Classic Literature Audiobooks

• Adam Bede
  Adam Bede is the moving story of three people troubled by unwise love. Adam Bede, the young village carpenter, loves pretty, vain Hetty Sorrel. Hetty's seduction by another leads Adam through a cal...
  
  
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume I, The
  Four of the finest cases of Mr Sherlock Holmes.
  
  
• Aesop's Fables
  Aesop's Fables is a collection of tales from the sixth century B.C. in which the animal characters talk and act like humans. Each story has moral lessons as true today as ever.
  
  
• Almayer's Folly
  Set in Malaya, Almayer's Folly is Joseph Conrad's first novel. In it he charts the decline of a Dutch merchant after a twenty-five-year struggle against overwhelming odds. Unhappily married to a bi...
  
  
• Arabian Nights, The
  Allow the Arabian Nights tales weave their enchantment.
  
  
• Arabian Nights, The: Their Best-Known Tales
  Here is a selection of some of the best-known and best-loved tales of The Arabian Nights, including "Sinbad," "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," "Aladdin," "The Talking Bird," and "The Fisherman and...
  
  
• Around the World in Eighty Days
  To take on the bet - to go around the world in eighty days, was madness!
  
  
• Around the World in Eighty Days
  Before the turn of the century Phileas Fogg circumnavigates the globe racing against time to win a wager.
  
  
• Beowulf
  Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English. It celebrates the character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman and warrior who proves his superhuman strength and endurance in hi...
  
  
• Castle of Otranto, The
  On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed under mysterious circumstances. His calculating father, Manfred, fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determ...
  
  
• Christmas Carol, A
  A wonderful reading of the story of Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas.
  
  
• Christmas Stories, The
  Dickens wrote these stories during the 1850s as contributions to Christmas issues of Household Words, the weekly magazine he founded and edited. Included are fictional sketches verging on the autob...
  
  
• Count of Monte Cristo, The
  The Count of Monte Cristo is a tale of revenge and retribution.
  
  
• Decameron, The
  Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante, and Petrarch were the leading lights in a century that is considered the beginning of the Italian Renaissance. The Decameron, or Ten Days' Entertainment, is Boccaccio's m...
  
  
• Don Quixote De La Mancha
  Don Quixote dons rusty armor to become a knight-errant, roaming the world to right wrongs. From his first encounter with a score of windmills to the night he takes a funeral procession to be a para...
  
  
• Dracula
  The Dracula mythology has inspired a vast subculture, but the story has never been better told than by Bram Stoker. His myth is powerful because it allows evil to remain mysterious. The high virtue...
  
  
• Dying Detective, The Adventure of the
  Watson arrives back at Baker Street to discover Holmes is dying from a mysterious disease
  
  
• Empty House, The Adventure of the
  Watson is drawn into Holme's plot to deceive his enemies and foil a probable attempt on his life
  
  
• Farewell to Arms (Unabridged), A
  A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse...
  
  
• Far From the Madding Crowd
  An immediate success when it was first published in 1874, Thomas Hardy's 'pastoral tale'...
  
  
• Great Gatsby, The
  The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of the Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess, is, as editor Maxwell Perkins praised it in 1924, "a wonder." It remains one of the most widely...
  
  
• Greek Interpreter, The Adventure of the
  A Grecian interpreter's bizarre story draws Holmes and Watson into a case of kidnapping and violence
  
  
• Gulliver's Travels
  'Gulliver's travels' describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship’s surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature...
  
  
• Gulliver's Travels
  Gulliver's Travels is renowned as a playful and comic children's classic.
  
  
• In the Ravine and Other Short stories
  A wonderful collection of short stories written by Anton Chekhov.
  
  
• Kidnapped
  Young David Balfour escapes on the high seas to return to Scotland.
  
  
• Kim
  Set in the days of the British Raj, Kipling's finest novel is an exciting and touching tale.
  
  
• Mansfield Park
  Fanny Price is adopted by her rich relations and moved to the opulence of Mansfield Park.
  
  
• Mystery of Edwin Drood, The
  This mystery was Dickens's last novel, left unfinished at his death in 1870. The setting: the cathedral city of Cloisterham. The protagonist is the cathedral choirmaster and opium-addict John Jaspe...
  
  
• My Ántonia
  My Ántonia chronicles the life of Ántonia, a Bohemian immigrant woman, as seen through the eyes of Jim, the man unable to forget her. Jim, now a successful New York lawyer, recollects his...
  
  
• Nostromo
  First published in 1904, 'Nostromo' is set in the South American republic of Costaguana. In the province of Sulaco everyone's life...
  
  
• Old Man and the Sea, The (Unabridged)
  Told in language of great simplicity and power, It is the story of an old fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal—a relentless battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream...
  
  
• Our Mutual Friend
  A sinister masterpiece, this chilling tale unfolds around drowning, disguises, and doubles, violence, murder, and triumphant love. Characters include young John Harmon, presumed killed on his retur...
  
  
• Persuasion
  The last novel completed by Jane Austen before she died, unmarried, in her early forties, Persuasion is often thought to be the story of the author's own lost love. After years apart, the book's he...
  
  
• Phantom of the Opera
  A ghost is thought to be the cause of the discomfort of performers in the the Paris Opera house. then the beautiful young star disappears.
  
  
• Picture of Dorian Gray, The
  Condemned as immoral when it was first published in 1890, Oscar Wilde's tale of the beautiful young man who 'sold himself...
  
  
• Pride and Prejudice
  A delightful novel about "how girls catch husbands." Listen in to find out: What will happen to sister Lydia? Will the arrogant Lady Catherine de Burgh's intrigues be foiled? Will sister Jane...
  
  
• Red Badge of Courage, The
  Through Henry Fleming, Crane creates a great and realistic study of an inexperienced soldier trapped in the fury and turmoil of war and its horrors, both within and without. This superb and excitin...
  
  
• Return of Sherlock Holmes II, The
  No case is too slight for the mental powers of the Great Detective, in this second selection from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. A young girl is stalked by a 'solitary cyclist' whilst the 'dancing...
  
  
• Room with a View, A
  The romantic story of Lucy Honeychurch set in Italy and England is a cherished classic. Earphone Award - AudioFile Magazine
  
  
• Room With A View, A
  Sheila Hancock stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of E. M. Forster’s glorious tale of love in Italy and England...
  
  
• Sea-Wolf, The
  Humphrey van Weyden led a privileged existence during his early life, but suddenly finds himself cast into the sea, fighting for survival. Pitted against ruthless but educated captain Wolf Larsen,...
  
  
• Shadows
  A gifted boy must save the children at his school from an evil genius
  
  
• Sister Carrie
  Dreiser transforms the conventional "fallen woman" story into a genuinely original work of imaginative fiction. He hurls his impressionable eighteen-year-old heroine into the amoral world of the bi...
  
  
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• Son of the Middle Border, A
  Drawing on the history of his own family, Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland chronicles the experiences of a generation. A Son of the Middle Border, Garland's bittersweet narrative of growing up ...
  
  
• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The
  Both a cracking tale of horror and a deeply audacious account of the human psyche.
  
  
• Ulysses (Abridged)
  Ulysses is one of the greatest literary works in the English language.
  
  
• War and Peace
  War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature.
  
  
• White Fang
  Born in the wild, the wolf-dog White Fang quickly learns the law of nature: eat or be eaten. Captured by Indians, bullied by another dog. and then turned into a killer, he becomes vicious and...
  
  
• Wuthering Heights
  The saga of two Yorkshire families in the remote Pennine Hills. The story has been interpreted as an historical romance...