Classic Audiobook Collection
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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
1427
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
1428
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
1429
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
1430
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
1431
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
1432
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
1433
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
1434
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
1435
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
1436
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
1437
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
1438
Round the Sofa by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ ...
Round the Sofa by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.
Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story teller. That Lady was Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell (North and So...
974 min
1439
North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~...
North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.
Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relocates to northern England. As an outsider from the ag...
1141 min
1440
Mr. Harrison’s Confessions by Elizabeth Cleghor...
Mr. Harrison's Confessions by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.
It is asserted that the inspiration for Elizabeth Gaskell's marvellous stories of Cranford was her childhood home of Knutsford, a small town in Cheshire and to where she returned for...
206 min
1441
Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full A...
Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.
Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens.
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366 min
1442
Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ ...
Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.
Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his second cousin Phillis Holman, wh...
225 min
1443
Peace on Earth, Good Will to Dogs by Eleanor Ha...
Peace on Earth, Good Will to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott audiobook.
If you don't like Christmas stories, don't read this one!
And if you don't like dogs, I don't know just what to advise you to do!
For I warn you perfectly frankly that I am dist...
123 min
1444
Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter ~ Full ...
Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter audiobook.
Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman searching for her lost nephew. Her Aunt Polly goes abroad wit...
538 min
1445
Just David by Eleanor H. Porter ~ Full Audioboo...
Just David by Eleanor H. Porter audiobook.
David and his father set out from their idyllic mountain home to go to meet family, but enroute, David's father, who is sick dies, and David is left stranded in a little farming town. No one can read his fat...
398 min
1446
The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Elli...
The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis audiobook.
Ethan Hopkins and Mickey McSquizzle-a "Yankee" and an "Irishman"-encounter a colossal, steam-powered man in the American prairies. This steam-man was constructed by Johnny Brainerd, a teenag...
183 min
1447
Nonsense Verses by Edward Lear ~ Full Audiobook...
Nonsense Verses by Edward Lear audiobook.
This is a collection of some of the delightful nonsense verses and stories by Edward Lear. A lot of them are also my favorites. The Jumblies, The Owl and the Pussy-cat; the Broom, the Shovel, The Poker and th...
43 min
1448
A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear ~ Full Audiob...
A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear audiobook.
In 1846 Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks that went through three editions and helped popularize the form. This book contains 112 of these funny, imaginative verses that have been we...
27 min
1449
Masters of Space by Edward E. Smith ~ Full Audi...
Masters of Space by Edward E. Smith audiobook.
The Masters had ruled all space with an unconquerable iron fist. But the Masters were gone. And this new, young race who came now to take their place--could they hope to defeat the ancient Enemy of All?
401 min
1450
A Short History of the US by Edward Channing ~ ...
A Short History of the US by Edward Channing audiobook.
Channing's best known work, A History of the United States, is regarded as one of the most complete and accurate accounts of American history and received the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History.
499 min