Classics audiobooks

Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout

By: Victor Appleton

Narrated by: Tom Weiss

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout, or, The Speediest Car on the Road, is Volume 5 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap. Tom Swift enters an upcoming race with his specially designed prototype electric race car. But as he makes the final preparations and adjustments, days before the race, he discovers a plot... Read more

De Profundis

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Aaron Elliot

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"But it is a very unimaginative nature that only cares for people on their pedestals. A pedestal may be a very unreal thing. A pillory is a terrific reality." Thus wrote Oscar Wilde in a farewell letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) in 1897 while serving a two-year sentence for "gross indecency with other male persons". In it, he... Read more

A House of Pomegranates

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Alex Lau

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar Wilde supposedly said that these fables were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public". A follow-up to his first popular fairy-tale collection ('The Happy Prince and Other Tales'), 'A House of Pomegranates' (1891) is indeed decidedly darker and more adult. The collection includes "The Young King", "The Birthday of the... Read more

The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: David Barnes

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The first thing the American family see when they step into their new British mansion is the bloodstain in the sitting room. As it turns out, they have moved into an already occupied house, and their new roommate is a proud ghost determined to terrify them to death. But things do not go as planned for the poor ghost. The more he tries to scare... Read more

Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Caden Vaughn Clegg

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Told in the form of a series of letters 'Frankenstein' follows a young and charismatic Victor Frankenstein as he attempts to make his mark on the world of science. Taking a number of body parts from various corpses, he brings a monstrous creation to life which instead of being his crowning glory, terrifies him. The nameless monster escapes from... Read more

Allan Quartermain

By: Henry Rider Haggard

Narrated by: John Nicholson

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

"I have just buried my boy, my poor handsome boy of whom I was so proud, and my heart is broken." In this sequel to the famous 'King Solomon's Mines' Allan Quatermain has just lost his son to smallpox. Having a hard time finding any value in life anymore and bored by the quiet Victorian Britain he travels back to Africa, not knowing the... Read more

In the Closed Room

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrated by: Linda Andrus

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

One summer, a fragile and shy little girl and her working-class parents move in as caretakers for a large house in the suburbs that has been hastily abandoned by its owners. After getting settled comfortably in the servants' apartments, the girl sets out to explore the house. A single room is locked, however, but for some reason the girl has... Read more

Flappers and Philosophers

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Maurice Bean

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Bernice is turned into a proper society girl by her more desirable cousin, who feels Bernice is a drag on her social life. But when Bernice starts to win over all the boys in town, the girls turn viciously against each other. Based on letters F. Scott Fitzgerald originally sent to his little sister advising her on how to be more attractive to... Read more

Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock." Finding himself in the small town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator sets out to learn the tragic story of Ethan Frome. The townspeople, however, are hesitant to tell him much. But one night he seeks shelter from a... Read more

Summer

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Charity Royall is a 19-year-old girl, bored with her life in a small New England town. Ever since she was adopted by Mr. Royall as a child and saved from a life of poverty on the "mountain", she has been unsure of her place in society. She longs to escape the claustrophobic town and the now widowed Mr. Royall's unwanted advances. Enter Lucius... Read more

The Beautiful and Damned 

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: E Tavano

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Anthony does not want to work. Why should he? He gets by comfortably on his allowance and once his grandfather dies he will inherit so much that he never needs to think about money again. When he falls in love with the beautiful Gloria and they become part of the wild party scene of New York, it seems that Anthony has made it. But his... Read more

Cranford

By: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Narrated by: Sibella Denton

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The humour in 'Cranford' (1853) is so sly it can be difficult to believe it was written over 150 years ago. Originally published in instalments and edited by Charles Dickens, the novel follows a delightful group of women in a small town who are united by all being single, poor, and proud. Written with acute observation, 'Cranford' is in equal... Read more

The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer's easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and... Read more

Tarzan of the Apes

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Mark F Smith

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

One day, an ape named Kala finds a small human boy in the jungles of Africa. She names him Tarzan ("White skin" in ape language), and raises him as her own. In time, differences between himself and his tribe become clear to Tarzan, and when he finds a human-made cabin with books and photographs, he starts to understand why. Little does he know... Read more

Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett

Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Eyre accepts a position as governess at Thornfield Hall and meets Mr. Rochester, the moody and cynical master of the manor. Growing up an unwanted orphan, Jane has known very little love in her life, but in spite of this, she has always been thoughtful and kind. Jane's and Rochester's apparent differences attract them to each other, but... Read more

Oliver Twist

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"Please, sir, I want some more," Oliver says, holding out his bowl for more gruel, a Dickens scene recognisable to most. A young orphan, Oliver Twist has only ever seen the tough side of life and having to suddenly live on the streets does not make surviving any easier. But being the sweet and innocent boy he is, Oliver eventually manages to... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Kyle Munley

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

One night at Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and greedy man, gets a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner. The ghost warns him about the awful punishment that awaits if he continues to live his life selfishly. The next three nights, Scrooge is visited by three separate spirits who confront him with Christmas Past, Christmas... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Adams

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," writes Charles Dickens in the opening of this dark and meaningful classic novel. It is the year 1775 and Jarvis Lorry is tasked with a secret mission for his employer. 17-year-old Lucie Manette joins him on his travels from London to Paris and is shocked to learn that her father is alive and... Read more

A Study in Scarlet

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Laurie Anne Walden

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Returning to London from war, an injured Dr John Watson is in acute need of a place to live. An acquaintance introduces him to the eccentric "consultant detective" Sherlock Holmes, and Watson soon finds himself pulled into an alluring world of crime solving adventures. Told partly through Watson, partly through the murderer, 'A Study in Scarlet'... Read more

Rupert of Hentzau

By: Anthony Hope

Narrated by: Andy Minter

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

'Rupert of Hentzau' (1898) picks up three years after 'The Prisoner of Zenda' ended with Rudolf Rassendyll sadly leaving behind his love, Queen Flavia. Now unhappily married, Flavia writes Rassendyll to reconcile, but the letter is stolen and before long, Rassendyll once again finds himself forced to impersonate the king. Only this time, the... Read more

The Amethyst Box

By: Anna Katharine Green

Narrated by: Unknown

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

On the night before his wedding, Sinclair finds that his precious amethyst box containing a tiny flask of deadly poison is missing. And he knows it can only have been taken by either of two people: his soon-to-be wife or her cousin. Together with his friend Mr. Worthington, he must find who stole the poison and stop them before they use it. 'The... Read more

That Affair Next Door

By: Anna Katharine Green

Narrated by: Dawn Larsen

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The dead body of a strange woman is found in an empty house next door to Amelia Butterworth, a single old lady with a formidable curiosity and lots of free time. When Detective Gryce gets on the case, he has a hard time persuading her to mind her own business, but soon Miss Butterworth's female intuition and knack for interrogating witnesses... Read more

Wampir

By: Władysław Stanisław Reymont

Narrated by: Marcin Popczynski

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Zenon wiedzie dostatnie życie emigranta w Londynie. Jego poezja odnosi sukcesy, a on jest szczęśliwie zakochany w narzeczonej imieniem Betsy. Spokojny los przerywa jedno wyjątkowe spotkanie. Za namową przyjaciela Zenon wkracza w świat spirytyzmu. Podczas seansu poznaje tajemniczą rudowłosą kobietę Daisy. Pod jej urokiem coraz bardziej fascynuje... Read more

Zamek kaniowski

By: Seweryn Goszczyński

Narrated by: Robert Michalak

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Władca zamku w Kaniowie bierze za żonę Orlikę. W dziewczynie kocha się Nebaba, który na wieść o ślubie planuje zemstę na nowożeńcach. Nebabę nawiedza demon Kseni, wskrzeszonej po utopieniu w jeziorze. Bohaterowie żyją na pograniczu życia i śmierci, a demoniczne siły przepowiadają tragiczne wydarzenia. W obrazach ociekających krwią i szaleństwem... Read more