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.
Kim
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Rudyard Kipling's classic adventure story, Kim, tells the tale of an Irish soldier's orphan son, who roams the back alleys and bazaars of British-ruled India. The young urchin learns the rules and language of the dirty streets, until he discovers his father's old army regiment. Suddenly, Kim abandons his former life and native customs, buys expensive European clothing, and begins a new career as a secret agent. Both an exciting adventure and a detailed look at a spy's inner conflicts, Kim is one of Kipling's most important and popular novels.
Public Domain (P)1988 Recorded Books
Il buio oltre la siepe
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In una cittadina del profondo Sud degli Stati Uniti, l'onesto avvocato Atticus Finch è incaricato della difesa d'ufficio di un "negro" accusato di violenza carnale; riuscirà a dimostrarne l'innocenza, ma l'uomo sarà ugualmente condannato a morte. La vicenda è raccontata dalla piccola Scout, la figlia di Atticus, testimone e protagonista di fatti che nella loro atrocità e violenza non riescono mai a essere più grandi di lei. "Il buio oltre la siepe" è il romanzo consigliato da Barack Obama contro ogni razzismo e discriminazione.
©1960/1962/2018 Harper Lee / Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore / Emons Italia S.r.l. (P)2018 Emons Italia S.r.l.
Oliver Twist
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Dickens’ timeless novel transports young listeners to a colorful Victorian England filled with mistreated orphans, grim workhouses, and gangs of thieving children. The hero finds himself in dire circumstances after he dares to beg for more food in the orphanage. Determined to make his way in the world, he escapes to London, where he becomes involved with criminals...and finally finds a real home. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
Public Domain (P)2019 Oasis Audio
Anna Karenina
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Anna Karenina has been described as the perfect Russian novel. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Anna Karenina is defenseless against the power of her passions once they are unleashed by the adoration of Count Vronsky. Having defied the rules of 19th century Russian society, Anna is forced to pay a heavy price. Human nature, with all its failings, is the fabric of which this great and passionate work is composed. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
Public Domain (P)1996 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd.
Un de Baumugnes
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Albin avait raison : Louis, l'ouvrier agricole venu de Marseille, se conduit mal avec les femmes. Le bellâtre a ensorcelé Angèle, la fille du fermier Clarius. Déshonorée, la honte au cœur, elle quitte le village de Baumugnes et sa famille pour suivre cet homme, un voyou qui va la prostituer. Elle revient fille-mère. Clarius humilié, l'enferme pour la cacher aux yeux du monde. Il faut tout l'amour d'Albin pour braver le fusil d'un père suicidaire et la délivrer, elle et son enfant. L'auteur du Hussard sur le toit livre ici l'un de ses plus grands romans, avec ses phrases qui ont la "luisance d'une faux".
©2002 Grasset (P)2016 Éditions Thélème
The Jew's Beech Tree
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Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's dark tale of an unsolved murder, revenge and the supernatural. When the young Friedrich Mergel goes to work for his uncle, he is quickly drawn into a world of shady business dealings and a ruthless band of wood-thieves. But on the night when Friedrich quarrels with Aaron the Jew, he subsequently disappears, together with his illegitimate cousin John Nobody. Shortly afterwards, Aaron is found murdered. Friedrich's disappearance is considered suspicious - but as time passes, the case and the characters are forgotten.The only thing that remains is a strange Hebrew inscription on the beech-tree where the murder took place. But twenty-eight years later, John Nobody reappears and strange things start to happen.
©2013 Red Door Audiobooks (P)2013 Red Door Audiobooks
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than 90 years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction. The first fictional memoir ever written by an African-American, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man influenced a generation of writers during the Harlem Renaissance and served as eloquent inspiration for Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. In the 1920s and since, it has also given white readers a startling new perspective on their own culture, revealing to many the double standard of racial identity imposed on black Americans. Told by a bi-racial man whose light skin allows him to "pass" for white, the novel describes a pilgrimage through America's color lines at the turn of the century - from a black college in Jacksonville to an elite New York nightclub, from the rural South to the white suburbs of the Northeast. This is a powerful, unsentimental examination of race in America, a hymn to the anguish of forging an identity in a nation obsessed with color. And, as Arna Bontemps pointed out decades ago, "the problems of the artist [as presented here] seem as contemporary as if the book had been written this year."
