Classic Audiobook Collection

Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg audiobook. Genre: biography Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years is a sweeping, intimate portrait of Lincoln before the White House, tracing how a shy frontier boy became a self-made lawyer, gifted storyteller, and rising political figure. Moving from the hard edges of Kentucky and Indiana to the broader horizons of Illinois, Sand...

The Astral Plane - Its Inhabitants, Scenery, and Phenomena by C. W. Leadbeater audiobook. Genre: religion In The Astral Plane: Its Inhabitants, Scenery, and Phenomena, C. W. Leadbeater offers a brisk, systematic tour of an unseen world described in the Theosophical tradition. Writing as a careful observer rather than a storyteller, Leadbeater lays out what the astral plane is said to be, how it re...

The Man of Genius by Cesare Lombroso audiobook. Genre: science In The Man of Genius, pioneering Italian psychiatrist and criminologist Cesare Lombroso sets out to answer a provocative question: what separates extraordinary creative power from illness, obsession, and instability? Drawing on 19th-century medicine, anthropology, and early psychology, Lombroso assembles a wide-ranging inquiry into the...

Dymer by C. S. Lewis audiobook. Genre: poetry Dymer is C. S. Lewis's early narrative poem, written in rich, mythic language and shaped like a modern fable. It follows Dymer, a restless young man raised in a gray, rule-bound city where imagination and desire are treated as threats. When he breaks away from the safety of conformity, Dymer sets out into a strange landscape of shifting kingdoms, seduc...

Clematis by Bertha B. Cobb audiobook. Genre: family On a warm spring day in a crowded New York street, a quiet little girl in shabby clothes sits alone with a kitten hidden inside her coat. She can only give one name - Clematis - and she insists the kitten, Deborah, is her own. Kind policeman Jim Cunneen cannot leave her there, and soon Clematis is carried from the hard edge of the sidewalk into t...

A Brief History of Forestry by Bernhard Eduard Fernow audiobook. Genre: history Originally developed from a series of lectures delivered to students at the Yale Forest School, Bernhard E. Fernow's A Brief History of Forestry offers a brisk, wide-ranging survey of how societies learned, often the hard way, to manage forests as more than an endless frontier. Writing as a leading early forester and e...

The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. Reeve audiobook. Genre: mystery When a baffling killing strikes New York society, the evidence points everywhere and nowhere at once: a victim collapses with scarcely a sound, the scene offers no clear weapon, and the witnesses can only agree on one thing - something unseen delivered death with chilling precision. Into the confusion steps Professor Craig Kennedy, a b...

The Spy Company, a Story of the Mexican War by Archibald Clavering Gunter audiobook. Genre: adventure In the uneasy years just before the Mexican War flares into open conflict, a young woman who has been polished by New York society learns that her roots lie far from ballrooms and parlors. Raised to be a debutante, she is jolted by loss and driven by a single, urgent question: who is the father sh...

Wonderful London by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: history Wonderful London: Its Lights and Shadows of Humour and Sadness is a lively, sharp-eyed portrait of Victorian London, told through a sequence of short, scene-driven essays by an anonymous middle-class observer. Moving from foggy streets and late-night corners to drawing-room dinners and cramped lodging houses, the narrator listens, watches, an...

English as She is Wrote by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: comedy English as She is Wrote is a famously odd little volume that turns language learning into unintended comedy. Presented as a practical guide to English, this anonymous phrasebook (compiled from Portuguese sources) offers translations that are technically recognizable but wildly mischosen, producing a parade of malapropisms, tangled idiom...

When Woman Proposes by Anne Warner audiobook. Genre: romance In Anne Warner's When Woman Proposes, a daring young heiress named Nathalie decides that waiting to be chosen is a waste of time. At a glittering social event she spots Captain Mowbray, a disciplined officer whose charm is matched by an immovable conviction: he will not marry, especially on a soldier's pay. Nathalie, however, believes in...

The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary by Anne Warner audiobook. Genre: comedy In early 20th-century New York, Aunt Mary Watkins is a formidable presence: wealthy, sharp-tongued, and so deaf that every conversation becomes a small battle of wills. She has poured her pride (and her money) into her favorite grand-nephew, Jack, a charming scapegrace whose talent for trouble keeps testing the limits of her pat...

