Classic Audiobook Collection
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1801
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne ~ Full Aud...
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne audiobook.
A story of castaways, similar to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, this book details the escape from Civil War-era Richmond, Virginia, of five Northern men who dared to go aloft in a balloo...
1309 min
1802
Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules V...
Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne audiobook.
Journey to the Interior of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). The story involves a professor who...
489 min
1803
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne ~ Ful...
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne audiobook.From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of...
278 min
1804
Typhoon by Joseph Conrad ~ Full Audiobook [adve...
Typhoon by Joseph Conrad audiobook.
Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1902. It is a classic sea yarn that describes how Captain Macwhirr sails the Siamese steamer Nan-Shan into a typhoon. ...
182 min
1805
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad ~ Full Audiobook [adv...
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad audiobook.
A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea -- and of his expiation of that sin against his own ...
859 min
1806
Ashton-Kirk, Investigator by John Thomas McInty...
Ashton-Kirk, Investigator by John Thomas McIntyre audiobook.
Ashton-Kirk, who has solved so many mysteries, is himself something of a problem even to those who know him best. Although young, wealthy, and of high social position, he is nevertheless an...
486 min
1807
The Yosemite by John Muir ~ Full Audiobook [his...
The Yosemite by John Muir audiobook.
John Muir's adventure guide for the Yosemite Valley.
416 min
1808
Paradise Lost by John Milton ~ Full Audiobook [...
Paradise Lost by John Milton audiobook.
Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, and sought to create a work of art which fully...
543 min
1809
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
1810
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
1811
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
1812
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
1813
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
1814
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
1815
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
1816
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
1817
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
1818
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
1819
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
1820
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
1821
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
1822
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
1823
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
1824
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
1825
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