Classic Audiobook Collection

The Mystery of the Locks by E. W. Howe audiobook. Genre: mystery Davy's Bend was a dying, lonely, uncared-for river town. So when a stranger showed up one day and bought the old unoccupied house called 'The Locks' one dreary day, the inhabitants of the town were naturally very curious about the stranger, and very curious about his reasons for buying the old house. The Locks had been known for year...

The Clockwork Man by E. V. Odle audiobook. Genre: scifi On a quiet afternoon in the English village of Great Wymering, a cricket match is interrupted by the sudden appearance of a stranger who moves in jerks, speaks in odd staccato bursts, and seems to hum with hidden machinery. The players laugh at him at first - until his uncanny speed and strength turn the farce into something harder to explain...

Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by E. Oe. Somerville audiobook. Genre: comedy Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. follows the misadventures of Major Sinclair Yeates, an English ex-army officer who arrives in rural west Ireland to take up a post as a Resident Magistrate - a job that sounds orderly on paper but quickly becomes anything but. Thrown into a world of lively market towns, sprawling estat...

Wet Magic by E. Nesbit audiobook. Genre: fantasy A book about children who find magic in every day life .. and discover that mermen and mermaids actually have a whole underwater kingdom with Kings and Queens and of course Princesses. Of course you probably know these delightful children from their earlier adventures with magic, Bernard, Mavis, Kathleen, and Francis. Just normal children who believ...

The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster audiobook. Genre: scifi The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical...

Howards End by E. M. Forster audiobook. Genre: drama In Edwardian England, a chance meeting at a concert draws together two very different families: the idealistic, intellectually restless Schlegel sisters and the wealthy, practical Wilcox clan. When Helen Schlegel strikes up a friendship with the Wilcoxes, misunderstandings quickly spiral into a tangle of letters, visits, and bruised pride. Her s...

Triplanetary - First in the Lensman series by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi Triplanetary was first serialized in Amazing Stories in 1934. After the Lensman series became popular, Smith took his Triplanetary story and turned it into the first of the Lensman series, using it as a prequel to give the back story for the protaganists in the Lensmen series. He added 6 new chapters, doubling it in...

The Vortex Blaster by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi In E. E. 'Doc' Smith's classic space opera, brilliant nuclear engineer Neal 'Storm' Cloud lives in the shadow of failure: he flunked the Lensman exam, missing his chance to join Civilization's most celebrated defenders. But when lethal, self-sustaining atomic vortices begin to appear - churning knots of star-like energy that grow as they co...

The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi The novel begins with the accidental discovery, in a Government laboratory in Washington D. C., of a form of clean nuclear power. Our hero, Dr. Richard Seaton, uses this power to build first a flying belt and then an interstellar spaceship. He later discovers that the process operates by generation and manipulation of gravity fields. When...

The Galaxy Primes by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi Earth's first instant-travel starship, the Pleiades, is a triumph of engineering and a terrifying gamble: it can wink out to anywhere in the universe, but no one can predict where it will reappear or how to retrace the jump. Aboard are four extraordinary humans - two men and two women - each a Psionic Prime with mind-powers beyond anything E...

Tedric by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi This is a wonderful combination of far future science fiction with Conan like sword and sorcery; lots of blood, gore, honor and evil. The immensely powerful hero, Tedric, is a man's man who refuses to accept the cruel human sacrifices demanded by the 'god' Sarpedion and is set on destroying him. To do this he needs some secrets of metallurgy that futur...

Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's (IPC) crack liner “IPV Arcturus” took off on a routine flight to Mars, it turned out to be the beginning of a unexpected and long voyage. There had been too many reports of errors in ship's flight positions from the Check Stations and brilliant physicist Dr. Percival (“Steve”) Stevens is aboard the Arc...

Masters of Space by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi In Masters of Space, a bold deep-space experiment becomes humanity's first brush with a vanished empire. Young project leader Jarvis Hilton commands Project Theta Orionis: an elite team of scientists, a hard-edged naval crew, and the warship Perseus, all tasked with pushing beyond known space and answering questions no one on Earth can even f...

Lord Tedric by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi When a mysterious force plucks Sir Tedric, a hard-bitten knight of medieval Britain, out of his own age, he awakens in a future where humanity is only one player in a crowded, dangerous cosmos. Taken in by advanced allies who see both his courage and his stubborn code of honor, Tedric is remade for a new kind of battlefield: one of starships, alie...

First Lensman by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi In a galaxy clawing its way out of chaos, Earth and its neighboring worlds struggle to police the new lanes of interstellar travel. Veteran officer Virgil Samms has seen too much to believe the rising wave of piracy is just opportunism. Ship after ship vanishes, outposts go silent, and every investigation points to a smarter, darker hand at work...

Anything Once by Douglas Grant audiobook. Genre: adventure When Lou Lacey, a tough, undersized teenage girl with a bundle of stolen provisions and nowhere she is willing to call home, slips through a wheat field to the road, she finds a young man unconscious in the dust with blood on his temple. He introduces himself as James (Jim) Botts, a New Yorker in battered travel clothes and on a strict dea...

Raiders of the Universes by Donald Wandrei audiobook. Genre: scifi It was the 34th century and all five of the Federation of Planets around Sol were buzzing with their usual activity when the Raiders appeared. They were indeed Raiders of Universes because they had ravaged many systems before reaching Earth and showed no signs of slowing down in the least. Their weapons were invincible, their greed...

The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald Keyhoe audiobook. Genre: science The Flying Saucers are Real is a book that investigates numerous encounters between USAF fighters, personnel, and other aircraft, and UFOs between 1947 and 1950. Keyhoe contended that the Air Force was actively investigating these cases of close encounter, with a policy of concealing their existence from the public until 1949....

A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay audiobook. Genre: scifi Masquerading as a Victorian scientific romance and then detonating into something far stranger, A Voyage to Arcturus follows the brooding, restless Maskull as he is drawn into an otherworldly expedition beyond Earth. Lured by a mysterious summons and guided by the enigmatic Krag, Maskull joins a journey to the distant planet Tormance, o...

Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore audiobook. Genre: poetry On a quiet Christmas Eve in a cozy home, a narrator settles in for the night when an unexpected sound outside pulls him to the window. What he sees transforms an ordinary winter evening into a moment of pure wonder: a miniature sleigh, a team of swift reindeer, and a jolly visitor arriving with practiced ease. As the narr...

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy Long before Santa becomes a legend, a baby is found in the Forest of Burzee and raised under the watchful care of the wood nymph Necile and the powerful immortal Ak. As the boy, Claus, grows, he learns the ways of nature, the quiet wisdom of the forest folk, and the hard truths of the mortal world just beyond the tre...

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery In Victorian London, a small, glittering object becomes the center of a baffling holiday mystery. After a street scuffle leaves behind a battered hat and a Christmas goose, the curious items make their way to consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal companion, Dr. John Watson. What begins as a modest...

Gift of the Magi by O. Henry audiobook. Genre: romance The Gift of the Magi is an O. Henry short story in which a young couple are very much in love with each other but can barely afford their one-room apartment. For Christmas, they each make a sacrifice to purchase a gift for the other, with ironic results. The moral of the story is that physical possessions, however valuable they may be, are of...

Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this...

The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting by D. B. Casteel audiobook. Genre: science In The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting, D. B. Casteel offers a clear, observation-driven study of how worker honey bees locate, gather, and manage pollen - the protein-rich resource that fuels brood rearing and colony growth. Moving from the hive outward into the field, Casteel follows the...