The Classics, retold for sleep.

The most famous stories ever told, made into bedtime stories for grown-ups. Alice down the rabbit hole. The river bank of The Wind in the Willows. The Admiral Benbow at dusk. Six whole books are being retold in our own words, a night or two of chapters at a time, at the pace of the very end of the day — in a deep, unhurried voice with silences that keep widening until the story fades out under you. You already know how every one of them ends, and that is exactly the point: nothing to brace for, nothing that needs you awake for the ending.

Why a story you already know is the one that works. Sleep follows safety. A plot you cannot predict asks you to stay awake and find out; a plot you have known since childhood asks nothing of you at all. That is the whole reason these particular books were chosen. There is no cliffhanger to survive, no twist being saved for you, no reason to fight the drift — only a familiar voice going somewhere you have already been. Told at a quarter of reading pace, with the gaps between sentences widening as the night goes on, the classics stop being stories you follow and become somewhere you lie down.

Open tonight, while the classics arrive. The trial starts now, and the wider library is already there: long, slow sleep stories for adults told exactly the way these classic nights are told, guided sleep hypnosis for the nights you would rather be spoken to, and hundreds of free sounds to sleep under. Ad-free, on iOS, Android and web. Cancel anytime.