Classic Audiobook Collection

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: drama This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice and then learns that he has 'great expectations' of a future inheritance from an anonymous benefactor. He soon learns to live the profligate life of a gentleman as he gradually sheds his associations...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: mystery Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to be one of Dickens' finest and most complete novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. Dickens tells all of these both th...

Metaphysics by Aristotle audiobook. Genre: philosophy Aristotle's Metaphysics is a foundational inquiry into what it means for anything to be. Written as a series of tightly argued investigations, it follows Aristotle as he searches for first causes and first principles - the deepest explanations that underlie nature, change, and knowledge. Along the way, he examines and critiques earlier thinkers...

White Fang by Jack London audiobook. Genre: adventure Set during the harsh Klondike Gold Rush, Jack London's White Fang follows a wolf-dog born in the northern wilderness and shaped by the brutal laws of survival. From his earliest days among the timber wolves, White Fang learns to hunt, fear, and endure in a world where hunger and cold are constant enemies. But the boundary between wild and human...

The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting audiobook. Genre: adventure When young English physician John Dolittle discovers that he understands animals far better than people, his quiet country practice in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh transforms into a bustling haven of fur, feathers, and opinions. Guided by his sharp-witted parrot, Polynesia, and assisted by a loyal household of animal companions, the...

Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger audiobook. Genre: adventure In bustling mid-19th-century New York City, a sharp-witted shoeshine boy known as Ragged Dick scrapes by on the streets with little more than quick jokes, a big heart, and a stubborn belief that he can become somebody. When chance brings him into contact with well-to-do youths and respectable adults, Dick glimpses a life beyond day-to-day hu...

The Iliad by Homer audiobook. Genre: folklore In The Iliad, Homer plunges listeners into the brutal final stretch of the Trojan War, where glory is measured in blood and a single wounded pride can topple armies. When the greatest Greek warrior, Achilles, withdraws from battle after a bitter clash with the commander Agamemnon, the Greek camp begins to unravel. Across the plain, the defenders of Tro...

Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: history A wayside tavern where the local men drink and gossip; an unsolved, twenty year old murder at a nearby mansion; a very talkative black raven; a London locksmith and his family; a man apparently returned from the dead; a hangman who enjoys his job way too much; an anti-Catholic lord; a large and violent mob; and the British Militia—what do...

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: history Set against the unrest of late-18th-century Europe, A Tale of Two Cities follows the intertwined fates of people caught between London and Paris as the French Revolution surges toward violence. When the compassionate French doctor Alexandre Manette is released after years of unjust imprisonment, his devoted daughter Lucie tries to r...

Dracula by Bram Stoker audiobook. Genre: horror When young solicitor Jonathan Harker travels from England to a remote castle in Transylvania, he expects a routine business trip arranging an estate purchase for a mysterious nobleman, Count Dracula. Instead, Harker finds himself trapped in a house of secrets, surrounded by unsettling signs that his host is far from human. Back in England, an inexpli...

Anthem by Ayn Rand audiobook. Genre: philosophy Anthem is a dystopic science fiction story taking place at some unspecified future date. Mankind has entered another dark age as a result of what Rand saw as the weaknesses of socialistic thinking and economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur, if at all) and the concept of individuality has been elimin...

Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: adventure Set two decades after The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas' Twenty Years After reunites the legendary companions in a France shaken by civil unrest and court intrigue. D'Artagnan, still ambitious and sharp-edged, serves Cardinal Mazarin and dreams of long-delayed advancement. But when he seeks out his old friends, he finds that tim...

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: adventure The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis -- inseparable friends who live by the mot...

Nuggets of the New Thought by William Walker Atkinson audiobook. Genre: self help Nuggets of the New Thought is a compact, practical introduction to the New Thought movement by William Walker Atkinson, a prolific early 20th century writer on mind-power and mental training. In a series of short, focused sections, Atkinson distills what he sees as the core principles behind constructive thinking: th...

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving audiobook. Genre: folklore In a quiet Dutch settlement tucked along the Hudson River, the drowsy valley of Sleepy Hollow seems sealed off from the hurry of the outside world - and steeped in old tales that refuse to die. Into this fog of superstition rides Ichabod Crane, a lanky, bookish schoolmaster with a taste for ghost stories, fine meals, and t...

The Science of Being Well by Wallace D. Wattles audiobook. Genre: self help If you are seeking better health and ways to stay well…This book is for you! Wallace D. Wattles was an American author and a pioneer success new thought movement writer. His most famous work and first book is a book called The Science of Getting Rich in which he explains how to get rich. Additionally, In the Science of Get...

Candide, or The Optimist by Voltaire audiobook. Genre: philosophy Candide, ou l’Optimisme, (“Candide, or Optimism”) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never openly admitted to having written the controversial Candide; the work is signed with a pseudonym: “Monsieur le docteur Ralph”, literally “Mister Doctor Ralph.”Sardonic in outlook, it follows the na...

The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalized religion and challenges the inerrancy of the Bible. Published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1807, it was a bestseller in Ameri...

The Power of Concentration by Theron Q. Dumont audiobook. Genre: self help In The Power of Concentration, Theron Q. Dumont lays out a practical, motivational guide to training the mind to focus on command. Written in an energetic, early self-improvement style, the book argues that concentrated attention is the hidden force behind achievement in business, study, and personal growth. Dumont breaks c...

Typee by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: adventure Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a captive of a cannibal island tribe. It was an immediate success in America and England, and was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime. It was not until the end of the 1930's that it was surpassed...

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse audiobook. Genre: philosophy Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment. On the way he faces the entire range of human experience and emotion: he lives with ascetics, meets Gota...

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James audiobook. Genre: horror On a lonely English estate called Bly, a young governess accepts what seems like a straightforward post: care for two charming orphaned children, Miles and Flora, while their handsome, distant uncle insists he never be bothered. Eager to prove herself, she throws her whole heart into the role, determined to be the perfect guardian in a...

The Creature from Beyond Infinity by Henry Kuttner audiobook. Genre: scifi A strange plague is moving through the cosmos, draining life from world after world like an invisible predator. Against that vast, cold backdrop, an exile from a dead planet arrives in the Solar System with a desperate mission: find a new home, and find help. From a hidden ship in orbit and through half-forgotten traces of...

The Republic by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy Plato's The Republic unfolds as a searching conversation led by Socrates, who is drawn into a spirited debate about what justice really is and whether a just life is happier than an unjust one. As the discussion widens, Socrates and his interlocutors attempt an audacious thought experiment: designing an ideal city from the ground up in order to se...

The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon audiobook. Genre: history Hendrik van Loon's The Story of Mankind is a brisk, conversational journey through world history, written for curious listeners who want the big picture without getting lost in academic detail. Beginning with humanity's earliest beginnings and moving through the rise of civilizations, empires, and religions, van Loon introduces the...