Classic Audiobook Collection

Napoleon and Josephine The Rise of the Empire by Walter Geer audiobook. Genre: biography FOREWORD: 'In the popular estimation the Empress Josephine is crowned with a halo of goodness which makes the task of her biographer one of peculiar difficulty. The aversion which many feel towards Napoleon is not a little due to what they conceive to be the cruelty with which he treated the woman who for four...

The Blue Island by W. T. Stead audiobook. Genre: religion Written in the shadow of the RMS Titanic disaster, The Blue Island presents itself as an extraordinary report from beyond death. W. T. Stead, the famed British editor and reforming journalist who perished when the Titanic sank, returns here as the books guiding voice, speaking through a claimed process of automatic writing overseen by his d...

Easter Hymns by Various audiobook. Genre: religion Easter Hymns by Various is a devotional collection of classic songs of praise centered on the Easter story and the Christian hope of resurrection. Gathered from multiple writers and traditions, these hymns trace the journey from the sorrow of the cross to the wonder of the empty tomb, giving listeners language for gratitude, awe, repentance, and r...

Galopoff, the Talking Pony by Tudor Jenks audiobook. Genre: fantasy In Tudor Jenks' Galopoff, the Talking Pony, an ordinary stable yard becomes the doorway to the extraordinary when, for one day each year, the animals are able to speak. Galopoff, a spirited pony with a sharp mind and a flair for drama, finally gets his chance to tell the humans in his life what he has seen and survived. Gathered c...

On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus audiobook. Genre: poetry On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philosophy and science to have survived from antiquity. Far from being a dry treatise on the many topics it covers, the original Latin version (entitled De Rerum Natura) was written in the form...

The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook. Genre: family In The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad, Thornton W. Burgess invites listeners into the Green Meadows and the Smiling Pool, where a small, warty, wide-mouthed fellow becomes the center of big curiosity and bigger trouble. Old Mr. Toad is not fast like Peter Rabbit, not fierce like Reddy Fox, and not flashy like some of the bi...

Man's Restoration by Grace by Thomas Goodwin audiobook. Genre: religion In Mans Restoration by Grace, Puritan pastor and theologian Thomas Goodwin traces the heart of the Christian message: that humanity, ruined by sin and unable to repair itself, is restored only by the free and powerful grace of God. With the clarity of a seasoned preacher, Goodwin sets the scene by describing the depth of the f...

The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch audiobook. Genre: comedy In the genteel Cornish harbor town of Troy - a thinly veiled portrait of Fowey - respectability is measured by a single shibboleth: being 'cumeelfo' (as Troy pronounces comme il faut). Into this snug world of drawing-room evenings, gossip, and small tyrannies comes a thrilling disturbance: the arrival...

Round The Fire Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: horror In Round The Fire Stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gathers a set of unsettling tales meant to be told in the flicker of lamplight, when a familiar room can suddenly feel strange. Across these stories, respectable doctors, scholars, and travelers are drawn into encounters that test the limits of reason: a medical case that see...

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud audiobook. Genre: science These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis, and also describes its main methods and results as only a master and originator of a new school of thought can do. A text like this i...

The Wishing Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to become the Emperor of Oz, with his magic horse Chalk as his advisor. All the residents of Oz are enchanted to forget Ozma and their own rulers, except for Dorothy and Pigasus the flying pig...

Policy and Passion by Rosa Campbell Praed audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the rough-edged boomtowns and parliamentary backrooms of colonial Queensland, Policy and Passion follows the Longleat family as private desire collides with public ambition. Thomas Longleat, a self-made political leader on the rise, is determined to shape the young colony's future and to secure a place among its powerful men....

The Hound From the North by Ridgwell Cullum audiobook. Genre: thriller Set against the wind-scoured prairie of southern Manitoba and the ice-hard reaches of the Yukon trail, The Hound From the North follows Prudence, a capable young woman helping her mother keep a struggling ranch afloat. Trouble rides in with her brother, back from his northern gold hunt changed, broke, and shadowed by whatever h...

