Classics audiobooks

The Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in nineteenth-century England, this great novel of domestic realism sympathetically portrays a young woman’s vain efforts to adapt to her provincial world.Maggie Tulliver, whose father owns a mill perched on the banks of the River Floss, is intelligent and imaginative beyond the understanding of her community, her relatives, and particularly... Read more

Barnaby Rudge

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 23 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Dickens' first historical novel is set in 1780s England at the time of the Gordon Riots. In a case of mistaken identity, Barnaby Rudge—a pale half-wit with long red hair who dresses all in green and carries a large raven on his back—is arrested as the leader of a mob of anti-Catholic rioters. He is condemned to death on the gallows, but an... Read more

Cry, the Beloved Country

By: Alan Paton

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A worldwide bestseller when it was first published in 1948, Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu pastor, and his son, Absalom. Set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s, it is also... Read more

Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 35 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Wealthy and old, Martin Chuzzlewit Sr. is surrounded by greedy relatives hoping to obtain a portion of his estate upon his death. His two descendants, Martin Jr. and Jonas, have been born and bred in the same heritage of selfishness, the Chuzzlewit tradition.Set partly in America, of which Dickens offers a searing satire, this novel follows and... Read more

The Magic Shop

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Simple magic tricks are what a little boy is looking for when he drags his father into a quaint, old shop. The proprietor seems to be a master of illusion - a genius at slight of hand. But, as the son becomes mesmerized, the father feels an icy hand grip his heart. Read more

Birdy

By: William Wharton

Narrated by: James Yaegashi & James Colby

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This masterful National Book Award winner explores the shattering effects of war on the human mind. Growing up, Birdy dreams of flying like a bird and shares these fantasies with his best friend Al. Years later, World War II sends both men to hospitals-Al for physical wounds, and Birdy for psychological trauma. When Birdy falls into a catatonic... Read more

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

By: Howard Pyle

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it a shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath naught to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one, these pages are not for you."—from the bookHere are the beloved adventures of the mischievous hero... Read more

La chartreuse de Parme

By: Stendhal

Narrated by: Guillaume Galliennne

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Publié en 1839, La chartreuse de Parme a été écrit en 53 jours par Stendhal. L'oeuvre a pour décor l'Italie si chère à Stendhal. La Sanseverina possède toutes les dimensions de la femme amoureuse et objet d'amour passionné, tandis que le héros, Fabrice del Dongo, est un enfant béni des dieux. Mais leur fougue et leur sentimentalisme vont les... Read more

Winner Take Nothing

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Ernest Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. Some stories included are “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” a story about one man’s night in a café; “Homage to Switzerland”... Read more

Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse

Narrated by: Peter Weller

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesse’s best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literature’s most poetic evocations of the soul’s journey to liberationHarry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational... Read more

Men without Women

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Classic short stories from a master of American fiction exploring relationships, war, and sportsmanship.

First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway’s most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war,... Read more

Oil!

By: Upton Sinclair

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 19 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is the inspiration for the Academy Award-nominated film, There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis.As he did so masterfully in The Jungle, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Upton Sinclair interweaves social criticism with human tragedy to create an unforgettable portrait of Southern California’s early oil industry.Enraged by the oil... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps the best-loved nineteenth-century American novel, Mark Twain's tale of boyhood adventure overflows with comedy, warmth, and slapstick energy. It brings to life an array of irresistible characters—the awesomely self-confident Tom, his best buddy Huck Finn, indulgent Aunt Polly, and the lovely, beguiling Becky—as well as such unforgettable... Read more

Stauffer an Krüsi antworten - Abridged

By: Hans Krüsi & Michael Stauffer

Narrated by: Vanessa Stern, Mirjam Hofmann & Christian Ahlers

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dichter Stauffer ruft Hans Krüsi. Dies ist die Konstellation des Projektes "Stauffer an Krüsi antworten". Der Aussenseiterkünstler Hans Krüsi, 1995 in St. Gallen gestorben, gibt selber keine Antwort mehr. Aber sein Werk spricht noch immer in unverwechselbarer Deutlichkeit. Dichter Stauffer taucht ein in das noch längst nicht gebändigte Material... Read more

Our Mutual Friend - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: David Timson

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Out of the dust-heaps and dirty streets of mid-Victorian London Dickens creates a classic murder-mystery tale. A dead man is fished out of the Thames by a scavenger and his daughter. Who is he, and how did he get there? His death affects members of all levels of a society permeated by greed. Dickens presents an array of characters both touching... Read more

The Trial

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

If Max Brod had obeyed Franz Kafka's dying request, Kafka's unpublished manuscripts would have been burned, unread. Fortunately, Brod ignored his friend's wishes and published The Trial, which became the author's most famous work. Now Kafka's enigmatic novel regains its humor and stylistic elegance in a new translation based on the restored... Read more

The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 20 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Handsome and ambitious, Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life-by adopting the code of hypocrisy by which his society operates. Julien ultimately commits a crime-out of passion, principle, or insanity-that will bring about his downfall. The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical... Read more

The Vicar of Wakefield

By: Oliver Goldsmith

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver Goldsmith earned instant acclaim when he published The Vicar of Wakefield, a marvelous mixture of burlesque and satire. The simple village vicar, Mr. Primrose, is living with his wife and six children in complete tranquility until unexpected calamities force them to weather one hilarious adventure after another. Goldsmith plays out this... Read more

The Sea Wolf

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Generations have been spellbound by this harrowing story of danger on the sea, psychological confrontation, and the dual nature of mankind. Humphrey Van Weyden, a San Francisco sophisticate, finds himself the captive voyager aboard the Ghost, captained by the brutal and barbaric Wolf Larsen. An excerpt: "And where am I?" I asked Johnson, whom I... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..." - so opens one of the best loved and most often quoted classics. With dramatic eloquence, Charles Dickens pens this thrilling tale of the inhabitants of two cities - Paris and London - as they are swept into the dangerous tide of the French Revolution.When the starving French masses rise... Read more

Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Margaret Hilton

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The villagers of Ravelo had the weaver Silas Marner marked as a miser but the only thing golden about Silas Marner was his heart. Silas Marner is a modest weaver accused of stealing the congregation's funds. The thief may really be Silas' best friend, William Dane, who has framed him but Silas is found guilty none-the-less. His fiancE abandons... Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Flo Gibson

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

America's first psychological novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a dark tale of love, crime, and revenge set in colonial New England. It revolves around a single, forbidden act of passion that forever alters the lives of three members of a small Puritan community: Hester Prynne, an ardent and fierce woman who bears the punishment... Read more

Nostromo

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"In 1875 or '76, when very young, in the Gulf of Mexico, I heard the story of some man who was supposed to have stolen single-handed a whole lighter full of silver, somewhere on the Tierra Firme seaboard during the troubles of a revolution." From these slim details Conrad builds one of the great novels of our language and creates one of its most... Read more

Walking

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Peter Johnson

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A meandering ode to the simple act and accomplished art of taking a walk. Profound and humorous, companionable and curmudgeonly. Walking, by America's first nature writer, is your personal and portable guide to the activity that, like no other, awakens the senses and soul to the 'absolute freedom and wildness' of nature. Read more