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Rob Roy
By: Walter Scott
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 18 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Rob Roy MacGregor is the romantic outlaw who comes alive in Sir Walter Scott's classic epic of the passions and struggles of the Scottish border lands.In rich, vivid prose, Rob Roy follows the adventures of Frank Osbaldistone, who falls out of favor with his father after failing to measure up to his expectations in the world of business. Sent to... Read more
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Elmer Gantry
By: Sinclair Lewis
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 15 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Elmer Gantry is the portrait of a silver-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church, yet lives a life of hypocrisy, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence.The title character starts out as a greedy, shallow, philandering Baptist minister, turns to evangelism, and eventually becomes the leader of a large Methodist congregation.... Read more
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The Glimpses of the Moon
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in New York in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, two high-society hangers-on with the right connections but a lack of funds. To maintain their status, they decide to marry and spend a year or so sponging off their wealthy friends, honeymooning in their mansions and villas.... Read more
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Beau Geste
By: P. C. Wren
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A shot rang out. The Arabs surged forward under a savage fusillade of heavy fire. As they advanced, Geste rushed up and down his side of the roof, shooting constantly to trick the Arabs into believing the fort was heavily manned. They couldn’t be allowed to learn the grave truth—that of all those hard-bitten veterans who had yelled their... Read more
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Trilby
By: George du Maurier
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Trilby opens in the Latin Quarter of nineteenth-century Paris, where Trilby O'Ferrall is working as an artist's model. Her grace and ingenuous charm make a poignant contrast to the cruel magnetism of Svengali, under whose spell she falls. Using hypnotic powers, Svengali shapes her into a virtuoso singer—Europe's most captivating soprano—but her... Read more
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Madame de Treymes and Two Novellas
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Madame de Treymes follows the fortunes of two innocents abroad: Fanny Frisbee of New York, unhappily married to the dissolute Marquis de Malrive, scion of a great house of the Faubourg St. Germain; and John Durham, her childhood friend, who arrives in Paris intent on persuading Fanny to divorce her husband and marry him instead. A scintillating... Read more
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The Return of the Native
By: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In the barren moor of Egdon Heath, a wild tract of country in the southwest of England, one native yearns to escape to city life while another has just returned from that life, unimpressed.Clym Yeobright, a former diamond merchant in Paris, returns home to become a schoolmaster in Egdon, where he falls passionately in love with the sensuous,... Read more
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The Moon and Sixpence
By: W. Somerset Maugham
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. Charles Strickland, a stock broker in London, seems like a good, honest man. But one day, at the age of forty, heleaves his business, his wife, and his children and goes to Paris. He has neither money nor prospects, and he knows practically nothing about... Read more
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Daniel Deronda
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 30 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the masterpieces of English literature, Daniel Deronda tells the intertwined stories of two different characters as they each come to discover of the truth of their natures.Gwendolen Harleth is the high-spirited beauty of an impoverished upper-class family. In order to restore their fortunes, she unwittingly traps herself in an oppressive... Read more
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Dracula
By: Bram Stoker
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
This blood-curdling tale of thirsty vampires continues to hold audiences spellbound more than a century after its publication.Summoned to assist with legal matters regarding a real estate transaction, young Englishman Jonathan Harker journeys to the dismal, dreary castle of Count Dracula in Transylvania. The fledgling solicitor is completely... Read more
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The Awakening
By: Kate Chopin
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1899, this revolutionary novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. Rooted in the romantic tradition of Melville and Dickinson, it is the story of twenty-eight-year-old Edna... Read more
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One of Ours
By: Willa Cather
Narrated by: Kristen Underwood
Length: 14 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells of the making of a young American soldier.Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by... Read more
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson & Wanda McCaddon
Length: 15 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Like her sisters Emily and Charlotte, Anne Brontë published under a male pseudonym, yet still this novel was scorned by many for its exposure of the abusive male chauvinism that was concealed, like all things sexual, during the Victorian Era.Just as Anne had to use a male pseudonym in order to publish, Helen Graham, the novel’s protagonist and a... Read more
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Le Morte d’Arthur, Vol. 1
By: Thomas Malory
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 15 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous influence upon literature.The story begins with King Uther Pendragon’s... Read more
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Le Morte d’Arthur, Vol. 2
By: Thomas Malory
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 17 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous influence upon literature.The story begins with King Uther Pendragon’s... Read more
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Queen Lucia
By: E. F. Benson
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
England between the wars was a paradise of calm and leisure for the very, very rich. Into this enclave is born Mrs. Emmeline Lucas—La Lucia, as she is known—a woman determined to lead a life quite different from the subdued formality of her class.With her cohort, Georgie Pillson, and her husband, Peppino, Lucia upends the greats of high society:... Read more
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I Will Repay
By: Emma Orczy
Narrated by: Johanna Ward
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
It has been ten years since Juliette de Marny’s father asked her to swear revenge upon Déroulède for the death of her brother in a duel. At last she finds herself in Déroulède’s house with an easy opportunity to betray him to the citizens of France for conspiring against the people. But Juliette realizes, too late, that she is in love with... Read more
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Summer
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Wharton's most erotic and lyrical novel, Summer explores a daring theme for 1917: a woman's awakening to her sexuality.Eighteen-year-old Charity Royall lives in the small town of North Dormer, ignorant of desire until the arrival of architect Lucius Harney. Independent yet kept from love until now by society's expectations, Charity finds herself... Read more
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Around the World in Eighty Days
By: Jules Verne
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The eccentric Phileas Fogg, a distinguished but sedentary member of London’s Reform Club, takes up a wager that he can circle the globe in just eighty days—an amazing feat in the 1870s. What follows is a lively narrative recounting the journey by Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, as they overcome obstacle after obstacle to win the wager with... Read more
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Hard Times
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally written for Dickens’ weekly magazine, Household Words, this short novel follows the fate of Sissy Jupe, a warm-hearted circus child, and the family that adopts her. Deserted by her ailing father, Sissy is taken into the cold household of the Gradgrind family, which operates a school. The “eminently practical” Thomas Gradgrind believes... Read more
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
By: Jules Verne
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Follow along on this fantastic voyage as Professor Arronax, Ned, and Beth set out to capture a terrifying sea monster—before it captures them."The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten…For some time past, vessels had been met by 'an enormous thing,' a... Read more
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Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 32 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Bleak House opens in a London shrouded by fog—a fog that swirls most densely about the Court of Chancery, where the obscure case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce lies lost in endless litigation, slowly devouring an inheritance in legal costs.Against this ominous background, Dickens’ rich tapestry of a novel weaves together the fortunes and desires of... Read more
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Catriona
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In this sequel to the highland adventure Kidnapped, young David Balfour must defend himself and his friend, Alan Breck Stewart, against false murder charges, becoming further entangled in a political conspiracy between feuding Scottish clans. His new adventure will include shipwreck, murder, intrigue, and a Scottish lass named Catriona, with... Read more
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Captain Blood
By: Rafael Sabatini
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1685, Irish physician Peter Blood is happily settled in a small English town when the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth interrupts the peace. After saving the life of a wounded nobleman who turns out to be a rebel, Blood is charged with treason and sentenced to ten years as an indentured slave in the Caribbean colonies.On the islands, Blood... Read more
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