Classics audiobooks

Selected works of T.S. Eliot

By: T. S. Eliot

Narrated by: Michael Goodrick

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 Sept 1888 – 4 Jan 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work and marry there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39,... Read more

Принц и ласточка

By: Оскар Уайльд

Narrated by: Игорь Драпалюк

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

«Принц и ласточка» — произведение ирландского философа, эстета, писателя и поэта О. Уайльда (1854–1900). Сказка написана в 1888 году. Сказки Уайльда — это самобытный чарующий мир, созданный авторской фантазией. В нем нет традиционных фольклорных чудес. Волшебство здесь живет в слове, магией одухотворены предметы. В этой иллюзорной реальности все... Read more

Das verlorne Lachen

By: Gottfried Keller

Narrated by: Nikolaus Benda

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Irrwege des Lebens. Lesung mit musikalischem Feature. Das verlorne Lachen. Novelle von GOTTFRIED KELLER. Auf einem großen Fest lernt der junge Jukundus Meyenthal die hübsche Justine Glor von Schwanau kennen, deren Familie große selbsterworbene Besitztümer in Schwanau verwaltet. Während des Schlussbankettes sitzen sich beide gegenüber und... Read more

Великан-эгоист

By: Оскар Уайльд

Narrated by: Игорь Драпалюк

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

«Великан-эгоист» — произведение ирландского философа, эстета, писателя и поэта О. Уайльда (1854–1900). Сказка написана в 1888 году. Маленькими вдохновителями начинающего сказочника стали сыновья Сирил и Вивиан. Позже, в 1888–1891 годах, все истории были переписаны и собраны в два сборника — «Счастливый принц» и другие сказки» и «Гранатовый... Read more

Poirot Investigates

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Book #3 in Agatha Christie's Poirot series.
First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond; then came the “suicide” that was murder; the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat; a suspicious death in a locked gun room; a million-dollar bond robbery; the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb; a jewel robbery by the sea; the abduction of a prime... Read more

The Mysterious Stranger

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Todd Kramer

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mysterious Stranger was published posthumously in 1916. At the time of writing, Twain had suffered a series of physical, economic, and emotional losses.
In this chilling tale, a stranger named Satan visits an old Austrian town to convince the religious faithful that there is no God, and “nothing exists; all is a dream.”  Read more

A Study in Scarlet

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

'There's a scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.'
When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying... Read more

The Waste Land

By: T. S. Eliot

Narrated by: Michael Goodrick

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was... Read more

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

By: T. S. Eliot

Narrated by: Michael Goodrick

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", commonly known as "Prufrock", is the first professionally published poem by American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). Eliot began writing "Prufrock" in February 1910, and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry. Eliot narrates the experience of Prufrock using the stream of... Read more

The Sign of Four

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation. For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman. If she seeks justice, she is to meet her unknown... Read more

The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that savage face which broke upon us out of the fog’.
The Hound of Baskervilles holds the reader in suspense as few murder stories do.Its combination of horror, homicidal villainy, the fogs of remote Dartmoor, the... Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Holmes has become the most lauded sleuth in literature, his capricious character kept restrained by his unflappable assistant, Dr. Watson. Together, the pair investigates the insalubrious environs of Victorian London to solve a string of complex crimes.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a series of short stories that made the fortunes of the... Read more

The Mayor of Casterbridge

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Matt Bates

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A shameful act of drunken impetuousness results in Michael Henchard losing his wife and daughter in an auction. This evil deed remains secret for years, during which time Henchard climbs the social ladder from working as a roving hay-trusser to becoming the upstanding Mayor of Casterbridge.
An intricate tale of duplicity, comeuppance and regret,... Read more

The Return of the Native

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely recognised as the most representative of Hardy’s Wessex novels. He evokes the dismal presence and menacing beauty of Egdon Heath – reaching out to touch the lives and fate of all who dwell on it. The central figure is Clym Yeobright, the returning ‘native’ and the story tells of his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye.
As... Read more

