluding story in Dubliners, often considered as one of the best works of short fiction, concerns a Christmas-time gathering in Dublin. With a beautiful use of language and the epiphany common to all the stories in Dubliners this book will remain in your thoughts long... Read more

The Great Winglebury Duel

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The story takes place in The Winglebury Arms, the chief inn in the little town of Great Winglebury. When an anonymous letter form one of the guests is misinterpreted by the mayor of the town events don’t go quite as planned! This humorous little tale, told as only Dickens could, is as sure to amuse now as when it was written over a hundred and... Read more

The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes

Length: 31 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pickwick Papers was Dickens's first novel. Retired businessman and confirmed bachelor, Mr Samuel Pickwick esquire, embarks on a journey through the English countryside accompanied by three fellow “Pickwickians”, Mr Tupman, Mr Snodgrass and Mr Winkle. It is a joy to hear of their misadventures in search of stories and characters of interest... Read more

The Return of the Native

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Return of the Native (1878) is one of Hardy's most popular novels. Set on the brooding Egdon heath it traces the lives and loves of five people. Clym Yeobright, the native, returns to Egdon from a successful career in Paris to pursue a dream of educating the poorer local people. Eustacia Vye, a young woman unhappy with life on Egdon wishes... Read more

Ulysses

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes

Length: 31 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

I first decided to record Ulysses in October 2015. Little did I know then what an unforgettable eighteen months lay ahead. Having already recorded Dubliners and Portrait (and being terrified of Ulysses) I decided to give myself a year just to read it. However, after about four episodes I started recording it and became hooked. Being a Dubliner... Read more

Under The Greenwood Tree

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Under the Greenwood Tree, Hardy's second novel, was published in 1872, became the first of his great series of Wessex novels. The book subtitled "A Rural Painting of the Dutch School" tells the endearing tale of a group of church musicians who accompany the hymns at the local Mellstock parish choir and we follow the fortunes of one its member,... Read more