Classic Audiobook Collection
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1926
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
1927
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
1928
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
1929
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
1930
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
1931
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
1932
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
1933
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
1934
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
1935
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
1936
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
1937
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
1938
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
1939
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
1940
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
1941
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
1942
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
1943
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
1944
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
1945
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
1946
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
1947
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
1948
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
1949
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
1950
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