Classics audiobooks

The Nick Adams Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the 20th century's greatest voices comes the complete volume of his short stories featuring Nick Adams, Ernest Hemingway's memorable character, as he grows from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent—a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.

The complete collection of Ernest Hemingway's Nick... Read more

A Clockwork Orange

By: Anthony Burgess

Narrated by: Tom Hollander

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is... Read more

Falling Man

By: Don DeLillo

Narrated by: John Slattery

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people.

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.

Falling Man is a... Read more

Die Leiden des jungen Werther (ungekuerzt)

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Narrated by: Patrick Imhof

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Goethes erster Roman erzählt die Geschichte der Liebe des jungen Werther zu einer Frau - die bereits vergeben ist. Diese verbotene Liebe endet tragisch. Der Text ist ungekürzt und wird von dem Schauspieler Patrick Imhof gelesen. Im Jahr 1772 wandert der spätere Dichterfürst noch zu Fuß nach Wetzlar, um dort eine Praktikumsstelle anzutreten. Auf... Read more

En Busca Del Tiempo Perdido V.5: La Prisionera

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: Santiago Munevar

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Part 5 de la monumental obra de Marcel Proust (1871-1922), En Busca del Tiempo Perdido: un inmenso retrato de toda una sociedad y es considerada como una de las grandes obras maestras de toda la literature. Como su nobre lo indica, Proust trató de recobrar en su novella en siete volúmenes lo que había sido el ayer y sus personajes están basados... Read more

En Busca Del Tiempo Perdido V.2: En La Sombra De Las Muchachas En Flor

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: Daniel Quintero

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Part 2 de la monumental obra de Marcel Proust (1871-1922), En Busca del Tiempo Perdido: un inmenso retrato de toda una sociedad y es considerada como una de las grandes obras maestras de toda la literature. Como su nobre lo indica, Proust trató de recobrar en su novella en siete volúmenes lo que había sido el ayer y sus personajes están basados... Read more

En Busca Del Tiempo Perdido V.4: Sodoma Y Gomorra

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: Santiago Munevar

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Part 4 de la monumental obra de Marcel Proust (1871-1922), En Busca del Tiempo Perdido: un inmenso retrato de toda una sociedad y es considerada como una de las grandes obras maestras de toda la literature. Como su nobre lo indica, Proust trató de recobrar en su novella en siete volúmenes lo que había sido el ayer y sus personajes están basados... Read more

En Busca Del Tiempo Perdido

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: Daniel Quintero

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Part 1 de la monumental obra de Marcel Proust (1871-1922), En Busca del Tiempo Perdido: un inmenso retrato de toda una sociedad y es considerada como una de las grandes obras maestras de toda la literature. Como su nobre lo indica, Proust trató de recobrar en su novella en siete volúmenes lo que había sido el ayer y sus personajes están basados... Read more

En Busca Del Tiempo Perdido V.6: Albertine Ha Desaparecido

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: Santiago Munevar

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Part 6 de la monumental obra de Marcel Proust (1871-1922), En Busca del Tiempo Perdido: un inmenso retrato de toda una sociedad y es considerada como una de las grandes obras maestras de toda la literature. Como su nobre lo indica, Proust trató de recobrar en su novella en siete volúmenes lo que había sido el ayer y sus personajes están basados... Read more

En Busca Del Tiempo Perdido V.7: El Tiempo Recobrado

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: Santiago Munevar

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Part 7 de la monumental obra de Marcel Proust (1871-1922), En Busca del Tiempo Perdido: un inmenso retrato de toda una sociedad y es considerada como una de las grandes obras maestras de toda la literature. Como su nobre lo indica, Proust trató de recobrar en su novella en siete volúmenes lo que había sido el ayer y sus personajes están basados... Read more

En Busca Del Tiempo Perdido V.3: El Mundo De Los Guermantes

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: Santiago Munevar

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Part 3 de la monumental obra de Marcel Proust (1871-1922), En Busca del Tiempo Perdido: un inmenso retrato de toda una sociedad y es considerada como una de las grandes obras maestras de toda la literature. Como su nobre lo indica, Proust trató de recobrar en su novella en siete volúmenes lo que había sido el ayer y sus personajes están basados... Read more

