Classic Audiobook Collection

Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) by Oskar Pfungst audiobook. Genre: science In Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten), psychologist Oskar Pfungst reconstructs one of the most famous puzzles in the history of animal intelligence: a horse in early 1900s Germany that appeared able to solve arithmetic, tell time, and answer questions by tapping its hoof. As crowds gather and skeptics argue,...

Beauty's Hour by Olivia Shakespear audiobook. Genre: fantasy In late-Victorian London, Mary Gower is clever, observant, and quietly funny, the sort of woman whose conversation lingers in a room long after she has left it. But in a society that rewards faces more than minds, Mary is dismissed as too plain to be truly seen, especially by Gerald Harman, the charming man she cannot help watching from...

The Crime of the French Cafe and Other Stories by Nicholas Carter audiobook. Genre: mystery In this classic trio of Nick Carter mysteries, the famous detective is pulled from routine surveillance into a string of baffling cases where appearances are carefully staged and every witness seems to know only part of the truth. The collection opens in New York's Tenderloin, when Carter notices a waiter b...

Master of the Vineyard by Myrtle Reed audiobook. Genre: romance In a quiet river valley hemmed in by hills and vineyards, Rosemary Starr has spent twenty-five years living for other people. Orphaned young and bound to the constant demands of her stern grandmother and exacting aunt, she steals her only moments of freedom on solitary walks to the hill she calls the Hill of the Muses, where she can i...

A Weaver of Dreams by Myrtle Reed audiobook. Genre: romance In this tender Edwardian romance, Judith Sylvester has grown up in the hushed comforts of a large house shaped by illness, duty, and the quiet authority of her wealthy invalid aunt. When Judith becomes engaged to the ambitious Dr. Carter Keith, she believes she is stepping at last into an ordinary, radiant future. But after she introduces...

Behind the Green Door by Mildred A. Wirt-Benson audiobook. Genre: mystery Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the 'Riverview Star,' Penny has been raised to be self-sufficient, outspoken, innovative, and extraordinarily tenacious. Her...

The Clue of the Silken Ladder by Mildred A. Wirt Benson audiobook. Genre: mystery In 'the clue of the silken ladder', Penny investigates multiple mysteries. What is the purpose of the singular silken ladder made by the secretive and somewhat sinister old Japanese curio shop owner? How can the 'Riverview Star' obtain evidence that a popular troupe of spiritualists really are heartless con artists?...

And Even Now by Max Beerbohm audiobook. Genre: comedy This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, and Somerset Maugham. Much of Beerbohm's work was humorous, including parodies of various aspects of the upper class life into which he was born. Some of these pieces are humorous, some phil...

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc audiobook. Genre: mystery When rumors spread through Paris of a new master thief who steals with impeccable manners and a smile, society is equal parts outraged and fascinated. He is Arsene Lupin: a brilliant gentleman-burglar who can slip into a drawing room as easily as he can empty a safe, leaving behind taunting...

Vindication Of The Rights Of Men by Mary Wollstonecraft audiobook. Genre: philosophy Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), which was a defence of constitutional monarchy, aristocracy, and the Church of England, and an attack on Wollsto...

The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart audiobook. Genre: mystery On a wild, storm-lashed night, independent society matron Cornelia Van Gorder settles into an eerie rented country house that seems determined to empty itself: servants quit, lights falter, and rumors swarm about a masked criminal prowling the area, a master thief and killer the newspapers have nicknamed 'The Bat.' Cornelia is not easily r...

A Poor Wise Man by Mary Roberts Rinehart audiobook. Genre: thriller In a smoke-laden American steel city still reeling from the Great War, Lily Cardew returns home with new eyes. After a year of hard, unglamorous service among soldiers and vulnerable young women, the sheltered rituals of the Cardew mansion feel unreal - and the iron-willed patriarch Anthony Cardew feels more like a judge than a gr...

Rose Mather - A Tale by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: romance Set in the Northern village of Rockland as the news of Fort Sumter ignites the Civil War, Rose Mather: A Tale follows a community suddenly forced to measure its ideals against its losses. Rose Mather is young, fashionable, and newly married to wealthy William Mather, and she arrives at the first war meeting with the careless confid...

