Classic Audiobook Collection

The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama In early 20th-century New England, young social worker Justine Brent arrives in the hill town of Hanaford determined to make herself useful, only to find that good intentions can collide with privilege, tradition, and the messy realities of care. Drawn into the orbit of the wealthy Amherst family, Justine becomes companion and confidan...

Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: horror Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and the last two in the Century Magazine. Despite the title, the men outnumber the ghosts, since only 'The Eyes' and 'Afterward' actually call on the supernatural. In only two of the stories are wom...

Summer by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama In a secluded New England village called North Dormer, Charity Royall has grown up feeling both restless and trapped, raised by the stern, older lawyer who rescued her from the impoverished Mountain community nearby. When Lucius Harney, a young architect from the city, arrives to study local houses, his curiosity about the town and his easy confidenc...

Sanctuary by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama In Edith Wharton's psychological novel Sanctuary, young Kate Orme believes she has found perfect happiness in her engagement to Denis Peyton, a charming man of wealth and position. But just as wedding plans settle into place, Kate discovers that Denis has been hiding a devastating truth about his past, and the revelation forces her to weigh love a...

Old New York by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama In Old New York, Edith Wharton turns her sharp, compassionate eye on the drawing rooms, parlor staircases, and carefully guarded reputations of nineteenth-century Manhattan. This quartet of novellas follows four separate circles of family and friends as they navigate the rigid codes of 'Old New York' society, where taste is policed, marriages a...

Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama In a quiet, down-at-the-heels corner of turn-of-the-century New York, sisters Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner scrape together a living by running a tiny notions shop. Their days are measured in pennies, thread spools, and careful routines, and their world feels small but safe - until a seemingly simple decision pulls them into the broader city a...

Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster audiobook. Genre: drama In this sharply observed early novel by E. M. Forster, a well-meaning English family tries to manage a scandal that has carried one of their own far beyond the safe boundaries of Edwardian respectability. After the spirited young widow Lilia Herriton marries an Italian much younger than herself, the Herritons are determined to con...

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster audiobook. Genre: drama E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) is widely acclaimed as one of the hundred best literary works of 20th century. Time magazine rates it among the top 100 English-language novels of all time. A Passage to India is set at the moment when the lasting supremacy of the British Raj could no longer be taken for granted. Imperial power ha...

Villette by Charlotte Bronte audiobook. Genre: drama In Villette, Charlotte Bronte follows Lucy Snowe, a quiet, keenly observant young Englishwoman who, after personal loss and dwindling prospects, leaves home to build a life on her own in the foreign city of Villette. She finds work at a girls' school run by the formidable Madame Beck, where every corridor seems to conceal a secret and every kind...

Tarzan and the Ant Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure In Tarzan and the Ant Men, Edgar Rice Burroughs hurls Tarzan into one of the strangest corners of his African world, where rival hidden civilizations wage war with weapons and sciences unknown to the outside. When an expedition goes awry, Tarzan is drawn into a clash between the Minuni and the Minutoli - peoples separated n...

Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Tarzan book 9. Tarzan's amazing ability to establish kinship with some of the most dangerous animals in the jungle serves him well in this exciting story of his adventures with the Golden Lion, Jad-bal-ja, when the great and lordly animal becomes his ally and protector. Tarzan learns from the High Priestess, La, of a co...

Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Tarzan book 8. In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German troops, but was in fact alive. In this novel two months have gone by and Tarzan is continuing to search for Jane. He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which...

Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Tarzan the Untamed plunges Edgar Rice Burroughs' legendary jungle lord into a world at war, where the law of the wild collides with the brutality of modern conflict. When violence from far beyond Africa's borders shatters Tarzan's fragile peace, he is driven to track the perpetrators across steaming forests, river country, and...

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure In the depths of equatorial Africa, Tarzan of the Apes is drawn back to the jungle not only by duty, but by a perilous promise of lost wealth and darker mysteries. When a desperate expedition sets its sights on Opar, a hidden and ancient city rumored to hold unthinkable treasure, Tarzan is forced to navigate a landsc...

Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Edgar Rice Burroughs returns to the jungle legend with Son of Tarzan, a fast-paced adventure that follows the unexpected heir to the world's most famous ape-man. Raised in comfort and safety in England, young Jack Clayton knows little of his parents' extraordinary past-until a violent encounter and a trail of secrets draw him toward...

The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Beasts of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs plunges listeners back into the wild as John Clayton - Lord Greystoke, known to the world as Tarzan - is forced into a desperate fight to protect his family and his name. After trying to live a civilized life, Tarzan finds himself targeted by ruthless enemies who use deceit and ki...

The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Lord John Clayton, better known as Tarzan of the Apes, has tried to live as an English gentleman, but the call of the jungle refuses to fade. When danger threatens those he loves and old enemies resurface, Tarzan is drawn back toward the wild country that made him. His journey takes him from drawing rooms and city streets to...

A House to Let by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: mystery A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, or, in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, poetry) and the story was edited by Dickens, who also wrote the first and last chapters with Wilkie Collins....

The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery At a glittering New York ball, plain, practical Rita Van Arsdale is stunned when Anson Durand, the man she has quietly admired, proposes marriage. Moments later the night turns sinister: the celebrated beauty Mrs. Fairbrother is discovered murdered in a curtained recess known as the alcove, and the spectacular diamond that d...

The Thief by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In Anna Katharine Green's classic short mystery The Thief, an elegant dinner party is interrupted by a small disaster with big consequences: a valuable coin, passed from hand to hand for everyone to admire, suddenly vanishes. With polite society teetering on the edge of scandal, the host tries to restore order by proposing a simple, seemi...

The Sword of Damocles by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In gilded Gilded Age New York, Bertram Mandeville has talent, charm, and a rising reputation as a concert pianist - yet love makes him restless. Convinced that art alone cannot win the woman he adores, Bertram turns from the keyboard to the ruthless promises of Wall Street, placing his future in the hands of his powerful relat...

The Staircase at the Heart’s Delight by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In turn-of-the-century New York, veteran police detective Ebenezer Gryce is unsettled by a pattern of deaths that look like simple accidents: prominent, well-to-do men pulled from the water, drowned under circumstances that never quite add up. With no obvious suspect and only the city's whispers to guide him, Gr...

The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery It is the noon hour at a museum in New York City. The date: May 23, 1913. The weekday, attendance is light; the attendees are scattered between two floors. Suddenly a cry rings out from the second floor. Scrambling to Section II, the museum director discovers a teenage girl dead with an arrow through her heart. An old...

The Millionaire Baby by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery When six-year-old Gwendolen Ocumpaugh vanishes from her wealthy family's estate, New York is jolted by a chilling headline and an even more startling offer: a five-thousand-dollar reward for information leading to the child's recovery, alive or dead. The announcement is irresistible to Mr. Trevitt, a private detective whose rec...

The Mill Mystery by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In a quiet New England village, an abandoned mill becomes the scene of a scandal that the town cannot stop talking about. The Reverend Mr. Barrows, admired for his gentleness and moral certainty, is discovered dead in the mill's shadowy interior, and the simplest explanations spread fast: a tragic accident, or a despairing suicide....