Classic Audiobook Collection

The Story of London by Henry B. Wheatley audiobook. Genre: history In The Story of London, Victorian scholar Henry B. Wheatley invites listeners on a vivid, street-level journey through the making of one of the world's most influential cities. Moving from Londons earliest beginnings on the Thames to the rise of a sprawling metropolis, Wheatley traces how rulers, merchants, craftsmen, and everyday...

Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud audiobook. Genre: science In Totem and Taboo, Sigmund Freud turns the tools of psychoanalysis outward, asking how the hidden forces that shape an individual mind might also shape entire societies. Across four connected essays, he explores the strange power of taboos, the emotional logic behind ritual prohibitions, and the recurring patterns he sees linking so-calle...

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Sigmund Freud audiobook. Genre: science First published in the early twentieth century, Sigmund Freud's Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex is a foundational, provocative work that reshaped how modern readers think about desire, development, and the hidden forces that influence everyday life. In three tightly argued essays, Freud challenges the idea...

The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud audiobook. Genre: science In The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud offers a clear, personal account of how a controversial new way of understanding the mind took shape. Speaking as both participant and witness, Freud traces the early clinical puzzles that led him away from conventional nineteenth-century medicine a...

The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud audiobook. Genre: philosophy Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams is a landmark work that invites listeners into the hidden logic of the sleeping mind. Blending case studies, personal recollections, and careful argument, Freud proposes that dreams are not random noise but meaningful productions shaped by wishes, conflicts, and the pressures of...

Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud audiobook. Genre: science Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline cases of mental diseases, such as hysteria and compulsion neurosis. By discarding the old methods of treatment and strictly applying himself to a study of the patient's life he discovered that the hitherto puzzling symptoms had a...

Timaeus by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy 'Our intention is, that Timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer amongst us, and has made the nature of the universe his special study, should speak first, beginning with the generation of the world and going down to the creation of man...' 'Timaeus' is usually regarded as one of Plato's later dialogues, and provides an account of the creation of the...

Theaetetus by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Plato's Theaetetus, Athens is still reeling from war and political upheaval when Socrates meets a gifted young mathematician, Theaetetus, and his teacher Theodorus. Drawn into conversation, Theaetetus is challenged to answer a deceptively simple question that becomes the dialogue's driving force: what is knowledge? Socrates, practicing his famous...

Symposium by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Symposium is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with the genealogy, nature and purpose of love, on another level the book deals with the topic of knowledge, specifically how does one know what one knows. The topic of love is taken up in the form of a group of speeches, given by a group of men...

Statesman by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Plato's Statesman, a searching conversation unfolds about what true political leadership really is - and why it is so rare. After earlier discussions about knowledge and expertise, the Eleatic Stranger returns with Young Socrates to tackle a harder question: how do we recognize the genuine statesman amid the crowd of claimants, advisers, demagogue...

Sophist by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Sophist, Plato presents a gripping philosophical inquiry staged as a rigorous conversation in Athens. After a brief opening with Socrates, the discussion is led by an enigmatic Stranger from Elea, who joins the young mathematician Theaetetus to tackle a deceptively simple challenge: what exactly is a sophist? The question quickly expands beyond soci...

Protagoras by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Plato's Protagoras, a young and ambitious Athenian named Hippocrates rushes to Socrates with exciting news: the celebrated sophist Protagoras has arrived in town, and Hippocrates wants to become his student. Socrates agrees to accompany him, but only after pressing a hard question: what exactly will Hippocrates be learning, and will it truly make...

Philebus by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Philebus, Plato stages a rigorous, surprisingly lively debate about the question that sits behind every choice: what makes a human life good. Socrates meets the confident young Protarchus, who has taken up the argument on behalf of Philebus that pleasure is the highest good. Socrates counters that intelligence, understanding, and the disciplined pu...

Phaedrus by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Plato's Phaedrus, Socrates leaves the bustle of Athens for a walk outside the city walls with Phaedrus, a young admirer of speeches and a keen listener for the newest ideas. Beneath the shade of plane trees, their conversation begins with a provocative question about love and quickly expands into a far-reaching examination of the human soul. Throug...

