Classic Audiobook Collection

The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II by Xueqin Cao audiobook. Genre: drama The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II continues Cao Xueqin's monumental portrait of the Jia clan at the height of its splendor, even as quiet signs of strain begin to show beneath the lacquered surface. At the center is Jia Baoyu, a sensitive heir who chafes against the rigid expectations of scholarship, status, and marriage...

The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I by Xueqin Cao audiobook. Genre: drama The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I opens the door to the splendid yet fragile world of the Jia clan, an aristocratic family whose mansions overflow with wealth, ceremony, and whispered rivalries. Framed by a mystical prologue about a sentient stone and a piece of jade, the story turns to Jia Baoyu, the family's unconvention...

The Secret Play by Ralph Henry Barbour audiobook. Genre: family At Clearfield High, football season arrives with a crisis: the coach is suddenly gone, the schedule is unforgiving, and the town is sure the team is headed for humiliation. Seventeen-year-old Dick Lovering loves the game as fiercely as any player, but a physical disability keeps him on the sidelines - and makes him an unlikely choice...

The American Diary of a Japanese Girl by Yone Noguchi audiobook. Genre: drama Told as a lively series of diary entries, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl follows Morning Glory, a young Japanese woman who arrives in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century full of curiosity, ambition, and sharp opinions. Recording each day with wit and candor, she navigates the thrill and confusio...

Roman History - The Early Empire, from the Assassination of Julius Caesar to that of Domitian by William Wolfe Capes audiobook. Genre: history In Roman History - The Early Empire, W. W. Capes traces the turbulent birth of imperial Rome, beginning in the chaos after Julius Caesar's assassination and following the long struggle to replace a shattered Republic with a durable new order. Moving from th...

Finnish Legends by R. Eivind audiobook. Genre: folklore On a dark winter day in northern Finland, a wandering merchant named Father Mikko finds shelter with an isolated family as a storm gathers outside. When the evening meal is finished and the fire is burning low, the family's daughter asks for the oldest tales he knows - stories from the very beginning of the world. What follows is a vivid jour...

Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare audiobook. Genre: drama In Vienna, public morals have grown lax, and the laws meant to curb vice have fallen into disuse. When Duke Vincentio abruptly hands authority to the severe and unbending Angelo, the city is jolted into a harsh new order. Angelo moves swiftly to make an example of Claudio, a young gentleman condemned for breaking a long-ignored sta...

The Greenstone Door by William Satchell audiobook. Genre: history In William Satchell's The Greenstone Door, an older Cedric Tregarthen looks back on a youth shaped by violence and belonging in mid-19th-century New Zealand. After his family is swept away in frontier conflict, Cedric is taken in by the trader Purcell and grows up under the protection of a powerful Maori community, sharing a wild, c...

A Silent Witness by R. Austin Freeman audiobook. Genre: mystery On a wet midnight walk near Hampstead, newly qualified physician Dr. Humphrey Jardine comes upon what seems to be the body of an elderly man lying in Millfield Lane. When he returns with the police, the corpse has vanished without a trace. The authorities doubt his story, but Jardine cannot forget the bloodstain, the disturbed ground...

A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Walter Terence Stace audiobook. Genre: philosophy A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Walter Terence Stace is a clear, rigorous guide to the thinkers who shaped the Western tradition of reasoned inquiry. Moving from the early cosmologists who first asked what the world is made of, through the moral revolution of Socrates, and into the grand systems o...

The War Trail by Thomas Mayne Reid audiobook. Genre: adventure On the uneasy borderlands of the Rio Bravo, not long after the Mexican War, Captain Warfield leads a hard-riding troop of American rangers assigned to keep a fragile peace: protect isolated settlements, guard uneasy allies, and face the constant threat of raiders and guerrilla bands. From the rooftop of a dusty frontier village, Warfie...

The Follies of a Day by Pierre Beaumarchais audiobook. Genre: comedy This is Thomas Holcroft's English translation, obtained by attending Pierre Beaumarchais' French play nine times in Paris during its original official staging in 1784. Beaumarchais' play was the basis for Mozart's 1796 opera, and is a satire about lovers' misdoings and French society. Because of its rebellious themes, presented d...

