Classic Audiobook Collection

Israel - A Prince with God by Frederick Brotherton Meyer audiobook. Genre: religion An old-world story this! In its strange Eastern dress, it appears to be as remote from us as the garb of an Arab, or the barter of an Oriental Bazaar. And yet human life is much the same, whenever and wherever lived. Our critics complain of our poring over these timeworn pages of ancient biography, but, with all de...

The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon audiobook. Genre: mystery When teenage brothers Frank and Joe Hardy return to their hometown of Bayport, they expect a quiet stretch of summer ahead - until a rash of daring robberies hits the community. Their father, famed detective Fenton Hardy, is drawn into a puzzling case involving a stolen collection of valuable securities, and the boys cannot resist j...

The Secret of the Old Mill by Franklin W. Dixon audiobook. Genre: mystery The Secret of the Old Mill is the third volume of the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories. This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon in 1927. After becoming victims of a counterfeiting ring, the boys become suspicious of the activities surrounding a prev...

The House on the Cliff by Franklin W. Dixon audiobook. Genre: mystery When teenage brothers Frank and Joe Hardy think they are done with their latest case, a new mystery pulls them toward the rocky shoreline of Barmet Bay. A strange old house stands on the cliff above the water, and the locals whisper about secrets hidden inside. Curious and determined, the Hardy Boys begin to investigate, only to...

Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 9 - Nip and Tuck by Frank Tousey audiobook. Genre: adventure In turn-of-the-century New York, two sharp, headstrong young men known as Nip and Tuck have spent their whole lives locked in friendly competition. Now their rivalry moves to the biggest arena they can imagine: Wall Street. Each has scraped together the courage and capital to open a tiny brokerage office, and...

Japan and Korea by Frank G. Carpenter audiobook. Genre: history In Japan and Korea, veteran travel writer Frank G. Carpenter leads listeners on a brisk, inquisitive tour of East Asia as it appeared to Western eyes in the early twentieth century. Beginning in Tokyo, he moves from crowded business streets and modern institutions to the pageantry of the imperial household, using each stop to ask larg...

The Man with a Thousand Legs by Frank Belknap Long audiobook. Genre: horror Told through a trail of letters, statements, and recovered documents, The Man with a Thousand Legs pieces together a case that no single witness can explain alone. When unsettling reports begin to circulate about a brilliant but obsessive researcher, Dr. Marston, curiosity turns to dread as friends, officials, and bystande...

Three Good Giants by Francois Rabelais audiobook. Genre: folklore Three Good Giants gathers the most spirited episodes from Francois Rabelais' giant legends and reshapes them into a fast, family-friendly chronicle. It begins with the tall-tale origins of giantkind and quickly introduces three unforgettable rulers of outsized appetites and even larger hearts: Grandgousier, his son Gargantua, and Ga...

The Dalehouse Murder by Francis Everton audiobook. Genre: mystery When Francis Jeffcock accepts an invitation to a summer tennis tournament at the Merchester Lawn Tennis Club, he expects lazy matches, brisk gossip, and the comfortable routines of a well-bred circle. Instead, the weekend turns chilling when Stella Palfreeman, a dazzling young woman at the center of too many glances and private quar...

Dr. Elsie Inglis by Frances Balfour audiobook. Genre: biography Dr. Elsie Inglis is one of the unsung heroes of the late 19th and early 20th century. She became a physician in 1894, and shortly after opened a Women's Hospice in Edinburgh for impoverished women and children. She was a key figure in the women's suffrage movement in Scotland. During World War I Inglis, despite opposition and cynicism...

Aniwee - or, the Warrior Queen by Florence Dixie audiobook. Genre: adventure Set amid the wild valleys, apple groves, and snow-bright Andes of Patagonia, Aniwee - or, the Warrior Queen follows a girl scarcely sixteen who has been thrust into power after sudden tragedy. Aniwee, raised among the Araucanian people and bound to them by fierce loyalty, must rule as Queen-Regent for her young child whil...

A Coin Of Edward VII by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery A family celebrates Christmas and its flaws are gently exposed by the house guest Mrs. Parry. Giles is engaged to the wealthy Daisy, yet is clearly in love with the governess Anne Denham. Things come to a head when Daisy is murdered. Who would murder her? Perhaps the governess who told her she would kill her and made it clear she wanted...

