Classics

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “[A] word-of-mouth smash hit.” —The New York Times One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why… His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers. Theo visits the...

The fellowship forms and the hobbit Frodo begins his journey to destroy the One Ring. Performed by Andy Serkis

A passionate tale of a chaotic and often violent love, Wuthering Heights takes the listener on a journey through one man's lustful hunt for revenge....

Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don’t know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum—as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face.

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Best Fiction Narrator The 40th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic of the American West, with a new foreword by Yellowstone cocreator Taylor Sheridan. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last...

The War of the Ring takes shape in Helm's Deep and Isengard as Frodo and Sam continue towards Mount Doom. Performed by Andy Serkis.

One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, this cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state is more relevant now than ever before.

Frodo and Sam reckon with the power of Sauron in this conclusion to the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Performed by Andy Serkis.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Luke Thompson, best known for his role in the hit Netflix drama Bridgerton. This definitive recording includes an introduction by David McDuff. The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons...

The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron. The tales of The Silmarillion are set...

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.” —Ann Patchett “Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline...

Long-listed, Audible.com Best of the Year, 2007 Long-listed, Audible.com 100 Audible Essentials, 2007 Audie Award winner, 2008 NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh...

Look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Harper Lee, coming October 21, 2025. Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning...

The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a sprawling epic in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence...

A new recording of Ray Bradbury’s timeless classic Fahrenheit 451 narrated by Penn Badgley! Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Aimee Lou Wood, star of Netflix's Sex Education. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night...

George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture....

From number one New York Times best-selling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement...

This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevky's greatest works: 15 novels and novellas, 18 short stories, a short study of Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf, and two books of non-fiction - his Letters and European travel journal....

This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is...

The War of the Ring takes shape in Helm's Deep and Isengard as Frodo and Sam continue towards Mount Doom. Performed by Rob Inglis.

The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! Frank Herbert's second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to...

This audiobook collection contains the following works of Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Secret Adversary, The Murder on the...

C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old Devil to his nephew, Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man....

Like every other hobbit, Bilbo Baggins likes nothing better than a quiet evening in his snug hole in the ground, dining on a sumptuous dinner in front of a fire....

With a nature as wild as the moors she loves to roam, Catherine Earnshaw grows up alongside Heathcliff, a foundling her father rescued from the streets of Liverpool. Their fierce, untamed bond deepens as they grow – until Mr Earnshaw's death leaves Hindley, Catherine's brutal brother, in control and Heathcliff reduced to servitude. Desperate to protect him, Catherine turns to Edgar Linton, the handsome heir to Thrushcross Grange. She believes his wealth might free Heathcliff from cruelty – but her choice is fatally misunderstood.

George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm are not merely novels; they are the definitive sociopolitical manifestos of the 20th century. In this essential collection, experience the full force of Orwell's legacy as he dissects the mechanisms of totalitarianism and the terrifying ease with which truth is manufactured.

Twelve dramatisations of the best love stories ever written, performed by star casts Treat yourself to this stunning collection of classic stories of love, loss, obstacles overcome and desperate attraction. This is a beautiful, moving and at times thrilling listen which takes you on a journey...

George Orwell’s 1984 brings renewed clarity to a world defined by surveillance, manipulation, and the suffocation of individuality. In this unforgettable vision of the future, citizens live under constant watch. Truth is no longer a shared foundation—it is whatever the Party declares it to be.

Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers/listeners for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would ‘curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.’ The tale is a superb blend of science fiction, mystery and thriller. Victor Frankenstein, driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature, experiments with alchemy and science to build a monster stitched together from dead remains. Once the creature becomes a living breathing articulate entity, it turns on its maker and the novel darkens into tragedy.

The Complete Baron Trump Novels Collection step into a world of adventure, intrigue, and fantastical discoveries. Follow the curious and brave young Baron Trump as he embarks on mind-bending journeys that will take him to places both strange and mysterious. Perfect for lovers of adventure, historical fiction, and timeless storytelling, this collection is an unforgettable journey filled with mystery, excitement, and wonder.

In 1943, the once-unstoppable Nazi war machine is starting to falter. For a decade and a half, Lanny Budd’s cover as a fine-art dealer and Fascist sympathizer has held firm, earning him the confidence of Hermann Göring and other top officials, including Adolf Hitler himself. With the Allies preparing to retake Europe, Lanny must make certain that the location of the invasion remains hidden from the Nazi high command. But his mission is compromised and his life endangered when Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s feared Gestapo chief, uncovers Lanny’s true loyalties.

