Classic Audiobook Collection

Five Little Peppers at School by Margaret Sidney audiobook. Genre: family In Five Little Peppers at School, Margaret Sidney sends the beloved Pepper children beyond their cozy 'Little Brown House' and into the larger world of lessons, rules, and new temptations. With their mother, Mamsie, still the heart of the family, the Pepper siblings - capable Polly, high-spirited Jasper, steady Ben, thoughtf...

Emilys Quest by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: drama In Emily's Quest, Lucy Maud Montgomery brings Emily Byrd Starr to the brink of adulthood, where talent and ambition collide with family expectations, heartbreak, and the demands of real life. Now living at New Moon on Prince Edward Island, Emily is determined to become a writer, chasing publication with the same fierce honesty that shape...

Silver Pitchers - and Independence, A Centennial Love Story by Louisa May Alcott audiobook. Genre: romance In Silver Pitchers: and Independence, A Centennial Love Story, Louisa May Alcott gathers nine lively tales that move from parlor conversations to country roads, mixing moral resolve, comedy, and quietly daring romance. The opening novella, Silver Pitchers, follows three close friends - dignif...

The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Louis Tracy audiobook. Genre: mystery On a bright June morning in 1912, young artist John Trenholme expects nothing more demanding than an easy commission: travel to a quiet Hertfordshire village and sketch its threatened old-world charm. Instead, a moment of idyllic calm - a young woman, Sylvia, emerging from her dawn swim on the estate of wealthy financier...

Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy audiobook. Genre: mystery On a wet London night, young writer Frank Theydon leaves the theater and cannot forget the sight of a poised, striking girl and the stern older man who escorts her. Hours later, back in his apartment block, Frank spots that same man entering the building and paying a brief, secretive visit to the flat next door - Number Seventeen, home of t...

The Beggars of Paris by Louis Paulian audiobook. Genre: history In The Beggars of Paris, Louis Paulian turns a hard, clear eye on a side of the city most polite society prefers not to see: begging as an organized trade. Writing from firsthand investigation, Paulian explains how he was drawn into the question of mendicity and then follows his inquiry into the streets, doorways, and church porches w...

Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus audiobook. Genre: drama Set a decade after the earlier novels in Louis Couperus' Small Souls cycle, Dr. Adriaan returns to the dwindling Van Lowe clan as they try to build a livable future inside a dark, overfull country house at Driebergen. Constance van der Welcke and her husband Henri preside over a household crowded with dependents and memories: the aging Mamma va...

The Twilight of the Souls by Louis Couperus audiobook. Genre: drama In fin-de-siecle The Hague, the once-formidable Van Lowe clan is coming apart at the seams. The Twilight of the Souls, the third novel in Louis Couperus' four-book cycle The Books of the Small Souls, returns to a family that has drifted from its old rituals of Sunday gatherings and shared certainties. Constance Van der Welcke trie...

The Later Life by Louis Couperus audiobook. Genre: drama Set among the rigid gentility of turn-of-the-century The Hague, The Later Life follows the Van der Welckes as they try to rebuild an ordinary existence under the long shadow of an old scandal. Constance van der Welcke has returned from years abroad, hoping time will soften judgment, but the price of respectability is isolation: family ties a...

Small Souls by Louis Couperus audiobook. Genre: drama In late-19th-century The Hague, the dignified Van Lowe household lives by routine, reputation, and the weekly Sunday gathering presided over by the formidable Mrs. van Lowe. Into this carefully maintained world returns her daughter Constance, absent for years after a scandal that polite society has never truly forgiven: a divorce, a forbidden l...

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 06 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne audiobook. Genre: biography In Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 06, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - Napoleon's longtime associate and former private secretary - continues his insider chronicle of the astonishing ascent of a man who remade France and unsettled all of Europe. Writing as both participant and ob...

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 05 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne audiobook. Genre: biography In Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 05, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, one of Napoleon's early companions and a longtime secretary, continues his intimate chronicle of a man who remade France and unsettled the old order of Europe. Writing with the confidence of an insider, Bourri...

