Classic Audiobook Collection

With Trumpet and Drum by Eugene Field audiobook. Genre: poetry With Trumpet and Drum is Eugene Field's classic 1892 collection of verse devoted to the music, make-believe, and quiet mysteries of childhood. Opening with the title poem, Field listens as children march in with a tin trumpet and a red drum, and the simple parade becomes a doorway into an older narrator's heart - hearty, welcoming, and...

A Text-book of Assaying by Cornelius Beringer audiobook. Genre: science A Text-book of Assaying is a practical guide to one of mining and metallurgy's most exacting arts: determining, by careful experiment, what valuable metals and compounds are truly present in an ore, alloy, or industrial material. Written as an instructional manual for students and working analysts, Cornelius Beringer leads the...

Army Mental Tests by Clarence Stone Yoakum audiobook. Genre: science Written in the wake of World War I, Army Mental Tests by Clarence Stone Yoakum explores one of the most ambitious experiments in psychological measurement ever attempted: the mass testing of soldiers to gauge aptitude, literacy, and problem-solving ability. Yoakum guides listeners through how these examinations were designed, adm...

Crime, Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Crime, Its Cause and Treatment, famed defense attorney and public advocate Clarence Darrow turns from the courtroom to the larger question that haunted his era and still resonates today: why do people commit crimes, and what should society do about it? Drawing on decades of experience representing the accused, Darrow...

Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe audiobook. Genre: poetry In Christopher Marlowe's lush, witty narrative poem Hero and Leander, a familiar classical myth becomes a daring study of desire, persuasion, and the risks lovers take to reach each other. Hero is a celebrated young priestess living in Sestos, pledged to a life of chastity and honored for her beauty and status. Across the narrow but...

Secret history revealed by Lady Peggy OMalley by Charles Norris Williamson audiobook. Genre: romance Sixteen-year-old Marguerite - Peggy - O'Malley has come to London from Ireland with her beautiful sister Diana, carrying more pride than money and a sharp eye for the rules of fashionable society. When Peggy falls in love with a white frock trimmed with roses in a Selfridge's window, her desperate...

The Fourth Dimension by Charles Howard Hinton audiobook. Genre: science First published in the late Victorian era, Charles Howard Hinton's The Fourth Dimension is an ambitious attempt to make a new kind of space feel thinkable. Writing for readers who may not have advanced mathematics, Hinton starts with a simple but unsettling question: if we live comfortably in three dimensions, what would it me...

The Laws and Practice of the Game of Euchre. As Adopted by the Washington, D.C. Euchre Club by Charles Henry Wharton Meehan audiobook. Genre: self help Charles Henry Wharton Meehan's The Laws and Practice of the Game of Euchre is a clear, club-tested guide to one of the most beloved partnership card games, presenting the rules as adopted by the Washington, D.C. Euchre Club. Written for players who...

The Knave of Diamonds by Ethel M. Dell audiobook. Genre: romance On her twenty-fifth birthday, Lady Anne Carfax slips away from the glare of a country Hunt Ball, certain only of her own exhaustion and the cold civility of a marriage that has long since curdled into duty. In a quiet card room she meets an audacious American outsider, Napoleon 'Nap' Errol, who amuses himself by telling fortunes with...

Greatheart by Ethel M. Dell audiobook. Genre: romance In a glittering Alpine winter resort, spirited Dinah Bathurst and her younger brother, Billy, chafe under the sharp-eyed guardianship of the de Vigne household, where every waltz, whisper, and moonlit walk is weighed against duty and reputation. Into this charged world come the Studleys: Sir Eustace, handsome, confident, and dangerously persuas...

Rain Magic by Erle Stanley Gardner audiobook. Genre: adventure In Rain Magic, Erle Stanley Gardner (best known for Perry Mason) turns to fast-moving pulp adventure with a strange, half-believed tale that begins in the California desert. A drifter is found exhausted and nearly dead, and when he revives he insists he has just returned from tropical Africa - carrying a story so vivid and bizarre that...

A Love Episode, Book Eight of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the quiet, respectable neighborhoods of Second Empire Paris, A Love Episode follows Helene Grandjean, a young widow determined to build a calm life for herself and her fragile daughter, Jeanne. Keeping her past buried and her ambitions modest, Helene tries to find safety in routine and propriety, belie...

