Classic Audiobook Collection

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare audiobook. Genre: comedy Magic, fairies, young lovers chasing each other through a forest, a man with a donkey's head, and impish Puck wreaking havoc right and left. What's going on here? It's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare at his most fanciful. The play opens with Theseus, Duke of Athens, preparing for his wedding. Egeus complains to Theseu...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare audiobook. Genre: tragedy On a stormy Scottish heath, the battle-hardened nobleman Macbeth encounters three strange witches who plant a dazzling, dangerous prophecy in his mind: he is destined for greatness. Spurred by ambition and the fierce resolve of his wife, Lady Macbeth, he begins to imagine a faster path to the crown than honor can allow. As Macbeth rises in p...

King Lear by William Shakespeare audiobook. Genre: tragedy A powerful aging king, Lear, decides to step away from the burdens of rule and divide his kingdom among his three daughters. Before he grants their inheritances, he demands a public declaration of love, turning family devotion into a test of performance. Two daughters seize the opportunity with flattering words, while the third refuses to...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare audiobook. Genre: tragedy William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar plunges listeners into the charged political world of ancient Rome, where the line between patriotism and ambition is dangerously thin. As Caesar's power swells and the city buzzes with rumors of kingship, a group of senators led by the principled yet conflicted Brutus and the shrewd Cassius wrestles...

Henry V by William Shakespeare audiobook. Genre: tragedy Young King Henry has inherited a fractured realm and a heavy crown, and the English court watches closely to see whether the new monarch will be a reckless former prince or a disciplined leader. When a French insult and a disputed claim to the French throne ignite old tensions, Henry chooses a path that will test his conscience as much as hi...

King Henry IV by William Shakespeare audiobook. Genre: history In William Shakespeare's King Henry IV, the English crown sits uneasy on the head of King Henry, a ruler who won power through conflict and now faces fresh threats from within his own realm. As noble families gather allies and whisper of rebellion, the kingdom's future depends not only on battles and councils but on the character of th...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare audiobook. Genre: tragedy In the royal court of Elsinore, Denmark, Prince Hamlet returns home to a kingdom unsettled by grief and hurried celebration. His father, the king, has died, and his mother, Queen Gertrude, has swiftly married Hamlet's uncle, Claudius, who now wears the crown. Hamlet's mourning turns into suspicion when a chilling revelation suggests that the...

As You Like It by William Shakespeare audiobook. Genre: comedy In As You Like It, William Shakespeare transports listeners from the rigid politics of court to the liberating wilds of the Forest of Arden, where identities shift and love tests its own logic. When the sharp-witted Rosalind is abruptly banished by her uncle, the usurping Duke Frederick, she flees into exile with her loyal cousin Celia...

Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor audiobook. Genre: philosophy Walter Savage Landor's Imaginary Conversations is a brilliantly inventive collection of dialogues in which the dead speak again - not as museum pieces, but as sharp-minded opponents, allies, and provocateurs. Across a wide range of imagined meetings, Landor brings together rulers, rebels, poets, philosophers, generals, an...

The Science of Being Great by Wallace D. Wattles audiobook. Genre: self help In The Science of Being Great, early 20th-century writer Wallace D. Wattles lays out a practical philosophy for anyone who wants to develop personal power, leadership, and a sense of purposeful achievement. Drawing on the idea that greatness is not a matter of luck or birth but the result of specific habits of thought and...

The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles audiobook. Genre: self help First published in 1910, The Science of Getting Rich is Wallace D. Wattles' practical and motivational guide to building wealth by aligning your thoughts, habits, and daily actions with a clear purpose. Wattles argues that financial success is not a matter of luck or ruthless competition, but a learnable process grounded...

The Tragedy of the Korosko by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: adventure Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction storie...

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book, Dr. Watson meets the detective for the first time and we ride along with them to the scene of a murder. The crime baffles the Scotland Yard detectives, but of course Holmes solves it easil...

Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: adventure By 1348 the House of Loring has fallen on hard times. Together, the Black Death and the greedy monks of Waverley have bled away all of the Loring wealth. Even the manor house will have to go to pay their debts. Then a chance encounter with the King of England provides Nigel, the last of the Lorings, with the chance to seek his fortune...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery After a long and bitter absence, London is startled by whispers that the great detective may not be gone after all. Dr. John Watson, having tried to rebuild a life without his brilliant friend, is drawn back into the shadowy streets and fogbound alleys of Victorian England when a familiar figure returns and a new dan...

The Mystery of Cloomber by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery In a quiet Scottish seaside town, the respected but reclusive General Heatherstone has built a life behind locked gates, strange precautions, and a household trained to silence. When a young newcomer, John Fothergill West, arrives with his family, curiosity about the forbidding 'Cloomber' estate quickly turns into fascinat...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery In gaslit London at the height of the Victorian era, Dr. John Watson shares the riveting case notes of his brilliant friend and flatmate, consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. From their rooms at 221B Baker Street, Holmes applies icy logic, keen observation, and an uncanny talent for reading human behavior to puz...

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook. Genre: adventure Young Jim Hawkins leads an ordinary life at his family's seaside inn until a mysterious old sailor arrives with a battered sea chest and a warning to beware a one-legged man. After violence erupts and a hidden map comes to light, Jim is swept into a daring voyage to a distant island said to hold a long-lost pirate fortune. A cre...

The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde audiobook. Genre: folklore In The Happy Prince and Other Tales, Oscar Wilde gathers a handful of richly imagined stories that look like fairy tales at first glance, then deepen into sharp, compassionate meditations on love, inequality, and the cost of kindness. At the center is the glittering statue of the Happy Prince, who from his high perch finall...

The 1,000,000 Bank Note by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: comedy In this sharp, playful tale from Mark Twain, an ordinary American clerk named Henry Adams finds his life upended by an absurd stroke of fortune. Down on his luck in London and struggling to make ends meet, Henry becomes the subject of a bizarre wager between two wealthy brothers who are determined to test a single question: what would...

Mental Telegraphy by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Mental Telegraphy, Mark Twain turns a string of baffling coincidences into a brisk, funny, and strangely unsettling investigation of how minds might reach each other across distance. Writing in the familiar voice of the great American storyteller, Twain presents what he calls his discovery: that certain incidents we dismiss as mere ch...

Eve’s Diary by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: comedy Eve’s Diary is a humorous monologue about Eve’s experiences at the dawn of creation. She is fascinated by every aspect of the new world around her and… Adam! The following is an extract from Adam: “She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity, the world is to her a charm, a wonder, a mystery, a joy; she can’t speak for delight when she finds a new flo...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: adventure Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain is one of the truly great American novels, beloved by children, adults, and literary critics alike. The book tells the story of “Huck” Finn (first introduced as Tom Sawyer’s sidekick in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), his friend Jim, and their journey down the Mississippi...

King Arthur by Joseph Comyns Carr audiobook. Genre: tragedy Joseph Comyns Carr's King Arthur is a stage drama in a prologue and four acts that reshapes the familiar Arthurian legend into a sweeping, pageant-like tale of ideals tested at the height of Camelot. From the mystic promise of Excalibur to the solemn call of the Holy Grail, Arthur struggles to weld a fractured realm into a kingdom worthy...

The Sea Voyage by John Fletcher audiobook. Genre: drama Albert, a handsome French pirate, and his crew get shipwrecked on a barren, rocky island after a severe storm. They encounter another pair of castaways who reveal a quite unusual secret- yet another strange group of people inhabit the island. Albert soon learns that these people are actually an Amazonian-like tribe of women, and proposes an a...