Classic Audiobook Collection
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1776
20000 Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne ~ F...
20000 Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne audiobook.
Captain Nemo, The Nautilus, and the mysterious depths of the ocean. Unforgettable. Come join an adventure that will roam among coral and pearls, sharks and giant squid, with wonders of biology an...
989 min
1777
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum...
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum audiobook.
Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. On April 24, 1895, he se...
471 min
1778
Heidi by Johanna Spyri ~ Full Audiobook [family]
Heidi by Johanna Spyri audiobook.
Hear Heidi if you’ve ever longed to see the Swiss mountain slopes. This story transports the listener from the fine air and freedom of the mountaintop to the confines of Frankfurt, back to the peaks again, bounding i...
583 min
1779
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss ...
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss audiobook.
The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the right stuff” and builds a charming colony that later,...
767 min
1780
Emma by Jane Austen ~ Full Audiobook [romance]
Emma by Jane Austen audiobook.
Sherry reads Jane Austen’s sparkling comedy of manners with wit and vivacity, and brings the characters to life. Mr. Woodhouse worries and frets, Miss Bates chatters on, and Emma blithely manipulates and misunderstands ...
888 min
1781
Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow by Jerome K Jer...
Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow by Jerome K Jerome audiobook.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and helped establish him as a leading ...
297 min
1782
Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris ~ Full Audi...
Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris audiobook.
That the little boy loved Uncle Remus and his stories was so obvious that the tale-spinning sessions began drawing additional listeners. Daddy Jack, an old "Africa man" visiting from down-state; Sis Temp...
372 min
1783
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ Full ...
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.
Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition, of the careless rich, of wild parties and flappers and bootleg booze; and the efforts of a dreamer to reunite with his lost love.
337 min
1784
A Room With A View by E. M. Forster ~ Full Audi...
A Room With A View by E. M. Forster audiobook.
When Lucy Honeychurch travels to Italy with her cousin, she meets George Emerson, a bohemian and an atheist who falls in love with her. Upon her return to England, she is forced to choose between free-sp...
465 min
1785
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen ~ Full Audiobook ...
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen audiobook.
Mansfield Park features Austen’s frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie is sent to rich relatives when she’s just old enough to fully apprec...
866 min
1786
Ulysses by James Joyce ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Ulysses by James Joyce audiobook.
Still one of the most radical novels of the 20th Century, James Joyce's Ulysses is considered to have ushered in the era of the modern novel. Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, the book follows Leopold Bloom and a num...
1957 min
1787
The United States Bill of Rights by James Madis...
The United States Bill of Rights by James Madison audiobook.
The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791
91 min
1788
Dubliners by James Joyce ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Dubliners by James Joyce audiobook.
Masterful short stories about life in Dublin at the turn of the century, by James Joyce.
416 min
1789
Above Life’s Turmoil by James Allen ~ Full Audi...
Above Life's Turmoil by James Allen audiobook.
The turmoil of the world we cannot avoid, but the disturbances of mind we can overcome. The duties and difficulties of life claim our attention, but we can rise above all anxiety concerning them. Surroun...
143 min
1790
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin ~ ...
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin audiobook.
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin is a collection of short stories that give a snapshot into the life of a legendary hero or an event in history. Hear how Alexander the Great tamed Bu...
198 min
1791
Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott ~ Full Audiobook [bio...
Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott audiobook.
A biography of the famous Cleopatra of Egypt, written in a manner, equally interesting to children and to adults.
388 min
1792
Moby Dick, or the Whale by Herman Melville ~ Fu...
Moby Dick, or the Whale by Herman Melville audiobook.
Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Capt...
1448 min
1793
Walden by Henry David Thoreau ~ Full Audiobook ...
Walden by Henry David Thoreau audiobook.
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden...
857 min
1794
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe ~ Fu...
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe audiobook.
Among the most “banned” books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. Stowe w...
1082 min
1795
Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw ~ F...
Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw audiobook.
Caesar and Cleopatra, a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw, was first staged in 1901 and first published with Captain Brassbound's Conversion and The Devil's Disciple in his 1901 collect...
250 min
1796
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte ~ Full Audiob...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte audiobook.
A tale of passion and vengeance set in the bleak Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights depicts the mutual love of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff till destruction and death rend the narration. There is no p...
888 min
1797
The Channings by Ellen Wood ~ Full Audiobook [d...
The Channings by Ellen Wood audiobook.
This is a saga about life in a small town in England during the Victorian era. The "stars" of this saga are the Channings. Mr. Channing was ill and, because of his poverty, his six children have to work. Many th...
1206 min
1798
Queen Elizabeth by Jacob Abbott ~ Full Audioboo...
Queen Elizabeth by Jacob Abbott audiobook.
There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their his...
292 min
1799
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. ...
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1 by Edward Gibbon audiobook.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English his...
1175 min
1800
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ~ Full Audiobook ...
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte audiobook.
Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn't quite fit. Once finished with her schooling, and with no family that really cares of her she stri...
1116 min