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 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...

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.

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER OVER 120 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE PUBLISHED IN 89 LANGUAGES “Teaches us about dreams, destiny, and the reason we are all here.”—Oprah Daily, “Best Self-Help Books of a Generation” A spellbinding audio presentation of the extraordinary bestseller...

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.

On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason....

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...

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

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...

“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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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 #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...

On the 75th anniversary of its publication, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before....

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....

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.

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

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.

Seven novels. One writer. The most perfect intelligence in English fiction. Edited with afterwords by Henry Bugalho — philosopher, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Published by Erato Press. This volume brings together every novel Jane Austen completed — the full measure of a writer who saw more clearly into the human heart than anyone before or since, and who did it in drawing rooms, with teacups, while the world pretended nothing serious was happening: ✦ Sense and Sensibility (1811) — Two sisters, two ways of navigating a world that offers women nothing but the ...

A Best Book of the Year from The Observer Narrated by the New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes herself, this audiobook is an extraordinary reimagining of the myth of Medea. This is what no one tells you, in the songs sung about Jason and the Argo. This part of his quest has been...

The greatest revenge story ever written — now in a powerful new abridged translation that cuts straight to the heart of the epic Translated by Henry Bugalho — philosopher, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Published by Erato Press. You know the story. A young sailor named Edmond Dantès has everything — youth, love, a future. In a single day, jealousy and conspiracy destroy it all. Falsely accused of treason, he is cast into the dungeon of the Château d'If. Fourteen years of darkness. Fourteen years of despair. And then — an impossible secret, a hidden treasure, and ...

The complete Oz — all fourteen novels by L. Frank Baum in one volume, with a critical essay you will not find in any other edition Edited with a critical essay by Henry Bugalho — philosopher, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Published by Erato Press. In 1900, L. Frank Baum created something unprecedented: an American fairy tale. Not an imitation of Grimm or Andersen, but something native to the prairies, the dust, the vast democratic optimism of a country that believed it was inventing the future. A girl from Kansas is carried by a tornado to a land where scarecrows ...

L'unico romanzo di Emily Brontë — edizione integrale, con una postfazione critica di Henry Bugalho Traduzione di Erato Press sotto la direzione editoriale di Henry Bugalho — filosofo, scrittore e Fellow della Royal Society of Arts. Ora un grande film con Margot Robbie e Jacob Elordi, diretto da Emerald Fennell — riscoprite il romanzo che ha ispirato tutto. Sulle brughiere selvagge dello Yorkshire, dove il vento ulula e l'erica si stende fino all'orizzonte, un trovatello di nome Heathcliff viene accolto nella famiglia Earnshaw. Ciò che segue è una delle storie più intense, ...

Fairy tales with teeth: brutal, bloody, and hilariously sweary retellings of the original Grimm classics. What's a Sweary Classic? The complete, original stories—same plots, same twisted morals, same body horror—just translated into modern, hilarious, sweary language that doesn't require a literature degree to understand. Think: all the dark fairy tale chaos, zero sanitized Disney bullshit. Cinderella's stepsisters cut off their own heels and toes to fit the glass slipper. Hansel and Gretel get abandoned in the woods, find a witch's candy house, and burn her alive in her own oven. Snow ...

Horseback heresy: farts, fornication, and fraud on the road to redemption (spoiler: there is no redemption for these fools). A ragtag crew of 29 pilgrims—knights, nuns, corrupt friars, and shit-stained gutter rats—trudge from a London tavern to Canterbury Cathedral, swapping tales of lust, greed, revenge, and fart jokes. The Wife of Bath brags about her five husbands like a 14th-century Tinder pro. The Miller pukes out a blackout-drunk story. The Pardoner hawks fake relics made from pig shit while preaching against greed. The Summoner peddles hellfire pardons for silver. The stakes? One...

Lee la historia que inspiró la película de 2026 con Margot Robbie y Jacob Elordi — el relato completo, reescrito para el lector de hoy "Sean cuales sean nuestras almas, la suya y la mía son la misma." Conoces la historia. O crees conocerla. En los páramos salvajes de Yorkshire, un huérfano llamado Heathcliff y una joven llamada Catherine forjan un vínculo tan feroz que destruirá a todos los que toca — y sobrevivirá a la muerte misma. Pero nunca la habías leído así. Cumbres Borrascosas en Una Hora es una adaptación literaria completa de la obra maestra de Emily Brontë — no...

When Fitzwilliam Darcy is thrown from his horse on a quiet Hertfordshire lane, he expects inconvenience, not transformation. Forced to remain at Longbourn while his shoulder heals, he finds himself an unexpected guest in the lively Bennet household, surrounded by laughter, disorder, and the spirited woman he once offended beyond repair. Elizabeth Bennet has no intention of allowing proximity to soften her opinion. Darcy’s pride is well remembered, and his presence in her home is surely only temporary. Yet the days that follow reveal a different man: thoughtful, restrained, and quietly ...

