Classic Audiobook Collection

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Oomphel in the Sky by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audi...
Oomphel in the Sky by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Natives of the distant planet of Kwannon believe that their world is about to end, and in preparing for the apocalypse, may be unnecessarily bringing about their own demise. The planetary government can’...
117 min
1352
Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobook [sc...
Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Naudsonce? What does THAT mean? Well, to find out you will need to listen to this story where Piper's unique mind explores what we mean by 'communication' and how it happens. The joint Space Navy-Colonial Office ...
115 min
1353
Ministry of Disturbance by H. Beam Piper ~ Full...
Ministry of Disturbance by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Science Fiction at it humorous best written in the golden age of all the greats and published in Astounding Science Fiction December 1958. Piper can't be matched for sardonic comment on human nature...
115 min
1354
Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiob...
Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper audiobook. New Texas: its citizens figure that name about says it all. The Solar League ambassador to the Lone Star Planet has the unenviable task of convincing New Texans that a s'Srauff attack is imminent, and dang...
196 min
1355
Last Enemy by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobook [s...
Last Enemy by H. Beam Piper audiobook. An undercover Paratimer has disappeared on assignment while in an alternate time line, and it’s up to Verkan Vall of the Paratime Police to save her. To do so, he must infiltrate a universe in which assassinatio...
158 min
1356
Four Day Planet by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobo...
Four Day Planet by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: ...
379 min
1357
Fables for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Carryl ...
Fables for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Carryl audiobook. One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writings. The fables are written in verse, and are light-he...
47 min
1358
The British Barbarians by Grant Allen ~ Full Au...
The British Barbarians by Grant Allen audiobook. After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and his sister Frida, married to the wealthy Scot Robert Monteith...
302 min
1359
The Story of the Pony Express by Glenn D. Bradl...
The Story of the Pony Express by Glenn D. Bradley audiobook. The Story of the Pony Express offers an in depth account behind the need for a mail route to connect the eastern U.S. with the rapidly populating west coast following the gold rush of Calif...
185 min
1360
Orthodoxy by Gilbert K. Chesterton ~ Full Audio...
Orthodoxy by Gilbert K. Chesterton audiobook. Orthodoxy is a book that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be believe...
420 min
1361
Equation of Doom by Gerald Vance ~ Full Audiobo...
Equation of Doom by Gerald Vance audiobook. A world weary space pilot on the lam from earth for crimes unspecified; the most beautiful (earthly) tri-D woman in the universe who is determined to be the most powerful too; a planet of crafty and unscrup...
104 min
1362
Stoicism by George Stock ~ Full Audiobook [phil...
Stoicism by George Stock audiobook. This short book is part of the Philosophies Ancient and Modern series, which attempts to make Western philosophy more accessible to the general public. In this volume, George Stock provides a concise primer on Stoi...
133 min
1363
QRM-Interplanetary by George O. Smith ~ Full Au...
QRM-Interplanetary by George O. Smith audiobook. QRM-Interplanetary is one of eleven science fiction novelettes by George O. Smith published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine between 1942 and 1945. 
85 min
1364
The Lifted Veil by George Eliot ~ Full Audioboo...
The Lifted Veil by George Eliot audiobook. The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essenc...
118 min
1365
Silas Marner by George Eliot ~ Full Audiobook [...
Silas Marner by George Eliot audiobook. Silas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and accused of a crime he didn’t commit, awkward Silas Marner is expelled from his beloved religious community — the only community he h...
406 min
1366
Middlemarch by George Eliot ~ Full Audiobook [d...
Middlemarch by George Eliot audiobook. The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamond Vincy's finishing school education is a foil to Dorothea Brooke's rel...
2101 min
1367
A Man of Honor by George Eggleston ~ Full Audio...
A Man of Honor by George Eggleston audiobook. New Yorker Robert Pagebrook travels to Virginia to visit relatives. The Civil War has ended and family ties are in order to be re-established. All goes well; the family relationships are as they should be...
354 min
1368
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw ~ Full Audiobo...
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw audiobook. Pygmalion (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw based on the Greek myth of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (based on phonetician Henry Sweet), who makes a bet ...
162 min
1369
Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw...
Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw audiobook. The story centers on the relationship between Mrs Kitty Warren, a rich woman, described by the author as "on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman" and her daug...
170 min
1370
Arms and The Man by George Bernard Shaw ~ Full ...
Arms and The Man by George Bernard Shaw audiobook. Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw that takes place in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Raina Petkoff is engaged to the gallant Sergius Saranoff, hero of the recent Bulgarian vi...
171 min
1371
A Columbus of Space by Garrett P. Serviss ~ Ful...
A Columbus of Space by Garrett P. Serviss audiobook. A classic science fiction adventure in the style of and dedicated to the readers of Jules Verne. An independent scientist discovers the secret of “inter-atomic energy”, and with it builds a craft w...
444 min
1372
The Sign of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterto...
The Sign of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. In the freezing English countryside, Father Brown leads Flambeau to the many monuments and shrines of the great General St. Claire. "Sacred to the Memory of General Sir Arthur St. Clare, Her...
48 min
1373
St. Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton ~ Ful...
St. Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. For Chesterton, Francis of Assisi is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, ...
290 min
1374
Heretics by G. K. Chesterton ~ Full Audiobook [...
Heretics by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicking journalist," he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually e...
428 min
1375
The Cat of Bubastes by G. A. Henty ~ Full Audio...
The Cat of Bubastes by G. A. Henty audiobook. G.A. Henty’s “tale of ancient Egypt” tells the story of Amuba, prince of the Rebu, who is taken captive when his people are conquered by the Egyptians, and then becomes the servant and companion of Chebro...
645 min