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 04 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne audiobook. Genre: history In Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 04, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Napoleon's boyhood schoolmate and later trusted insider, follows the general's return to Paris and the precarious first steps of the Consulate. France is still at war, Europe watches the new regime with suspicion...

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 03 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne audiobook. Genre: biography Written by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Napoleon Bonaparte's schoolmate at Brienne and later his private secretary, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 03 offers a ground-level, insider account of a campaign where ambition collides with distance, disease, and politics. Picking up a...

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 02 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne audiobook. Genre: biography In Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 02, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne continues his vivid, close-quarters portrait of Napoleon as France convulses through revolution and war. Writing as a longtime confidant and insider, Bourrienne traces the young general's accelerating rise from...

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 01 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne audiobook. Genre: biography Written by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, a schoolmate of Napoleon and later one of his closest secretaries, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 01 opens the door on the private workshops of power behind the most talked-about soldier-statesman of his age. From the early days when a b...

The Charwomans Shadow by Lord Dunsany audiobook. Genre: fantasy In a fairy-tale Spain of proud towers, dusty roads, and old church bells, young Ramon Alonzo is sent away by his impoverished father, Gonsalvo, Lord of the Tower, with one urgent task: learn enough sorcery to turn lead into gold and save the family's honor with a proper dowry. His destination is a secluded magician whose house is as u...

Clean Break by Lionel White audiobook. Genre: thriller Fresh out of prison and living on borrowed time, Johnny Clay believes he has designed the perfect score: rob a New York racetrack on its busiest day, when the cash is piled high and the crowd provides cover. Johnny is no dreamer, though. He knows the biggest risk is people, so he builds his crew from seemingly ordinary men with money troubles...

The Land of Enchantment - From Pikes Peak to the Pacific by Lilian Whiting audiobook. Genre: history In The Land of Enchantment - From Pike's Peak to the Pacific, journalist and travel writer Lilian Whiting invites listeners on an early 20th century journey through the American Southwest at a moment when rail travel and grand hotels were opening vast new horizons. Setting out beneath the high skie...

The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries- Volume 1 by Leopold von Ranke audiobook. Genre: history In The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries - Volume 1, Leopold von Ranke launches a sweeping, source-driven study of the papacy as a political, diplomatic, and spiritual power in early modern Europe. Writing with the cool precision that helped define modern historical sc...

War and Peace, Volume 4 by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: history In War and Peace, Volume 4, Leo Tolstoy brings the great sweep of the Napoleonic era to its most intense and intimate stage, as Russia faces the full force of the 1812 invasion and its shattering aftermath. Amid battles, retreats, and the burning pressures of national crisis, the novel follows the intertwined fates of Pierre Bezukhov...

War and Peace, Volume 3 by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: history In War and Peace, Volume 3, Leo Tolstoy deepens his sweeping portrait of Russia at war and in turmoil, following several intertwined families as private lives collide with the grinding forces of history. Prince Andrei Bolkonsky returns to the center of events, pulled between duty, disillusionment, and the fragile hope of renewed purp...

War and Peace, Volume 2 by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: history In War and Peace, Volume 2, Leo Tolstoy deepens his sweeping portrait of Russia as private lives and public events tighten their grip on one another. The glittering salons of St. Petersburg and Moscow still pulse with gossip, ambition, and court politics, but the aftershocks of the early Napoleonic campaigns reach into every househol...

War and Peace, Volume 1 by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: history In War and Peace, Volume 1, Leo Tolstoy opens a sweeping portrait of Russian society as Europe trembles under the rise of Napoleon. In the glittering salons of St. Petersburg and the grand estates of the countryside, families maneuver for influence, affection, and security while rumors of war harden into orders. Young, idealistic Pie...

Stars of the Desert by Laurence Hope audiobook. Genre: poetry Stars of the Desert is a turn-of-the-20th-century poetry collection by Laurence Hope (the pen name of Adela Florence Nicolson) that invites listeners into a world of heat, distance, and longing. Written in a lush, musical voice, these lyrics move between starlit sands and shadowed gardens, between the restless pull of travel and the pri...