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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Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full A...
Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.
Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens.
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366 min
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Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ ...
Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.
Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his second cousin Phillis Holman, wh...
225 min
1078
Peace on Earth, Good Will to Dogs by Eleanor Ha...
Peace on Earth, Good Will to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott audiobook.
If you don't like Christmas stories, don't read this one!
And if you don't like dogs, I don't know just what to advise you to do!
For I warn you perfectly frankly that I am dist...
123 min
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Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter ~ Full ...
Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter audiobook.
Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman searching for her lost nephew. Her Aunt Polly goes abroad wit...
538 min
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Just David by Eleanor H. Porter ~ Full Audiobook
Just David by Eleanor H. Porter audiobook.
David and his father set out from their idyllic mountain home to go to meet family, but enroute, David's father, who is sick dies, and David is left stranded in a little farming town. No one can read his fat...
398 min
1081
The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Elli...
The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis audiobook.
Ethan Hopkins and Mickey McSquizzle-a "Yankee" and an "Irishman"-encounter a colossal, steam-powered man in the American prairies. This steam-man was constructed by Johnny Brainerd, a teenag...
183 min
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Nonsense Verses by Edward Lear ~ Full Audiobook
Nonsense Verses by Edward Lear audiobook.
This is a collection of some of the delightful nonsense verses and stories by Edward Lear. A lot of them are also my favorites. The Jumblies, The Owl and the Pussy-cat; the Broom, the Shovel, The Poker and th...
43 min
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A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear ~ Full Audiobook
A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear audiobook.
In 1846 Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks that went through three editions and helped popularize the form. This book contains 112 of these funny, imaginative verses that have been we...
27 min
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Masters of Space by Edward E. Smith ~ Full Audi...
Masters of Space by Edward E. Smith audiobook.
The Masters had ruled all space with an unconquerable iron fist. But the Masters were gone. And this new, young race who came now to take their place--could they hope to defeat the ancient Enemy of All?
401 min
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A Short History of the US by Edward Channing ~ ...
A Short History of the US by Edward Channing audiobook.
Channing's best known work, A History of the United States, is regarded as one of the most complete and accurate accounts of American history and received the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History.
499 min
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The Dancing Girls by Edna Ferber ~ Full Audiobook
The Dancing Girls by Edna Ferber audiobook.
The Dancing Girls is just one of the 4 excellent short stories in this recording. All written by the master, Edna Ferber for magazines between 1910 and 1919 they naturally contain her unique mix of real peo...
163 min
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Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber ~ Full Audiobook
Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber audiobook.
This book follows the adventures of Emma McChesney, a smart and savvy divorced mother who travels the Midwest as a sales representative for a large skirt and petticoat manufacturer. Her many adventures wit...
287 min
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Personality Plus by Edna Ferber ~ Full Audiobook
Personality Plus by Edna Ferber audiobook.
Personality Plus is an early novel by American author Edna Ferber. Originally published in 1914, Personality Plus is the second of three volumes chronicling the travels and events in the life of Emma McChesn...
165 min
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One Basket by Edna Ferber ~ Full Audiobook
One Basket by Edna Ferber audiobook.
This sparkling collection of 7 short stories by Ferber includes some that are considered her all time best like The Woman Who Tried To be Good and The Maternal Feminine. Writing for and about women, Edna Ferber to...
306 min
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The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton ~ Full ...
The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton audiobook.
Odo Valsecca, a promising nobleman, inherits a dukedom at a young age and, over the course of his young life, must quickly learn the politics of royalty as he deals with other nobles, the church, the...
1010 min
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The Touchstone by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook
The Touchstone by Edith Wharton audiobook.
Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an advertisement in a London magazine promising the prospect of financial...
160 min
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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audi...
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton audiobook.
The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American...
752 min
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The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton ~ Full...
The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton audiobook.
This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriage, male/female relationships, New York society, and the nat...
307 min
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The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton ~ Ful...
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton audiobook.
"The Glimpses of the Moon" (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off wealthy friends. They marry out of convenience and have an "open" relat...
467 min
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The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton ~ Full A...
The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton audiobook.
When published in 1907, this novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due to its treatment of drug abuse, mercy killing, divorce and se...
935 min
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Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton ~ Full...
Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton audiobook.
Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and the last two in the Century Magazine. Despite the title, t...
574 min
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Summer by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook
Summer by Edith Wharton audiobook.
The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity Royall, and shares many plot similarities with Wharton's better known novel...
337 min
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Sanctuary by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook
Sanctuary by Edith Wharton audiobook.
Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, nevertheless marries him. Years later, her son faces a moral crisis simil...
187 min
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Old New York by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook
Old New York by Edith Wharton audiobook.
Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas (False Dawn; The Old Maid; The Spark; New Year's Day) by Edith Wharton, revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1...
542 min
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Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook
Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton audiobook.
“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverished New York. The sisters run a "very small shop, in a shabby baseme...
203 min