Classic Audiobook Collection
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The Nature and Authority of Conscience by Rufus...
The Nature and Authority of Conscience by Rufus Jones audiobook.
Rufus Matthew Jones (January 25, 1863 – June 16, 1948) was an American religious leader, writer, magazine editor, philosopher, and college professor. He was instrumental in the establis...
105 min
1577
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling ~ Full A...
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling audiobook.
Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atl...
357 min
1578
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson ~ Ful...
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook.
In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood...
497 min
1579
Amusement Only by Richard Marsh ~ Full Audioboo...
Amusement Only by Richard Marsh audiobook.
This is a collection of 12 short stories of mystery and humor, which are, as the title says, for amusement only.
501 min
1580
Vagabond Adventures by Ralph Keeler ~ Full Audi...
Vagabond Adventures by Ralph Keeler audiobook.
Ralph Keeler failed as a novelist, but this autobiography reflects a life well-lived with humor and adventure. Keeler was in the same literary circle as satirist Bret Harte, novelist Charles Warren Stodd...
320 min
1581
Phaedo by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]
Phaedo by Plato audiobook.
Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail the philosop...
182 min
1582
Ten From Infinity by Paul W. Fairman ~ Full Aud...
Ten From Infinity by Paul W. Fairman audiobook.
It began when a pedestrian got hit by a cab in New York City. No doubt it was the only motor mishap in the history of creation that reached out among the stars—for far out in space a signal was register...
235 min
1583
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Hen...
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry audiobook.
This speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution d...
9 min
1584
The First Battle of Bull Run by P. G. T. Beaure...
The First Battle of Bull Run by P. G. T. Beauregard audiobook.
General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was one of the senior commanders of Southern forces during the Civil War. It was he who initiated the hostilities by opening fire on Ft. Sumter i...
101 min
1585
The Cloak by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol ~ Full A...
The Cloak by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol audiobook.
"The Cloak" is a short story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attribu...
79 min
1586
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Full ...
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook.
Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first was published in the spring of 1837, and the second in 1842. The stories had all been previously publishe...
1018 min
1587
Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne...
Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook.
"Mosses from an Old Manse" is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes several previously-published short stories and is named in hono...
1138 min
1588
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawt...
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook.
"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's moral for "The House of the Seven Gables," taken from the...
721 min
1589
This World is Taboo by Murray Leinster ~ Full A...
This World is Taboo by Murray Leinster audiobook.
Calhoun is an Interstellar Medical Serviceman, and he's needed on Dara. Trouble is: Dara is forbidden. Taboo. And breaking quarantine will make Calhoun a presumed plague-carrier and subject to being s...
240 min
1590
Conquest Over Time by Michael Shaara ~ Full Aud...
Conquest Over Time by Michael Shaara audiobook.
Pat Travis, a spacer renowned for his luck, is suddenly quite out of it. His job is to beat his competitors to sign newly-Contacted human races to commercial contracts...
But what can he do when he find...
80 min
1591
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes...
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge audiobook.
Mary Mapes Dodge created an instant bestseller with "Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates." She wanted the book to be partly a book of travels and partly a domestic story. It is a tale wri...
597 min
1592
The Treaty With China by Mark Twain ~ Full Audi...
The Treaty With China by Mark Twain audiobook.
"A good candidate for 'the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain' would be 'The Treaty With China,' which he published in the New York Tribune in 1868. This piece, which is an early statement of Twai...
46 min
1593
Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain ~ Full Audioboo...
Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain audiobook.
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Afri...
186 min
1594
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today by Mark Twain ~...
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today by Mark Twain audiobook.
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age, commonly g...
969 min
1595
The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain ~ Full ...
The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain audiobook.
In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the mystery bu...
50 min
1596
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
1597
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
1598
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
1599
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
1600
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