The Classics category has 3,859 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 36,161 ratings. The most-rated is The Fellowship of the Ring.
Monster Bright
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On the seventh day of Christmas, I and my buddy David Eckstrom finally got around to holding that shindig we've been talking about for so long. Only, we weren't the only bodies looking for a good time on New Year's Eve. There were monsters afoot on the lake, and the remedy for 'em was something I didn't expect at all. Note: This book was previously published as On the 7th Day of Christmas in Dreaming of a Dark Christmas.
©2019 C.D. Watson (P)2020 C.D. Watson
Comrades
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Maxim Gorky, whose real name was Alexey Maximovich Pyeshkov, is probably the best-known late-19th-century Russian fiction writer among the English speaking world. His pen-name translates as Maxim the Bitter, which attitude is reflected in many of his works. Much of his writing reflects his own terrible life experiences and suffering. It is in his short stories that he reveals his true genius. "Comrades" reveals an ironic humour in its conception and is one of Gorky's lighter tales. A peasant policeman is dispatched to escort a vagrant without papers to the nearest magistrate, a considerable distance away. As the two talk on the journey, it becomes clear to the listener...and finally to the policeman...the real identity of the vagrant.
Public Domain (P)2014 Red Door Audiobooks
The Richard Burton Poetry Collection
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Richard Burton reads from Hardy and Donne, and performs a wonderful unabridged version of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (along with Robert Hardy and John Neville).
©2010 Saland Publishing (P)2010 Saland Publishing
La fin de Fausta
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La reine s'agitait, paraissait vouloir venir se jeter au milieu du débat, apporter à son favori le secours de son autorité de régente. Léonora, plus livide sous les fards que Concini lui-même, poignardait de son regard de feu le petit roi et Pardaillan, cause première de cet esclandre inouï. Et elle excitait sa maîtresse en lui glissant à l'oreille, en italien, de cette voix ardente, et sur ce ton d'autorité auquel Marie de Médicis, jusqu'à ce jour, n'avait jamais su résister : - Madame, madame, c'est pour vous, pour votre service, qu'on l'insulte ainsi à la face de toute la cour ! Nos héros se trouvent dans une fâcheuse posture, aux prises avec Fausta, Concini et sa femme Léonora Galigaï et même Marie de Médicis. Le danger se rapproche et la fin est imminente. La lutte ne peut se terminer que par la mort de l'un ou de l'autre. Dans cet ultime volume, Michel Zévaco se garde bien de conclure les intrigues royales : l'Histoire n'a pas besoin de lui pour continuer sa marche aveugle. Mais c'est avec talent qu'il ferme les portes qu'il avait ouvertes pour ses personnages. Yvan Verschueren a repris son micro pour nous raconter la suite des aventures du Chevalier de Pardaillan et partager avec nous le plaisir qu'il a en s'appropriant ce texte de la littérature populaire.
©Domaine public (P)2018 Le Livre Qui Parle
Classic Crime Short Stories
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Discover a world of heroes and villains, suspense and intrigue. This riveting and comprehensive collection brings together some of the best crime writing of all time. Ruth Rendell and Frances Hegarty spearhead the modern genre, moving through the popular and rarely recorded Graham Greene, to Edgar Wallace and G.K. Chesterton and his master detective Father Brown. And that's not all. You can find the following on this title: "Loopy", "The Missing Romney", "Insufficient Evidence", The Compleat Criminal", "The Case for the Defence", "Markheim", "The Blue Cross", "Bluebeard's Bathtub", "Nine Point of the Law", "Arsene Lupin in Prison". This collection includes stories from Ruth Rendell, Frances Hegarty, E.W. Hornung, Graham Greene, Margery Allingham, Charles Dickens, G.K. Chesterton, Maurice Leblanc, Edgar Wallace, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Public Domain (P)2005 CSA Telltapes Ltd
Thalia Kids' Book Club: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - 50th Anniversary
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An afternoon of readings and lively discussion with contemporary authors, including Blue Balliett (Chasing Vermeer), Chris Grabenstein (Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library), Wendy Mass (The Candymakers), and Alexander London (The Wild Ones), who have been inspired by E. L. Konigsburg's Newbery Award-winning classic about a sister and brother who run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and find themselves caught up in a mysterious adventure.
©2017 Symphony Space (P)2017 Symphony Space
The Age of Innocence
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The Age of Innocence was first published in 1920 by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the 1870s, in upper-class "Gilded Age" New York City.
Public Domain (P)2020 Museum Audiobooks
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, brought to life by award-winning actress Sheridan Smith. Featuring magical sound effects and specially composed music, this promises to delight and enamour children and adults alike. On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole, and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter's tea party, and plays croquet with the queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute....
©2015 Puffin Books (P)2015 Penguin Books
Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow worker, Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.