Public Domain (P)2011 AudioGo
Ancient Egyptian Legends
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Margaret Alice Murray (1863-1963) was an archaeologist, anthropologist, Egyptologist, historian, and the first woman to serve as a lecturer in archaeology in Britain. Ancient Egypt Legends (1920) contains 11 stories based on ancient Egyptian legends. Each legend is stylistically adapted to English but in a way that sticks close to the original.
Public Domain (P)2019 Museum Audiobooks
King Lear
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Blackstone Audio is proud to present the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2013 production of King Lear, Shakespeare's dark yet brilliant tragedy of madness and betrayal, directed by artistic director Bill Rauch. This stunning work of audio theater, fully dramatized with performances by the OSF cast, is a must-listen. Ambition is thickerthan blood … King Lear is ready to turn his realm over to his three daughters. His plan is simple: Give the biggest piece to the daughter who loves him most. But honeyed words and hubris blind Lear to the true motives of those around him, plunging king and kingdom into a hell of treachery, madness, and unspeakable acts - with consequences that reveal the worst and best in human nature.
Public Domain (P)2014 Blackstone Audio
Collected Works of Jack London
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"The quintessential Jack London is in the on-rushing compulsive-ness of his northern stories," noted James Dickey. "Few men have more convincingly examined the connection between the creative powers of the individual writer and the unconscious drive to breed and to survive, found in the natural world...London is in and committed to his creations to a degree very nearly unparalleled in the composition of fiction." His story of the dog Buck ("The Call of the Wild"), who learns to survive in the bleak Yukon wilderness, is viewed by many as his symbolic autobiography. "White Fang" (1906), which London conceived as a "complete antithesis and companion piece to The Call of the Wild," is the tale of an abused wolf-dog tamed by exposure to civilization. Jack London's short story, "Love of Life" is about two gold prospectors, Bill and an unnamed man, who are struggling to survive on the frozen tundra of Canada. "To Build a Fire", a marvelously desolate short story set in the Klondike. Contents: "The Call of the Wild" "White Fang" "Love of Life" "To Build a Fire"
©2021 Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing (P)2021 Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
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Holy Simplicity [Russian Edition]
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Sbornik rasskazov velikogo russkogo pisatelja Antona Pavlovicha Chehova, napisannye 1884-1985 godah. 1. Neobhodimoe predislovie 2. Nervy 3. Neudacha 4. Nechto ser'eznoe 5. Ninochka 6. Novogodnie Velikomucheniki 7. Noch' na kladbishhe 8. Nu, publika! 9. O brennosti 10. Obshhee obrazovanie 11. Otec semejstva 12. Panihida 13. Pervyj debjut 14. Persona 15. Pisatel' 16. Pis'ma 17. Posle benefisa 18. Psihopaty 19. Reklama 20. Rukovodstvo dlja zhelajushhih zhenit'sja 21. Ryb'e delo 22. Rjazhenye 23. Samyj bol'shoj gorod 24. Sapogi 25.Svistuny 26. Svjataja prostota 27. Simuljanty 28. Sonnaja odur' 29. Sredstvo ot zapoja 30. Starosta 31. Starost' 32. Stena 33. Strazha pod strazhej 34. Taper 35. Trjapka 36. U telefona 37. Unter Prishibeev 38. Utoplennik 39. Hudozhestvo 40. Cinik 41. Shampanskoe 42. Shilo v meshke. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.
