Classic Audiobook Collection

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac audiobook. Genre: drama In Big Sur, Jack Kerouac turns his restless, beat-fueled legend inward, following writer Jack Duluoz as fame, exhaustion, and alcoholism begin to close in. Hoping to escape the noise of city life and the demands of being a public symbol, Duluoz accepts an invitation to a secluded cabin on the rugged California coast, where redwood forests and crashin...

Tommy and Grizel by J. M. Barrie audiobook. Genre: drama Tommy and Grizel (1900) is J. M. Barrie's bittersweet sequel to Sentimental Tommy, following Thomas (Tommy) Sandys as he tries to turn boyhood imagination into a life worth living. Sixteen and solemn, Tommy arrives in foggy London with his devoted sister, Elspeth, and falls into the orbit of O. P. Pym, a booming, unreliable popular writer wh...

Alice Sit-by-the-Fire by J. M. Barrie audiobook. Genre: drama In Alice Sit-by-the-Fire, J. M. Barrie brings the family home front into sharp, playful focus. Alice Gray returns to London after years abroad, eager to reclaim her place as the heart of the household and to enjoy the comfortable routines she has imagined from afar. But home has changed: her children, especially the imaginative Amy, hav...

The Cathedral by Hugh Walpole audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the cathedral town of Polchester during the summer of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, Hugh Walpole's The Cathedral follows Archdeacon Adam Brandon, a commanding High Churchman whose confidence and authority seem as immovable as the great building he serves. Brandon has built his life around influence in the Close, public admira...

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole audiobook. Genre: horror On the eve of his son Conrad's wedding, Prince Manfred of the Castle of Otranto is shaken by a grotesque and seemingly impossible catastrophe that shatters his plans for securing his family's rule. Convinced that an ancient prophecy threatens his claim, Manfred becomes desperate to control Otranto's future, and his panic turns quickl...

The Way to Will-Power by Henry Hazlitt audiobook. Genre: self help In The Way to Will-Power, Henry Hazlitt takes up a question that haunts every ambitious plan and every broken resolution: why do we know what we should do, yet fail to do it? Blending clear reasoning with practical counsel, Hazlitt treats willpower not as a mystical gift but as a skill that can be trained through understanding moti...

Don Quixote in England by Henry Fielding audiobook. Genre: comedy Henry Fielding takes Cervantes' famously book-addled knight and drops him into the very different, very worldly landscape of eighteenth-century England. Don Quixote and his long-suffering squire Sancho Panza arrive at a country inn expecting a realm of honor, damsels, and noble causes, only to find a bustling crossroads of hunters,...

The Spirit of Bambatse by H. Rider Haggard audiobook. Genre: adventure Also published as Benita: An African Romance, The Spirit of Bambatse follows Benita Clifford, a young Englishwoman sailing toward southern Africa to reunite with the father she has barely known and to start over on his isolated Transvaal farm. On the voyage she encounters Robert Seymour, a restless young man whose sudden attach...

Men Like Gods by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: scifi In the summer of 1921, a disenchanted journalist escapes the rat race for a drive in the country. But Mr. Barnstaple's trip exceeds his expectations when he and other motorists are swept 3,000 years into the future. The inadvertent time travelers arrive in a world that corresponds exactly to Barnstaple's ideals: a utopian state, free of crime, p...

Bealby; A Holiday by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: comedy Bealby: A Holiday is a brisk, mischievous comic tale from H. G. Wells that turns a simple seaside vacation into a sharp-eyed satire of Edwardian respectability. The hero, young Bealby, is no swashbuckling adventurer - he is an ordinary boy with an inconvenient talent for drifting into trouble at exactly the wrong moment. Sent away for a hol...

Arizona Argonauts by H. Bedford-Jones audiobook. Genre: adventure Imagine it's early 1900's and you want to get away from it all. So you head to Two Palms, Arizona. Where for entertainment, people await the arrival of the daily stage coach. Gold mining is an avocation. There is desert everywhere, deadly rattlers, no paved roads, some people travel in model T's which they call flivvers. They must c...

