Classic Audiobook Collection
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1601
Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud ~...
Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud audiobook.
Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture...
74 min
1602
This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch ~ Full Audio...
This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch audiobook.
Robert Bloch (1917 – 1994) was a prolific writer in many genres. As a young man he was encouraged by his mentor H. P. Lovecraft, and was a close friend of Stanley G. Weinbaum. Besides hundreds of short st...
214 min
1603
Stamped Caution by Raymond Z. Gallun ~ Full Aud...
Stamped Caution by Raymond Z. Gallun audiobook.
When an alien spacecraft crashes in Missouri a team of army investigators is dispatched. Among the debris they find a Martian infant and decide to raise him in their lab. Is he too strange to form a rel...
75 min
1604
Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Fu...
Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.
Jeremy Garnet, a second-rate novelist, gets talked into joining his old pal Stanley Featheringstonehaugh Ukridge in an insane plan to start a chicken ranch. Garnet should bail out on his crazy fri...
356 min
1605
The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~ F...
The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley audiobook.
The Last Man is an early post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The plague ...
1079 min
1606
The Child’s Book of American Biography by Mary ...
The Child's Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson audiobook.
In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so often that every child should know ...
282 min
1607
The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley...
The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook.
At one time Race Cargill had been the best Terran Intelligence agent on the complex and mysterious planet of Wolf. He had repeatedly imperiled his life amongst the half-human and non-human cr...
233 min
1608
The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany ~ Full Audio...
The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany audiobook.
The Book of Wonder (1912) is an amazing collection of fourteen tales by one of the pioneers and masters of the fantasy genre Lord Dunsany. Strangeness and humor abound in these delightful stories that wer...
149 min
1609
What Men Live By and Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy...
What Men Live By and Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy audiobook.
Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experience went on to inform his writing and his lifestyle...
129 min
1610
Insurgent Mexico by John Reed ~ Full Audiobook ...
Insurgent Mexico by John Reed audiobook.
In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pancho Villa's army for four months, present with Villa's Constitutiona...
512 min
1611
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome ~ Full ...
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome audiobook.
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.
The book was intended ini...
383 min
1612
Dear Enemy by Jean Webster ~ Full Audiobook [ro...
Dear Enemy by Jean Webster audiobook.
Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs. The story as presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, Judy Abbott's college mate in Daddy-Long-Legs. Among the recipients of th...
391 min
1613
The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood ~ Full Audi...
The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood audiobook.
A wilderness story of adventure and intrigue in Alaska in the 1920’s.
547 min
1614
Boys Book of Famous Soldiers by J. Walker McSpa...
Boys Book of Famous Soldiers by J. Walker McSpadden audiobook.
These 12 stories give a personal portrait of twelve famous soldiers from the past two centuries. Each story explores the early life of the soldier —to trace his career up from boyhood thr...
366 min
1615
Atlantis - The Antediluvian World by Ignatius L...
Atlantis - The Antediluvian World by Ignatius Loyola Donnelly audiobook.
"Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a book published during 1882 by Minnesota populist politician Ignatius L. Donnelly, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during 1831. ...
1009 min
1616
Histories Vol. 1 by Herodotus of Halicarnassus ...
Histories Vol. 1 by Herodotus of Halicarnassus audiobook.
The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histories tell the story of the war between the Persian Emp...
612 min
1617
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago by...
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago by Hannah Trager audiobook.
Hannah Trager published Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago in 1926, so the book is a portrait of day to day life for a Jewish family in Jerusalem around 1876. In each ...
95 min
1618
Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobook [...
Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper audiobook.
An expedition to Mars discovers the remains of an advanced civilization, which died out many thousands of years ago. They recovered books and documents left behind, and are puzzled by their contents. Would the ...
116 min
1619
Geronimo by Geronimo ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
Geronimo by Geronimo audiobook.
Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.S. prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Geronimo’s story found audience and...
228 min
1620
The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter ~ Full Au...
The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter audiobook.
The Harvester is one of Gene Stratton-Porter’s romantic novels which combine a love of nature, high moral ideals and a good plot.
This is the story of a young man who lives in the country side with his...
893 min
1621
The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton ~ ...
The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton audiobook.A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner of an entirely new profession, and member of the Club...
288 min
1622
The White Moll by Frank L. Packard ~ Full Audio...
The White Moll by Frank L. Packard audiobook.
Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) born in Montreal, Quebec, was a Canadian novelist. Packard is credited with bridging the gap from the “cozy” style mysteries to the more gritty,...
524 min
1623
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers ~ F...
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers audiobook.
Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yachting expedition in the early 20th century combined with...
744 min
1624
The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ ...
The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.
A "Bluebeard" story in which a young woman marries a man whom she discovers has killed his previous wives and is trying to kill her as well.
131 min
1625
The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. Ingram ~ ...
The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. Ingram audiobook.
To get away from city life periodically, New Yorker Roger Locke purchases an abandoned farm house in rural Connecticut, and with the assistance of his cousin Phillida and her beau Ethan Vere, he...
455 min