Classic Audiobook Collection

The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair audiobook. Genre: adventure Bertrand W. Sinclair was known for his novels which centered in and around the rugged and frozen terrain of Montana and later, British Columbia. The Land of Frozen Suns is primarily an action and adventure novel which takes place near the northern most reaches of British Columbia at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Bo...

The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair audiobook. Genre: drama Robert Hollister comes home from World War I carrying the kind of wound no medal can redeem: a face so scarred that strangers flinch, old friends do not recognize him, and ordinary life turns into a daily humiliation. Officially, he is dead. In practice, he is alive long enough to learn that his wife, Myra, has remarried, his proper...

The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford audiobook. Genre: mystery A stranger appears in the middle of the night at Heath Hover while John Seward Mervyn is tending the modest location in a wooded area near a pond. Legends abound regarding Heath Hover; legends such as one's inability to spend a full night at the Heath on certain nights of the year, and that the place was quite simply.... haunted....

Gargoyles by Ben Hecht audiobook. Genre: drama The author, Ben Hecht, was a prolific writer as well as a renowned screenwriter, producer, and director of films. His screenwriting skills include some of the most popular films of Hollywood's golden era, including 'Gone With the Wind', 'Wuthering Heights', 'Spellbound', and 'Scarface', to name but a few. Hecht had already established himself as a nov...

Officer 666 by Barton Wood Currie audiobook. Genre: comedy In this brisk early-1900s farce by Barton Wood Currie (with Augustin McHugh), New York society becomes a stage for the boldest kind of amateur heroics. Travers Gladwin, restless heir to a fortune and tired of being treated like a decorative idler, discovers that a celebrated art burglar has set his sights on the Gladwin home and its prized...

Lonesome Land by B. M. Bower audiobook. Genre: adventure Val had come to Montana to marry a cowboy named Manley, envisioning a life of wedded bliss, freedom, and was anticipating happiness in her adopted part of the country. She would soon learn that the winters could be cruel and lonesome for a woman living on a ranch which was situated miles from the nearest neighbor. She would learn that her hu...

The House of the White Shadows by B. L. Farjeon audiobook. Genre: mystery Is a defense attorney bound to defend his client, or with his conscience, when he knows that the man he is defending is guilty of the charges against him after the trial has already commenced? And if friends hold a belief that he may have been aware of it before the trial commenced, yet they are endeared to the man and his f...

The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen audiobook. Genre: horror The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The Hill of Dreams of the title is an old Roman fort where Lucian has strange sensual visions, including ones of the town in the time of Roman Britain. Later it describes Lucian's attempts to make a liv...

The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. Reeve audiobook. Genre: mystery The many adventures of Professor Craig Kennedy were chronicled by Arthur B. Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936). Reeve was an American mystery writer who created 82 Craig Kennedy mystery stories. The stories have a very Sherlock Holmes type feel, In fact Kennedy has been referred to as the 'American Sherlock Holmes'. Along with hi...

The Master Mystery by Arthur B. Reeve audiobook. Genre: mystery While Harry Houdini didn't rise to fame as a screen actor, silent film makers of the day sought to capitalize on his fame. The Master Mystery was Houdini's first such attempt, and it was embraced by the viewing public, leading to other screen roles following. The hero (or superhero) is Quentin Locke, scientist, agent of the U.S. Justi...

The Card by Arnold Bennett audiobook. Genre: comedy The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginnings as the son of a washerwoman and sempstress in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in the pottery towns (which Arnold Bennett christened ‘The Five Towns’) of the English Midlands; how, by his own wit...

Peace by Aristophanes audiobook. Genre: comedy The 'Peace' was brought out four years after 'The Acharnians' (422 B.C.), when the War had already lasted ten years. The leading motive is the same as in the former play—the intense desire of the less excitable and more moderate-minded citizens for relief from the miseries of war. Trygaeus, a rustic patriot, finding no help in men, resolves to ascend...

Lysistrata by Aristophanes audiobook. Genre: comedy In war-weary Athens, the sharp-witted Lysistrata is done waiting for the men to come to their senses. With the Peloponnesian War grinding on and families strained by endless campaigning, she proposes an audacious plan: unite the women of Greece - even longtime rivals from Sparta - and use the one leverage the men cannot ignore to force peace talk...

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: comedy This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barchester Towers' is very much a sequel to the first book ‘The Warden’, which is also available from Librivox. The old bishop dies, the archdeacon, Dr. Grantly fails to succeed him and a new bishop, Dr....

The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope audiobook. Genre: adventure When English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll arrives in the small European kingdom of Ruritania for a holiday, he makes a startling discovery: he is the near-perfect double of the soon-to-be-crowned King Rudolf V. What begins as an odd coincidence turns into a dangerous summons when the king is kidnapped on the eve of his coronation by...

The Citizen’s Almanac by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: history This is a recording of a booklet given to new naturalized American citizens, it contains an explanation of fundamental documents, symbols and anthems of the United States. 'Today you are a citizen of the United States of America— becoming “a peer of kings” as President Calvin Coolidge once said. This occasion is a defining moment that sh...

Three Thousand Dollars by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In bustling New York, a tidy office routine shatters when three thousand dollars vanishes from the secure keeping of Mr. Stoughton, a man whose business depends on discretion and control. The disappearance is more than a missing sum - it is a message that someone understands the office's habits, its quiet vulnerabilities, and...

Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang audiobook. Genre: folklore Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's 'Coloured' Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them originally), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-l...

Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton audiobook. Genre: scifi When interstellar trader Dane Thorson signs on with the Free Trader ship Solar Queen, he expects tight margins, rough ports, and the usual risks of space commerce - not a desperate mission to a forbidden world. The crew has a contract to retrieve a valuable cargo from Khatka, a planet quarantined by authorities and surrounded by rumors of madne...

Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton audiobook. Genre: scifi The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and forth across the base with methodical accuracy. And a single cowering witness, flattened on a l...

The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France audiobook. Genre: philosophy Anatole France, in his satirical and allegorical fashion, weaves a tale of fantasy which finds a mischievous guardian angel stealing books from his earthly charge, who happens to be an archbishop in possession of a plethora of literature, mostly theological in nature. After voracious reading and then becoming a 'fallen' angel,...

The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories by Amy Walton audiobook. Genre: family These are three stories that will delight your heart and soul. The little girl Ruth in the first story is very privileged young lady with everything she could wish for except,of course, for companionship. Her mother has passed away and her father is a very busy lawyer who barely notices she is there. But then Ruth finds a scr...

The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter by Ambrose Bierce audiobook. Genre: tragedy In a rugged corner of the Alps in the spring of 1680, Brother Ambrosius, a young Franciscan monk, is sent with two companions from Passau to the remote monastery of Berchtesgaden - a place of cold forests, steep valleys, and a community ruled as much by fear and superstition as by the Church. On the road he encounters...

Can Such Things Be by Ambrose Bierce audiobook. Genre: horror Can Such Things Be gathers Ambrose Bierce's most unsettling tales into a single volume where reason keeps colliding with the impossible. Across a series of tightly wound stories, Bierce follows hunters and townsfolk, soldiers and scientists, skeptics and storytellers who each confront a phenomenon that refuses ordinary explanation: a pr...

A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter by Alice Turner Curtis audiobook. Genre: history Ten-year-old Sylvia Fulton has left Boston behind and is living with her parents in Charleston, South Carolina, in the tense months just before the Civil War begins. Curious, warm-hearted, and fiercely loyal, Sylvia tries to make a home in a city where her Northern roots mark her as an outsider. At school she finds kindn...