Classic Audiobook Collection
Explore over a thousand great books by authors from the ancient world through to the twentieth century. From Jane Austen to Herman Melville to Sun Tzu, from the ancient Greeks to American modernists: If a book changed the world, it's here. Share these full-length audiobooks with friends and start an audiobook club!
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Herbert West - Re-Animator by H. P. Lovecraft ~...
Herbert West - Re-Animator by H. P. Lovecraft audiobook.
"Herbert West—Reanimator" is a story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft that was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story wa...
89 min
977
Jacqueline of Golden River by H. M. Egbert ~ Fu...
Jacqueline of Golden River by H. M. Egbert audiobook.
Jacqueline seems to have contracted a touch of amnesia, as she is found in an apartment with a dead man, and with a weapon in her hand. But she remembers nothing of any incident, remembers not her...
436 min
978
Half-Past Bedtime by H. H. Bashford ~ Full Audi...
Half-Past Bedtime by H. H. Bashford audiobook.
Ah, the wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. "And who are you, Mr Jugg?" she inquired. "I'm the King of the Bumpies," he replied. When Marian was puzzled there came a litt...
264 min
979
The Passionate Friends by H. G. Wells ~ Full Au...
The Passionate Friends by H. G. Wells audiobook.
H. G. Wells is best known for his science fiction, but some of his greatest works were in other genres. The Passionate Friends is a love story. It also is a story about dreams, despair, jealousy, sex, ...
768 min
980
The Discovery Of The Future by H. G. Wells ~ Fu...
The Discovery Of The Future by H. G. Wells audiobook.
The Discovery of the Future is a 1902 philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells that argues for the knowability of the future. It was originally delivered to the Royal Institution on January 24, 1902. ...
61 min
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Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells ~ Full Audiobook
Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells audiobook.
Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a "New Woman". When it was published, the Spectator described it as a "poisonous book ... capable of poisoning the mind...
624 min
982
The Man Who Lost Himself by H. De Vere Stacpool...
The Man Who Lost Himself by H. De Vere Stacpoole audiobook.
Best known for his literary work The Blue Lagoon, which has been made into film several times over, H. De Vere Stacpoole’s first publication was a book titled The Intended in 1894. Stacpoole...
496 min
983
Time Crime by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobook
Time Crime by H. Beam Piper audiobook.
The Paratime Police had a real headache this time! Tracing one man in a population of millions is easy--compared to finding one gang hiding out on one of billions of probability lines!
251 min
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Temple Trouble by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobook
Temple Trouble by H. Beam Piper audiobook.
Did you know that our little earth is not limited to the single time line on which we happen to live? There are actually thousands, no millions of parallel times, each existing alongside all the rest. Some e...
80 min
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Space Viking by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobook
Space Viking by H. Beam Piper audiobook.
A galactic war has left the Terran Federation in ruins. Formerly civilized planets have decivilized into barbarism. Space Vikings roam the wreckage, plundering and killing for gain. Lord Lucas Trask of Traskon...
454 min
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Oomphel in the Sky by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audi...
Oomphel in the Sky by H. Beam Piper audiobook.
Natives of the distant planet of Kwannon believe that their world is about to end, and in preparing for the apocalypse, may be unnecessarily bringing about their own demise. The planetary government can’...
117 min
987
Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobook
Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper audiobook.
Naudsonce? What does THAT mean? Well, to find out you will need to listen to this story where Piper's unique mind explores what we mean by 'communication' and how it happens. The joint Space Navy-Colonial Office ...
115 min
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Ministry of Disturbance by H. Beam Piper ~ Full...
Ministry of Disturbance by H. Beam Piper audiobook.
Science Fiction at it humorous best written in the golden age of all the greats and published in Astounding Science Fiction December 1958. Piper can't be matched for sardonic comment on human nature...
115 min
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Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobook
Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper audiobook.
New Texas: its citizens figure that name about says it all. The Solar League ambassador to the Lone Star Planet has the unenviable task of convincing New Texans that a s'Srauff attack is imminent, and dang...
196 min
990
Last Enemy by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobook
Last Enemy by H. Beam Piper audiobook.
An undercover Paratimer has disappeared on assignment while in an alternate time line, and it’s up to Verkan Vall of the Paratime Police to save her. To do so, he must infiltrate a universe in which assassinatio...
158 min
991
Four Day Planet by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobook
Four Day Planet by H. Beam Piper audiobook.
Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: ...
379 min
992
Fables for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Carryl ...
Fables for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Carryl audiobook.
One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writings. The fables are written in verse, and are light-he...
47 min
993
The British Barbarians by Grant Allen ~ Full Au...
The British Barbarians by Grant Allen audiobook.
After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and his sister Frida, married to the wealthy Scot Robert Monteith...
302 min
994
The Story of the Pony Express by Glenn D. Bradl...
The Story of the Pony Express by Glenn D. Bradley audiobook.
The Story of the Pony Express offers an in depth account behind the need for a mail route to connect the eastern U.S. with the rapidly populating west coast following the gold rush of Calif...
185 min
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Orthodoxy by Gilbert K. Chesterton ~ Full Audio...
Orthodoxy by Gilbert K. Chesterton audiobook.
Orthodoxy is a book that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be believe...
420 min
996
Equation of Doom by Gerald Vance ~ Full Audiobook
Equation of Doom by Gerald Vance audiobook.
A world weary space pilot on the lam from earth for crimes unspecified; the most beautiful (earthly) tri-D woman in the universe who is determined to be the most powerful too; a planet of crafty and unscrup...
104 min
997
Stoicism by George Stock ~ Full Audiobook
Stoicism by George Stock audiobook.
This short book is part of the Philosophies Ancient and Modern series, which attempts to make Western philosophy more accessible to the general public.
In this volume, George Stock provides a concise primer on Stoi...
133 min
998
QRM-Interplanetary by George O. Smith ~ Full Au...
QRM-Interplanetary by George O. Smith audiobook.
QRM-Interplanetary is one of eleven science fiction novelettes by George O. Smith published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine between 1942 and 1945.
85 min
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The Lifted Veil by George Eliot ~ Full Audiobook
The Lifted Veil by George Eliot audiobook.
The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essenc...
118 min
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Silas Marner by George Eliot ~ Full Audiobook
Silas Marner by George Eliot audiobook.
Silas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and accused of a crime he didn’t commit, awkward Silas Marner is expelled from his beloved religious community — the only community he h...
406 min