stagedBooks
Great books, performed complete

The whole book.
Staged.

Every word the author wrote, performed as a full-cast audio play — with the cast, the calendar, the map and the footnotes kept in view as you listen. No abridgement, no summary, no explaining. Just the book, finally followable.

For the books you always meant to finish — and the ones you want to hear again.

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Bobok

Bobok

Fyodor Dostoevsky
1873 · complete story · 40:36
The Lightning-Rod Man

The Lightning-Rod Man

Herman Melville
1854 · complete story · 17:18
This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book One · Chapter Two: Spires and Gargoyles · Part 2 · 58:15
The Adventure of the Empty House

The Adventure of the Empty House

Arthur Conan Doyle
1903 · complete story · 53:00
This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book One · Chapter Two: Spires and Gargoyles · Part 1 · 47:49
The Odyssey · Book I

The Odyssey · Book I

Homer
c. 700 BC · complete story · 28:17
Bartleby, the Scrivener

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Herman Melville
1853 · complete story · 1:39:29
The Death of Iván Ilích

The Death of Iván Ilích

Leo Tolstoy
1886 · complete story · 2:38:23
The Final Problem

The Final Problem

Arthur Conan Doyle
1893 · complete story · 43:08
The Blue Carbuncle

The Blue Carbuncle

Arthur Conan Doyle
1892 · complete story · 47:58
The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle
1902 · complete story · 5:51:21
Indian Camp

Indian Camp

Ernest Hemingway
1924 · complete story · 8:45
The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife

The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife

Ernest Hemingway
1924 · complete story · 8:20
Ten Indians

Ten Indians

Ernest Hemingway
1927 · complete story · 10:15
The End of Something

The End of Something

Ernest Hemingway
1925 · complete story · 8:42
The Three-Day Blow

The Three-Day Blow

Ernest Hemingway
1925 · complete story · 20:54
A Scandal in Bohemia

A Scandal in Bohemia

Arthur Conan Doyle
1891 · complete story · 53:20
The Red-Headed League

The Red-Headed League

Arthur Conan Doyle
1891 · complete story · 56:41
The Dancing Men

The Dancing Men

Arthur Conan Doyle
1903 · complete story · 57:49
The Monkey’s Paw

The Monkey’s Paw

W. W. Jacobs
1902 · complete story · 27:53
The Adventure of the Speckled Band

The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Arthur Conan Doyle
1892 · complete story · 58:07
El buen ejemplo

El buen ejemplo

Vicente Riva Palacio
1896 · complete story · 5:20
Las ventanas de oro

Las ventanas de oro

Laura E. Richards
1903 · complete story · 5:41
De los Apeninos a los Andes

De los Apeninos a los Andes

Edmundo de Amicis
1886 · complete story · 1:07:58
This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book One · Chapter One: Amory, Son of Beatrice · Part 1 · 26:09
This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book One · Chapter One: Amory, Son of Beatrice · Part 2 · 42:43
Billy Budd, Foretopman

Billy Budd, Foretopman

Herman Melville
1891 · complete story · 3:17:20

How it’s made

Three rules

Complete and verbatim

The text is the author’s, unaltered. Nothing cut, nothing paraphrased. If a chapter is 26 minutes, the episode is 26 minutes.

A full cast

A narrator and a distinct voice for every character, directed line by line, over restrained black-and-white plates. A play you listen to, not a book read at you.

The companion rail

Who is speaking, who they are, what year it is, where on the map we’ve got to, and what that word meant in 1920 — on screen, at a reading pace, never interpreting.