Classic Audiobook Collection

Dead Love Has Chains by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery We see another facet of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's amazing talent in Dead Love Has Chains, written in her seventies. Focusing on character and human psychology rather than detection and crime, this is one of her most interesting novels. Pregnant and unmarried Irene Thelliston is sent home from India to live with her Aunt in Ire...

A Strange World by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery In Victorian England, seventeen-year-old Justina Elgood has grown up under the footlights, touring with her worn-down actor-father, Matthew, and dreaming of a life that feels more real than painted scenery and nightly applause. When a chance meeting in the countryside introduces her to two very different young gentlemen, the earne...

Elsie's New Relations by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's New Relations, Martha Finley returns to the warm, principled world of Ion, where Elsie Travilla has stepped into a new season of life as the steady heart of an expanding family. As summer at the seaside ends and the households settle back at Ion, the story shifts to the next generation and the challenges that come with blen...

Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Grandmother Elsie, Martha Finley returns to the devout and closely knit Dinsmore-Ion circle at a turning point in Elsie Dinsmore's life. As the Ion family comes home from a summer on the New Jersey coast, the household is shadowed by sickness and worry, and Elsie must keep her calm faith while caring for those she loves and leaning on...

Elsie's Widowhood by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's Widowhood, Martha Finley carries the long-running Elsie Dinsmore saga into a season of sudden loss and steady courage. Elsie Travilla, devoted wife and mother, is forced to reimagine her home after the unexpected death of her husband, Edward Travilla Jr. With her children watching her every step, Elsie must balance private sorr...

Elsie's Children by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's Children, Martha Finley returns to the warm, orderly world of Viamede, where Elsie Travilla's greatest work is not managing an estate but shaping the hearts of the lively young people who call her 'mamma.' The household is stirred by the arrival of a new baby, a joy that brings laughter to the nursery even as it tests Elsie's st...

Elsie's Motherhood by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's Motherhood, Martha Finley returns to the Travilla home in the years after the Civil War, when Elsie Dinsmore Travilla is no longer the beleaguered girl readers first met, but a devoted wife and a steady, affectionate mother. The story opens on a happy family milestone and quickly settles into the daily rhythms of a bustling ho...

Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's Womanhood, Martha Finley follows Elsie Dinsmore as she steps out of girlhood and into the weightier choices of adulthood on her Southern home, the Oaks. Now a young woman of deep conviction and tender conscience, Elsie faces the joys and anxieties of an engagement to Edward Travilla, her father's longtime friend - a match that...

Elsie's Girlhood by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's Girlhood, Martha Finley continues the story of Elsie Dinsmore as she moves from a sensitive, bookish childhood into the sharper tests of growing up in a proud Southern household. Elsie is bright and affectionate, but her deepest wish is painfully simple: to be truly loved and understood by her stern father, Horace Dinsmore, whos...

Holidays at Roselands by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: religion In Holidays at Roselands, Martha Finley returns to young Elsie Dinsmore just as she is beginning to heal from the trials of the first story. At Roselands, the outward calm of family visits, gentle outings, and familiar friends masks a deeper struggle: Elsie's fierce desire to please her beloved father, Horace Dinsmore, collides with...

Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In post-Civil War America, gentle, intensely principled Elsie Dinsmore grows up surrounded by comfort yet starved for affection. Raised on her wealthy grandfather's plantation, Elsie is an unusually devout child who clings to her Bible and a keen sense of right and wrong. That steadfast faith becomes her refuge, but it also makes her a targe...

Black Magic - a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist by Marjorie Bowen audiobook. Genre: horror Set in medieval Europe, Black Magic follows a talented but restless woodcarver in a northern French town who begins his days gilding a figure of the Devil and ends them studying forbidden arts. Drawn to secret texts, whispered rituals, and the promise of knowledge without limits, he makes a delib...

Ardath by Marie Corelli audiobook. Genre: fantasy In late-Victorian London, Theos Alwyn is a gifted but struggling young writer who has begun to doubt the value of art, faith, and even his own moral compass. When an enigmatic Eastern mystic offers him a strange, fateful gift, Theos is drawn into an experience that feels like a dream and a judgment at once: a sweeping vision of a vanished world cal...

