Classics audiobooks

Lord Jim - Abridged

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Joss Ackland

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

‘Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!’ Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to prove his mettle. When the boat he sails in threatens to sink, Jim abandons ship in fear in order to... Read more

Brothers Karamazov - Abridged

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Length: 19 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Abridged

By: E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakes...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Shakespeare’s most imaginative and merry play is set in an enchanted wood amidst fairies and sprites.When Oberon, King of the Fairies, uses his magic upon four runaway lovers in a midsummer wood outside Athens, chaos ensues. Who really loves whom? Meanwhile, a band of well-meaning but bungling local actors have their rehearsal sabotaged by the... Read more

Around the World in 80 Days

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Jim Dale

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid... Read more

When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six

By: A. A. Milne

Narrated by: Peter Dennis

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Blackstone Audio presents, from the unabridged collection "A.A. Milne's Pooh Classics," the forty-four poems from When We Were Very Young and the thirty-five poems of Now We Are Six, performed by Peter Dennis. This is the only reading of these delightful verses authorized by A.A. Milne's son, Christopher Robin.The first of A.A. Milne's four... Read more

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

By: Tobias Wolff, Akhil Sharma, Charles Baxter, Amy...

Narrated by: David Sedaris, Cherry Jones, Mary -Louise Parke...

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-have for the fans of the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction from Flannery O'Connor to Tobias Wolff.

David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them memorized. Sometimes he fantasizes that he wrote them.... Read more

Romeo and Juliet - Abridged

By: Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laur...

Narrated by: Joseph Fiennes, Maria Miles & a full cast

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the world’s most celebrated and lyrical love story, the sublime devotion of two young lovers transcends their earthly fate.The noble Veronese houses of Montague and Capulet are locked in a bitter feud. When Romeo (a Montague) and Juliet (a Capulet) fall in love, they are swept up in a series of violent events and cruel twists of fortune.... Read more

The Postman Always Rings Twice

By: James Cain

Narrated by: Stanley Tucci

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution -- a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the... Read more

Fairy Tales

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Kate Reading & Richard Matthews

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales—with an anarchic twist—but many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination.

The thirty stories here range from exuberant early works such... Read more

The Dorothy Parker Audio Collection - Abridged

By: Dorothy Parker

Narrated by: Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Alfre Woodar...

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A variety of work from one of the most quotable of all twentieth-century authors—the inimitable Dorothy ParkerAuthor, poet, screenwriter and outstanding member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was known for her quick wit, keen observations, and remarkable insight into the human condition. Regarded as brilliant, but known to... Read more

Resurrection

By: Leo Tolstoy

Length: 16 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Leo Tolstoy stands tall among the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century. In fact he fellowships with a handful of great story tellers of all time, the men and women who write literary masterpieces. Tolstoy based Resurrection, the last of his novels, on a true story of a philanderer whose misuse of a beautiful young orphan girl leads... Read more

Drei Frauen

By: Robert Musil

Narrated by: Otto Sander & Christoph Waltz

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Drei Erzählungen vom Großmeister der literarischen Moderne, in denen drei Frauen im Mittelpunkt stehen: die Bäuerin Grigia, die portugiesische Aristokratin und die Verkäuferin Tonka. Drei Frauen war die letzte schriftstellerische Vorstufe, bevor sich Musil sich auf sein monumentales Romanwerk Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften konzentrierte." Read more

Drei Frauen

By: Robert Musil

Narrated by: Otto Sander & Christoph Waltz

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Drei Erzählungen vom Großmeister der literarischen Moderne, in denen drei Frauen im Mittelpunkt stehen: die Bäuerin Grigia, die portugiesische Aristokratin und die Verkäuferin Tonka. Drei Frauen war die letzte schriftstellerische Vorstufe, bevor sich Musil sich auf sein monumentales Romanwerk Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften konzentrierte." Read more

Macbeth (Ungekürzt)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Katharina Thalbach

