Classics audiobooks

Android Karenina

By: Ben H. Winters

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 19 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

As in the original novel, the story follows two relationships: the tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the much more hopeful marriage of Nikolai Levin and Kitty Shcherbatskaya. These four, yearning for true love, live in a steampunk-inspired 19th century of mechanical butlers, extraterrestrial-worshiping... Read more

Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Silas Marner, which first appeared in 1861, is a tale about life, love, and the need to belong. Accused of a crime he didn't commit and unjustly forced from his home town, Silas the weaver lives a reclusive and godless life, finding love and companionship only in material objects. It takes the theft of his gold and the discovery of an abandoned... Read more

Force 10 from Navarone - Abridged

By: Alistair Maclean

Narrated by: Bob Peck

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The thrilling sequel to Alistair MacLean’s masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone. The guns of Navarone have been silenced, but the heroic survivors have no time to rest on their laurels. Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, Keith Mallory, Andrea and Dusty Miller are... Read more

Ice Station Zebra - Abridged

By: Alistair Maclean

Narrated by: Michael Jayston

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense. The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean, and somehow locate and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice-pack somewhere north of the Arctic Circle. ... Read more

Where Eagles Dare - Abridged

By: Alistair MacLean

Narrated by: Alun Armstrong

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense. Winter 1943, and US General Carnaby has been captured by the Nazis. He is being held in a fortress high in the Bavarian Alps. headquarters of the German Secret Service, and in his head are plans for the invasion of Normandy. A special team of... Read more

Verstand und Gefühl - Sonderedition (Ungekürzte Fassung)

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Eva Mattes

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Elinor und Marianne Dashwood sind so verschieden, wie zwei Schwestern nur sein können: Während die eine diszipliniert und vernünftig ist, handelt die andere emotional und impulsiv. Dennoch verbindet beide das scheinbar ausweglose Schicksal, sich im England des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts den gesellschaftlichen Zwängen unterwerfen und auf ihre große... Read more

The Teachings of Don Juan

By: Carlos Castaneda

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms. Originally published as Castaneda's master's thesis in anthropology, Teachings documents Castaneda's supposed apprenticeship with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer, don Juan Matus. Dividing the work into two... Read more

The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Jeff Daniels

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack London’s The Call of the Wild was written in 1903, but Buck’s gripping adventure makes for a thrilling listen on audio more than 100 years after it was first published.
            This gripping story follows the adventures of the loyal dog Buck, who is stolen from his comfortable family home and forced into the harsh life of an Alaskan sled... Read more

The Sign of the Four

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In this second Sherlock Holmes novel, the indomitable sleuth is visited by a woman in distress. Each year for the past six years, on the anniversary of her father's mysterious disappearance ten years ago, Miss Mary Morstan has been receiving pearls, she knows not why or from whom. This time, her anonymous benefactor wants to meet. In the letter,... Read more

The Body Snatcher

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Two student anatomists purchase the remains of humanity in the small hours of the morning. The shadowy men who bring the bodies seldom speak, and the suspicions of the students are never spoken aloud.Until one morning, when the drapery is lifted from the face of a new acquisition and one student recognizes it as the face of a dear friend, alive... Read more

The Machine Stops

By: E.M. Forster

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The earth's surface is no longer habitable. All humanity is sequestered beneath the ground, couched in isolation and contentment. The Machine provides the needs of humanity. Mankind becomes subservient drones to the life-supporting Machine. But what happens when the Machine stops? Read more

Ulysses

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 29 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Joyce’s experimental masterpiece set a new standard for modernist fiction, pushing the English language past all previous thresholds in its quest to capture a day in the life of an Everyman in turn-of-the-century Dublin. Obliquely borrowing characters and situations from Homer’s Odyssey, Joyce takes us on an internal odyssey along the current of... Read more

The Lottery, and Seven Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

Narrated by: Carol Jordan Stewart

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Who can forget the first time they heard the story? Considered one of the masterpieces of American literature, “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker. Since then it has become one of the most anthologized stories in American literature. Powerful and haunting, subtle and horrifying, the tale demonstrates... Read more

Bambi

By: Felix Salten

Narrated by: Frank Dolan

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Bambi's life in the woods begins happily. There are forest animals to play with—friend Hare, the chattery squirrel, the noisy screech owl, and Bambi's twin cousins, frail Gobo and beautiful Faline. But winter comes, and Bambi learns that the woods hold danger—and things he doesn't understand. The first snowfall makes food hard to find. Bambi's... Read more

The Forsyte Saga V4

By: John Galsworthy

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1899. Old Jolyon has long since been buried at Robin Hill, and with the death of Aunt Susan in 1895 and Roger’s funeral opening this instalment of the Saga, the Forsyte’s are fast becoming aware of their mortality.Yet more problems beset the family. Montague Dartie leaves his wife for Buenos Aires to pursue his latest flame, a dancer.... Read more

Gulliver’s Travels

By: Jonathan Swift

Narrated by: Pamela Garelick

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This enduring classic tells of the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon who becomes a castaway in strange and faraway lands. Shipwrecked upon the shores of Lilliput, he encounters the six-inch-high Lilliputians, whose petty wars, civil strife, and vanities are human follies so reduced in scale as to be rendered... Read more

Foundation and Empire

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The second novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series

Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire—the... Read more

Sons and Lovers

By: D. H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's first major novel, was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden for long.



When the marriage between... Read more

Every Man Dies Alone

By: Hans Fallada

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 20 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Hans Fallada wrote this stunning novel in only 24 days-just after being released from a Nazi insane asylum. Based on a true story, Every Man Dies Alone tells of a German couple who try to start an uprising by distributing anti-fascist postcards during WWII. But their dream ultimately proves perilous under the tyranny that dominates every corner... Read more

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

By: Unknown

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In the mystical land of Arabia, there is secreted a magical door that opens with the command, “Open, Sesame!” Inside lays the plunder of a century of robbers and mercenaries. When Ali Baba witnesses 40 thieves open this door with the enchanted words, endless possibilities begin to unwind before him. Read more

Great Classic Science Fiction

By: various authors, H. G. Wells, Stanley G. Weinba...

Narrated by: various narrators, Simon Vance, Barbara Rosenbl...

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This superlative collection of futuristic tales explores ground-breaking supernatural themes from the founding heroes of the science-fiction genre. The short story form is perfect for capturing the atmospheric tension of these legendary stories. This collection includes the following stories: "The Door in the Wall" by H. G. Wells—A man must... Read more

The Door in the Wall

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A young boy unlocks a world of joy and imagination. But when he returns the next day, he finds the door is not there. It has moved. How can a door move? And what is the real meaning of The Door in the Wall? Read more

Overture To Death - Abridged

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Anton Lesser

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. But its execution was doomed when Miss Campanula sat down to play. A chord was struck, a shot rang out and Miss Campanula was dead. A case of sinister infatuation for the brilliant Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn. Read more

The Mayor of Casterbridge

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the backdrop of peaceful southwest England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author's unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our lives.



Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his... Read more