Classic Audiobook Collection

The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams audiobook. Genre: mystery A body is found on the beach not far from a New England town one morning. Curiously, nobody recognizes the dead woman, and nobody in or near the town seems to be a suspect in a possible murder, therefore most of them assume that she simply washed ashore from a passing vessel. Only problem is vessels didn't pass that stre...

On Loving God by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux audiobook. Genre: religion In On Loving God, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the great 12th-century Cistercian abbot and preacher, offers a clear, searching guide to the heart of Christian life: learning to love God truly and steadily. Written as a practical spiritual treatise rather than a lofty abstraction, the book asks two disarming questions: Why should...

The Silver Princess in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy Young King Randy of Regalia is doing his best to act royal, but the duties of a crown can feel like a cage. So when Kabumpo, the Elegant Elephant of Pumperdink, arrives with a plan for travel and excitement, Randy cannot resist. Their destination is the glittering Land of Ev, where their friend Jinnicky the Red Jinn should...

The Lost King of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy 'Princess Ozma has ruled so wisely and happily in the wonderful Land of Oz for so long that most of us have forgotten the strange story of the Lost King of Oz—Ozma's father. As everyone in Oz knows, the King was transformed from his royal self by Mombi, the wicked old Gilliken witch, and lost his throne and his crown when he, hi...

The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy Mustafa of Mudge has heard of the famous Cowardly Lion of Oz, and decides to capture him and put him into a zoo! He enlists the help of Bob Up and a clown called Notta Bit More - the master of disguise! The Cowardly Lion meanwhile travels though Oz and meets a stone man, who offers to turn the Cowardly Lion into stone: after...

Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy The Wizard of Oz has built two beautiful 'Ozoplanes' to explore Oz. But the official launch party goes wrong when the Soldier with the Green Whiskers accidentally launches the Oztober into the cloud country of Stratovania! The ruler, Strut of the Strat, makes Jellia Jamb his 'Starina' and then sets off to conquer th...

Kabumpo in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy An elephant in Oz? You bet! The tiny kingdom of Pumperdink has what no neighboring kingdom has: an Elegant Elephant in court, and his name is Kabumpo. He is very proud of his kingdom, his elegance and tends to be just the smallest bit pompous. On the other hand, he loves the young prince Pompo and goes with him in a desperate search t...

Handy Mandy in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy On many a day had Handy, the Goat Girl of Mern, pursued her goats up and down the rocky eminences of her native mountain. And never—NEVER—in her fourteen or so years' experience had she been blown up by a mountain spring. But there comes, in every one's experience a day which is unlike every other day, and so it was with the Goat...

Grampa In Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy Another great book in the world of Oz, in which King Fumbo of Ragbad loses his head in a storm and Prince Tatters, accompanied by the wise and wonderful old soldier Grampa, sets off to find the king's head, a fortune, and a princess. With Bill, a live iron weathercock, they visit a Wizard's Garden and discover Urtha, a lovely girl made...

Captain Salt in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy A voyage on the famous Nonestic Ocean! What could be more thrilling than that? We—many of us—have taken trips on the prosaic Atlantic or even Pacific, but have we found a SEA FOREST with flying fish and swimming birds? Have we been pursued by a real SEA SERPENT, or had our ship transfixed by the immense ivory tusk of a NARWHAL? H...

Collected Poems by Rupert Brooke audiobook. Genre: poetry Rupert Brooke's Collected Poems gathers the brief, radiant body of work that made him one of the defining English voices of the early 20th century. Moving from lush, sensuous celebrations of countryside and city life to intimate lyrics of desire, friendship, and restless self-scrutiny, these poems trace a young poet testing the limits of be...

Kim by Rudyard Kipling audiobook. Genre: adventure Orphaned and streetwise, Kimball O'Hara - known to everyone simply as Kim - grows up in the crowded, shifting world of British India, drifting between cultures with an easy talent for languages, disguises, and friendships. When he meets an aging Tibetan lama searching for a holy river said to bring spiritual freedom, Kim becomes his devoted chela,...

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling audiobook. Genre: folklore Just So Stories is Rudyard Kipling's sparkling collection of origin tales - playful, rhythmic, and full of mischief - that explain how the world got its quirks. In these classic bedtime adventures, curious animals and headstrong people collide with the forces of nature to create the traits we recognize today: an elephant child whose end...

