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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The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald...
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald audiobook.
The Princess and the Goblin is an enthralling fantasy tale written by George MacDonald. Her nurse Lootie raises the princess Irene in a house on a mountain, it is here that she meets her myst...
310 min
1577
Adam Bede by George Eliot ~ Full Audiobook
Adam Bede by George Eliot audiobook.
Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of h...
1234 min
1578
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer ~ Full...
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer audiobook.
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals an...
1142 min
1579
The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux ~ Full...
The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux audiobook.
Gaston Leroux, perhaps best known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera in its novel form, was also the author of a popular series of mystery novels featuring a young journalist cum detective na...
547 min
1580
The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton ~...
The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton audiobook.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential and prolific English writer of the early 20th century. He was a journalist, a poet and a novelist. He wrote 80 books and 200 short storie...
349 min
1581
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton ~ ...
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton audiobook.
In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist task force at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron...
356 min
1582
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by ...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass audiobook.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the m...
215 min
1583
The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesb...
The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit audiobook.
This is the story of the Bastable children and their attempts to help the family finances by searching for treasure.
248 min
1584
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ~ Full Audiobook
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka audiobook.
The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, "The Transformation") is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arguably the most famous of his works along with the longer works The Trial and...
153 min
1585
The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay ~ Full Audiobook
The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay audiobook.
"The Rosary" is a beautiful love story. Gareth Dalmain falls in love with the Honorable Jane Champion. She loves him back, but does not trust his love, as is known to be a great lover of beauty, and she - ...
665 min
1586
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ ...
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and moral...
536 min
1587
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest B...
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah audiobook.
Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books - Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime however he was equally well known for his ...
218 min
1588
Dere Mable by Edward Streeter ~ Full Audiobook
Dere Mable by Edward Streeter audiobook.
Bill is in training camp, preparing to go off to World War I. This book is a collection of love letters written to his sweetheart, Mable. The letters are humorous, mis-spelled, and have many stories of life in...
62 min
1589
The Coming Race by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ...
The Coming Race by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton audiobook.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined...
415 min
1590
Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell ~ Full ...
Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell audiobook.
One of the most requested motivational lectures of all time. "I say that you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich ... The men who get rich may be the most honest men you find in the com...
269 min
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The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling ~ Full Audio...
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling audiobook.
This classic children's book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, his cap...
299 min
1592
Just William by Richmal Crompton ~ Full Audiobook
Just William by Richmal Crompton audiobook.
William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzzled by him. The humor is gentle and pleasing. The series of books is better known in the United Kingdom than ...
358 min
1593
The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit ~ Full Aud...
The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit audiobook.
Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of a fairy tale, complete with an enchanted princess at the cente...
513 min
1594
The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace...
The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace audiobook.
Well-known mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to Broadmoor Prison. His friend T.X., head of a special branch of Scotland Yard, tries to prove his innocence.
353 min
1595
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ Fu...
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook.
562 min
1596
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by...
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens audiobook.
This is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories.
683 min
1597
Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson ~ Full Audiobook
Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson audiobook.
E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the first Headmaster. He wrote 105 books in all.
Queen Lucia (first publi...
524 min
1598
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
1599
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
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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