Classic Audiobook Collection

Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard audiobook. Genre: adventure Retired hunter and trader Allan Quatermain thinks he has finally put Africa's dangers behind him, content to spend his days in quiet England with his son. But when an old friend begs for help, Quatermain is drawn back into the wild interior on a mission that quickly becomes far more personal and perilous than promised. Joined by the...

The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Genre: scifi On the distant colony world of Poictesme, Conn Maxwell comes home from years away to find a society living off fading prestige and dwindling resources, still clinging to old glories while its young people drift toward despair. Conn refuses to accept the slow decline. He becomes convinced that a legendary piece of lost technology from the...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery Step into the foggy streets and gaslit rooms of Victorian London with The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, a celebrated collection of cases narrated by Dr. John Watson. In story after story, Watson chronicles the brilliant deductions, eccentric habits, and relentless curiosity of his friend and flatmate, consulting detec...

The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery In Victorian London, Dr. John Watson returns to the rooms at 221B Baker Street and finds Sherlock Holmes restless between cases, chasing stimulation as fiercely as he chases truth. Their routine is broken when Mary Morstan, a poised young woman with a troubling past, seeks Holmes' help. For years she has received mysterious p...

His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery In His Last Bow, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gathers a late-career set of Sherlock Holmes adventures that show the great detective at his most seasoned and surprising. Narrated chiefly through the steady voice of Dr. John Watson, these cases move from quiet London rooms to lonely country houses and shadowed European intrigues, where a sin...

Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud audiobook. Genre: science Not a few serious-minded students, [...], have been discouraged from attempting a study of Freud's dream psychology. The book in which he originally offered to the world his interpretation of dreams was as circumstantial as a legal record to be pondered over by scientists at their leisure, not to be assimilated in a few hours by the avera...

Reginald by Saki audiobook. Genre: comedy Saki (December 18, 1870 - November 14, 1916) was the pen name of the British author Hector Hugh Munro. His witty, biting and occasionally odd short stories satirised Edwardian culture. Saki is considered a master of the short story and has been compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker as well as Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde (who clearly influenced Saki.) His...

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert audiobook. Genre: drama In provincial 19th-century France, Emma Bovary believes life should feel like the romances she devours: sweeping passions, refined luxury, and constant excitement. When she marries Charles Bovary, a well-meaning country doctor devoted to his new wife, Emma expects her dreams to finally begin. Instead she finds herself trapped by routine, sm...

Lilith by George MacDonald audiobook. Genre: fantasy George MacDonald's Lilith follows Mr. Vane, a practical, solitary young man who inherits a mysterious house with an equally mysterious library. When a strange mirror-like door opens onto another world, Vane is drawn into a stark, dreamlike realm where night seems permanent and the laws of ordinary life feel suspended. Guided and challenged by an...

The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald audiobook. Genre: fantasy In a lonely mountain kingdom, eight-year-old Princess Irene lives in a sprawling castle with secret stairways, empty corridors, and a sense that something is watching from below. When her father is away and her mother is gone, Irene's world is guarded by servants and rules - but her curiosity keeps pulling her toward forbidd...

Adam Bede by George Eliot audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the rural English Midlands in 1799, Adam Bede follows a community bound by labor, faith, and reputation. Adam, a skilled young carpenter, prides himself on steadiness and moral clarity as he works alongside his friends and family in the village of Hayslope. His quiet certainties are tested when he becomes entangled in a web of affection, exp...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer audiobook. Genre: poetry The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a group of pilgrims on their way from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the s...

The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux audiobook. Genre: mystery Gaston Leroux, perhaps best known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera in its novel form, was also the author of a popular series of mystery novels featuring a young journalist cum detective named Joseph Rouletabille. It is most likely that Leroux styled his hero after himself. Rouletabille was in the tradition of other great...

The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: mystery Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential and prolific English writer of the early 20th century. He was a journalist, a poet and a novelist. He wrote 80 books and 200 short stories in addition to his other work. He is perhaps best remembered for his ‘Father Brown’ stories; two collections of which are available a...

The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: thriller In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist task force at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over the purpose of poetry with Gabriel Syme, who takes the opposite view. After some...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass audiobook. Genre: biography In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass recounts his early years in bondage and his emergence as one of the 19th century's most powerful voices against slavery. Born into a system designed to erase identity and deny education, Douglass pieces together the story of his childhood...

The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit audiobook. Genre: family When the once-comfortable Bastable family falls on hard times, six lively brothers and sisters decide they will not simply wait for grown-ups to fix everything. Led by imaginative Oswald, with practical Dora, stubborn Dicky, sensitive Noel, fearless H.O., and the youngest, clever Alice, the children form the Bastable Societ...

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka audiobook. Genre: drama One morning, traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes to find his body inexplicably transformed into a giant insect. Trapped in his bedroom and struggling to communicate, Gregor must navigate the immediate terror of his new existence and the practical realities of a life that can no longer conform to work schedules, family expectations, or ordi...

The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay audiobook. Genre: romance At Overdene, the country estate of the formidable and delightfully unpredictable Duchess of Meldrum, her niece Jane Champion has settled into a life of capable independence. Jane is thirty, practical, and quietly gifted, yet she has spent years watching others take the place she secretly longs for: to be chosen first, without reservation....

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel follows Amory Blaine, a sharp, restless Midwesterner who grows up believing his life will be extraordinary. From a privileged childhood through elite schools and the glittering social world of the early 20th century, Amory chases admiration, romance, and a sense of identity that always seems just...

Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah audiobook. Genre: mystery In Four Max Carrados Detective Stories, Ernest Bramah introduces a sleuth unlike any other in Edwardian England: Max Carrados, a gentleman investigator who is blind, yet uncannily alert to the details most people overlook. Narrated by his friend and occasional collaborator Louis Carlyle, these four cases open doors into...

Dere Mable by Edward Streeter audiobook. Genre: comedy In Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie, Edward Streeter turns World War I army life into a bright, side-splitting chain of letters from a brand-new private, Bill Smith, to his sweetheart back home, Mable. Writing in proudly mangled spelling and plainspoken slang, Bill reports on everything the Army throws at him: baffling rules, hard-nosed se...

The Coming Race by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton audiobook. Genre: scifi Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as 'the great unwashed', 'pursuit of the almighty dollar', 'the pen is mightier than the sword', and the infamous incipit '...

Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell audiobook. Genre: self help One of the most requested motivational lectures of all time. 'I say that you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich ... The men who get rich may be the most honest men you find in the community. Let me say here clearly ... ninety-eight out of one hundred of the rich men of America are honest. That is why they are rich....

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling audiobook. Genre: adventure This classic children's book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, his capture by the Monkey-People, his attempt at reintegration into human society, and his ultimate triumph over the lame tiger Shere Khan....