Classic Audiobook Collection

Space Prison by Tom Godwin audiobook. Genre: scifi When the colony ship Constellation flees a newly declared interstellar war, its 8,000 passengers believe salvation lies ahead on Athena, a green world beyond the reach of the expanding Gern Empire. Then the Gerns find them. With the ship crippled and air running out, surrender is forced, and the invaders sort human lives with cold efficiency: the...

The Adventures of Reddy Fox by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook. Genre: adventure The Adventures of Reddy Fox is another in the series of children’s stories by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this story, Reddy and Granny Fox must outsmart Farmer Brown’s Boy who is out to get Reddy for stealing his pet chicken. Along the way, Reddy encounters many of the citizens of the Green Meadows and the G...

The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook. Genre: fantasy 'Hello, Jerry Muskrat! We'd forgotten all about you,' said Mrs. Quack. 'What was that you said?' Jerry good-naturedly repeated what he had said. Mrs. Quack's face brightened. 'Do you really mean it?' she asked eagerly. 'Do you really mean that you know of a pond where we could live and not be likely to be seen by th...

The Adventures of Buster Bear by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook. Genre: family Buster Bear is big, strong, and far too curious for his own good - and in the Green Forest and the Green Meadows, curiosity has a way of attracting trouble. While Old Mother Bear warns her young cub to stay out of danger, Buster cannot resist testing his strength, sniffing out easy meals, and wandering where he does not...

The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward audiobook. Genre: self help Thomas Troward was a divisional Judge in British-administered India. His avocation was the study of comparative religion. Influences on his thinking, as well as his later writing, included the teachings of Christ, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. After his retirement from the judiciary in 1896, Troward set out to...

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the prosperous port city of Lubeck in the 19th century, Buddenbrooks follows four generations of a respected merchant family as they fight to preserve their name, fortune, and standing in a rapidly changing world. At the center are the family patriarchs and heirs who inherit not only a business but a code of duty - and the quiet pressure t...

Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt audiobook. Genre: biography In Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography, the 26th president of the United States tells his own story in a brisk, energetic voice that mirrors the life he led. Beginning with his youth and early battles to overcome frail health, Roosevelt traces the making of his character through intense self-discipline, publi...

Lifted Masks by Susan Glaspell audiobook. Genre: drama First published in 1912, Lifted Masks is Susan Glaspell's keen-edged collection of 13 short stories about the faces people present to the world and what happens when those performances crack. In Paris, a young American woman named Virginia is pulled into an awkward, unexpectedly tender afternoon helping a loud, well-meaning countryman buy gift...

The Art of War by Sun Tzu audiobook. Genre: history Composed as a compact manual of strategy and leadership, The Art of War presents Sun Tzu's principles for prevailing in conflict through preparation, intelligence, and disciplined execution. Rather than celebrating brute force, the book argues for winning with minimal cost by understanding both your own capabilities and an opponent's intentions....

Conjuror's House, a Romance of the Free Forest by Stewart Edward White audiobook. Genre: romance In the far northern Canadian wilderness, Conjuror's House stands as a lonely trading post where the Hudson Bay Company rules by distance, tradition, and fear. Virginia Albret has grown up inside that small, whitewashed outpost, the daughter of Galen Albret, the stern Factor who considers the forest, th...

Soaked in Seaweed and 7 other Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock audiobook. Genre: comedy 8 great spoofs of 'types' of fiction by the premier Canadian humorist Leacock, taken from his book Nonsense Novels. The title of each parody gives away its genre: Soaked in Seaweed or, Upset in the Ocean; Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective Detective; 'Q.' A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural; Guido the G...

The Spiritual Exercises by St. Ignatius Loyola audiobook. Genre: religion These are the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, a plan of contemplation to be carried out over about a month. St. Ignatius of Loyola (1419-1556) was the founder of the Jesuits, and was canonized by Pope Gregory XV in 1622. He published the Spiritual Exercises in 1548. The Exercises were intended for use by someo...