День рождения Инфанты

By: Оскар Уайльд

Narrated by: Игорь Драпалюк

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

«День рождения Инфанты» — произведение ирландского философа, эстета, писателя и поэта О. Уайльда (1854–1900). Сказка написана в 1891 году. Маленькими вдохновителями начинающего сказочника стали сыновья Сирил и Вивиан. Позже, в 1888–1891 годах, все истории были переписаны и собраны в два сборника — «Счастливый принц» и другие сказки» и... Read more

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Holmes has become the most lauded sleuth in literature, his capricious character kept restrained by his unflappable assistant, Dr. Watson. Together, the pair investigates the insalubrious environs of Victorian London to solve a string of complex crimes.
In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson records eleven stories revealing the astonishing... Read more

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Narrated by: Murat Hasdemir

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Frankenstein; or, the Modern PrometheusIn the early nineteenth century, English author Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley penned a novel that would forever alter literature. Born in 1797, Mary’s unconventional upbringing shaped her worldview. During a summer near Lake Geneva in 1816, she conceived the tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant... Read more

Молодой король

By: Оскар Уайльд

Narrated by: Игорь Драпалюк

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

«Молодой король» — произведение ирландского философа, эстета, писателя и поэта О. Уайльда (1854–1900). Сказка написана в 1888 году. Сказки Уайльда — это самобытный чарующий мир, созданный авторской фантазией. В нем нет традиционных фольклорных чудес. Волшебство здесь живет в слове, магией одухотворены предметы. В этой иллюзорной реальности все... Read more

Портрет Дориана Грея

By: Оскар Уайльд

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Портрет Дориана Грея" — единственный роман Оскара Уайльда, опубликованный в 1890 году. Роман поднимает вопросы о природе человеческой души, ценности красоты и нравственных границах. "Портрет Дориана Грея" — это остроумное, но мрачное исследование конфликтов между внешней привлекательностью и внутренней порочностью, вызывающее размышления о... Read more

Carmilla

By: Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Laura lives an isolated life with her father, alone in a castle in the Austrian wilderness. When the mysterious Carmilla, a strange and beautiful lady, arrives in the night, no one suspects the supernatural occurrences that follow. But still more unsuspected is the tempestuous romance that blooms between the two young women, and Carmilla's... Read more

Кентервильское привидение

By: Оскар Уайльд

Narrated by: Руслан Драпалюк

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

«Кентервильское привидение» — рассказ, принадлежащий перу Оскара Уайльда (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, 1854–1900), представителю английской литературы, ирландцу по происхождению. Фантастический рассказ о том, что человеческая доброта и участие могут снять даже самые страшные проклятия. Среди творческого наследия Оскара Уайльда — пьесы,... Read more

The Woodlanders

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Dawn Murphy

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in Dorset, Hardy narrates the rivalry for the hand of Grace Melbury between a simple and loyal woodlander and an exotic and sophisticated outsider. Betrayal, adultery, disillusion, and moral compromise are all worked out in a setting evoked as both... Read more

Sternstunden der Menschheit

By: Stefan Zweig

Narrated by: Wolfgang Schrader

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Stefan Zweig: Sternstunden der Menschheit Zweigs Sternstunden taugen nicht als Rekordverzeichnis nach dem Motto: die Schönste, der Stärkste, der oder die Erfolgreichste. Vielmehr schildern sie Extremsituationen des Menschlichen. Erfolg und Scheitern, Glückseligkeit und Verzweiflung, geben sich dabei die Hand. Die Sternstunden folgen auch... Read more

Some Do Not…

By: Ford Madox Ford

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The first installment of Ford Madox Ford's acclaimed Parade's End tetralogy. There is a hard brightness overlying the emotion and the human suffering and the human passions… Mr. Ford achieves not only what is probably his own best work but what is certainly one of the ablest of recent English novels. — The New York Times, 1924 Some Do Not… is... Read more