Classic Audiobook Collection
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1776
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon ~ Full...
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon audiobook.
Relates the story of western civilization from earliest times through the beginning of the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the people and events that changed the course of history. Portr...
801 min
1777
Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard ~ Full Aud...
Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard audiobook.
Allan Quatermain was the quintessential Victorian English gentleman cum African big-game hunter. In this book, the second in the series, Quaterman and his two good friends from KSM have tired of their d...
767 min
1778
The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Aud...
The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper audiobook.
Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his poverty-stricken home planet of Poictesme, "The Junkyard Planet", with news of the possible location of Merlin, a military super-computer rumored to have been aban...
446 min
1779
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Co...
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook.
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was devised by Scottish author and doctor Sir Arthur...
514 min
1780
The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...
The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook.
When a young lady approaches Sherlock Holmes looking for help in finding out what happened to her father when he disappeared 10 years earlier, both Holmes and Watson are sent on a mission invo...
257 min
1781
His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ~ Full A...
His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook.
His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, "His Last Bow. The War Ser...
397 min
1782
Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud ~ Full Audiob...
Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud audiobook.
Not a few serious-minded students, [...], have been discouraged from attempting a study of Freud's dream psychology. The book in which he originally offered to the world his interpretation of dreams was as...
363 min
1783
Reginald by Saki ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]
Reginald by Saki audiobook.
Saki (December 18, 1870 - November 14, 1916) was the pen name of the British author Hector Hugh Munro. His witty, biting and occasionally odd short stories satirised Edwardian culture. Saki is considered a master of the sh...
97 min
1784
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert ~ Full Audiob...
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert audiobook.
Published in book form in April 1857, the novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial ...
778 min
1785
Lilith by George MacDonald ~ Full Audiobook [fa...
Lilith by George MacDonald audiobook.
Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the c...
629 min
1786
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald...
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald audiobook.
The Princess and the Goblin is an enthralling fantasy tale written by George MacDonald. Her nurse Lootie raises the princess Irene in a house on a mountain, it is here that she meets her myst...
310 min
1787
Adam Bede by George Eliot ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Adam Bede by George Eliot audiobook.
Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of h...
1234 min
1788
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer ~ Full...
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer audiobook.
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals an...
1142 min
1789
The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux ~ Full...
The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux audiobook.
Gaston Leroux, perhaps best known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera in its novel form, was also the author of a popular series of mystery novels featuring a young journalist cum detective na...
547 min
1790
The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton ~...
The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton audiobook.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential and prolific English writer of the early 20th century. He was a journalist, a poet and a novelist. He wrote 80 books and 200 short storie...
349 min
1791
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton ~ ...
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton audiobook.
In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist task force at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron...
356 min
1792
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by ...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass audiobook.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the m...
215 min
1793
The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesb...
The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit audiobook.
This is the story of the Bastable children and their attempts to help the family finances by searching for treasure.
248 min
1794
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ~ Full Audiobo...
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka audiobook.
The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, "The Transformation") is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arguably the most famous of his works along with the longer works The Trial and...
153 min
1795
The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay ~ Full Audiob...
The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay audiobook.
"The Rosary" is a beautiful love story. Gareth Dalmain falls in love with the Honorable Jane Champion. She loves him back, but does not trust his love, as is known to be a great lover of beauty, and she - ...
665 min
1796
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
1797
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
1798
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
1799
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
1800
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