Classic Audiobook Collection
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1801
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
1802
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
1803
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
1804
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
1805
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ Fu...
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook.
562 min
1806
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
1807
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
1808
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
1809
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
1810
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
1811
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
1812
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
1813
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
1814
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
1815
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
1816
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
1817
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
1818
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
1819
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
1820
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
1821
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde ~ Fu...
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde audiobook.
The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds, pretend that their names are “Ernest,” which both youn...
137 min
1822
The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb ~ Ful...
The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb audiobook.
Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not a direct translation and deemed modern in its time, Lamb...
224 min
1823
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens ~ Full Audioboo...
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens audiobook.
Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial.
Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to call the public's attention to various contemporary social evils, in...
1022 min
1824
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles ...
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin audiobook.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death.
Darwin wrote the book, which h...
164 min
1825
George Washington by Calista McCabe Courtenay ~...
George Washington by Calista McCabe Courtenay audiobook.
In this biography for young people, Calista McCabe Courtenay takes the reader from George Washington the surveyor to his early military career, first as a colonel in the Virginia militia and th...
122 min