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 Opal Serpent by Fergus Hume ~ Full Audiobook
The Opal Serpent by Fergus Hume audiobook.
An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with an opal serpent broach. He has a beautiful daughter who is apparently the heir of his large estate. But another claimant has made herse...
584 min
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The Mikado Jewel by Fergus Hume ~ Full Audiobook
The Mikado Jewel by Fergus Hume audiobook.
A widow has been murdered in the home of a relative on a foggy night in London town when all residents were off on to the theatre, and one to run an errand involving the title bauble. Who done it? Old dark h...
484 min
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The Lady From Nowhere by Fergus Hume ~ Full Aud...
The Lady From Nowhere by Fergus Hume audiobook.
A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is she and where does she come from? Detective Absalom Gebb is on the case.
367 min
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The Girl From Malta by Fergus Hume ~ Full Audio...
The Girl From Malta by Fergus Hume audiobook.
One evening as the P. and O.'s vessel "Neptune" steams away from Australia to Britain, Ronald Monteith, a young, wealthy Australian is taken into the confidence of a fellow-passenger Lionel Ventin who rel...
365 min
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The Crimson Cryptogram by Fergus Hume ~ Full Au...
The Crimson Cryptogram by Fergus Hume audiobook.
Young Dr Ellis, a struggling new physician, is enjoying a quiet evening smoking and enjoying conversation with his journalist friend Cass, when their mysterious neighbour, Mrs Moxton, bursts in upon th...
367 min
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The Clock Struck One by Fergus Hume ~ Full Audi...
The Clock Struck One by Fergus Hume audiobook.
Fergus Hume was a prolific writer of Victorian murder mysteries and The Clock Struck One is another great example of his inventive plots. Julian Edermont living in near seclusion for the last 20 years fe...
365 min
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The Bishop’s Secret by Fergus Hume ~ Full Audio...
The Bishop's Secret by Fergus Hume audiobook.
Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit from a disreputable-looking visitor. The bishop is much upset. ...
758 min
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Red Money by Fergus Hume ~ Full Audiobook
Red Money by Fergus Hume audiobook.Greed and lost love collide to create dark secrets. Through twists and turns, corrupt aristocrats let family and honor overshadow love and true happiness. In the end, evil passes and good endures.
589 min
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Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume ~ Full A...
Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume audiobook.
“The following report appeared in the Argus newspaper of Saturday, the 28th July, 18--
“Truth is said to be stranger than fiction, and certainly the extraordinary murder which took place in Melbourne ...
455 min
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Hagar of the Pawn-Shop by Fergus Hume ~ Full Au...
Hagar of the Pawn-Shop by Fergus Hume audiobook.
Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly London pawnbroker. He dies after teaching Hagar the business, a...
501 min
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The Offshore Pirate by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ Fu...
The Offshore Pirate by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.
This is a long short story in 6 parts from Fitzgerald's 1920 short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers. It predates the screwball movie comedies of the 1930's in that it features a determi...
77 min
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The Ice Palace by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ Full Au...
The Ice Palace by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.
The story is about Sally Carrol Happer, a young southern woman from the fictional city of Tarleton, Georgia, who becomes engaged one summer to Harry Bellamy, a man from an unspecified northern town. Th...
62 min
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.
The curious Case of Benjamin Button, a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, now a major motion picture, features Benjamin Button, who, born as an old man much to the dismay and...
60 min
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The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald...
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.
This novel tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune; the relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism.
775 min
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Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ ...
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known s...
515 min
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Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgeral...
Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.
Flappers and Philosophers was the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It includes eight stories: * "The Offshore Pirate" * "The Ice Palace" *...
409 min
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Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ ...
Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.
Pretty but socially clueless Bernice lets her know-it-all cousin push her around, but eventually, something's gotta give!
63 min
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Man Overboard! by F. Marion Crawford ~ Full Aud...
Man Overboard! by F. Marion Crawford audiobook.
Peculiar happenings aboard the schooner Helen B. Jackson when one night during a storm, the small crew found themselves diminished by one. Somebody had gone overboard, and it was surmised that it was on...
106 min
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Sentry of the Sky by Evelyn E. Smith ~ Full Aud...
Sentry of the Sky by Evelyn E. Smith audiobook.
There had to be a way for Sub-Archivist Clarey to get up in the world—but this way was right out of the tri-di dramas
144 min
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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