Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Good Earth

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This Pulitzer Prize–winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers, but they will soon meet their... Read more

Hero Tales

By: Theodore Roosevelt & Henry Cabot Lodge

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1895, two young men destined to make their mark on American life, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, discovered they shared a common interest in the remarkable way ordinary Americans demonstrated the real character of the young nation. They were convinced that the brilliance of American liberty could best be found in the lives of... Read more

The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1899, this revolutionary novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. Rooted in the romantic tradition of Melville and Dickinson, it is the story of twenty-eight-year-old Edna... Read more

The Moon and Sixpence

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. Charles Strickland, a stock broker in London, seems like a good, honest man. But one day, at the age of forty, heleaves his business, his wife, and his children and goes to Paris. He has neither money nor prospects, and he knows practically nothing about... Read more

Rob Roy

By: Sir Walter Scott

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 18 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Rob Roy MacGregor is the romantic outlaw who comes alive in Sir Walter Scott's classic epic of the passions and struggles of the Scottish border lands.In rich, vivid prose, Rob Roy follows the adventures of Frank Osbaldistone, who falls out of favor with his father after failing to measure up to his expectations in the world of business. Sent to... 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 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

Don Juan

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

Byron's exuberant masterpiece narrates the exploits of Don Juan, a handsome and charming young man naturally gifted with the ladies. After his first illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain, Don Juan is exiled to Italy and catapulted into a string of adventures that send him into dire peril and luxurious boudoirs around the... Read more

La Vagabonde

By: Colette

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Largely autobiographical, La Vagabonde recalls the author’s own years as a dance-hall performer in turn-of-the-century Paris. Colette takes the listener backstage and into the demimonde of Renée Néré, an aging dancer, mime, and failed writer. In a sultry, passionate, and intelligent voice, Renée narrates the story of her romance with an admirer... Read more

The Touchstone

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This spare, mesmerizing novel is Edith Wharton’s money-can’t-buy-happiness tale. Young Stephen Glennard is poor, but he has an unanticipated gambling chip: a collection of love letters from a scorned but now famous lover, the distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn. To raise money for his forthcoming wedding to another woman, Stephen stoops to... Read more

Free Air

By: Sinclair Lewis

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Free Air takes one by automobile in search of America, heading toward a West brimming with possibilities for suddenly mobile Americans at the end of a world war. Clair Boltwood and her father drive their Gomez-Dep roadster from Minnesota to Seattle, braving all the perils of early motoring. But the greatest distance to be overcome is the social... Read more

The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1915, The Voyage Out marked the literary debut of one of the great pioneers of the modern novel, Virginia Woolf.Woolf’s witty and lyrical debut follows a group of lively, eccentric British tourists embarking on a sea voyage from London to South America. For Rachel Vinrace, a shy, motherless young lady traveling under the wing... Read more

Under Western Eyes

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as one of Joseph Conrad's finest literary achievements, Under Western Eyes tells the story of a young man unwittingly caught in the political turmoil of pre-revolutionary czarist Russia. It begins with a bomb that kills its intended target, a hated Russian minister of police, along with several innocent bystanders. A young student named... Read more

Cabbages and Kings

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

O. Henry wove several stories together into this highly episodic narrative, taking his title and inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter” in Alice in Wonderland.The stories are set in the fictional country of Anchuria in Central America, a banana republic where larceny is rampant and revolution is lurking in every... Read more

Don Quixote de la Mancha

By: Miguel de Cervantes

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 36 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

With a wealth of fancy and an irrepressible high spirit, this beloved adventure story pokes fun at the exaggerated social and literary conventions of Cervantes’ day. Driven mad by reading too many chivalric romances, Don Quixote decks himself out in rusty armor and a cardboard helmet, determined to become a knight-errant and roam the world... Read more

War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 61 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once a historical war epic, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit.Noted for its mastery of realistic detail and psychological analysis, War and Peace follows the metamorphosis of five aristocratic families against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars.... Read more

The Elusive Pimpernel

By: Baroness Emma Orczy

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the early days of the French Republic, and Robespierre's revolutionaries find their wicked schemes repeatedly thwarted by the cunning and heroic Pimpernel—in reality, Sir Percival Blakeney. Now, Monsieur Chauvelin devises a dastardly plot to annihilate both Sir Percy and his beautiful wife Marguerite once and for all. Lured to France, where... Read more

The Glimpses of the Moon

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in New York in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, two high-society hangers-on with the right connections but a lack of funds. To maintain their status, they decide to marry and spend a year or so sponging off their wealthy friends, honeymooning in their mansions and villas.... Read more

Trilby

By: George du Maurier

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Trilby opens in the Latin Quarter of nineteenth-century Paris, where Trilby O'Ferrall is working as an artist's model. Her grace and ingenuous charm make a poignant contrast to the cruel magnetism of Svengali, under whose spell she falls. Using hypnotic powers, Svengali shapes her into a virtuoso singer—Europe's most captivating soprano—but her... Read more

Madame de Treymes and Two Novellas

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Madame de Treymes follows the fortunes of two innocents abroad: Fanny Frisbee of New York, unhappily married to the dissolute Marquis de Malrive, scion of a great house of the Faubourg St. Germain; and John Durham, her childhood friend, who arrives in Paris intent on persuading Fanny to divorce her husband and marry him instead. A scintillating... Read more

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

By: Maggie O’Farrell

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Iris Lockhart is busy tending to the everyday business of her vintage clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfriend’s attempts at commitment when she receives a stunning phone call. Her great-aunt Esme, whom she never even knew existed, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital—where she has been locked away for over sixty years.Iris’... Read more

Daniel Deronda

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 30 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the masterpieces of English literature, Daniel Deronda tells the intertwined stories of two different characters as they each come to discover of the truth of their natures.Gwendolen Harleth is the high-spirited beauty of an impoverished upper-class family. In order to restore their fortunes, she unwittingly traps herself in an oppressive... Read more

The Small House at Allington

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 22 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

TheSmall House at Allingtonintroduces Trollope's most beloved heroine, the charming Lily Dale, to the Barsetshire scene. Lily is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered old bachelor living in the main house on his property at Allington. He has loaned an adjacent small house rent-free to his widowed sister-in-law and her daughters, Lily and Bell.... Read more

My Ántonia

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely recognized as Willa Cather’s finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My Ántonia tells of the life of early American pioneers in Nebraska.Through Jim Burden’s endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the... Read more