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!
1526
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe ~ Full Audiobook
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe audiobook.
Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719) is considered by many the first English novel. Based on the real-life experiences of the castaway Alexande...
681 min
1527
The Sayings of Confucius by Confucius ~ Full Au...
The Sayings of Confucius by Confucius audiobook.
Promoting virtues such as filial devotion, compassion, loyalty, and propriety, these dialogues between the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius and his disciples comprise the crux of Confucianism.
191 min
1528
Kathleen by Christopher Morley ~ Full Audiobook
Kathleen by Christopher Morley audiobook.
A group called the Scorpions, eight Oxford undergraduates, find a letter Kathleen wrote a letter to Joe at Oxford. They build up an image of Kathleen and Joe from the letter and set out to find and meet Kathl...
117 min
1529
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Full Audiobook
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson audiobook.
Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional apprecia...
112 min
1530
Essays - First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ ...
Essays - First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson audiobook.
“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally rel...
504 min
1531
Laws by Plato ~ Full Audiobook
Laws by Plato audiobook.
Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's rule, instea...
1031 min
1532
Alcibiades 1 by Plato ~ Full Audiobook
Alcibiades 1 by Plato audiobook.
As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The Alcibiades 1 appears to be a short work by Plato with only two characters: So...
134 min
1533
The Adventures of Sally by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Fu...
The Adventures of Sally by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.
This romantic comedy stars a young American girl named Sally, who inherits a considerable fortune and finds her life turned upside down. The typically Wodehouseian cast includes Sally's ambitious ...
503 min
1534
My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Full Audiobook
My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.
Bertram Wooster is an English gentleman living in New York, who seems to get himself into all sorts of jams. It’s up to his manservant Jeeves to come up with the plan to save the day from unpleasant housegu...
312 min
1535
Bill the Conqueror by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Full Au...
Bill the Conqueror by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.
Hailed as one of the funniest writers of the 20th century, P. G. Wodehouse cheerfully radiates humor that is both sophisticated and popular. In Bill the Conqueror, Wodehouse creates an array of enterta...
730 min
1536
A Gentleman of Leisure by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Ful...
A Gentleman of Leisure by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.
A wealthy, love-sick bachelor, crooks, and card-sharps ensconced in an English castle make for a classic Wodehousian comedy of star-crossed lovers, imposters and stolen jewels. It all gets a bit th...
456 min
1537
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ~ Ful...
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde audiobook.
Dorian Gray, a young man of wealth and stature in late 1800's London, meets Lord Henry Wotton while posing for a portrait by his friend Basil Hallward. Once the painting is complete, Dorian realize...
560 min
1538
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde ~ Full Aud...
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde audiobook.
The American Minister and his family have bought the English stately home Canterville Chase, complete with the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville - blood-stains, clanking chains and all. But these modern...
82 min
1539
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde ~ Fu...
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde audiobook.
The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds, pretend that their names are “Ernest,” which both youn...
137 min
1540
The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb ~ Ful...
The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb audiobook.
Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not a direct translation and deemed modern in its time, Lamb...
224 min
1541
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens ~ Full Audiobook
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens audiobook.
Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial.
Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to call the public's attention to various contemporary social evils, in...
1022 min
1542
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles ...
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin audiobook.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death.
Darwin wrote the book, which h...
164 min
1543
George Washington by Calista McCabe Courtenay ~...
George Washington by Calista McCabe Courtenay audiobook.
In this biography for young people, Calista McCabe Courtenay takes the reader from George Washington the surveyor to his early military career, first as a colonel in the Virginia militia and th...
122 min
1544
Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington ~ Full Audio...
Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington audiobook.
Follow more of the hilarious life of the boy Penrod Schofield, his friends Sam Williams, Herman, Verman, Georgie, Maurice, and the love of his life, Marjorie Jones.
389 min
1545
Penrod by Booth Tarkington ~ Full Audiobook
Penrod by Booth Tarkington audiobook.
Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, and mostly the trouble he gets into.
363 min
1546
The Alchemist by Ben Jonson ~ Full Audiobook
The Alchemist by Ben Jonson audiobook.
An outbreak of plague in London forces a gentleman, Lovewit, to flee temporarily to the country, leaving his house under the sole charge of his butler, Jeremy. Jeremy uses the opportunity given to him to use the...
185 min
1547
The Old Man in the Corner by Baroness E. Orczy ...
The Old Man in the Corner by Baroness E. Orczy audiobook.
Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man in the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detectives, popping up with so many others in the wake of t...
380 min
1548
Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Wo...
Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett audiobook.
In this light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of articles, Bennett offers his thoughts on exercising the mind, organising your life, the advantages (and disadvan...
170 min
1549
The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett ~ Ful...
The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett audiobook.
Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds out there are strange things going on - a German prince i...
404 min
1550
Politics by Aristotle ~ Full Audiobook
Politics by Aristotle audiobook.
The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts in political philosophy. In it, Aristotle explores the role that the political community should play in developing the vir...
554 min