Classic Audiobook Collection

The Eternal Savage by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure On a visit to the African jungle and the famed Greystoke estate, spirited American Victoria Custer expects big game, bigger stories, and perhaps a glimpse of the legendary Tarzan. Instead, she becomes entangled in something far stranger: a rupture in time that hurls Nu, a fearless warrior from a remote Stone Age world, into the...

Tarzan and the Lost Empire by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure When rumors surface of a forgotten colony hidden deep in Africa, Lord Greystoke - better known as Tarzan - finds himself drawn into a mystery that feels older than the jungle itself. A strange map, whispered legends of an ancient people, and the disappearance of travelers point toward a region no outsider is meant to re...

A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi Under the double moons of Barsoom, an invisible flier sped to the mysterious city of Jahar where Sanoma Tora, the kidnapped princess of Helium had been taken. Hadron of Hastor was at the controls, hatching a rescue plan that required unusual daring and great ingenuity. For invisibility alone was not a great enough weapon agains...

Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers audiobook. Genre: mystery When a wealthy, seemingly harmless old woman dies after a brief illness, the attending doctor and the family accept it as nature taking its course. Lord Peter Wimsey does not. A stray remark, an odd choice of nurse, and the quiet haste with which everyone wants the matter settled prick at his sense that something has been arranged to l...

Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Aspects of the Novel, E. M. Forster turns from writing fiction to asking a deceptively simple question: what, exactly, makes a novel work? Drawn from his celebrated Cambridge lectures, this compact classic invites listeners into a brisk, witty tour of storytelling as an art form. Forster begins with the basic building blocks of...

Battles for the Stars by Dave Dryfoos audiobook. Genre: scifi Battles for the Stars is a fast-moving anthology of classic short science fiction centered on conflict in many forms: battlefield action, cold war brinkmanship, and moral battles over what it means to be human. Across a wide range of settings, the collection follows desperate diplomats trying to stop an alien threat before it can report...

Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers audiobook. Genre: mystery On a bleak morning in the English countryside, an aristocratic family is jolted by violence at their ancestral home. The victim is found on the grounds of the Duke of Denver's estate, and suspicion quickly gathers around the Duke's brother - Lord Peter Wimsey - who is both uncomfortably close to the scene and all too aware of how sca...

The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy, Analytically Expounded by David Dickson audiobook. Genre: religion In The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy, Analytically Expounded, Scottish divine David Dickson (1583-1663) offers a clear, pastorally minded commentary on one of the New Testament's key letters for church life and spiritual leadership. Moving through 1 Timothy passage by passage, Dickson breaks...

The Isle of Dead Ships by Crittenden Marriott audiobook. Genre: adventure In the steaming lanes of the Atlantic, sailors whisper about an impossible place: a floating island made from centuries of wrecks, tangled in weed and circling in the Sargasso Sea like a slow, restless graveyard. When the steamer carrying attorney Philip Renfrew and the young Dorothy Fairfax also takes aboard a handcuffed pr...

Studies of Death by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock audiobook. Genre: horror Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock was an eccentric character to say the least. Maintaining a veritable zoo on his estate populated with the likes of a reindeer and a bear, he travelled with a dog, a monkey and a life-sized doll he nicknamed 'The Little Count' and which he referred to as 'his son'. Before his untimely death at...

Dr. Hackensaw's Secrets by Clement Fezandie audiobook. Genre: scifi In Dr. Hackensaws Secrets, the brilliant and unpredictable Doctor Hackensaw never travels alone for long. At his side are three equally offbeat companions: the daring Silas Rockett, the quick thinking Pep Perkins, and the sharp eyed Tintangeles Smith. Together, they tumble from one short, fast paced adventure to the next, followin...

Advance Agent by Christopher Anvil audiobook. Genre: scifi Sent ahead of the diplomats and the contracts, Dan Redman is what the interstellar powers call an advance agent: the first man on the ground when a new world becomes too valuable to ignore. His latest assignment takes him to Porcy, home of the towering, hard-muscled Porcyns - and home to an economy and social order that makes no sense to o...

The Crux by Charlotte Perkins Gilman audiobook. Genre: philosophy 'This story is, first, for young women to read; second, for young men to read; after that, for anybody who wants to. Anyone who doubts its facts and figures is referred to 'Social Diseases and Marriage,' by Dr. Prince Morrow, or to 'Hygiene and Morality,' by Miss Lavinia Dock, a trained nurse of long experience. Some will hold that...

