Classics audiobooks

The Bulgarian Poetess

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Ace in the Hole

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Your Lover Just Called

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Snowing in Greenwich Village

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

The Persistence of Desire

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

The Orphaned Swimming Pool

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Lifeguard

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Lot No. 249

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Unexplained events are happening at Oxford these days. Several students have been attacked at night by some strange form of wild animal. It can scale walls with cat-like agility. Its arms are as thin and as strong as steel bands. And there is one student who conducts midnight studies in his room with certain Egyptian artifacts. The most... Read more

The Dream Woman

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Wake up! Wake up, there! Murder!” A hostler spits out these vehement words while he turbulently sleeps. He is haunted by a phantasm. It is a phantasm with a droop in the left eye, long flaxen hair, and a long buckhorn clasp knife. Read more

Jane Eyre - Abridged

By: Charlotte Bronte

Narrated by: Penelope Wilton

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jane begins life penniless and plain: an unlikely romantic heroine. But she is as indomitable in spirit as she is frail in appearance. Taking a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall, her relationship with her employer, the enigmatic Mr Rochester intensifies, until she is forced to choose between the desires of her heart and the demands of a... Read more

A Princess of Mars

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Ex–Confederate Army captain John Carter finds himself suddenly and unwittingly transported to Mars while fleeing Apache Indians. This new world is populated by a race of monstrous Martians whose culture is based on the ability to fight for their race. Captured by the savage green men of Thark, John discovers that the gravitational difference... Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Since Doyle created the immortal Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, no other mystery writer has come close to eclipsing him as the standard bearer in crime fiction. A brilliant London-based “consulting detective,” Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive... Read more

The Time Machine

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Full Cast, Robert Glenister & William Gaunt

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Wells' thrilling story of an inventor who travels in time and discovers a nightmarish dystopian future has been adapted several times for TV and film. This first ever UK radio adaptation, starring Robert Glenister as the Time Traveller and William Gaunt as H. G. Wells, brings Wells' fascinating ideas and extraordinary visions to vivid life. It... Read more

She

By: Henry Rider Haggard

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Ludwig Horace Holly, a Cambridge professor, travels to Africa with his adopted son Leo to investigate the death of Kallicrates, Leo’s ancestor, who was murdered by an unknown woman centuries before.They encounter the Amahagger, a fierce tribe of cannibals who live in the caves of Kôr, a huge burial ground of an ancient civilisation decimated... Read more

The Raven

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most famous poems of all time. An Edgar Allen Poe classic. Read more

Casting the Runes

By: M.R. James

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Two men investigate a mysterious alchemist who kills his rivals with arcane magic. Read more

Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Volume Three

By: W. W. Jacobs, Edgar Allan Poe, M.R. James & Rob...

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Volume Three of what is on the way to becoming the world's largest collection of quality, classic horror short story audiobooks.

This volume starts with the famous M.R. James' story of occult revenge, 'Casting the Runes', about a slighted occultist out for murderous revenge and using his diabolical black arts to achieve it. It was... Read more

The Monkey's Paw

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A talisman with a twist. Three wishes it grants, dire consequences it holds for challenging fate. Read more

Hop Frog

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dwarf has sinister plans for taking creative revenge on his master. Read more

The Body Snatcher

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Stevenson's famous story, adapted from the real grave-robbing events. Read more

Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Regarded as the first great masterpiece of Russian literature, Dead Souls mixes realism and symbolism for a vivid and highly original portrait of Russian life.Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town with a bizarre but seductive proposition for local landowners. He proposes to buy the names of their serfs who have died but... Read more

Michael Strogoff, with eBook

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A courier of the Czar must be dispatched to warn the Governor-General of Sibera at once: Ivan Ogareff has allied himself with the fierce and ambitious Feofar-Khan. The Tartar chiefs are pouring their men into Siberia and fomenting rebellion. Should Ivan Ogareff and his allies succeed, the Siberian provinces will be wrested away from Russian... Read more

Louise de La Vallière

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 23 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After, Dumas continued his D'Artagnan romances with a final trilogy set during the reign of Louis XIV. Louise de La Vallière, the second novel in that trilogy, continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and will end with The Man in the Iron Mask. Filled with... Read more