Classics audiobooks
The Deerslayer
By: James Fenimore Cooper
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 20 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Set during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer vividly captures the violence and rugged beauty of the American frontier. In the wilds of New York, where tensions rage between tribal Indians and white pioneers, a white hunter known as Deerslayer is initiated into the moral codes of wilderness society. When he and his loyal Mohican friend... Read more
View audiobookThe Christmas Stories
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
No writer is more identified with the modern idea of Christmas than Charles Dickens. In some ways, Dickens helped define the holiday that we now celebrate by immortalizing it as a time of warmth and sharing, with an emphasis on family and friends.Dickens wrote all the stories presented here during the 1850s as contributions to the special... Read more
View audiobookThe Other House
By: Henry James
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
This terse and startling novel is the story of a struggle for possession—and of its devastating consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections of one man, while he, in turn, tries to satisfy them all. But in the middle of this contest of wills stands his unwitting and vulnerable young daughter. The conclusion of The Other House makes it... Read more
View audiobookScenes of Clerical Life
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
George Eliot's brilliant fiction debut contains three stories from the lives of clergymen, with the aim of disclosing the value hidden in the commonplace."The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton" portrays a character who is hard to like and generally despised—until his suffering shocks others into fellowship and sympathy.In "Mr. Gilfil's... Read more
View audiobookUnder Drake’s Flag
By: G. A. Henty
Narrated by: Fred Williams
Length: 12 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
In the days when England and Spain struggled for the supremacy of the sea, a young lad sails with Sir Francis Drake, the daring sixteenth-century privateer, in this action-packed story based on true historical events. Drake’s superb navigational skill enabled him to outrun or outmaneuver his incessant pursuers. He escaped so often and so... Read more
View audiobookDaisy Miller
By: Henry James
Narrated by: Susan O’Malley
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
“What the European male fails to understand is that the American Girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent; and that her purity depends upon nothing she says or does…”—Leslie FiedlerWhen Frederick, an American expatriate traveling in Europe, meets the newly rich Miller family from New York, he is charmed by the daughter, Daisy, and her... Read more
View audiobookMiss Mapp
By: E. F. Benson
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Miss Elizabeth Mapp, magnificent grande dame and heiress, is always on the lookout lest her neighbors fall outside the bounds of perfect, exemplary manners. Opera glasses and notebook in hand, she gazes out her window, ever the vigilant sentinel. But her tightly controlled world is soon beset on all sides by interlopers, first in the... Read more
View audiobookWashington Square
By: Henry James
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
On New York City’s Washington Square lives Catherine Sloper, a shy and plain young woman who is tyrannized by her wealthy, overbearing father. When young Morris Townsend begins to court her, Dr. Sloper distrusts his motives, believing that the young man could not possibly love his daughter. Both lovers are obstinate in their affections; but when... Read more
View audiobookCaptain David Grief
By: Jack London
Narrated by: Brian Emerson
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Captain David Grief, South Pacific tycoon, owns plantations and trading stations from New Guinea to Samoa, pearling fisheries in the Paumotus, and rubber acreages in the Louisiades. His own vessels recruit contract labor, and he operates three steamers on ocean runs. He came to the South Seas at the age of twenty and, blessed with a blond skin... Read more
View audiobookLooking Backward
By: Edward Bellamy
Narrated by: Edward Lewis
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The time is tomorrow. The place: a utopian America. The hero: anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. This is the backdrop for Edward Bellamy’s prophetic novel about a young Boston gentleman who is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century—and from a world of war and want to a world of peace and... Read more
View audiobookThe Land That Time Forgot
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
When adventurer Bowen Tyler is taken aboard an enemy submarine, he never dreams that his voyage will end in a land where time itself is prisoner. But in the uncharted seas at the bottom of the world, Tyler and the crew of the U-33 discover the mysterious forgotten continent of Caspak, where the savage denizens of a thousand lost ages roam vast... Read more
View audiobookMain Street
By: Sinclair Lewis
Narrated by: Brian Emerson
Length: 16 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
When Carol Milford, a young, liberated woman from St. Paul, Minnesota, marries small-town doctor Will Kennicott, she suddenly finds herself transplanted to Gopher Prairie. Horrified by her new home, an ugly backwater community, she decides it's time the town made a few changes.The story of an idealistic young woman's frustrated attempts to... Read more
