Classics audiobooks

My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix

By: Kalynn Bayron

Narrated by: Clifford Samuel

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Clifford Samuel's low, melodious voice sounds like it was made for this atmospheric queer retelling of the Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde story." - AudioFile Magazine

A teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance—and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger—in misty Victorian London, in Kalynn Bayron's My... Read more

The Fall of Númenor

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Brian Sibley & Samuel West

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume. J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of... Read more

Love in the Time of Cholera

By: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people’s lives together for more than half a century.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born... Read more

Spoils

By: Brian Van Reet

Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Armando Duran & Andrew Eiden

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely recognized for what it is, as a series of miscalculations and blunders fuels an already-simmering insurgency intent on making Iraq the next graveyard of empires.

In dazzling and propulsive prose, Brian... Read more

The Invisible Man

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Victoria Morgan

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

" I had not expected the suffering. A night of racking anguish, sickness and fainting. I became insensible and woke languid in the darkness. I shall never forget that dawn, and the strange horror of seeing that my hands had become as clouded glass, and watching them grow clearer and thinner as the day went by. My limbs became glassy, the bones... Read more

Selected Hemingway Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

NEVER BEFORE ON AUDIO! ALL-NEW PRODUCTIONS OF TWENTY-FOUR CLASSIC ERNEST HEMINGWAY STORIES.

This brand-new audio collection from the iconic Pulitzer and Nobel Prize–winning author is a listener’s delight. The two dozen short stories presented here have never been published on audio; these new recordings of classic stories will remind listeners of... Read more

Howards End

By: E. M. Forster

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered by many to be E. M. Forster's greatest novel, Howards End is a beautifully subtle tale of two very different families brought together by an unusual event. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes are practical and materialistic, leading lives of "telegrams and anger." When the elder Mrs. Wilcox... Read more

I Am Legend

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for the film starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith, I Am Legend is a classic of horror and suspense.In I Am Legend, a terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man,... Read more

Carmilla

By: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the 19th century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.

Carmilla is Le Fanu's famous classic vampire story which has been filmed numerous times, including Vampyre (1932), Blood... Read more

Wise Blood

By: Flannery O’Connor

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a “blind” street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. In an... Read more

Emma

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Nuria Mediavilla

Length: 16 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin Clásicos rescata esta obra maestra de la narrativa del siglo XIX y una de las novelas más importantes de Jane Austen, en una cuidada edición. Traducción de José María Valverde Introducción de Fiona Stafford, profesora de la Universidad de Oxford Obra maestra de la narrativa del siglo XIX y una de las grandes novelas de Jane Austen, Emma... Read more

Persuasion

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The last novel completed by Jane Austen before her death, Persuasion is often thought to reflect on the author’s own lost love.Sir Walter Elliot has raised his three daughters with his own sense of haughty pride. Elizabeth, at twenty-eight, has found no one good enough to marry, while Mary has, with some condescension, married the son of the... Read more

Joan of Arc

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Michael Anthony

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Few people know that Mark Twain wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work. Twain spent twelve years in research and many months in France doing archival work and then made several attempts until he felt he finally had the story he wanted to tell. He reached his... Read more

The Innocence of Father Brown

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective fans of all races and creeds, of all tastes and fancies will delight in the exploits of this wise and whimsical padre. Father Brown’s powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Holmes, but he is also “in all senses a most pleasantly fascinating human being,” according to American crime novelist Rufus King. You will be... Read more

The Wisdom of Father Brown

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown is perhaps the most lovable amateur detective ever created. This short, shabby priest with his cherubic, round face attracts situations that baffle everyone—except Father Brown and his rather naïve wisdom.The twelve enthralling stories in this book take Father Brown from London to Cornwall, from Italy to France,... Read more

Brighton Rock

By: Graham Greene

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1938, Graham Greene’s chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare is a masterpiece of psychological realism and often considered Graham Greene’s best novel. It is a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the “appalling strangeness of the mercy of God,” a classic of its kind.Set in Brighton, England, among the criminal... Read more

The American

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Robin Lawson

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

During a trip to Europe, wealthy American businessman Christopher Newman proposes marriage to the scintillating and beautiful aristocrat Claire de Cintri. To his dismay, he comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family, who find Newman to be a vulgar example of the American privileged class. Brilliantly combining... Read more

Three Men in a Boat

By: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’ve never read anything by Jerome K. Jerome, you’d be well advised to heed this warning by the Glasgow Herald: “It would be dangerous to [listen to] this book in any place––say a full railway compartment––where the reader was not at perfect liberty to laugh as loudly and as long as he chose.” The passage of time has not altered that... Read more

Atlas Shrugged

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 52 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Atlas Shrugged is the “second most influential book for Americans today” after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991.In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of... Read more

Animal Farm

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be an animated film adaptation produced and directed by Andy Serkis George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable.The animals of Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm are overworked, mistreated, and... Read more

Three Men on the Bummel

By: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“A ‘Bummel,’” I explained, “I should describe as a journey, long or short, without end.” However wonderful this may sound, it is often necessary to arrive back at the starting point. And, for the three fearless friends whose earlier adventures were told in Three Men in a Boat, this poses a troublesome problem.George, Harris, and J. decide to... Read more

We the Living

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state.Of this book, Ayn Rand said, “it is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write. The plot is... Read more

Coming Up for Air

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

George Bowling, an insurance salesman, hits middle age and feels impelled to "come up for air" from his life of quiet desperation. With seventeen pounds he has won at a race, he steals a vacation from his wife and his family and pays a visit to Lower Binfield, the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty... Read more

Burmese Days

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Colonial politics in 1930 Kyauktada, India, come to a head when the European Club, previously for whites only, is ordered to elect one token native member. The deeply racist members do their best to manipulate the situation, resulting in the loss not only of reputations, but of lives.Amidst this cynical setting, timber merchant James Flory... Read more