Audrey

Classic literature with notes from an expert guide and hand-made illustrations

Listen to classic audiobooks with notes from an expert guide and beautiful hand-made illustrations 🎨

Our growing library features a hand-picked selection of the classic novels, novellas, short stories, plays and poems that you've always wanted to read (or re-read!), from Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice to Moby Dick and Great Expectations.

Each audiobook is highly produced and read by world-class actors like Juliet Stevenson and Anton Lesser, and our Audrey Guides are thoughtful and friendly scholars, academics and authors who know these books and authors inside-out.

Every book on Audrey comes with chapter recaps, character descriptions, hand-made illustrations and notes from the guide. Here are some of the many delights you can expect to find in the notes from an Audrey guide:

- Insights into the book's cultural, historical and social context

- Voice notes from the guide and guest contributors

- Thought-provoking questions and personal reflections

- Photos of the author

- In-depth information about the author and their process

- Light-touch literary analysis and links to further reading

- Photos of the book's real-life settings

- Illustrations from the early editions of the book

- A book-inspired playlist

- Recipes from the book

- A curated selection of reviews

- Recommendations for further reading, watching and listening

EVENTS

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FEATURES

Hands-free mode for when you're driving.

Buy one audiobook at a time, no subscriptions or commitments.

Recaps for every chapter of every book so you don't get lost.

Character descriptions and connections that update in real-time.

Contribute your own voice notes and listen to the thoughts of other listeners.

Links to The StoryGraph to rate, review and log your listening.

A Spotify playlist curated for every book.

Buy prints of the illustrations.

A SELECTION OF TITLES FROM THE AUDREY LIBRARY

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Rolf Fjelde

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dubliners by James Joyce

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, translated by Richard Stokes

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Selected poetry by John Keats

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, translated by Olesch, Dreher, Coulter, Langer and Chaichenets

The Black Cat and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

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