Classics audiobooks
The Leper of Saint Giles
By: Ellis Peters
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The nearing December-May marriage between a wealthy merchant and a resigned bride has one of the lepers at Saint Giles nursing bitter plans for revenge. Read more
View audiobookThe Hermit of Eyton Forest
By: Ellis Peters
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Brother Cadfael's pastoral life is upended by the disappearance of a young boy and the arrival of a saintly hermitThe year is 1142, and England is in the grip of civil war. Within the cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, there begins a chain of events no less momentous than the upheavals of the outside world.It... Read more
View audiobookThe Virgin in the Ice
By: Ellis Peters
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Brother Cadfael sets out on a dangerous quest to find a trio of missing travelersThe winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael's tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturbing of events. Raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester. Among them are two orphans from a noble family, a boy of thirteen and an... Read more
View audiobookA Morbid Taste for Bones
By: Ellis Peters
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
On an expedition to acquire a saintโs remains, Brother Cadfael instead finds intrigue and murderIt is 1137, and the ambitious head of the Shrewsbury Abbey wishes to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for the glory of his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to the saintโs final resting place in Wales, where he... Read more
View audiobookDarkness at Noon
By: Arthur Koestler
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A fictional portrayal of an aging revolutionary, this novel is a powerful commentary on the nightmare politics of the troubled 20th century. Born in Hungary in 1905, a defector from the Communist Party in 1938, and then arrested in both Spain and France for his political views, Arthur Koestler writes from a wealth of personal experience.... Read more
View audiobookThe Best Short Stories of Mark Twain
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Robin Field
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Mark Twain was known as a great American short-story writer as well as novelist and humorist. This collection of eighteen of his best short stories, from the well known to the lesser known, displays his mastery of Western humor and frontier realism. The stories also show how Twain earned his place in American letters as a master writer in the... Read more
View audiobookTom Sawyer Abroad
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The irrepressible Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, always looking for trouble, find it again in Tom Sawyer Abroad, Twainโs once-celebrated but now little-known sequel to his classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Tom and Huck have both ranged the length of the Mississippi, but, as Huck declares, โDo you reckon Tom... Read more
View audiobookA Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire
By: Charles Dickens et al
Narrated by: Philip Bird
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A Victorian family gathers round the hearth, and one by one they tell each other their Winter's tales. Charles Dickens begins 'the round of stories they were to relate, as they sat in a goodly circle by the Christmas fire', and then hands over to Elizabeth Gaskell, Samuel Sidney and other respected contributors to the Christmas 1852 number of... Read more
View audiobookTom Sawyer, Detective
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A return trip down the Mississippi River to Uncle Silasโ farm is just the beginning of a yarn that includes Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, a diamond heist, a confidence man, twins, a murder, and enough twists and turns to satisfy an avid mystery fan. A sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad,... Read more
View audiobookAnn Veronica
By: H. G. Wells
Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Passionate, headstrong, and fiercely independent, twenty-one-year-old Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her life to the fullest. When her autocratic father attempts to curb her academic ambitions and social experiences, she escapes her stodgy, conventional world and sets out alone to make a fresh start in London. There, enrolled as a... Read more
View audiobookSwing, Brother, Swing - Abridged
By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Anton Lesser
Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Lord Pastern fired his revolver. The figure in the spotlight fell and the coup-de-theatre had become murder. Could Inspector Alleyn believe Pastern had let hatred of his future son-in-law go too far? Or would the tangle of jealousies and blackmail among the guests reveal another murderer? Read more
View audiobookOne Corpse Too Many
By: Ellis Peters
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
When Shrewsbury Castle falls, Brother Cadfael discovers a murder mystery amidst the wreckageIn the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden into a battlefield of passions, deceptions, and death. Not far from the safety of the abbey walls, Shrewsbury Castle falls,... Read more
