Classic Audiobook Collection

The Double by Edgar Wallace audiobook. Genre: mystery Newly promoted Detective Inspector Richard (Dick) Staines of Scotland Yard has built a reputation on patience, precision, and an uncanny feel for the small details other men miss. Then, on a storm-lashed night in fashionable Belgravia, one desperate decision pulls him into a case unlike any in his career: trapped outside an acquaintance's house...

The Red Hawk by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi In The Red Hawk, Edgar Rice Burroughs carries his Moon trilogy into a harsh, far-future America where the old world has collapsed into scattered, horse-borne tribes and the last remnants of alien rule still poison the land. Centuries after the Kalkars and their human collaborators shattered civilization, technology and history have faded...

Sin In Their Blood by Ed Lacy audiobook. Genre: mystery Matt Ranzino has a reputation as the toughest private eye in town, but when he comes home from the Korean War, toughness is not what he feels. Worn down by what he has seen overseas and by months in hospitals, Matt wants a quiet life and a clean break from the city that still remembers every enemy he made as a fighter, a cop, and a PI. Then a...

Second Stage Lensmen by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi The war between the Galactic Patrol and the hidden forces of Boskone is about to turn from skirmishes into something far larger. Kimball Kinnison, newly proven as a Lensman, carries a tool no ordinary agent can wield: the Lens itself, a living symbol of authority that amplifies his mind and binds him to the Patrol's highest purpose. But a...

Galactic Patrol by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi In the far future, humanity has taken its first uneasy steps into a wider galactic community, only to find that interstellar space is already a battleground. When brilliant young engineer and newly commissioned officer Kimball Kinnison enters the Triplanetary Service, he expects patrol work and exploration, not a covert war against a ruthless...

Children of the Lens by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi In the climactic final volume of E. E. Smith's Lensman saga, the war between Civilization and the shadowy power of Boskone enters a new and dangerous phase. Kimball Kinnison and Clarissa MacDougall Kinnison have helped shape the Galactic Patrol into a force capable of challenging interstellar crime-lords and hidden manipulators, but the e...

The Cat Saw Murder by Dolores Hitchens audiobook. Genre: mystery When seventy-year-old Rachel Murdock and her quieter sister, Jennifer, get a desperate message from their beloved niece Lily in the seaside town of Breakers Beach, California, they board a train from Los Angeles at once, refusing to leave behind their sleek black cat, Samantha. But the trip turns ominous the moment they arrive: Saman...

The Man with the Red Beard, A Story of Moscow and London by David Whitelaw audiobook. Genre: thriller Fresh from a year reporting on the unrest of tsarist Russia, a hard-nosed journalist returns to London expecting ordinary assignments and a quieter life. Instead, a chance encounter pulls him into a chase that begins with an enigmatic stranger known only for his unmistakable red beard, a stolen je...

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe audiobook. Genre: adventure Born in Newgate Prison and cast into poverty, Moll Flanders grows up determined to survive in a world that offers women few safe choices. Telling her own story in a candid, shrewd voice, Moll follows opportunity wherever it appears - through households and marketplaces, across social classes, and into a string of marriages, bargains, and be...

Lady Chatterleys Lover by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: romance Set in post-World War I England, Lady Chatterley's Lover follows Constance (Connie) Reid after her marriage to Sir Clifford Chatterley, an upper-class baronet whose war injury leaves him physically disabled and increasingly withdrawn into ambition, status, and the running of his coal-mining estate. Isolated at Wragby Hall and suffo...

The Soul Stealers by Chester S. Geier audiobook. Genre: scifi Bryan, a battle-worn newspaper reporter, thinks he has seen every kind of death until a string of baffling cases lands him in a hospital ward: men whose bodies still breathe, yet whose minds are gone, as if the essential spark inside them has been stolen. The trail leads to Chicago's Grant Park, where nighttime shadows hide impossible s...

Hours of Sorrow by Charlotte Elliott audiobook. Genre: religion Written by Charlotte Elliott, the Victorian hymn writer best known for 'Just as I Am,' Hours of Sorrow is a devotional collection created for listeners moving through illness, grief, and long seasons of low spirits. In a series of short, hymn-like poems and meditations, Elliott gives language to weariness, doubt, and the lonely hours...