The Daredevil by Maria Thompson Daviess audiobook. Genre: romance In the shadow of the Great War, Roberta Carruthers - the bold, quick-witted daughter of an American soldier and a French marquise - sails into New York carrying grief, responsibility, and one urgent hope: help for her frail younger brother, Pierre. But a clerical mistake and an iron-willed, woman-hating uncle in Tennessee turn her h...

The Castle of Twilight by Margaret Horton Potter audiobook. Genre: fantasy For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:30:23) Chapter 02 (01:13:36) Chapter 03 (01:53:25) Chapter 04 (02:27:11) Chapter 05 (03:09:14) Chapter 06 (03:36:56) Chapter 07 (04:11:45) Chapter 08 (04:41:23) Chapter 09 (05:13:23) Chapter 10 (05:53:08) Chapter 11 (06:24:06...

An American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant by Marcus Eli Ravage audiobook. Genre: biography For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:08:41) Chapter 01 (00:33:30) Chapter 02 (00:58:03) Chapter 03 (01:11:46) Chapter 04 (01:34:35) Chapter 05 (01:55:07) Chapter 06 (02:15:19) Chapter 07 (02:32:49) Chapter 08 (02:59:48) Chapter 09...

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust audiobook. Genre: drama Swann's Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust's monumental In Search of Lost Time, invites listeners into a richly detailed world where memory, desire, and social performance shape a life as surely as events do. From the quiet rituals of childhood in the provincial village of Combray, a sensitive narrator learns how longing can attach itself to...

Emily of New Moon by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: family Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely -- until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious classmates by holding her head high and using he...

Emily Climbs by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: family Emily Byrd Starr longs to attend Queen's Academy to earn her teaching license, but her tradition-bound relatives at New Moon refuse. She is instead offered the chance to go to Shrewsbury High School with her friends, on two conditions. The first is that she board with her disliked Aunt Ruth, but it is the second that causes Emily diffic...

Tales of War by Lord Dunsany audiobook. Genre: history In Tales of War, Lord Dunsany turns his lyrical imagination toward the mud, wire, and sudden terror of the First World War, shaping a sequence of short sketches that feel like dispatches, parables, and haunted memories all at once. From the men of the small village of Daleswood, who carry thoughts of home into the trenches, to solitary sentrie...

Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo da Vinci audiobook. Genre: philosophy Thoughts on Art and Life gathers Leonardo da Vinci's own words into a vivid portrait of a mind that refused to separate beauty from truth. Drawn from his notebooks, these short observations, reflections, and practical notes move between the studio and the wider world: how a painter should study light and shadow, why perspec...

The Impossibles by Laurence M. Janifer audiobook. Genre: scifi In this classic, tongue-in-cheek science-fiction mystery co-written by Laurence M. Janifer (with Randall Garrett), FBI agent Kenneth Malone is assigned a case that sounds like a bad joke and quickly turns into a national-security headache. A wave of thefts targets one oddly specific prize: flashy red Cadillacs. Witnesses cannot agree o...

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods by Laura Lee Hope audiobook. Genre: adventure Bunny Brown and his little sister, Sue, have been having adventures and fun, and getting into scrapes, since the early 1900s. From Chapter One: 'Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were at Camp Rest-a-While with their father and their mother. They had come from their home in Bellemere to live for a while in th...

A World of Girls - The Story of a School by L. T. Meade audiobook. Genre: family If you are a fan of Girl's School tales this one will definitely not disappoint. Filled with fantastic adventures of midnight feasts, gypsy sightings and naughty pranks, this charming story centers on two very opposite characters. Hester Thornton, very proud, mourning the recent loss of her mother and the separation o...

John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy An evil Arabian sorcerer loans a golden flask full of the Great Elixir - a magic liquid that endows a person with pronounced health, strength, and longevity - to a colorblind baker's wife to stop it falling into the wrong hands. Unfortunately, the woman mixes up the Elixir with her rheumatism medicine, which, through even more mi...