Classic Audiobook Collection
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1901
Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger ~ Full Audiobook [...
Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger audiobook.
Horatio Alger, Jr. was well known for his best-selling series of books highlighting “the American Dream” of poor boys making good and becoming rich and successful through “luck and pluck”. Ragged Dick was the f...
277 min
1902
The Iliad by Homer ~ Full Audiobook [folklore]
The Iliad by Homer audiobook.
The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant w...
868 min
1903
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens ~ Full Audiobo...
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens audiobook.
A wayside tavern where the local men drink and gossip; an unsolved, twenty year old murder at a nearby mansion; a very talkative black raven; a London locksmith and his family; a man apparently returned fro...
1731 min
1904
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens ~ Full ...
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens audiobook.
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism.
The plot centers on the y...
899 min
1905
Dracula by Bram Stoker ~ Full Audiobook [horror]
Dracula by Bram Stoker audiobook.
The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn’t invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the publi...
990 min
1906
Anthem by Ayn Rand ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]
Anthem by Ayn Rand audiobook.
Anthem is a dystopic science fiction story taking place at some unspecified future date. Mankind has entered another dark age as a result of what Rand saw as the weaknesses of socialistic thinking and economics. Technolo...
131 min
1907
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas ~ Full Au...
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas audiobook.
Let's continue the D'Artagnan Romances that we've already started with The Three Musketeers.
1544 min
1908
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas ~ Full ...
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas audiobook.
The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan i...
1599 min
1909
Nuggets of the New Thought by William Walker At...
Nuggets of the New Thought by William Walker Atkinson audiobook.
A series of essays by this forceful writer, constituting the cream of his magazine articles upon New Thought topics. The famous "I Can and I Will" essay forms the opening chapter. "The ...
317 min
1910
The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irvin...
The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving audiobook.
The quiet Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow lay in the Adirondack mountains on the western shore of the mighty Hudson River in America’s colonial period. The solitude of the woods was breatht...
82 min
1911
The Science of Being Well by Wallace D. Wattles...
The Science of Being Well by Wallace D. Wattles audiobook.
If you are seeking better health and ways to stay well…This book is for you! Wallace D. Wattles was an American author and a pioneer success new thought movement writer. His most famous work ...
162 min
1912
Candide, or The Optimist by Voltaire ~ Full Aud...
Candide, or The Optimist by Voltaire audiobook.
“Candide, or Optimism” (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never openly admitted to having written the controversial Candide; the work is signed with a pseud...
236 min
1913
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine ~ Full Audiob...
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine audiobook.
The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalize...
696 min
1914
The Power of Concentration by Theron Q. Dumont ...
The Power of Concentration by Theron Q. Dumont audiobook.
A series of twenty lessons designed to help develop and improve the power of concentration.
252 min
1915
Typee by Herman Melville ~ Full Audiobook [adve...
Typee by Herman Melville audiobook.
Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a captive of a cannibal island tribe. It was an immediate success in America...
702 min
1916
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse ~ Full Audiobook [p...
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse audiobook.
Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong jou...
305 min
1917
The Creature from Beyond Infinity by Henry Kutt...
The Creature from Beyond Infinity by Henry Kuttner audiobook.
A lone space traveler arrives on Earth seeking a new planet to colonize, his own world dead. At the same time a mysterious plague has infected Earth that will wipe out all life. Can a lone...
330 min
1918
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ~ Full Aud...
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James audiobook.
The Turn of the Screw is a novella written by Henry James. It is a ghost story that was originally published in 1898. A nameless governess reports the events of two ghosts who stalk the young children s...
342 min
1919
The Republic by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philoso...
The Republic by Plato audiobook.
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and arguably Plato's best known work. In it, Socrates and vari...
747 min
1920
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
1921
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
1922
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
1923
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
1924
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
1925
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