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!
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Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski ~...
Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski audiobook.
“Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.”
The difference is: it’s all true.
Ferdinand Ossendowski w...
531 min
1552
Mark Twain and the Happy Island by Elizabeth Wa...
Mark Twain and the Happy Island by Elizabeth Wallace audiobook.This Mark Twain Memoir by Elizabeth Wallace paints an idyllic portrait of his time in Bermuda, not long before his death in 1910. Wallace and Twain met in Bermuda in 1908, became fast fr...
143 min
1553
Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse ~ Full Audiobook
Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse audiobook."Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."The character, sensibilities, and intellectual faculties of animals have always been a favourite study, and they are, perhaps,...
809 min
1554
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton audiobook.
Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character's fraught...
239 min
1555
Crucial Instances by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audio...
Crucial Instances by Edith Wharton audiobook.
This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, "Copy: A Dialogue," is written as a short play. The role of Hilda is read by Arielle Lipshaw, and t...
305 min
1556
Master Flea by E. T. A. Hoffmann ~ Full Audiobook
Master Flea by E. T. A. Hoffmann audiobook.
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776 – 1822), better known by his pen name E.T.A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music cri...
323 min
1557
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence audiobook.
This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to ...
1127 min
1558
The Fortunes of Glencore by Charles James Lever...
The Fortunes of Glencore by Charles James Lever audiobook.
Viscount Glencore has retreated to live alone with his son in Glencore castle after his wife deserted him claiming she did not love him. He wishes to exact revenge on her by denouncing the ma...
1032 min
1559
Henrietta Temple by Benjamin Disraeli ~ Full Au...
Henrietta Temple by Benjamin Disraeli audiobook.
The Armine family, in particular the young Ferdinand Armine, is in great financial difficulties. Ferdinand's grandfather has burdened the family estate with large debts, which his father did not manage...
1050 min
1560
The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness E. Orczy ~ Fu...
The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness E. Orczy audiobook.
First Published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel.
450 min
1561
El Dorado by Baroness E. Orczy ~ Full Audiobook
El Dorado by Baroness E. Orczy audiobook.
651 min
1562
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ~ Full Aud...
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens audiobook.
"David Copperfield" or "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery" was first published in 1850. Like all except five of his wo...
1989 min
1563
The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens ~ Full Au...
The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens audiobook.
While "The Battle of Life" is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books - his annual release of a story just before Christmas - this one breaks the tradition by not being concerned with Christmas. Rather...
208 min
1564
Over the Top by Arthur Empey ~ Full Audiobook
Over the Top by Arthur Empey audiobook.
Arthur Guy Empey was an American who responded to the sinking of the Lusitania by enlisting with the British Army to fight in France. His experiences in the trenches, including his ultimate wounding and convale...
424 min
1565
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day by Arnol...
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett audiobook.
"Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.'" -- Arnold Bennett knew a "rat race" when he saw one. Every day, h...
85 min
1566
Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson ~ Full Audiobook
Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson audiobook.
Many writers have penned studies of Mark Twain's life and work through the years. Twain authorized this biography, having met and hosted the writer, Archibald Henderson, on a few occasions. Henderson consi...
329 min
1567
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas ~ F...
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas audiobook.
In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the “man in the iron mask” was, why he was imprisoned, and how he was treated during impr...
1258 min
1568
The Boys Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow P...
The Boys Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine audiobook.
Albert Bigelow Paine was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' (Mark Twain's) biographer. He lived with Twain, collecting ideas and material for a biography, for a few years before Twain's death in 1...
529 min
1569
The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincol...
The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln audiobook.
After having written and released an initial draft of this proclamation in September of 1862, minor changes were made and Lincoln signed it on January 1st, 1863. It declared free the slaves ...
7 min
1570
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln ~ Ful...
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln audiobook.
It was a cloudy November day in 1863 when thousands gathered to hear renowned orator Edward Everett dedicate a national cemetery at the site of a pivotal battle early in July of that year. Also pre...
2 min
1571
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg by Abner Double...
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg by Abner Doubleday audiobook.
Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter in 1861. Two years later, after a series of battl...
400 min
1572
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare ...
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare audiobook.
The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies, and was inspired by classical Roman comedy and the Italian commedia dell'arte. Baptista Minola, a rich gentleman of Padua, ha...
143 min
1573
Othello by William Shakespeare ~ Full Audiobook
Othello by William Shakespeare audiobook.
Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian lady. The newly-married coupl...
184 min
1574
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins ~ Full Audiobook
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins audiobook.
The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday.
The book is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and ...
1208 min
1575
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman ~ Full Audiobook
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman audiobook.
American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much p...
1155 min