Classic Audiobook Collection

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The Dancing Girls by Edna Ferber ~ Full Audiobo...
The Dancing Girls by Edna Ferber audiobook. The Dancing Girls is just one of the 4 excellent short stories in this recording. All written by the master, Edna Ferber for magazines between 1910 and 1919 they naturally contain her unique mix of real peo...
163 min
1452
Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber ~ Full Audiob...
Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber audiobook. This book follows the adventures of Emma McChesney, a smart and savvy divorced mother who travels the Midwest as a sales representative for a large skirt and petticoat manufacturer. Her many adventures wit...
287 min
1453
Personality Plus by Edna Ferber ~ Full Audioboo...
Personality Plus by Edna Ferber audiobook. Personality Plus is an early novel by American author Edna Ferber. Originally published in 1914, Personality Plus is the second of three volumes chronicling the travels and events in the life of Emma McChesn...
165 min
1454
One Basket by Edna Ferber ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
One Basket by Edna Ferber audiobook. This sparkling collection of 7 short stories by Ferber includes some that are considered her all time best like The Woman Who Tried To be Good and The Maternal Feminine. Writing for and about women, Edna Ferber to...
306 min
1455
The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton ~ Full ...
The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton audiobook. Odo Valsecca, a promising nobleman, inherits a dukedom at a young age and, over the course of his young life, must quickly learn the politics of royalty as he deals with other nobles, the church, the...
1010 min
1456
The Touchstone by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audioboo...
The Touchstone by Edith Wharton audiobook. Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an advertisement in a London magazine promising the prospect of financial...
160 min
1457
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audi...
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton audiobook. The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American...
752 min
1458
The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton ~ Full...
The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton audiobook. This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriage, male/female relationships, New York society, and the nat...
307 min
1459
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton ~ Ful...
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton audiobook. "The Glimpses of the Moon" (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off wealthy friends. They marry out of convenience and have an "open" relat...
467 min
1460
The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton ~ Full A...
The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton audiobook. When published in 1907, this novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due to its treatment of drug abuse, mercy killing, divorce and se...
935 min
1461
Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton ~ Full...
Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton audiobook. Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and the last two in the Century Magazine. Despite the title, t...
574 min
1462
Summer by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Summer by Edith Wharton audiobook. The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity Royall, and shares many plot similarities with Wharton's better known novel...
340 min
1463
Sanctuary by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [dr...
Sanctuary by Edith Wharton audiobook. Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, nevertheless marries him. Years later, her son faces a moral crisis simil...
187 min
1464
Old New York by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook ...
Old New York by Edith Wharton audiobook. Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas (False Dawn; The Old Maid; The Spark; New Year's Day) by Edith Wharton, revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1...
542 min
1465
Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audioboo...
Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton audiobook. “Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverished New York. The sisters run a "very small shop, in a shabby baseme...
203 min
1466
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster ~ F...
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster audiobook. On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and d...
282 min
1467
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster ~ Full Audi...
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster audiobook. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) is widely acclaimed as one of the hundred best literary works of 20th century. Time magazine rates it among the top 100 English-language novels of all time. A Pa...
822 min
1468
Villette by Charlotte Bronte ~ Full Audiobook [...
Villette by Charlotte Bronte audiobook. After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against an overwhelming sense of desolation. Meeting a charming doctor and a s...
1449 min
1469
Tarzan and the Ant Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs ...
Tarzan and the Ant Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Tarzan book 10. Lord Greystoke, Tarzan of the Apes, is embroiled in thrilling adventures among the tiny, warlike Minunians
463 min
1470
Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Edgar Rice Burrou...
Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Tarzan book 9. Tarzan's amazing ability to establish kinship with some of the most dangerous animals in the jungle serves him well in this exciting story of his adventures with the Golden ...
437 min
1471
Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ F...
Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Tarzan book 8. In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German troops, but was in fact alive. In this nove...
549 min
1472
Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ Fu...
Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Tarzan book 7. (I posted book 6 " Jungle Tales of Tarzan" on Nov 30) This book follows Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar chronologically. The action is set during World War I. While away from his plan...
664 min
1473
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Bur...
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Tarzan book 5. Tarzan finds himself bereft of his fortune and resolves to return to the jewel-room of Opar, leaving Jane to face unexpected danger at home.
408 min
1474
Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ Full Au...
Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Tarzan book 4. Alexis Paulvitch, a henchman of Tarzan's now-deceased enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, survived his encounter with Tarzan in the third novel and wants to even the score.
590 min
1475
The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ ...
The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Tarzan book 3. In the previous novel Tarzan reclaimed his name and title as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke. In this novel he finds that proper society is just as vicious as the jungle when greedy ...
319 min