LAssommoir, Book Seven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: tragedy In L'Assommoir, Emile Zola turns to the working-class streets of mid-19th-century Paris to follow Gervaise Macquart, a laundress determined to build a decent life through steady work, cleanliness, and a stubborn faith in ordinary happiness. Abandoned by a lover and left with little more than her hands and her c...

His Excellency Eugene Rougon, Book Six of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama In His Excellency Eugene Rougon, the sixth novel in Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, Paris under Napoleon III becomes a glittering arena where ambition, favors, and fear decide who rises and who is ruined. Eugene Rougon, a powerful minister and master of backroom alliances, believes he can cont...

Abbe Mourets Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama In Abbe Mourets Transgression, the fifth novel in Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, a young priest named Serge Mouret is sent to a remote Provençal village to serve a troubled parish and to escape the pressures of the wider world. Exhausted by rigid devotion and spiritual strain, Serge suffers a...

The Conquest of Plassans, Book Four of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama In the sun-baked Provençal town of Plassans, the Second Empire's politics seep into every parlor and confessional. Francois Mouret, a cautious, self-made municipal official, wants nothing more than a quiet life with his delicate wife, Marthe, and their children in the old family house on the Rue de l...

The Fat and the Thin, Book Three of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama In The Fat and the Thin, Emile Zola plunges listeners into the bustling heart of Second Empire Paris, where the vast iron-and-glass food markets of Les Halles become a stage for hunger, comfort, and power. Florent, gaunt and worn down by years of hardship, slips back into the city hoping for a quiet lif...

The Rush for the Spoil, Book Two of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama In The Rush for the Spoil, Emile Zola turns to the glittering, feverish world of Second Empire Paris, where fortunes are made overnight and lives are just as quickly broken. At the center is Aristide Saccard, a hungry, opportunistic man determined to claw his way into the new age of speculation unleashe...

The Fortune of the Rougons, Book One of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama In a small Provençal town called Plassans, Emile Zola opens the sweeping Rougon-Macquart saga with a story of family hunger and political upheaval. As France trembles on the edge of Louis-Napoleon's December 1851 coup, Pierre Rougon and his formidable wife, Felicite, see history not as tragedy but a...

The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim audiobook. Genre: comedy In The Caravaners, Elizabeth von Arnim turns an Edwardian summer holiday into a razor-sharp comedy of manners, told entirely through the diary of Baron Otto von Ottringel, a retired Prussian officer with enormous pride and very little self-awareness. Hoping for a dignified anniversary adventure, Otto agrees to join a month-long caravan...

Our Little Mexican Cousin by Edward Crompton Butler audiobook. Genre: history Our Little Mexican Cousin invites listeners into Mexico at the start of the twentieth century through the lively viewpoint of Juanita, a young girl whose ordinary days become a doorway to a whole world of history, customs, and place. From New Year celebrations to schoolroom routines, Juanita and her friends move through...

Four Hymns by Edmund Spenser audiobook. Genre: poetry Four Hymns is Edmund Spenser's celebrated sequence of devotional and philosophical poems that traces a powerful ascent from earthly desire to spiritual contemplation. Written in Spenser's richly musical verse, the collection unfolds through four linked hymns: two that explore the pull of human love and the allure of beauty as they are experienc...

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand audiobook. Genre: drama In 17th-century Paris, Cyrano de Bergerac is a brilliant poet, fearless duelist, and sharp-tongued wit whose confidence in everything except his appearance keeps him at arm's length from the love he most wants. Secretly devoted to the intelligent and kind Roxane, Cyrano believes his prominent nose makes him unworthy of her affection, eve...

Battle for the Stars by Edmond Hamilton audiobook. Genre: scifi In a far-future galaxy where humanity's original homeworld has become a distant symbol instead of a true seat of power, five rival Sectors rule the star lanes like competing empires. Commander Kirk of the Lyra Sector is sent on a high-risk solo probe into the Dragon's Throat, a lethal star cluster rumored to hide an Orion Sector secre...

The Just Men of Cordova by Edgar Wallace audiobook. Genre: thriller In the sun-baked streets of Cordova, three notorious vigilantes slip through the crowds like ghosts. Georges Manfred, the cool strategist; the daring Poiccart; and the master of disguise, Gonsalez, have come to Spain for what looks like a holiday - but the Just Men never stop working. Across Europe their name is feared because the...