Classic Audiobook Collection

The Arrow of Fire by Roy J. Snell audiobook. Genre: mystery Fresh from three years of wilderness roaming with a bow and a quiver, Johnny Thompson steps off a Great Lakes freighter into the midnight glare of Chicago and discovers that the city can be as dangerous as any far-off frontier. Within a day his pocket is picked, and the chase that follows throws him together with Drew Lane, a sharp young...

The King of the Snakes and Other Folklore Stories from Uganda by Rosetta Baskerville audiobook. Genre: folklore Step into a fireside world where animals speak, spirits bargain, and everyday choices ripple outward into legend. In The King of the Snakes and Other Folklore Stories from Uganda, Rosetta Baskerville gathers a vibrant set of traditional tales shaped by oral storytelling, each one carryin...

A Ticket to Adventure by Roy J. Snell audiobook. Genre: mystery Mary Hughes has come to Anchorage, Alaska, with one goal: to trade the familiar for a pioneer life in the Matanuska Valley. Her cousin Florence is just as determined, and together with their small party of homesteaders they step into a landscape of hard labor, sudden weather, and wide-open possibility. But Alaska does not offer simpli...

The Flame Tree and Other Folk-Lore Stories from Uganda by Rosetta Baskerville audiobook. Genre: folklore Step into the storytelling circles of the Baganda people with The Flame Tree and Other Folk-Lore Stories from Uganda, a lively collection gathered and retold by Rosetta Baskerville, who lived in Uganda as the wife of a missionary. Here, each tale opens a door into a world where animals bargain...

Moo Cow Tales by Rosamund Edith Nesbit Bland audiobook. Genre: family Moo Cow Tales is a charming collection of four classic children's short stories by Rosamund Edith Nesbit Bland that turns a quiet English pasture into a stage for big feelings and brave choices. With gentle humor and vivid countryside detail, Bland gives cows and calves lively inner lives - full of curiosity, pride, worry, and w...

The Cosmic Junkman by Rog Phillips audiobook. Genre: scifi In the uneasy peace after a galaxy-spanning war, Earth does what it always does when a weapon becomes too frightening: it mothballs its robot armies and sells the rest for scrap. The decision creates a new kind of worker and a new kind of danger. Out in the yards and depots where metal veterans are dismantled, a mysterious figure known as...

Toxophilus by Roger Ascham audiobook. Genre: history Written in Tudor England and cast as a lively dialogue, Roger Ascham's Toxophilus pairs two friends in friendly dispute: Toxophilus, whose very name means the lover of the bow, and Philologus, the lover of learning. Their conversation begins with a simple question - is archery merely a pastime, or a practice worthy of serious, educated men? From...

The Square Egg and Other Sketches by Saki audiobook. Genre: comedy The Square Egg and Other Sketches gathers Saki's razor-edged short pieces into a compact showcase of his comic genius. Moving through drawing rooms, country houses, and polite public spaces where manners matter more than morals, Saki turns everyday social rituals into arenas for mischief and quiet warfare. In the title sketch, an a...

Hereditary Genius by Sir Francis Galton audiobook. Genre: science In Hereditary Genius, Victorian polymath Sir Francis Galton sets out to answer a provocative question: why do extraordinary ability and public distinction seem to cluster in certain families? Drawing on biographies, genealogies, and public records, Galton surveys judges, statesmen, military commanders, scientists, poets, and other e...

Songs of Travel and Other Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook. Genre: poetry Robert Louis Stevenson's Songs of Travel and Other Verses gathers poems that move with the rhythm of roads, sea-winds, and restlessness, tracing the inner life of a speaker who is forever setting out and forever taking stock. Across lyrics that feel at once intimate and outward-looking, Stevenson explores what it m...

Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook. Genre: folklore In Fables, Robert Louis Stevenson turns a keen eye on the small, telling moments where human nature gives itself away. This compact collection gathers brief allegorical tales - some humorous, some unsettling, all sharply observed - in which everyday choices are distilled into parable. A traveler bargains for safety and learns what fear ca...

Initiation by Robert Hugh Benson audiobook. Genre: drama Set in aristocratic England in the years before the First World War, Initiation follows young Sir Nevill Fanning, a man who calls himself Catholic yet lives as if faith were only a family custom. He has charm, money, and a future secured by his devoted Aunt Ann, but his interior life is thin, and he instinctively dodges anything that smells...

