Classics audiobooks

The Riddle of the Sands

By: Erskine Childers

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret German plot to invade England. Widely recognized as the first modern spy thriller, this lone masterpiece by World War I Royal Navy officer Erskine Childers was written in 1903 as a wake-up call to the British government to attend to its North Sea... Read more

More Favorite Stories of Christmas Past

By: Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Cha...

Narrated by: Simon Prebble & Joyce Bean

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Tantor Media presents a collection of some of the most popular Christmas stories read by two award-winning narrators. This special anthology will transport listeners back to the Christmases of their youth, when they first heard these holiday tales. From Henry Van Dyke's classic Christmas blessing, "Keeping Christmas," to Charles Dickens's... Read more

The Mark of the Beast

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

When a carousing Englishman disgraces the consecrated effigy of Hanuman, a leprous "Silver Man" marks him with a hideous curse. The ensuing night brings new terrors to the house of the doomed man. Read more

Casa Di Bambola

By: Henrik Ibsen

Narrated by: Teresa Ciampolini & Claudia Giannelli

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Un dramma sulle condizioni e contraddizioni delle donne. Read more

The Hand

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A withered, shriveled, severed human hand is kept chained in a corner. The "owner" of this morbid trophy always keeps three loaded revolvers in the same room. Nothing seems too suspicious until the hand is mysteriously reclaimed. Read more

The Glass Bead Game

By: Hermann Hesse

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 21 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literatureSet in the twenty-third century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his... Read more

Serena

By: Ron Rash

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive in North Carolina to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her... Read more

Der kleine Prinz

By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Narrated by: Lorenz Christian Köhler, Bruno Ganz, Armin Rohd...

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Hörspiel mit vielen bekannten Schauspielern, die den Figuren aus dem kleinen Prinzen ihre Stimme gaben. Die Inszenierung orientiert sich eng an der Vorlage des Autors, verzichtet aber keineswegs auf eigene Akzente. In bester Theatertradition werden einige Abläufe dramaturgisch verändert, um deren Sinn zu verdeutlichen und den Zuhörern ein... Read more

The Four Feathers

By: A. E. W. Mason

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Just before his regiment sails off to war in the Sudan, British officer Harry Feversham resigns his commission, wanting desperately to be free of his family’s proud military heritage and terrified of risking his life. He is immediately given four white feathers as symbols of cowardice, one by each of his three best friends and one by his... Read more

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Button was literally born an old man. He lived a backwards life, for his body grew younger as the years passed him by. Come and listen to the original, unabridged story by F. Scott Fitzgerald which inspired the movie. Read more

Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 25 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless.The Iliad can justly be called the world's greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy... Read more

Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the great masterpieces of Western literature, Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars. Though the stormy, vengeful god of the ocean is determined to keep him off course, Odysseus is clever and has the brilliant goddess Athena on his side. With wit,... Read more

Iliad

By: Homer

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Homer’s Iliad can justly be called the world’s greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns, the heroism and treachery of its combatants unmatched in song and story. Driven by fierce passions and loyalties, men and gods battle to a devastating conclusion.“Homer is full of merriment, full... Read more

Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Often considered the greatest epic in any modern language, Paradise Lost tells the story of the revolt of Satan, his banishment from Heaven, and the ensuing fall of Man with his expulsion from Eden. It is a tale of immense drama and excitement, of innocence pitted against corruption, of rebellion and treachery, in which God and Satan fight a... Read more

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

By: Gaston Leroux

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is Gaston Leroux's masterpiece, and it turned out to be his most successful book during his lifetime. It is one of the classics of early-twentieth-century detective fiction.



At the heart of the novel is this enigma: how could a murder take place inside a locked room that shows no sign of being entered? The novel is... Read more

Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories, with eBook

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

You are probably familiar with the popularized stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," but have you heard the original unabridged versions by Washington Irving? His skillfully written and colorful tales have much more meaning and depth. In "Rip Van Winkle," Irving makes a profound social comment about the changes that were... Read more

The Baron of Grogswig

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Baron of Grogswig abandons his riotous ways of carousal and gaiety, and settles down - only to discover that simple domesticity is not the peaceful life he had envisioned. But, just when the Baron feels he can't take it any more, an unexpected visitor changes everything. Read more

Monsters, Gods, and Heroes

By: Timothy B. Shutt

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the very outset in the West-from the time of Homer himself in about 750 BCE-the epic has been the most highly regarded of literary genres. It is rivaled only by tragedy, which arose a bit more than two centuries later, as the most respected, the most influential, and, from a slightly different vantage point, the most prestigious mode of... Read more

God's Trombones

By: James Weldon Johnson

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson 

James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God's Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational... Read more

Howards End - Abridged

By: E. M. Forster

Narrated by: Emma Thompson

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz.

At its heart lie two families—the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the... Read more

Dubliners - Abridged

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Gerald McSorley

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed.  The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound.  The first three stories in... Read more

Madame Bovary - Abridged

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Claire Bloom

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure... Read more

Les Miserables - Abridged

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Mark McKerracher

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The classic novel--and hit Broadway show--about escaped convict Jean Valjean has been adapted with easy-to-read text, large type, and short chapters.  This engaging adaptation of the timeless tale is ideal for reluctant readers and kids not yet ready to tackle the original. Read more

Sterntaler - Weihnachtslieder und Märchen - Abridged

By: Hermann Löns & Hans Chritian Andersen

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sterntaler, beheimatet in Dornburg im Westerwald, ist seit Jahrzehnten führender Hersteller in Sachen Babybekleidung und Spielsachen für Kleinkinder und jede Familie liebt diese wunderschönen und vor allem hochwertigen Produkte. In der Branche bezeichnet man Sterntaler auch als den "Hugo Boss" der Babybekleidung. Auf dieser Produktion... Read more