Three novels. Three sisters. One revolution in English fiction. This edition contains: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë — The governess who refused silence Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë — The love story that dismantled every rule of the novel Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë — The unflinching witness to what power does to the powerless Plus a 15,000-word critical afterword by Henry Bugalho — "The Brontë Sisters: Life, Literature, and Legacy" Before they were literary icons, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë were three women writing at the same table in a parsonage on the edge of the ...

Gothic romance at its most unhinged—now without the Victorian sentence structure from hell. What's a Sweary Classic? The complete original story—same plot, same characters, same emotional devastation—just translated into modern, hilarious, sweary language that doesn't require a literature degree to understand. Think: all the moors, revenge, and toxic romance, zero Victorian torture. Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff are obsessed with each other in the most destructive way possible—think soulmates if soulmates were also each other's worst enemies. They grew up together on the ...

Treasure Island – Abridged for Schools A carefully abridged classroom edition, prepared by an experienced teacher for teachers. This version of Treasure Island retains Robert Louis Stevenson’s original language, but has been carefully streamlined to reduce length and descriptive density while preserving the narrative arc, key dialogue and thematic depth of the novel. This is not a simplified retelling, but a purposeful educational adaptation that keeps the integrity and atmosphere of the original while making it genuinely practical to teach. For teachers, this means: • A manageable ...

“I could take whichever I would of these paths.” A Penguin Classic Sammy Mountjoy rises from poverty to become an acclaimed visual artist. He is then swept into World War II and somehow, somewhere, he loses his freedom—as a prisoner of war, through torture, undergoing captivity in total...

In Animal Farm, George Orwell delivers a biting satire that has shaped the political consciousness of generations. It begins with a stirring rebellion: the animals of Manor Farm rise up to claim their independence. But as the intelligent pigs take the mantle of leadership, the initial spirit of equality is replaced by a hierarchy of deceit.

Dans un orphelinat de l'Angleterre victorienne, Oliver Twist survit au milieu de ses compagnons d'infortune. Mal nourri, exploité, il est placé dans une entreprise de pompes funèbres où, là encore, il ne connaît que privations et mauvais traitements. Oliver endure tout, jusqu'au jour où une provocation de trop le pousse à s'enfuir vers Londres. Épuisé, affamé, il est recueilli par une bande de jeunes voleurs qui travaillent pour le vieux Fagin.

George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm are urgent examinations of how power is seized and abused. This collection explores the depths of totalitarianism and the creeping corruption that turns liberators into oppressors.

“This was a different voice; not the voice of the people. It was the voice of other.” A Penguin Classic William Golding considered The Inheritors his finest novel, a beautifully realized tale about the last days of the Neanderthal people and our fear of the “other.” The action is...

In Oceania, the Party seeks to eliminate independent thought. Every citizen is monitored by telescreens, and the Thought Police scrutinize every word. In this suffocating world of perpetual war and state-sponsored hatred, Winston Smith dares to dream of a life where truth is objective and the past is stable.

In George Orwell's timeless masterpiece, the animals of Manor Farm rise up against their cruel human masters. Fueled by the promise of freedom and equality, they establish a new order. But as the intelligent pigs take control, the dream descends into a tyranny where "some animals are more equal than others."

The story delivers everything listeners cherish in the world of Jeeves and Wooster: immaculate comic timing, exquisitely turned dialogue, and the quiet genius of a valet whose intelligence consistently outpaces the universe around him. With effortless elegance, Wodehouse transforms seasonal goodwill, social obligation, and human folly into a work of enduring charm. This audiobook invites the listener into a world where problems are best solved with tact, tea, and an unflappable sense of superiority — preferably Jeeves's.

Read the story that inspired the 2026 film starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi — the complete tale, retold for modern readers "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." You know the story. Or you think you do. On the wild Yorkshire moors, a foundling named Heathcliff and a girl named Catherine form a bond so fierce it will destroy everyone it touches — and outlast death itself. But you've never read it like this. Wuthering Heights in One Hour is a complete literary adaptation of Emily Brontë's masterpiece — not a summary, not a study guide, but the full story ...

1984 no es solo una novela; es una advertencia urgente. En la nación totalitaria de Oceanía, el Gran Hermano vigila cada movimiento y la Policía del Pensamiento castiga la disidencia. Winston Smith trabaja reescribiendo la historia para el Partido, pero en su interior esconde un secreto mortal: sueña con la rebelión.