Public Domain (P)2019 Penguin Books Ltd
Framley Parsonage
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Mark Robarts, a young vicar, is newly arrived in the village of Framley. With ambitions to further his career, he seeks connections in the county's high society. He is soon preyed upon by a local member of parliament to guarantee a substantial loan, which Mark, in a moment of weakness, agrees to, even though he knows the man is a notorious debtor; it brings Mark to the brink of ruin. Meanwhile, Mark's sister, Lucy, is deeply in love with Lord Lufton, the son of the lofty Lady Lufton. Lord Lufton has proposed, but Lady Lufton is against the marriage, preferring that her son choose the coldly beautiful Griselda Grantly. The novel concludes with four happy marriages, including one involving Doctor Thorne, the hero of the preceding book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series.
(P)2007 Blackstone Audio Inc.
The Lion, the Hare, and the Hyena
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In this story from Kenya, retold to Phyllis Savory by Gwido Mariko, the hare and the hyena again try, as they so often do, to outwit each other. Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales is an audiobook benefiting children orphaned and impacted by HIV/AIDS in South Africa, featuring Gillian Anderson, Benjamin Bratt, LeVar Burton, Ricardo Chavira, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Hayes, Hugh Jackman, Samuel L. Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Debra Messing, Helen Mirren, Parminder Nagra, Sophie Okonedo, CCH Pounder, Alan Rickman, Jurnee Smollett, Charlize Theron, Blair Underwood, Forest Whitaker, and Alfre Woodard, with a special message from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and original music by South African legends by Johnny Clegg and Vusi Mahlasela, directed by Alfre Woodard. The audiobook was a truly international affair, recorded in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, London, and Johannesburg. The stories were chosen by the Nobel Laureate himself, from every region of Africa.
Public Domain (P)2009 Hachette
Anne of Green Gables
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When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert send for an orphan boy to help around the farm, they get chatty, imaginative Anne Shirley instead. But Anne's warmth and determination soon brighten life in the town of Avonlea.
Public Domain (P)2016 Rebecca Thomas
The H G Wells BBC Radio Collection
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BBC radio productions of H. G. Wells' finest fiction - plus hear H G Wells in his own words in a selection of original radio broadcasts from the 1930s and 40s. H. G. Wells is one of the founding fathers of science fiction, renowned for his futuristic tales in which he predicted space travel, lasers, the atomic bomb and wireless communication. But in addition to his 'scientific romances', he also wrote numerous ghost stories, domestic comedies and Utopian novels espousing his ideals of socialism and feminism. This collection features a selection of his best works from across these genres. Here are dramatisations of his sci-fi and fantasy classics, The Time Machine, The Wonderful Visit, The Island of Dr Moreau, The War of the Worlds and The First Men in the Moon, with stellar casts including Robert Glenister, Bernard Cribbins, Garard Green, Blake Ritson and Hywel Bennett, as well as a reading by Stephen Murray of The Invisible Man. Wells' comic novels of lower middle-class life are represented by Love and Mr Lewisham (read by Paul Daneman), and adaptations of Kipps, Tono-Bungay and The History of Mr Polly, starring Mark Straker, Neil Dudgeon and Christopher Guinee. Also included is a dramatisation of his 'New Woman' novel Ann Veronica, with Amy Hoggart as the eponymous heroine and Bill Nighy as the Narrator. One of Wells' most famous supernatural short stories, The Inexperienced Ghost, is dramatised with a full cast including Donald Houston and Christopher Guard, and four further short tales - In the Abyss, The Sea Raiders, A Dream of Armageddon and The New Accelerator - are read by Timothy Keightley and Robert Bathurst. In the fascinating documentary H G Wells: The Invisible Author, Brian Morton asks whether the focus on Wells' science fiction has overshadowed his other authorial achievements. And we hear Wells in his own words as he discusses topics as diverse as world politics, the history of the printing press, the possibilities of technology and the shape of things to come.... Lastly, Martyn Wade's original drama The Wells Way brings H. G. Wells and George Gissing together at crisis points in their lives, as each tries to be more like the other. Julian Rhind-Tutt stars as Wells, with Joseph Millson as Gissing. Contents: The Time Machine The Wonderful Visit The Island of Dr Moreau The Invisible Man The War of the Worlds Love and Mr Lewisham The First Men in the Moon Kipps Tono-Bungay Ann Veronica The History of Mr Polly In the Abyss The Sea Raiders A Dream of Armageddon The New Accelerator The Inexperienced Ghost H G Wells: The Invisible Author Radio speeches by H G Wells The Wells Way by Martin Wade With thanks to Keith Wickham
©2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
A Tempered Warrior
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2018 Dragon Award Finalist - Best Fantasy Novel Centuries ago, the followers of the new gods defeated the old gods, and the folk of legend were banished from the world. With their departure, magic faded from the land. However, the Milesian Accords provided for a new challenge, and its time rapidly approaches. The descendant of the druid who participated in the original challenge, Liam Knox, must forge the sword for the Champion to wield, and write the next set of Accords. Time is running out, though, and the minions of the new gods will stop at nothing to ensure he fails in his tasks. The descendent of the legendary hero Cu Chulainn, Erin Donnelly, has gone to Dunos Scaith, a fortress out of time and space, to train for the Challenge to come. Interruptions and distractions abound, though, including the potential for new love...and she is being hunted as well. Both Druid and Champion are running out of time as the Challenge approaches - a challenge that could end the world as we know it - and neither is likely to be ready in time. They must trust in each other and their friends...but what if that trust is misplaced?
