Classics audiobooks

The Castle

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

On his deathbed, Franz Kafka asked that all his unpublished manuscripts be burned. Fortunately, his request was ignored, allowing such works as The Trial to earn recognition among the literary masterpieces of the 20th century. This brilliant translation of The Castle captures comedic elements and visual imagery that earlier interpretations... Read more

The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family of Salem. The greed and haughty pride of the Pyncheon family through the generations is mirrored in... Read more

The Next Level

By: David Gregory

Narrated by: Chris Fabry

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Business degree in hand, Logan enters the immense Universal Systems building and is hired as an organizational analyst — a trouble-shooter. His job: evaluate the company’s five divisions, each on a separate level and each operating on startlingly unique principles. Which set of principles is successful? Why is most of the company’s profit... Read more

Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Fanny Price, a poor relation of the rich Bertrams, is reluctantly adopted into the family to be brought up at Mansfield Park, where she is treated condescendingly. Only her cousin Edmund, a young clergyman, appreciates her fine qualities. Fanny soon falls in love with him, but Edmund is, unfortunately, drawn to the shallow and worldly Mary... Read more

Billy Budd, Sailor

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed for more than 100 years, Herman Melville's sea tale, Billy Budd, is considered to be one of the small masterpieces of American fiction. An engaging plot on the surface, the exciting yarn set in 1791 also raises profound questions about the very nature of man himself. Handsome, young Billy Budd is well-liked by the other... Read more

Brave New World

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. “One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century” —Wall Street JournalCloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media—has Aldous Huxley accurately... Read more

The Aspern Papers

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Adrian Cronauer

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The unnamed narrator of Henry James' novella is an editor and literary critic obsessed with the life and work of Jeffrey Aspern, a long-deceased American poet, who died at an appropriately Romantic and tragic young age. No one is going to prevent him from bringing the secrets hidden in the paper to light for a curious public, least of all an old... Read more

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1862, during a boating party on the Thames River, a young Englishman named Lewis Carroll entertained three little girls by spinning a wondrous story of a disappearing cat, a mad tea party, and a croquet-playing Queen of Hearts. The story so enchanted one of the girls that she begged him to put it in writing. The result was overwhelming fame... Read more

The Adventures of Robin Hood

By: E. Charles Vivian

Narrated by: Dan Elsea

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The legend of Robin Hood is over a thousand years old, but it was Vivian's novel that collected and distilled many of the legends and stories and combined them into the great classic we know today, with Robin and Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, and the evil Prince John. Read more

Kipps

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This wonderful comedy about orphan and innocent Arthur Kipps was the means by which Wells satirized what he saw as a gross stupidity and blight upon English society; the pretensions of and obsession with class. Humble drapers’ assistant Arthur unexpectedly inherits his grandfathers fortune and is instantly propelled into a higher social strata... Read more

Absalom, Absalom!

By: William Faulkner

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

ABSALOM, ABSALOM! tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, the enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson township in the early 1830s. With a French architect and a band of wild Haitians, he wrung a fabulous plantation out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness.

Sutpen was a man, Faulker said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed... Read more

Dracula - Abridged

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Orson Welles

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This spectacular and haunting version of Bram Stoker's Dracula stars Orson Welles and was performed in 1938. Between 1879 and 1889 Bram Stoker was business manager for the world-famous Lyceum Theatre in London, where he supplemented his income by writing a large number of sensational novels. This, perhaps his most famous tale about the vampire... Read more

Kidnapped

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The attempt at murder failed. Risking everything to keep young David Balfour from his just inheritance, his wicked uncle has him kidnapped - condemning his nephew to seven long years of slavery in the Carolinas. However, on the way, David runs into one of the greatest characters in English Literature: Alan Breck Stuart. These two heroes band... Read more

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Huckleberry Finn is the original American maverick. He chooses the things that feel the most comfortable for him, regardless of what others may say. But when he is forced to flee his home, and comes into company with Jim, a runaway slave, his sound heart collides with his ill-trained conscience. Together, Huck and Jim journey down the... Read more

Swiss Family Robinson

By: Johann Wyss

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 16 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A horrible tempest hurls an abandoned ship against the shoal rocks with the force of a hurricane. Once the tremendous storm passes, a family appears from within the crushed vessel. Now, a father, a mother and their four sons must carve out a new life for themselves on an unchartered tropical island. Come and join the Swiss Family Robinson, as... Read more

Metamorphoses

By: Ovid

Narrated by: Barry Kraft

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification... Read more

Dodsworth

By: Sinclair Lewis

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Sam Dodsworth, an amiable fifty-year-old millionaire and "American Captain of Industry, believing in the Republican Party, high tariffs and, so long as they did not annoy him personally, in Prohibition and the Episcopal Church." Dodsworth runs an auto manufacturing firm, but his beautiful wife, Fran, obsessed with the notion that she is... Read more

The Classic Tales Podcast

By: Various

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 37 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Who says that you can't have it all? Adventure, romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and fine literature? Infinite variety - that is what you find here. Classic Literature has never been presented so approachably. You will savor the chills from Edgar Allan Poe, then smilingly shake your head as a man dupes an entire town.

You will hear... Read more

El Tercer Hombre - Abridged

By: Graham Greene

Narrated by: Hernando Ivan Cano

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

El tercer hombre es uno de los verdaderamente grandes películas de la posguerra. Es una historia emocionante de mercado negro como telón de fondo de Viena, en la inmediata posguerra, cuando la ciudad fue dividida en cuatro zonas entre las grandes potencias: Rusia, Gran Bretaña, Francia y Estados Unidos.

Aunque las estrellas de la película, Orson... Read more

Mastin De Los Baskerville - Abridged

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Daniel Quintero

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

El hecho de que haya más de dos docenas de versiones cinematográficas de “El mastín de los Baskerville” es muestra de la popularidad de esta novela, la tercera que escribió Conan Doyle(1859-1930) con el personaje de Sherlock Holmes. Para muchos críticos es la mejor lograda de todas, ya que al suspenso que tiene esta brillante narración hay que... Read more

Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Austen's first major novel, a parody of the popular literature of the time, is an ironic tale of the romantic folly of men and women in pursuit of love, marriage, and money. The humorous adventures of young Catherine as she encounters "the difficulties and dangers of a six weeks' residence in Bath" lead to some of Austen's most brilliant... Read more

The Buried Book

By: David Damrosch

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Etched in the wedge-shaped letters known as cuneiform on clay tablets, the Epic of Gilgamesh stands as the earliest classic of world literature. Its earliest surviving fragments date back to the eighteenth century BC, more than 3,700 years ago. In The Buried Book, David Damrosch tells the story of George Smith, a self-taught linguist, who one... Read more

Essential Doris Lessing - Abridged

By: Doris Lessing

Narrated by: Doris Lessing

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A feminist landmark, The Golden Notebook tells the story of writer Anna Wulf and the crises she faces in her personal, political and professional life. Confounded by writer's block, the ferociously independent Wulf explores her situation in four notebooks, one for each of the strands in her life. The Golden Notebook is the one in which,... Read more

Tre Uomini In Barca

By: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by: Pietro Trisciuoglio

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Tre amici ed un cane percorrono in barca il Tamigi. Sia durante i preparativi del viaggio che in navigazione, si verificano situazioni assurde e divertenti, descritte con il tipico umorismo inglese. Read more