Classic Audiobooks Archive

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Dorian Gray, a young man of wealth and stature in late 1800's London, meets Lord Henry Wotton while posing for a portrait by his friend Basil Hallward. Once the painting is complete, Dorian realizes that it will always be young and attractive, while he will be forced to age and wither with the years. Author: Oscar Wilde Length: 6 hours 11 minutes Genre:...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Hamlet is commonly regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller. Author: William Shakespeare Length: 3 hours 53 minutes Genre: Plays, Drama, Tragedy Chapters: 00...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Samuel Pepys was the first Secretary to the Admiralty during the reign of Charles II, instrumental in developing the Royal Navy and witness to some of the most significant events of the Restoration period, including the Great Fire of London. His famous diary, which covers a period of some ten years, throws a frank and intimate light on a fascinating per...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This anthology collects a number of fascinating strands of Bertrand Russell's thought. "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians" details the impact of the 1900 World Congress of Philosophers on Russell's development and the hope that new methods in mathematics could be applied to the solution of ancient philosophical problems. Author: Bertrand Russell Length...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A marvelous depiction of two sides of South Sea Islands' life through three separate tales. One, the experience of the incoming British keen to live free and exploit the innocent; the other the supernatural as perceived by Stevenson working in the lives of the natives. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Genre: Classic Gothic Horro...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com In the <a href="https://librivox. org/the-adventures-of-jimmie-dale-by-frank-l-packard/">previous book of adventures</a>, we met Jimmie Dale, a wealthy playboy by day, who at night put on a disguise and became The Gray Seal, a daredevil entering businesses or homes and cracking safes, always leaving a diamond shaped, gray paper "seal" behind...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Cyril was a scholarly archbishop and a prolific writer. In the early years of his active life in the Church he wrote several exegetical documents. Author: Cyril of Alexandria Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Genre: Classic Spiritual Text Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 12:07 - Chapter 2 24:22 - Chapter 3 37:36 - Chapter 4 01:05:59 - Chapter 5 01:49:25 - Chapter 6...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com 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 medieval world-view...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Come and hear the strange tale of The Boss Hank Morgan, a modern day (at the time of publication) Connecticut Yankee who inexplicably finds himself transported to the court of the legendary King Arthur (as the title of the book implies). Hank, or simply, The Boss, as he comes to be most frequently known, quickly uses his modern day knowledge and educati...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Written in 1921, this is the final book in L. M. Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Genre: Children's Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 18:50 - Chapter 2 28:45 - Chapter 3 49:58 - Chapter 4 01:10:21 - Chapter 5 01:33:26 - Chapter 6 01:46:16 - Chapter 7 02:01:57 - Chapter 8 02:15:26 - Chapter 9 02:25:14 - Chapter 10 02:43:59 - Chap...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Black Beauty is Anna Sewell's first and only novel. The story is told in the "first person" (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir of a high-bred horse named Black Beauty, from his carefree days as a foal on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Author: Anna Sewell Length: 6 hours...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The novel tells of the troubles of a wealthy young girl, Sara Crewe, who is sent to an oppressive London boarding school during her father's campaign in India. Thanks to Capt. Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Genre: Children's Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 22:47 - Chapter 2 36:18 - Chapter 3 53:08 - Chapter 4 01:12:52 - C...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com George MacDonald is mainly known for his fantasy works and fairy tales such as At the Back of the North Wind and the Princess and the Goblin. However, during his life he was more famous for many more realistic novels. Author: George MacDonald Length: 7 hours 4 minutes Genre: Children's Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 03:38 - Chapter 2 13:43 - Chapte...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Horatio Alger, Jr. was well known for his best-selling series of books highlighting "the American Dream" of poor boys making good and becoming rich and successful through "luck and pluck". Author: Horatio Alger, Jr. Length: 4 hours 37 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 19:12 - Chapter 2 38:06 - Chapter 3 59:08 - Chapter 4...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Published by Honor de Balzac in the tempestuous year of 1830, the tale follows the undulating pathways of Sarrasine the sculptor's shocking journey to his coming of age. As one of the "fathers of realism" Balzac painted with his words a vivid portrait of life in the swirling salons of Europe at the end of the Bourbon monarchy, and we follow Sarrasine fr...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com What would you do if you discovered a dragon living in a cave on a hill above your home. Make friends, read poetry together. Author: Kenneth Grahame Length: 56 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure #FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #AdventureAudiobook #PublicDomain This audiobook recording is from LibriVox.org. All LibriVox recordings...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Aristotle's Poetics from the 4th century B. C. Author: Aristotle Length: 2 hours 23 minutes Genre: *Non-fiction, Philosophy Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 25:21 - Chapter 2 34:29 - Chapter 3 44:14 - Chapter 4 57:34 - Chapter 5 01:12:54 - Chapter 6 01:18:22 - Chapter 7 01:26:57 - Chapter 8 01:37:49 - Chapter 9 01:51:10 - Chapter 10 02:07:51 - Chapter 11 #Fu...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a mysterious young warrior who saves the Spear-Danes from the terrible monster Grendel and his venomous mother. Author: Unknown Length: 2 hours 52 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Poetry Chapters: 00:00 -...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A history of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing. Here's the definitive biography, gleaned from a lifetime of her notes, letters and writings, that goes way beyond the mere legend of "The Lady With The Lamp", and the "Founder Of Modern Nursing". Author: Edward Tyas Cook Length: 20 hours 13 minutes Genre: Classic Family Story...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne's 1873 novel, <em>Around the World in Eighty Days</em>. Wearing one dress and carrying one handbag, Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (pen name "Nellie Bly"), reported her travels back to avid readers in Americ...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com "The Rosary" is a beautiful love story. Gareth Dalmain falls in love with the Honorable Jane Champion. Author: Florence Louisa Barclay Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Genre: Romance Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 09:15 - Chapter 2 18:27 - Chapter 3 29:07 - Chapter 4 50:22 - Chapter 5 01:21:12 - Chapter 6 01:33:49 - Chapter 7 01:49:40 - Chapter 8 01:59:31 - Cha...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Let's continue the D'Artagnan Romances that we've already started with The Three Musketeers. Author: Alexandre Dumas Length: 25 hours 43 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 23:49 - Chapter 2 43:27 - Chapter 3 01:12:31 - Chapter 4 01:31:20 - Chapter 5 01:41:21 - Chapter 6 02:08:16 - Chapter 7 02:21:20 - Chapter 8 02:...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Mary Lennox is a spoiled, middle-class, self-centered child who has been recently orphaned. She is accepted into the quiet and remote country house of an uncle, who has almost completely withdrawn into himself after the death of his wife. Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Genre: Children's Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 13:2...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com <i>"I'd tasted blood, and it was all over with me. Why should I work when I could steal. Author: E. W. Hornung Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 48:39 - Chapter 2 01:24:49 - Chapter 3 02:06:38 - Chapter 4 02:43:22 - Chapter 5 03:16:00 - Chapter 6 03:54:27 - Chapter 7 04:29:18 - Chapter 8 #Ful...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago. ) and that seem to me to illustrate his unsurpassed use of language. Author: William Shakespeare Length: 33 minutes Genre: Humorous Fiction, Romance Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 01:41 - Chapter 2 03:17 - Chapter 3 04:4...