Classic Audiobook Collection

20000 Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne audiobook. Genre: scifi When reports of a terrifying 'sea monster' disrupt shipping lanes around the globe, the United States joins an international hunt to track it down. French marine biologist Professor Pierre Aronnax boards the warship Abraham Lincoln with his unflappable servant Conseil and the hard-bitten Canadian harpooner Ned Land, expecting a sc...

Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum audiobook. Genre: adventure Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. More than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on June 27, 1898 having circumn...

Heidi by Johanna Spyri audiobook. Genre: family Hear Heidi if you’ve ever longed to see the Swiss mountain slopes. This story transports the listener from the fine air and freedom of the mountaintop to the confines of Frankfurt, back to the peaks again, bounding in flowered fields with goats at your heels and sky utterly surrounding you. We meet Heidi when she is 5, led up the mountain by her aunt...

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss audiobook. Genre: adventure The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the right stuff” and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to leave. Cut off from the comforts and companionship of other humans, they use a familiarity with natural history...

Emma by Jane Austen audiobook. Genre: romance In the comfortable village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is clever, wealthy, and certain she understands the hidden currents of other people's hearts. With her father devoted and her social position secure, Emma decides to amuse herself by arranging romances, starting with her new friend Harriet Smith, a sweet, impressionable young woman eager to rise in...

Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow by Jerome K Jerome audiobook. Genre: comedy In Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow, Jerome K. Jerome invites you into the mind of a charmingly unhurried narrator who has time to notice everything - and to question why so much of it is taken so seriously. Presented as a series of witty, conversational essays, the book roams from the small irritations and pleasures of eve...

Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris audiobook. Genre: folklore That the little boy loved Uncle Remus and his stories was so obvious that the tale-spinning sessions began drawing additional listeners. Daddy Jack, an old 'Africa man' visiting from down-state; Sis Tempy, the strong chief of the mansion's servants; and Tildy, a young and pretty servant-girl - all found their way to Uncle Remus' rude c...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama In the glittering summer of 1922, Nick Carraway arrives on Long Island hoping for a fresh start and finds himself drawn into the dazzling, uneasy world of the newly rich. Renting a modest house in West Egg, Nick becomes neighbor to the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a man whose lavish weekend parties spill over with champagne, jazz, and rumor...

A Room With A View by E. M. Forster audiobook. Genre: romance When young Lucy Honeychurch travels to Florence with her cautious cousin and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett, she expects a tasteful tour of art, manners, and proper society. Instead, a simple mix-up at their pension introduces Lucy to the unconventional Emersons - the candid, emotionally perceptive Mr. Emerson and his impulsive son George...

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen audiobook. Genre: romance Taken from a crowded Portsmouth home to the grand estate of her wealthy relatives, young Fanny Price grows up on the margins of Mansfield Park - quiet, observant, and never allowed to forget her dependence on the Bertrams' charity. As she comes of age, Fanny finds her closest ally in her kind cousin Edmund, whose steady friendship becomes her...

Ulysses by James Joyce audiobook. Genre: drama On a single summer day in Dublin, two wanderers trace separate paths that quietly begin to mirror each other. Leopold Bloom, a thoughtful advertising canvasser, moves through the city's streets, pubs, shops, and seaside promenades, observing its rituals with a tender, skeptical eye as private worries shadow his ordinary errands. Stephen Dedalus, a you...

The United States Bill of Rights by James Madison audiobook. Genre: history Presented through the words and political imagination of James Madison, The United States Bill of Rights follows the birth of the first ten amendments to the Constitution - a compact designed to protect individual liberty while defining the limits of federal power. Moving from the unsettled aftermath of ratification to the...

Dubliners by James Joyce audiobook. Genre: drama Set in early 20th century Dublin, Dubliners is James Joyce's landmark collection of fifteen interconnected short stories that map a city through the private lives of its residents. From schoolboys and shop girls to clerks, musicians, and middle-class families, each tale offers a close, unsentimental look at everyday hopes: a first crush, a chance at...

Above Life’s Turmoil by James Allen audiobook. Genre: self help The turmoil of the world we cannot avoid, but the disturbances of mind we can overcome. The duties and difficulties of life claim our attention, but we can rise above all anxiety concerning them. Surrounded by noise, we can yet have a quiet mind; involved in responsibilities, the heart can be at rest; in the midst of strife, we can kn...

Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin audiobook. Genre: history Fifty Famous Stories Retold is a classic collection for listeners who love brisk, memorable tales drawn from the lives of notable people and the turning points of earlier times. Written for young readers but engaging for all ages, James Baldwin gathers fifty short narratives and retells them in clear, lively language, shaping e...

Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott audiobook. Genre: biography Jacob Abbott's Cleopatra brings to life the most famous queen of ancient Egypt through a clear, storytelling style that blends historical context with vivid scenes. Beginning with the world Cleopatra inherits - a turbulent Ptolemaic dynasty in Alexandria, rival siblings, and a kingdom caught between tradition and upheaval - Abbott follows her e...

Moby Dick, or the Whale by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: adventure Young sailor Ishmael arrives in New Bedford hungry for work and meaning, and soon signs on to a Nantucket whaling ship, the Pequod. He shares cramped quarters with Queequeg, a tattooed harpooner whose quiet courage and steadfast friendship challenge Ishmael's assumptions about faith, culture, and what it means to be civilized....

Walden by Henry David Thoreau audiobook. Genre: philosophy Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond. Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding s...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe audiobook. Genre: history Among the most “banned” books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. Stowe was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist. The novel is believed to have had a profound e...

Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw audiobook. Genre: drama Caesar and Cleopatra, a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw, was first staged in 1901 and first published with Captain Brassbound's Conversion and The Devil's Disciple in his 1901 collection, Three Plays for Puritans. It was first performed at Newcastle upon Tyne on March 15, 1899. London production was at the Savoy Theatr...

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte audiobook. Genre: tragedy On the lonely Yorkshire moors, an orphan named Heathcliff is taken into the Earnshaw household and grows up alongside their fierce, willful daughter, Catherine. Bound by a wild, consuming attachment and sharpened by cruelty and class prejudice, the two form a relationship that is as intimate as it is destructive. When social ambition and...

The Channings by Ellen Wood audiobook. Genre: drama In the cathedral town of Helstonleigh, the Channings are known for steady principles, close family bonds, and a hard-won respectability tied to the Church and its schools. But when a bitter legal dispute leaves the family shaken and their prospects narrowed, the brothers Charles (Charley) and Tom Channing are forced to grow up fast amid the stric...

Queen Elizabeth by Jacob Abbott audiobook. Genre: biography There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame. Con...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1 by Edward Gibbon audiobook. Genre: history The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings (a remarkable feat for its time). Volumes II and I...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte audiobook. Genre: romance Orphaned and overlooked from childhood, Jane Eyre grows up determined to claim a life shaped by her own conscience rather than anyone else's cruelty or pity. After enduring the rigid discipline of a charity school, she seeks independence as a governess at Thornfield Hall, an imposing estate marked by long corridors, whispered rumors, and a se...