Fort Raphael Publishing Company

03/03/2025

New audiobook alert!

Here is the first of FOUR Edith Wharton books we are preparing for 2025. We begin with Ms. Wharton's novel of high society and forbidden love, The Age of Innocence, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921, making Wharton the first woman to be given that great honor.

Available....right now!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. "The Age of Innocence" is considered by many critics to be author Edith Wharton's masterpiece. When it was published in 1920, it was received with rapturous reviews and earned Wharton the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making her the first wo...

01/16/2025

New audiobook alert!

For those who prefer their E.M. Forster stories in bunches, we have the TRIPLE volume of "A Room with a View," "Howards End" and "A Passage to India" - all narrated by the great Sara Nichols - in ONE package!

Available from Audible or wherever you purchase audiobooks.

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Collected here are three of E.M. Forster's classic novels: "A Room With a View," "Howards End" and "A Passage to India," each a stand-alone masterpiece and all of them celebrated as among the finest novels of early 20th cent...

01/11/2025

New audiobook alert!

Fort Raphael's own Sara Nichols reads the E.M. Forster classic "A Passage to India"!

Available....right now!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. One of E.M. Forster's most critically-acclaimed works, "A Passage to India" was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the best "All Time 100 Novels" and it won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Modern Library also list...

01/07/2025

HUGE day for Fort Raphael Publishing!

We have never had a day before where we could announce the release of FOUR projects on the same day but....we're there tonight with the release of:

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Donan Doyle AND The Best of Sherlock Holmes (featuring Return, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes AND The Hound of the Baskervilles)...all narrated by Ben Werling, Kevin Theis and Sara Nichols.

PLUS

The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway AND The Ernest Hemingway Omnibus, featuring FIVE books by Hemingway and all narrated by the great Joseph Wycoff.

(All audiobook covers by the incomparable Paul Stroili.)

That's four audiobooks...in one day! Woot!

01/02/2025

First audiobook of 2025!

Fort Raphael is proud to announce the release of our latest audiobook bundle: the Classic Romance Collection, Volume II, featuring:

Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" read by Sara Nichols
Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" read by Joseph Wycoff and
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" read by Kevin Theis.

A great way to start off the new year!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The most romantic literary lovers in history: Heathcliff and Cathy. Frederic and Catherine. Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Now, all three of their classic stories are collected in one volume: the Classic Romance Collection - Volume II featuring Emily Bro.....

12/31/2024

Final release of 2024!

The immensely talented Joseph Wycoff gives voice to one of the great novels of all time: Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms."

Look for the "Ernest Hemingway Omnibus" (with Joseph reading FIVE of Hemingway's best-known books) in the new year!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. "A Farewell to Arms" was Ernest Hemingway’s first best-seller and the acclaim garnered by this book put his name on the 20th century literary map. The novel is based on Hemingway’s own experiences serving as an ambulance driver duri...

12/12/2024

And here it is! Our biggest release of the year:

Fort Raphael's own Sara Nichols presents ALL SIX of Jane Austen's classic novels, all in one collection.

"Sense and Sensibility"
"Pride and Prejudice"
"Mansfield Park"
"Emma"
"Northanger Abbey" and
"Persuasion"

If you're a big Jane Austen fan...look no further. This is the collection for you.

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Viewed from an historical perspective, Jane Austen's novels should not exist. She was born during a period where female writers (if they dared to write at all) were dismissed, ignored, and dissuaded from writing altogether. The fact that Ms. Austen went .....

12/11/2024

New audiobook alert!

Sara Nichols is at it again and this time she has completed the six-book Jane Austen series with the beloved classic "Sense and Sensibility' (full Jane Austen collection to be released soon!).

Some of the greatest writing in literary history combined with one of the finest narrators in the business....check it out...right here!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. "Sense and Sensibility," written in 1811, was the first of six books by legendary British author Jane Austen. In the story, we meet Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters, who are betrayed by a family member and left in dire financial straits. ...

12/10/2024

New audiobook alert!

Fort Raphael's own Sara Nichols has completed the second volume of the Jane Austen Reader collection, which contains the classics "Sense and Sensibility," "Northanger Abbey" and
Emma."

Available...right now!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Presented here are three of the six novels written by the legendary British author Jane Austen, each a beloved and cherished masterpiece of Regency-era literature. In Volume II, we present Austen's timeless classics "Sense and Sensibility," &qu...

11/27/2024

New audiobook alert!

Just NOT in time for Halloween, Fort Raphael Publishing is proud to release Volume I of our "Classic Horror Collection" featuring the works of H.G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, narrated by Kevin Theis and Brian J. Gill.

"The Island of Doctor Moreau"
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
"The Call of Cthulhu" and
"The Tell-Tale Heart"

All in one collection! Available....right this way!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Ever since man first began to tell stories, often crouched around a campfire late at night, storytellers have tried to send a chill up the spine of their listeners; to delight, thrill and even terrify their audience with stories of ghosts, ghouls and thi.....

11/09/2024

New audiobook alert!

We are now five books into the six book series of Jane Austen novels (all read by Fort Raphael's own Sara Nichols) and here we present....Emma. Austen's perfect confection of light, love and the perils of matchmaking.

Available...right now! (Watch for "Sense and Sensibility" next!)

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. "Emma" is the fourth book by celebrated British author Jane Austen and the final book to be published during her lifetime. The story concerns Emma Woodhouse, a precocious young lady who fancies herself a matchmaker and thus intrudes upon the lo...

10/12/2024

New audiobook alert....just in time for spoopy season!

Fort Raphael's own Sara Nichols gives voice to one of the earliest examples of a new genre of writing - vampire fiction - reading Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 classic "Carmilla."

In the story, a British girl meets a beautiful young companion and the two become fast friends. But soon, it is discovered that Carmilla is, in fact, a deadly bloodsucking fiend!

Published 25 years before Bram Stoker's "Dracula," this book has been the inspiration for dozens of horror writers though the years and is here presented in its original format...enhanced with music for your listening pleasure.

Available now!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Predating Bram Stoker's "Dracula" by twenty-five years, Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" is one of the earliest examples of vampire fiction; a Gothic novella narrated by a young girl who becomes a victim of the title character, a female ...