Language audiobooks

New Yorkers: Short Stories

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love. O. Henry's famous... Read more

Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully ...It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!' In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But... Read more

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

By: Janet Hardy-Gould

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

There were six of them - three Katherines, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the King's wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life. After the King's death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters - one from each of the first... Read more

Black Beauty

By: Anna Sewell & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse. But in the nineteenth century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and... Read more

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

'Suddenly, there was a high voice screaming in the darkness: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" It was Long John Silver's parrot, Captain Flint! I turned to run ...' But young Jim Hawkins does not escape from the pirates this time. Will he and his friends find the treasure before the pirates do? Will they escape from the... Read more

Little Women

By: Louisa May Alcott & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, of course, who is away at the Civil War, but they try hard to be good so that he will be proud of his... Read more

Huckleberry Finn (Adaptation) - Abridged

By: Mark Twain & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there's 300 dollars... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde & Jill Nevile

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

'When we are happy, we are always good,' says Lord Henry, 'but when we are good, we are not always happy.' Lord Henry's lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party. Read more

The Secret Garden

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden ...which has been locked for ten years. And no one... Read more

Skyjack!

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened. There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead - if the hijackers can find out who he is! And there isn't much time. One man lies dead... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and... Read more

The Wizard of Oz

By: L. Frank Baum & Rosemary Border

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help her, and that is the country's famous Wizard. So Dorothy and her friends take the yellow... Read more

The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London & Nick Bullard

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow ...and how to fight.... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain & Nick Bullard

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night. They see... Read more

A Little Princess

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes friends at school. But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home,... Read more

Elephant Man

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'. Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film. Read more

Sherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr Huxtable has a school for boys in the north of England. When the Duke of Holdernesse decides to send his young son there, that is good news for the school. The Duke is a very important person, and Dr Huxtable is happy to have his son in the school. But two weeks later Dr Huxtable is the unhappiest man in England. Why? And why does he take the... Read more

Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley & Patrick Nobes

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new 'man'. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And, because he is... Read more

White Death

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So, now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die. She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help Sarah: her mother, and an old boyfriend who does not love her now.... Read more

The Monkey's Paw

By: W. W. Jacobs & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Outside, the night is cold and wet. Inside, the White family sits and waits. Where is their visitor? There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived. The visitor waits. He has been in India for many years. What has he got? He has brought the hand of a small, dead animal – a monkey’s paw. Outside, in... Read more

The Phantom of the Opera

By: Jennifer Bassett & Gaston Leroux

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom... Read more

Love or Money?

By: Rowena Akinyemi

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

It is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party - only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die. But one... Read more

The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost - because of course Americans don't believe in ghosts. The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten... Read more

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

By: Edgar Allan Poe & Margaret Naudi

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night ...is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror ...is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when you turn round? These famous short... Read more