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The Essential Classics Collection
The Sound and the Fury; Great Expectations; The Brothers Karamazov; Pride and Prejudice; & The War of the WorldsBy William Faulkner, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, H.G. WellsNarrated by Joanne Froggatt, David Rintoul, Stephen Fry, Nathan Osgood, Malk Williams
Length89h 33m
About this audiobook
The Essential Classics Collection
is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of five of the greatest novels ever written, and the perfect way to listen to those classics you've always been meaning to read but never cracked open.
Read by a cast of incredible narrators including Joanne Froggatt, Stephen Fry, David Rintoul, Nathan Osgood, and Malk Williams.
Included here are stories of love, war, ambition and family, authored by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jane Austen, H. G. Wells, and William Faulkner.
The titles included in this collection, in order of appearance, are:
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells
The Essential Classics Collection: Volumes 1-5 are also available to pre-order now.
This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length89 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byJoanne Froggatt, David Rintoul, Stephen Fry, Nathan Osgood, Malk Williams
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 11, 2025
LanguageEnglish
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