Independent & Proudly Human Audiobooks

Far from the Madding Crowd

The tale of spirited farmer Bathsheba Everdene and the three suitors who vie for her attention is the first of Hardy’s Wessex novels.

The Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection

The Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection includes the complete collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's originial Sherlock Holmes novels and stories, all read by the award-winning Jonathan Keeble.

Poirot and Holmes: The Detective Collection

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Stories and Novels, and Hercule Poirot Books 1- 6

The Mark Twain Complete Collection

All 12 Novels; The Complete Short Stories; Travel Writing; Essays; and Chapters from My Autobiography

The Poirot Collection: Books 1-6

The Mysterious Affair at Styles; The Murder on the Links; Poirot Investigates; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; The Big Four; The Mystery of the Blue Train

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Book #1 in Agatha Christie's Poirot series.

A refugee of the Great War, Poirot has settled in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious sleuthing skills to work. Suspects are plentiful, including the victim’s much younger husband, her resentful stepsons, her longtime hired companion, a young family friend working as a nurse, and a London specialist on poisons who just happens to be visiting the nearby village.

The Village of Stepanchikovo

The young Sergei is summoned from St Petersburg by his uncle, the retired colonel Yegor Rostanev, to the remote country estate of Stepanchikovo. Rostanev’s household, populated by a medley of remarkable characters, is dominated by the figure of Foma Opiskin, a devious, manipulative hanger-on who has everyone in thrall and plots to marry the colonel to the woman of his choice, Tatyana Ivanovna. When Opiskin finds that his plans are being thwarted, a confrontation with Rostanev ensues, and all hell is let loose.

The Fyodor Dostoyevsky Complete Collection

The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; Notes from the Underground; The Demons; Novellas; Complete Short Stories; Essays; and Letters

The Republic

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it.

The Idiot

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. Blackmail, betrayal, and murder follow in the footsteps of his dangerous and all-consuming journey.

The Philosophy Collection

Meditations; The Book of Five Rings; Self Reliance; Beyond Good and Evil; Fear and Trembling; The Art of War; The Enchiridion & Discourses; The Analects of Confucius; The Republic; On the Nature of Things; & Letters from a Stoic

Howards End

The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist - all these narratives intersect at an estate called Howards End. The fate of this country home symbolises the future of England in an exploration of social, economic, and philosophical trends during the post-Victorian era.

The E.M. Forster Collection

Howards End; A Room with a View; A Passage to India; Where Angels Fear to Tread; The Longest Journey; The Eternal Moment; The Celestial Omnibus

Great Expectations

The inimitable Stephen Fry reads this definitive edition of Dickens' most beloved novel, Great Expectations.

Winnie the Pooh: The Collected Stories

This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of A.A. Milne's first two collections of Pooh stories, Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner.

Whose Body?

Book #1 in the Lord Peter Wimsey detective series.

Virginia Woolf: 3 Essays on Dostoyevsky

Presented here are 3 short works by Virginia Woolf, each a unique consideration of the work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

The Longest Journey

E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book "I am most glad to have written." An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent.

Old New York

Spanning four decades in the mid-nineteenth century, the interconnected novellas of Old New York lay out the complex and inscrutable codes, customs, and taboos of New York society in classic Wharton style.

The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection: Books 1-5

Whose Body?; Clouds of Witness; Unnatural Death; Lord Peter Views the Body; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club