View audiobookThe Longest Journey
By: E. M. Forster
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Bookish, sensitive, and given to wild enthusiasms, Rickie Elliot is virtually made for a life at Cambridge, where he can subsist on a regimen of biscuits and philosophical debate. But the love-smitten Rickie leaves his natural habitat to marry the devastatingly practical Agnes Pembroke, who brings with her, as a sort of dowry, a teaching... Read more
View audiobookAlexander’s Bridge
By: Willa Cather
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
There is a pleasure in listening to the imagery of Alexander’s Bridge that is similar to viewing a beautiful watercolor, as in the following description of a Boston street in late afternoon: “The sun sank rapidly; the silvery light had faded from the bare boughs and the watery twilight was setting in when Wilson at last walked down the hill,... Read more
View audiobookThe House of Mirth
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Set among the elegant brownstones and opulent country houses of turn-of-the-century upper-class New York, Edith Wharton’s first great novel is a precise, satiric portrayal of what the author herself called “a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers.”Her brilliantly complex characterization of the doomed Lily Bart, whose stunning beauty and... Read more
View audiobookThe Way of All Flesh
By: Samuel Butler
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
This brilliant satirical novel traces the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex, a young man who survives the baleful influence of a hateful, hypocritical father, a doting mother, and a debauched wife to emerge as a decent, happy human being. A fascinating character study, it is also a stinging satire of the Victorian gentry's pomposity,... Read more
View audiobookLittle Dorrit
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 31 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Little Amy Dorrit was born in debtor’s prison, where her father, an aristocrat by birth, has been an inmate for the past twenty years.Though her father is too proud to acknowledge their reduced status, Amy secretly works as a seamstress to support her family. In this way she meets and befriends Arthur, her employer’s son, who wants to help.When... Read more
View audiobookBen-Hur
By: Lew Wallace
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 23 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most popular American novels of all time, Ben-Hur vividly reimagines the oppressive Roman occupation of ancient Palestine and the rise of Christianity. The saga of Judah Ben-Hur’s spiritual journey from slavery to vengeance to redemption is both a vivid historical adventure and a powerful story of one man’s religious awakening.Born... Read more
View audiobookCleopatra
By: H. Rider Haggard
Narrated by: William Sutherland
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Cleopatra lies asleep. One white, rounded arm makes a pillar for her head. The web of her dark hair falls over her like lace. Her limbs are draped in a robe so thin that the gleam of her flesh shines through it. Her rich lips are parted in a smile.Harmachis looks down on her, and the sight of Cleopatra's beauty strikes the young Egyptian with... Read more
View audiobookThe Gin Palace
By: Émile Zola
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The Gin Palace is the seventh novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, which follows two branches of a French family through several generations. It is also the work that made his reputation, introducing one of the most sympathetic heroines in nineteenth-century literature.Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone,... Read more
View audiobookLittle Women
By: Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
Length: 18 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
This favorite book for children, based on the author’s own youthful experiences, describes the life of the March family in a small New England community in the 1800s.Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother while their father serves as chaplain during the American Civil War. Jo at fifteen is ungainly,... Read more
View audiobookHis Last Bow
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A body on the London Underground; the strange disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; a parcel containing some coarse salt and two freshly severed human ears. This collection of eight world-famous cases from Doctor Watson’s portfolio illustrates the singular mental faculties of Sherlock Holmes. In the course of his investigations, Holmes himself... Read more
View audiobookThe Time Machine
By: H. G. Wells
Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The Time Traveler first steps out of his magnificent time-transport machine in the year 802,700—more than 800,000 years beyond his own era. The brave explorer finds himself on a slowly dying Earth populated by a race of slender pacifists called the Eloi and decides to study this lush land of flower people before returning to his own age. These... Read more
View audiobookOur Mutual Friend
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 31 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
This sinister masterpiece was Dickens’ last completed novel and perhaps his ultimate vision of a dark, macabre London and the corrupting power of money. Opening with a father and daughter scavenging for corpses on the Thames, this chilling tale unfolds around drownings, disguises and doubles, violence, murder, and triumphant love.Young John... Read more
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