Classic Audiobook Collection

The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver, Thornton W. Burgess returns to the Green Forest and Smiling Pool to follow one of its most determined builders. When Paddy arrives with his big teeth, clever paws, and a plan to make a home of his own, the woods quickly learn that a beaver does not do anything halfway. As Pa...

Centuries of Meditations by Thomas Traherne audiobook. Genre: religion Centuries of Meditations gathers the luminous spiritual reflections of Thomas Traherne, a 17th-century Anglican priest and metaphysical writer whose voice feels both intimate and expansive. Written as a sequence of brief, numbered meditations arranged in groups of one hundred, these prose passages move like sparks: each one tur...

Bashan And I by Thomas Mann audiobook. Genre: biography Written in the shadow of World War I, Bashan and I is Thomas Mann's intimate, clear-eyed portrait of life with his dog, a spirited German shorthaired pointer named Bashan. In a Munich landscape of gardens, paths, and wild edges, the narrator builds his days around small rituals: the moment he steps outside, the eager arrival of his companion,...

Eleven years a drunkard by Thomas Doner audiobook. Genre: biography He tells of the shame, misery and pain which alcohol brought on him, and will bring to anyone whosoever be tempted by the pleasant feeling it produces at the time of drinking. It doesn't bring one home to shelter but drives them away. It leads one to forget the evil it brings and tempts one to pursue more for the pleasant feeling...

The Crook in the Lot by Thomas Boston audiobook. Genre: religion In The Crook in the Lot, Scottish Presbyterian pastor Thomas Boston turns a single piercing question from Ecclesiastes 7:13 into a steady guide for anyone living with burdens they cannot simply fix: if God has made something crooked in your life, who can make it straight? Boston calls the unchosen trials of daily life the 'crook' and...

Elizabethan Demonology by Thomas Alfred Spalding audiobook. Genre: history Written as a scholarly essay, Elizabethan Demonology investigates what educated and ordinary people in England believed about devils, witches, possession, and unseen spiritual forces during the Reformation and the decades that followed. Thomas Alfred Spalding argues that to read Elizabethan drama clearly, especially the pla...

The Characters Of Theophrastus by Theophrastus audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written in the lively streets and marketplaces of classical Athens, The Characters offers a gallery of sharply observed human types that still feel familiar today. Attributed to Theophrastus, successor to Aristotle, this compact classic presents a sequence of brief sketches, each one isolating a single vice, folly, or soci...

The Brothers by Terence audiobook. Genre: comedy In The Brothers (Adelphoe), Terence sets a sharply observed domestic comedy in Athens where two very different men try to raise the next generation. Demea is severe, hardworking, and convinced that discipline is the only path to virtue. His brother Micio is relaxed, affluent, and proud of the trust-based freedom he gives his adopted son, Aeschinus....

The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters by Susan Petigru King-Bowen audiobook. Genre: romance Portugal, 1812: while the Peninsular War grinds on, a British brigade settles into winter quarters at Elvas, where officers and their families try to turn boredom, uncertainty, and old-world etiquette into something like a season. Into this charged half-peacetime steps Lady Mabel Stewart,...

Above the French Lines by Stuart Walcott audiobook. Genre: history Above the French Lines presents World War I through the intimate, immediate voice of Stuart Walcott, a young American who crosses the Atlantic in 1917 to learn to fly and serve with the French aviation forces. Told as a sequence of letters written between July 4 and December 8, 1917, the book traces his transformation from eager tr...

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane audiobook. Genre: history In Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, a young farm boy named Henry Fleming leaves home to enlist in the Union Army, convinced that battle will reveal the heroic version of himself he has always imagined. But when his regiment is suddenly thrown into combat, Henry discovers that courage is not a simple, shining certainty - i...

English Men of Science - Their Nature and Nurture by Sir Francis Galton audiobook. Genre: science In English Men of Science - Their Nature and Nurture, Sir Francis Galton turns his trademark appetite for measurement toward a bold question that still echoes today: what makes a scientist? Writing in Victorian Britain, Galton gathers firsthand testimony from prominent men of science and uses it to pr...

