Classic Audiobook Collection

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Fiction
1401
Sea and Sardinia by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audio...
Sea and Sardinia by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. A travel book describing a journey taken by Lawrence and his wife Frieda (whom he refers to as the Queen Bee) by sea from Sicily to Sardinia and then in the interior of that island
531 min
1402
England, My England by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Au...
England, My England by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. A book of ten short stories, written with Lawrence's typical sensibility to and awareness of social mores, set around the period of the First World War
487 min
1403
Tor, A Street Boy of Jerusalem by Florence Mors...
Tor, A Street Boy of Jerusalem by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Tor is a young beggar living in the city of Jerusalem during the tumultuous time of the Roman occupation. Shouts of hope are the last thing this street boy expects when he witnesses...
172 min
1404
The Heart of Philura by Florence Morse Kingsley...
The Heart of Philura by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Once again Mrs Kingsley does not shy away from the highs and lows of life in the quickly changing world of the 1900s…the ageing women working to support themselves or their families, in jobs ...
532 min
1405
Neighbors by Florence Morse Kingsley ~ Full Aud...
Neighbors by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. The final story featuring the inhabitants of the growing township of Innisfield: Mrs Philura Pettibone’s story reaches its long-awaited conclusion and Miss Malvina’s life is changed forever by the arriv...
532 min
1406
Miss Philura’s Wedding Gown by Florence Morse K...
Miss Philura's Wedding Gown by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Follow-up to "The Transfiguration of Miss Philura"....will the conviction of mild-mannered Miss Philura that "Ask and you have already received" be proved right or will her hopes be da...
228 min
1407
And So They Were Married by Florence Morse King...
And So They Were Married by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. This is the story of Elizabeth North, a young woman who becomes engaged and with the aid of a social climbing friend begins to plan her wedding beyond what she can afford. Her friend Evel...
142 min
1408
The Turnpike House by Fergus Hume ~ Full Audiob...
The Turnpike House by Fergus Hume audiobook. A prolific writer of crime and detective stories Fergus Hume is known for his clever plots. The Turnpike House is another wonderful example of his many intriguing mysteries. EXCERPT: "Suddenly there was th...
450 min
1409
The Spider by Fergus Hume ~ Full Audiobook [mys...
The Spider by Fergus Hume audiobook. Arthur Vernon, member of the Athenian club and member of “society,” has a secret. His father has died and left him destitute, so he has begun a private investigation agency under the name “Nemo.” It would be disas...
606 min
1410
The Silver Bullet by Fergus Hume ~ Full Audiobo...
The Silver Bullet by Fergus Hume audiobook. Dr. Jim Herrick and his friend Robin are on a walking tour in the English countryside when they come across a large house where all the lights in the house are on and all of the doors are open. While trying...
733 min
1411
The Sacred Herb by Fergus Hume ~ Full Audiobook...
The Sacred Herb by Fergus Hume audiobook. A rich playboy comes home from travels abroad and is bully-ragged by his eccentric aunt into finding meaning for his life. This he does by helping a school chum save his fiancée from the gallows and the playb...
600 min
1412
The Pagan’s Cup by Fergus Hume ~ Full Audiobook...
The Pagan's Cup by Fergus Hume audiobook. A quiet seaside village with an old church and older family and its tyrannical head who tries to mould her adopted son to her whims, the vicar and his beautiful daughter and stranger looking for acceptance am...
407 min
1413
The Opal Serpent by Fergus Hume ~ Full Audioboo...
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
1414
The Mikado Jewel by Fergus Hume ~ Full Audioboo...
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
1415
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
1416
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
1417
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
1418
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
1419
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
1420
Red Money by Fergus Hume ~ Full Audiobook [myst...
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
1421
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
1422
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
1423
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
1424
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
1425
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