The Jewel of Seven Stars

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Hither the Gods come not at any summons. The Nameless One has insulted them and is forever alone. Go not nigh, lest their vengeance wither you away!" The warning was inscribed on the entrance of the hidden tomb, forgotten for millennia in the sands of mystic Egypt. Then the archaeologists and grave robbers came in search of the fabled Jewel of... Read more

Under the Greenwood Tree

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A wonderfully evocative tale of the courtship of Fancy Day, newly arrived schoolmistress, by Dick Dewy, carrier of goods, during the four seasons of one year in Wessex. Most of Hardy’s work had tragedy woven into the narrative but Under the Greenwood Tree is full of whimsy and good humour. ... Read more

The Detached House

By: Emily Eden

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The house is called "Pleasance" and is rented by two sisters, Blanche and Aileen. The story revolves around the fortunes of two neighbouring families of varied social standing. The sisters' semi-detachment is to the Hopkinsons. Whilst Blanche's husband, Arthur, is abroad on a mission, the neighbours soon prove themselves invaluable as friends... Read more

A Child of the Jago

By: Arthur Morrison

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A Child of the.Jago' is both thriller and condemnation of social conditions in the East End slums at the turn of the century. Boy hero Dicky Perrott is at heart full of humane instinct but his environment ensures his down fall. "It was my fate to encounter a place in Shoreditch where children were born and reared in circumstances which gave them... Read more

Far From the Madding Crowd - Abridged

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Julie Christie

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD is perhaps the best-known of Hardy's works. The story centres around the beautiful and wilful Bathsheba Everdene, mistress of Weatherbury Upper Farm, and the three men who love her. Hardy combines outstanding description of West Country rural life with a deep sense of romantic passion.

(P)2003 Hodder & Stoughton... Read more

The Fellowship of the Ring

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The original American dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. Read more

Oliver Twist

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Dickens’ most popular novels, Oliver Twist tells the story of a young workhouse orphan who escapes into the mean backstreets of Victorian London. There, he is thrust into a den of thieves where some of Dickens’ most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the barbarous bully Bill Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, whose... Read more

HMS Ulysses - Abridged

By: Alistair MacLean

Narrated by: Denis Quilley

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of action and suspense – an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. Constant patrols have pushed the crew of the HMS Ulysses beyond the limits of endurance. And now they must be put to sea... Read more

Love and Mr Lewisham

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Love and Mr. Lewisham is a hugely uplifting tale from the pen of one of our greatest writers. Wells drew on his own experience as a young teacher to provide the background and, one suspects, the emotional drama. The plot enables him to satirise the educational establishment and deliver many wry observations on Victorian morality and the... Read more

Frankenstein - Abridged

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FRANKENSTEIN, or the Modern Prometheus, is Mary Shelley's passionate and Gothic tale of terror, in which a man's desire to know the unknowable sweeps him into a living nightmare. Victor Frankenstein's experiments with life itself give birth to an extraordinary force with the potential for either good or evil. Read by Kenneth Branagh,... Read more

The War Of The Worlds (Classic Radio Sci-Fi)

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Anthony Jackson, Full Cast, Martin Jarvis, Paul...

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

'They came in cylinders as dreaded falling stars; they were the ultimate killing machines...' When a Martian spacecraft crash-lands near Woking, mankind is terrorised by aliens in tall, armoured capsules that stalk the countryside on three legs. The frightening machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties with their heat-rays, and... Read more

Dandelion Wine - Abridged

By: Ray Bradbury & Nancy Curran Willis

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ray Bradbury’s endearing, lyrical tale of boyhood and an idyllic Midwestern summer is presented here as a full-cast audio dramatization by The Colonial Theatre on the Air, complete with sound effects and a brilliant music score.Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole world that lies beyond.... Read more

The Invisible Man/The Time Machine

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Two novellas by the incomparable H.G. Wells: First, The Invisible Man - A scientist theorizes that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will not be visible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally... Read more