The Autobiography of St. Ignatius by St. Ignatius Loyola audiobook. Genre: biography This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself to Father Gonzalez, is a most valuable record of the great Founder of the Society of Jesus. It, more than any other work, gives an insight into the spiritual life of St. Ignatius. Few works in ascetical literature, except the writings of St. Teresa and...

Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Grenfell audiobook. Genre: biography In Adrift on an Ice-Pan, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, the famed doctor and medical missionary of northern Newfoundland and Labrador, recounts a single harrowing journey that became one of the defining stories of his life. On Easter Sunday in 1908, a desperate call pulls him from St. Anthony into the white expanse: a young patient ne...

The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott audiobook. Genre: adventure Set amid the dust, heat, and rivalries of the Third Crusade, Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman follows Sir Kenneth of Scotland, a weary but unbending knight who arrives in the crusader camp as alliances fray and tempers flare. King Richard the Lionheart burns with ambition and illness in equal measure, while jealous princes, scheming couns...

The Red Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery 'The Adventure of the Red-Headed League' is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It first appeared in The Strand Magazine in August 1891. Conan Doyle ranked 'The Red-Headed League' second in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. In this story, Holmes is presented with a per...

The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery When a terrified young woman arrives at Baker Street in the dead of night, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into a mystery steeped in fear, inheritance, and a sinister household on the English countryside. Helen Stoner believes her life is in danger: her twin sister died suddenly two years earlier under...

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery When a highly paid governess position comes with baffling rules and unsettling secrecy, Violet Hunter turns to the one man in London who never dismisses a puzzle. In The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson meet a young woman offered an extraordinary salary by the stern Jephro Ru...

Silver Blaze by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery On a cold English moor, a celebrated racehorse named Silver Blaze vanishes on the eve of a major event, and its trainer is found dead under mysterious circumstances. With reputations, fortunes, and a tightly knit rural community on edge, Scotland Yard turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson to untangle a case that seems to defy...

A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery When a nervous visitor arrives at 221B Baker Street under cover of darkness, Sherlock Holmes senses that the case will test more than his powers of observation. The client is a powerful European monarch on the verge of a politically vital marriage, and he fears that a compromising photograph from his past could be used to des...

A Japanese Boy by Shigemi Shiukichi audiobook. Genre: biography In A Japanese Boy, Shiukichi Shigemi (sometimes listed as Shigemi Shiukichi) invites you into the coastal town of Imabari in the late 19th century, recounting his childhood with the clarity of memory and the curiosity of a boy watching his world take shape. Moving from his grandfather's home and neighborhood shrines to the routines of...

Vampires of Space by Sewell Peaslee Wright audiobook. Genre: scifi Veteran Space Patrol commander John Hanson has heard every bright young officer insist that space has been tamed - until a quiet stretch of sky starts swallowing passenger ships without a trace. When Hanson and his patrol vessel are sent to investigate, what begins as a routine search turns into a claustrophobic fight for survival...

Bat Wing by Sax Rohmer audiobook. Genre: mystery When private detective Paul Harley thinks he is wrapping up routine work for the Home Office, a fearful visitor walks into his London office with a tale that sounds like superstition. Colonel Juan Menendez, a wealthy exile from the Spanish West Indies, is convinced an old enemy has followed him to England - and that a bat wing nailed to his door is...

Flood Tide by Sara Ware Bassett audiobook. Genre: romance On the windswept edge of Cape Cod, the village of Wilton has learned to make room for Willie Spence - a gentle, eccentric old inventor whose cottage has become a maze of strings, wires, and homemade contraptions. Kept (mostly) in order by his long-suffering housekeeper, Celestina, Willie spends his days chasing bright ideas and dreaming tha...

The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan audiobook. Genre: romance “The Imperialist,” a novel by Sara Jeannette Duncan, published in 1904, is a portrait of life in small-town Ontario at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, English Canada was torn between affectionate loyalty for the “mother country” (Britain), and, on the other side, hard-headed respect for the demands of life in the s...