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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The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson S...
The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton audiobook. I first read this little book when I was in the fifth grade, and now more than fifty years later, I still find it fascinating. Ernest Thompson Seton was a man with a concern for nature he...
95 min
1152
The Jack-Knife Man by Ellis Parker Butler ~ Ful...
The Jack-Knife Man by Ellis Parker Butler audiobook. A lighthearted tale which revolves around old Peter Lane, who lives in a houseboat on the Mississippi River and mostly whiles away his time whittling with his jack-knife and not really doing much e...
346 min
1153
The Confessions of a Daddy by Ellis Parker Butl...
The Confessions of a Daddy by Ellis Parker Butler audiobook. The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live quietly in their Colorado town. They don't have tr...
59 min
1154
The Master-Knot of Human Fate by Ellis Meredith...
The Master-Knot of Human Fate by Ellis Meredith audiobook. A tale of two people, and their search for answers to unknown questions. Adam and Robin find themselves inexplicably alone after an apparent natural cataclysm, and are compelled to learn how ...
259 min
1155
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaske...
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook. If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book! Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest British novelists of the Victorian era. She was one ...
1517 min
1156
Ruth by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audio...
Ruth by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook. The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fallen woman', a type of person normally outcast from respectable so...
1121 min
1157
Round the Sofa by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ ...
Round the Sofa by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook. Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story teller. That Lady was Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell (North and So...
974 min
1158
North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~...
North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook. Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relocates to northern England. As an outsider from the ag...
1141 min
1159
Mr. Harrison’s Confessions by Elizabeth Cleghor...
Mr. Harrison's Confessions by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook. It is asserted that the inspiration for Elizabeth Gaskell's marvellous stories of Cranford was her childhood home of Knutsford, a small town in Cheshire and to where she returned for...
206 min
1160
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. ...
366 min
1161
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
1162
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
1163
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
1164
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
1165
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
1166
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
1167
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
1168
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
1169
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
1170
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
1171
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
1172
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
1173
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
1174
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
1175
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