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 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
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Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster ~ F...
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster audiobook.
On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and d...
261 min
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A Passage to India by E. M. Forster ~ Full Audi...
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster audiobook.
E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) is widely acclaimed as one of the hundred best literary works of 20th century. Time magazine rates it among the top 100 English-language novels of all time.
A Pa...
822 min
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Villette by Charlotte Bronte ~ Full Audiobook
Villette by Charlotte Bronte audiobook.
After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against an overwhelming sense of desolation. Meeting a charming doctor and a s...
1449 min
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Tarzan and the Ant Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs ...
Tarzan and the Ant Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook.
Tarzan book 10.
Lord Greystoke, Tarzan of the Apes, is embroiled in thrilling adventures among the tiny, warlike Minunians
463 min
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Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Edgar Rice Burrou...
Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook.
Tarzan book 9.
Tarzan's amazing ability to establish kinship with some of the most dangerous animals in the jungle serves him well in this exciting story of his adventures with the Golden ...
390 min
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Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ F...
Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook.
Tarzan book 8.
In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German troops, but was in fact alive. In this nove...
549 min
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Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ Fu...
Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook.
Tarzan book 7. (I posted book 6 " Jungle Tales of Tarzan" on Nov 30)
This book follows Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar chronologically. The action is set during World War I. While away from his plan...
664 min
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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Bur...
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook.
Tarzan book 5.
Tarzan finds himself bereft of his fortune and resolves to return to the jewel-room of Opar, leaving Jane to face unexpected danger at home.
408 min
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Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ Full Au...
Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook.
Tarzan book 4.
Alexis Paulvitch, a henchman of Tarzan's now-deceased enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, survived his encounter with Tarzan in the third novel and wants to even the score.
590 min
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The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ ...
The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook.
Tarzan book 3.
In the previous novel Tarzan reclaimed his name and title as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke. In this novel he finds that proper society is just as vicious as the jungle when greedy ...
319 min
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The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ ...
The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook.
Tarzan book 2. (I posted book 1 "Tarzan of the Apes" on Jul 26)
The novel picks up where Tarzan of the Apes left off. The ape man, feeling rootless in the wake of his noble sacrifice of his pros...
550 min
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A House to Let by Charles Dickens ~ Full Audiobook
A House to Let by Charles Dickens audiobook.
A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, or, in the case...
251 min
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The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green...
The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green audiobook.
"I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest—up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or, at least, suffered an eclipse. Why and how, I am about ...
440 min
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The Thief by Anna Katharine Green ~ Full Audiobook
The Thief by Anna Katharine Green audiobook.
At a dinner party, a valuable coin is lost while being passed around among the guests to look at. One of the gentlemen insists to empty his pockets to the host to free himself of all suspicion, and the oth...
52 min
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The Sword of Damocles by Anna Katharine Green ~...
The Sword of Damocles by Anna Katharine Green audiobook.
Anna Katharine Green is best known as one of the first women detective writers, and The Sword of Damocles, first published in 1881, does indeed include several mysteries. There is a very brief ...
999 min
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The Staircase at the Heart’s Delight by Anna Ka...
The Staircase at the Heart's Delight by Anna Katharine Green audiobook.
Detective Ebenezer Gryce tells the story of the case with which he begun his career in 1840. Several wealthy men were drowned and washed ashore in New York City, and the first cl...
54 min