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Featured Article: The top 100 classics of all time
Before we whipped out our old high school syllabi and dug deep into our libraries to start selecting contenders for this list, we first had to answer the question, "How do we define a classic?" The answer isn’t as straightforward as you might guess, though there’s a lot to be said for the old adage, "You know it when you see it" (or, in this case, hear it). Of course, most critically, each of our picks had to be fabulous in audio. So dust off your aspirational listening list—we have some amazing additions you don’t want to miss.
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The Metamorphosis
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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“One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug....”
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So this guy wakes up as a bug...
- By David on 08-11-14
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The Metamorphosis
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-27-11
- Language: English
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The Trial
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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If Max Brod had obeyed Franz Kafka's dying request, Kafka's unpublished manuscripts would have been burned, unread....
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We are all the straw that breaks a camel's back
- By Dan Harlow on 10-14-13
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The Trial
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-01-05
- Language: English
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Erzählungen und kurze Prosa
- Das Urteil, Die Verwandlung, In der Strafkolonie, Ein Landarzt, Ein Hungerkünstler, kleine Prosa
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Marco Neumann
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Franz Kafka (1883- 1924) war ein deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller. Sein Hauptwerk bilden neben drei Romanfragmenten...
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Erzählungen und kurze Prosa
- Das Urteil, Die Verwandlung, In der Strafkolonie, Ein Landarzt, Ein Hungerkünstler, kleine Prosa
- Narrated by: Marco Neumann
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-26-24
- Language: German
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Metamorphosis
- A BBC Radio 4 Reading
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Abridged
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Benedict Cumberbatch reads the enduring classic of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a large, monstrous insect-like creature....
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Disappointed
- By Jonas Jones on 03-05-19
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Metamorphosis
- A BBC Radio 4 Reading
- Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 01-04-18
- Language: English
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Amerika
- The Missing Person: A New Translation by Mark Harman Based on the Restored Text
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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A Brilliant new translation of the great writer's least Kafkaesque novel, based on a German-language text that was produced by a team of international scholars....
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ha ha ha this is terrific
- By tom on 01-29-14
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Amerika
- The Missing Person: A New Translation by Mark Harman Based on the Restored Text
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 02-19-09
- Language: English
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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In the bizarre world of Franz Kafka, salesmen turn into giant bugs, apes give lectures at college academies, and nightmares probe the mysteries of modern humanity’s unhappiness....
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Great assortment of stories
- By Himanshu Modi on 08-20-18
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 12-16-11
- Language: English
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Franz Kafka - Die große Hörbuch Box
- Kurzgeschichten, Erzählungen und Novellen
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 23 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Franz Kafka: Die große Hörbuch Box! Über 23 Stunden Kafka pur! Mit: Die Verwandlung, Brief an den Vater, Das Urteil, In der Strafkolonie...
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Franz Kafka - Die große Hörbuch Box
- Kurzgeschichten, Erzählungen und Novellen
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 23 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 12-23-19
- Language: German
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Der Prozess
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Erich Räuker
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Als Josef K. eines Morgens aufwacht wird er überraschend verhaftet. Von einer mysteriösen Behörde soll ihm der Prozess gemacht werden...
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Der Prozess
- Narrated by: Erich Räuker
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-29-09
- Language: German
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The Trial [Alpha DVD]
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Josef K. is an ordinary man who is arrested on his 30th birthday. He is prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, yet the nature of his crime is never revealed to him....
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Dick Hill's narration makes it special!
- By Wayne on 05-29-20
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The Trial [Alpha DVD]
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 07-22-10
- Language: English
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The Metamorphosis
- A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky
- By: Franz Kafka, Susan Bernofsky - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Victor Bevine, Christa Lewis
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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In her new translation of Kafka's masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in this macabre tale....
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Mysterious and beautiful
- By Tad Davis on 05-02-15
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The Metamorphosis
- A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Victor Bevine, Christa Lewis
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 08-20-14
- Language: English
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In the Penal Colony
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Peter Yearsley
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka set in an unnamed penal colony. It describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence....
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a bit confusing, but not for Kafka fans
- By joseph Gonzalez on 08-06-18
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In the Penal Colony
- Narrated by: Peter Yearsley
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 09-27-16
- Language: English
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The Metamorphosis (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Franz Kafka, Ian C. Johnston - translator
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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One morning, traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes from an anxious dream to discover that he has inexplicably changed into a monstrous insect....
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Disgustingly Disturbing
- By Layth Salah on 01-30-21
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The Metamorphosis (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 09-17-19
- Language: English
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The Trial
- Penguin Classics
- By: Franz Kafka, Idris Parry
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him....
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The Trial
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-26-19
- Language: English
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The Trial [Tantor Audio]
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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The Trial tells the story of a man arrested for an unknown crime by a remote, inaccessible authority and his struggle for control over the increasing absurdity of his life....
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Classic indifference in modern society
- By Michael G Kurilla on 11-21-20
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The Trial [Tantor Audio]
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 06-30-11
- Language: English
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The Top 10 Short Stories - The German Language
- By: Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan Zweig, Friedrich Schiller, and others
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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In this volume we examine the German language. Or rather the authors who wrote in German but are here translated into English. German is most often called the language of philosophers due to its precision and clarity.
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The Top 10 Short Stories - The German Language
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 05-30-24
- Language: English
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The Trial
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Disoriented and consumed with guilt for a "crime" he does not understand, Josef K. must justify his life to a "court" with which he cannot communicate....
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Its a Matter of Taste - Perhaps
- By Roy on 04-06-09
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The Trial
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 08-18-08
- Language: English
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The Castle
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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On his deathbed, Franz Kafka asked that all his unpublished manuscripts be burned....
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Obscure, enigmatic, and not for everyone
- By John on 02-08-06
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The Castle
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-17-04
- Language: English
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Classic Dystopias: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- The Time Machine, We, The Trial, Brave New World, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Chrysalids
- By: H. G. Wells, Yevgeni Zamyatin, Franz Kafka, and others
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister, Anton Lesser, Don Warrington, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Full-cast dramatisations of six masterpieces from the founding fathers of dystopian fiction....
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The BBC DRAMA NEVER FAILS
- By Nati Yakobovich on 10-01-23
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Classic Dystopias: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- The Time Machine, We, The Trial, Brave New World, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Chrysalids
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister, Anton Lesser, Don Warrington, Brigit Forsyth, William Gaunt, Jonathan Coy, Justin Salinger, Pippa Nixon, Matthew Beard, full cast, Christopher Eccleston, Mike Gwylim
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 02-02-23
- Language: English
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The Trial
- By: Franz Kafka, Mike Mitchell - translator
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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A man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. Faced with this ambiguous but threatening situation, Josef K. gradually succumbs to its psychological pressure....
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kind of boring
- By Amazon Customer on 04-02-21
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The Trial
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 11-16-12
- Language: English
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The Castle
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Allan Corduner
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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A land-surveyor, known only as K., arrives at a small village permanently covered in snow and dominated by a castle to which access seems permanently denied....
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A masculine and coquettish reading
- By Alan on 05-27-12
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The Castle
- Narrated by: Allan Corduner
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 02-04-11
- Language: English
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