Classic Audiobook Collection
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1751
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
1752
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
1753
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
1754
More William by Richmal Crompton ~ Full Audiobo...
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
1755
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
1756
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
1757
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini ~ Full Audiobo...
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
1758
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
1759
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli ~ Full Audiob...
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...
336 min
1760
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
1761
Euthyphro by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]
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
1762
Mr. Spaceship by Philip K. Dick ~ Full Audioboo...
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
1763
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
1764
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
1765
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
1766
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
1767
The Blonde Lady by Maurice Leblanc ~ Full Audio...
The Blonde Lady by Maurice Leblanc audiobook.
In "The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective" - original title "Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes" - the gentleman-burglar once more meets his e...
403 min
1768
King Arthur and His Knights by Maude L. Radford...
King Arthur and His Knights by Maude L. Radford audiobook.
A collection of King Arthur's adventures, from his ascent to King of Britain to his death. This book includes some of the crucial Arthurian legends about Sir Lancelot, the Knights of the Roun...
258 min
1769
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ~ Full Audiobook [...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley audiobook.
A student discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster Frankenstein. Rejected by society, Frankenstein vows revenge on his creator.
545 min
1770
Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon ...
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 1862, it tells the story of the lovely Lucy Graham, who...
856 min
1771
Poems Every Child Should Know by Mary E. Burt ~...
Poems Every Child Should Know by Mary E. Burt audiobook.
This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lovely poems that may be unfamiliar. Most of the poems ...
488 min
1772
The Story of Abraham Lincoln by Mary A. Hamilto...
The Story of Abraham Lincoln by Mary A. Hamilton audiobook.
In this biography for young adults, Mary A. Hamilton gives a British person’s perspective on the 16th President of the United States. A glowing tribute to “Honest Abe”, the author traces Lin...
156 min
1773
The American Claimant by Mark Twain ~ Full Audi...
The American Claimant by Mark Twain audiobook.
The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The story focuses on the class differences and expectations of monarchic, hierarchical Britain and the upstart, "all men...
399 min
1774
Roughing It by Mark Twain ~ Full Audiobook [bio...
Roughing It by Mark Twain audiobook.
Roughing It is semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was authored during 1870–71 and published in 1872 as a sequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. This book tells ...
957 min
1775
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain ~ Full Audio...
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain audiobook.
When you dive into Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens’) The Innocents Abroad, you have to be ready to learn more about the unadorned, ungilded reality of 19th century “touring” than you might think you want to ...
1176 min