Classics audiobooks

Anne of the Island

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and frivolous new pal Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with... Read more

The House of Mirth

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

What Galsworthy did for Edwardian England, Wharton did for turn-of-the-century New York, and she did it to perfection in The House of Mirth. Hackles bristle discreetly, lips curl ever-so politely, and every breach of good taste is carefully recorded, as social aspirant Lily Bart launches a desperate bid for a place on the city's elite social... Read more

Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Whimsy, imagination, and sentiment have been banned in the Gradgrinds' upper-class household, but in Coketown, whose working class inhabitants fight for their very survival, the ban becomes a merciless creed. There, all that matters are the grinding wheels of production. Hard Times reflects a harsh world of grueling labor and pitiless... Read more

Howards End

By: E.M. Forster

Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Edwardian England, Howards End is the portrait of a lost era, a deceptively golden time before the First World War that would change values and lifestyles forever. To illuminate these changing times, Forster throws together three vastly dissimilar classes of people: the Schlegels-Helen and Margaret-educated, compassionate and... Read more

Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Michael Thompson

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the myth behind... Read more

The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Roslyn Alexander

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The House of the Seven Gables, a fixture in Hawthorne's Salem, serves as the ancestral home of the fictional Pyncheon family-whose distinguished legacy is tainted by pious thievery. When country cousin Phoebe arrives at the house, she is like a cool breeze, refreshing a room that has been sealed for too long. The resulting mixture of dark and... Read more

The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

At Baskerville Hall on the grim moors of Devonshire, a legendary curse has apparently claimed one more victim. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead. There are no signs of violence, but his face is hideously distorted with terror. Years earlier, a hound-like beast with blazing eyes and dripping jaws was reported to have torn out the throat... Read more

Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most famous works in English literature, this classic enjoys enduring popularity. For generations, its sharp humor has appealed to adults, and its lively fantasy has charmed children. Gulliver's Travels relates the adventures encountered by a ship's surgeon, Lemuel Gulliver, on four remarkable voyages. The first is to Lilliput, whose... Read more

Orte der Liebe - Abridged

By: Barbara Krohn

Narrated by: Barbara Krohn

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Barbara Krohn hat sich primär als Autorin von Kriminalromanen einen Namen gemacht. Und doch sind "Der Tote unter der Piazza", "Weg vom Fenster" und "Rosas Rückkehr" (alle Aufbau-Verlagsgruppe) nur ein Teil im Schaffen von Barbara Krohn. "Vor allem dient ihr die Tugend des genauen Hinsehens dazu, atmosphärisch dichte Porträts zu zeichnen:... Read more

Traumfängerin - Abridged

By: Rea Revekka Poulharidou

Narrated by: Rea Revekka Poulharidou

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rea Revekka Poulharidou fängt Träume ein, verdichtet sie in einer faszinierenden Sprache zu eindrücklichen und ausdrucksstarken Bildern, die den Leserinnen und Lesern darüber hinaus viel Raum für eigenes Träumen lassen. Es geht in den Gedichten um den Fluss des Lebens, um Liebe, Sehnsucht, Zerstörung und Hoffnung. Rea Revekka Poulharidous Lyrik... Read more

Die schönsten Gedichte - Abridged

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die schönsten Gedichte von der Klassik bis zur Neuromantik! Werke Johann Wolfgang von Goethes, Friedrich Schillers, Theodor Fontanes, Rainer Maria Rilkes und vieler anderer werden überragend von Sven Görtz gelesen. Sven Görtz wird am 13. November 1967 im Westerwald geboren. Er studierte Philosophie, Anglistik und Germanistik in Gießen. Neben... Read more

Die schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten der deutschen Literatur - Abridged

By: Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodor Storm, Hans Chritia...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

CD 1: Theodor Storm, der Vertreter des deutschen literarischen Realismus schlechthin, nimmt sich hier des überaus romantisierten Themas Weihnachten an. Weihnachtsabend I: "An die hellen Fenster kommt er gegangen..." (Gedicht) Unter dem Tannenbaum (Erzählung) Weihnachtsabend II: "Die fremde Stadt durchschritt ich sorgenvoll..."... Read more

