Classic Audiobook Collection

The Drummer, or, The Haunted House by Joseph Addison audiobook. Genre: comedy In Joseph Addison's stage comedy The Drummer, or, The Haunted House, Lady Truman is trying to rebuild her life after devastating news: her husband, Sir George Truman, has been reported killed in battle, leaving her a wealthy widow in possession of a prized country estate. Grief, however, quickly becomes only one of her p...

All for Love; or, The World Well Lost by John Dryden audiobook. Genre: tragedy All for Love is widely considered to be John Dryden's finest work, dramatic or otherwise. A tragedy written in blank verse, it retells the story of Roman general Marc Antony's love affair with the alluring Egyptian queen Cleopatra and their eventual double-suicide. Compared to the more famous rendition of the tale by Wi...

Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army by James Norman Hall audiobook. Genre: biography In 1914, as Europe slides into war, young American James Norman Hall makes an impulsive decision that will reshape his life: he crosses the Atlantic to enlist in the British Army. Thrown into the swelling ranks of Kitchener's New Army - the citizen volunteers nicknamed 'Kitchener's Mob' -...

The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses by Kincaid audiobook. Genre: self help A practical, old-school manual of horsemanship, The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses sets out to answer a question that has tested riders and stablehands for centuries: how do you take an animal built on speed and fear, sometimes made dangerous by mishandling, and bring i...

The End Of The Tether by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: tragedy In a humid corner of the Malay Archipelago, Captain Henry Whalley is a celebrated seaman at the end of his long career - respected, proud, and quietly desperate. Age has begun to strip away the one thing he cannot admit losing: his ability to see clearly enough to command a ship. With money needed to secure his daughters future and h...

Andiron Tales by John Kendrick Bangs audiobook. Genre: fantasy In Andiron Tales, John Kendrick Bangs invites listeners to the warm edge of a fireplace, where an ordinary household object becomes an unlikely master of ceremonies. Framed as a set of fireside stories, the book gathers a playful assortment of short fantasies and comic fables, each spun with Bangs' trademark wit and gentle mischief. As...

The Money Moon by John Jeffery Farnol audiobook. Genre: romance When American millionaire George Bellew is left reeling by the news that his beloved Sylvia Marchmont will marry the Duke of Ryde, he does the only thing that makes sense to a man with too much money and no clear purpose: he walks out of London and into the Kentish countryside. With his dryly competent valet Baxter at his heels, Belle...

The Wheat Princess by Jean Webster audiobook. Genre: romance Marcia Copley arrives in Rome expecting an effortless season of parties, art, and sunshine with her well-placed American relatives at a villa near the hill town of Palestrina. Instead, she finds herself marked by a nickname she cannot quite escape: the 'Wheat Princess,' heiress to the fortune her father made through grain speculation. In...

Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall by Janet D. Wheeler audiobook. Genre: mystery Billie Bradley is back, and this time the bright, headstrong girl finds herself at the storied boarding school known as Three Towers Hall. Eager to prove she belongs among its traditions and tight knit social circles, Billie throws herself into classes, athletics, and the lively rhythm of dorm life. But the Hall is n...

Philomene's Marriages by Henry Greville audiobook. Genre: romance 'Philomène’s Marriages' is a story of French life, located in Normandy, and also in Paris, and is a translation from the French of a new work by the gifted and popular authoress, Henry Gréville, whose works have become so famous and popular, that they no longer require any elaborate introduction to the reading public. The heroine’s...

Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette by Henriette Campan audiobook. Genre: biography Introduced into the royal household as court reader at the age of 15 and later rising to the office of first lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette, Mme Campan was privy to the many trials and tribulations of this unfortunate queen. Her memoirs offer a fascinating insight into the intrigues, the complexities of c...

High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall audiobook. Genre: history In High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France, James Norman Hall recounts, with diary-like immediacy, how an American volunteer is swept from the streets of wartime Paris into the raw, improvised world of early military aviation. Intent at first on joining the Foreign Legion, Hall instead...

The Einstein Theory of Relativity by Hendrik A. Lorentz audiobook. Genre: science When Albert Einstein published his first paper on relativity theory, it caused a stir in the physicists' community. When more and more evidence was gathered to prove the theory correct, even laymen became interested in it. Since the theory of relativity uses involved higher mathematics, it is considered notoriously d...

