Classics

A treasure chest of timeless short stories by some of the world's greatest authors....

The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce....

Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N. Owen....

Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the '30s....

When Addie La Rue makes a pact with the devil, she trades her soul for immortality. But there's always a price - the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone....

One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career....

Part One, The Fellowship of the Ring, introduces us to Frodo Baggins. With his uncle Bilbo having mysteriously disappeared, Frodo finds himself in possession of a simple gold ring that has great and evil power....

The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three characters....

Audible Studios presents this brand new performance by Stephen Fry of some of his favourite Jeeves stories from P.G. Wodehouse, with an exclusive introduction....

Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own....

Big Brother is watching you.... 1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates....

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel - a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism...

The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators....

A collection of BBC Radio 3's iconic Shakespeare productions: six tragedies with all star casts including Michael Sheen, Juliet Stevenson, Kenneth Cranham, Corin Redgrave, Ken Stott, Geraldine James, Bill Wallis, Siân Phillips and Sophie Dahl.... 

Rusty, a 16-year-old Anglo-Indian boy, is orphaned, and has to live with his English guardian in the claustrophobic European part in Dehra Dun. Unhappy with the strict ways of his guardian, Rusty runs away from home to live with his Indian friends....

A collection of BBC Radio 3's iconic Shakespeare productions: eight comedies with all-star casts including David Tennant, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Martin Jarvis, Siân Phillips and Miriam Margolyes....

The Ramayana, one of the world's greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant retelling, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni places Sita at the centre of the novel: this is Sita's version.... 

Eight of George Bernard Shaw's most memorable plays in one splendid collection....

A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....

Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty, a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States....

"The Twelve Labours of Hercules" are a series of feats ordered by the gods carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes, whose...

Unabridged recordings of A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Great Expectations, The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Our Mutual Friend, Little Dorrit, Dombey and Son and A Christmas Carol....

Inspired by the mythic house of Thebes, Sophocles’s defining Greek tragedies follow the fates that befall three doomed generations....

Nora Helmer has everything a young housewife could want: Beautiful children, an adoring husband, and a bright future. But when a carelessly buried secret rises from the past, Nora’s well-calibrated domestic ideal starts to crumble....

Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society....

El doctor Oldfield tiene un problema grave del que no sabe cómo deshacerse. Su esposa murió hace aproximadamente un año, y los chismes abundan: muchos en el pequeño pueblo creen que mató a su esposa para casarse con su médico. Oldfield, por lo tanto, le pide a Poirot que lo ayude.

Private investigator Charles Maddox is surprised when he is approached by Edward Tulkinghorn for help. The feared and shadowy attorney offers Charles a handsome price he can't refuse to do some sleuthing for a client. Charles learns that Sir Julius Cremorne has been receiving threatening letters, and now Tulkinghorn wants him to find and stop whoever is responsible. But what starts as a simple open-and-shut case swiftly escalates into something bigger and much darker. As he cascades toward a collision with powerful forces, Charles will need all the assistance he can get…

Wer sich am eigenen Haarschopf aus dem Sumpf ziehen und auf einer Kanonenkugel reiten kann, der vermag uns noch einiges mehr aufzutischen. Der Lügenbaron Münchhausen erzählt nun in diesem Hörbuch von seinen fantastischen Reisen und Abenteuern. Diese tolldreisten Lügengeschichten erfreuen sich seit Jahrhunderten ungebrochener Beliebtheit, sie gehören quasi zu den großen Klassikern der Weltliteratur schlechthin. Dabei haben literarische Lügengeschichten eine lange Tradition, die weit bis ins klassische Altertum zurückreichen.

Joseph von Eichendorff gilt als DER Erzähler der Romantik. In diesem Hörbuch vereint sind die Erzählungen: "Das Marmorbild", "Das Schloss Dürande", "Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts" sowie ausgewählte Gedichte.

"The Signal-Man" is a short story written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1866. The story follows an unnamed narrator who meets a signal-man working at a railway station. The signal-man is haunted by a series of mysterious events, including the appearance of a ghostly figure warning him of impending danger on the tracks.

"The Garden Lodge" is a short story by Willa Cather, first published in 1905. It tells the story of a woman asked by her husband if she would agree to tear down their garden lodge and build a new summer house there instead. She grows nostalgic as she remembers spending fond times there with tenor Raymond d'Esquerre when he was visiting. Although a moderate and no-nonsense woman, the singer rekindled her passion for music during his stay.

