Classics audiobooks

Küßt mir aus der Brust das Leben - Abridged

By: Heinrich Heine

Narrated by: Ernst Matthias Friedrich

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lyrik und Prosa - gesprochen von Ernst Matthias Friedrich. Das Vergnügen, Heine zu hören, ist unvergleichlich, komplex und vielschichtig, genussreich, aber auch fordernd, aufstörend und verunsichernd. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) war einer der reichsten lyrischen Begabungen der Spätromantik. Zu bewusst und zu gespalten, um sich dem Pathos einer... Read more

An Old Man’s Love

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty-year-old William Whittlestaff becomes guardian to Mary Lawrie, the orphaned and penniless daughter of an old friend, and gradually finds himself falling in love with her. But Mary has already given her heart to the young John Gordon, who has gone to seek his fortune in the Kimberley diamond fields of South Africa. Gordon’s sudden return... Read more

The Return of the Soldier

By: Rebecca West

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When Captain Chris Baldry, a World War I soldier, is sent home with a severe case of shellshock amnesia, he is a stranger to his wife, Kitty, and his adoring cousin, Jenny. Recoiling from the horrors of war and disillusioned with years of superficial married life, his mind has regressed fifteen years, where his heart may take refuge once again... Read more

Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From its sharply satiric opening sentence, Mansfield Park deals with money and marriage, and how strongly they affect each other. Shy, fragile Fanny Price is the consummate "poor relation." Sent to live with her wealthy uncle Thomas, she clashes with his spoiled, selfish daughters and falls in love with his son. Their lives are further... Read more

Richard III (Ungekürzt)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Katharina Thalbach

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Richard III", Teil 5 der Shakespeare/Brasch-Edition, ist eines der frühesten historischen Stücke des großen Dramatikers und zugleich eines der blutigsten. Der hässliche und missgebildete Richard, Herzog von Gloster, kennt nur ein Ziel: er will die Krone Englands. Hinterhältig bringt er seine Brüder um, heiratet eine der Witwen, lässt seine... Read more

Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch - Abridged

By: Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Narrated by: Hans Clarin & Rolf Schult

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der große Schelmen- und Abenteuerroman des Barock in einer sprachklugen, musikalischen Hörspielinszenierung: Der einfältigen Tölpel Simplicius wird in den Wirren des 30jährigen Krieges zum Hausnarren des Gouverneurs von Hanau, dann zum Jäger von Soest und schließlich zu einem Weisen. Auf all seinen Stationen hält er der Zeit den Narrenspiegel... Read more

Death In A White Tie - Abridged

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The season had begun. Débutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim.

But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up. He had already planted his friend Lord Robert Gospell at the scene.

But someone else got there... Read more

The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis & a full cast

Length: 20 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

At the Tabard Inn, thirty travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Becket’s shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time and that the host of the inn will judge the tales and reward the best storyteller with a free supper upon their... Read more

The Winter of Our Discontent

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers—a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis

A Penguin Classic

In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an... Read more

Anne of Avonlea, with eBook

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In the first sequel to Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery's feisty, redheaded heroine is now sixteen and a schoolteacher in the small village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. Although older, Anne Shirley isn't necessarily wiser—and she hasn't outgrown her mischievous ways. Anne learns how complicated life can be when she takes two new... Read more

Aus der verrückten Welt des Joachim Ringelnatz - Abridged

By: Joachim Ringelnatz

Narrated by: Erik Grun

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als reisender Artist im Matrosenanzug tingelte Joachim Ringelnatz ab 1920 durch die Kabaretts in ganz Deutschland und trug seine Gedichte vor. Freilich, seine "Turngedichte" und die Erzählungen und Lieder des Seefahrers "Kuttel Daddeldu" waren ausgesprochen erfolgreich. Live war Ringelnatz jedoch schlichtweg umwerfend. Bis er 1933 von den... Read more

The Mortal Immortal

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An ancient alchemist drags out his weary life in search of the elixir of immortality. But, when his vengeful assistant quaffs the mixture, he discovers that the effects of the draft of immortality may never wear off. Mary Shelley explores the concept of immortality, following a character that never ages through a ponderous and thought provoking... Read more

