Classic Audiobook Collection

Dynamic Thought; Or, The Law of Vibrant Energy by William Walker Atkinson audiobook. Genre: self help This book is a marriage of the Ancient Occult Teachings to the latest and most advanced conceptions of Modern Science--an odd union, for the parties thereto are of entirely different temperaments. The marriage might be expected to result disastrously, were it not for the fact that a connecting lin...

The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2 by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel audiobook. Genre: philosophy Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's first book, it describes the three-stage dialectical life of Spirit. The title can be translated as either The Phenomenology of Spirit or The Phenomenology of Mind, beca...

The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1 by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel audiobook. Genre: philosophy Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's first book, it describes the three-stage dialectical life of Spirit. The title can be translated as either The Phenomenology of Spirit or The Phenomenology of Mind, beca...

The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Logic of Hegel is a demanding, influential guide to how thinking itself develops, and how that development shapes everything we call reality. Rather than treating logic as a set of static rules, G.W.F. Hegel presents it as a living movement in which basic concepts test their own limits, break down, and re-form at...

A Man Obsessed by Alan Edward Nourse audiobook. Genre: scifi Jeffrey Meyer had a killing on his mind. It meant nothing to him that his towering Twenty-first Century world was going mad. He shouldered aside the rising tide of narcotics-mania, the gambling fever, the insatiable lust for the irrational. Jeff had his own all-consuming obsession—Paul Conroe must die! After a five-year frenzied chase, J...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy When a fierce cyclone rips through the Kansas prairie, young Dorothy Gale is carried far from home and dropped into a strange, dazzling land called Oz. With her small dog Toto at her side and an unwelcome pair of magical shoes on her feet, Dorothy learns that the only sure way back to Aunt Em and Uncle Henry may be to seek out t...

The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy On the Isle of Yew, five neighboring kingdoms share the same shores, but not the same peace: thieves, rogues, and strange enchantments have made the island a place where trouble is never far away. During a picnic in the Forest of Lurla, Sesely, the spirited daughter of Baron Merd of Heg, and her companions meet an unexpected vi...

The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy The Emerald City of Oz (1910) was the sixth Oz book written by L. Frank Baum, a title he hoped would be the last. In this book, Dorothy and her impoverished Uncle Henry and Aunt Em are on the brink of losing their Kansas farm. Consequently, Ozma invites them all to live in the Emerald City. They then explore the countryside, visitin...

Mother Goose in Prose by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: folklore In Mother Goose in Prose, L. Frank Baum (best known for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) invites listeners into a storybook world where famous nursery rhymes are not the end of the tale, but the beginning. After a warm, playful introduction that traces the long-running mystery and legend of Mother Goose, Baum presents twenty-two familiar...

Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy In Glinda of Oz, L. Frank Baum returns to the magical Land of Oz for a tale that begins with a burst of danger on its borders. When troubling news arrives from the far south, Ozma the ruler of Oz calls on familiar friends for help, and Dorothy Gale sets out alongside the wise Sorceress Glinda and other companions to investigate. Their journey...

Dorothy & the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz was the fourth of 14 Oz books written by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919). Published in 1908, while Baum was resident in Coronado, California, it is considered one of the “darker” of the Oz tales. However, it also is enlivened by Baum’s considerable wit, penchant for puns, and dry social commentary. In this...

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame audiobook. Genre: fantasy This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure … and as adventure pursues them! The chief characters - Mole, Rat, and Toad - generally lead upbeat and happy lives, but their tales are leavened with moments of terror, homesickness, awe, madcap antics, and derring-do. Alt...

The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame audiobook. Genre: folklore In a quiet corner of the countryside, a curious young boy learns that the caves above his village now have an unusual resident: a dragon. The townspeople respond the only way they think they can, arming themselves for a heroic fight. But when the boy goes to investigate, he discovers the dragon is nothing like the terrifying monste...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne audiobook. Genre: adventure In Victorian London, precise and unflappable gentleman Phileas Fogg accepts a wager that sounds impossible: he will travel around the world in just eighty days, using the era's newest steamships and railways to prove that time and distance can be mastered by logic and punctuality. With his resourceful new valet, Passepartou...

English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs audiobook. Genre: folklore First published in the nineteenth century and gathered with a storyteller's ear, English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs is a lively treasury of England's best-loved folk narratives. In these pages, ordinary boys and girls stumble into extraordinary tests, clever underdogs outwit giants and witches, and wandering heroes bargain with fate...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: adventure Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and minds as a mysterious shadow, Heart of Darkness famously explores the rituals of civilisation and barbarism, and the frighteningly fine line between them. We get the tale through a classic unreliabl...

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift audiobook. Genre: adventure Shipwrecked and cast far from home, Lemuel Gulliver - a practical English surgeon and sailor - begins a sequence of astonishing voyages that will test his assumptions about human nature, politics, and pride. He wakes to find himself a giant among the Lilliputians, a nation of miniature people whose petty rivalries and elaborate rules...

A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke audiobook. Genre: philosophy Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke was originally published in 1689. Its initial publication was in Latin, though it was immediately translated into other languages. In this 'letter' addressed to an anonymous 'Honored Sir' (actually Locke's close friend Philip von Limborch, who published it without Locke's knowledge)...

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D Rockefeller audiobook. Genre: biography In Random Reminiscences of Men and Events, John D. Rockefeller looks back on the people, chances, and hard choices that shaped his rise from an ambitious young bookkeeper in Cleveland to one of the defining figures of American industry. Told as a series of reflective sketches rather than a strict chronological...

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan audiobook. Genre: thriller Set in the uneasy days just before World War I, John Buchan's classic follows Richard Hannay, a bored Scotsman in London who is suddenly pulled into a deadly game of international espionage. After a chance encounter with a terrified stranger, Hannay finds himself in possession of a fragmentary secret about a plot that could shake Brit...

Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm audiobook. Genre: folklore Step into a shadowed world where wishes are granted with a price, forests hide both wonder and hunger, and courage is tested at every turn. Collected by brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Grimms Fairy Tales gathers enduring folktales that have shaped the modern imagination, from familiar figures like clever peasants, doomed k...

History of Julius Caesar by Jacob Abbott audiobook. Genre: biography Jacob Abbott's History of Julius Caesar presents a clear, fast-moving portrait of one of Rome's most influential and controversial leaders. Written to make classical history accessible, the book follows Caesar from his early ambitions in a turbulent republic through the rivalries, alliances, and public battles that shaped his ris...

Alexander the Great by Jacob Abbott audiobook. Genre: biography In this brisk, vivid biography, Jacob Abbott traces the rise of Alexander of Macedon from a talented prince under the shadow of his formidable father, King Philip, to a young commander determined to win a place among history's legends. Guided early by intense study and high expectations, Alexander inherits a restless kingdom, fierce r...

Robin Hood by J. Walker McSpadden audiobook. Genre: folklore J. Walker McSpadden's Robin Hood retells the legendary English outlaw tale with brisk, storybook energy, following Robin of Locksley as he vanishes into Sherwood Forest and becomes the bold champion the powerful fear and the poor rely on. With the ruthless Sheriff of Nottingham tightening his grip and Prince John's rule rewarding greed a...

The Admirable Crichton by J. M. Barrie audiobook. Genre: comedy J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton is a sharp, playful tale about status, competence, and what happens when the rules of society stop applying. In a grand London household, the kind but self-satisfied Lord Loam prides himself on progressive ideas, while his daughters and fashionable guests treat the servants as background scenery....