Classic Audiobook Collection

Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: drama In Anne of the Island, spirited red-haired Anne Shirley leaves the familiar comforts of Green Gables in Avonlea and steps into the wider world as a young woman determined to learn, grow, and make her mark. Traveling to Kingsport to attend Redmond College, Anne builds a new circle of friends, navigates the pressures and freedoms of...

Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: family In Anne of Avonlea, Anne Shirley is no longer the red-haired orphan trying to find her place - she is a young woman determined to shape the future of the village she loves. At sixteen, Anne begins her first real job as the schoolteacher in Avonlea, balancing strict lessons, unruly pupils, and her own soaring imagination. At Green Gab...

Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: romance Fresh from her long-awaited wedding, Anne Shirley Blythe steps into adulthood with a head full of hope and a heart determined to make a home. When she and her new husband, Dr. Gilbert Blythe, leave Prince Edward Island for his first medical practice on the rugged Nova Scotia coast, Anne discovers a windswept village called Fo...

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott audiobook. Genre: family Little Women is the classic story of The March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls--Practical, yet fashion conscious Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious, book worm, Jo, who wants to become a writer and wishes she were born a boy. Shy and quiet, home-loving Beth, who loves to play...

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott audiobook. Genre: family Little Men (published 1871) is considered the second book of the Little Women trilogy written by Louisa May Alcott. (The book Good Wives (1869) was originally the sequel to the novel Little Women (1868), however those two novels are now usually published as a single volume.) The final book of the trilogy is Jo's Boys (1886). Little Men follo...

Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters by Logan Marshall audiobook. Genre: history Logan Marshall's Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters plunges listeners into the shock and spectacle of the early twentieth century's most infamous maritime tragedy, then widens its lens to a panorama of other calamities at sea. Beginning with the Titanic's grand departure and the confidence surrou...

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Abridged) by Lewis Carroll audiobook. Genre: fantasy When curious young Alice follows a hurried White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole, she tumbles into Wonderland, a topsy-turvy realm where logic bends, language plays tricks, and nothing stays the size it should. As Alice tries to make sense of this peculiar place - and of herself - she encounters an unforgettable parad...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: drama Set against the glittering salons and sprawling estates of Imperial Russia, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina follows two intertwined stories of love, duty, and the cost of desire. Anna, a luminous and intelligent woman trapped in a respectable marriage to the principled statesman Alexei Karenin, arrives in Moscow to soothe a family scandal and instea...

Rainbow Valley by L. M. Montgomery audiobook. Genre: family Set in the warm, wind-swept countryside of Prince Edward Island, Rainbow Valley follows a summertime of mischief, friendship, and growing up in the shadow of a small village's expectations. Anne Shirley Blythe, now settled with her doctor husband and their lively children, watches a new set of young spirits burst into her world: the Mered...

The Chronicles of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the coastal village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, The Chronicles of Avonlea gathers a sparkling collection of interconnected short stories that expand the beloved world of Anne of Green Gables. Though Anne Shirley appears only at the edges, her presence lingers in the community she has helped brighten - and the spot...

Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery audiobook. Genre: drama Fresh from earning her teaching certificate, spirited Anne Shirley returns to Prince Edward Island to begin a new chapter in the quiet village of Avonlea. Now a young woman, Anne takes charge of a small country schoolhouse and quickly discovers that guiding a roomful of lively students is as challenging as it is rewarding. At the same tim...

Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery audiobook. Genre: drama Anne Shirley is growing up, and the red-haired dreamer of Green Gables is ready to trade Prince Edward Island's familiar lanes for the wider world of college. Leaving behind the comforts of Avonlea, Anne begins her studies at Redmond College, where new friends, new freedoms, and new expectations challenge her to define who she is beyon...

Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy The Road to Oz takes Dorothy and her friends on an adventure in Oz to a grand party in honor of Ozma's birthday. It all starts near her home on Uncle Henry's farm in Kansas when she tries to help a shaggy stranger find the road he is seeking. On the way they find a young boy, Button-Bright, and together they get lost, only to find themselves in...

Aunt Jane’s Nieces by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: family When wealthy, plainspoken Aunt Jane Merrick falls ill, the future of her comfortable household suddenly hinges on three unexpected visitors: her nieces. Sent for in haste, the young women could not be more different. Louise is polished and calculating, certain that money is the measure of security. Patsy is warmhearted and impulsive, qui...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin audiobook. Genre: drama The Modern Library edition of The Awakening has an introduction by Kay Gibbons, who writes: “The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine’s desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she me...

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: philosophy First published in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' concise and provocative call to understand modern society through the struggle between social classes. Written in the voice of a political pamphlet but grounded in historical analysis, it traces how the rise of the bourgeoisie transformed economies,...

The Story of the Three Little Pigs by L. Leslie Brooke audiobook. Genre: folklore In L. Leslie Brooke's classic retelling, three pig siblings set out to make homes of their own and prove they can thrive without anyone else's help. Each chooses a different path: one favors speed and ease, another aims for comfort with a little more care, and the third commits to patient, sturdy work. But when a hun...

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne audiobook. Genre: adventure A story of castaways, similar to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, this book details the escape from Civil War-era Richmond, Virginia, of five Northern men who dared to go aloft in a balloon in the midst of a hurricane. Deposited on a lonely island in the Pacific, they make do with Yankee ingenuity where Chance has left...

Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne audiobook. Genre: scifi In 1863 Hamburg, absent-minded mineralogist Professor Otto Lidenbrock makes a startling discovery: an encrypted note tucked inside an ancient book, hinting at a passage to the Earth's deepest regions. With his steady, skeptical nephew Axel reluctantly in tow, and guided by the calm, resourceful Icelandic hunter Hans, the p...

From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne audiobook. Genre: science In 1860s America, the Civil War has ended and the Baltimore Gun Club is bored - until its brilliant, larger-than-life president Impey Barbicane proposes an outrageous new project: instead of building weapons, why not build a cannon big enough to send a projectile to the Moon? The idea electrifies the public, attracts funding from...

Typhoon by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: adventure Joseph Conrad's Typhoon is a taut sea tale set aboard the steamship Nan-Shan as it carries a cargo of rice and a deck packed with hundreds of Chinese laborers across the waters of Southeast Asia. Its master, Captain MacWhirr, is a practical, literal-minded man who values routine and clear rules over imagination or flair. With him is Jukes, an am...

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: adventure A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young 'simple and sensitive character' who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea -- and of his expiation of that sin against his own 'shadowy ideal of conduct' on the remote island of Patusan. The novel, written by Conrad for magazine serialization during an intense...

Ashton-Kirk, Investigator by John Thomas McIntyre audiobook. Genre: mystery Ashton-Kirk, who has solved so many mysteries, is himself something of a problem even to those who know him best. Although young, wealthy, and of high social position, he is nevertheless an indefatigable worker in his chosen field. He smiles when men call him a detective. 'No; only an investigator,' he says. He has never c...

The Yosemite by John Muir audiobook. Genre: history In The Yosemite, naturalist and advocate John Muir invites listeners into the granite cathedral of Californias Sierra Nevada, blending firsthand observation with a poets reverence for wild places. Moving from the famous Yosemite Valley to its surrounding high country, Muir traces how ice, water, and time shaped sheer cliffs, domes, waterfalls, an...

Paradise Lost by John Milton audiobook. Genre: poetry John Milton's Paradise Lost is a monumental epic poem that retells the story of humanity's first disobedience and the sweeping spiritual war that surrounds it. The poem opens in the aftermath of a cataclysmic defeat, where Satan and his fallen host rally in a bleak new realm and plot a way to strike back at Heaven. Their target is not a fortres...