Classic Audiobook Collection

Blotted Out by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding audiobook. Genre: mystery Fresh off a ship into New York, James Ross expects anonymity: no family, no friends, no ties. Instead, before he can even step onto the dock, a note pulls him into a stranger's life. A woman named Amy Solway claims to be his cousin and begs him to help her immediately by posing as her newly hired chauffeur. James agrees, thinking it...

Successward - A Young Man's Book for Young Men by Edward Bok audiobook. Genre: self help In Successward: A Young Man's Book for Young Men, editor and writer Edward W. Bok speaks directly to ambitious young men who feel success is reserved for the lucky, the wealthy, or the well-connected. Writing as someone still close to the struggle himself, Bok reframes success as something built from clear sel...

The Moon Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi In The Moon Men, Edgar Rice Burroughs turns a futuristic America into a hard-edged battleground for freedom. Generations after a disastrous first contact between Earth and the Moon, humanity lives under the yoke of the Kalkars, ruthless Lunarian conquerors who rule through forced labor, taxes, and terror. In the teeming, fenced-in distri...

Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers audiobook. Genre: mystery When playwright and cynic George Washington Magee accepts a lucrative bet to write an entire play in twenty four hours, he thinks he has found the perfect loophole: seclude himself in a supposedly empty mountain lodge called Baldpate Inn, where the quiet is guaranteed and interruptions are impossible. He arrives with a locked ro...

Benigna Machiavelli by Charlotte Perkins Gilman audiobook. Genre: comedy In Benigna Machiavelli, Charlotte Perkins Gilman turns a provocative name into a sharp, witty study of power, principle, and the quiet strategies women are forced to master. Benigna is a young woman who refuses to accept the smallness of the role assigned to her. Bright, observant, and disarmingly polite, she studies the rule...

The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Mary Yonge audiobook. Genre: family In a bustling mid-Victorian household at Ernescliffe, Dr. May's many children live in a whirl of lessons, quarrels, loyalties, and high-minded schemes - until a sudden family disaster reshapes everything they thought childhood would be. At the heart of the story is Etheldred (Ethel) May, earnest, intense, and determin...

The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Warren Adams audiobook. Genre: mystery Charles Felix was the pseudonym of Charles Warren Adams, an English Lawyer and publisher and is now known to have been the author of 'The Notting Hill Mystery', thought to be the first full length detective novel in English. The story first appeared as an eight part serial in a weekly magazine in 1862, and was subsequently...

The Early Tudors - Henry VII and Henry VIII by Charles Edward Moberly audiobook. Genre: history In The Early Tudors - Henry VII and Henry VIII, historian and educator Charles Edward Moberly guides listeners from the battered aftermath of the Wars of the Roses into the hard-edged rise of Tudor power. Beginning with Henry VII, Moberly traces how a new dynasty steadies a divided realm through careful...

The Rockspur Eleven by Burt L. Standish audiobook. Genre: drama In The Rockspur Eleven, Burt L. Standish drops listeners into a turn-of-the-century football season where character is tested as hard as muscle. Don Scott wants nothing more than to help Rockspur win, but his quick temper and stubborn pride keep putting him at odds with teammates, rivals, and even the game itself. When a new, swaggeri...

The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker audiobook. Genre: adventure When young Englishman Rupert Sent Leger inherits a fortune from an eccentric uncle, the will comes with conditions that pull him far from London society and into a rugged coastal land on the edge of Europe. Determined to claim his legacy and understand the strange charge entrusted to him, Rupert travels to the blue waters and steep...

Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America audiobook. Genre: self help The Boy Scouts Handbook by the Boy Scouts of America is the essential field guide for a young person stepping into the world of Scouting, where character is built through action, service, and outdoor adventure. Written to be carried, consulted, and lived, it introduces the Scout Oath and Scout Law as a practical compass for e...

The Case of Miss Elliott by Baroness Emma Orczy audiobook. Genre: mystery In Edwardian London, crimes that stump Scotland Yard become tea-room talk in an ABC shop off the Strand. There, a mild, unassuming figure known only as the Old Man in the Corner sits with a cup of tea, a length of string, and a talent for seeing what everyone else misses. When a sharp young journalist, often identified as Po...

