Classic Audiobook Collection

Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove audiobook. Genre: drama When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school over 30 miles from his home. He commuted by horse-and-wagon or horse-and-sleigh each weekend, and seven of those long and challenging journeys are recorded in “Over Prairie Trails,” publishe...

The Web of the Golden Spider by Frederick Orin Bartlett audiobook. Genre: mystery The Web of the Golden Spider is a tale of mystery, intrigue and adventure that begins in the city, progresses to a mutinous open sea voyage, eventually leading to the remotest areas on the slopes of the Andes of South America. Wilson, our hero, finds himself in the midst of a battle between a deposed queen and revolu...

The Mystery of the Ravenspurs by Fred M. White audiobook. Genre: mystery Ravenspur Castle, crouched above the North Sea, should be a monument to centuries of English pride. Instead it has become a fortress of dread. For five years the great Ravenspur family has been thinning in a chain of deaths so strange they look like accidents, yet too perfectly timed to be chance - poison, falls, drownings, d...

The Harbor of Doubt by Frank Williams audiobook. Genre: mystery When young fishing captain Code Schofield staggers home as the sole survivor of a wreck at sea, he expects grief and hard work, not whispers. Six months after the schooner May Schofield goes down in an Atlantic gale near the rocky islands off Grande Mignon, the tight-knit communities of Freekirk Head and the surrounding coast begin to...

Buccaneers and the Pirates of Our Coast by Frank Richard Stockton audiobook. Genre: history In Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts, Frank Richard Stockton turns a boyhood fascination with sea rovers into a brisk, story-driven history of piracy in the Caribbean and along the American shoreline. Stockton begins by tracing how the first buccaneers emerged from rough frontier life and escalating conf...

3 Science Fiction Stories by Frank Herbert audiobook. Genre: scifi In 3 Science Fiction Stories, Frank Herbert showcases the sharp, unsettling imagination that would later make him famous, through three compact tales from the late 1950s. In Missing Link, junior Interstellar Agency fieldman Lewis Orne lands on the jungle world of Gienah III to investigate a vanished human ship, only to find that th...

Concerning Genealogies by Frank Allaben audiobook. Genre: history In Concerning Genealogies (1904), Frank Allaben - a New York publisher and professional compiler of family histories - invites ordinary readers into the surprisingly gripping world of ancestry hunting, while warning them away from the easy mistakes that make so many pedigrees unreliable. Part practical handbook and part spirited ess...

The Tragic Bride by Francis Brett Young audiobook. Genre: tragedy In remote Connemara, Ireland, Gabrielle Hewish grows up as the solitary heir to Roscarna, a fading Anglo-Irish estate held together by stubborn tradition and the unreliable charm of her widowed father, Sir Jocelyn Hewish. With only servants and the harsh beauty of the countryside for company, Gabrielle learns early how silence can s...

Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett audiobook. Genre: family In Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett introduces Cedric Errol, a warm-hearted American boy raised in modest comfort by his devoted mother in New York City. Cedric's life changes overnight when word arrives from England: his stern, wealthy grandfather - the Earl of Dorincourt - has no other heirs, and Cedric is...

The Lone Ranger Rides by Fran Striker audiobook. Genre: adventure In a remote Texas basin ruled by the ruthless Cavendish clan, the law is something powerful men bend to their will. When a small band of Texas Rangers rides into the territory to investigate trouble in Bryant's Gap, they are met with sudden violence and betrayal, leaving one badly wounded survivor with little more than grit and a ba...

Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: history In Twilight in Italy, D. H. Lawrence turns travel into a fiercely attentive way of seeing. Moving through northern Italian lakes and hill towns, he writes as an outsider who is both enchanted and unsettled, recording the physical textures of place - stone streets, cold mountain air, sudden gardens - and the human drama that gathers in k...

The White Peacock by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the English countryside at the turn of the 20th century, The White Peacock follows two young friends, Cyril Beardsall and George Saxton, as they drift from boyhood ease into the complicated moral weather of adulthood. Cyril, sensitive and observant, records the rhythms of farms, lanes, and village gatherings with a poet's eye, but...

The Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: tragedy Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde - on the Isle of Wight, under a vast sky florid with stars. The consequence is tragic indeed for one of the parties, Siegmund, when he sacrifices family life for a few days’ transcendent rapture. His lover, the self-contained Helena, is strong enough to bear a return to the scruffy suburbs. Redempti...

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the English Midlands from the late 1800s into the early 20th century, The Rainbow follows the Brangwen family across generations as they struggle to reconcile the solidity of rural life with a restless hunger for something beyond it. At Marsh Farm, Tom Brangwen is drawn into a marriage that reshapes his sense of belonging and awakens a f...

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama D. H. Lawrence's The Prussian Officer and Other Stories gathers a sharp, unsettling set of early tales in which ordinary lives are pressed to the edge by authority, desire, shame, and the body itself. In the title story, an aging Prussian captain, rigid with discipline and pride, drives his young orderly through relen...

The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama 'There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to.' In this most under-valued of his novels, Lawrence once again presents us with a young woman hemmed in by her middle-class upbringing and (like Ursula Brangwen in The Rainbow) longing for escape. Alvina Houghton's plight, however, is given...

Sea and Sardinia by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: biography In Sea and Sardinia, D. H. Lawrence turns a simple winter trip into a sharp, restless travel memoir full of landscape, conversation, and cultural friction. Leaving the chill and routines of mainland Italy, Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, set off by train and ship toward Sardinia, an island that feels both near and startlingly separate....

England, My England by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama In England, My England, D. H. Lawrence turns a fierce, intimate gaze on an English countryside that is being hollowed out by modern life and the pressures of war. At the center is Egbert, a charming, high-born dreamer who drifts through his days as if real responsibilities belong to someone else. His wife, Winifred, practical and increa...

Tor, A Street Boy of Jerusalem by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Genre: history In Roman-occupied Jerusalem, Tor survives the way a hungry street boy must: by quick hands, quicker feet, and a hard heart that expects nothing from anyone. He drifts through dusty lanes and crowded marketplaces where beggars fight for scraps and soldiers enforce order with sudden brutality, learning early that kin...

The Heart of Philura by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Genre: religion Once again Mrs Kingsley does not shy away from the highs and lows of life in the quickly changing world of the 1900s…the ageing women working to support themselves or their families, in jobs that will soon disappear...the washerwoman, butter-woman and the little dressmaker….the contrast between the socialite of Boston and t...

Neighbors by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Genre: family In the small but fast-changing township of Innisfield, everyone knows everyone - or thinks they do. As the town grows, new faces begin to appear: outsiders and immigrants the locals call 'fur'ners,' bringing unfamiliar customs, accents, and opinions that test old friendships and easy assumptions. At the heart of the story is Mrs. Philur...

Miss Philura’s Wedding Gown by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Genre: romance In the small township of Innisfield, the once-overlooked Miss Philura stands on the brink of the life she hardly dared to want: a future shaped not by resignation, but by hope. Newly engaged to the town's minister, Silas Pettibone, Philura tries to hold fast to the bright, unsettling idea that changed everything for h...

And So They Were Married by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Genre: romance In a snow-bright New England town, Elizabeth 'Bessie' North is twenty, newly in love, and certain happiness will be simple once she says yes to Samuel Brewster, a serious young civil engineer building his career. But engagement dreams quickly collide with practical questions: how much can a young couple afford, what does...

The Turnpike House by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery On a mist-choked November evening at a lonely crossroads, the decaying Turnpike House shelters a frightened woman and her young son, Gilbert, both dreading the return of the boy's brutal father - a recently released convict named Jenner. When violence erupts and Jenner is found dead, the scandal hardens into legend, and the ruined house b...

The Spider by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery Arthur Vernon, member of the Athenian club and member of “society,” has a secret. His father has died and left him destitute, so he has begun a private investigation agency under the name “Nemo.” It would be disastrous if this were known among his associates at the club, and especially if his intended in-laws found out. But he is quite sure no on...