Classic Audiobook Collection
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1601
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ~ Full Aud...
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens audiobook.
"David Copperfield" or "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery" was first published in 1850. Like all except five of his wo...
1989 min
1602
The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens ~ Full Au...
The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens audiobook.
While "The Battle of Life" is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books - his annual release of a story just before Christmas - this one breaks the tradition by not being concerned with Christmas. Rather...
208 min
1603
Over the Top by Arthur Empey ~ Full Audiobook [...
Over the Top by Arthur Empey audiobook.
Arthur Guy Empey was an American who responded to the sinking of the Lusitania by enlisting with the British Army to fight in France. His experiences in the trenches, including his ultimate wounding and convale...
424 min
1604
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day by Arnol...
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett audiobook.
"Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.'" -- Arnold Bennett knew a "rat race" when he saw one. Every day, h...
85 min
1605
Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson ~ Full Audiob...
Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson audiobook.
Many writers have penned studies of Mark Twain's life and work through the years. Twain authorized this biography, having met and hosted the writer, Archibald Henderson, on a few occasions. Henderson consi...
329 min
1606
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas ~ F...
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas audiobook.
In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the “man in the iron mask” was, why he was imprisoned, and how he was treated during impr...
1258 min
1607
The Boys Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow P...
The Boys Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine audiobook.
Albert Bigelow Paine was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' (Mark Twain's) biographer. He lived with Twain, collecting ideas and material for a biography, for a few years before Twain's death in 1...
529 min
1608
The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincol...
The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln audiobook.
After having written and released an initial draft of this proclamation in September of 1862, minor changes were made and Lincoln signed it on January 1st, 1863. It declared free the slaves ...
7 min
1609
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln ~ Ful...
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln audiobook.
It was a cloudy November day in 1863 when thousands gathered to hear renowned orator Edward Everett dedicate a national cemetery at the site of a pivotal battle early in July of that year. Also pre...
2 min
1610
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg by Abner Double...
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg by Abner Doubleday audiobook.
Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter in 1861. Two years later, after a series of battl...
400 min
1611
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare ...
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare audiobook.
The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies, and was inspired by classical Roman comedy and the Italian commedia dell'arte. Baptista Minola, a rich gentleman of Padua, ha...
143 min
1612
Othello by William Shakespeare ~ Full Audiobook...
Othello by William Shakespeare audiobook.
Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian lady. The newly-married coupl...
184 min
1613
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins ~ Full Audioboo...
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins audiobook.
The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday.
The book is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and ...
1208 min
1614
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman ~ Full Audioboo...
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman audiobook.
American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much p...
1155 min
1615
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
1616
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
1617
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
1618
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
1619
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
1620
Utopia by Thomas More ~ Full Audiobook [philoso...
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
1621
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
1622
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
1623
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
1624
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
1625
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