Classic Audiobook Collection

Bill Nye and Boomerang by Bill Nye audiobook. Genre: comedy In Bill Nye and Boomerang, 19th-century American humorist Bill Nye (not the modern science communicator) invites listeners into a fast-talking, tall-tale West where newspapers are born in livery-stable lofts, mining camps breed unlikely philosophy, and one long-suffering mule becomes a legend. Anchored by Nye's affectionate, outrageous de...

133 Quicker Ways to Homemade with Bisquick by Betty Crocker audiobook. Genre: cooking 133 Quicker Ways to Homemade with Bisquick is a time-saving cookbook from Betty Crocker that turns one familiar pantry staple into a full roster of warm, satisfying meals. Built for busy home cooks who still want that homemade taste, the book gathers 133 straightforward recipes that lean on Bisquick mix to speed...

Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. Vol. II. by Berthold Auerbach audiobook. Genre: drama It is an era of mass migration as so many young men seek adventure and fortune abroad. When Lenz and lifelong friend Pilgrim were boys they too had longed to travel. Pilgrim did so, for a time, but not the dutiful Lenz. Lens apprenticed to his father, a master clockmaker. After his father's death, Lenz do...

The Peaceful Atom by Bernice Kohn Hunt audiobook. Genre: science Written for young readers at the dawn of the Atomic Age, The Peaceful Atom introduces the strange, invisible world inside everyday matter and asks a bold question: what happens when humanity learns to make atoms work for us? Physicist and science writer Bernice Kohn Hunt guides listeners from early ideas about what things are made of...

The Gospel of the Incarnation by Benjamin B. Warfield audiobook. Genre: religion In The Gospel of the Incarnation, theologian Benjamin B. Warfield invites listeners into the heart of historic Christianity: the confession that God the Son truly became man in Jesus Christ. Writing with the clarity and rigor that made him one of the most influential Reformed voices of his era, Warfield traces why the...

The B. B. Warfield Collection, Volume 5 by Benjamin B. Warfield audiobook. Genre: religion The B. B. Warfield Collection, Volume 5 gathers a wide-ranging set of essays by Princeton theologian Benjamin B. Warfield, bringing his sharp scholarship to the lived questions of Christian belief. Moving from biblical theology to human nature, Warfield explores how God reveals himself in Scripture, what Chr...

Clown, The Circus Dog by Auguste Vimar audiobook. Genre: adventure In Clown, The Circus Dog, Auguste Vimar introduces a bright, bouncy little poodle whose biggest talent is making people laugh - especially his adored young mistress, Bertha. Chosen as a long-awaited reward and welcomed like a new member of the family, Clown quickly becomes the center of Bertha's days, from walks and games to the sm...

The Profligate by Arthur Wing Pinero audiobook. Genre: drama Arthur Wing Pinero's The Profligate is a sharp Victorian problem play about love tested by the past and a society that measures men and women by different rules. On the eve of his marriage, polished gentleman Dunstan Renshaw stands poised to begin a respectable new life with Leslie Brudenell, an innocent young woman from a sheltered home...

The Dorrington Deed-Box by Arthur Morrison audiobook. Genre: mystery In fog-bound Victorian London, a quiet box of papers becomes a key to an unusual kind of detection. When a curious narrator is introduced to Dorrington, a sharp-minded man with a criminal past and a talent for reading people, he is invited to look through the Dorrington deed-box - a private cache of documents, notes, and proofs d...

The Rover Boys Winning A Fortune by Arthur M. Winfield audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Rover Boys Winning a Fortune, the next generation of the famous Rover family is pulled into danger on two fronts, and the stakes are personal. When a bold robbery strikes the New York offices connected to the senior Rovers, clues vanish, reputations tremble, and suspicion points in more than one direction. Ja...

Lords of the Stratosphere by Arthur J. Burks audiobook. Genre: scifi At Roosevelt Field, where history-making flights begin and end, the race to conquer the stratosphere turns deadly and strange. Celebrated flier Franz Kress launches first, chasing the glory of breaking the altitude barrier above fifty-five thousand feet - and then vanishes. Rival aviator-scientists Lucian Jeter and Tema Eyer, equ...

The Romance of Modern Locomotion by Archibald Williams audiobook. Genre: history In the following pages we shall peep into the history of typical companies in Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere; consider the various forms of traction, signals, and other mechanical appliances connected with the working of a railway; notice the effects of railway communication on a country for its peace...

