Classic Audiobook Collection

Mosquitoes by William Faulkner audiobook. Genre: comedy Set in the languid heat of New Orleans in the early 1920s, William Faulkner's Mosquitoes follows a mixed group of artists, writers, socialites, and dreamers who escape the city on a weekend yachting trip across Lake Pontchartrain. The voyage promises leisure and inspiration, but the close quarters quickly turn the boat into a floating stage f...

Sour Grapes by William Carlos Williams audiobook. Genre: poetry Sour Grapes is an early, punchy collection of poems by William Carlos Williams that helps define an American modernist voice: local, plainspoken, and startlingly alive to the physical world. Moving from quick, image-driven lyrics to more expansive reflections, Williams trains his attention on everyday scenes - a street corner, a room,...

Smoky The Cowhorse by Will James audiobook. Genre: adventure In the high country of the American West, a wild, steel-gray mustang is born with speed, intelligence, and a fierce love of open space. The cowboys who spot him call him Smoky, and before long he is caught, sold, and thrown into a human world he does not understand. Fate brings Smoky to a quiet, capable young cowboy named Clint, who take...

Galileo by Walter W. Bryant audiobook. Genre: biography Walter W. Bryant's Galileo follows the rise of the brilliant Italian thinker who helped transform stargazing into modern science. From Galileo Galilei's early curiosity and restless ambition, the narrative traces his move from classroom theory to hands-on investigation, where careful measurement and daring questions begin to challenge inherit...

A Last Diary by W. N. P. Barbellion audiobook. Genre: biography A Last Diary gathers the final notebook entries of W. N. P. Barbellion, the pen name of British naturalist and writer Bruce Frederick Cummings, as he records the narrowing circle of his days with an unsparing eye. Writing in a voice that is by turns sardonic, tender, and fiercely intelligent, he chronicles life as a museum worker and...

Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott audiobook. Genre: family In Jo's Boys, Louisa May Alcott returns to the lively world of Plumfield, the unconventional school founded by Jo and Professor Bhaer. Years have passed since the boys and girls first arrived, and now Jo watches her former pupils step into adulthood with all its bright ambitions and hard lessons. The story follows a wide circle of characters...

Human Affairs by Vincent OSullivan audiobook. Genre: drama First published in 1907, Human Affairs is a sharp, atmospheric collection of seven long stories by fin-de-siecle writer Vincent O'Sullivan, each one peeling back the polite surface of society to expose the hungers, vanities, and quiet despairs underneath. In 'The Great Moment,' a once-comfortable New York family is jolted into a harsher li...

The Ukrainians and the European War by Various audiobook. Genre: history Published in 1915 as the First World War tore through Eastern Europe, The Ukrainians and the European War is a compact, urgent collection of essays, reports, and proclamations aimed at explaining the Ukrainian cause to an English-speaking audience. In short pieces by advocates and observers such as George Raffalovich, Alexand...

The Thrill Book Vol. I No. 1, March 1, 1919 by Various audiobook. Genre: fantasy Step into the birth of American weird pulp with The Thrill Book Vol. I No. 1 (March 1, 1919), a debut issue assembled by editor Harold Hersey to showcase stories that were stranger, darker, and less easily labeled than ordinary adventure fare. Across this fast-moving collection, readers roam from harsh frontiers to sh...

The Easter Mystery Of Jesus Christ by Various audiobook. Genre: religion The Easter Mystery Of Jesus Christ is a carefully gathered anthology that traces the Christian story of Holy Week and Easter through Scripture, poetry, hymnody, and prayer. Rather than offering a single narrator's commentary, this collection lets many voices speak: it opens with Gospel readings from the New Testament that fol...

The Thrill Book Vol. I No. 3, April 1, 1919 by Various audiobook. Genre: horror Step back into the raw, fast-paced world of early American pulp with The Thrill Book Vol. I No. 3 (April 1, 1919), a magazine issue packed with cliffhangers, sinister discoveries, and hard-edged suspense from a rotating cast of genre pioneers. Here, danger comes in many shapes: the shadowed depths of a jungle hiding a...

Library of the Worlds Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 17 by Various audiobook. Genre: history Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 17 is a gateway volume in the famed 45-volume anthology assembled to bring 'a mass of good reading' into everyday homes. Edited under the direction of Charles Dudley Warner and his collaborators, each section pairs a brief, app...

