Classics audiobooks

The Classic Tales Podcast

By: Various

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 39 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Relish the wonders of Classic Literature in B.J. Harrison’s second season of The Classic Tales Podcast. Experience more of the greatest fiction ever written, as it comes to life in this unprecedented audiobook. Adventure from Jack London and Edgar Rice Burroughs, gothic suspense from Wilkie Collins and Edgar Allan Poe, humor from Mark Twain and... Read more

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians

By: Mark Twain & Lee Nelson

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1885, while The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was becoming one of the bestselling American classics of modern times, Mark Twain began this sequel in which Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Jim head west on the trail of two white girls kidnapped by Sioux warriors. Fifteen thousand words into the work, Twain stopped in the middle of a sentence, never... Read more

Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“A weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares.” This is how Marlowe describes his journey into the Belgian Congo. And while Europeans go mad, Corporations turn tyrannous, and the legend of a great Ivory hunter is dangled before him, Marlowe observes everything with a keen eye, as we journey with him, into the Heart of Darkness. Read more

Emma

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Often considered Jane Austen’s finest work, Emma is the story of a charmingly self-deluded heroine whose naive matchmaking schemes often lead to substantial mortification. Emma, “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one... Read more

Out of the Silent Planet

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel in Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy (also known as the Cosmic or Space Trilogy), which is considered his chief contribution to science fiction. A planetary romance with elements of medieval mythology, the trilogy concerns Dr. Elwin Ransom, a professor of philology who, like Christ, is offered as a ransom for... Read more

The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The spectral hellhound, which dogs the descendants of the Baskerville family, has claimed another victim. The ancient legend, and the modern murderous facts are placed before the great Sherlock Holmes. And one of the greatest adventures put to print begins... Read more

The Trembling of a Leaf

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

When noted English writer W. Somerset Maugham set off for the South Seas to regain his health, his experiences would become the bedrock for the stories represented here. These are among Maugham’s best work, as well as some of the best stories ever written about the exotic South Seas.“Mackintosh” is a taut psychological study of two officials on... Read more

Crome Yellow

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the greatest prose writers and social commentators of the twentieth century, Aldous Huxley here introduces us to a delightfully cynical, comic, and severe group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most freethinking and modern kind of talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian primitive painting are just a... Read more

Westward Ho!

By: Charles Kingsley

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 19 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Subtitle: or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen ElizabethFrom the coral reefs of the Barbados to the jungles and fabled cities of the Orinoco and on to the great sea battle with the Spanish Armada, this vibrant novel captures the daring spirit... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? From Tom’s sly trickery with the whitewashed fence to his and Becky Thatcher’s calamities in Bat Cave, the enjoyment never ends.Just what did boys do in a small town during the mid-1800s, a time when there were no televisions, no arcades, and no videos? They whitewashed... Read more

Hinds’ Feet on High Places

By: Hannah Hurnard

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Hinds' Feet on High Places is Hannah Hurnard's best-known and best-loved book, a beautiful allegory dramatizing the yearning of God's children to be led to new heights of love, joy, and victory. Follow Much-Afraid on her spiritual journey through difficult places with her two companions, Sorrow and Suffering. Learn how Much-Afraid overcomes her... Read more

A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature—a chilling and still-provocative look at a postapocalyptic future.In a nightmarish, ruined... Read more

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Tom Parker

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Huck Finn is an orphaned drifter who loves freedom more than respectability. He isn’t above lying and stealing, but he faces a battle with his conscience when he meets up with a runaway slave named Jim, who provides him with his first experiences of love, acceptance, and a sense of responsibility.The title character of this famous novel tells... Read more

Animal Farm

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable.The animals of Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm are overworked, mistreated, and desperately seeking a reprieve. In their quest to create an idyllic society... Read more

Anna Karenina - Abridged

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When beautiful, aristocratic, and married Anna falls madly in love with the dashing Count Vronsky, their affair shocks Russian society, tears her family apart, and leads, inevitably, to tragedy. Count Leo Tolstoy's epic story of passion, infidelity, vengeance, and retribution has held readers spellbound since it was first published in the late... Read more

The Last of the Mohicans

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Illus. in black-and-white. This action-packed edition of James Fenimore Cooper's famous adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French and Indian War to vivid life.   Read more

The Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic epic chronicle of the Greek Hero on his travels home from the Trojan War, Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops, and the isle of Circe. He withstands the lure of the Sirens’ song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult challenge at home, where treacherous suitors seek to steal his... Read more

El Lobo Estepario - Abridged

By: Hermann Hesse

Narrated by: Daniel Quintero

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

La novela que influenció toda una generación. El Lobo estepario es una de las grandes novelas del premio Nobel de 1946 Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), por tratar en forma profunda el tema del antagonismo entre las dos naturalezas de un individuo, en este caso Harry Haller, una persona desilusionada de la vida, que alterna la que se considera... Read more

Heidi

By: Johanna Spyri

Narrated by: Marnie MacAdam

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this treasured story, the orphan child, Heidi, is sent to live with her embittered grandfather high in the Swiss Alps. Heidi's innocent joy of life and genuine concern and love for all living things become the old man's salvation.From the goatherder Peter and his family to the sickly girl Clara and her desperate father, Heidi's special charm... Read more

The Way Through the Woods - Abridged

By: Colin Dexter

Narrated by: Kevin Whately

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Way Through the Woods is the tenth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.

Quietly, rather movingly, Strange was making his plea: 'Christ knows why, Lewis, but Morse will always put himself out for you.' As he put the phone down, Lewis knew that Strange had been right . . . in the case of the Swedish Maiden, the pair of them were... Read more

Los Siete Ahorcados - Abridged

By: Leonid Andreyev

Narrated by: Fabio Camero

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Uno de los mas pesimistas escritores rusos. Leonidas Andreyev (1871¿1919), describió en su novela (inspirada en un hecho real), Los Siete Ahorcados, la última noche de siete condenados a muerte; cinco terroristas y dos criminales, los primeros hallados culpables del atentado contra la vida de un importante miembro del gobierno. Ellos llegan a la... Read more

Wind In The Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a new world. As well as the river and the Wild Wood, there is Toad's craze for fast travel and motor-cars that leads them all on a timeless adventure. Read more

dresden dilemma

By: Stefan Seyfarth

Narrated by: Stefan Seyfarth

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Gedichtband "dresden dilemma" ist StefanSeyfarths erste Solo-Veröffentlichung. Ob es Rechtsradikalismus, glückliche und gescheiterte Beziehungen oder das Nachtleben in der Dresdner Neustadt sind - immer gelingt es ihm, das Lebensgefühl eines seine Umwelt wachen Geistes betrachtenden aber auch lebensfrohen jungen Mannes einzufangen und... Read more

Slämmology - it's pure, it's raw, it's poetry - Abridged

By: Wehwalt Koslovsky

Narrated by: Wehwalt Koslovsky

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

Von modernen Balladen bis atemberaubenden Wortperformances: Mit Wehwalt Koslovsky veröffentlicht ein profilierter Slammer seine erstes Hörbuch im Verlag Der gesunde Menschenversand. "Slämmology" zeigt Koslovskys Slamschaffen in allen möglichen Variationen: Dominieren in der ersten Hälfte der CD die Balladen, so dreht er alsdann auf, steigert... Read more