All the Sad Young Men by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama First published in 1926, All the Sad Young Men gathers F. Scott Fitzgerald's sharp, glittering stories of ambition, desire, and disillusionment in the Jazz Age. Across a series of vividly drawn settings - country clubs and city apartments, college campuses and European streets - Fitzgerald follows young men and women chasing roma...

Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls by Ernest A. Bell audiobook. Genre: history First published in the early 1900s, Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls is Ernest A. Bell's urgent exposé and reformist call to action against what he and his contemporaries termed the 'white slave trade' - the organized recruitment and coercion of young women and girls into prostitution. Writing for parents, clergy, c...

The Literature of Arabia by Epiphanius Wilson audiobook. Genre: folklore The Literature of Arabia, edited and introduced by Epiphanius Wilson, is a gateway into classical Arabic storytelling, poetry, and legend, presented for English readers with guiding notes, context, and biographical sketches. Anchoring the volume is the Romance of Antar, the famed pre-Islamic epic of Antar, a warrior-poet born...

Seen and Unseen by Emily Katharine Bates audiobook. Genre: biography In Seen and Unseen, Emily Katharine (E. Katharine) Bates presents a candid, globe-spanning memoir of her lifelong investigations into psychic phenomena and spiritualism at the turn of the 20th century. Beginning with early memories shaped by family loss and unsettling dreams, Bates traces how private impressions grew into deliber...

Lords of Creation by Ella Cheever Thayer audiobook. Genre: drama Set in late-19th-century America, Lords of Creation is a brisk, three-act stage drama that brings the early fight for women's suffrage into the parlor, the workplace, and the heart of one divided household. At its center is Kate Grovenor, a sharp-minded young woman unwilling to accept that a woman's only respectable future is marriag...

Really So Stories by Elizabeth Gordon audiobook. Genre: history Really So Stories by Elizabeth Gordon is a lively collection of short, true tales for curious listeners who would rather learn how things began than hear another make-believe adventure. During a summer in the woods, a boy named Billy keeps peppering his companion, Somebody, with questions: Why do we celebrate certain holidays? Where d...

The Soup and Sauce Book by Elizabeth Douglas audiobook. Genre: cooking The Soup and Sauce Book by Elizabeth Douglas is a practical, early-20th-century guide for cooks who want to build real confidence with the two foundations that can transform everyday meals: soups and sauces. Rather than treating recipes as untouchable rules, Douglas focuses on method, teaching you how good stock, careful simmer...

The Pudding and Pastry Book by Elizabeth Douglas audiobook. Genre: cooking First published in 1903, The Pudding and Pastry Book is Elizabeth Douglas's practical, dessert-focused handbook for the home kitchen, offering clear instruction and a wide range of classic sweets. Douglas begins with a cook's-eye view of technique and preparation - measuring carefully, choosing suitable dishes, and working...

Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg audiobook. Genre: adventure A swashbuckling sequel to Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmund Flagg's Monte-Cristo's Daughter follows Zuleika, the beautiful daughter of Edmond Dantes and Haydee, as she steps into a world where her father's legendary name still opens doors - and invites danger. In Rome, Zuleika's romance with the ardent young Visco...

The Brain by Edmond Hamilton audiobook. Genre: scifi In the near-future America of 1960, Dr. Semper Lee, an overlooked entomologist and engineer, is abruptly pulled from a remote research post in Australia and flown to Cephalon, Arizona, a brand-new city that does not appear on any map. Lee arrives with an impossible cargo: tons of living termite mounds from his painstakingly bred species, Ant-ter...

Forgotten World by Edmond Hamilton audiobook. Genre: scifi In a far-future galaxy where humanity has scattered among the stars, Earth has become a tired, ridiculed backwater - the mother planet remembered more as an embarrassment than a home. Carlin, a brilliant cosmic engineer pushed to the edge by years of deep-space work, is ordered to take an open-ended rest cure on Terra. Expecting dullness a...

The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: self help In The Writing of Fiction, acclaimed novelist Edith Wharton turns from the page to the workshop, offering a clear-eyed guide to how stories are built and why certain novels endure. Drawn from her lectures and steeped in a lifetime of practice, Wharton walks aspiring writers and serious readers through the essential architecture of...

The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi The protagonist is a soldier from the Great War whose tale John Carter has brought to Earth. Having saved the life of an ancient Martian who sells new bodies to wealthy Martians, he learns from this genius the arts of suspended animation and brain transplantation. During his apprenticeship, he falls in love with one of the vic...