111 audiobooks · 1,422 hours of listening

Literary Fiction audiobooks

The novels everyone means to read.

The heart of the canon: Austen's drawing rooms, Dickens's London, Dostoyevsky's St Petersburg, the Brontës' moors. These are the novels that set the terms for character, voice and moral seriousness in fiction, alongside quieter favourites from Louisa May Alcott, L. M. Montgomery and Oscar Wilde. Listening is often the easiest way into a long nineteenth-century novel — and with the text on screen you never lose a name or a line of dialogue.

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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 111 literary 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 literary fiction audiobook here?

The Yellow Wallpaper is the shortest at 33 min; Les Misérables is the longest at 54 hr 54 min. The whole collection runs about 1422 hours.

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