The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 52 mins)
• By J. R. R. Tolkien
• Narrated By Rob Inglis
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Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, available as a complete and unabridged audiobook. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power - the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring - the ring that rules them all - which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.

Mythos

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Stephen Fry
• Narrated By Stephen Fry

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 and Walt Disney. They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. You'll fall in love with Zeus, marvel at the birth of Athena, wince at Cronus and Gaia's revenge on Ouranos, weep with King Midas and hunt with the beautiful and ferocious Artemis.

To Kill a Mockingbird

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Harper Lee
• Narrated By Sissy Spacek

'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. 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.

Brave New World

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Aldous Huxley
• Narrated By Michael York

When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

Animal Farm

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 11 mins)
• By George Orwell
• Narrated By Simon Callow
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Animal Farm is George Orwell's great socio-political allegory set in a farmyard where the animals decide to seize the farmer's land and create a co-operative that reaps the benefits of their combined labours. However, as with all great political plans, some animals see a bigger share of the rewards than others and the animals start to question their supposed utopia.

The Great Gatsby

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 51 mins)
• By F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Narrated By Jake Gyllenhaal
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel of the Roaring Twenties is beloved by generations of readers and stands as his crowning work. This new audio edition, authorized by the Fitzgerald estate, is narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain). Gyllenhaal's performance is a faithful delivery in the voice of Nick Carraway, the Midwesterner turned New York bond salesman, who rents a small house next door to the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby. There, he has a firsthand view of Gatsby’s lavish West Egg parties - and of his undying love....

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 22 mins)
• By C.S. Lewis
• Narrated By Michael York
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Lucy has stumbled upon a marvellous land of fauns and centaurs, nymphs and talking animals. But soon she discovers that it is ruled by the cruel White Witch, and can only be freed by Aslan, the great Lion, and four children.

The Two Towers: The Lord of the Rings, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 36 mins)
• By J. R. R. Tolkien
• Narrated By Rob Inglis
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Building on the story begun in The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring, this is the second part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, available as a complete and unabridged audiobook. Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom.

Dracula [Audible Edition]

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Bram Stoker
• Narrated By Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, and others
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The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.

Heart of Darkness: A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Joseph Conrad
• Narrated By Kenneth Branagh
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A Signature Performance: Kenneth Branagh plays this like a campfire ghost story, told by a haunted, slightly insane Marlow.

Rebecca

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Daphne Du Maurier
• Narrated By Anna Massey

Daphne du Maurier's young heroine meets the charming Maxim de Winter and despite her youth, they marry and go to Manderley, his home in Cornwall. There, the sinister housekeeper Mrs Danvers and the mystery she keeps alive of his first wife Rebecca - said to have drowned at sea - threatens to overwhelm the marriage.

The Godfather

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Mario Puzo
• Narrated By Joe Mantegna
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A modern masterpiece,The Godfather is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld. It is also the intimate story of the Corleone family, at once drawn together and ripped apart by its unique position at the core of the American Mafia. Still shocking 40 years after it was first published, this compelling tale of blackmail, murder, and family values is a true classic.

Fahrenheit 451

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 1 min)
• By Ray Bradbury
• Narrated By Tim Robbins
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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."

Meditations

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Marcus Aurelius
• Narrated By Duncan Steen
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One of the most significant books ever written by a head of State, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 ce). Covering issues such as duty, forgiveness, brotherhood, strength in adversity and the best way to approach life and death, the Meditations have inspired thinkers, poets and politicians since their first publication more than 500 years ago. Today, the book stands as one of the great guides and companions - a cornerstone of Western thought.

Pride and Prejudice

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Jane Austen
• Narrated By Rosamund Pike
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One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl). In her bright and energetic performance of this British classic, she expertly captures Austen’s signature wit and tone. Her attention to detail, her literary background, and her performance in the 2005 feature film version of the novel provide the perfect foundation from which to convey the story of Elizabeth Bennett, her four sisters, and the inimitable Mr. Darcy.

A Tale of Two Cities [Tantor]

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Charles Dickens
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens's most exciting novels. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past. Doctor Manette was wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years without trial by the aristocratic authorities.

Anna Karenina

• UNABRIDGED (35 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Leo Tolstoy
• Narrated By Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky.

