Classics audiobooks

The Europeans

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Eleanor Bron

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Eugenia, an American expatriate brought up in Europe, arrives in rural New England with her charming brother Felix, hoping to find a wealthy second husband after the collapse of her marriage to a German prince.Their exotic, sophisticated airs cause quite a stir with their affluent, God-fearing American cousins, the Wentworths—and provoke the... Read more

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (Vol. 1 - Vol. 8)

By: DMP-Verlag

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

England, Ende des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts: Lord Henry Wotton, ein geistreicher englischer Aristokrat und Dandy, ist fasziniert vom Aussehen des jungen Dorian Gray. Im Atelier seines Freundes, dem Maler Basil Hallward, versucht Henry, den noch knabenhaften Dorian zu manipulieren, um ihn letztendlich als Jünger für seine hedonistischen Ideale zu... Read more

The Good Soldier

By: Ford Madox Ford

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Handsome, wealthy, and a veteran of service in India, Captain Edward Ashburnham appears to be the ideal "good soldier" and the embodiment of English upper-class virtues. But for his creator, Ford Madox Ford, he also represents the corruption at society's core. Beneath Ashburnham's charming, polished exterior lurks a soul well-versed in the arts... Read more

Swann's Way

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Swann's Way is the first novel of Marcel Proust's seven-volume magnum opus In Search of Lost Time. Following the narrator's opening ruminations about the nature of sleep is one of twentieth-century literature's most famous scenes: the eating of the madeleine soaked in a "decoction of lime-flowers," the associative act from which the remainder of... Read more

Mary

By: Vladimir Nabokov

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of serio-comic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and the idyllic ambience of pre-revolutionary Russia. In stark contrast is the decidedly... Read more

Queen Margot

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 17 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexandre Dumas brings an extraordinary period of history to life in this exciting period romance.It is the twilight of the reign of King Charles IX, and France is dominated by religious wars between Catholics and Protestants. King Charles' sister, Marguerite, daughter of staunch Catholics Henri II and Catherine de Medici, is set to marry the... Read more

Great Classic Stories II

By: various authors

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This wonderful collection of short stories includes work by some of literature’s most treasured names, with inspired readings by gifted actors.This superlative treasury includes the following stories: “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, read by John Chancer“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Robert Fass“Cousin... Read more

Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture starring Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti, Laura Carmichael, Ezra Miller, and Rhys Ifans, and directed by Sophie Barthes
 
Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she is married to the provincial doctor Charles Bovary yet harbors dreams of an elegant and passionate life. Escaping into... Read more

The Enchanter

By: Vladimir Nabokov

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov’s classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom. “Masterly . . . brilliant.” —... Read more

The Thirty-Nine Steps

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps more than any other book The Thirty-Nine Steps has set the pattern for the story of the chase for a wanted man. And, of the many writers who have attempted this kind of thing since Buchan, only a very few, like Graham Greene, have managed to sustain the tension in the same way. The story's extended chase scene inspired Alfred Hitchcock's... Read more

A Bell for Adano

By: John Hersey

Narrated by: David Green

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

John Hersey grew up in China, studied at Yale and Cambridge, worked as a journalist, and astonished the nation when he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for A Bell for Adano. His first novel, its offbeat blend of patriotism and warm humor immediately captured readers' hearts. In 1943, the American Major Victor Joppolo finds himself the civil... Read more

The Yellow Wallpaper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s just a hideously papered room. At least, that’s what everybody else thought. But when a woman suffering from a nervous condition is housed in the room, things begin to surface from the wallpaper. Things that seem familiar, but are best left quiet and undisturbed... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 18 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartless convict. The devil's fairy godmother. A beautiful girl with eyes of stone. A spectral benefactor. These and many others shape the fortunes of young Pip, as he is transformed from a blacksmith's apprentice to a young gentleman with Great Expectations. Read more

The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A savage earthquake shakes the world, waking a horror from the bowels of the earth. An ancient cult is discovered who worships an ancient demon whose name is Cthulhu. Read more

Candide

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Candide, is a French satire written in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. One of the finest satires ever written, this lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunégonde, and tortured... Read more

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain has been popular since it was first published in 1884. Told in the first person by "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer. it is known for its colorful and often scathng look at the people and places along the Mississippi River at a time when racism was an entrenched attitude in the... Read more

The Beautiful and the Damned

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel is a cautionary tale of reckless ambition and squandered talent set amid the glitter of Jazz-Age New York.

The novel tells the story of Anthony Patch (a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune), the relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism.

At once a morality... Read more

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane arrives to educate the children of the region. This lanky schoolmaster from Connecticut fancies the idea of marrying the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy farmer, but there is a problem with his plan.... Read more

Persuasion

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Greta Scacchi

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In Persuasion, Austen’s last novel, she reveals the tale of love and marriage told with irony, insight, and an evaluation of human conduct. The characters, Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot, have met and separated years before. A reunion forces the recognition of the false values that drove them apart. Read more

La Dame aux camélias

By: Alexandre Dumas fils

Narrated by: Élodie Huber

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

La Dame aux camélias raconte l'histoire des amants maudits, Marguerite et Armand, que les jugements moraux et la maladie vont détruire : le roman d'un désastre amoureux où les sentiments sont bafoués au profit de la bienséance sociale. Alexandre Dumas Fils s'est inspiré de sa maîtresse, la courtisane Marie Duplessis, pour créer la Dame aux... Read more

The Violent Bear It Away

By: Flannery O’Connor

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O’Connor’s work.The orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousin, Rayber, struggle to defy the prophecy of their dead uncle—that... Read more

Jeeves and the Unwanted Guest

By: P.G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeeves stays his hand. Yes, that’s right. Even though a particularly well upholstered friend of Aunt Agatha chucks her bleary-eyed milk sot of a son Bertie for a month. Jeeves refuses to rally to the cause. Of course, if Bertie would simply throw out the offensive tie and hat, things might be smoothed over soon enough. But Bertie, just this... Read more

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A bird of good omen is murdered. A fickle crew is punished by supernatural, spectral beings. A skeletal ship is sighted moving against the wind and tide. The figure of Death along with a singular, gruesome companion man the fiendish craft. And as they draw closer, it becomes clear that the two play at dice for the soul of the Ancient Mariner.... Read more

Dracula's Guest

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This story coincides with April 30, or May Day’s Eve, when it was held that witches met on the Brocken mountain and kept communion with the Devil. It is named after St. Walburga, and English nun who helped convert Germans to Christianity in the 8th century. Her feast day coincides with an ancient pagan festival, whose rites were intended to give... Read more