Classics audiobooks

Alice Adams

By: Booth Tarkington

Narrated by: Traci Svendsgaard

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Plucky and romantic Alice tries to rise above the crudities of her hopelessly shabby background in this Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about ambition and self-delusion.The lower-middle class Adams family faces a slow disintegration in a small Midwestern town. Alice, a social climber, is ashamed of her unsuccessful family and determined to... Read more

Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Full Cast & Roy Marsden

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor. Paying no attention to his parents’ warnings he runs away to sea to embark on a series of thrilling adventures: struggles with Barbary pirates, a shipwreck and the extraordinary meeting with Man Friday... Roy Marsden plays the older Robinson Crusoe looking back on a life of... Read more

Journey to the Center of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Geologist Otto Lidenbrock is perusing an ancient Icelandic manuscript when he discovers a mysterious encrypted note. The message reveals the account of a sixteenth-century explorer who claims to have found a passageway to the center of the earth.In his quest to penetrate the planet’s primordial secrets, the impetuous professor, together with his... Read more

My Jim

By: Nancy Rawles

Narrated by: Lizzie Cooper Davis & Brenda Pressley

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

American Book Award winner Nancy Rawles pens a moving story about Huck Finn's slave friend Jim, told through the eyes of the wife Jim was forced to leave behind. Sadie shares her story of loss with her granddaughter as they weave Sadie's most treasured items-her mother's knife, a piece of a bowl from Africa, a piece of Jim's hat found when he... Read more

Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare on the Fly - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Annie Vollmers

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Romeo and Juliet - the most famous lovers in the world, made immortal by William Shakespeare. However, many students have a hard time fighting through the bard's master pieces - because the old English is sometimes hard to understand. For those in need of understandable English we give you the new series "Shakespeare on the Fly":... Read more

Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice Bathsheba makes, she discovers the terrible consequences of an inconstant heart.



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The Count of Monte Cristo

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 46 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Dashing young Edmond Dantes has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him.Falsely accused of a political crime, Edmond Dantes is locked away for life in the infamous prison at the French Chateau d’If.... Read more

An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Stefan Rudnicki, Mary Lamb & Charles Lamb

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this second volume of Blackstone’s audio theater production of An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment, a full cast of award-winning narrators present miscellaneous scenes and soliloquies from Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest. Based on Tales from Shakespeare by Charles... Read more

The Best of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Edward Blake

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The best and most revered works of famed poet and author, Edgar Allen Poe. Read more

Butcher’s Crossing

By: John Williams

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of... Read more

Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Alexander Spencer & Susan Adams

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The vampire novel that started it all, Bram Stoker's Dracula probes deeply into human identity, sanity, and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client. Soon afterward, disturbing incidents unfold in... Read more

Antigone

By: Jean Anouilh

Narrated by: Lutz Schäfer, Johannes Steck, Torsten Münchow, ...

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Drama, mit dem Jean Anouilh seinen Weltruhm begründete. Gegen den Willen des unbarmherzigen Statthalters Kreon bestattet Antigone, Tochter des Ödipus, ihren Bruder Polyneikes. Doch mit dieser trotzigen Tat und ihrer Reuelosigkeit löst sie eine Katastrophe aus, die unweigerlich ihr eigenes Leben kostet. Ein klassisches Drama, das bis heute... Read more

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Alexander Spencer

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabriel Utterson is intrigued by the sinister figure of Mr Hyde, and the latter's strange relationship with Utterson's good friend, Dr Jekyll. When Mr Hyde beats a Member of Parliament to death, Gabriel Utterson tries to get to the bottom of the mystery and eventually discovers Dr Jekyll's dark secret. Read more

Candide ou l'optimisme

By: Name Voltaire

Narrated by: Lou Saintagne

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

« Tous les événements sont enchaînés dans le meilleur des mondes possibles : car enfin si vous n'aviez pas été chassé d'un beau château à grands coups de pied dans le derrière pour l'amour de mademoiselle Cunégonde, si vous n'aviez pas été mis à l'Inquisition, si vous n'aviez pas donné un bon coup d'épée au baron, si vous n'aviez pas perdu vos... Read more

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Caleveras County

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Leonidas W. Smiley would bet on anything. Horse races, dog fights, cat fights, chicken fights - all were fair game to the gambling nature of Smiley. But he meets his match when a stranger comes into town, and puts his champion jumping frog to the test. Read more

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Hardy's novel of seduction and abandonment introduced his most memorable tragic heroine, the unworldly maiden Tess. On her morning journey to earn money for her impoverished family, Tess' horse has an accident, forcing her to seek assistance from some newly rich relatives. There, she is vigorously pursued by Alec, who corners her in a... Read more

The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In Henry Flemming, Stephen Crane creates a great and realistic study of the mind of an inexperienced soldier trapped in the fury and turmoil of war. Flemming dashes into battle, at first tormented by fear, then bolstered with courage in time for the final confrontation.Although the exact battle is never identified, Crane based this story of a... Read more

The Door in the Wall

By: Marguerite de Angeli

Narrated by: Roger Rees

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the fourteenth century, the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses the use of his legs. Read more

Another Trio of Saki

By: Saki

Narrated by: Joy Gelardi

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro (December 18, 1870 - November 13, 1916), a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged... Read more

The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack London’s masterpiece describing the timeless bonds between man, dog, and wildernessBuck, half St. Bernard and half Scotch shepherd, is a bold-spirited dog living the good life in the Santa Clara Valley. But when a treacherous act of betrayal results in his kidnapping, he is stripped from his comfortable life on the California estate and... Read more

A Trio of Saki

By: Saki

Narrated by: Joy Gelardi

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro (December 18, 1870 - November 13, 1916), a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged... Read more

The Monkey's Paw

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When Sergeant Major Morris brings a mummified monkey’s paw to the White family, they embrace it as a morbid curiosity. When they learn that an old Fakir has enchanted the paw, they continue to treat the thing lightly. But the workings of the paw, once set in motion, cannot be undone, no matter what they try. Read more

The Song of the Lark

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Thea Kronberg has a voice that can call down angels and the soul of a Colorado pioneer girl. But as she develops her talents and devotes herself to the life of an artist, she must consider the cost of the creative path she follows. Willa Cather's classic novel is full of the breathtaking beauty of the American frontier and the spirit of the... Read more

In Our Time

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A strikingly original collection of short stories and accompanying vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingway’s American debut.

When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was widely praised for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and earned Hemingway a place among the most promising American... Read more