Laches by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy Plato's Laches is a vivid philosophical drama that drops you into an Athenian courtyard where fathers worry about their sons' education and the meaning of virtue. When the question arises whether a young man should be trained in armed combat, two respected generals, Laches and Nicias, are asked to advise. Their disagreement draws in Socrates, whose rele...

Ion by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Ion, Plato stages a sharp and surprisingly playful conversation between Socrates and Ion, a celebrated rhapsode who earns his living performing and interpreting Homer for public audiences. Fresh from a competition victory, Ion claims special expertise in explaining what Homer means about war, leadership, medicine, seamanship, and the gods. Socrates, nev...

Gorgias by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Plato's Gorgias, a late-night conversation in Athens turns into a fierce trial of what it means to live well. Socrates meets the celebrated rhetorician Gorgias and his ambitious students, Polus and Callicles, and presses a deceptively simple question: is persuasive speaking a genuine craft that improves the soul, or merely a knack for winning crowds...

Euthydemus by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Plato's Euthydemus, Socrates recounts to his friend Crito a memorable encounter at the Lyceum, where two celebrated brothers, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, promise to teach virtue and wisdom. Their method, however, is less instruction than combat: rapid-fire questions, verbal traps, and dazzling contradictions designed to win applause. Caught betw...

Critias by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy Plato's Critias is an unfinished philosophical dialogue that continues the conversation begun in Timaeus, moving from cosmic origins to a provocative story about politics, virtue, and the rise and fall of civilizations. Set on the day after Socrates has outlined his vision of an ideal city, the discussion turns to how such a city might look in action....

Cratylus by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Plato's Cratylus, Socrates is drawn into a lively dispute about one of philosophy's oldest puzzles: do words naturally fit the things they name, or are names simply agreed-upon conventions? Two opposing voices frame the debate. Cratylus insists that every true name is correct by nature and reveals the essence of what it names, while Hermogenes argu...

Apocrypha by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy It is not generally agreed whether Plato was the author of any of these books. I. Hippias Major (or Greater Hippias) II. Second Alcibiades (or On Praying) III. Theages IV. The Rivals (or Rival Lovers) V. Hipparchus VI. Minos VII. Clitopho (or Clitophon) VIII. The Epistles (13 Letters) IX. Epinomis (or The Philosopher) X. Axiochus (or On Death) XI. On...

The Shore Road Mystery by Franklin W. Dixon audiobook. Genre: mystery When a string of troubling incidents strikes the coastal road outside Bayport, teenage detectives Frank and Joe Hardy find themselves pulled into a case that refuses to stay quiet. What begins as unsettling reports along the Shore Road soon turns personal, drawing the brothers into a web of suspicious strangers, strange warnings...

The Missing Chums by Franklin W. Dixon audiobook. Genre: mystery When their best friends vanish on a seaside adventure, teenage detectives Frank and Joe Hardy plunge back into danger. In Bayport, the brothers watch Chet Morton and Biff Hooper set off on a motorboat trip down the coast, only to have a sudden storm, unsettling sightings, and a string of odd encounters hint that something is terribly...

Hunting for Hidden Gold by Franklin W. Dixon audiobook. Genre: mystery Teen brothers Frank and Joe Hardy are used to trouble finding them, but this time the mystery begins with a chance encounter and a story that sounds almost too incredible to be true: somewhere, a fortune in gold has been hidden away for years, protected by secrecy, danger, and the kind of clues only a determined investigator co...

The Theory of Psychoanalysis by Carl Gustav Jung audiobook. Genre: science In The Theory of Psychoanalysis, Carl Gustav Jung presents a clear, probing set of lectures first delivered in New York in 1912, at the moment when psychoanalysis was rapidly taking shape and Jung was beginning to diverge from Sigmund Freud. Beginning with a concise review of early psychoanalytic hypotheses, Jung explains c...