Classics audiobooks

Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: David Case

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy” Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk... Read more

The Scarlet Pimpernel

By: Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel “has almost reached its... Read more

Bless the Beasts & Children

By: Glendon Swarthout

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Send Us A Boy. . . We’ll Send You A Cowboy!” is the slogan of the Box County Boy’s Camp. But for the nail-biters, thumb-suckers and teeth-grinders—the cast-away offspring of parents who are busy traveling, being divorced, remarrying, and garnering fortunes—it’s just another place to find rejection. The other campers and counselors pick upon... Read more

Manon Lescaut

By: A. Francois Prevost D'Exiles

Narrated by: Walter Covell

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A devastating depiction of obsessive love and a haunting portrait of a captivating but dangerous woman.

When the young Chevalier des Grieux first sets eyes on the exquisitely beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut they fall passionately in love. But his happiness turns to bitter despair when he discovers that Manon is mercenary and immoral, and... Read more

The Return of the Native

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Jill Masters

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy’s most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding moor where proud Eustacia fervently awaits a... Read more

The Ambassadors

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Walter Zimmerman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Introduction by Colm Tóibín

One of the final masterpieces from one of the world’s greatest authors, Henry James’s The Ambassadors is now available for the first time in a Modern Library edition, with a new Introduction by acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín. A keenly observed tale of a man’s awakening to life, this dark comic novel follows Lewis... 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 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

The Memoirs of Cleopatra

By: Margaret George

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 49 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling novelist Margaret George brings to life the glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in this luch, sweeping, and richly detailed saga. Told in Cleopatra's own voice, this is a mesmerizing tale of ambition, passion, and betrayl, which begins when the twenty-year-old queen seeks out the most powerful man in the world, Julius... Read more

The Last of the Mohicans

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 14 hours 46 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

Lady Vernon and Her Daughter

By: Jane Rubino & Caitlen Rubino-Bradway

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In Lady Vernon and Her Daughter, Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway have taken Jane Austen's novella, Lady Susan, and transformed it into a vivid and richly developed novel of love lost and found--and the complex relationships between women, men, and money in Regency England.

Lady Vernon and her daughter, Frederica, are left penniless and... Read more

The Phantom of the Opera

By: Gaston Leroux & adapted by Barnaby Edwards

Narrated by: Anna Massey, Alexander Siddig & James D'Arcy

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The new proprietors of the Paris Opera House are amused to discover that their costly acquisition is said to be haunted. But their smiles quickly vanish as tragedy follows misfortune. Deep in the catacombs beneath the Opera House, something is stirring... Read more

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson & adapted by Barnaby Edw...

Narrated by: Tom Baker, Nicholas Farrell & Edward Holtom

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

When young Jim Hawkins unexpectedly inherits a treasure map, he little knows what adventures await him. Pursued by pirates, betrayed by friends and beset by skulduggery, Jim must brave high seas before he reaches the shores of Treasure Island... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde & dramatised by David Llewellyn

Narrated by: Alexander Vlahos, Miles Richardson & Marcus Hutton

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When Dorian Gray, a young man about town, makes this wish, he begins a life of hedonism and debauchery. Soon enough, his deception and deceit claim innocent victims, and the only evidence of his misdeeds is a long-forgotten portrait in his attic... Read more

Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley & dramatised by Jonathan Barnes

Narrated by: Arthur Darvill, Nicholas Briggs, Geoffrey Beeve...

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of Victor Frankenstein: a man obsessed with discovering the secret of life and cheating death; a man who brings to life to a body built from corpses; and a man who rejects this would-be child… But who is truly the monster? Read more

An Episode of War

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Christopher Graybill

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An army lieutenant concentrates on rationing out his company's supply of coffee, meticulously dividing the brown squares before him, when a shot rings out. The enlisted men, startled by the noise, suddenly see blood saturating their lieutenant's sleeve. In pain, the wounded officer sways, winces in disbelief, mutely surveys the forest, and tries... Read more

Tales From Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with... Read more

Anthem

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Paul Meier

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Ayn Rand's classic bestseller, Anthem, is the unforgettable tale of a nightmarish totalitarian future—and the ultimate triumph of the individual spirit. First published in 1938, and often compared with Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, this beautifully written story has introduced millions to Rand's provocative worldview.

Rand's... Read more

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

By: Richard Ferrone & Thornton Wilder

Narrated by: Sam Waterston

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder's second novel, won him the first of his three Pulitzer Prizes. The novel opens in the aftermath of an inexplicable tragedy—a tiny footbridge in Peru breaks, and five travelers hurtle to their deaths. Most townspeople think to themselves with secret joy, "Within 10 minutes myself...." But for Brother... Read more

The Hobbit

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. Bilbo Baggins, a gentle hobbit who loves the comforts of home, reluctantly joins a company of dwarves on a journey to recover plundered gold from a fierce dragon. It's a tale of high adventure and astonishing courage—and a magical prelude to the Lord of the Rings... 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

The Two Towers

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. The Fellowship is broken; the quest to destroy the Ring seems already shrouded in disaster. But as the evil lord Sauron readies his armies for war, Frodo and Sam continue their lonely journey toward Mordor, guided only by Gollum—a deceitful and tortured creature,... Read more

The Return of the King

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. War rages in the west—a titanic battle of will and strategy between the great wizard Gandalf and Sauron, the dark lord. Meanwhile, eastward in Mordor, Frodo and Sam approach the end of their improbable quest, bearing the One Ring ever closer to the Cracks of... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Dickens' masterfully crafted Christmas fable tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a man with wealth to match the coldness of his heart. On a mystical Christmas Eve, a visitation with spirits forces Scrooge to make a choice: change, or perish. Read more