The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 22 mins)
• By J. R. R. Tolkien
• Narrated By Rob Inglis

Concluding the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, available as a complete and unabridged audiobook. The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle agains the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 52 mins)
• By L. Frank Baum
• Narrated By Anne Hathaway
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One of the best-known stories in American culture, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has stirred the imagination of young and old alike for over 100 years. Best Actress nominee Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married, Alice In Wonderland), fresh from filming one of this year’s most anticipated films, The Dark Knight Rises, lends her voice to this uniquely American fairy tale.

Jane Eyre

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Charlotte Bronte
• Narrated By Thandie Newton
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Following Jane from her childhood as an orphan in Northern England through her experience as a governess at Thornfield Hall, Charlotte Brontë's Gothic classic is an early exploration of women's independence in the mid-19th century and the pervasive societal challenges women had to endure. At Thornfield, Jane meets the complex and mysterious Mr. Rochester, with whom she shares a complicated relationship that ultimately forces her to reconcile the conflicting passions of romantic love and religious piety.

1900, or the Last President: The Book That Predicted Donald Trump's Presidency

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 3 mins)
• By Ingersoll Lockwood
• Narrated By Joseph Kant

This little booklet was penned at the end of the 19th century, and ostensibly involves events mere years later. A work of political satire, it chastises the rise of socialism and populism, inferring their fictional rise here as disastrous and leading to chaos.

The Bees

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 24 mins)
• By Carol Ann Duffy
• Narrated By Carol Ann Duffy

The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems of political anger; there are elegies, too, for beloved friends and - most movingly - the poet's own mother. Woven and weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee.

The Cone

• UNABRIDGED (31 mins)
• By H. G. Wells
• Narrated By Cathy Dobson

Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels, and is credited as being the father of science fiction. 'The Cone' is a sinister story of betrayal, revenge, murder and horror. The ironmaster who manages the huge blast furnaces outside Newcastle shows the friend who has betrayed him with his own wife around the ironworks. A very dangerous environment to be alone with an enemy....

The Dream Woman

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 1 min)
• By Wilkie Collins
• Narrated By Cathy Dobson

The Dream Woman is a strange tale of a man who has a dream about a beautiful woman attempting to murder him in bed by stabbing him with a buck-handled clasp-knife. He relates the details of the dream to his mother, who makes careful note of every detail. Then one day he meets the woman of his dream....

The Kidnapping of Phil Altamore

• UNABRIDGED (33 mins)
• By Ella Hepworth Dixon
• Narrated By Cathy Dobson

'The Kidnapping of Phil Altamore' is a humorous story of a young man who has inadvertently made an ill-advised marriage proposal to a chorus girl in Paris. When the girl appears in London, he has more or less forgotten about the obligation...but his willingness to go through with the marriage induces close family friend and busybody Mrs. Jack Ormesby to save him from this dreadful fate by kidnapping him and smuggling him to Russia.

Fortunes Adrift

• UNABRIDGED (42 mins)
• By Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne
• Narrated By Cathy Dobson

'Fortunes Adrift' is the story of a small trading steamer than comes across a broken down passenger liner off the coast of Africa just as a hurricane is bearing down on the two vessels. Never one to miss a commercial opportunity, the captain of the steamer strikes a deal. For £100,000, to be paid by the wealthy cruise passengers, he will attempt to tow the liner to safety. But will their groaning engines hold? And if not...will they even survive the storm?

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Mark Twain
• Narrated By Nick Offerman

With his trademark mirth and boundless charisma, actor Nick Offerman brought the loveable shenanigans of Twain's adolescent hero to life in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Now, in yet another virtuosic performance, the actor proves that despite being separated by a span of over a century, his connection to the author and his work is undeniable and that theirs is a timeless collaboration that should not be missed.

The Tell-Tale Heart

• UNABRIDGED (16 mins)
• By Edgar Allan Poe
• Narrated By Wendy Ellison Mullen

Read by a woman, this rendition of the Poe classic stands out among the others. Nothing in the text suggests that the narrator is a man. How does the meaning shift when the narrator is a woman? What was the relationship between the narrator and the old man? Have a listen.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 3 mins)
• By F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Narrated By Kevin Theis
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"As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one. So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital."