The Art of Dying Well by St. Robert Bellarmine audiobook. Genre: religion In The Art of Dying Well, St. Robert Bellarmine - a leading Catholic theologian and pastor of souls - offers a clear, steady guide to facing lifes most unavoidable moment with faith rather than fear. Written for ordinary Christians as well as clergy and caregivers, the book treats death not as a taboo subject but as a spirit...

Anne of Geierstein, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott audiobook. Genre: history In Anne of Geierstein, Volume 1, Sir Walter Scott transports listeners to late-15th-century Europe, where the clash between the rising Swiss Confederacy and the power of Burgundy turns travel into peril and diplomacy into a game of survival. A young English traveler, Arthur Philipson, and his older companion and guide, Dr....

Gertrude's Diary, and The Cube by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion Gertrude's Diary, and The Cube gathers two spirited tales for young listeners from beloved Christian author Pansy (Isabella Macdonald Alden). In Gertrude's Diary, sensible, outspoken Gertrude Morrison agrees to a challenge set by her pastor, Mr. Neale: she and her closest friends, Ruth, Namie, and Prissy, will keep daily journals a...

His Wisdom, the Defender - A Story by Simon Newcomb audiobook. Genre: scifi Set in a near-future America imagined from the turn of the 20th century, His Wisdom, the Defender is presented as a later historical account of how the world was pushed toward an uneasy peace. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, the brilliant and intensely private Professor Campbell makes a breakthrough that promises effectively...

On Lying by Saint Augustine of Hippo audiobook. Genre: philosophy In On Lying, Saint Augustine of Hippo tackles a question as practical as it is unsettling: can a lie ever be justified? Writing as a pastor, teacher, and philosopher, Augustine examines the everyday ways people bend the truth and the serious spiritual and social consequences that follow. With a careful, step-by-step method, he defin...

The Brownies and Prince Florimel by Palmer Cox audiobook. Genre: fantasy When King Florimel's father dies, the rightful heir discovers that a ruthless uncle is ready to take the throne and erase him from the story for good. There is one problem the court cannot ignore: Florimel is brave, clever, and noble, but he is also very small, and the grown rulers around him treat his size as a reason to den...

Island Nights Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook. Genre: adventure In Island Nights Entertainments, Robert Louis Stevenson gathers three vivid tales that blend the heat and color of the South Pacific with sharp moral tension and a taste for the uncanny. In The Beach of Falesa, a principled trader arrives on a remote island to build an honest life, only to find himself tangled in lo...

Purgatory by Rev. Francois Xavier Schouppe audiobook. Genre: religion Purgatory by FX Schouppe, SJ, a french Catholic theologian who died in November, 1904 details the place where saved souls go before Heaven. Think of it as a temporary cleaning or purging place for those who aren't going to Hell. Fire, burning and intense pain for various lengths of time make up the experience of Purgatory. The a...

A Broken Bond by Nicholas Carter audiobook. Genre: mystery In A Broken Bond: Or, The Man Without Morals, a fortune made in a South American mining venture turns two longtime partners into enemies overnight. When Winthrop Crawford survives what looks like a carefully planned ambush in the mountains, the attack raises a terrifying question: who would risk everything to see him dead, and why now, jus...

Another Brownie Book by Palmer Cox audiobook. Genre: fantasy In Another Brownie Book, illustrator and poet Palmer Cox invites listeners back into the moonlit world of the Brownies - tiny, quick-witted sprites who slip out while townsfolk sleep to turn ordinary places into stages for mischief, teamwork, and secret good deeds. Told in lively rhyming verse and originally paired with Cox's own drawing...

Amends for Ladies by Nathan Field audiobook. Genre: comedy Amends for Ladies falls within the genre of Jacobean city comedy. Three women debate which has the better lot: a maid, a wife, or a widow. Lady Honour, the maid, is loved by her servant, Ingen, and disguises herself as a boy to become servant to him. Lady Perfect, the wife, is suspected by her husband, Love-all, of infidelity; Love-all tri...

The Pirates by Morgan Robertson audiobook. Genre: adventure When Ensign William Denman stays aboard a brand-new U.S. Navy destroyer for one quiet night, he expects nothing more dangerous than paperwork and a watchman's round. Instead, a dozen escaped prisoners slip through the fog, silence the sentries, and steal the fastest ship afloat, a turbine-driven grayhound fitted with torpedoes, searchligh...

Don Quixote Vol. 2 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra audiobook. Genre: adventure Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the story from an Arabic manuscript he found in Toledo's bedraggled old Jewi...