©2007 IDDK (P)2014 IDDK
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Miss Harriet [French Version]
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Miss Harriet, une Anglaise extravagante et exaltée, vivant dans l'admiration et la contemplation de la nature et de son créateur, fait la connaissance d'un jeune peintre séjournant à Etretat pour quelque temps. Ils nouent une relation amicale étrange, fondée sur l'amour de la peinture et de la nature. L'idylle amoureuse qui se noue entre la vieille fille et le peintre va connaître une fin tragique... Dans ce texte taillé au cordeau, les sentiments qui se tissent entre les personnages sont décrits avec une grande délicatesse, empreinte d'une profonde humanité. Sur fonds de mœurs et mentalités cauchoises, luttes entre l'Eglise et l'Etat sous la III° République, guerres coloniales, l'écrivain transcende ce réalisme en infléchissant la nouvelle vers l'analyse psychologique d'un amour "grotesque et passionné" qui marquera à jamais le narrateur. Maupassant donne aussi la mesure de son talent à décrire les paysages - on l'a qualifié d'"écrivain impressionniste".
©Domaine public (P)2013 Le Livre Qui Parle
Dubliners - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Ulysses
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This compilation contains three of James Joyce's most important and recognisable works. Presented here in the order Joyce wrote them they provide an opportunity to enter his world from the comparatively shallow end of "Dubliners" to the deep end of "Ulysses". "Dubliners" contains 15 short stories in Joyce's intended sequence, each with its own moment of realisation or epiphany, ending with what is considered to be one of the finest short stories in literature, "The Dead". "Portrait" could be seen as the prelude to "Ulysses". It shows the growth of Stephen Dedalus (James Joyce) from a young child to a young man. We see the emergence of the writer and all the elements that forged him. "Ulysses" is Joyce's masterpiece. It contains a whole host of writing styles, a lot of new words and experiments with the order the words are presented. It can be challenging at times but the rewards to be gained are incalculable. There are so many layers and levels within the book that if you let yourself become absorbed in it you will be entertained for life. When all is said and done, what "Ulysses" is really about is what it is to be human. I hope you enjoy this recording as much as I did. -- Tadhg Hynes
©2019 Victorian Classic Audiobooks (P)2019 Victorian Classic Audiobooks
The James Joyce Collection
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In short stories, poems, and monumental novels, James Joyce set out to discover the meaning of his nationality, simultaneously celebrating and ridiculing the history of Ireland in the brilliant style that has made him the most towering figure in the literary landscape of the early 20th century. Dublin-born Gabriel Byrne, who has starred in 16 films, including Little Women and The Usual Suspects, clearly brings to life Joyce's short stories from Dubliners, and selections from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Chamber Music in this audio version.
Public Domain (P)1992, 2014 Dove Audio, Phoenix Books
The Evelyn Waugh BBC Radio Drama Collection
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Evelyn Waugh is one of the pre-eminent English novelists of the 20th century. This collection comprises six of his finest works, dramatised by award-winning writer Jeremy Front. Decline and Fall Paul Pennyfeather, an earnest, scholarly Oxford student, knows nothing of 1920's high-life – until one night he encounters The Bollinger Club.... This darkly comic romp set in the early Jazz Age stars Kieran Hodgson, John Sessions, Emilia Fox and Tom Hollander. Brideshead Revisited During the Second World War, a disillusioned Captain Charles Ryder finds himself posted to Brideshead Castle: the scene of the happiest years of his life and the beginnings of his friendship with Sebastian Flyte. A classic tale of life, love and a forgotten era, starring Ben Miles, Jamie Bamber, Anne-Marie Duff and Toby Jones. Scoop Hapless journalist William Boot is mistakenly sent to report on a war in Africa, where he finds love and ends up in the middle of a revolution... Waugh’s celebrated satire of newspaper life stars Rory Kinnear and Tim McInnerny. Sword of Honour (The Waugh Trilogy) This three-part dramatisation of Waugh’s satirical masterpiece follows the comic adventures of Guy Crouchbank during World War II. In Men at Arms, Guy is scarred by a broken marriage and searching for a purpose to live. When war breaks out, he feels he may have at last found a cause worth fighting for. Officers and Gentlemen sees Guy sent home in disgrace following a misbegotten raid in Dakar. But his next posting takes him somewhere totally unexpected.... In Unconditional Surrender, Guy is beginning to lose his idealism about the war – but his military career is revived with selection for a mission to Italy. Winner of Best Audio Drama (Adaptation) at the 2014 BBC Audio Drama Awards, this moving trilogy stars Paul Ready as Guy with Tim McInnerny as the Narrator, Tim Pigott-Smith as Brigadier Ritchie-Hook, Lee Ingleby as Trimmer and Lydia Leonard as Virginia. Text copyright © Evelyn Waugh 1928 (Decline and Fall), 1938 (Scoop), 1945 (Brideshead Revisited), 1952 (Men at Arms), 1955 (Officers and Gentlemen), 1961 (Unconditional Surrender). All rights reserved. Dramatised by Jeremy Front First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 27 October-10 November 2013
