Classic Audiobook Collection

Tanar of Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Deep beneath the Earth's crust lies Pellucidar, a savage inner world of endless daylight where stone-age tribes fight for survival among prehistoric beasts. When radio experimenter Jason Gridley intercepts a desperate transmission from scientist Abner Perry, he learns that the young Empire of Pellucidar is in peril and that it...

A Fourth Form Friendship - A School Story by Angela Brazil audiobook. Genre: drama In A Fourth Form Friendship, Angela Brazil brings listeners into the busy, rule-bound, and often hilarious world of an English girls' school, where the Fourth Form is old enough to be ambitious but still young enough to get into trouble. When a newcomer arrives and tries to find her place among established friendshi...

Ponnamal, Her Story by Amy Wilson Carmichael audiobook. Genre: biography Ponnamal, Her Story is Amy Wilson Carmichael's intimate biography of an Indian woman whose quiet courage helped shape the early years of the Dohnavur work in South India. The story opens with Ponnamal as a young widow, trapped by crushing social expectations and the loneliness of a life that seems to offer no future. From tha...

Come Out of the Kitchen! by Alice Duer Miller audiobook. Genre: romance In a small Southern town, successful young Northerner Burton Crane arrives looking for a grand country house to rent for the hunting season - and finds the perfect (if slightly ramshackle) prize in the venerable Revelly place. The only problem is staffing it. Crane is picky about comforts, and his formidable friend Mrs. Falken...

Three More John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood audiobook. Genre: horror In Three More John Silence Stories, Algernon Blackwood returns to the uncanny casework of Dr. John Silence, a famed psychic physician whose practice takes him far beyond ordinary medicine. Called in when reason fails and fear takes root, Silence approaches each mystery with calm compassion, rigorous observation, and a r...

The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant by Alexander Dunlop Lindsay audiobook. Genre: philosophy Alexander Dunlop Lindsay's The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant is a brisk, clarifying guide to the thinker who redrew the map of modern philosophy. Writing for readers who have heard of Kant but find the Critique of Pure Reason intimidating, Lindsay introduces Kant in his historical moment: an outwardly quiet life...

The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert Mackey audiobook. Genre: philosophy Albert G. Mackey's The Symbolism of Freemasonry is a classic guide to the ideas, images, and ceremonial language that shape the Masonic tradition. Written for both curious outsiders and committed members of the Craft, the book sets out to explain how Freemasonry uses architecture, tools, numbers, light and darkness, and the...

When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne audiobook. Genre: poetry When We Were Very Young is A. A. Milne's beloved collection of poems that captures childhood with warmth, whimsy, and a gently mischievous sense of wonder. Framed by the everyday world of a small child, the book moves through imaginative games, nursery-room logic, and moments that feel both ordinary and magical - from marching like a...

The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne audiobook. Genre: family In the Hundred Acre Wood, a small community of friends drifts through the gentle adventures of everyday life, where the smallest problem can feel enormous and the simplest kindness can change the day. Winnie-the-Pooh, a bear of very little brain but a very big heart, ambles from one curious situation to the next with his thoughtful c...

Eleven Theses on Feuerbach by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written in 1845, Karl Marx's Eleven Theses on Feuerbach is a compact, incendiary set of notes that helped pivot modern thought from interpreting the world to transforming it. Framed as a critique of the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach, Marx challenges the limits of earlier materialism and exposes what he sees as its central w...

Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine audiobook. Genre: adventure When young Arizona cowboy Dave Sanders steps in to help a stranger being robbed, one split-second act of courage twists into a nightmare: Dave is blamed for a killing he did not commit and learns how quickly frontier justice can turn rough and careless. By the time he ride...

Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Wilkie Collins audiobook. Genre: history In Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot, Wilkie Collins steps away from the drawing rooms and detective plots he would later make famous and invites listeners onto the open road. Writing as a curious, sharp-eyed traveler, Collins chronicles a walking tour through Cornwall...

