Classic Audiobook Collection

Crime, Its Causes and Remedies by Cesare Lombroso audiobook. Genre: science In Crime, Its Causes and Remedies, pioneering Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso lays out a sweeping, controversial attempt to explain why people commit crimes and how societies should respond. Writing at the crossroads of medicine, psychology, and emerging social science, Lombroso examines the criminal not only as a le...

The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet by Burton Egbert Stevenson audiobook. Genre: mystery When a shipping mistake delivers an extraordinary Boule cabinet to the New York home of wealthy collector Philip Vantine, the windfall feels too dazzling to surrender. Vantine summons his friend and attorney, Lester, to help him untangle ownership and negotiate a price, but the cabinet arrives with a shadow: a st...

Cocoa and Chocolate by Arthur W. Knapp audiobook. Genre: history As that heavenly bit of chocolate melts in our mouths, we give little thought as to where it came from, the arduous work that went in to its creation, and the complex process of its maturation from a bean to the delicacy we all enjoy. This 'little book' details everything you have ever wanted to know (and some things you never knew y...

George Muller of Bristol by Arthur T. Pierson audiobook. Genre: biography George Muller was a great hero of faith. His greatest aim was to demonstrate that God answers prayer and can be trusted for every minute detail of life. Spending countless hours asking God to provide his needs, he only relied upon God. God called him to care for orphans and he conducted his orphanage in the same way, on fait...

Alias Miss Sherlock by Arthur Lewis Tubbs audiobook. Genre: mystery When Dick Brewster is suddenly implicated in a murder, he vanishes to the one place he believes he can still trust: his aunt's quiet farm. But hiding is only a temporary refuge. As rumors tighten into accusation and the threat of arrest grows, Aunt Sarah refuses to let her nephew be sacrificed to circumstantial evidence. Practical...

Economics by Aristotle audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Economics, a short but influential treatise traditionally attributed to Aristotle, the listener enters the practical world of oikonomia - the art of running a household and managing property with intelligence, restraint, and purpose. Moving from the intimate sphere of family life to the wider concerns of cities and states, the work asks what i...

The Clouds by Aristophanes audiobook. Genre: comedy In Aristophanes' sharp and playful comedy The Clouds, Athens is buzzing with new ideas, clever talkers, and fashionable philosophies - and one desperate man hopes to use them to save his skin. Strepsiades, a harried farmer buried under debts from his son Pheidippides' expensive tastes, hears of a strange school run by the infamous thinker Socrate...

The Real Mother Goose by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore The Real Mother Goose is a beloved collection of traditional nursery rhymes and jingles passed down through generations, gathered under the timeless name 'Mother Goose.' Anonymous in authorship but unmistakable in cultural impact, this anthology invites listeners into a playful world of kings and cobblers, clever cats, mysterious maiden...

An Introduction to Yoga by Annie Besant audiobook. Genre: philosophy First delivered as four public lectures in Benares in 1907, Annie Besant's An Introduction to Yoga invites the listener into yoga not as a set of gymnastic poses, but as a disciplined science of consciousness. Speaking as a leading figure in the Theosophical movement, Besant sets out to make India's spiritual psychology intelligi...

Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot audiobook. Genre: business Written by French statesman and economist Anne Robert Jacques Turgot in the eighteenth century, Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth is a compact but far-reaching guide to how societies create prosperity and how that prosperity moves through different hands. Speaking...

Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery When ambitious young New York lawyer Frank Etheridge is abruptly summoned to Flatbush to draft the last will of the dying Cynthia Wakeham, he expects an unpleasant errand and a quick fee. Instead, he finds a once-grand house stripped to the bone, a terrified woman clinging to her final choices, and a hungry relative, Hiram H...

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos audiobook. Genre: comedy A witty, sparkling satire of money, romance, and American ambition, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes follows Lorelei Lee, a charming young woman with a sharp eye for diamonds and an even sharper sense of how the world works. Told through Lorelei's breezy diary entries, the story tracks her whirlwind travels from New York to Europe alongside h...

