216 audiobooks · 2,526 hours of listening

Classic Fiction audiobooks

Comic, strange and unforgettable.

A wider shelf of classic fiction, from Dickens and Austen to George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving, and on into the twentieth century with James Joyce and Franz Kafka. Here you'll find the comic travelogue of Jerome K. Jerome next to the modernist experiments that changed what a novel could be. Every book has its full text on screen while you listen, so dense prose stays easy to follow.

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The best-known classic fiction titles in the library
  1. Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 34h 35m
  2. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad · 3h 38m
  3. Swann's Way Marcel Proust · 17h 20m
  4. All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque · 5h 31m
  5. David Copperfield Charles Dickens · 32h 45m
  6. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens · 2h 44m

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Are these classic fiction audiobooks free?

The first chapter of every book plays free with no account. A free account adds the opening chapters of every book, plus one whole book of your choice from a shelf of five classics. The full library — all 216 classic fiction titles and everything else — is $4.99 a month or $49 a year after a 7-day free trial, cancel anytime.

Can I read along while I listen?

Yes. Every Compendium audiobook shows the full chapter text on screen as it plays, on the web and in the iPhone and Android apps.

What's the shortest and longest classic fiction audiobook here?

Bartleby, the Scrivener is the shortest at 1 hr 23 min; Don Quixote is the longest at 34 hr 35 min. The whole collection runs about 2526 hours.

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