Classics audiobooks

Moll Flanders

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Possibly the first novel in the English language, Moll Flanders is the fictional autobiography of a delightfully scandalous young female rogue. Born in Newgate Prison in seventeenth-century England, Moll is predestined to poverty and lawlessness, yet relentlessly driven to overcome her fate. Donning whatever mask suits her best in the moment,... Read more

Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Written when she was twenty-six, Agnes Grey is Anne Brontë's first novel. It tells the story of a rector's daughter who has to earn her living as a governess when her family enters a financial crisis. Drawing directly from her own experiences, Anne Brontë set out to describe the immense pressures that the governess' life involved: the... Read more

Oliver Twist

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 16 hours 8 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

Something Fresh

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Blandings Castle, a place that is never itself without an imposter.Wodehouse himself once noted that "Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice." On this particular occasion there are two, both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth's secretary, the Efficient Baxter, is on the alert and determined to discover what... Read more

The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 22 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Beautiful, spirited Isabel Archer, an American heiress newly arrived in Europe, is widely expected to quickly marry. But Isabel does not look to a man to furnish her with destiny; instead she desires, with grace and courage, to find it herself. Two eligible suitors are refused in favor of her pursuit of glorious independence. But then, Isabel... Read more

The Swiss Family Robinson

By: Johann David Wyss

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Swept off course by a raging storm, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and their four sons are shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island.As they struggle to survive in the wilderness, the Robinsons discover their own amazing ingenuity and courage, each of the sons utilizing his own unique nature as their adventures lead to difficult challenges.... Read more

The Prairie

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: Noah Waterman

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Prairie marks the final chapter in James Fenimore Cooper’s great saga of American frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Though nearly ninety in 1804, Bumppo, now on the Great Plains, is still a competent frontiersman and trapper. Once more he is drawn into conflict with society in the form of an emigrant party led by the surly Ishmael Bush and his... Read more

The Thanatos Syndrome

By: Walker Percy

Narrated by: David HIlder

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

When Dr. Tom More (of Love in the Ruins) is released on parole from state prison, he returns to Feliciana, Louisiana, the parish where he was born and bred and where he practiced psychiatry before his arrest. Upon arriving, he notices something strange in almost everyone around him: unusual sexual behavior in women patients, a bizarre loss of... 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

Germinal

By: Émile Zola

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 17 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

With flawless construction and impeccable detail, Germinal chronicles the conflicts, lusts, and deprivation of life in the coal fields of nineteenth-century France.A father and three of seven children work brutal hours, facing such hazards as landslides, fire, and poisoned air, to scrape together enough money for food. When their lodger,... Read more

Little Men

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Men, written by legendary author Louisa May Alcott, is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers.The lovable Jo March, introduced to us in Little Women, is now married, with two sons of her own and an adopted family of twelve boys. And she... Read more

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling’s early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when he was working as a journalist in India. Wry comedies of British officialdom alternate with glimpses into the harsh lives of the common soldiers and the Indian poor, revealing Kipling’s legendary powers of observation. The title story, “The... Read more

Ringworld

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel, Ringworld remains a favorite among science fiction readers.The artifact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its center. Pierson’s puppeteers—strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens—discovered this “Ringworld” in a hitherto unexplored part of... Read more

The Reef

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Kristen Underwood

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Reef follows the fancies of George Darrow, a young diplomat en route from London to France, intent on proposing to the widowed Anna Leath. Unsettled by Anna's reticence, Darrow drifts into an affair with Sophy Viner, a charmingly naïve and impecunious young woman whose relations with Darrow and Anna's family threaten his prospects for... Read more

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 17 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Set amid the riot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris, Victor Hugo’s masterful tale of heroism and adventure has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in 1831. It is the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral, who falls in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, who shows him kindness... Read more

Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 37 hours

Abridged: No

Paul Dombey is a wealthy shipping merchant and formidable patriarch who runs his family with the same cold calculation he applies to his business.Evaluating his children's worth by what he thinks they can add to his bottom line, he dotes on the son he hopes to make his heir, while neglecting his affectionate elder daughter. But through his pride... Read more

The Secret Agent

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by an actual attempted terrorist attack in nineteenth-century London, The Secret Agent offers a chillingly prophetic portrait of contemporary terrorism, even famously inspiring the Unabomber. The literary precursor to the espionage novels of such writers as Graham Greene and John le Carr├®, Conrad's intense political thriller resonates... Read more

Les Misérables

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 57 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the Parisian underworld of the early nineteenth century, Les Misérables follows the adventures of Jean Valjean, once an honest peasant, who spent nineteen years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving family.A hardened and bitter criminal upon his release, Valjean is transformed when an act of compassion by a... Read more

A Modern Mephistopheles

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Known for her beloved children’s classics, Louisa May Alcott’s true zeal was for writing sensational literature, which she chose to have published anonymously or under a pseudonym. Her favorite of these works was A Modern Mephistopheles.This chilling tale of greed, lust, and deception opens on a midwinter night when Felix Canaris, a despairing... Read more

Scaramouche

By: Rafael Sabatini

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

With swordfights and romance, adventure and treachery set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this is the book that made Rafael Sabatini famous.Andr├®-Louis Moreau has good prospects as a young lawyer, but an unfair duel with the ruthlessly cruel Count de La Tour d'Azyr leaves Andr├®-Louis' best friend dead and Andr├®-Louis himself a... Read more

The Prisoner of Zenda

By: Anthony Hope

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

This swashbuckling romance transports a droll young English gentleman from his comfortable life in London to a fast-moving adventure in a mythical country steeped in political intrigue. Rudolf Rassendyll, pondering his life’s purpose, sets out on a journey to the tiny European kingdom of Ruritania, where he discovers that he bears a marked... Read more

Good Wives

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Three years after the close ofLittle Women, the March girls, four of the most beloved young women in American literature, are young adults carving out their futures. John Brooke is home and planning a life with Meg, despite his modest financial situation. The other girls see promises of fulfillment ahead as well, as they grow and develop a... Read more

Barnaby Rudge

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 23 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Dickens' first historical novel is set in 1780s England at the time of the Gordon Riots. In a case of mistaken identity, Barnaby Rudge—a pale half-wit with long red hair who dresses all in green and carries a large raven on his back—is arrested as the leader of a mob of anti-Catholic rioters. He is condemned to death on the gallows, but an... Read more

The Coin of Carthage

By: Bryher

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The war that began in 218 BC with Hannibal’s march across the Alps is one of the familiar stories of history, but its details are little known. A struggle between an emerging barbarian power and an old culture, it pitted a Roman army of mostly farmers against the highly trained officers of Carthage. Hannibal’s empire, founded on her control of... Read more