©2018 Jon R. Osborne (P)2019 Podium Publishing
Doctor Faustus
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Nella Germania devastata alla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, il professor Serenus Zeitblom scrive la biografia dell'amico d'infanzia Adrian Leverkühn, un geniale musicista che in cambio dell'anima ha ottenuto dal diavolo ventiquattro anni di furore creativo. Reinterpretando in chiave moderna il mito di Faust, Thomas Mann narra una vicenda che per molti aspetti sembra anticipare il destino della Germania, travolta dalla follia hitleriana e dalla distruzione. Dando vita a tre generazioni di personaggi, descritti ora con accorata pietà ora con mordente ironia, Mann crea nello stesso tempo una grandiosa allegoria della storia tedesca, e riflette sul profondo significato dell'arte, della musica, della filosofia, della scienza, e sul destino dell'uomo. >> Questo audiobook in edizione integrale vi è offerto in esclusiva per Audible ed è disponibile solamente in formato audio digitale.
©2015 Mondadori (P)2018 Mondadori
Chita: A Memory of Last Island
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Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a writer, critic and journalist. His novel, Chita: A Memory of Last Island, is about a young girl, Chita, who survives a devastating tropical storm. Last Island, a holiday resort in the Gulf of Mexico, is destroyed by the hurricane that kills Chita’s mother and leaves her adrift at sea. Chita is saved and adopted by a Spanish fisherman, Feliu, and his wife, Carmen, a religious woman who perceives the baby as a gift from God. The descriptions of nature: the Gulf Coast, the islands, the waterways, and sea are epic, Hearn’s account of the storm and the havoc it wrought are spectacular.
Public Domain (P)2020 Museum Audiobooks
A Tangled Fate
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The challenge approaches! Centuries ago, the followers of the new gods defeated the people of the old gods in a challenge of champions. The folk of legend were banished from the world, and magic faded from the land. The Milesian Accords, however, provided for a new challenge, and the time for that challenge is running out. Erin Donnelly, the proclaimed Champion of the Exiled Folk, is marooned in the otherworldly Glaswold after an assassination attempt. The fortress Dunos Scaith vanished, and Erin’s daughter disappeared with it. She has to find her daughter, finish her training, and make it back to the World of Man before the deadline. Liam Knox, the Druid of the Accords, faces tests both domestic and mystical in rural Illinois. Liam must rally his allies in the wake of loss, mentor a son who has discovered magic, and deal with supernatural entities meddling in his life. All the while, Liam’s enemies circle closer, hunting the druid, his family, and his friends. Only together can the Druid and the Champion face the Challenge and survive. If they fail, more than their lives hang in the balance. If they win, it could change the world as we know it. But first they must master their tangled fate.
©2019 Jon R. Osborne (P)2020 Podium Publishing
The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare
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For sustained dramatic intrigue and sophistication of plot, William Shakespeare's sonnets are at least the equal of his greatest plays. Throughout the centuries since their first publication in 1609, critics, psychologists and curiosity-seekers alike have pondered the nature of the poet's relationships with the mysterious young man, "Mr. W.H.", and the "ill-coloured" Dark lady. With or without the mystery, with or without the epic greatness of their author's other works, the sonnets would still have their place among the greatest poems ever written. Compelling, subtle, intellectually rigorous yet taut with intense emotion, each poem survives reading, study and vibrant interpretation from one generation to the next. On this recording, great contemporary actors present the entire sequence, delivering the full range and power of virtuosity, emotional power and bristling intelligence that made Shakespeare great.
Public Domain (P)2009 Phoenix
Homer
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Here are the most exciting and essential parts of two historic, epic poems: the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey". The ancient words of Homer find a new home in today's world - spoken aloud, just as Homer intended. Translated and Narrated by Stanley Lombardo. Introduction by Susan Sarandon.
©2000 Hackett Publishing Company (P)2006 Parmenides Publishing
Peter Pan
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Do you want to listen to Peter Pan? If so, you've come to the right place? Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythical island of Neverland as the leader of the Lost Boys, interacting with fairies, pirates, mermaids, Native Americans, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside Neverland. What are you waiting for? Peter Pan is one click away. Select the “Buy Now” button today!
Public Domain (P)2020 J.M. Barrie