View audiobookThe Rose Rent
By: Ellis Peters
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A young windowโs gain could be the Abbeyโs loss if Brother Cadfael canโt unravel a thorny case of murderA late spring in 1142 brings dismay to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, for there may be no roses by June 22nd. On that day the young widow Perle must receive one white rose as rent for the house she has given to benefit the abbey, or... Read more
View audiobookAngle of Repose
By: Wallace Stegner
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 22 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Wallace Stegnerโs uniquely American classic centers on Lyman Ward, a noted historian, who relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family. Through a combination of research, memory, and exaggeration, Ward voices ideas concerning the relationship between history and the... Read more
View audiobookThe Valley of Fear
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Valley of Fear, the great detective Sherlock Holmes has been summoned by a coded message to the house of a man called Douglas. But he and his faithful friend Dr. Watson arrive to find they are too lateโDouglas has been murdered, with a mysterious calling card left by his side. Scotland Yard is stumped, but Holmes, detecting the diabolical... Read more
View audiobookHerzog
By: Saul Bellow
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 15 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Herzog is a man seeking balance, trying to regain a foothold on his life. Thrown out of his ex-wifeโs house, Herzog retreats to his abandoned home in a remote village in the Berkshire Mountains. Amid the dust of the disused house, he begins scribbling letters to family, friends, lovers, colleagues, enemies, dead philosophers,... Read more
View audiobookThe Master of Ballantrae
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: James Adams
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Stevensonโs tragic masterpiece unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scottish landscape, where the 1745 Jacobite rising is dividing the country against itself. Amidst this outer conflict, one family finds itself devastatingly divided from within, as two brothers discover their opposing loyalties. Their rivalry soon spreads from war to love, as... Read more
View audiobookThe After House, with eBook
By: Mary Roberts Rinehart
Narrated by: Rebecca Burns
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Just out of the hospital and totally out of funds, Ralph Leslie jumped at the chance to sign aboard millionaire Marshall Turner's luxurious super-yacht as steward to the passengers lodged in its after house. His job was easy sailing until one sultry summer night, when the dream voyage suddenly became a nightmare of blood and terror. One ship's... Read more
View audiobookThe Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins
Narrated by: Roger Rees, Rosalyn Landor, John Lee & Judy Geeson
Length: 25 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
When Walter Hartright encounters a solitary, terrified, beautiful woman dressed in white on a moonlit night in London, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. Full of secrets, locked rooms, lost memories, and surprise revelations, The Woman in White features heroine Marian Halcombe and drawing-master Walter Hartright as sleuthing... Read more
View audiobookSur la lecture
By: Marcel Proust
Narrated by: Andrรฉ Dussolier
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Sur la lecture est un petit texte de Marcel Proust, qui servit de prรฉface ร la traduction du livre Sรฉsame et les lys de Ruskin. Il propose une introduction ร la lecture, par le biais de la description d'une journรฉe d'enfance en compagnie d'un ยซ livre prรฉfรฉrรฉ ยป. Proust refuse de voir dans la lecture une communication avec le monde, un accรจs ร ... Read more
View audiobookTobacco Road
By: Erskine Caldwell
Narrated by: John MacDonald
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them. Debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are preoccupied by their hunger, sexual... Read more
View audiobookLes Misรฉrables
By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 57 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in the Parisian underworld of the early nineteenth century, Les Misรฉrables follows the adventures of Jean Valjean, once an honest peasant, who spent nineteen years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sisterโs starving family.A hardened and bitter criminal upon his release, Valjean is transformed when an act of compassion by a... Read more
View audiobookParadise Lost, with eBook
By: John Milton
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three... Read more
View audiobookLes Misรฉrables - Abridged
By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Set in the Parisian underworld of the early nineteenth century, Les Misรฉrables follows the adventures of Jean Valjean, once an honest peasant, who was imprisoned for nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sisterโs starving family. A hardened and bitter criminal upon his release, Valjean is transformed when an act of compassion... Read more
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