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
View audiobookDaniel 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
View audiobookDiana 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
View audiobookPamela (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
View audiobookEthan 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
View audiobookFelix 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
View audiobookNew 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
View audiobookGood 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
View audiobookHenry 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
View audiobookJo'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
View audiobookJoseph 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
View audiobookMy 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
View audiobookLittle 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
View audiobookMoll 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
View audiobookNot Guilty
By: Will Scott
Narrated by: Edward Raleigh
Length: 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In "Not guilty", a woman tries to get away with her husband's murder by being arrested for it. Read more
View audiobookEvelina (Unabridged)
By: Fanny Burney
Narrated by: Gretel Davis
Length: 19 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Evelina, the title character, is the unacknowledged but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat. Her dubious birth has seen her raised in rural seclusion until her seventeenth year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns how to navigate the... Read more
View audiobookA Hobbit (teljes)
By: J.R.R Tolkien
Narrated by: Kaszás Attila
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
A Hobbit, mint Tolkien sok más írása, gyermekeinek szóló történetként indult. Először 1937-ben jelent meg és ma méltán világhírű gyermekmese. De több is ennél. Mindenkihez szól, akiben még ott él a gyermek. A világ, ahol játszódik, korai változata Középföldének. De már megtalálhatók benne Tolkien világának legfontosabb alkotóelemei; tündék,... Read more
View audiobookOliver Twist - Abridged
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Dick Cavett
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Oliver Twist is an orphan, born into the world of workhouses and poverty. Apprenticed at a young age, he runs away and finds himself with a curious collection of thieves, rogues and murderers. Tragedy and death are constantly at his heels. Oliver struggles with the burden of being a child and of being poor in industrial England. In this tale,... Read more
View audiobookFather Was a Wise Old Man - Abridged
By: Donald Davis
Narrated by: Donald Davis
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Joe Davis was in his mid-40s when he became a father, and the experience he was able to apply in raising his sons lent creativity to his parenting. The five stories here recall the wisdom of fathers with humor and rich detail: a visit to the Smithsonian inspires father's memory; father "cures" a boy's impulse to try cigarettes; Santa Claus... Read more
View audiobookHow & Why Stories - Abridged
By: Martha Hamilton & Mitch Weiss
Narrated by: Martha Hamilton & Mitch Weiss
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
Did you ever look carefully at a spider's web? Did you ever wonder what causes thunder and lightning? Why do dogs chase cats? Why does it look like there's a man in the moon? In this delightful recording of tales from around the world, each story explains why an animal, plant, or natural object looks or acts the way it does. Four of the stories... Read more
View audiobookBlood And Smoke - Abridged
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Stephen King
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Stephen King reads three of his classic short stories including 1408, now a feature film!
Enter a nightmarish mindscape of unrelenting horror and shocking revelations as the greatest storyteller of our time takes us inside a world of yearning and paranoia, isolation and addiction. It is the world of the smoker.
Stephen King's audio original... Read more
If You Could See Me Now - Abridged
By: Peter Straub
Narrated by: Keir Dullea
Length: 2 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One summer night a boy and his beautiful cousin plunge naked into the moonlit waters of a rural quarry. Twenty years later, the boy, now grown, flees the wreckage of his life and returns to his home town in search of everything he has lost. But for Miles Teagarden, the landscape he had known so well has turned eerie and threatening. And the love... Read more
View audiobookFrankenstein
By: Mary Shelley
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
On the deck of his ice-imprisoned ship, explorer Robert Walton watches from a great distance as an enormous apparition travels with much haste across the frozen shore. The next day, Walton fishes from the sea a melancholy scientist named Frankenstein, who shares with Walton the horrifying account of his life and of the "hideous progeny" he set... Read more
View audiobookCommon Sense
By: Thomas Paine
Narrated by: Adrian Cronauer
Length: 1 hour 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"When my country, into which I had just set foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir," wrote Paine. This pamphlet, which he had published in 1776, put into print the word every man was thinking but no man dared say: Independence! It captured the imagination of the colonists as no other document had. Read more
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