Classic Audiobook Collection

Humility by Andrew Murray audiobook. Genre: religion In Humility, South African pastor and devotional writer Andrew Murray offers a clear, searching guide to the virtue he calls the root of all Christian life: genuine humility before God. Drawing on Scripture and the example of Jesus Christ, Murray argues that humility is not self-contempt or passivity, but a joyful surrender of self-rule that mak...

A Little Maid of Province Town by Alice Turner Curtis audiobook. Genre: adventure On the windy tip of Cape Cod, in the small fishing settlement of Province Town, eight-year-old Anne Nelson is suddenly alone: her mother is gone, and her seafaring father has vanished, leaving only rumors in his wake. When Captain Enos Stoddard and his kind-hearted wife, Martha, take Anne into their home, she hopes s...

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook. Genre: adventure David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser as Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge), is shocked to suddenly have his young relative descend on him and tries to rid himself...

Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson audiobook. Genre: romance 'Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest' is a narration of his life story by Abel, a Venezuelan, to a comrade. Once a wealthy young man, he meddled in politics to the extent of provoking a revolution... which failed. Escaping into the tropical forests of Guyana Abel takes up gold hunting, then journal-writing, and fails at...

The Three Midshipmen by William Henry Giles Kingston audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Three Midshipmen, W.H.G. Kingston drops listeners onto the gun decks and quarterdecks of the Royal Navy, where three teenage midshipmen begin their lives at sea with more courage than experience. Bound together by friendship and rivalry, they must learn the hard rules of discipline, seamanship, and leadership w...

The Mutiny of the Bounty and other narratives by William Bligh audiobook. Genre: history Written by Captain William Bligh, The Mutiny of the Bounty and other narratives presents a first-hand, seafaring account of one of the most famous uprisings in naval history and the perilous journeys that followed. Bligh sets the stage aboard His Majesty's Ship Bounty, sent across the Pacific on a high-stakes...

The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins audiobook. Genre: mystery In The Two Destinies, Wilkie Collins blends domestic drama with eerie mystery to follow a love story tested by distance, illness, and the unsettling sense that unseen forces may be at work. The novel centers on George Germaine, a devoted young man whose life becomes bound to the fate of Mary Dermody, the woman he loves. Their hope of a...

The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins audiobook. Genre: mystery In a lonely corner of South Wales, three aging brothers have settled into a quiet, rule-bound life at the bleak old Glen Tower - until a visit from their young ward, Jessie Yelverton, turns their household upside down. Spirited, curious, and impossible to ignore, Jessie soon earns (and embraces) her nickname: the Queen of Hearts. But...

A Rogue’s Life by Wilkie Collins audiobook. Genre: adventure 'The story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens for a near neighbor and a daily companion, and when my leisure hours were joyously passed with many other friends, all associated with literature and art, of whom the admirable comedian, Regnier, is now the...

Society as I Have Found It by Ward McAllister audiobook. Genre: biography Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McAllister’s book (Society as I have Found It) appeared, and when he (Twain) sauntered into my studio one day, I said: ‘Mr. Clemens, have you read Ward McAllister’s book?’ ‘Yes; have you?’ he r...

Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo audiobook. Genre: adventure Set on the rugged Channel Islands in the early 1800s, Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea follows Gilliatt, a solitary, fiercely capable fisherman and handyman whose quiet life is marked by rumor, suspicion, and an unspoken longing to belong. When a revolutionary steamship is wrecked on the treacherous reefs off Guernsey, the disaster beco...

Tom Swift and His War Tank by Victor Appleton audiobook. Genre: scifi Tom Swift, that prolific youthful inventor, is engaged in trying to help the Allies win WWI. After reading newspaper accounts of the British tanks, Tom takes a sheet of paper and sets out to design a better one from scratch. And fortunately, he can throw the whole family business behind his venture. He has two problems: First, h...

Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Victor Appleton audiobook. Genre: scifi The US Government is very smartly letting Tom Swift Jr. handle the recovery of its probe to Jupiter. But a mystery missile suddenly intercepts the probe and splashes it in the South Atlantic. Faced with a huge search task to find the probe on the ocean bottom, Tom soon realizes that the same shadowy group that attack...

The Ordeal of Mark Twain by Van Wyck Brooks audiobook. Genre: biography In The Ordeal of Mark Twain, literary critic Van Wyck Brooks reexamines the life and work of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, tracing how a riverboat pilot from the Mississippi became the most recognizable American voice of his age - and how that fame carried a private cost. Brooks follows Twain from the shaping forces of boyhood and...

The Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson Page audiobook. Genre: history Set in the stunned quiet after Appomattox, The Burial of the Guns follows an aging Confederate artillery commander, known simply as the old Colonel, and the remnants of his veteran battery as they hold a Virginia mountain pass they have defended for years. The war has finally turned, but the battery is still in position, hungry...

Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock audiobook. Genre: comedy Deep in the fens of the British coast sits the gloomy mansion that goes by the name Nightmare Abbey. It is inhabited by persons of very low opinion of the human race, and in fact they pride themselves in the depths of their detestation. Others of its denizens believe the ultimate exercise and product of the human mind ought to be chao...

The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt audiobook. Genre: speeches In The Strenuous Life, Theodore Roosevelt sets out a bracing vision of character, citizenship, and national purpose through a collection of speeches and essays from the late 1890s. Speaking as a public figure on the rise, Roosevelt argues that a healthy republic depends on citizens who embrace effort over ease, responsibility over...

What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge audiobook. Genre: family In What Katy Did at School, spirited Katy Carr is back - older, wiser, and still determined to meet life head-on. After the hard lessons that changed her outlook at home, Katy heads away to a girls' boarding school, where new friendships, unfamiliar rules, and the everyday trials of growing up test her patience and her pride. Surro...

What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge audiobook. Genre: family In a quiet New England town, high-spirited Katy Carr is certain she was born for something bigger than everyday life. The eldest of six siblings in a lively household, she throws herself into plans to improve herself and her family, even as her impatience and quick temper get her into trouble. Katy's world changes abruptly after a serious ac...

War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler audiobook. Genre: history War Is a Racket is Smedley D. Butler's blunt, fast-moving indictment of modern warfare as a business enterprise disguised as patriotism. Drawing on his career as a decorated U.S. Marine Corps major general, Butler speaks as an insider who has seen interventions and campaigns up close, and he argues that the true winners of war are rarely...

Through the Magic Door by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: biography In Through the Magic Door, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invites you to step past an ordinary doorway and into the private kingdom that shaped his mind: his library. Framed as a warm, witty tour of his own bookshelves, this reflective memoir follows Doyle as he traces the reading life that carried him from curious boyhood throug...

The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: scifi Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World , Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers (Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and reporter E.D. Malone) to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him. What he soon informs them is that from astronomical data and just-re...

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle launches readers into a high-stakes expedition where science, pride, and raw survival collide. When the loud, brilliant, and stubborn Professor George Edward Challenger claims he has discovered a remote South American plateau where prehistoric creatures still live, London laughs him out o...

The Royal Book of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy In The Royal Book of Oz, the Emerald City is bustling with celebrations, but the peace of Oz is shaken by rumors of a mysterious figure who claims a startling right to the throne. Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, Princess Ozma, and their friends are drawn into a tangle of royal questions, secret histo...

The Nature and Authority of Conscience by Rufus Jones audiobook. Genre: religion In this 1920 Swarthmore Lecture, Quaker thinker and philosopher Rufus M. Jones tackles a question at the crossroads of ethics and faith: what is conscience, and why should it command our allegiance when custom, church, and state all claim authority? Beginning with familiar moral tensions, Jones widens the lens to cons...