Classic Audiobook Collection
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Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain ~ Full Audio...
Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain audiobook.
This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains "The Jumping Frog" in the original English, followed by a French translation (read here by Caroline Mi...
634 min
1552
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion by Mar...
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion by Mark Twain audiobook.
Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda.
102 min
1553
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain ~ Full ...
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain audiobook.
The Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. The book, set in 1547, tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pa...
415 min
1554
Old Times on the Mississippi by Mark Twain ~ Fu...
Old Times on the Mississippi by Mark Twain audiobook.
Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Originally published in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly, in 1875, this same work was published as ch...
217 min
1555
Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii by Mark Twain ...
Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii by Mark Twain audiobook.
By the time Mark Twain worked as a roving reporter for the Sacramento Union, he had held positions with other newspapers in Nevada and California. However, his assignment in 1866 to visit and ...
517 min
1556
A Horse’s Tale by Mark Twain ~ Full Audiobook [...
A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain audiobook.
Soldier Boy is the top steed at Fort Paxton. He is Buffalo Bill’s favorite horse and has led a life of glory and honor. One day General Alison’s orphaned niece arrives and proceeds to charm every man, woman, an...
112 min
1557
In Defense of Harriet Shelley by Mark Twain ~ F...
In Defense of Harriet Shelley by Mark Twain audiobook.
Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the "real" Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowden's "Life of Shelley". Even though, as Twain writes, "Shelley's life has the one i...
103 min
1558
Goldsmith’s Friend Abroad Again by Mark Twain ~...
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again by Mark Twain audiobook.
This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pursuit of justice through exposure. It draws a scathingly shamefu...
37 min
1559
Following the Equator by Mark Twain ~ Full Audi...
Following the Equator by Mark Twain audiobook.
Following the Equator (American English title) or More Tramps Abroad (English title) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897.Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due...
1214 min
1560
Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain ~ Full ...
Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain audiobook.
"Those Extraordinary Twins" was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson". As Twain explains, he extricated "Twins" from "Pu...
134 min
1561
Europe and Elsewhere by Mark Twain ~ Full Audio...
Europe and Elsewhere by Mark Twain audiobook.
This collection of articles came from Mark Twain's travels and experiences abroad. While many had been previously published, there also were many that had never before seen the light of day...which one re...
899 min
1562
A Double Barrelled Detetive Story by Mark Twain...
A Double Barrelled Detetive Story by Mark Twain audiobook.
A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west.
119 min
1563
The Death Disk by Mark Twain ~ Full Audiobook [...
The Death Disk by Mark Twain audiobook.
Mark Twain's "Death Disk" was inspired by the historical account of the execution of Colonel John Poyer of Pembroke, Wales on April 21, 1649. A small child was given the responsibility of selecting which of thr...
24 min
1564
Fennimore Cooper’s Literary Offences by Mark Tw...
Fennimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Mark Twain audiobook.
Fenimore Cooper - author of The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, etc - has often been praised, but just as often been criticised for his writing. Mark Twain wrote a funny, vicious lit...
33 min
1565
Christian Science by Mark Twain ~ Full Audioboo...
Christian Science by Mark Twain audiobook.
Christian Science is a 1907 collection of essays Mark Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. Although Twain was interested in mental healin...
480 min
1566
Alonzo Fitz & Other Stories by Mark Twain ~ Ful...
Alonzo Fitz & Other Stories by Mark Twain audiobook.
A collection of Twain short stories including:The Loves Of Alonzo FitzClarence And Rosannah EtheltonOn The Decay Of The Art Of LyingAbout Magnanimous-Incident LiteratureThe Grateful PoodleThe Benev...
199 min
1567
Ultima Thule by Mack Reynolds ~ Full Audiobook ...
Ultima Thule by Mack Reynolds audiobook.
Ronny Bronston has dreamed all his life of getting a United Planets job that would take him off-world. He finally gets the opportunity when he is given a provisional assignment with Bureau of Investigation, Se...
133 min
1568
Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott ~ Full Audioboo...
Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott audiobook.
Louisa May Alcott's overwhelming success dated from the appearance of the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, (1868) a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood years with her sisters ...
550 min
1569
The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum ~ Full...
The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook.
Who is stealing all the magic in Oz? Dorothy and her friends set out to comb all of Oz, not only for magic stolen from Glinda and the Wizard, but also for the kidnapped princess, Ozma. Along the way...
319 min
1570
Greylorn by Keith Laumer ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]
Greylorn by Keith Laumer audiobook.
Commander Greylorn has a problem. No, actually he has two of them. It's not enough that the remaining residents of Earth have pinned their last hope of salvation on him and his mission. He has to find a colony that...
131 min
1571
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran ~ Full Audiobook [...
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran audiobook.
The prophet Al Mustafa, before leaving the city where he has been living twelve years, stops to address the people. They call out for his words of wisdom on many sides of the human condition, and he addresses t...
88 min
1572
The Master of the World by Jules Verne ~ Full A...
The Master of the World by Jules Verne audiobook.
Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volcanic Blue Ridge Mountains, Strock is posted to determine the ...
294 min
1573
The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne ~ Full Audi...
The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne audiobook.
Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade, determines t...
122 min
1574
The Point of Honor by Joseph Conrad ~ Full Audi...
The Point of Honor by Joseph Conrad audiobook.
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the f...
209 min
1575
New Discoveries at Jamestown by John L. Cotter ...
New Discoveries at Jamestown by John L. Cotter audiobook.
Chances are, you are reading this because you are aware that Jamestown, Virginia, celebrated its 400th birthday in 2007. It was the first "successful" English settlement in America. Although t...
127 min