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 Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins ~ Full Audi...
The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins audiobook.
Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesies. Destiny at first doesn't seem to adhere to this plan, and the pair is separated and lose s...
606 min
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The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins ~ Full Au...
The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins audiobook.
The elderly Brothers Owen, Morgan and Griffith live a quiet, retired life in the countryside, which is turned upside-down by Griffith's ward, the young Jessie Yelverton. Originally, her visit to them w...
944 min
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A Rogue’s Life by Wilkie Collins ~ Full Audiobook
A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins audiobook.
"The story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens for a near neighbor and a daily companion, and when my leisure hours were ...
308 min
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Society as I Have Found It by Ward McAllister ~...
Society as I Have Found It by Ward McAllister audiobook.
Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McAllister’s book (Society as I have Found It) appeared, and...
374 min
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Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo ~ Full Audiobook
Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo audiobook.
This is the story of a man’s monumental struggle against nature, to win the hand of the woman he loves, and surmount every difficulty that Nature puts in his path
1022 min
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Tom Swift and His War Tank by Victor Appleton ~...
Tom Swift and His War Tank by Victor Appleton audiobook.Tom Swift, that prolific youthful inventor, is engaged in trying to help the Allies win WWI. After reading newspaper accounts of the British tanks, Tom takes a sheet of paper and sets out to de...
278 min
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Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Victo...
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Victor Appleton audiobook.
The US Government is very smartly letting Tom Swift Jr. handle the recovery of its probe to Jupiter. But a mystery missile suddenly intercepts the probe and splashes it in the South...
224 min
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The Ordeal of Mark Twain by Van Wyck Brooks ~ F...
The Ordeal of Mark Twain by Van Wyck Brooks audiobook.
This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attributes Clemens' increasing sense of pessimism to the repre...
662 min
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The Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson Page ~ ...
The Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson Page audiobook.
This is a book of short stories centered around the Civil War and its aftermath. The author was a prominent Virginian in his day, and his writing shows a talent for poignant reminiscences. The t...
351 min
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Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock ~ Full A...
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock audiobook.Deep in the fens of the British coast sits the gloomy mansion that goes by the name Nightmare Abbey. It is inhabited by persons of very low opinion of the human race, and in fact they pride themselves...
202 min
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The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt ~ Full...
The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt audiobook.
This book is a collection of Theodore Roosevelt’s published commentaries and public addresses on the general theme of the requirements for individual and collective success in the personal, civic, p...
441 min
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What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge ~ Ful...
What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge audiobook.
The continuing story of Katy Carr, recounting the time she spent at boarding school with her sister Clover.
260 min
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What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge ~ Full Audiobook
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge audiobook.
What Katy Did is a children's book written by Susan Coolidge, the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey. It follows the adventures of Katy Carr and her family, growing up in America in the 1860s. Katy is a tall...
275 min
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War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler ~ Full Audiobook
War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler audiobook.
Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler's expose of American Corporate Imperialism. Butler said, “I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major General. And during that period I spent most of ...
60 min
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Through the Magic Door by Sir Arthur Conan Doyl...
Through the Magic Door by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook.
In this volume, Arthur Conan Doyle invites us into his library and discusses his favourite literature with the listener.
288 min
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The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ~ Ful...
The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook.
Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World , Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers (Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and reporter E.D. Malone) to a me...
197 min
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The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ~ Full...
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook.
The Lost World is a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau (native name is Tepuyes) in South America (Venezuela) where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinc...
501 min
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The Royal Book of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson ~ ...
The Royal Book of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook.
The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first to be written by Ruth Plumly Thompson after L. Frank Baum's death. Although Baum was credited as the author,...
306 min
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The Nature and Authority of Conscience by Rufus...
The Nature and Authority of Conscience by Rufus Jones audiobook.
Rufus Matthew Jones (January 25, 1863 – June 16, 1948) was an American religious leader, writer, magazine editor, philosopher, and college professor. He was instrumental in the establis...
105 min
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Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling ~ Full A...
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling audiobook.
Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atl...
357 min
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The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson ~ Ful...
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook.
In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood...
497 min
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Amusement Only by Richard Marsh ~ Full Audiobook
Amusement Only by Richard Marsh audiobook.
This is a collection of 12 short stories of mystery and humor, which are, as the title says, for amusement only.
501 min
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Vagabond Adventures by Ralph Keeler ~ Full Audi...
Vagabond Adventures by Ralph Keeler audiobook.
Ralph Keeler failed as a novelist, but this autobiography reflects a life well-lived with humor and adventure. Keeler was in the same literary circle as satirist Bret Harte, novelist Charles Warren Stodd...
320 min
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Phaedo by Plato ~ Full Audiobook
Phaedo by Plato audiobook.
Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail the philosop...
182 min
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Ten From Infinity by Paul W. Fairman ~ Full Aud...
Ten From Infinity by Paul W. Fairman audiobook.
It began when a pedestrian got hit by a cab in New York City. No doubt it was the only motor mishap in the history of creation that reached out among the stars—for far out in space a signal was register...
235 min