Classic Audiobook Collection

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen audiobook. Genre: romance When the Dashwood family loses their estate, two sisters - practical Elinor and passionately romantic Marianne - are pushed from comfort into uncertainty, forced to rebuild their lives on a far smaller income and under the watchful gaze of society. As they settle into a new home, each sister faces a different kind of trial: Elinor must...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen audiobook. Genre: romance In the rolling countryside of Regency England, the sharp-witted Elizabeth Bennet navigates a world where money, manners, and marriage determine a family's future. With five daughters and an uncertain inheritance, the Bennets face mounting pressure to secure advantageous matches, especially as eligible gentlemen arrive in the neighborhood...

Persuasion by Jane Austen audiobook. Genre: romance In Jane Austen's Persuasion, quiet endurance meets second chances in the seaside world of Regency England. Years ago, Anne Elliot was persuaded to end her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a promising young naval officer with little fortune. Now twenty-seven and overlooked in her vain, status-obsessed family, Anne watches her life shrink as her...

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen audiobook. Genre: romance Catherine Morland is young, imaginative, and freshly arrived in Bath, where polite society is a whirlwind of dances, dinners, and unspoken rules. Eager for friendship and romance, she falls in with the charming Isabella Thorpe and Isabella's brash brother John, whose easy confidence masks motives Catherine is too kindhearted to suspect. Ami...

War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: scifi H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1898, when there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars. The book is considered to be one of the first science fiction novels. In the story, an English gentleman narrates the events of a violent and fast paced Martian invasion. The frightening images of people fleeing from gigantic tripo...

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: scifi In late Victorian England, an eccentric inventor known only as the Time Traveller invites a small circle of skeptical friends to witness an impossible achievement: a machine designed to move through time itself. When his demonstration leaves unanswered questions, he soon commits to a far bolder experiment, vanishing into the future to see wha...

Pandora’s Box by Frank Wedekind audiobook. Genre: drama Pandora's Box (1904) (Die Büchse der Pandora) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the first is Earth Spirit [1895]), both of which depict a society 'riven by the demands of lust and greed'. G. W. Pabst directed a silent film version (Pandora's Box), which was loosely based...

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett audiobook. Genre: family When spoiled, lonely Mary Lennox is sent from colonial India to live with her stern uncle at the sprawling, wind-swept Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire moors, she expects only gray corridors, strict rules, and endless isolation. Instead, Mary discovers a house full of mysteries - including whispered rumors of a hidden garden...

The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary audiobook. Genre: tragedy Written in the early 1600s and set in the turbulent court of Herod the Great, The Tragedy of Mariam follows Mariam, the proud and principled queen of Judea, as she navigates the dangers of marriage to a volatile ruler whose power is matched only by his suspicion. Herod returns from political turmoil abroad to a household thick with...

Lady Susan by Jane Austen audiobook. Genre: romance Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady Susan as she engages in affairs and searches for suitable husbands for herself and her young daughter, the actual action shares its importance...

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: scifi A shipwreck in the Pacific leaves Edward Prendick clinging to life until he is rescued by a passing schooner carrying a brusque medical man, Montgomery, and a frightening cargo of restless animals. After a tense journey, Prendick is put ashore on a remote island ruled by the notorious Dr. Moreau, a scientist whose name is spoken wi...

Invisible Man by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: scifi In a lonely English village, a strange newcomer arrives wrapped in bandages, hidden behind dark glasses, and determined to avoid every curious eye. He is Griffin, a brilliant but unstable scientist who has discovered a way to make himself invisible, and he soon finds that his breakthrough has brought not freedom but isolation, fear, and a danger...

The Constant Couple by George Farquhar audiobook. Genre: comedy George Farquhar, the author of this comedy, was the son of a clergyman in the north of Ireland. He was born in the year 1678, discovered an early taste for literature, and wrote poetic stanzas at ten years of age. In 1694 he was sent to Trinity College, Dublin, and there made such progress in his studies as to acquire considerable rep...

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic 'old revolutionary stock' families that rule New York's social life. Under the rules of this society, 'being things' is better than 'doing things' and reputation and outward appearances come at the exclusion of ever...

The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure On a remote island in the East Indies, brilliant but obsessive scientist Professor Maxon pursues a forbidden experiment: manufacturing life in a secret laboratory far from any law but his own. When shipwreck survivor Virginia Maxon - his sheltered, determined daughter - crosses paths with the outsider who could expose everything,...

The Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: mystery Fresh out of college, Jimmy Torrance has the confidence of a campus champion and none of the patience to live on his father's money. He heads for 1920s Chicago determined to earn a respectable place in the world, only to discover that charm and athletic glory do not translate into a paycheck. Hungry, broke, and humiliated by o...

The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi On the dying world of Barsoom, where ancient cities cling to fading seas and honor is measured in swordplay, John Carter returns to Mars for another perilous journey. When a strange plea draws him into the icy north, he is pulled into the brutal politics of competing peoples and the shadowy power of the black pirates who raid the...

At the Earth’s Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Adventure and danger await beneath the surface in Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic subterranean romance, At the Earth's Core. When daring inventor David Innes invests in a revolutionary digging machine called the Iron Mole, a test run with its hard-edged creator, Abner Perry, goes catastrophically off course. Plunging through unk...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin audiobook. Genre: biography Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography is the plainspoken, vivid life story of one of America's most inventive and influential founders, told largely in his own witty, practical voice. Beginning with his childhood in a large Boston family, Franklin traces his early hunger for books, his restless apprenticeship, and the bold decision to...

The Maid of Maiden Lane by Amelia E. Barr audiobook. Genre: romance Set in New York City in 1791, when the young republic is still arguing over its future, The Maid of Maiden Lane follows Cornelia Moran, a spirited, dutiful young woman newly home from Moravian schooling and stepping into a world where family loyalty, social rank, and politics press on every private choice. The proud streets near M...

Alice in Wonderland by Alice Gerstenberg audiobook. Genre: fantasy Alice in Wonderland by Alice Gerstenberg is a lively stage dramatization that blends favorite episodes from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass into a fast-moving play for young performers and family audiences. When curious Alice slips out of ordinary life and into a world where logic bend...