Fiction audiobooks

Clarissa (Unabridged)

By: Samuel Richardson

Narrated by: Pauline Munro

Length: 93 hours

Abridged: No

Clarissa is of lower birth than her would-be lover: the Harlowes are indeed country gentry, but only recently enriched in the city, while the devious Lovelace is a young nobleman. This is a margin sufficient to breed suspicion on the one side and arrogance on the other; a story of male determination pitted against feminine principles and told in... Read more

Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the enigmatic Kurtz and his outpost in deepest Congo as told by Marlow is an adventure story that examines the intent and effects of colonization. It remains one of the most controversial and profound writings of world literature.

Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski, on December 3, 1857, in Russian... Read more

Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Holmes encounters one of his most formidable adversaries and must unlock the mystery of the demonic hound, the curse of the Baskerville family. Published in The Strand magazine in episodes between August 1901 and April 1902, The Hound of the Baskervilles became one of the most popular of all the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.

Arthur Conan Doyle... Read more

Daniel Derona (Unabridged)

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf

Length: 32 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The author created in Daniel Deronda possibly the most likeable character of all her novels. Through the actions and reactions of society life in the mid-nineteenth century there emerges a clear picture of the life of the European Jew, no longer actively persecuted yet made aware of English prejudice. Read more

Diana of the Crossways (Unabridged)

By: George Meredith

Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf

Length: 16 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The witty Irish beauty Diana marries a man insensitive to her qualities. She then falls in love with another man, but they part because of a betrayed political secret. Ultimately she marries a man of sufficient understanding to appreciate her. Read more

Ethan Frome (Unabridged)

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: William Roberts

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a love triangle, set in the rural isolation of New England, which has devastating consequences. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds... Read more

Felix Holt: the Radical (Unabridged)

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf

Length: 19 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's opportunistic values and Holt's profound beliefs... Read more

The Black Monk and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Chekhov can characterize with a single well-selected detail. He sums up relationships among a group of people, or the beliefs held by an entire country, by finding those key objects that crystallize his characters' strongest emotions. These four stories dramatize an array of obsessions that are at once purely Russian and deeply universal. Ralph... Read more

Dubliners

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Cosham reads with a gentle accent that enhances Joyce's Dublin... Recommended for most collections." -- Library Journal
James Joyce, 1882-1941, is one of the world's greatest writers. Dubliners, his first and most accessible fiction, was started in in 1904 and completed in 1905. Because it was considered explicit and critical of the Church, it... Read more

Good wives (Unabridged)

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Judy Franklin

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Three years on from Little Women, the March girls and their friend Laurie are young adults with their futures ahead of them. Although they all face painful trials along the way - from Meg's sad lesson in housekeeping to Laurie's disappointment in love and a tragedy which touches them all. Each of the girls finally finds happiness, if not always... Read more

Henry Esmond (Unabridged)

By: W.M. Thackeray

Narrated by: Eric Gillett

Length: 21 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the reign of Queen Anne, this novel follows the troubled progress of Henry Esmond Esq, a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army. Enamoured of the Jacobite Lady Castlewood and her wayward daughter Beatrix, he distinguishes himself in Marlborough's campaigns against Louis XIV. Esmond comes to grief in an attempt to depose George I... Read more

Jo's boys (Unabridged)

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: James Tillitt

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Beginning 10 years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits Plumfield, the New England school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo's boys, including rebellious Dan, sailor Emil, and promising musician Nat, are grown. Jo herself remains at the heart of this tale, holding her boys fast through shipwreck, storm,... Read more

Joseph Andrews (Unabridged)

By: Henry Fielding

Narrated by: Terence Wilton

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This riotous tale of innocents in a corrupt world was one of the earliest English novels. Published in 1742, it tells the story of a chaste servant. After being sacked for spurning the advances of the lascivious Lady Booby, Joseph Andrews takes to the road, accompanied by his beloved Fanny Goodwill and the absent-minded, much put-upon Parson... Read more

Little men (Unabridged)

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Barrie Shore

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Men picks up the story of fiery, headstrong Jo where Good Wives left off. The novel is set at a rather unusual boarding school run by Jo and her husband, where the pupils are encouraged to pillow fight and keep pets. When the penniless but talented orphan Nat Blake shows up on her doorstep, Jo takes him in, and his arrival sets in motion... Read more

Mansfield Park (Unabridged)

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Kim Medcalf

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless... Read more

Moll Flanders (Unabridged)

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Robert Gladwell

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Moll Flanders tells her own story, a vivid and racy tale of a woman's experience in the seamy side of life in late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century England and America. Born in Newgate prison, and seduced in the home of her adoptive family, she learns to live off her wits, defying the traditional depiction of women as helpless... Read more

My brilliant Career (Unabridged)

By: Miles Franklin

Narrated by: Vivien Creegor

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1901, this Australian classic recounts the live of 16-year-old Sybylla Melvyn. Trapped on her parents' outback farm, she simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. Whisked away to live on her grandmother's gracious property, she falls under the eye of the rich and handsome Harry Beecham. And soon... Read more

New Grub Street (Unabridged)

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes

Length: 21 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had experienced it. His novel is at once a major social document and a story that draws us irresistibly into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acquaintances in Grub Street including Jasper Milvain, an ambitious... Read more

Pamela (Unabridged)

By: Samuel Richardson

Narrated by: Elizabeth Proud

Length: 43 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This novel is told in a series of letters from the heroine, Pamela Andrews, a young low-born maid whose mistress has just died when the story opens. The lady's son, Mr B, attempts to seduce Pamela. Although Pamela finds him loathsome and leaves the house, he pursues her relentlessly. This is a work of pioneering psychological complexity; it is... Read more

Raffles: the Amateur Cracksman (Unabridged)

By: E.W. Hornung

Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Why should I work when I could steal?' demands A. J. Raffles, a dashing man-about-town by day and a cat burglar by night. Raffles' position as a champion cricket player and prominent member of society provides the perfect cover for his daring burglaries. In these short stories, narrated by Bunny Manders, Raffles' nervous but admiring accomplice,... Read more

Raffles: the Black Mask (Unabridged)

By: E.W. Hornung

Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Having served an eighteen-month prison sentence, Bunny returns to society with a disgraced reputation. A. J. Raffles reunites with his old accomplice, his eyes already set on valuable relics to steal. Now hardened criminals, Raffles and Bunny are no longer just suave robbers. After surveying the area, Raffles becomes determined to steal a... Read more

Roderick Random (Unabridged)

By: Tobias Smollett

Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf

Length: 20 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Roderick Random is a boisterous and unprincipled hero who answers life's many misfortunes with a sledgehammer. Left penniless, he leaves his native Scotland for London and on the way meets Strap, and old schoolfellow. Together they undergo many adventures at the hands of scoundrels and rogues. Roderick qualifies as a surgeon's mate and is... Read more

The Age of Innocence (Unabridged)

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Gretel Davis

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their... Read more

The Brook Kerith (Unabridged)

By: George Moore

Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The premise of this story is Jesus of Nazareth doesn't die on the cross but is indeed saved by Joseph of Arimathea. The novel depicts the live of Jesus, continued for a quarter of a century after the cruxifiction. Read more