Classic Audiobook Collection

The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: scifi Britain won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his 'giant leap for mankind' two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating. Mr. Bedford, who narrates the tale, tells of how he fell in with eccentric inventor Mr. Cavor, grew to believe in his researches, hel...

Little Wars by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: family A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books. With an Appendix on Kriegspiel Miniature wargaming got its start with the publication in 1913 of this thoroughly entertaining little account of how H.G. Wells, with certain of his friends, took their childh...

Floor Games by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: family H.G. Wells had so much fun playing with his children on the floor of their playroom, he decided to write a jovial little book to inspire other parents in their pursuit of quality time with the kids. While the raw materials available from hobby stores of his day were woefully short of the variety and quality of what can be bought easily now, he an...

The Perfect Wagnerite by George Bernard Shaw audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring (originally published London, 1898) is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, by the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw. Shaw offered it to those enthusiastic admirers of Wagner who 'were unable to follow his ideas, and do not in the lea...

Wulf the Saxon by George Alfred Henty audiobook. Genre: adventure Wulf the Saxon is a classic George Henty tale of nobility, loyalty and courage set in 11th century Britain. It relates the adventures of Wulf, a young, but extremely capable Saxon Thane. Wulf with his friends and servitors devote their lives to the service of Harold Godwinson, both before and after he becomes king of England. They a...

The Big Time by Fritz Leiber audiobook. Genre: scifi In The Big Time, Fritz Leiber drops you into a war that cannot be mapped on any battlefield: the Change War, fought across centuries by two shadowy factions known as the Snakes and the Spiders. Far outside ordinary time sits a cramped, worn, strangely cozy way station called the Place - part barracks, part backstage, part refuge - where wounded...

Socialism - Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Socialism - Utopian and Scientific, Friedrich Engels offers a brisk, combative guide to how modern socialism emerged, what it claims to explain, and why it insists it is more than a moral wish list. Writing for readers who may know the slogans but not the underlying arguments, Engels contrasts early, 'utopian' r...

The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey audiobook. Genre: adventure Buck Duane, son of a famous gunfighter, falls prey to the old problem - called out by a cowboy who wants to make trouble, Duane kills him and then must ride off to the lawless country near the Neuces River to escape being arrested and perhaps, hanged. His brief encounter with deadly gun-play has ignited a deep urging to repeat the adren...

Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski audiobook. Genre: adventure “Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.” The difference is: it’s all true. Ferdinand Ossendowski was a Pole who found himself in Siberia and on the losing side during the Bolshevik Revolution. To escape being rounded up and shot, h...

Mark Twain and the Happy Island by Elizabeth Wallace audiobook. Genre: biography This Mark Twain Memoir by Elizabeth Wallace paints an idyllic portrait of his time in Bermuda, not long before his death in 1910. Wallace and Twain met in Bermuda in 1908, became fast friends, and shared time together on the island and regular correspondence until 6 weeks before Twain's death. According to one academi...

Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse audiobook. Genre: science 'Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.' The character, sensibilities, and intellectual faculties of animals have always been a favourite study, and they are, perhaps, more strongly developed in the dog than in any other quadruped, from the circumstance of his being the constant companion of man. I am...

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: tragedy In a stark New England town locked in winter for much of the year, Ethan Frome lives a narrowed life of duty and quiet desperation. Once a young man with ambitions beyond the hills of Starkfield, Ethan now struggles to keep a failing farm and a small sawmill going while caring for his sickly, controlling wife, Zeena. When Zeena's cousin, Matti...

Crucial Instances by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama Crucial Instances is a keenly observed collection of short fiction in which Edith Wharton turns ordinary social rituals into high-stakes tests of character. Across a range of settings - drawing rooms, country estates, and the quietly charged spaces between husbands and wives - Wharton follows men and women caught at the exact moment when a...

Master Flea by E. T. A. Hoffmann audiobook. Genre: fantasy Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776 – 1822), better known by his pen name E.T.A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. Hoffmann's stories were very influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major authors o...

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: family This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be estranged from her husband because of his poor financial sense and his drinking habits, she comes to inhabit the lives of her childre...

The Fortunes of Glencore by Charles James Lever audiobook. Genre: comedy Viscount Glencore has retreated to live alone with his son in Glencore castle after his wife deserted him claiming she did not love him. He wishes to exact revenge on her by denouncing the marriage and therefore proclaiming his son to be illegitimate. This consequently robs the child of his birthright and upon his father tell...

Henrietta Temple by Benjamin Disraeli audiobook. Genre: romance The Armine family, in particular the young Ferdinand Armine, is in great financial difficulties. Ferdinand's grandfather has burdened the family estate with large debts, which his father did not manage to diminish. Ferdinand himself is not disposed to live with his small income alone, and during his time in Malta with his regiment, he...

The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness E. Orczy audiobook. Genre: adventure In Revolutionary France, the guillotine falls fast and suspicion spreads faster. Into this terror moves a whisper of hope - a daring English rescuer known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel, who smuggles doomed aristocrats to safety under the noses of the Republic's most ruthless agents. In The Elusive Pimpernel, the struggle intens...

El Dorado by Baroness E. Orczy audiobook. Genre: adventure In El Dorado, Baroness Emmuska Orczy returns to the perilous world of Revolutionary France, where the guillotine is a daily spectacle and suspicion can be a death sentence. Sir Percy Blakeney - outwardly a frivolous English aristocrat, secretly the daring Scarlet Pimpernel - is drawn back across the Channel when news reaches him of innocen...

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: drama Charles Dickens' David Copperfield is a richly detailed coming-of-age tale told in the voice of its own hero, who looks back on the joys and wounds that shaped him. Orphaned into uncertainty and raised under shifting guardianship, young David must navigate a world where affection can be fragile and power often belongs to the cruel or the...

The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: romance While 'The Battle of Life' is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books - his annual release of a story just before Christmas - this one breaks the tradition by not being concerned with Christmas. Rather, its subtitle, 'A Love Story', reveals more of the plot. The major events of this book take place on land that once was a battleground...

Over the Top by Arthur Empey audiobook. Genre: biography In Over the Top, Arthur Guy Empey, an American who volunteered to serve with the British Army in World War I, gives a direct, ground-level account of life and fighting on the Western Front. Writing with a mix of blunt realism and soldier humor, Empey brings listeners into the trenches: the mud and cold, the constant danger from shells and sn...

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett audiobook. Genre: self help 'Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.'' -- Arnold Bennett knew a 'rat race' when he saw one. Every day, his fellow white-collar Londoners followed the same old routine. And they routinely decried the sameness in their lives.-- So Bennett...

Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson audiobook. Genre: biography Many writers have penned studies of Mark Twain's life and work through the years. Twain authorized this biography, having met and hosted the writer, Archibald Henderson, on a few occasions. Henderson considered this work to be an homage to one of his biggest idols, who guided him through his youth and adolescence. He writes, 'It is an a...

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Man in the Iron Mask, Alexandre Dumas returns to the glittering and dangerous court of France under Louis XIV, where power is absolute, secrets are deadly, and loyalty can cost a life. The aging musketeers - d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis - find themselves pulled back into intrigue when whispers spread of a myst...