A Voice in the Wilderness by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook. Genre: romance When Margaret Earle leaves the East to take a teaching post in the Arizona Territory, she expects hardship, but not to step off the train into darkness at a lonely desert stop and watch the cars vanish into the night. Alone in unfamiliar country, with coyotes crying and danger close at hand, Margaret must rely on courage,...

The Elect Lady by George MacDonald audiobook. Genre: drama Set in rural Scotland, George MacDonald's The Elect Lady follows the collision of class, conscience, and faith in a small community where everyone knows their place - until a few unlikely friendships begin to challenge it. Andrew Ingram, the tenant's son, is poor, bookish, and quietly devout, more interested in truth and service than statu...

Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by George MacDonald audiobook. Genre: family This delightful story begins in a little town called Marshmallows, where a young man, the new vicar, Harry Walton, has just arrived. As he begins his work Harry realizes that everything is not quite 'right' in his little parish and it all seems to center around Oldcastle Hall. As he wins the affection of the people secret...

Angels of the Battlefield by George Barton audiobook. Genre: history Angels of the Battlefield is George Barton's sweeping Civil War history of the Catholic sisterhoods who became some of the era's most indispensable nurses, organizers, and steady hands in the midst of mass suffering. Drawing on interviews, letters, official records, and community archives, Barton reconstructs how orders such as t...

The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: religion This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does not deal directly with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own life; and about which I am already writing a more purely controversial volume. It is impossible, I hope, for an...

G.K. Chesterton in The Open Road by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: religion In G.K. Chesterton in The Open Road, the great English essayist turns two short book reviews into a brisk, brainy ride through the controversies of his day. Originally published in 1911 in The Open Road, these pieces show Chesterton at his most playful and provocative as he tests fashionable ideas against common sense,...

Great Inventors and Their Inventions by Frank Puterbaugh Bachman audiobook. Genre: biography This book is about Great inventors and what they created. It has different stories like Alexander Bell, Wrights, Morse, Gutenberg, and Edison. ON August 17, 1807, a curious crowd of people in New York gathered at a boat landing. Tied to the dock was a strange-looking craft. A smokestack rose above the deck...

Billy Whiskers Jr. by Frances Trego Montgomery audiobook. Genre: adventure Restless after only a few quiet weeks back on the farm, Night - Billy Whiskers Jr. - decides that ordinary pasture life is not for him. Brimming with swagger and curiosity, the young goat dreams of the wide-open West, where tough herds, long trails, and bigger dangers promise the kind of fame a born troublemaker thinks he d...

Billy Whiskers Adventures by Frances Trego Montgomery audiobook. Genre: adventure Billy Whiskers is not an ordinary goat - he is a quick-witted troublemaker with a big heart and an even bigger appetite for adventure. After spending the war years in France alongside American troops, Billy returns to New York Harbor with his inseparable companions: Stubby the loyal dog and Button the sharp-eyed cat....

The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw by Frances Milton Trollope audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, Frances Milton Trollope follows a restless young American, Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, as he chases fortune and importance along the Mississippi River in the rough-and-ready decades of westward expansion. Eager to rise in a nation he...

Sleeping Sickness by Fleming Mant Sandwith audiobook. Genre: science In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children and a hazard to tourists in East African game parks. The protozoan parasite is transmitted by the tsetse fly, a buzzing insect with reddish eyes and a large biting proboscis. In 1912, when t...

The Frithiof Saga by Ferdinand Schmidt audiobook. Genre: folklore In this dramatic retelling of a classic Norse legend, Ferdinand Schmidt follows Frithiof, a fearless young warrior whose strength at sea and in battle is matched only by his stubborn pride. Raised alongside Ingeborg, the beloved daughter of King Bele, Frithiof grows from childhood companion to devoted suitor - only to be blocked by...

Social Life in England 1750-1850 by F. J. Foakes-Jackson audiobook. Genre: history In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ranging and engaging talks, the author describes British life between 1750-1850. There are John Wesley's horseback peregrinations over thousands of miles of English countryside. N...

The Desire of Ages by Ellen G. White audiobook. Genre: religion The Desire of Ages is Ellen G. White's sweeping, devotional portrait of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, told with vivid narrative force and a pastor's concern for the inner life. Moving from the promises and longings that precede Christ's birth through the defining moments of His public work, the book follows the unfolding conf...