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Auftakt der Reihe "Katharina Thalbach liest Shakespeare in der Übersetzung von Thomas Brasch" Machtgier, Verführung, Mord und Wahnsinn - "Macbeth" ist Shakespeares kürzeste und zugleich dunkelste Tragödie. Die Geschichte eines Mannes, der mit Hilfe seiner Frau zum blutigsten aller schottischen Könige aufsteigt. Und wieder zu Fall gebracht... Read more

Le Morte D'Arthur - Abridged

By: Sir Thomas Malory

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For over 1,000 years, tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have enthralled people, among them Henry VIII and T. E. Lawrence. Proof of the Arthurian legend's timeless appeal is the fact that scarcely a year goes by without a new adaptation. Published in 1485, Sir Thomas Malory's epic poem Le Morte d'Arthur became the standard... Read more

The Monkey's Paw

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of short stories by W W Jacobs. Serpents, skinflints, skivers, suitors and sundry sailors take the foreground in these stories about the East End of London and the mythical village of Claybury at the turn of the century. Stories: The Third String, A Mixed Proposal, The Weaker Vessel, The Tiger's Skin, In The Family, The Unknown,... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

As part of the wonderful Collector's Library series, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of the best-loved children's classics of all time. This attractive volume contains the complete and unabridged story with 8 full color illustrations, plus numerous black & white illustrations throughout. The deluxe edition features a full piece cloth... Read more

The Cider House Rules

By: John Irving

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 24 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"John Irving's best novel . . . He is among the very best storytellers." - Philadelphia Inquirer From one of America's most beloved and respected writers comes the classic story of Homer Wells, an orphan, and Wilbur Larch, a doctor without children of his own, who develop an extraordinary bond with one another.   "Entertaining and affecting . .... Read more

Ruiseñor Y La Rosa, El Cumpleaños De La Infanta

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Carlos Zambrano

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Una fábula alegórica del amor, el sacrificio y el egoísmo. Al igual que con todos los cuentos de Wilde encarna fuertes valores morales y se cuenta con una efervescencia semejante a la de las 1001 noches.

Es la historia de un estudiante lovestruck que debe proporcionar su amada con una rosa roja con el fin de ganar su corazón. Un ruiseñor oír su... Read more

Le Cid, un coeur, une épée

By: Domaine public

Narrated by: Alain Carré

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Le Cid, un cœur une épée propose de suivre les étapes successives de la vie légendaire de Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, plus connu sous le nom de Cid Campeador, au travers de styles et langages musicaux et littéraires variés qu'il a inspirés, du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Les passages majeurs de la célèbre pièce de Corneille sont mêlés à des extraits de... Read more

Claude Gueux

By: Hugo Victor & Alain Carré

Narrated by: Alain Carré

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Une histoire vécue et un des écrits les plus poignants de Victor Hugo, servi par la voix d'Alain Carré. Claude Gueux, emprisonné à Clairvaux, se bat pour vivre dignement, ce qui l'entraînera à être condamné à mort.« L'histoire de l'Abbaye de Clairvaux ne s'est pas arrêtée à la Révolution au départ des moines. Elle devint la plus grande prison... Read more

Hans Christian Andersen Classic Stories - Abridged

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Diane Wolkstein

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Newly re-mastered for digital formats, this is the definitive recording of Hans Christian Andersen's six best-loved stories. Included are "Hans Clodhopper", "The Goblin and the Grocer", "The Ugly Duckling", The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Nightingale", and "Dance, Dance, Dolly Mine". Narrator Diane Wolkstein, the artistic director of the Hans... Read more

The Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: Amanda Redman, Full Cast & Tim McInnerny

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer’s epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by award-winning poet Simon Armitage and starring Tim McInnerny and Amanda Redman. ‘My fame is written in the heavens, and my fate too...’ So speaks Odysseus as he starts to recount his struggles to sail home to Ithaca, in one of the greatest pieces of... Read more

Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Anne-Marie Duff, Michael Maloney, Full Cast & J...

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this BBC full-cast production of Twelfth Night, Malvolio is looking for trouble - and revenge...

Michael Maloney, Josette Simon and Anne-Marie Duff star in this fast and funny production of Shakespeare's most sparkling and optimistic comedy, when all the world is turned on its head and authority is usurped, when by civil misrule girls become... Read more