Classic Audiobook Collection
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1976
Politics by Aristotle ~ Full Audiobook [philoso...
Politics by Aristotle audiobook.
The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts in political philosophy. In it, Aristotle explores the role that the political community should play in developing the vir...
554 min
1977
An Englishwoman’s Love-Letters by Anonymous ~ F...
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Anonymous audiobook.
It need hardly be said that the woman by whom these letter were written had no thought that they would be read by anyone but the person to whom they were addressed. But a request, conveyed under ...
332 min
1978
The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang ~ Full Audio...
The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang audiobook.
Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively k...
847 min
1979
Star Born by Andre Norton ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]
Star Born by Andre Norton audiobook.
Andre Norton's "Star Born" pictures a human colony in another galaxy, driven away from Earth generations ago by a repressive government. Considered outlaws, the colonists are in permanent hiding.
They have develop...
402 min
1980
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas ~ Full Audio...
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas audiobook.
The Black Tulip, written by Alexandre Dumas père and published in 1850, is a historical novel placed in the time of Tulipmania in the Netherlands. The novel begins with the 1672 politically motivated mob ...
455 min
1981
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, Jo...
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison audiobook.
The Federalist Papers (correctly known as The Federalist) are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven o...
1274 min
1982
Relativity - The Special and General Theory by ...
Relativity - The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein audiobook.
This is an introduction to Einstein’s space-bending, time-stretching theory of Relativity, written by the master himself. Special and General relativity explain the structure...
220 min
1983
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain ~ Fu...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain audiobook.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Pete...
407 min
1984
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius ~ Full Audiobook...
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius audiobook.
Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. These memos survive and continue to inspire others to this day. These w...
287 min
1985
The Prince by Machiavelli ~ Full Audiobook [phi...
The Prince by Machiavelli audiobook.
The Prince is a political treatise by the Florentine writer Niccolò Machiavelli, originally called “De Principatibus” (About Principalities). It was written around 1513, but not published until 1532, five years af...
336 min
1986
Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott ~ Full Audio...
Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott audiobook.
When Jack and Jill tumble off of their sled on the first good snow of the season, their injuries cause them to be bedridden for many months putting an end to their fun and frolics. Their parents and frien...
580 min
1987
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery ~ ...
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook.Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic children’s novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can’t help but love. Despite her “tragical” past, Anne’s ...
578 min
1988
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott ~ Full Audio...
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott audiobook.
This is the story of Rose, a rich but lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and sent to live with her maiden aunts. When Rose's guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad he takes over her ...
419 min
1989
Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found ...
Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll audiobook.
Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was written in 1872 and it finds Alice in a land when she walks through a mirr...
204 min
1990
The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll ~ Ful...
The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll audiobook.
This is a whimsical poem that takes the reader on a sailing hunt for the mythical Snark. The Bellman, the Butcher, the Baker, the Beaver and others named and unnamed provide a fast-paced, almost ma...
28 min
1991
Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll ~ Full Audiob...
Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll audiobook.
The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairy tale with man...
440 min
1992
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ~ Fu...
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch audiobook.
The framing story concerns a man who dreams of speaking to Venus about love while she wears furs. The unnamed narrator tells his dreams to a friend, Severin, who tells him how to break him of his ...
293 min
1993
The Three Hostages by John Buchan ~ Full Audiob...
The Three Hostages by John Buchan audiobook.
The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels. The Richard Hannay novels are action/mystery/spy novels with a James bond feel. This book starts out with Richard Hannay married to Mary Lami...
720 min
1994
Your Mind and How to Use It by William Walker A...
Your Mind and How to Use It by William Walker Atkinson audiobook.
William Walker Atkinson was one of the most prominent contributors to the literature of the New Thought movement, a non-denomination spiritual philosophy which developed in the late Ni...
318 min
1995
Thought Vibration by William Walker Atkinson ~ ...
Thought Vibration by William Walker Atkinson audiobook.
William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 – November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement.
Atki...
133 min
1996
Dynamic Thought; Or, The Law of Vibrant Energy ...
Dynamic Thought; Or, The Law of Vibrant Energy by William Walker Atkinson audiobook.
This book is a marriage of the Ancient Occult Teachings to the latest and most advanced conceptions of Modern Science--an odd union, for the parties thereto are of e...
318 min
1997
The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2 by Georg Wi...
The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2 by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel audiobook.
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's first book, it describes the three-st...
726 min
1998
The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1 by Georg Wi...
The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1 by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel audiobook.
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's first book, it describes the three-st...
629 min
1999
The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich H...
The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel audiobook.
This is the William Wallace translation of the first part of Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences on logic. This is an outline of Hegel's logical system that he would use an...
668 min
2000
A Man Obsessed by Alan Edward Nourse ~ Full Aud...
A Man Obsessed by Alan Edward Nourse audiobook.
Jeffrey Meyer had a killing on his mind. It meant nothing to him that his towering Twenty-first Century world was going mad. He shouldered aside the rising tide of narcotics-mania, the gambling fever, t...
283 min