Abaft The Funnel by Rudyard Kipling audiobook. Genre: adventure Abaft the Funnel gathers Rudyard Kipling's sharp-eyed tales and sketches of men living where comfort ends and work begins: on ships running the China seas, in steamy ports, and in the cramped social worlds that travel with the British Empire. The opening pieces drop you aboard the Whanghoa, where a ship's routine is thrown delightfull...

The Romance of an Old Fool by Roswell Field audiobook. Genre: romance John Stanhope is a comfortable, successful widower in middle life, content with his books, his country routines, and the dry-witted company of Bunsey, a would-be novelist who is forever observing (and judging) the romantic impulses of others. Yet when a chance trip draws John back to the small town of his boyhood, old streets an...

Pierre and Luce by Romain Rolland audiobook. Genre: romance Set in Paris during the final year of World War I, Pierre and Luce follows two teenagers who meet by chance in the shadow of air raid sirens and long range shelling. Pierre, a sensitive and thoughtful schoolboy, has been pushed into adulthood by the constant pressure of loss and uncertainty. Luce, younger but fiercely alive, carries her o...

Armand Durand by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon audiobook. Genre: romance Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks to her Montreal education and marriage to a man from an old Québécois family. Paul Durand, a prosperous Québécois farmer, marries in quick succession two very different wives, and fathers two v...

Fundamentals of Prosperity by Roger Babson audiobook. Genre: business Written in the wake of Americas post-World War I boom, Roger W. Babsons Fundamentals of Prosperity asks a blunt question: what happens when a nation stacks story after story of profits and expansion on a foundation that is too thin to hold it? A pioneering statistician and business forecaster, Babson speaks directly to business...

The Return of the Soul by Robert Smythe Hichens audiobook. Genre: horror In The Return of the Soul, Robert Smythe Hichens spins a gothic psychological tale in which a long-buried act of cruelty refuses to stay in the past. Ronald, now a grown man with wealth, education, and a carefully built sense of control, cannot forget a boyhood incident at his grandmother's house, when spite and boredom led h...

The Judas Valley by Robert Silverberg audiobook. Genre: scifi A scout ship returns from the far system of Fomalhaut with a story no one wants to believe: on a quiet, breathable world, eight men stepped out into a sunlit valley and simply died. Now the Interstellar Exploration Service has a second reason to go back. Instruments have detected a fortune in double-nucleus beryllium, the fuel that coul...

The Happy Unfortunate And The Hunted Heroes by Robert Silverberg audiobook. Genre: scifi In this two-story collection of early Robert Silverberg science fiction, humanity's future splits along harsh new lines. In The Happy Unfortunate, Rolf Dekker returns to Earth after years among the stars and discovers a planet that no longer feels like home. The space program has reshaped people as much as it...

Watchbird by Robert Sheckley audiobook. Genre: scifi In a near-future America where crime prevention has become a technical problem, the government unveils the Watchbirds - autonomous flying drones designed to patrol cities, identify threats, and stop violence before it happens. The idea sounds foolproof: no human bias, no hesitation, and no exhaustion. But when a Watchbird assigned to safeguard t...

Planet of the Gods by Robert Moore Williams audiobook. Genre: scifi Far, far in the future Earth has achieved real peace and is sending out interstellar expeditions, not to conquer, but to explore. The third such expedition, has made it to the Vega system and discovered to everyone's amazement, not only a solar system but two worlds circling the Vega sun that seem to have atmosphere and water. And...

Doomsday Eve by Robert Moore Williams audiobook. Genre: scifi In a world already burning from a catastrophic war, a new mystery spreads faster than any rumor: strangers known only as the New People appear without warning, perform impossible rescues, and vanish as if the battlefield cannot hold them. American intelligence officer Kurt Zen is ordered to do what armies cannot - find these apparitions...

Jewels of Gwahlur by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy Conan The Barbarian is after fabulous treasure in this exciting story. But he finds himself in more difficulties than he had counted on. Crafty and powerful human opponents seek to skin him alive, bestial mutations seek to rip his arms off, denizens of the deep want to devour him whole and scantily clad dusky beauties try to waylay hi...