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When Hank Morgan is cracked on the head by a crowbar in 19th-century Connecticut, one of literature's most extraordinary fantasy tales begins to unfold. Humorous, devilishly insightful, and resoundingly contemporary, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court remains one of the most celebrated stories in the canon of American writing. Awakening... Read more

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Leo Tolstoy is quite simply one of the greatest writers to ever set pen to paper. Immortalized by such epic novels as War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's genius was also readily apparent in his short fiction. The Death of Ivan Ilych follows the career of the unremarkable title character, who does not question his desire to live an "easy,... Read more

Galgenlieder - Abridged

By: Christoph Morgenroth

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bevor Christian Morgenstern, in München geboren, sich dem Studium der Philosophie und Kunstgeschichte zuwandte, hatte er Volkswirtschaft und Jura studiert. Danach zog es ihn zur Poesie: Die grotesk-absurde Heiterkeit seiner 75 Galgenlieder, die von manchen auch als "Unsinnslyrik" bezeichnet wurde, fand schnell eine große Anhängerschaft. Die... Read more

Heinrich Heine - Gedichte - Abridged

By: Heinrich Heine

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Heinrich Heines Gedichtswerk stellt das Zentrum seines umfangreichen literarischen Schaffens dar. In seiner Lyrik zeigt sich der 1797 in Düsseldorf geborene Dichter in seiner ganzen inhaltlichen wie stilistischen Vielfalt: heiter und ausgelassen, politisch engagiert, traurig, romantisch und ironisch, stets voller Esprit und Wohlklang. Heine ist... Read more

Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mark Twain wurde von seinen Lesern geliebt, weil er es wie kein zweiter verstand, Gesellschaftskritik in humoristische Erzählungen zu verpacken. Viele seiner Geschichten leben vom Lokalkolorit und erzählen von Personen und Ereignissen, die, obgleich im ernsten Ton geschrieben, schier unglaublich sind - und es auch sein sollen. Besonderes... Read more

Humoresken und Satiren - Abridged

By: Kurt Tucholsky

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der hellsichtigste Beobachter der Weimarer Republik und ihres Niedergangs war ein schreiberisches Multitalent, das sowohl Leitartikel, Glosse, Reportage als auch Satire, Gedicht, Lied und Couplet beherrschte. Unter zahlreichen Pseudonymen kommentierte Kurt Tucholsky Deutschland und die Deutschen - mal liebevoll, mal boshaft, mal bitter, aber... Read more

Le portrait de Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Denis Podalydes

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray a été rédigé en 1890 puis complété en 1891. Ce roman fantastique est à la fois un manifeste esthétique et un récit moral. Bien qu'Oscar Wilde y développe l'idée d'un art dégagé de toute éthique, le jeune Dorian Gray va faire face à sa conscience morale à travers son portrait qui porte à sa place les traces de sa... Read more

Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

You're in for a delightful surprise if you're one of the many people who believe all Russian literature is daunting and difficult. Ivan Turgenev's stories have enchanted generations with delicate prose, marvelously subtle irony, and richly crafted characters. Set against the serene backdrop of the Russian countryside, Fathers and Sons is the... Read more

Dawn

By: Elie Wiesel

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

With the coming of dawn is the coming of death for a captured English officer in British-controlled Palestine. Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter, is his executioner. Ordered to kill the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner, Elisha thinks about his past-a sorrowful memory of the nightmare of Nazi death camps. As... Read more

Daisy Miller

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Daisy is as free as the air, but an innocent abroad. Her garden of earthly delights bristles with the thorns of youth, tradition and of love. "Hearing Daisy Miller, listeners will recognize the tragic difficulties of youth, love, and tradition. Flo Gibson reads splendidly and portrays Daisy with requisite innocence and insolence."-Booklist Read more

Candide

By: Name Voltaire

Narrated by: Donal Donnelly

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When Baron Thunder-ten-trockh catches his daughter Cunegonde beginning to replicate this experiment in cause-and-effect with Candide, the young lad is unceremoniously kicked out of the castle, tutor included, and so begins one of literature's most famous and bizarre journeys.Candide - young, innocent and guileless - and his tutor, the good and... Read more

Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Does the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville really exist? And if he does, will he meet his match in the Otis family? Or will the rambunctious Otis children be the very death of him? The answers lie in these witty, hilarious tales. Read more