William - The Fourth by Richmal Crompton audiobook. Genre: comedy In William - The Fourth, Richmal Crompton returns to the riotous world of eleven-year-old William Brown, self-appointed leader of the Outlaws and constant thorn in the side of respectable village life. William means well, in his own way, but his fierce sense of justice and unstoppable imagination turn every ordinary afternoon into a...

Anne of Geierstein, Volume 2 by Sir Walter Scott audiobook. Genre: adventure In Anne of Geierstein, Volume 2, Sir Walter Scott deepens his tale of perilous travel and political intrigue as the young Englishman Arthur Philipson and his wary companion, Sir Archibald of Ardennes, press onward through a Europe on the brink of upheaval. Guided and challenged by the proud Swiss maiden Anne of Geierstein...

The Interrupted Kiss by Richard Marsh audiobook. Genre: mystery In a quiet household where propriety is meant to keep life orderly, Clare is jolted awake in the dead of night by a nameless unease. Her husband, Rupert, is not beside her, and when she searches the shadowed rooms she collides with her cousin Elsie, who has heard Rupert cry out in fear. Clare returns to find a baffling, unsettling sig...

Judith Lee - Pages From Her Life by Richard Marsh audiobook. Genre: mystery In Judith Lee - Pages From Her Life, Richard Marsh introduces an unconventional sleuth whose sharp eye for human nature is matched only by her refusal to be underestimated. Judith Lee, a young woman of independent means and restless intelligence, keeps careful notes on the odd incidents and private dramas that cross her pa...

Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan by Richard Gordon Smith audiobook. Genre: folklore Collected and retold by British traveler and naturalist Richard Gordon Smith, Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan gathers 57 legends, ghost stories, and local traditions recorded during his years journeying through Japan and listening to fishermen, farmers, priests, and townspeople. Rather than drifting in a vag...

The Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure by Rex Beach audiobook. Genre: adventure First published in 1916, The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure gathers eleven fast-moving stories from Rex Beach at the height of his popularity. The title novella drops blasé New York society man Roland Van Dam into the riotous color of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where a simple costume and a whi...

John Thorndyke's Cases by R. Austin Freeman audiobook. Genre: mystery In John Thorndyke's Cases, R. Austin Freeman introduces a different kind of detective story - one in which crimes are solved not by hunches or theatrics, but by patient observation and the cool logic of science. Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke is a barrister and physician whose specialty is the shadowy borderland where medicine, physi...

Eryxias by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Eryxias, a short Socratic dialogue traditionally transmitted under Plato's name (though often considered spurious), Socrates steps into the Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios and is drawn into a sharp public argument about money and the good life. Eryxias is confident that material prosperity is plainly beneficial: with enough silver, he insists, a person can...

Charmides by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Charmides, Plato stages a tense, witty conversation about what it really means to be temperate - and why the answer matters for how a person should live. Returning to Athens after military service, Socrates meets the striking young Charmides and the influential guardian Critias. What begins as a seemingly simple request to define sophrosyne (often...

Anno Domini 2071 by Pieter Harting audiobook. Genre: scifi Curious to see how the world was imagined to be 50 years from now? Harting, under the pseudonym Dr. Dioscorides, originally published his steampunk utopian novelette in 1865 under the title Anno 2065, but soon had to publish new editions because of all the changes happening at the time. We have in the catalogue the 1870 edition 'Anno 2070'...

The Barber of Seville by Pierre Beaumarchais audiobook. Genre: comedy In a sunlit corner of Seville, a young nobleman, Count Almaviva, arrives with one urgent goal: to win the heart of Rosine, a clever young woman kept under the watchful control of her guardian, Dr. Bartolo. Bartolo intends to marry her himself, and he guards his household with contracts, locks, and suspicion. To break through tho...

The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written at the turn of the 20th century, Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread is a passionate, practical argument for a society organized around human needs rather than profit. Kropotkin challenges the idea that poverty and scarcity are inevitable, tracing how wealth is produced collectively yet controlled by a few, and askin...