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!
1576
The Adventures of Maya the Bee by Waldemar Bons...
The Adventures of Maya the Bee by Waldemar Bonsels audiobook.
The Adventures of Maya the Bee is an exciting tale for children of all ages. Themes of growth and development of courage and wisdom are found, as well as the extreme joy and satisfaction t...
269 min
1577
Universal Declaration of Human Rights by United...
Universal Declaration of Human Rights by United Nations General Assembly audiobook.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ratified in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly. It defines the fundamental rights of individuals, and exhorts a...
18 min
1578
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydi...
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides audiobook.
The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens)...
1255 min
1579
The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse by Thornto...
The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook.
This is the story of a chubby little meadow mouse and his family in the big forest and fields where he lives. His many adventures are sometimes scary but they always end with him ...
104 min
1580
Utopia by Thomas More ~ Full Audiobook
Utopia by Thomas More audiobook.
This book is all about the fictional country called Utopia. It is a country with an ‘ideal’ form of communism, in which everything really does belong to everybody, everyone does the work they want to, and everyone is ...
232 min
1581
Common Sense by Thomas Paine ~ Full Audiobook
Common Sense by Thomas Paine audiobook.
Common Sense, Paine's pro-independence monograph published anonymously on 10 January 1776, spread quickly among literate colonists. Within three months, 120,000 copies are alleged to have been distributed throu...
130 min
1582
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy ~ Full...
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy audiobook.
Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Victorian would ever admit. A modern and honest novel of chan...
1052 min
1583
Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo ~ Full Au...
Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo audiobook.
The Confessions outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian write...
826 min
1584
The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ~ F...
The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook.Set during the Hundred Years' War with France, The White Company tells the story of a young Saxon man who is learning what it is to be a knight. Raised by Cistercian Monks and rejected by a viole...
883 min
1585
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Con...
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook.
What really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Is his nephew, Sir Henry, in danger from the legendary family curse, a gigantic black hound? Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are on the case...
352 min
1586
The Story of the Middle Ages by Samuel B. Hardi...
The Story of the Middle Ages by Samuel B. Harding audiobook.
Intended for a youthful audience, The Story of the Middle Ages, published in 1906, tells the history of the Middle Ages in simple and entertaining fashion, and helps to explain the influenc...
331 min
1587
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robe...
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. London lawyer Utterson is driven to investigat...
186 min
1588
More William by Richmal Crompton ~ Full Audiobook
More William by Richmal Crompton audiobook.
The second of Crompton's series of 39 books about William Brown, our cheeky 11 year-old protagonist. A hero to some, a dastardly villain to others, this book is structured round a year in his life. Starting...
318 min
1589
And Then the Town Took Off by Richard Wilson ~ ...
And Then the Town Took Off by Richard Wilson audiobook.
The town of Superior, Ohio, certainly was living up to its name! In what was undoubtedly the most spectacular feat of the century, it simply picked itself up one night and rose two full miles ab...
226 min
1590
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini ~ Full Audiobook
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini audiobook.
Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a lawyer, politician, actor, lover, and buffoon lead his enemies to call...
1031 min
1591
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini ~ Full Audiobook
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini audiobook.
Captain Blood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. It concerns the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, who is convicted of treason in the aftermath of the Mo...
731 min
1592
Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde ~ F...
Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde audiobook.
Collection of children’s stories written in 1888, dealing primarily with love and selfishness. These stories are generally sad, with a moralistic message. The collection includes: The Happy Princ...
101 min
1593
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli ~ Full Audiobook
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli audiobook.
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. The descriptions within The Prince have the general theme of accepti...
202 min
1594
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days by Nellie ...
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days by Nellie Bly audiobook.
This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne’s 1873 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days. ...
349 min
1595
Euthyphro by Plato ~ Full Audiobook
Euthyphro by Plato audiobook.
Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the will of the gods. Socrates, desiring instruction in these matters, converses wit...
39 min
1596
Mr. Spaceship by Philip K. Dick ~ Full Audiobook
Mr. Spaceship by Philip K. Dick audiobook.
The war with the Yucks from Proxima Centauri was claimed to be a stalemate but they were really winning. The mine belts they laid seemed to propagate themselves and were slowly strangling Terran planets. How...
71 min
1597
Psmith in the City by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Full Au...
Psmith in the City by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.
Mike’s dream of studying and playing cricket at Cambridge are thwarted as his father runs into financial difficulties. Instead, Mike takes on the job of clerk at the “New Asiatic Bank.” Luckily, school...
351 min
1598
A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Full ...
A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.
A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on October 4, 1919 by George H. Doran, New York, and in the U.K. by Herbert Jenkins, London, on October 17 1919. It had...
450 min
1599
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Ful...
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook.
The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and t...
450 min
1600
In the Bishop’s Carriage by Miriam Michelson ~ ...
In the Bishop's Carriage by Miriam Michelson audiobook.
Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by its occupants, Nance and her criminal boyfriend, Tom ...
326 min