Classics audiobooks

Three Men in a Boat

By: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’ve never read anything by Jerome K. Jerome, you’d be well advised to heed this warning by the Glasgow Herald: “It would be dangerous to [listen to] this book in any place––say a full railway compartment––where the reader was not at perfect liberty to laugh as loudly and as long as he chose.” The passage of time has not altered that... Read more

Odyssey of the West I

By: Timothy B. Shutt

Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures discussed. The lectures address-in... Read more

Odyssey of the West II

By: Timothy B. Shutt

Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universi- ties. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures dis- cussed. The lectures address a... Read more

Meditations on First Philosophy

By: Rene Descartes

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark in the history of thought, RenE Descartes' Meditations helped bring critical thinking and skepticism to the Western world. Modern philosophers are still captivated by Descartes' radical and controversial departure from his previous beliefs, which has both inspired reverence and provoked anger. Read more

Hard Times, with eBook

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Red brick, machinery, and smoke-darkened chimneys. Reason, facts, and statistics. This is the world of Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dickens's most powerful and unforgettable novels.

The highest priority for Thomas Gradgrind, head of the Gradgrind model day school, is his version of education—feeding... Read more

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Hans Conried

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete unabridged version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of "pirates and buried gold". Read more

Martin Eden

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 16 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The phrase ‘this book will change your life’ has become one of the clichés of the publishing world but ‘Martin Eden’ is certainly a novel that merits that observation.Set in turn of the century San Francisco, Jack London’s semi-autobiographical narrative tells of working class sailor Eden’s struggle to elevate himself to a level of society... Read more

Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship between art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media generally, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American... Read more

Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Emma Bovary is a sensuous, sentimental young woman whose romantic ideals make her dissatisfied with her humdrum married life. Attempting to escape into an exciting world of passion and dreams, she drifts into sordid affairs with Rodolphe Boulanger and Léon Dupuis. The first of these lovers, an older man, dominates the affair, while the second,... Read more

Kaa's Hunting

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Mowgli is abducted by monkeys. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther set out to rescue him with the aid of Chil the Kite and Kaa the python. Read more

The Oval Portrait

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Victor Garber

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The story involves a young woman haunted by the vengeful spirit of a young bride, whose soul had been trapped for decades within the woman's portrait (painted by her insane husband). Read more

Beauty and the Beast

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Catherine O'Hara

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A daughter accepted captivity for the love of her father. A new love stirred that was blind to the ugliness of the beast. Read more

Le crapaud

By: Andersen

Narrated by: Lydie Lacroix

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

L'histoire étonnante et drôle d'une famille de crapauds. Tout commence dans un puits, au fond du jardin... Il s'agira alors d'aller à la découverte du monde, et de l'intérêt de se faire une opinion des choses et des gens par soi-même. Read more

Eclipse of the Crescent Moon

By: Géza Gárdonyi

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 19 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1541, and the crown of Hungary is up for grabs. King John, seeing that the Austrians are attacking with an innumerable force, petitions the Turks for assistance. King John then dies, leaving an infant son. While the Turkish army is en route, the Hungarians rally their forces, and beat back the Austrians themselves. Then, just as the... Read more

The Ugly Duckling and Other Stories

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Uncredited

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a collection of four of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, Thumbellina and The Constant Tin Soldier.  Read more

Ayesha

By: H. Rider Haggard

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Leo Vincey is haunted by a goddess. In a nighttime vision, she appears to him, revealing her location deep in the mountains of Central Asia. Determined to discover his lost love, he searches for sixteen years, finally discovering a lost civilization, ruled by an ambitious queen of unearthly beauty. Could this be his Ayesha reborn? And if so,... Read more

A Princess of Mars

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This novel was first published episodically in 1912, a year before Burroughs released Tarzan of the Apes, which would catapult him to international fame. This novel helped to define an emerging genre: science fiction.

John Carter, Confederate Civil War veteran, is mysteriously transported to Mars, where he finds that the new environment gives him... Read more

The Moonstone

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 19 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This is heralded as the very first mystery novel. Collins, in his great work, created the guidelines for the genre as we know it today: a fabulous diamond stolen, everyone in the house is suspected, three mysterious Indians sworn to protect the jewel at all costs, the upstairs/downstairs tension from the servants, and a brilliant detective who... Read more

How Fear Came

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

During a drought, Mowgli and the animals gather at a shrunken river for a “water truce,” during which Hathi the elephant tells the story of how the first tiger got his stripes. Read more

She

By: H. Rider Haggard

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Legends tell of an ancient sorceress who has learned the secrets of immortality. She rules over a lost people deep in unexplored Africa. She can slay at a glance, and her beauty is so legendary that no man can look upon her and keep his own will. Leo Vincey learns of a quest that has haunted his family for generations. He is to go to find this... Read more

The Nightingale Collection

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Tom Bosley

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Bosley continues to mesmerize children of all ages in performing the classic tale of The Nightingale. We travel to ancient China and participate in the search for the only creature who could make the miserable emperor happy. The Nightingale Collection also includes such classics as Windbird and the Sun, The Tinderbox, The Steadfast Tin... Read more

Daisy Miller

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Tammy Grimes

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Daisy Miller is a beautiful and flirtatious rich young American visiting a Swiss spa. There she meets an upper class expatriate American, Frederick Winterbourne, who is warned about her reckless ways with men by his aunt. Their relationship and Daisy’s with the Italian lawyer Mr. Giovanelli leads to a climactic scene in the Coliseum in Rome,... Read more

Captain Blood

By: Raphael Sabatini

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Doctor. Scholar. Soldier. Peter Blood has been all these. But when he is exiled and sold unjustly into slavery, he finds there is another title he must own - Pirate. Now a man without a country, he wreaks his revenge upon the Spanish Main as a buccaneer. The only thing that saves him from absolute dissolution is the love he still harbors for... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Robby Benson

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mark Twain's lively tale of the adventures of boyhood is set in Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of escapades many boys can only imagine along with trying to impress girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost (and saved) in a cave, and playing on the... Read more