The Romance of Mining by Archibald Williams audiobook. Genre: history Any writer on mining in its general aspect is, when casting about for a starting-point, driven to express what others have said before him-that the history of mining is the history of civilization. The following pages, while touching on the chief branches of the mining industry, must necessarily omit reference to many of the gre...

Clergymen of the Church of England by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: history In Clergymen of the Church of England, Anthony Trollope turns his sharp eye from the drawing rooms of his novels to the pulpits, parsonages, and corridors of power that shaped Victorian religious life. Across ten connected essays, he sketches a living map of the Church's hierarchy and its working realities: the modern...

Nerves and common sense by Annie Payson Call audiobook. Genre: self help In Nerves and Common Sense, Annie Payson Call offers a calm, practical guide for anyone worn down by worry, overstimulation, and the exhausting feeling of living on edge. Writing with the voice of a trusted counselor, Call explores how nervous strain can creep into ordinary days through hurried habits, tense muscles, restless...

Astrophel and Other Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne audiobook. Genre: poetry Astrophel and Other Poems is a late-Victorian collection in which Algernon Charles Swinburne turns his lush, musical lyricism toward memory, landscape, and the lives of writers and heroes who shaped the English imagination. The opening sequence, 'Astrophel', is sparked by reading Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia in the gard...

The Spirit of the Cure of Ars by Alfred Monnin audiobook. Genre: religion In The Spirit of the Cure of Ars, Alfred Monnin gathers the living voice of St. John Mary Vianney, the famed parish priest of Ars, whose plain speech and relentless charity drew crowds of penitents to a tiny French village in the 1800s. Rather than a conventional biography, this work presents Vianney as his people knew him:...

The Lost Oases by Ahmed Hassanein audiobook. Genre: adventure In 1923, Egyptian diplomat and explorer Ahmed Hassanein sets out with a small caravan of guides, attendants, and stubborn camels on a gamble that borders on obsession: to cross the Libyan Desert and confirm the rumored whereabouts of oases that exist, for most of the world, only in fragments of tradition and the half-finished notes of e...

Three Midnight Stories by Alexander W. Drake audiobook. Genre: horror Alexander W. Drake was a well-regarded illustrator and engraver, spending much of his career at the vaunted Scribner's Monthly magazine (which would become The Century magazine eventually). What many were not aware of is that Drake also produced three short stories, printed in The Century over the course of a couple months, that...

Bucking the Tiger by Achmed Abdullah audiobook. Genre: mystery A group of down-and-outers decide on the ultimate gamble: they will bankroll one of themselves, chosen by lot, to live well for a year. Then the one chosen must commit suicide after that year, so that the others can cash in on his life insurance policy. Complications arise when the 'lucky winner' finds an unexpected turn in his fortune...

The wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, the Man who lost his Shadow by Adelbert von Chamisso audiobook. Genre: folklore In early 19th-century Europe, a shy young wanderer named Peter Schlemihl arrives in a prosperous town hoping to secure a place in respectable society. His fortunes seem to change overnight when he meets a mysterious, well-dressed stranger who offers him a bargain: in exchange f...

The Adventuress by Arthur B. Reeve audiobook. Genre: mystery When a revolver shot shatters the quiet of Columbia Universitys chemistry building, scientist-detective Craig Kennedy and his journalist companion Walter Jameson find themselves drawn into a case that reeks of both money and modern warfare. Their shaken visitor is Maxwell Hastings, attorney for munitions titan Marshall Maddox, whose body...

Friends and Cousins by Abbie Farwell Brown audiobook. Genre: family Brother and sister, Kenneth and Rose, love to go to the Island where where their summer home is, and they are eager to see all their favorite places. This time, it's going to be even more fun when they meet their neighbors and make friends with the Prout children. Charlie, their cousin comes for a visit too. The children (even som...

Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne audiobook. Genre: poetry Now We Are Six is A. A. Milne's beloved collection of children's poems that captures the bright, odd, and perfectly serious logic of being young. Framed by the milestone of turning six, these verses wander through a child's daily world of games, pretend adventures, small worries, and sudden wonders, where a bear can be a companion, a shadow ca...

Winning His Game by Ralph Henry Barbour audiobook. Genre: adventure When shy, thoughtful Dudley 'Dud' Baker arrives as a new boy at Grafton School, he quickly learns that fitting in can feel as hard as any exam. Dorm life has its own rules, reputations are made at the dining table as much as in the classroom, and Dud is painfully aware of how easily a quiet newcomer can be overlooked. Fortunately,...