Outlaw Jack by Harry Hazard audiobook. Genre: adventure 1850 - A year before, the Californian 'gold-fever' broke out, a party of emigrants, numbering nearly one hundred under the command of Caleb Mitchell, felt fairly secure as they traveled the hard trail to find gold. However, security is marred by a sad accident in Mitchell's family early on. The quest for Gold can be complicated and dangerous,...

The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn by Harry Collingwood audiobook. Genre: adventure Eric Blackburn is only twenty-three and serving as fourth officer aboard the brand-new passenger steamer Saturn when the impossible happens: a blazing meteor crashes into the ship, sending her to the bottom within minutes. Cast alone into the open sea with hundreds of lives lost around him, Eric claws his way...

Andreas Vesalius The Reformer Of Anatomy by James Moores Ball audiobook. Genre: biography In Andreas Vesalius The Reformer Of Anatomy, James Moores Ball chronicles the life and work of the bold Renaissance physician who challenged centuries of medical authority and helped remake the study of the human body. Set against the ferment of sixteenth-century Europe, the book follows Vesalius from his ear...

Heroines Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie audiobook. Genre: biography Heroines Every Child Should Know (also published as Heroines That Every Child Should Know) is a spirited collection of short, vivid portraits of brave women and legendary figures, edited for young listeners by Hamilton Wright Mabie (with co-editor Kate Stephens). Moving from the world of classical myth into the p...

The Ghost Kings by H. Rider Haggard audiobook. Genre: adventure On the raw frontiers of southern Africa, Rachel Dove grows up in the shadow of her missionary father's fierce convictions and her mother's unsettling gift for second sight. When a sudden flood nearly takes her life, Rachel is saved by Richard Darrien, a young Englishman whose bravery forges a bond that neither distance nor time can ea...

Dutch Courage and Other Stories by Jack London audiobook. Genre: adventure Jack London was quoted as saying, 'I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall write such a line!' After his death in 1916, his wife Charmian assembled a collection of stories, most of which he had written for young readers, but at least one of which was for more mature re...

The Story of a Whim by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook. Genre: romance When Hazel Winship feels a sudden tug of compassion, she acts on a whim that will change far more than her own quiet, well-ordered life. After Hazel and a circle of friends notice a shipment addressed to someone named Christie Bailey in Florida, they imagine a lonely young woman in need and begin sending small gifts and bright,...

The City of Fire by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook. Genre: religion When Lynn Severn comes home to her quiet valley town after college, she expects familiar faces and steady certainties - especially the friendship she has always shared with Mark Carter. Instead, she finds a troubling distance between them: Mark is drifting from the faith that once anchored him, drawn toward a faster crowd and a h...

A Book of Giants by Henry Wysham Lanier audiobook. Genre: folklore What do the Titans of Greece, the frost giants of the North, the giants of scripture, and the oversized brutes of medieval romance have in common? In A Book of Giants, Henry Wysham Lanier gathers twenty-five larger-than-life tales that trace humanity's long fascination with beings who tower over ordinary people - and with the coura...

Lo, Michael! by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook. Genre: romance When a gunshot cracks across a Madison Avenue doorway, a scrappy New York newsboy named Michael (called Mikky) reacts faster than anyone expects. In a single, reckless act of courage, he shields three-year-old heiress Starr Endicott and changes both their lives forever. The Endicotts' gratitude pulls Michael out of the streets and int...

The Castlecourt Diamond Mystery by Geraldine Bonner audiobook. Genre: mystery When the legendary Castlecourt diamonds vanish during London season, scandal threatens to swallow an aristocratic household whole. Staying at Burridge's Hotel instead of their own townhouse, Lady Castlecourt and her husband find themselves surrounded by servants, guests, and hangers-on, any of whom might have seen someth...

Blake of the Rattlesnake by Frederick Thomas Jane audiobook. Genre: scifi In the tense, near-future waters of the 1890s, Britain faces the nightmare its newspapers only half dare to imagine: a sudden war at sea against France and Russia, fought with fast torpedo craft, new tactics, and unforgiving modern weapons. Into the chaos steps Lieutenant Edward Blake of the torpedo-boat Rattlesnake, a hard-...