The Artist by B. F. Gandee audiobook. Genre: self help First published in 1835, The Artist by B. F. Gandee is an art manual disguised as a friendly lesson book, inviting listeners into the drawing room where technique is taught through conversation, encouragement, and careful practice. The guide follows Charlotte as she tutors her cousin Ellen, moving step by step from foundational habits of hand...

The Case of the Lamp That Went Out by Auguste Groner audiobook. Genre: mystery In late-19th-century Vienna, an ordinary morning turns grim when a milk girl, Anna, discovers the body of a well-dressed man in an empty lot. With no clear witnesses and only a handful of puzzling traces, the case is handed to Joseph Muller, a quiet, dutiful member of the Imperial Austrian police whose unassuming manner...

Guy Garrick by Arthur B. Reeve audiobook. Genre: mystery In early twentieth-century New York, private detective Guy Garrick makes his name by treating crime like a laboratory problem. With his loyal friend and assistant Tom Marshall at his side, Garrick is pulled into a baffling case that begins with a rich young man, Mortimer Warrington, reporting the theft of his prized automobile and quickly es...

History of Animals by Aristotle audiobook. Genre: science Book I Grouping of animals and the parts of the human body. Book II Different parts of red-blooded animals. Book III Internal organs. Book IV Animals without blood (invertebrates). Books V & VI Animal reproduction. Book VII Human reproduction. Book VIII Habits (food, migration, health, diseases). Book IX Social behavior. Book X Dealing with...

The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore In The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer, an anonymous classic of Northern European legend, the young hero Siegfried rises from gifted outsider to figure of awe and fear. Tempered by hard training and a restless desire for glory, he leaves the safety of home to seek trials wort...

Chicot the Jester by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: adventure In turbulent late-16th-century France, the court of King Henry III is a glittering stage where every smile can hide a dagger. Into this danger steps Chicot, the king's sharp-tongued jester - a fool by title, but a keen observer and fearless improviser by nature. While nobles posture and factions harden, Chicot slips between worlds: b...

The Book of Jubilees by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: religion The Book of Jubilees is an ancient Jewish work, traditionally attributed to an unknown author, that retells and reorders the foundational stories of Genesis and the early chapters of Exodus. Framed as a revelation delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai, it revisits creation, the lives of the patriarchs, and the shaping of Israel's identity, b...

Women of the French Revolution by Winifred Stephens Whale audiobook. Genre: history (Excerpt) One aspect of this subject of revolutionary women, their connection with the secret societies of the day I have purposely ignored. It is obscure and highly controversial. Unfortunately, though these societies have been much, written about, and especially of late, it has often been in a partisan spirit. Th...

The Sandman - His Farm Stories by William John Hopkins audiobook. Genre: family In The Sandman: His Farm Stories, William John Hopkins invites young listeners into a gentle bedtime world where everyday farm work becomes an adventure worth staying awake for - and then drifting off to sleep with. The stories follow Little John, a curious boy growing up amid barns, fields, and kitchen warmth, guided...

Short Stories Of William Henry Harrison Murray by William Henry Harrison Murray audiobook. Genre: adventure Murray (1840-1904) was a sometime clergyman, journalist, and purveyor of the outdoor life. His books did much to popularize the virtues of outdoor experience, especially in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Here are stories, some humorous some serious, of the out-of-doors, of lov...

Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages by Wilhelm Wagner audiobook. Genre: poetry This volume contains the principal hero-lays of the six great epic cycles of the Teutonic Middle Ages: The Langobardian Legends, the Amelung and Kindred Legends; Dietrich of Bern's Adventures; the Nibelung Legends; the Hegeling Legends; and Beowulf. To them, the author has added the great mythical Carolingian cycle, w...

Among the Great Masters of the Drama by Walter Rowlands audiobook. Genre: biography Among the Great Masters of the Drama is Walter Rowlands' brisk, story-driven tour through the people who shaped the modern stage - not only the playwrights whose works endured, but the performers who made theaters roar, weep, and gasp. Opening with portraits of towering writers like Shakespeare, Moliere, and Voltai...

Napoleon The First, An Intimate Biography by Walter Geer audiobook. Genre: biography Written a century after Napoleon's final defeat, Walter Geer's Napoleon The First, An Intimate Biography sets out to strip away both hero worship and demonization and to portray the man behind the legend. From a young Corsican outsider hungry for recognition, Napoleon Bonaparte rises through the upheavals of the F...