A Year with the Birds by W. Warde Fowler audiobook. Genre: science In A Year with the Birds, Oxford scholar and naturalist W. Warde Fowler invites listeners into a patient, season-by-season apprenticeship in seeing. Beginning with brisk morning walks through Oxford's parks, riversides, and college gardens, Fowler trades the angler's rod for field-glass and discovers a different kind of sport: lear...

Musings of a Chinese Mystic - Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu by Lionel Giles audiobook. Genre: philosophy Musings of a Chinese Mystic presents a clear, inviting gateway into the thought of Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi), one of the great voices of Taoist philosophy. In these carefully chosen passages, editor and translator Lionel Giles gathers the work's most memorable parables, dialogues, an...

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: philosophy In A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx lays out a concentrated, foundational statement of the method and problems that will define his later economic writings. Written in the wake of revolutionary upheavals and amid rapid industrial change, the book argues that to understand pol...

Some Short Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: family Some Short Christmas Stories gathers six of Charles Dickens' most intimate seasonal pieces into one fireside-ready volume, each turning the sparkle of Christmas into a lens for memory, mercy, and the people society overlooks. In 'A Christmas Tree,' a narrator stands before a glittering tree and finds its candles lighting up t...

A Pickle For the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter audiobook. Genre: comedy First published in the early 1800s by self-made Newburyport merchant Timothy Dexter, A Pickle For the Knowing Ones is part memoir, part provocation, and part prank on the polite reading public. Dexter, an untrained writer with boundless confidence, sets out to prove his brilliance to the neighbors, businessmen, and gentlemen...

Last Poems by Laurence Hope audiobook. Genre: poetry Last Poems gathers the final verse of Laurence Hope, the pen name of Adela Florence Nicolson, whose writing became known for its lyrical intensity and its imagined, sensual landscapes of British India. In this collection, the speaking voice moves through moonlit gardens, temple courts, and quiet interior rooms where memory and desire feel equall...

The Automobile Girls at Newport by Laura Crane audiobook. Genre: adventure Published in 1910, The Automobile Girls at Newport follows spirited sisters Barbara (Bab) and Mollie Thurston, whose hard-working family suddenly gets a rare chance to taste a different world. When their wealthy friend Ruth Stuart invites them to Newport, Rhode Island, the girls join Ruth, capable at the wheel of her motor...

The Black Flemings by Kathleen Norris audiobook. Genre: horror On a bleak New England shoreline, Wastewater Hall stands like a brooding memory - a brick mansion battered by salt wind, shuttered rooms, and decades of Fleming pride. When young David Fleming returns to the estate after years away, he finds the household unchanged on the surface and quietly poisoned underneath: his formidable Aunt Flo...

William Blake by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: biography In this brisk, argumentative portrait, G. K. Chesterton introduces William Blake not as a tame museum poet but as a working London engraver whose art and visions refused every comfortable category. Moving between biography and literary criticism, Chesterton follows Blake from his early apprenticeship and stubborn independence through th...

Robert Browning by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: biography In Robert Browning, G. K. Chesterton offers a brisk, opinionated portrait of the great Victorian poet and the strange, exhilarating world inside his verse. Part biography, part literary detective work, the book follows Browning from his early formation and ambitions through the creation of the dramatic monologues that made his name, s...

Revolution and Counter Revolution, or Germany in 1848 by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: history Written in the heat and aftermath of the 1848 upheavals, Revolution and Counter-Revolution, or Germany in 1848 is Karl Marx's fast-moving account of how a continent-wide surge for constitutional government and national unity collided with entrenched monarchies, cautious liberals, and the realities of class...

Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill audiobook. Genre: religion Practical Mysticism is Evelyn Underhill's inviting guide to the mystical life as a real, disciplined way of seeing and living, not an escape into vagueness or rare experiences. Writing with clarity and quiet intensity, Underhill argues that mysticism is rooted in attention, love, and inner transformation, and that it can be pursued...

XLI Poems by E. E. Cummings audiobook. Genre: poetry XLI Poems by E. E. Cummings is a bracing, playful, and often tender collection that showcases a poet determined to make language feel newly alive. Across forty-one pieces, Cummings tests what a poem can do on the page and in the ear: lines fracture, punctuation becomes part of the music, and familiar words are rearranged until they surprise. The...