Classics audiobooks

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Well over a century has passed since the publication of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876, but time has done little to diminish the appeal and enjoyment of this classic story of growing up in midwestern America. The world Mark Twain envisioned for his precocious hero is a "boy-perfect" one, where life is perpetual vacation, where good and... Read more

The Valley of Fear

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When a strange coded message arrives at 221B Baker Street, sent by a member of Professor Moriarty's criminal organization, Sherlock Holmes soon deciphers it and finds a warning: someone is about to be murdered. A visit from a Scotland Yard inspector confirms that one John Douglas has been mysteriously killed in Sussex. Even Sherlock Holmes, well... Read more

Young Goodman Brown

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

How long would you walk, if the Devil sauntered up to you of an evening, and journeyed alongside of you? Young Goodman Brown is led by the Devil to a midnight ritual, where fire, blood, and water change his opinions of the nature of humanity Read more

The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“I was sick, sick unto death with that long agony,” begins one of the most famous tales from the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. Through the tortures of the Spanish Inquisition, we follow the straying mind of an unnamed prisoner in his quest for hope in a world of darkness and despair. Read more

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Bernice has rare beauty and wealth, but is undeniably socially awkward. Her cousin Marjorie does her best to make Bernice into a social vampire. Being a socialite in America in the 1920s, it seems to her that some of the more archaic feminine ideals need to go. Bernice's long, luxurious hair may need to go, too. Read more

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

By: Kate Douglas Wiggin

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The willful, chatty ten-year-old Rebecca Rowena Randallhas been sent away from her home at Sunnybrook Farm to live with her two spinster aunts in the quiet town of Riverboro—where it is hoped she will be brought up as a proper young lady.Precocious, curious, and full of creative energy, Rebecca isn't quite ready to be tamed, leaving the prim and... Read more

Entremeses de Cervantes

By: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Narrated by: Fermin Suarez, Jose Oliveras, Adriana Sananes, ...

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

En el Madrid de 1615, Miguel de Cervantes publica sus Entremeses, siguiendo el estilo de Lope de Rueda quien los llamaba Pasos. El fin del dichos Entremeses es llenar los huecos en las representaciones del teatro "serio", como la duracion de las obras eran muy larga, los Entremeses aligeraban la estancia del publico en los teatros, poco a poco... Read more

Beowulf - Abridged

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: J.B. Bessinger

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's never been easy to be a hero. When Beowulf arrives at Hrothgar's hall, he discovers that the hall is beset by Grendel, an evil creature that kills and pillages with impunity. Beowulf, in heroic fashion, bests Grendel in combat, then follows Grendel back to his lair to finish the job.But Beowulf couldn't have counted on meeting Grendel's... Read more

Bless Me, Ultima

By: Rudolfo Anaya

Narrated by: Robert Ramirez

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English. Indeed, Anaya's tales fairly shimmer with the haunting beauty and richness of his culture. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Anaya is perhaps best loved for his classic... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Dickens' masterfully crafted Christmas fable tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a man with wealth to match the coldness of his heart. On a mystical Christmas Eve, a visitation with spirits forces Scrooge to make a choice: change, or perish. Read more

On the Road: the Original Scroll

By: Jack Kerouac

Narrated by: John Ventimiglia

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it
 
“The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version [of On the Road] for our time. . . . It is a dazzling piece of writing.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
During three weeks in 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote the first draft of On the Road—typed as a long,... Read more

Was ihr wollt (Ungekürzt)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Katharina Thalbach

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Was ihr wollt", Teil 4 der Shakespeare/Brasch-Reihe, ist eine der bekanntesten und beliebtesten Komödien des großen Dramatikers. Ein burleskes Stück mit derben Späßen, Verwechslungen und Liebes-Wirren, dem jedoch auch eine seltsame Melancholie innewohnt. Ein vielschichtiges Werk mit zahlreichen unerwarteten Wendungen, an dessen Anfang ein... Read more

The Lost Phoebe

By: Theodore Dreiser

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Tormented to distraction by the death of his true love, an old man embarks on a quixotic quest to find her. A tale that is tragic yet tender, Theodore Dreiser demonstrates the power of a love that bridges the gap between life and death. Read more

The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

It was the eye. The dull, sightless, vulture's eye that shredded his final nerve. But the murder was done so carefully, so perfectly, that only one thing could reveal the whereabouts of the body. B. J. Harrison gives a masterful reading of the famous murder that wouldn't keep quiet. Read more

The Most Dangerous Game

By: Richard Connell

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A mysterious island, shrouded in fear, evil, and darkness. Here the amoral General Zaroff hunts. And what, you ask, is the most dangerous game? It is the manner and substance of his nightly killings. Read more

Shirley

By: Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 25 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar to solve his financial woes, yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline, who, bored and desperate, lives... Read more

Plato's Republic

By: Simon Blackburn

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived, and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375 BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city—and the perfect mind—laid the foundations for Western culture and, for over two thousand years, has been the cornerstone of Western... Read more

Rappaccini's Daughter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfume or poison? A young Italian student takes rooms overlooking the most glorious flower garden the world has ever known. But, when he falls in love with the mysterious Eve who tends to the garden, he learns that this Paradise is anything but a Garden of Eden. Read more

Slan

By: A. E. van Vogt

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Jommy Cross is a slan, a genetically bred superhuman whose race was created to aid humanity but is now despised by normal humans. Slans are usually shot on sight, but that doesn’t stop Jommy’s mother from bringing him to see the world capital of Centropolis, the seat of power for Earth’s dictator, Kier Gray. But on their latest trip to... Read more

The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this classic masterpiece, originally published in 1320, read by award-winning narrator Ralph Cosham.No words can describe the greatness of this work, a greatness both of theme and of artistry. Dante’s theme is universal; it involves the greatest concepts that man has ever attained. Only a genius could... Read more

Barbara of the House of Grebe

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Barbara, a young and impetuous heiress, rejects the stern Lord Uplandtowers to elope with a poor but handsome man, Edmund Willowes. When Barbara’s parents send Edmund to Europe, they hope to change him into a more suitable match for their daughter. But after disaster strikes, Edmund returns in a way nobody could have imagined. Read more

The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The bloody-minded Montresor leads the pompous Fortunato deep into the catacombs, seeking the famed Amontillado wine. Here we have one of Poe’s most terrifying, and most “beloved” tales. Revenge and pomposity commingle beneath the river’s bed, leading to a delightfully sinister conclusion. Read more

Orgullo y Prejuicio - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro de la novela más popular de Jane Austen, “Orgullo y Prejuicio,” considerada una de las primeras comedias de la historia de la literatura.

Orgullo y Prejuicio pinta la vida de una sociedad victoriana en Inglaterra, y presenta a la familia Bennet de Longbourn. A pesar de pudieran decir los... Read more

Madame Bovary - Abridged

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Madame Bovary
de Gustavo Flaubert

FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro en español de una de las obras más controversiales e importantes de la literatura universal, Madame Bovary de Gustavo Flaubert, quién fue llevado a juicio, acusado de inmoralidad, al lanzarse este libro.

Emma Bovary es una hermosa y ambicionada mujer, quién esta... Read more