The House of the Wolfings: A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse

About 9 hours 30 minutes to listen to — 84,971 words, read aloud by a clear computer voice. It keeps playing with the screen locked, and works offline once the voice has downloaded.

"The House of the Wolfings" by William Morris is a fantasy novel published in 1889. Written in a blend of prose and verse, it portrays Germanic Gothic tribes defending their homeland against the armies of imperial Rome. The story follows Thiodolf, a war leader whose fate becomes entwined with a cursed dwarf-made mail-shirt and the divine women who support him.

Summary from Project Gutenberg.

5,467 readers on Project Gutenberg