Classic Audiobook Collection

A Knyght Ther Was by Robert F. Young audiobook. Genre: scifi 'But the Knyght was a little less than perfect, and his horse did not have a metabolism, and his 'castle' was much more mobile - timewise! - than it had any business being!' In 2178, once time travel had become a simple task, it had also been outlawed. Those who chose to ingnore this law were known as time-thieves, and Tom Mallory was am...

The People of the Black Circle by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy The People of the Black Circle' is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in three parts over the September, October and November 1934 issues. Howard earned $250 for the publication of this story. It is set in the pseu...

The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy In a kingdom built on steel, sorcery, and hard-won law, Conan of Cimmeria sits uneasily upon the jeweled throne of Aquilonia. When a cabal of nobles and dark priests strikes from the shadows, Conan is torn from his crown and branded an outlaw in the very land he forged into order. Imprisoned, hunted, and stripped of allies, he fa...

The Devil in Iron by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy Conan's lustful desires again get him into a whole pile of trouble. This time the beautiful, golden haired, noble born Octavia, lures him into a fiendish trap set by his most powerful enemies and from which there seems to be no escape. But on the long deserted island of Xapur where he goes to capture this crafty beauty, it is not just...

Shadows in Zamboula by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy In the decadent desert city of Zamboula, travelers vanish after nightfall, whispered to be taken by cannibals and worse. Conan, a hard-bitten wanderer with a thief's instincts and a mercenary's muscle, rides in looking for food, coin, and answers - and quickly finds that survival depends on reading the city's shifting alliances as m...

Red Nails by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy Conan the Cimmerian rides into the wild, steaming jungles of the far south and crosses paths with Valeria, a hard-edged mercenary with a past as bloody as his own. Pursued by enemies and driven by the promise of shelter, the pair force their way into Xuchotl, a sealed and ancient city that should have been dead for centuries. Instead, it is v...

Gods of the North by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy 'The Frost-Giant's Daughter' is, arguably the earliest chronological story by Robert E. Howard in terms of Conan's life. The brief tale is set somewhere in frozen Nordheim, geographically situated north of Conan's homeland, Cimmeria. Conan is depicted by Howard as a youthful Cimmerian mercenary traveling among the golden-haired Aesir...

Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy Driven by outlaw blood and a restless need for the horizon, Conan the Cimmerian flees civilization and finds himself on the lawless waters of the Western Sea. There he encounters Belit, the fierce and magnetic pirate queen of the Black Coast, whose raid-scarred crew rules the waves with ruthless daring. Drawn toge...

Conan and Shadows in the Moonlight by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy For a genuine Conan tale, full of barbarian craftiness, magic, fierce fighting and his berserker strength, this meets every criteria and is one of the best. Conan was raiding with the Free Companions when they were trapped and slaughtered by the merciless Shah Amurath the great Lord of Akif. Conan is one of the very f...

Beyond the Black River by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy Conan the Barbarian is employed by one of the civilized countries to help in it's push to claim lands from the primitive Picts. The Picts are not excited about the idea however. Old gods and mythical creatures are called up by the Pict witches to contest the invading army and Conan finds himself battling for his life amid the blo...

You Know Me Al by Ring Lardner audiobook. Genre: comedy Big, fat, dumb, lazy, vain, headstrong and cheap, Jack Keefe is a journeyman pitcher with the Chicago White Sox in the rowdy days of the Deadball Era, circa 1915, ruled by the likes of Ty Cobb and John McGraw. In You Know Me Al, we follow Jack Keefe's life on-field and off, via the letters Jack writes to his old chum Al in his home town of Be...

Afloat on the Ohio by Reuben Gold Thwaites audiobook. Genre: history In Afloat on the Ohio, historian Reuben Gold Thwaites turns a six-week family outing into a moving, mile-by-mile portrait of Americas great border river. Setting off from Redstone in western Pennsylvania in a small skiff christened the Pilgrim, Thwaites travels with his wife, their ten-year-old son, and a physician friend, choosi...

