Classic Audiobook Collection

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie audiobook. Genre: fantasy On a quiet London night, the Darling children's nursery window swings open and a boy who refuses to grow up slips inside. Peter Pan has come looking for his lost shadow, and with him is Tinker Bell, a fierce and glittering fairy with a jealous streak. When Wendy Darling proves she can sew and tell stories like a proper mother, Peter invites her a...

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle audiobook. Genre: folklore Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern versions of the legend, is famous for robbing the rich to feed the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny. He operates with his 'seven score' (140 strong) group of fellow outlawed yeomen...

Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac audiobook. Genre: romance In post-Napoleonic France, two young women leave the sheltered world of a convent and step into adulthood with radically different dreams. Through their intimate, candid correspondence, pragmatic Renee de Maucombe and fiery Louise de Chaulieu chronicle the intoxicating freedoms and harsh constraints that greet women in a society r...

The Odyssey by Homer audiobook. Genre: poetry The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly dated to between 800 and 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, and concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus in his long journey back to his native land Ithaca after the fall of Troy....

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller audiobook. Genre: biography Helen Keller's The Story of My Life is a vivid, intimate autobiography of a girl determined to reach the world after illness leaves her deaf and blind in early childhood. From the frustration and isolation of her earliest memories to the breakthrough moment when language begins to unlock meaning, Keller recounts the small discoveries...

Andersen’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen audiobook. Genre: folklore Step into a world where a pea can test a princess, a tin soldier can harbor a brave heart, and an emperor can be dazzled by vanity itself. Andersens Fairy Tales gathers Hans Christian Andersens most beloved stories into a single timeless collection, blending the simplicity of fireside folklore with sharp wit, deep compass...

King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard audiobook. Genre: adventure When gentleman-adventurer Allan Quatermain is hired to guide a daring expedition into the unknown interior of southern Africa, he expects hardship, danger, and the usual price of greed. What he does not expect is the tangled human stakes riding on the journey: Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good are searching for Curtis's long...

Your Invisible Power by Genevieve Behrend audiobook. Genre: self help First published in the early 20th century, Your Invisible Power is Genevieve Behrend's practical guide to using imagination as a deliberate tool for shaping your life. Writing as a student of Thomas Troward, Behrend argues that the mind is not merely a private inner world but a creative force that can be trained and directed. Th...

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux audiobook. Genre: mystery Beneath the glittering chandeliers of the Paris Opera House, whispers spread of a presence that does not belong to the living world. When a series of eerie mishaps and unexplained demands begin to disrupt rehearsals and performances, the management is forced to reckon with an unseen power that seems to rule the building from behin...

The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux audiobook. Genre: mystery In a secluded French chateau, a young woman is found savagely attacked inside her bedroom - a room locked from the inside, with shutters barred and no clear way for an intruder to have entered or escaped. The case baffles the police and draws in an anxious circle of suspects: devoted family members, nervous servants, and a h...

The Joyful Wisdom by Friedrich Nietzsche audiobook. Genre: philosophy 'The Joyful Wisdom,' written in 1882, just before 'Zarathustra,' is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. Here the essentially grave and masculine face of the poet-philosopher is seen to light up and suddenly break into a delightful smile. The warmth and kindness that beam from his features will astonish those hast...

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett audiobook. Genre: family Sara Crewe arrives in London from India to attend Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, and she quickly becomes the school’s most unusual pupil. Bright, imaginative, and unfailingly courteous, Sara is treated like royalty because her father can afford every comfort. But when sudden tragedy shatters that security, Sara...

How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis - The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict audiobook. Genre: self help In this popular American book from the 1920s, accomplished public speaker and self-help charlatan Elsie Lincoln Benedict outlines her pseudo-scientific system of 'Human Analysis'. She proposes that, within the human race, five su...

Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter audiobook. Genre: family Pollyanna tells the story of Pollyanna Whittier, a young girl who goes to live with her wealthy Aunt Polly after her father's death. Pollyanna's philosophy of life centers around what she calls 'The Glad Game': she always tries to find something to be glad about in every situation, and to always do without delay whatever she thinks is right....

Beowulf by Francis Barton Gummere audiobook. Genre: folklore In Francis Barton Gummere's classic English rendering of Beowulf, an ancient world of mead-halls, sea-roads, and oath-bound warriors comes vividly to life. The Danes are beset by a night-stalking monster, and their great hall, Heorot, has become a place of dread. Across the whale-road comes Beowulf, a young Geatish champion driven by dut...

The Kybalion by The Three Initiates audiobook. Genre: philosophy First published in 1908 under the enigmatic byline 'The Three Initiates,' The Kybalion is a concise introduction to Hermetic philosophy, presenting a set of foundational ideas said to be distilled from the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus. Written in a clear, aphoristic style, the book guides listeners through seven core principles m...

The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit audiobook. Genre: family When their comfortable London life collapses overnight, three siblings - Roberta (Bobbie), Peter, and the youngest, Phyllis - are whisked away with their mother to a small cottage in the countryside. The house is plain, money is tight, and their father is suddenly gone, leaving the children with more questions than answers. Just beyond...

The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi In The Warlord of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs concludes the original Barsoom trilogy with John Carter still stranded on Earth, haunted by vivid memories of Mars and the love he cannot reach. When a mysterious force offers him a perilous path back to the dying red planet, Carter seizes the chance, only to discover that Barsoom has g...

The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot hurls listeners into a pulp adventure where modern warfare collides with primeval survival. During World War I, a mixed group of British and German passengers and prisoners find themselves forced into an uneasy alliance after their voyage is disrupted at sea. Their only cha...

The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi The Gods of Mars is a 1918 Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the second of his famous Barsoom series. It can be said that the novel set the tone for much science fiction to come. Its influence can clearly be seen in franchises such as Star Trek and Farscape. While Burroughs no doubt borrowed liberally from the pulp fiction...

A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi When American soldier and adventurer John Carter flees into the Arizona wilderness, a strange accident sweeps him far beyond Earth to the dying world of Barsoom - Mars - where thinner air, brutal deserts, and ancient rivalries shape every breath. Gifted with extraordinary strength and agility under the planet's lesser gravity, Cart...

Two Poe Tales by Edgar Allan Poe audiobook. Genre: comedy Two Poe Tales gathers two of Edgar Allan Poe's sharpest, funniest send-ups of the very Gothic sensationalism he helped popularize: How to Write a Blackwood Article and its companion tale, A Predicament. In the first story, the ambitious and delightfully self-important Signora Psyche Zenobia sets out to become a literary sensation by followi...

Fighting the Flying Circus by Eddie Rickenbacker audiobook. Genre: biography In Fighting the Flying Circus, Eddie Rickenbacker - the American ace who rose from a hard-scrabble childhood and a career in racing to the cockpit of a fighter plane - recounts his World War I service with vivid, ground-level immediacy. Thrown into the new and terrifying world of aerial combat, Rickenbacker describes the...

The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung audiobook. Genre: mystery 'I'd tasted blood, and it was all over with me. Why should I work when I could steal? Why settle down to some humdrum uncongenial billet, when excitement, romance, danger and a decent living were all going begging together?'- A. J. Raffles, The Ides of March. The Amateur Cracksman is the first collection of stories about A. J. Raffle...

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri audiobook. Genre: poetry The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened 'Divina' by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, the last great work of literature of the Middle Ages and the first great work of the Renaissance. A culmination of the me...