The Inimitable Jeeves

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When Bingo falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into the mulligatawny, there's work for a wet nurse. Who better than Jeeves?This is the first Jeeves and Wooster story the author ever wrote. Wodehouse weaves his wit through a wide collection of terrifying aunts, miserly uncles, love-sick friends, and unwanted... Read more

Adam Bede

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 19 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

George Eliot's first full-length novel is the moving, realistic portrait of three people troubled by unwise love.Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, who delights only in her baubles—and the delusion that the careless Captain... Read more

Demian

By: Hermann Hesse

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man's quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its 1919 publication. A landmark in the history of twentieth-century literature, it reflects Hermann Hesse's preoccupation with the duality of human nature and the pursuit of spiritual... Read more

Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Short Stories, with eBook

By: Bret Harte

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Society has forgiven Jo Corbin for killing a man, but can he forgive himself? Will the postmistress lose all in a bid to help a friend escape justice? Will the new teaching assistant's unorthodox ways tame the unruly pioneer children? These are just three of the nine wonderful short stories from Bret Harte, set in wild and woolly... Read more

The Trial

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Josef K. is an employee at a bank, an Everyman without any particular qualities or ambitions. His inconsequence makes doubly strange his “arrest” by an officer of the court, made with no formal charges or explanation. Disoriented and consumed with guilt for a “crime” he does not understand, Josef K. must justify his life to a “court” with which... Read more

El Lazarillo de Tormes/ Rinconete y Cortadillo

By: Anonymous & Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Narrated by: Francisco Rivela

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Estos dos clasicos del siglo de oro espanol marcan el comienzo de la novela picaresca. La vida de ambos en Lazarillo de Tormes, y Rinconete y Cortadillo, esta protagonizada por picaros viviendo de su ingenio, sus aventuras y fortunas en ciudades y campos. Conviviendo entre sacerdotes corruptos, asesinos, prostitutas y mendigos. En Lazarillo de... Read more

Heart of Darkness, with eBook

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Horror awaits Charlie Marlow, a seaman assigned by an ivory company to retrieve a cargo boat along with one of its employees, Mr. Kurtz, who is stranded deep in the heart of the Belgian Congo. Marlow's journey up the brooding dark river soon becomes a struggle to maintain his own sanity as he witnesses the brutalization of the natives by white... Read more

The Financier

By: Theodore Dreiser

Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A master of literary naturalism, Dreiser is known for his great intensity and keen journalistic eye as he examines real-life subjects. This powerful novel explores the dynamics of the financial world during the Civil War and after the stock-market panic caused by the Great Chicago Fire.The first in a "trilogy of desire,"The Financiertells the... Read more

The Captain of the Pole Star

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Word goes among the crew of the Pole Star that the captain is haunted by demons. And after the days turn into weeks in the frigid Arctic Ocean, stories begin to circulate of ghosts and midnight hauntings. Read more

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Alexander Spencer

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven short stories including The Musgrave Ritual, The Reigate Squires and The Final Problem. Read more

Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Shipwrecked and cast ashore on an uninhabited island, Robinson Crusoe ingeniously carves out a solitary, primitive existence for twenty-four years. Eventually, he meets a young native whom he saves from death at the hands of cannibals. He calls him Friday and makes him his companion and servant. Crusoe and Friday share in a variety of... Read more

Poesie unterwegs - Abridged

By: Josepf von Eichendorff, Georg Trakl, Heinrich H...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz & Jürgen Goslar

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ob im Zug, im Auto, im Bus, oder im Flugzeug. Ob der Weg das Ziel ist, das Büro oder die Westküste der USA: Unterwegs sein ist immer etwas Besonderes. Hier sind wir dem Alltagstrott entrissen, hier fühlen und sehen wir ständig Neues - und schärfen somit auch die Sinne für neues Hören. Als idealer Begleiter für unterwegs präsentiert sich das... Read more