The Girl on the Boat by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy On a transatlantic crossing aboard the White Star liner Atlantic, spirited redhead Wilhelmina 'Billie' Bennett finds that a ship is the perfect place for romance to collide with pride, poetry, and plain bad timing. Billie has high standards, a soft spot for dogs, and an awkward secret: she is quietly engaged to Eustace Hignett, a shy...

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde audiobook. Genre: comedy In the glittering drawing rooms of late-Victorian London, Sir Robert Chiltern seems to have everything: a brilliant political career, a spotless public reputation, and the devoted love of his wife, Lady Chiltern, who believes in honor without compromise. But their carefully composed world begins to tremble when Mrs. Cheveley, a clever and da...

He Can Who Thinks He Can by Orison Swett Marden audiobook. Genre: self help In He Can Who Thinks He Can, motivational pioneer Orison Swett Marden makes a brisk, conviction-filled case that the turning point in any life is often a decision of belief. Drawing on vivid anecdotes, practical observations, and the optimistic spirit of early twentieth-century self-improvement, Marden argues that confiden...

The Four Million by O. Henry audiobook. Genre: comedy Step into turn-of-the-century New York City through the sharp, affectionate eyes of O. Henry in The Four Million, a landmark collection of short stories that finds drama and wonder in ordinary lives. Across bustling streets, cramped flats, quiet boardinghouses, and glittering storefronts, clerks, shopgirls, artists, policemen, swindlers, dreame...

The Hollow Needle - Further Adventures of Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc audiobook. Genre: mystery A daring burglary at the chateau of Ambrumesy leaves more behind than missing jewels: it sparks a riddle that seems to reach back through centuries of French history. As the brilliant and elusive gentleman-thief Arsene Lupin circles the case with charm, audacity, and a knack for vanishing at the wor...

The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart audiobook. Genre: mystery Mary Roberts Rinehart -- 'America's Agatha Christie,' as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful doctor, who in the course of events becomes engaged to Elizabeth Wheeler. But there is a mystery about his past, and h...

The People's Idea of God by Mary Baker Eddy audiobook. Genre: religion In The People's Idea of God: Its Effect on Health and Christianity, Mary Baker Eddy presents a compact, provocative sermon that asks a practical question: what happens to human life when our concept of God is shaped by fear, materialism, and limitation? Speaking to an audience wrestling with traditional theology and modern medi...

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill audiobook. Genre: philosophy First published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty is a foundational work of political philosophy that asks a deceptively simple question: when, if ever, is it right for society or the state to limit an individual's freedom? Mill argues that liberty is not only a personal good but a public necessity, essential to progress, truth-seeki...

Love and Freindship by Jane Austen audiobook. Genre: comedy Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear even from the subtitle, 'Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love,' which neatly undercuts...

Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John H. Haaren audiobook. Genre: history Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John H. Haaren (with A. B. Poland) introduces the medieval world through brisk, story-driven biographies meant to make history feel personal and vivid. Beginning with the legends and beliefs that shaped early European peoples, the book quickly moves into the stormy centuries after Rome's powe...

The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper audiobook. Genre: history Set in the tense borderlands of the American Revolution, The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground follows the dangerous uncertainty of Westchester County, New York, where farms and villages sit between British-occupied New York City and the American lines. When the well-born Henry Wharton is captured under suspicious circumstances, his fate b...

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper audiobook. Genre: adventure Set against the brutal frontier wars of 1757, The Last of the Mohicans follows a small band of unlikely allies as they fight to survive in the wilderness between British forts and contested Native homelands. When the daughters of a British colonel - the steadfast Cora and the gentler Alice Munro - are sent under escort t...

The Sea Wolf by Jack London audiobook. Genre: adventure When literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden survives a ferry collision in San Francisco Bay, he expects rescue - not conscription. Hauled aboard the sealing schooner Ghost, he finds himself under the absolute rule of Captain Wolf Larsen, a brilliant, domineering commander whose philosophy is as merciless as the sea he sails. Thrust into a world...