David Crockett, Scout by Charles Fletcher Allen audiobook. Genre: biography In David Crockett, Scout, Charles Fletcher Allen follows the real-life rise of Americas most famous frontiersman, tracing Davy Crockett from a hard childhood on the Tennessee frontier to the public figure who became a symbol of grit, humor, and independence. Allen puts the tall tales in the background and keeps the spotlig...

Polaris of the Snows by Charles B. Stilson audiobook. Genre: adventure Raised in utter isolation at the edge of the Antarctic, Polaris Janess has known only one human voice: his father's. When that towering explorer dies with a final command to go north and 'tell the world,' Polaris is left with a dog team, a handful of weapons, and a sealed packet meant for the National Geographic Society - proof...

Minos of Sardanes by Charles B. Stilson audiobook. Genre: adventure In the howling seas off Antarctica, the steel cruiser Minnetonka battles storms, icebergs, and the glow of erupting mountains as an emergency relief expedition drives south on a desperate timetable. Leading the mission is Polaris Janess, a wilderness-raised giant who once stumbled upon Sardanes, a hidden volcanic valley blooming l...

The Snarl of the Beast by Carroll John Daly audiobook. Genre: mystery Carroll John Daly, enormously popular in his day but has since faded into obscurity, is often credited with penning the first hard-boiled crime story in 1922 and creating the first hard-boiled detective in 1923. The Snarl of the Beast is his popular gumshoe Race Williams' first full-length novel and features Daly's classic P. I....

Lukundoo and Other Stories by Edward Lucas White audiobook. Genre: horror Lukundoo and Other Stories gathers Edward Lucas White's most unsettling tales into a single volume of classic weird fiction, where the calm surfaces of ordinary life conceal ancient cruelties and impossible transformations. In the title story, a respectable man becomes the target of a curse so intimate and grotesque that eve...

The Haunted Island by Edward Harold Visiak audiobook. Genre: adventure Christmas Eve, 1668: young Francis Clayton listens as his bold older brother Dick speaks of a treasure so vast it has become a sailor's nightmare, hidden on a remote island said to be watched by a gigantic spectre. When Dick throws in his lot with conspirators and seizes the King's ship Tiger to hunt the prize, Francis refuses...

The Falcon on the Baltic by Edward Frederick Knight audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Falcon on the Baltic, Edward Frederick Knight turns a modest small-boat cruise into an irresistible voyage of self-reliance and discovery. Setting out from Hammersmith in a three-ton yacht named the Falcon - a converted lifeboat with little room for comfort and even less margin for error - Knight and his compani...

The Radium Pool by Edward Earl Repp audiobook. Genre: scifi In the heat-blasted emptiness of Death Valley, reporter James Dowell expects a routine assignment: tag along with Professor Bloch and document a scientific expedition into the forbidding Manalava Plains. Instead, a weathered prospector called Driftin' Sands draws Dowell into a decades-long mystery - the disappearance of Allie Lane, the wo...

Happiness - Essays on the Meaning of Life by Carl Hilty audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Happiness - Essays on the Meaning of Life, Swiss jurist and public thinker Carl Hilty offers a clear-eyed, compassionate exploration of what it means to live well when comfort, ambition, and certainty all fall short. Written as a sequence of short essays rather than a single argument, the book moves through the...

30 Tempting Spaghetti Meals by Campbell Soup Company audiobook. Genre: cooking 30 Tempting Spaghetti Meals is a practical, vintage-style kitchen companion from the Campbell Soup Company, built for the home cook who wants dinners that feel hearty and satisfying without spending all evening at the stove. Framed around the idea that spaghetti can stretch a budget and still deliver comfort, the bookle...

Invisible Helpers by C. W. Leadbeater audiobook. Genre: religion Invisible Helpers is C. W. Leadbeater's classic theosophical exploration of the unseen aid that, he argues, surrounds ordinary life. Blending anecdote with instruction, Leadbeater opens a door onto a hidden world where help can arrive at the edge of danger, illness, grief, or sudden crisis - sometimes perceived as angels, guides, or...

Bill Nye's Sparks by Bill Nye audiobook. Genre: comedy Humorist Bill Nye, in his brief 46 years, served as justice of the peace, newspaperman, miner, and postmaster in the rough town of Laramie, Wyoming. This 1901 edition, published after his death, includes a Biographical tribute to Nye, quoting his dear friend, Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley: 'He was unselfish wholly, and I am broken-hearted,...