©2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
The Very Best of John Bunyan
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John Bunyan (1628-1688) was an English author and Puritan preacher. Best known for his famous allegorical works, Pilgrim’s Progress and The Holy War, Bunyan published 42 works in his lifetime, while another 16 were published posthumously. This collection includes his spiritual autobiography Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, the allegorical novel The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, and sermons such as "Justification by an Imputed Righteousness". Bunyan’s gripping take on prophecy and religious history comes to the fore in the essay "Of Antichrist and His Ruin", while his 1682 novel, The Holy War, tells the story of the town "Mansoul" (Man's soul). Bunyans’ classic Pilgrim’s Progress is probably the most famous Christian allegory. The work has been cited as the first ever novel written in English, has been translated into more than 200 languages and has never been out of print.
Public Domain (P)2020 Museum Audiobooks
Study Guide for William Shakespeare's King Lear
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Get unstuck! You've read the play, but you don't understand the symbolism. You've been to every class, but it's 2 a.m. and your essay is due at 9:00. Your midterm is Friday and you need a boost. We've been there. We know what it's like to study, work, have a life, do your best, and still need help. Course Hero Study Guides untie the knots. You do the work - we give you the tools to make every minute count. We help you get unstuck. Course Hero audiobook of the King Lear includes: A scene-by-scene summary and analysis An in-depth synopsis at the end of the audiobook that summarizes and analyzes the plot, themes, symbols, characters, and main points of the play Engaging narration and music
©2020 Course Hero (P)2020 Course Hero
The Adventures of Sammy Jay
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Sammy Jay is a blue jay who, like most blue jays, is mischievous. He delights in making trouble for other creatures of the Green Meadows and the Green Forest. Sammy really doesn't want to see them hurt, he just wants to make torment them. Enter Chatterer the Red Squirrel, who also lives in the Green Forest and can be as troublesome as Sammy Jay. In The Adventures of Sammy Jay, Chatterer and Sammy Jay match wits and show off their bad attitudes toward one another. As he does in all his books, Thornton Burgess presents younger listeners with good moral values sprinkled throughout the book. Thornton W. Burgess was a conservationist and author of children's stories. He loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written over 170 books and 15,000 stories for a daily newspaper column.
Public Domain (P)2016 Tom S. Weiss
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The Tinderbox [Russian Edition]
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The Tinderbox is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a soldier who acquires a magic tinderbox capable of summoning three powerful dogs to do his bidding. When the soldier has one of the dogs transport a sleeping princess to his room, he is sentenced to death but cunningly summons the dogs to save his life. The tinderbox - a box to kindle a flame - is the equivalent of the wonderful lamp, the witch is the evil magician, and the dogs with swirling eyes take the place of the two genies of the lamps. There is even a princess who is brought to the hero while asleep. But instead of the exotic eastern setting, we are in Europe, with a comparison of the dog's eyes to the Great Tower of Copenhagen in Andersen's native Denmark. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.
©2013 New Internet Technologies (P)2013 New Internet Technologies
Tom Jones
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Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women. Misfortune, followed by many spirited adventures as he travels to London to seek his fortune, teach him a sort of wisdom to go with his essential good-heartedness.
©2011 Talking Classics (P)2011 De Agostini UK 2010