The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang audiobook. Genre: folklore First published in 1897, The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang gathers a dazzling assortment of traditional tales from around the world into one inviting treasury. In these pages you will meet brave youngest sons and clever daughters, wandering princes and enchanted princesses, talking animals, witches, giants, and mysterious strangers who...

The Parenticide Club by Ambrose Bierce audiobook. Genre: comedy In The Parenticide Club, Ambrose Bierce invites you into a gentlemen's society with a single, unspeakable qualification: every member claims to have killed a parent. Framed as a series of club proceedings and confessions, the book unfolds through sharply drawn testimonies in which each speaker tries to justify the unforgivable, arguin...

Secret Chambers and Hiding Places by Allan Fea audiobook. Genre: history In Secret Chambers and Hiding Places, antiquary and storyteller Allan Fea invites listeners into the shadowed architecture of Britain where walls conceal more than timber and stone. Moving through manor houses, castles, and old religious buildings, Fea traces the real historical pressures that produced secret rooms, false flo...

The Wolf-Leader by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: horror In a rural corner of France where old superstitions still cling to the woods, Thibault is a poor, embittered gamekeeper who feels mocked by fate and crushed by the privileges of the nobles. When a chance encounter in the forest places him face to face with a mysterious stranger who seems to know his deepest resentments, Thibault is tempte...

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce audiobook. Genre: horror In Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories, Ambrose Bierce turns the everyday world of 19th-century America into a place where death never fully lets go. Soldiers, travelers, skeptics, and ordinary townspeople find themselves confronted by disturbances that cannot be explained away: a strange execution wit...

Tarzan Triumphant by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Deep in the African interior, danger comes from two directions at once. When Lady Barbara Collis, an English aviatrix, is forced down over the forbidding Ghenzi Mountains, she stumbles into a hidden volcanic valley called Midian - a lost, isolated people split into rival factions and ruled by prophets who enforce a warped, viole...

The Tarzan Twins by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure When fourteen-year-old cousins Dick and Doc discover that one of them is distantly related to the legendary Lord Greystoke, they earn a new nickname at school: the Tarzan Twins. Now they have the chance of a lifetime - a holiday on Tarzan's African estate. But before they can even reach their hero, disaster strikes. A rail mishap...

Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: history In turbulent 16th-century France, the royal court of the Valois is a glittering trap: a place where weddings are arranged like treaties, faith is weaponized, and a careless word can cost a life. At the center stands Marguerite de Valois - clever, observant, and determined to shape her own fate even as her family uses her as a pawn....

The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Forty-Five Guardsmen, Alexandre Dumas plunges listeners into the perilous politics of late 16th-century France, where the throne is weak, factions sharpen their knives, and loyalty is bought at a terrible price. King Henry III, besieged by rivals and public unrest, forms an elite corps of forty-five Gascon gentlemen - h...

An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope audiobook. Genre: philosophy Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man is a philosophical poem that wrestles with one of humanity's oldest questions: how can a world filled with suffering, limitation, and contradiction still make moral and spiritual sense? Written in a series of tightly argued, brilliantly crafted epistles, the work guides the listener through a grand surv...

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus by Lady Mary Wroth audiobook. Genre: poetry Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is Lady Mary Wroth's groundbreaking early modern sonnet sequence, spoken in the voice of Pamphilia, a woman caught between her vow of constancy and the painful knowledge that her beloved, Amphilanthus, is changeable. Through tightly wrought sonnets and interwoven songs, Pamphilia turns the conventions o...

Moving the Mountain by Charlotte Perkins Gilman audiobook. Genre: scifi When John Robertson returns to the United States after three decades away, he expects to find familiar streets, old habits, and the same social battles he once knew. Instead, he steps into a nation quietly transformed by a sweeping, practical reorganization of everyday life. Taken in by relatives and new acquaintances, John be...

Maude by Christina Rossetti audiobook. Genre: drama Written as a 'tale for girls' and threaded with early poems, Christina Rossetti's Maude follows fifteen-year-old Maude Foster, a pale, clever, quietly intense London girl whose private writing-book is part diary, part sketchbook, and part confession. Praised for her verses yet unsettled by the attention they draw, Maude is pulled between the warm...