Classic Audiobook Collection

Penrod by Booth Tarkington audiobook. Genre: comedy In early 1900s small-town Indiana, Penrod Schofield is a well-meaning twelve-year-old with a gift for getting into trouble, usually through enthusiasm, imagination, and a stubborn belief that his latest idea simply must work. Between schoolyard rivalries, neighborhood clubs, amateur theatricals, and grand schemes for honor and adventure, Penrod t...

The Alchemist by Ben Jonson audiobook. Genre: comedy An outbreak of plague in London forces a gentleman, Lovewit, to flee temporarily to the country, leaving his house under the sole charge of his butler, Jeremy. Jeremy uses the opportunity given to him to use the house as the headquarters for fraudulent acts. He transforms himself into 'Captain Face', and enlists the aid of Subtle, a fellow conma...

The Old Man in the Corner by Baroness E. Orczy audiobook. Genre: mystery In a quiet corner of a London tea shop, a small, dapper stranger sits apart from the crowd, apparently absorbed in a simple ritual: he rolls a bit of string between his fingers, tying and untying little knots as he thinks. To an inquisitive young journalist who shares his table, he is merely 'the old man in the corner' - unti...

Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett audiobook. Genre: self help In Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women, celebrated novelist and essayist Arnold Bennett turns his sharp, practical eye on the everyday problem of how to think, work, and live with more purpose. Written for ordinary readers facing the pressures of modern life, these brisk essays offer gui...

The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett audiobook. Genre: thriller Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds out there are strange things going on - a German prince is supposed to arrive but never turns up, someone is found murdered in the hotel, but then the body disappears. With the help of his in...

Politics by Aristotle audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts in political philosophy. In it, Aristotle explores the role that the political community should play in developing the virtue of its citizens. One of his central ideas is that 'Man is a political animal,' meaning that people can only become virtuous by a...

An Englishwoman’s Love-Letters by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: romance Told entirely through a sequence of intimate letters, An Englishwomans Love-Letters invites you into the private world of an unnamed Englishwoman as she writes to the man who has upended her carefully ordered life. In pages that move from playful teasing to raw confession, she chronicles stolen moments, long separations, and the...

The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang audiobook. Genre: folklore First published in the Victorian era as the opening volume of Andrew Lang's famous colored fairy book series, The Blue Fairy Book gathers a spellbinding treasury of traditional tales retold for families and read-aloud delight. Drawn from a wide range of European storytelling traditions and beyond, these stories plunge listeners into wor...

Star Born by Andre Norton audiobook. Genre: scifi Andre Norton's 'Star Born' pictures a human colony in another galaxy, driven away from Earth generations ago by a repressive government. Considered outlaws, the colonists are in permanent hiding. They have developed friendship and cooperation with a local race of 'mermen' who are equally at home on land or sea. But that race only took to the sea to...

The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: drama In the turbulent Netherlands of 1672, as political unrest turns neighbors into enemies, a quiet dream takes hold of Cornelius van Baerle: to cultivate a perfect black tulip and claim a fortune and lifelong fame. But Cornelius is no court schemer - he is a devoted tulip fancier, more comfortable with bulbs and breeding than with intrigue. W...

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Federalist Papers (correctly known as The Federalist) are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788 . A compi...

Relativity - The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein audiobook. Genre: science This is an introduction to Einstein’s space-bending, time-stretching theory of Relativity, written by the master himself. Special and General relativity explain the structure of space time and provide a theory of gravitation, respectively. Einstein’s theories shocked the world with their counterintuitive resul...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: adventure The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs du...

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius audiobook. Genre: philosophy Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. These memos survive and continue to inspire others to this day. These writings take the form of quotations varying in length from one sentence to long paragraphs. He explicates the Stoic philosophy that...

The Prince by Machiavelli audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written in the turbulent politics of Renaissance Italy, Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is a compact, provocative guide to acquiring and holding power. Addressed to a ruling patron, the book examines how leaders rise, how states are secured, and why authority so often slips away. Machiavelli moves from clear-eyed observations about human beha...

Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott audiobook. Genre: family In a snug New England village where everyone knows everyone else's errands and opinions, two spirited children, Jack Minot and Jill Pecq, begin as friendly rivals in play and pride. Then a sudden winter accident changes the rhythm of the town and the course of their growing-up. As Jill faces a long recovery and Jack wrestles with his own...

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: family On Prince Edward Island, quiet siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert intend to adopt a boy to help on their farm at Green Gables - and instead receive Anne Shirley, an orphaned red-haired girl with a runaway imagination and a talent for getting into trouble as quickly as she finds wonder. Anne arrives in Avonlea longing to be wa...

Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott audiobook. Genre: family When thirteen-year-old Rose Campbell leaves the familiarity of her quiet life to live with her wealthy guardian in bustling Boston, she is suddenly surrounded by a boisterous new world: eight lively boy cousins, a sprawling household, and a host of well-meaning relatives determined to shape her future. Still grieving and physically delica...

Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll audiobook. Genre: fantasy When Alice steps through the mirror above her parlor mantel, she enters a world that runs on riddles, reversals, and the peculiar logic of a chessboard come to life. In this Looking-glass country, every path seems to double back, every conversation tilts sideways, and familiar things become strange in a...

The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll audiobook. Genre: poetry Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark is a fast-moving, gleefully illogical narrative poem that follows an unlikely crew setting out to sea in search of a creature no one can properly define. Commanded by the resolute Bellman, the expedition gathers a catalogue of eccentric characters - including a Beaver, a Baker, and a Barrist...

Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll audiobook. Genre: fantasy In Sylvie and Bruno, Lewis Carroll steps beyond Wonderland into a stranger, more intricate dream: a Victorian narrator who drifts between everyday England and a shimmering Fairyland, sometimes in the space of a single conversation. In the enchanted realm, the gentle child Sylvie and her irrepressible companion Bruno discover that their co...

Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch audiobook. Genre: romance The framing story concerns a man who dreams of speaking to Venus about love while she wears furs. The unnamed narrator tells his dreams to a friend, Severin, who tells him how to break him of his fascination with cruel women by reading a manuscript, Memoirs of a Supersensual Man. This manuscript tells of a man, Severin von Kusiem...

The Three Hostages by John Buchan audiobook. Genre: thriller Years after his earlier adventures, Richard Hannay is enjoying the quiet life of a country gentleman when an unexpected visitor shatters his peace: a renowned American doctor with a strange gift for reading minds and a warning about a new kind of enemy. Three people have been taken, not for ransom or politics, but as pieces in a far-reac...

Your Mind and How to Use It by William Walker Atkinson audiobook. Genre: self help William Walker Atkinson was one of the most prominent contributors to the literature of the New Thought movement, a non-denomination spiritual philosophy which developed in the late Nineteenth Century. Although he achieved eminence in a number of professions, Atkinson never sought personal publicity, and many of his...

Thought Vibration by William Walker Atkinson audiobook. Genre: self help William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 – November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. Atkinson was a prolific writer, and his many books achieved wide circulation among New Thought devotees and occult practitioners. He publ...