Classics audiobooks

The Last of the Mohicans - Abridged

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: Theodore Bickel

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In danger of Indian raids at all times, a small party of colonial Americans flee before the British and their Indian allies during the French and Indian wars. Hawkeye, the scout, is the great figure in this classic story; the climax comes in the tragic encounter between two rival Indians, Magwa and Uncas, the last Mohican chief. Read more

A Tale of Two Cities - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Tom Baker

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set against the bloody background of the French Revolution, this is perhaps Dickens' most famous work. Doctor Manette, his devoted daughter Lucie, and the young French aristocrat Charles Darnay are memorable characters. Above all the others rises the reckless Sidney Carton, whose selfless love makes him one of literature's great heroes. Read more

Martin Chuzzlewit - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This Charles Dickens classic is the powerful satiric novel of selfish hypocrisy and financial speculation as it bloomed in insular England and in the spacious but narrow minds of the U.S. It is a novel that has retains its relevance to today’s issues. Read more

The Red Badge of Courage - Abridged

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Richard Crenna

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Red Badge of Courage is a masterpiece about a young private in the Union Army whose youthful enthusiasm about the glory of battle gives way to increasing doubt and worry that when he comes to be tested in his first encounter on the battlefield, he will be found deficient of courage. Read more

Lord Jim - Abridged

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Simon McCorkindale

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jim is a young and naive clerk on a cargo ship plying Asian waters. He harbors romantic fantasies of adventure and heroism which are promptly scuttled one night when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink. Stripped of his seaman's license, convinced of his own cowardice, Jim sets out on a tragic and transcendent search for... Read more

A Little Princess - Abridged

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrated by: Julie Harris

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sara Crew is the spoiled little daughter of rich parents. After her mother's death she is sent to a “Select Seminary For Young Ladies”.Then, Sara suddenly loses her father and money and faces the misery of existing on charity. Read more

Moby Dick - Abridged

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: George Kennedy

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

"Call me Ishmael." Ishmael, a sailor, recounts the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab, who is in search of the white whale that crippled him. Herman Melville uses stylized language, symbolism, and metaphor to explore a variety of complex themes. Moby Dick is considered one of the greatest novels in the English... Read more

The Call of the Wild - Abridged

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Theodore Bickel

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Call of the Wild is one of the most powerful dog stories ever told, the story of Buck, a dog born to luxury but stolen and sold as a sledge dog. Buck is a proud dog who escapes captivity and rises magnificently above all his enemies to become one of the most feared and admired dog in the North. Read more

White Fang - Abridged

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Theodore Bickel

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

His world was the cruel, savage world of the wild. His introduction to the "man-gods" was brutal and bloody. White Fang was forced to accept a way of life innate to his kind-kill or be killed, destroy or be destroyed and in him developed a hatred so strong that no man or beast could tame him. Until Weedon Scott. Read more

The Scarlet Pimpernel - Abridged

By: Baroness Orczy

Narrated by: Simon Williams

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Paris, 1792 and the French Revolution. The guillotine claims lives each day. But working in ever-changing disguise is the Scarlet Pimpernel and his band of meddlesome Englishmen. Read more

Wuthering Heights - Abridged

By: Emily Brontë

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Heathcliff was to serve as the name for the ragged, dark-skinned orphan whom Mr. Earnshaw found abandoned in the streets of Liverpool and took home to live with his own children, Cathy and Hindley, at Wuthering Heights. The stormy life of the mysterious Heathcliff, his love for Cathy and his relationships with the people who lived at Wuthering... Read more

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Christopher Plummer

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1827, Arthur Gordon Pym stowed away on the brig Grampus, set for the South Seas. Thus, begins a saga of mutiny and butchery, recapture of the vessel by a loyal few, subsequent shipwreck and sufferings, and deliverance.   Read more

Black Beauty - Abridged

By: Anna Sewell

Narrated by: Frances Sternhagen

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Black Beauty spent her youthful days grazing in grassy meadows, with ponds of clear water, shade trees and apples. But soon these pleasures would severely change into a life of hard and often dangerous work. She hoped that one day she would return to the meadows and be with her old friends by the apple trees. Read more

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Dick Cavett

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of the greatest of all American classic tales, Huck Finn can no longer stand his life at home so he fakes his own death. While camping, he discovers the runaway slave, Jim. Together, Huck and Jim travel down the mighty Mississippi River in a series of adventures with a cast of unforgettable characters. Read more

Treasure Island - Abridged

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Keir Dullea

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the exciting and colorful tale of Jim Hawkins' search for buried treasure. When Jim sets sail on the Hispaniola with Long John Silver and his crew, he begins a dangerous adventure in the race for priceless treasure. Read more

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Richard Kiley

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A blow on the head sends a practical Yankee back in time to King Arthur's court in medieval England. There, his Yankee ingenuity and knowledge of scientific theories startle the Knights of the Round Table. In the course of describing his hero's adventures, Mark Twain, the great satirist, takes the opportunity to make objects of mirth out of the... Read more

Ethan Frome - Abridged

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Irene Worth

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ethan Frome is a lonely farmer trying to make a living while also tending to his frigid, demanding and ungrateful wife Zeena. Hope enters Ethan's life of despair when his wife's cousin Mattie arrives to help. His life is transformed as he falls in love Mattie but their fate is doomed by the oppressive principles of that era. Read more

Little Women - Abridged

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Jean Smart

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the classic story of a year in the life of the March family. We learn of their troubles and their joys and come to identify with the characters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. While their father is away in the civil war, the sisters with their mother work to maintain a content and serene home. Read more

House of Mirth - Abridged

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Joanna Cassidy

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

House of Mirth is centered on Lily Bart, a New York socialite who attempts to secure a husband and a place in affluent society. It was one of the first novels of manners to emerge in American literature. Read more

Pride and Prejudice - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Jane Lapotaire

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of the greatest of all English novels, a finely etched satire about the scatterbrained Mrs. Bennett whose aim in life is to see her five daughters married. Meet Jane Austen's rich and varied characters: the proud Mr. Darcy; the pompous parson Mr. Collins, who seeks the most advantageous match for himself; good-humored Mr. Bingley; and, of... Read more

The Three Musketeers - Abridged

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Louis Jourdan

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brave, impulsive and infinitely susceptible, D'Artagnan triumphs on the duelling ground and in the boudoir by virtue of his charm, his wit and skills at arms. When these resources prove insufficient his faithful friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis, the Three Musketeers, save the day. 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

Billy Budd - Abridged

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Billy Budd, a paragon of simple goodness and virile beauty, is press-ganged into the crew of HMS Indomitable in 1797, soon after the mutiny in the British fleet. Billy is popular with everyone on board except Claggart, the master-at-arms, a depraved and wicked man. His malice towards Billy results in a death, a court-martial and an execution at... Read more

David Copperfield - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Callow

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

David Copperfield was Dickens's favorite novel. Strikingly autobiographical in its childhood scenes, it relates David's history from birth to manhood, and the classic Dickensian characters he meets on his journey of self-knowledge: Mr. Micawber, the Peggottys, Betsey Trotwood, Steerforth and Uriah Heep among many. Read more