Classics audiobooks

The Man Who Would Be King

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: David Philo

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story by Kipling of two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan is read by David Philo. Read more

The Two Destinies

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of Wilkie Collins' later work was disparaged by the critics for espousing causes. Swinburne commented, 'What brought good Wilkies genius nigh perdition? Some demon whispered - "Wilkie! Have a mission!".' Despite this, the 'novelist of sensation' continued to appeal to the public with the construction of ingenious and meticulous plots. He... Read more

A Christmas Carol - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Orson Welles

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Orson Welles stars in this dramatisation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Read more

A Christmas Carol - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Ralph Richardson

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sir Ralph Richardson reads Dicken's classic Christmas story. Read more

The Man Who Loved Children

By: Christina Stead

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 19 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for one another. As Sam uses the children’s adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watches in bleak despair, knowing the bitter reality that lies just below his mad visions. A chilling novel of the relations between parents and children, husbands and... Read more

Old Yeller

By: Fred Gipson

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Awarded the Newbery HonorWhen a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving... Read more

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Stark and skillfully woven, this fascinating novel is a brilliantly original study of man’s dual nature as well as an immortal tale of suspense and terror.Dr. Jekyll, a generous and philanthropic physician, is preoccupied with the problem of good and evil, and how to separate them. He develops a drug that will transform him into the demonic Mr.... Read more

The Forsyte Saga, Volume 3

By: John Galsworthy

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The house at Richmond is finished at last, but Soames takes Bosinney to court for exceeding the budget. The final judgment of their case turns on ‘a very fine point’ in their correspondence. The architect does not heed Young Jolyon’s warning and continues to pursue Irene - with fatal consequences. Old Jolyon effects a complete reconciliation... Read more

The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Art imitates life in this brilliant psychological study of a compulsive gambler, modeled on Dostoevsky's own tendencies. Like so many characters in Dostoevsky's novels, Alexei, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general, is trying to break through the wall of the established order and the human condition itself, but... Read more

El Fantasma de la Ópera

By: Gaston Leroux

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

El fantasma de la Ópera es la historia de un tenebroso personaje, quien, a pesar del tormento que le provoca su fealdad, lucha por vivir para satisfacer su pasión por la belleza. En esta popular obra Gaston Leroux aprovechó numerosos recursos que le eran familiares por su condición de periodista para dar verosimilitud a un relato en el cual la... Read more

Bartleby, The Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The life of a scrivener can be a dull one. After all, your entire occupation has to do with the hand-written copying of law documents. But when Bartleby arrives, he turns the office upside down with the enigmatic phrase: “I prefer not to.” Read more

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

By: Wallace Stegner

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 25 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Bo Mason, his wife, and his two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running throughout the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Each peak of success... Read more

The Mark of Zorro

By: Johnston McCulley

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Cabballero. Patriot. Vigilante. Follow the swashbuckling adventures of Zorro, as he metes out his own brand of justice against the tyrannical opressors of young California. Originally released through The Classic Tales Podcast, this charismatic reading is sure to please young and old alike! Read more

Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In the frozen wastes north of Russia, a lone seaward vessel seeks the elusive Northwest Passage. Suddenly they sight a dog sled with a gargantuan figure in the shape of a man, driving the dogs northward to sure oblivion. The following day, they find another sled. This sled is filled with a European near death, and when asked what he is chasing,... Read more

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Tragedy strikes at the estate at Styles. The old woman dies from what appears to be strychnine poisoning. The funny little Belgian, Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate, though he appears to disregard every bit of damaging evidence. Has the great detective lost his touch? Read more

The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde and other stories

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a man that haunts the streets by night. His visage provokes involuntary torrents of hatred. His voice is huskily whispered, and his deformity lies within.

This audiobook collection contains some of the finest short fiction from the great Robert Louis Stevenson: "The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde," "The Bottle Imp," "Markheim,"... Read more

The Scarlet Pimpernel

By: Baroness Orczy

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris: September 1792. At the West Barricade, the bloody guillotine continues her ghastly work. And word has gotten round that the mischievous Englishman who delights at ferrying off French Aristocrats to England is somewhere among them. For today, the Citoyen Fouquier-Tinville, on his way to the Committee of Public Safety , received another... Read more

A Room With A View

By: E. M. Forster

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Lucy Honeychurch and her older cousin Miss Bartlett, tour Italy in the springtime. However, the pension they are staying at may as well be in London. The proprietress speaks a London cockney, the meat is overdone, and their windows give them a view of dirty alleys. However, when the socially clumsy Mr. Emerson offer to exchange rooms, this does... Read more

El Circo Del Dr. Lao - Abridged

By: Charles G. Finney

Narrated by: Daniel Quintero

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charles G. Finney (1905-1989), fue un periodista en una zona rural de Estados Unidos, que escribió varios libros, pero solo “El circo del Dr. Lao” ha sobrevivido y es considerado una obra maestra de fantasía. En esta novela, un misterioso chino llega a un pueblo con un circo lleno de criaturas legendarias y figuras que permiten que cada... Read more

Granja De Animales (Animal Farm) - Abridged

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Santiago Munevar

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eric Arthur Blair usó el seudónimo George Orwell (1903-1950) por sus escritos donde propone una forma humana del socialismo y por eso ataca con fuerza las distorsiones introducidas en las ideas socialistas por regímenes totalitarios, especialmente el uno en Rusia bajo Stalin. Orwell, que luchó durante la guerra civil española en el lado... Read more

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 21 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncle Tom is a high-minded, devoutly Christian black slave to a kind family, the Shelbys. Beset by financial difficulties, the Shelbys sell Tom to a slave trader. Young George Shelby promises to someday redeem him. The story relates Uncle Tom’s trials, suffering, and religious fortitude.Uncle Tom’s Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its... Read more

Black Wings Has My Angel

By: Elliott Chaze

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

She had the face of a madonna—and a heart of dollar bills…Black Wings Has My Angel is the dreamlike tale of a man after a jailbreak who meets up with the woman of his dreams—and his nightmares. A phenomenal work of the period and a legend among noir buffs, Chaze’s pulp classic is back in print for the first time in more than half a century. Read more

The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 30 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (commonly known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel by Charles Dickens. The book became the first real publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books and other merchandise. Written for publication as a serial, The Pickwick Papers is a sequence of... Read more

The Sanctuary Sparrow

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Brother Cadfael races to save a young man he believes is falsely accused of robbery—before the protection of sanctuary expires

In the gentle Shrewsbury spring of 1140, the midnight matins at the Benedictine abbey suddenly reverberate with an unholy sound—a hunt in full cry. Pursued by a drunken mob, the quarry is running for its life. When the... Read more