Classic Audiobook Collection

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1751
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
1752
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
1753
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
1754
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
1755
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
1756
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
1757
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
1758
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
1759
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
1760
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
1761
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
1762
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
1763
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
1764
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
1765
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
1766
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
1767
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
1768
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
1769
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
1770
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
1771
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
1772
A Horse’s Tale by Mark Twain ~ Full Audiobook [...
A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain audiobook. Soldier Boy is the top steed at Fort Paxton. He is Buffalo Bill’s favorite horse and has led a life of glory and honor. One day General Alison’s orphaned niece arrives and proceeds to charm every man, woman, an...
112 min
1773
In Defense of Harriet Shelley by Mark Twain ~ F...
In Defense of Harriet Shelley by Mark Twain audiobook. Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the "real" Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowden's "Life of Shelley". Even though, as Twain writes, "Shelley's life has the one i...
103 min
1774
Goldsmith’s Friend Abroad Again by Mark Twain ~...
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again by Mark Twain audiobook. This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pursuit of justice through exposure. It draws a scathingly shamefu...
37 min
1775
Following the Equator by Mark Twain ~ Full Audi...
Following the Equator by Mark Twain audiobook. Following the Equator (American English title) or More Tramps Abroad (English title) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897.Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due...
1214 min