Tom Sawyer: A One-Hour Classic

• ABRIDGED (1 hr and 15 mins)
• By Mark Twain
• Narrated By Steve Cook

Hear that? It's a ferry boat bell! And it's calling you down to the shores of the mighty Mississippi River for some unforgettable adventures! The Adventures of Tom Sawyer to be exact. Produced in the fast-paced, abridged One-Hour Classic style, this exciting 75-minute journey is perfect for short commutes, a bedtime story, or as a way to periodically liven up any comprehensive study of this essential American novel. Get introduced (or re-introduced) to a timeless work of great American literature with this truly amazing audio dramatization.

The Tell-Tale Heart

• UNABRIDGED (15 mins)
• By Edgar Allan Poe
• Narrated By Kevin Theis

"True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily - how calmly - I can tell you the whole story."

Crime and Punishment

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Narrated By Mark Nelson
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Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in 12 monthly installments during 1866. Later, it was published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from five years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing.

William Wordsworth: Selected Poems

• UNABRIDGED (31 mins)
• By William Wordsworth
• Narrated By Steve Patriarca

"William Wordsworth - Selected Poems" is a selection of popular poems by William Wordsworth, which all describe an experience (what Wordsworth termed "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings") which is recollected in tranquillity. That recollection stimulates the power of the human mind, the 'inward eye' or the imagination. Selected and narrated by Steve Patriarca, these readings are made in the hope that the audience will not only enjoy the poems but also find in them new power and meaning.

John Keats: Selected Poems

• UNABRIDGED (13 mins)
• By John Keats
• Narrated By Steve Patriarca

John Keats (31 October 1795 - 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death aged 25 in the year 1821. Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his lifetime, his reputation grew after his death, and by the end of the 19th century, he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets.

Lorna Doone

• UNABRIDGED (29 hrs and 41 mins)
• By R. D. Blackmore
• Narrated By Tim Gerard Reynolds
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First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of 17th-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by curiosity and a sense of adventure, he makes his way to the valley of the Doones, where he is discovered by the beautiful Lorna.

Utopia

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Thomas More
• Narrated By Alastair Cameron
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Within Utopia, the listener is taken to an island where there is an idealistic community with complete social harmony. In Utopia, the community owns all property and everyone works and contributes to society which has a balance of religious and social tolerance. Throughout history, Thomas More's Utopia has been the inspiration of many social movements. Although many of More's critics believe this type of utopia to be unachievable in human societies, his work does paint a picture of what life could be like if it were possible.

Little Women (AmazonClassics Edition)

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Louisa May Alcott
• Narrated By Sandra Burr
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As a New England mother struggles to support her family in the wake of her husband's service in the Civil War, her four daughters struggle, too - caught between childhood dreams and the realities of burgeoning adulthood. For Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March, raised in integrity and virtue, negotiating the right path in life means making choices that will either narrow or expand their destinies.

Self Reliance, Nature, The Transcendentalist: Plus Bonus Content

• UNABRIDGED (26 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Narrated By Richard Banks, Patrick Jonathan, Greg McCarthy, and others

In this program you will receive unabridged recordings of "Self Reliance", "Nature", and "The Transcendentalist" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. You will also bonus content such as As a Man Thinketh, Morning & Evening Thoughts, From Poverty to Power, Foundation Stones to Happiness & Success, The Enchiridion, and much more.

Uncle Tom's Cabin (AmazonClassics Edition)

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Narrated By Buck Schirner
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When a Kentucky farmer is forced to sell two slaves to a plantation owner, it becomes a turning point in the lives of both slaves. For Eliza, it's one of escape - a harrowing flight north with her young son. For Uncle Tom, sent down the Mississippi River, it's a more certain fate, as he struggles to survive against the brutal exploitation of his traders.

The Enchiridion and Discourses

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Epictetus
• Narrated By Alastair Cameron

The Enchiridion and Discourses is a compilation of Epictetus's philosophical teachings. Although Epictetus spent much of his life as a slave, he believed that all people were free to control their emotional well-being and live in harmony with their circumstance and those around them. His works are a guide for applying philosophy to day-to-day living. Although many of the great philosophers, such as Plato and Aristotle, promoted grand ideas, they never approached the subject of integrating those ideas into everyday life.