DON JUAN: HIS HIDDEN HISTORY A tale of power, bloodlines, and the ancient spirits of the Andes In a forgotten corner of the Peruvian Andes, where ancient traditions still whisper through the wind and the mountains guard secrets older than memory, a hidden lineage carries a power that should never have been awakened. For generations, the mysterious Moros—three sacred statues embodying the forces of nature—have chosen their guardian from the Juárez bloodline. With them comes the ability to heal, to protect… and to destroy. But power never comes without a price. When José Juárez, an ...

This prose adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet includes: Complete retelling of the tragedy as a novel (18,700 words) Original afterword on the art and tradition of adapting Shakespeare Author biography of William Shakespeare Adapter biography with translation credentials A king is murdered by his brother. The dead man's son discovers the truth — and cannot act on it. Between the knowing and the doing, a kingdom falls. Hamlet is the most performed, most studied, and most quoted play in the English language. It is also one of the most difficult to actually read. Shakespeare wrote for actors,...

The first novel in the English language — complete, unabridged, with two critical essays and a biographical afterword. In 1719, a bankrupt merchant, political spy, and Dissenting pamphleteer named Daniel Defoe published a book that would change the course of Western literature. Robinson Crusoe was not merely an adventure story. It was the invention of a new way of writing about human consciousness — and, as generations of readers and thinkers from Rousseau to Marx to Coetzee have recognized, a founding myth of the modern world. Crusoe is shipwrecked. Alone on an island for twenty-eight ...

Lady Camellia Preston comenzó su temporada social dándose cuenta de que no era lo que esperaba y que lo único que deseaba era tener un esposo tan malo que compitiera con el resto. Tenía muchas opciones para hacer su caridad, pero escogió a alguien que no era tan sencillo como creía. Roger Cecil, conde de Warwick, era conocido por ser el ogro de los salones, alguien incapaz de conseguir una esposa, pues él no estaba interesado en esa molestia, prefería los negocios y la política; sin embargo, no contaba con que terminaría aceptando un acuerdo conveniente que lo ataría a una bella ...

"I have been reckless since the day I was born..." So begins one of the funniest and most beloved novels in Japanese literature. Published in 1906, Natsume Soseki's Botchan has never gone out of print, never lost its bite, and never stopped making readers laugh. Fresh out of school with no ambitions, no money, and no talent for diplomacy, Botchan accepts a teaching post at a middle school in rural Shikoku and immediately regrets it. The students are savages. The headmaster is a windbag. His colleagues are a gallery of petty conspirators he can only keep straight by the nicknames he invents ...

When a mysterious sea creature terrorizes the oceans, Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant Conseil, and the harpooner Ned Land embark on an expedition to hunt it down. However, they soon discover that the “monster” is the Nautilus—an astonishing submarine commanded by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. On board, they will experience a fascinating journey beneath the waves, exploring submarine forests, sunken treasures, and marvelous creatures, while facing secrets, dangers, and Nemo’s relentless obsession.

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.

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.

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.

Wuthering Heights is a multigenerational gothic romance exploring the intense, destructive love between Catherine Earnshaw and the orphan Heathcliff on the Yorkshire moors in England. When Catherine chooses to marry wealthy Edgar Linton, a betrayed Heathcliff seeks revenge, impacting two generations. It is a dark tale of obsession, jealousy, and revenge, framed by servant Nelly Dean and a wealthy London lodger Mr. Lockwood.

Magic portrait. Eternal youth. Infinite bad decisions. What's a Sweary Classic? The complete, unabridged 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 hedonistic excess, zero Victorian witticisms. Dorian Gray is a stunning 20-year-old who catches painter Basil Hallward's eye. Enter Lord Henry Wotton, professional corrupter, who convinces Dorian that youth and beauty are the only things that matter—and that morality is for suckers. When ...

20 years lost at sea. One pissed-off god. 108 suitors about to regret everything. 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 epic monsters and homecoming drama, zero "rosy-fingered dawn" repetition. Odysseus pissed off Poseidon by blinding his son the Cyclops, so now he's stuck bouncing between monsters, witches, and horny goddesses for 10 years after the Trojan War. His crew keeps dying stupid ...

Four sisters. Infinite drama. Zero trust funds. What's a Sweary Classic? The complete, unabridged 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 sisterly chaos, zero Victorian moralizing. The March sisters are broke as hell during the Civil War, but they've got each other—and endless opinions about how to survive poverty with dignity. Meg wants marriage and respectability, Jo wants to write books and wear pants, Beth wants to play piano ...

Small town. Big dreams. Catastrophic marriages. What's a Sweary Classic? The complete, unabridged 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 provincial drama, zero Victorian philosophizing. Dorothea Brooke wants to change the world. She's smart, idealistic, and ready to dedicate her life to social reform—until she marries Reverend Casaubon, a dried-up old scholar whose life's work is a pointless encyclopedia called The Key to All ...

Master English with a Gothic Classic! Discover the passionate and dark world of Emily Brontë with this Graded Reader for English learners. Wuthering Heights has been carefully and faithfully adapted to an A2 (Pre-Intermediate) English level, allowing you to enjoy this immortal masterpiece while improving your language skills effortlessly. Why choose this Graded Reader? Tailored for A2 Level: Features shorter sentences and simple, high-frequency words to ensure a smooth reading experience without frustration. Faithful Adaptation: Experience the authentic emotional depth and dark atmosphere ...