The Crooked Cross by Charles J. Dutton audiobook. Genre: mystery When summer heat makes New York City feel unbearable, John Bartley plans an easy escape: a visit to his friend Carter in a quiet lakeside village. Instead, Bartley sends his friend Pelt ahead to settle in, never guessing that a simple holiday will turn into a case that reaches from a country house dining room to the attention of Scot...

Square Deal Sanderson by Charles Alden Seltzer audiobook. Genre: adventure In the hard, empty spaces of the Southwestern range, Deal 'Square Deal' Sanderson lives by a simple code: do the right thing, even when nobody is watching. While traveling alone, he stumbles onto violence in a remote ravine and finds a letter meant for Mary Bransford, a young ranch owner desperately waiting for the brother...

The Syndic by C. M. Kornbluth audiobook. Genre: scifi In a future America where the old United States has been driven offshore, order has not vanished so much as changed hands. On the East Coast, the Syndic runs like a vast protection league: pay your dues, keep your receipts, and life can be startlingly freewheeling. West of the Mississippi, a rival power known as the Mob preaches iron morality a...

The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written in the sharp, elegant style of the Spanish Baroque, The Art of Worldly Wisdom is a compact treasury of insight for anyone navigating ambition, reputation, friendship, and power. Baltasar Gracian distills decades of observation into a series of brief maxims, each offering a practical angle on how people behave and ho...

The Shining Pyramid by Arthur Machen audiobook. Genre: horror In the misty border hills of Wales, Mr. Vaughan expects a quiet life on his family estate - until unsettling signs begin to appear along an old path near the woods: flint arrowheads laid out with deliberate precision, shifting from day to day into eerie patterns, as if someone is writing a message in stone. Seeking an explanation that g...

Ornaments in Jade by Arthur Machen audiobook. Genre: horror Ornaments in Jade is Arthur Machen's slender, hallucinatory collection of ten short pieces that read like prose poems disguised as stories. Written in the 1890s but published in book form in 1924, these vignettes move through gardens, city rooms, summer landscapes, and shadowed interiors where ordinary perception begins to fail. A narrato...

Wage Labour and Capital by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Wage Labour and Capital, Karl Marx delivers a clear, tightly argued introduction to how capitalist economies work and why, in his view, they produce deep social conflict. Written as an accessible series of talks and articles, the book begins with the everyday reality of the worker who must sell labor power to survive, then asks w...

The Book of Musical Knowledge by Arthur Elson audiobook. Genre: history Arthur Elson's The Book of Musical Knowledge is a one-volume guided tour for anyone who loves music but wants to understand what they are hearing. Written for music-lovers, students, and teachers, it moves step by step from the origins of Western music into the major ideas that shape musical craft and musical meaning. Elson be...

Movement & Progression of Animals by Aristotle audiobook. Genre: science In Movement and Progression of Animals, Aristotle turns a sharp, patient eye to one of the most basic mysteries of life: how living creatures set themselves in motion. Drawing on close observation and comparative reasoning, he examines the structures that make movement possible - bones, joints, sinews, and the diverse body pl...

Practical Sermons by Archibald Alexander audiobook. Genre: religion Practical Sermons gathers a selection of clear, pastorally minded messages by Archibald Alexander, an early American Presbyterian minister and theologian best known for shaping generations of clergy at Princeton. Written to be heard as well as read, these sermons aim less at ornament and more at spiritual usefulness, pressing time...

The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov audiobook. Genre: tragedy Anton Chekhov's The Black Monk follows Andrey Kovrin, a brilliant young scholar worn down by years of intense study. On the advice of friends, he retreats to the quiet countryside estate of Yegor Pesotsky, a devoted horticulturist whose vast gardens are his life's pride. There, amid summer light, long walks, and the warm companionship of Pe...

The Theological Tractates by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius audiobook. Genre: religion Written by the late Roman philosopher and statesman Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, The Theological Tractates (often gathered as the Opuscula Sacra) offers a compact but demanding set of essays that bring the tools of classical logic to the central questions of Christian doctrine. Across these short work...

The Poverty of Philosophy by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written as a sharp reply to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's popular treatise on political economy, Karl Marx's The Poverty of Philosophy is a brisk, combative introduction to the method and stakes of Marx's emerging critique of capitalism. Moving between close textual argument and broad historical analysis, Marx challenges Proudhon's att...