Revenge by Robert Barr audiobook. Genre: mystery Revenge! (often listed simply as Revenge) gathers Robert Barr's late-19th-century short fiction into a sharp, suspenseful tour of what people will risk when pride is wounded and wrongs demand repayment. Each tale approaches vengeance from a different angle: domestic hatred, political rivalry, professional jealousy, and the cold, careful patience of...

William The Conqueror by Richmal Crompton audiobook. Genre: comedy In William the Conqueror, Richmal Crompton returns to the unruly world of William Brown, an eleven-year-old with a fierce sense of justice, a talent for trouble, and an unstoppable confidence in his own brilliance. Joined by his loyal band of friends - the Outlaws - William barrels through everyday village life and turns it into a...

Further Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: family In Further Chronicles of Avonlea, Lucy Maud Montgomery returns to the red roads and bright fields of Prince Edward Island to share a fresh gathering of interconnected tales set among the farms and villages around Avonlea. Anne Shirley is now more a beloved presence in the background than the center of the spotlight, as...

The Land of Midian by Richard Francis Burton audiobook. Genre: history In The Land of Midian, Victorian explorer and linguist Richard Francis Burton turns his keen eye to the stark, little-mapped borderlands of northwest Arabia along the Red Sea. Framed as the record of an expedition undertaken with practical aims as well as scientific curiosity, the book follows Burton and his companions as they...

Six Metaphysical Meditations by Rene Descartes audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Six Metaphysical Meditations, Rene Descartes invites the listener into a rigorous, first-person investigation of what can be known with certainty. Through a sequence of six meditations, he stages an intellectual reset: setting aside inherited opinions and even the testimony of the senses, he searches for a foundation st...

The DArblay Mystery by R. Austin Freeman audiobook. Genre: mystery Newly qualified Dr Stephen Gray is taking a last, idle holiday walk before beginning his first appointment when he stumbles on something impossible to dismiss: a body rising beneath the green scum of a quiet woodland pond. The dead man is Julius D'Arblay, a respected artist, and nearby Gray encounters Marion D'Arblay, a poised youn...

The Cinema of Orson Welles by Peter Bogdanovich audiobook. Genre: biography In The Cinema of Orson Welles, filmmaker and critic Peter Bogdanovich offers an intimate, clear-eyed portrait of one of cinema's most daring innovators, tracing how Orson Welles made his mark through bold technique, restless experimentation, and an artist's refusal to play safe. Blending sharp film analysis with the immedi...

Every Man His Own Art Critic by Patrick Geddes audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written for two major British exhibitions in the late 1880s, Patrick Geddes's Every Man His Own Art Critic is a brisk, welcoming guide for anyone who has ever stood before a painting and wondered what, exactly, to do with what they are seeing. Geddes addresses the ordinary visitor rather than the specialist, arguing that a...

The Browning Boys by Pansy audiobook. Genre: family On their eleventh birthday, twin brothers Aleck and Ben Browning make a vow that sounds simple until life tests it: they will be truly helpful at home, not just in words but in sacrifice. Their family is under strain, their father is an invalid whose health is failing, and every penny in the household seems to have a purpose already. Ben, thought...

Sunshine Factory by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion Sunshine Factory by Pansy (Isabella M. Alden) is a brief, warmhearted collection of seven linked-in-spirit children's stories that turn everyday disappointments into chances for courage, good manners, and practical faith. In the opening tale, young Jennie Moore faces a rainy day and learns from Uncle Jack that sunshine is something you can make...

Modern Prophets and Other Sketches by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion In Modern Prophets and Other Sketches, beloved 19th-century author Pansy (Isabella Alden) turns her sharp eye and warm heart on the dramas of everyday Christian living. This collection gathers a series of brief, vivid sketches - part short story, part character study - in which ordinary people are tested by small decisions that...

Little Minnie, and Other Stories by Pansy audiobook. Genre: family In Little Minnie, and Other Stories, beloved 19th-century author Pansy (Isabella M. Alden) gathers a handful of warm, faith-tinged tales about ordinary children facing very grown-up choices. At the center is Minnie, a small girl with a tender heart and a lively will, whose everyday moments at home, at school, and among neighbors be...

Dr. Deanes Way, and Other Stories by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion In Dr. Deane's Way, and Other Stories, beloved Christian storyteller Pansy (Isabella Macdonald Alden), joined here with her friend and fellow writer Faye Huntington, gathers a handful of warm, earnest tales about ordinary people confronted by extraordinary moments of conscience. The title story follows Dr. Deane, a physician who...