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The Essential Classics Collection
1984; Great Expectations; The Brothers Karamazov; Pride and Prejudice; & The War of the WorldsBy George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, H.G. WellsNarrated by Joanne Froggatt, Stephen Fry, David Rintoul, Hugh Kermode, Malk WilliamsLength90h 24m
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, Hugh Kermode, 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 George Orwell.
The titles included in this collection, in order of appearance, are:
1984, by George Orwell
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Time Machine, 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
Rating★★★★ 4.4 (1.7K)
Includes Amazon, Goodreads, StoryGraph, LibraryThing
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length90 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byJoanne Froggatt, Stephen Fry, David Rintoul, Hugh Kermode, Malk Williams
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 11, 2025
LanguageEnglish
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