Fevers and Physicians in Space by various audiobook. Genre: scifi Fevers and Physicians in Space is a wide-ranging science fiction anthology that puts the human body under pressure: in sickrooms and laboratories, on crowded Earths and in the sealed, fragile habitats of space. Across a lineup of classic short stories by multiple authors, medicine becomes both a lifeline and a battleground. A global...

Anthology of Early Mormon Doctrine and Apologetics by Various audiobook. Genre: religion Anthology of Early Mormon Doctrine and Apologetics gathers key short writings from the early decades of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, offering a front-row view of how a new American faith explained itself to believers, critics, and the wider public. Framed by three influential pieces from Jo...

Joe Strong, the boy wizard by Vance Barnum audiobook. Genre: adventure Joe Strong has circus sawdust in his blood. Orphaned young, he is taken in by the strict Blackfords of quiet Bedford, a home that offers food and shelter but little understanding for a boy who can climb higher, run faster, and dream bigger than anyone in town. When the dazzling Professor Alonzo Rosello brings his magic show to...

Combat Lessons Number 1 - Rank And File In Combat - What Theyre Doing, How They Do It by United States Army War College audiobook. Genre: history Compiled for the United States Army War College during World War II, Combat Lessons Number 1 is a fast-moving field digest built from the voices of soldiers and junior leaders who had already learned hard truths under fire. Instead of a single narrative,...

The Unholy Three by Tod Robbins audiobook. Genre: thriller Three sideshow outcasts decide the carnival is too small for their ambitions. Tweedledee, a vicious little man with a taste for cruelty, has the hunger to command. Hercules, the strongman, supplies the muscle and the fearsome reputation. And Professor Echo, a gifted ventriloquist with nerves stretched thin, brings the one talent the others...

The History of Rome, volume 4 by Titus Livius audiobook. Genre: history Often published as Volume IV in modern sets of Livy's monumental History of Rome, this installment gathers Books 8-10 and follows the Republic as it pushes beyond Latium and is tested by wars, rival coalitions, and its own uncompromising ideals. As Rome clashes with former allies and confronts the hard-fighting Samnites in the...

The History of Rome, volume 3 by Titus Livius audiobook. Genre: history In The History of Rome, Volume 3, Titus Livius (Livy) plunges listeners into one of antiquity's most gripping crises: the opening years of the Second Punic War. Carthage's brilliant commander Hannibal Barca carries the fight to Italy, turning Rome's confidence into alarm as consuls, senators, and allies scramble to respond to...

The History of Rome, volume 2 by Titus Livius audiobook. Genre: history In The History of Rome, Volume 2, Titus Livius (Livy) continues his sweeping chronicle of Rome's early Republic, where the city's survival depends as much on civic order as on battlefield courage. As Rome expands its power across central Italy, internal tensions sharpen: patricians and plebeians struggle over law, debt, land,...

The History of Rome, volume 1 by Titus Livius audiobook. Genre: history In The History of Rome, volume 1, the Roman historian Titus Livius (Livy) opens an ambitious chronicle of a city that grew from a small settlement on the Tiber into the dominant power of the Mediterranean world. Writing during the age of Augustus, Livy looks back to Rome's earliest memories - part legend, part civic tradition...

Neighbourhood - A Years Life in and About an English Village by Tickner Edwardes audiobook. Genre: history In Neighbourhood - A Year's Life in and About an English Village, Tickner Edwardes invites you into Windlecombe, a small Downland community where the calendar is kept as much by birdsong, hedgerow blossom, and hard frosts as by church bells and market days. Moving through the seasons month by...

The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook. Genre: family When a strange newcomer arrives from the North, the Green Forest and Green Meadows buzz with questions, rumors, and more than a little fear. He is Prickly Porky the Porcupine, a quiet little traveler with a coat full of hidden quills and a knack for surprising the neighbors who judge him too quickly. Peter Rabbit and t...

The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire by Thomas Wallace Knox audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire, Thomas Wallace Knox blends fast-moving travel adventure with an eye for history, geography, and everyday life in the late-19th-century Czars dominions. Teen friends Frank Bassett and Fred Bronson, guided by the wise and practical Dr. Bronson, set out from Central...

The Boy Travellers in Australasia by Thomas Wallace Knox audiobook. Genre: adventure Thomas Wallace Knox sends his famous young globe-trotters back to sea in The Boy Travellers in Australasia, a brisk, fact-packed adventure that turns the Pacific into a classroom. Frank Bassett and his cousin Fred Bronson, traveling under the steady guidance of their uncle, Doctor Bronson, sail from San Francisco...