Classic Fiction from Naxos Spoken Word Library

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Naxos Spoken Word Library
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The online Naxos Spoken Word Library comprises one of the most comprehensive collections of classic audiobook material available online.

While you are listening, you can also read along to many of the titles (as indicated by a red *), which is a great way to facilitate language learning.

Available authors/ titles that provide onscreen text include:

Jane Austen:

Emma
Lady Susan
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility

Charlotte Bronte:

Jane Eyre

Wilkie Collins:

The Moonstone

Joseph Conrad:

Youth and Heart of Darkness

Stephen Crane:

The Red Badge of Courage

Daniel Defoe:

Robinson Crusoe

Charles Dickens:

Bleak House
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities

Arthur Conan Doyle:

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Parts I-VI)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Parts I-III)

George Eliot:

Middlemarch

Gustave Flaubert:

Madame Bovary

Oliver Goldsmith:

The Vicar of Wakefield

Thomas Hardy:

Far From the Madding Crowd
Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Nathaniel Hawthorne:

The House of the Seven Gables
The Scarlet Letter

Henry James:

The Portrait of a Lady
The Turn of a Screw
The Wings of a Dove

James Joyce:

Finnegans's Wake
The Dubliners
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses

Rudyard Kipling:

Kim

Gaston Leroux:

The Phantom of the Opera

Jack London:

The Call of the Wild
White Fang

Herman Melville:

Billy Budd
Moby Dick

Edgar Allan Poe:

The Dupin Stories
Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Sir Walter Scott:

Ivanhoe

Mary Shelley:

Frankenstein

Robert Louis Stevenson:

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Bram Stoker:

Dracula

Jonathan Swift:

Gulliver's Travels

W.M. Thackeray:

Vanity Fair

Leo Tolstoy:

Anna Karenina
War and Peace

Mark Twain:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Oscar Wilde:

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Virginia Woolf:

Orlando
To the Lighthouse

And many more...