Gilliatt vive à margem da sociedade na ilha de Guernesey. Um dia ele se apaixona por Deruchette, sobrinha do armador Lethierry. Quando o navio desse armador naufraga perto de um rochedo perigoso, sua sobrinha promete se casar com o homem capaz de recuperar o motor da embarcação. Pensando em sua bem-amada, o jovem se oferece e acaba encontrando muitas aventuras, entre elas um polvo gigante escondido numa caverna!

O que há dentro do planeta Terra? Para salvar David Innes das garras de seus inimigos, o rei da selva entra na crosta da Terra! Durante essa jornada, ele descobre os mistérios de Pellucidar, um mundo estranho habitado por criaturas selvagens pré-históricas provindas do início dos tempos.

Em uma noite gelada, surge numa cidade isolada na Inglaterra um desconhecido à procura de abrigo. Com o rosto coberto de bandagens, enluvado e de óculos escuros, esse homem distante e misterioso não quer ser incomodado... Mas esse homem esconde um estranho segredo: após fazer experiências, ele obteve o poder da invisibilidade, mas não consegue voltar ao normal! Ele será capaz de conviver entre os outros humanos sem ser descoberto?

Robinson Crusoe é o único sobrevivente de um desastre que matou toda a tripulação do navio em que viajava. Ele passa a viver sozinho numa ilha deserta onde deve usar toda sua inteligência e coragem para lutar pela sua sobrevivência. Será que algum dia ele conseguirá sair dessa ilha?

Giuseppe Verdi, Italiens berühmtester Opernkomponist, fährt 1883 zum Karneval nach Venedig. Wer aber hält sich ebenfalls dort auf? Richard Wagner, dessen Erfolg und Selbstbewusstsein Verdi zutiefst verunsichern. Als die beiden sich begegnen, ohne dass Wagner seinen Rivalen zu erkennen scheint, ist Verdi niedergeschmettert. Für ihn ist klar: Wagner repräsentiert die Zukunft der Oper; er selbst die Vergangenheit. Doch rafft er sich auf – er will Wagner aufsuchen. Jedoch – Wagner ist in der vergangenen Nacht gestorben.

IIn the summer of 1850, a topsail schooner slipped into the cove under the rocky promontory of Trinidad Head in California and dropped anchor at the edge of the kelp (algae)-fields. Fifteen minutes later her small-boat deposited on the beach a man armed with long squirrel-rifle and an axe, and carrying food and clothing in a brown canvas pack. From the beach he saw the schooner raise anchor and stand out to sea before the northwest trade winds. When it disappeared from his view, he swung his pack to his broad back and strode resolutely into the timber at the mouth of a little river.

Frederick Faust (pen name Max Brand) was said to have written in excess of twenty-five million words as he seemed to have a button to push to generate fictional ideas. Of course, it’s known that much of his work was issued under pen names, around twenty of them, a great many of them wild Westerns. This one that features a drifter named Donnegan. He gets off a train and takes on a job with a rich man who doesn’t seem to care much about the difference between rights and wrongs.

Rok 1651. Siedemnastoletni Robinson Crusoe nie chce wieść nudnego życia jak jego ojciec, kupiec z angielskiego miasta Hull, więc ucieka z domu i zaciąga się na kolejne statki. Podczas jednej z wypraw, w 1659 r., statek się rozbija i Robinson jest jedynym ocalałym. Trafia na bezludną wyspę, gdzie, jak się okaże, spędzi następne 28 lat. Powoli zagospodarowuje się, buduje dom, uprawia zboże, oswaja kozy i papugę, wytwarza naczynia. W przetrwaniu pomagają mu znalezione przedmioty z innego rozbitego statku.

Klasyczna powieść Charlesa Dickensa w uproszczonej adaptacji dla dzieci. Paryż czasów rewolucji nie jest najbezpieczniejszym miejscem na ziemi. Codziennie odbywają się egzekucje, a zabytkowe budynki są palone i równane z ziemią. Jednak kiedy doktor Manette wychodzi z więzienia i spotyka się z córką, wydaje się, że w końcu wszystko będzie dobrze.