The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie audiobook. Genre: business What is the proper mode of administering great wealth? It is to address this question that steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's famous essay 'Wealth', or more commonly known as 'The Gospel of Wealth' was written (in 1889). His answer – Philanthropy. Not just any philanthropy, but specifically, projects funded and overseen during the life...

The Empire of Business by Andrew Carnegie audiobook. Genre: business This collection of essays by Scottish-American steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie, gathered from various periodicals and first published in book form in 1902, provides insight into one of history’s richest and most notable entrepreneurs/philanthropists. Carnegie shares his outlook on the economic situation in America at the turn...

Aladdin by Adam Oehlenschlager audiobook. Genre: folklore In Adam Oehlenschlager's Aladdin, the familiar tale from One Thousand and One Nights is reimagined as a sweeping dramatic poem, where street life, palace intrigue, and the unseen world of spirits collide. Aladdin is a handsome but aimless young man, a burden to his hardworking parents, until a mysterious stranger, the sorcerer Nureddin, dra...

The Sonnets by William Shakespeare audiobook. Genre: poetry William Shakespeare's The Sonnets gathers 154 compact, emotionally charged poems that move from private confession to sharp social observation, tracing desire, time, art, and the complicated bonds that tie people together. The collection is often read as unfolding in intertwined sequences: many poems address a dazzling, often elusive youn...

The Wood Beyond The World by William Morris audiobook. Genre: fantasy The Wood beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. His use of archaic language has been seen by some modern readers as making his fiction difficu...

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf audiobook. Genre: drama Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse invites listeners into the summer home of the Ramsay family on the Isle of Skye, where a simple plan to visit a distant lighthouse becomes a quiet measure of desire, disappointment, and devotion. At the center are Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay: he, a celebrated but anxious intellectual hungry for reassurance; she,...

The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot audiobook. Genre: poetry First published in 1922, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is a landmark modernist poem that moves through a shattered cultural landscape after World War I, where memory, desire, faith, and daily survival collide. Told in a collage of shifting speakers and sudden scene changes, the poem drifts from crowded city streets and tense domestic rooms to r...

Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney audiobook. Genre: poetry In Astrophil and Stella, Sir Philip Sidney crafts a sparkling sequence of interlinked sonnets and songs that trace the inner life of Astrophil, a witty, self-aware courtier-poet whose name means 'star-lover.' From the opening lines, Astrophil sets himself a task: to turn feeling into verse so powerful it might move his beloved, Ste...

Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook. Genre: horror In the rugged hills of northern Spain during the Peninsular War, a wounded British officer is sent to recuperate in a remote country house far from his regiment. What begins as a welcome refuge - quiet rooms, thick stone walls, and a physician's watchful care - soon turns unsettling as the household's secrets press in from every shadowed co...

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West audiobook. Genre: drama In the shadow of World War I, life at Baldry Court seems settled: Captain Chris Baldry is away at the front, his elegant wife Kitty maintains the routines of privilege, and Chris' cousin Jenny narrates from the quiet center of the household. Then Chris returns home - not as the man they remember, but as a soldier shaken by shell sho...

Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis audiobook. Genre: drama In a smoky industrial town where the furnaces never seem to cool, Life in the Iron Mills follows Hugh Wolfe, a weary mill hand whose days are measured in heat, soot, and exhaustion. Gifted with a sculptor's eye but trapped by poverty, Hugh works alongside his cousin Deborah, a quiet, fiercely devoted woman who endures long hou...

The Children of Odin by Padraic Colum audiobook. Genre: folklore Master storyteller Padraic Colum's rich, musical voice captures all the magic and majesty of the Norse sagas in his retellings of the adventures of the gods and goddesses who lived in the Northern paradise of Asgard before the dawn of history. Here are the matchless tales of All-Father Odin, who crosses the Rainbow Bridge to walk amo...

The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy by Padraic Colum audiobook. Genre: folklore Padraic Colum retells two of the ancient world's most enduring legends with a storyteller's clarity and momentum: the siege of Troy and the long, perilous homecoming of Odysseus. Beginning with the tangled rivalries and vows that draw Greek kings to the walls of Troy, the narrative introduces larger-than-li...