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Troy
By: Stephen Fry
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
In this brilliant conclusion to his bestselling Mythos trilogy, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War.
Full of tragic heroes, intoxicating love stories, and the unstoppable force of fate, there is no conflict more iconic than the Trojan War. Troy is the story of the epic battle retold by Fry with drama, humor,... Read more
Shipping News
By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Paul Hecht
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family.
Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday... Read more
1984
By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Andrew Jackson, Brian Edwards & Eva Jackman
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
"1984" by George Orwell is a dystopian novel that was published in 1949. The story is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, government surveillance, and manipulation of truth. The novel follows the life of Winston Smith, a low-ranking member of the Party who... Read more
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The Count of Montecristo
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Guy Jordan
Length: 42 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"The Count of Monte Cristo" is a historical adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, published in serialized form in 1844–46. The story follows Edmond Dantès, a young man who is wrongfully imprisoned in the Château d'If. After many years, he escapes with the help of another prisoner, acquires a fortune hidden on the island of Monte Cristo, and... Read more
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False Colours
By: Georgette Heyer
Narrated by: Callum Hughes
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
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The Honourable Christopher Fancot, on leave from the diplomatic service in the summer of 1817, is startled to find his entrancing but incorrigibly extravagant mother on the brink of financial and social ruin - and more than alarmed to find that his twin, Evelyn, has disappeared without trace. Christopher - Kit - is... Read more
The Lottery, and Other Stories
By: Shirley Jackson
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Kathe Ma...
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful collection of short stories by Shirley Jackson"The Lottery," one of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker. "Powerful and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Jackson's lifetime,... Read more
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Teach the Torches to Burn: A Romeo & Juliet Remix
By: Caleb Roehrig
Narrated by: Max Meyers
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. Queer star-crossed love amid a centuries-old feud takes center stage in this Romeo & Juliet remix that knows sometimes, the best way is to make it... Read more
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 18 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
By Victor Hugo. Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood.
A mad priest, a vagabond playwright, a social-climbing soldier, and a deformed bell-ringer — all are captivated by a gypsy girl's beauty and charm. Two of them will betray her, but the others will remain loyal, even in the shadow of the gallows. These outlaws... Read more
America Is in the Heart
By: Carlos Bulosan
Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine CastilloPoet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer, and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911–1956)... Read more
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Going to Meet the Man
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“There’s no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.” The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their heads above water. It may be the heroin that... Read more
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The Great Gatsby
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Regarded as one of the most important works in American literature and among the greatest American novels of the twentieth century, The Great Gatsby is the quintessential portrait of Jazz Age America, depicting not only the wild parties, romance, love, and the intense and often unfulfilled desire for wealth and status, but also the immorality,... Read more
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The Call of the Wild
By: Jack London
Narrated by: Jeff Daniels
Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Jack London’s The Call of the Wild was written in 1903, but Buck’s gripping adventure makes for a thrilling listen on audio more than 100 years after it was first published.
This gripping story follows the adventures of the loyal dog Buck, who is stolen from his comfortable family home and forced into the harsh life of an Alaskan sled... Read more
Powers of Darkness
By: Bram Stoker & Valdimar Ásmundsson
Narrated by: Adam Verner, Robertson Dean, Ralph Lister, Dere...
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery: In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Ásmundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker’s world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, “Powers of Darkness”), this Icelandic edition included an original preface written by Stoker himself. Makt Myrkranna was... Read more
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Cold Comfort Farm
By: Stella Gibbons
Narrated by: Elizabeth Proud, Full Cast, Miriam Margolyes & ...
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Patricia Gallimore and Miriam Margolyes star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic comic novel. Strong of will and slender of ankle, 20-year-old orphan Flora Poste is blessed with every virtue save that of being able to earn her own living. Casting around for suitable relatives with whom she can make her home, Flora alights... Read more
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The Complete Mapp and Lucia, Vol. 1
By: E.F. Benson
Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
Length: 26 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Sharply observant and wickedly funny, E.F. Benson’s six ‘Mapp and Lucia’ novels satirize the upper-middle-class social climbers in 1920s and ’30s rural England. Games of bridge and cups of tea fuel hilarious gossip and vindictive plots a-plenty. It is a masterfully sustained spotlight on the minutiae of village life – a clever and ultimately... Read more
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Middlemarch
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Alison Larkin
Length: 36 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Considered one of the great English novels, George Eliot's Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life follows myriad characters and their lives in the eponymous town, Middlemarch, in the 1800s. Utilizing a realistic style, Eliot considers issues such as religion, education, and the status of women—to name just a few. Read more
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Our Man in Havana
By: Graham Greene
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true . . .
First published... Read more
1984
By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Jason Smith
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
"1984" is a dystopian novel written by George Orwell and published in 1949. The story is set in a totalitarian society ruled by the Party and its leader, Big Brother. The protagonist, Winston Smith, works for the Party rewriting historical records to fit its propaganda. As he begins to rebel against the oppressive regime, he faces severe... Read more
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Between the Acts
By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf's last novel, was finished in November 1940 and shortly afterwards delivered to her publisher Hogarth Press. The following March she committed suicide.
Between the Acts is often an overlooked work in her oeuvre because she did express her intention to revise it before publication, though in the event this never... Read more
Cousin Bette
By: Honoré de Balzac
Narrated by: Johanna Ward
Length: 16 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Bette, a poor relation of the beautiful Adeline, nurses a terrible grudge against her cousin's family, on whom she depends. That family is slowly being ruined by the uncontrollable sexual appetites of Adeline's husband, Baron Hulot—and it is this weakness that will give the cunning Cousin Bette an opportunity to exact her vengeance.A profound... Read more
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An Ideal Husband
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano & The Circle
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"An Ideal Husband" is a comedic play written by Oscar Wilde, first performed in 1895. It is one of Wilde's society comedies, which satirize the manners and morals of Victorian society. The play explores themes of political and moral corruption, blackmail, and the complexities of maintaining an ideal public image. The plot revolves around Sir... Read more
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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
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Laughing Gas
By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anesthesia at the dentist's office when something strange happens and their identities are swapped. Suddenly, Joey can use his... Read more
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
By: Milan Kundera
Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as ""a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness"" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It went on to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and quickly became an... Read more
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