Classic Audiobook Collection
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1751
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ ...
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and moral...
536 min
1752
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest B...
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah audiobook.
Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books - Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime however he was equally well known for his ...
218 min
1753
Dere Mable by Edward Streeter ~ Full Audiobook ...
Dere Mable by Edward Streeter audiobook.
Bill is in training camp, preparing to go off to World War I. This book is a collection of love letters written to his sweetheart, Mable. The letters are humorous, mis-spelled, and have many stories of life in...
62 min
1754
The Coming Race by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ...
The Coming Race by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton audiobook.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined...
415 min
1755
Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell ~ Full ...
Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell audiobook.
One of the most requested motivational lectures of all time. "I say that you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich ... The men who get rich may be the most honest men you find in the com...
269 min
1756
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling ~ Full Audio...
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling audiobook.
This classic children's book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, his cap...
299 min
1757
Just William by Richmal Crompton ~ Full Audiobo...
Just William by Richmal Crompton audiobook.
William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzzled by him. The humor is gentle and pleasing. The series of books is better known in the United Kingdom than ...
358 min
1758
The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit ~ Full Aud...
The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit audiobook.
Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of a fairy tale, complete with an enchanted princess at the cente...
513 min
1759
The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace...
The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace audiobook.
Well-known mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to Broadmoor Prison. His friend T.X., head of a special branch of Scotland Yard, tries to prove his innocence.
353 min
1760
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ Fu...
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook.
562 min
1761
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by...
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens audiobook.
This is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories.
683 min
1762
Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson ~ Full Audiobook [c...
Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson audiobook.
E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the first Headmaster. He wrote 105 books in all.
Queen Lucia (first publi...
524 min
1763
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe ~ Full Audioboo...
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe audiobook.
Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719) is considered by many the first English novel. Based on the real-life experiences of the castaway Alexande...
681 min
1764
The Sayings of Confucius by Confucius ~ Full Au...
The Sayings of Confucius by Confucius audiobook.
Promoting virtues such as filial devotion, compassion, loyalty, and propriety, these dialogues between the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius and his disciples comprise the crux of Confucianism.
191 min
1765
Kathleen by Christopher Morley ~ Full Audiobook...
Kathleen by Christopher Morley audiobook.
A group called the Scorpions, eight Oxford undergraduates, find a letter Kathleen wrote a letter to Joe at Oxford. They build up an image of Kathleen and Joe from the letter and set out to find and meet Kathl...
117 min
1766
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Full Audiobook ...
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson audiobook.
Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional apprecia...
112 min
1767
Essays - First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ ...
Essays - First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson audiobook.
“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally rel...
504 min
1768
Laws by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]
Laws by Plato audiobook.
Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's rule, instea...
1031 min
1769
Alcibiades 1 by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philoso...
Alcibiades 1 by Plato audiobook.
As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The Alcibiades 1 appears to be a short work by Plato with only two characters: So...
134 min
1770
The Adventures of Sally by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Fu...
The Adventures of Sally by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.
This romantic comedy stars a young American girl named Sally, who inherits a considerable fortune and finds her life turned upside down. The typically Wodehouseian cast includes Sally's ambitious ...
503 min
1771
My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Full Audiobo...
My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.
Bertram Wooster is an English gentleman living in New York, who seems to get himself into all sorts of jams. It’s up to his manservant Jeeves to come up with the plan to save the day from unpleasant housegu...
312 min
1772
Bill the Conqueror by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Full Au...
Bill the Conqueror by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.
Hailed as one of the funniest writers of the 20th century, P. G. Wodehouse cheerfully radiates humor that is both sophisticated and popular. In Bill the Conqueror, Wodehouse creates an array of enterta...
730 min
1773
A Gentleman of Leisure by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Ful...
A Gentleman of Leisure by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.
A wealthy, love-sick bachelor, crooks, and card-sharps ensconced in an English castle make for a classic Wodehousian comedy of star-crossed lovers, imposters and stolen jewels. It all gets a bit th...
456 min
1774
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ~ Ful...
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde audiobook.
Dorian Gray, a young man of wealth and stature in late 1800's London, meets Lord Henry Wotton while posing for a portrait by his friend Basil Hallward. Once the painting is complete, Dorian realize...
560 min
1775
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde ~ Full Aud...
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde audiobook.
The American Minister and his family have bought the English stately home Canterville Chase, complete with the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville - blood-stains, clanking chains and all. But these modern...
82 min