The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery In The Valley of Fear, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle returns to Victorian London with one of Sherlock Holmes' most perilous cases. A mysterious cipher and a chilling warning reach Baker Street, drawing Holmes and Dr. Watson into the investigation of a country-house murder that seems at once straightforward and impossible. As Holmes pi...

The Trail of the Hawk by Sinclair Lewis audiobook. Genre: comedy Trail of the Hawk, narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Miketheauctioneer, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not at the time of release a smashing success as his later works, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and others, but his style and immense talent are certainly evident. We travel with The Hawk, or Carl Ericson,...

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis audiobook. Genre: comedy In the booming Midwestern city of Zenith, George F. Babbitt seems to have everything a successful American businessman should want: a solid home, a respectable family, a wide circle of civic-minded friends, and a thriving career selling real estate. He prides himself on being practical, optimistic, and up to date, repeating the slogans of prosperi...

Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis audiobook. Genre: drama Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith follows Martin Arrowsmith, a restless young man from the American Midwest who is determined to become the kind of doctor who serves truth before comfort. From medical school lectures and small town practice to big city hospitals and elite research laboratories, Martin keeps running into the same question: is medicine a...

A Daughter of Today by Sara Jeannette Duncan audiobook. Genre: drama In late-Victorian London and Paris, Elfrida Bell is determined to become more than a well-bred ornament. Brilliant, restless, and fiercely self-aware, she styles herself a modern woman of letters and art, chasing recognition in magazines, salons, and studios while measuring herself against the people who seem effortlessly at home...

Prayers and Meditations by Samuel Johnson audiobook. Genre: religion Prayers and Meditations offers an intimate look into the private spiritual life of Samuel Johnson, the towering English writer and moralist best known for his essays, criticism, and dictionary. Drawn from his personal papers, these entries trace years of self-examination as Johnson faces recurring illness, grief, temptation, lone...

An American Robinson Crusoe by Samuel B. Allison audiobook. Genre: adventure Samuel B. Allison's An American Robinson Crusoe is a brisk, child-friendly retelling of Daniel Defoe's classic survival story, reshaped for American classrooms and young readers. It begins in New York City, where a restless boy named Robinson Crusoe would rather roam the streets and watch the ships on the Hudson than stud...

The Benson Murder Case - A Philo Vance Story by S. S. Van Dine audiobook. Genre: mystery When a powerful New York financier is found shot to death in his own mansion, the crime looks at first like a straightforward killing in a house full of money, secrets, and resentments. But the clues do not line up, the motives overlap, and every witness seems to be hiding something. Called in to assist the in...

Actions And Reactions by Rudyard Kipling audiobook. Genre: adventure Rudyard Kipling's Actions And Reactions is a wide-ranging collection of stories in which private choices collide with public forces - empire, technology, class, and the stubborn pull of the past. From English countryside homes shadowed by old histories to far-flung outposts where duty and survival test the limits of loyalty, Kipl...

Across Mongolian Plains - A Naturalists Account of China's Great Northwest by Roy Chapman Andrews audiobook. Genre: adventure In Across Mongolian Plains: A Naturalists Account of Chinas Great Northwest, famed explorer and naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews invites listeners into the vast, wind-scoured spaces beyond the Great Wall, where grasslands fade into desert and the horizon seems to run forever....

The Maker of Moons, and Other Short Stories by Robert W. Chambers audiobook. Genre: horror In this eerie early collection from Robert W. Chambers, the everyday world keeps cracking open to reveal hidden rooms of dread, enchantment, and obsession. The stories range from shadowed city streets to lonely country houses, from moonlit gardens to back rooms where forbidden crafts are practiced, and they...

The Dog Crusoe and His Master by Robert Ballantyne audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Dog Crusoe and His Master, Robert Michael Ballantyne spins a brisk, sea-salted tale of hardship, loyalty, and hard-won hope. Set against the vast, unforgiving Atlantic and the rugged coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador, the story follows a young sailor and fisherman who is swept into a chain of misfortunes that s...

My Doggie and I by Robert Ballantyne audiobook. Genre: family In Victorian London, young medical student John Mellon prides himself on being practical, but his life is quietly transformed the moment he takes home a small, shaggy dog with a comically unglamorous look and an outsized spirit. John names him Dumps (also called Pompey), and the pair become inseparable as John makes his rounds in the st...