Maggie Miller by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: romance In the shadowy New England hills, the decaying Old House by the Mill shelters a proud exile, Madam Conway, and the servant who has served her family for years: Hagar Warren, sharp-eyed, resentful of poverty, and fiercely devoted to her daughter, Hester. When tragedy strikes and Madam Conway's grieving daughter, Margaret Miller, returns ho...

Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: romance If you're a fan of mid-19th Century melodramas with many twists and turns you will love this book. Acclaimed as Holmes greatest commercial success the charming heroine of this tale is Lena Rivers whose mother died when she was a baby. The father is unknown, and she is brought up by her grandparents in the New England mountains. When the gra...

Gretchen by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: romance When wealthy, fastidious Arthur Tracy returns to Tracy Park after years abroad, his homecoming should restore order to the grand estate and the quiet town of Shannondale. Instead, Arthur arrives shaken and mentally unsteady, speaking obsessively of a woman named Gretchen and insisting she was with him on the journey, though no one can find her...

Cousin Maude by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: family When Matilda's husband James dies, she marries rich Dr. Kennedy thinking he will provide a good home for her daughter Maude. However, the doctor is a miser and assumes that Matty will be his housekeeper. They have a little boy who is crippled and the doctor ignores him. Maude is totally devoted to him and on her mother's deathbed promises t...

Bessie's Fortune by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: mystery In Boston and quiet Allington, New England, the polished Jerrold household is built on ambition, appearances, and a carefully guarded past. When an aging patriarch on a lonely farm insists on making a final confession, old wounds reopen and whispers of a long-buried crime begin to circle through the family - along with rumors of money...

Thou Art The Man by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery Mary Elizabeth Braddon's late-Victorian mystery opens on a tragedy that shatters a young love story. At the Scottish estate of Ellerslie, Brandon Mountford, a sensitive gentleman burdened by epilepsy and frightening gaps in memory, is discovered near a brutal death and quickly becomes the obvious suspect. Forced to flee rather th...

The Day Will Come by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery In the quiet Dorset village of Cheriton, wedding bells welcome Juanita Dalbrook home as a bride. She is the only child of James Dalbrook, now Lord Cheriton, a brilliant barrister turned self-made peer whose ambition has bought him an ancient estate and a place among the county families. Juanita's marriage to Sir Godfrey Carmicha...

Taken at the Flood by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: thriller In Victorian England, Sylvia Carew has been raised in modest circumstances by a parish schoolmaster whose carefully guarded history has left her with more questions than security. Clever, beautiful, and fiercely determined to escape poverty, Sylvia finds herself torn between the steady devotion of Edmund Standen, a respectable...

One Life, One Love by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: romance Clara and Robert Hatrell lead an ideal life with their young daughter Daisy in a beautiful old fashioned cottage on the banks of the Thames. When his son Cyril goes away to school their friend and neighbor Ambrose Arden who is a notable scholar offers to tutor Daisy. Some time later Robert carrying a large amount in banknotes i...

Mount Royal Volume III by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery In Mount Royal Volume III, Mary Elizabeth Braddon drives her Victorian sensation tale toward its most dangerous reckonings. At the isolated estate of Mount Royal, Christabel Tregonell lives under the weight of a marriage soured by jealousy and a past love that refuses to stay buried. As winter closes in, the house turns qui...

Mount Royal Volume II by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: romance Mount Royal Volume II deepens Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Victorian tale of passion tested by conscience and circumstance. Angus Hamleigh, shaken by a dangerous illness and the shadow of his own past, receives a letter from his beloved Christabel Courtenay that asks for sacrifice instead of vows: she cannot marry him unless he...

Mount Royal Volume I by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery At Mount Royal, an old manor perched above the Cornish coast near Boscastle, Christabel Courtenay has grown up sheltered, clever, and restlessly romantic under the watchful care of her aunt, Mrs. Tregonell. The household runs on memories: Mrs. Tregonell still cherishes the story of Captain Hamleigh, the widower she loved and...