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Classic Audiobook Collection

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Explore over a thousand great books by authors from the ancient world through to the twentieth century. From Jane Austen to Herman Melville to Sun Tzu, from the ancient Greeks to American modernists: If a book changed the world, it's here. Share these full-length audiobooks with friends and start an audiobook club! You can now filter by genre, by searching our titles by the following keywords: adventure biography business comedy cooking drama family fantasy folklore history horror mystery philosophy poetry religion romance science scifi self help speeches thriller tragedy
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Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology by Carl Gustav Jung ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology by Carl Gustav Jung audiobook. Genre: philosophy A collection of classical writings of Swiss psychologist Carl G. Jung, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology. Written at intervals over a span of fourteen years, these selected articles and pamphlets contain many fascinating ideas that have become widely accepted psychological concepts nowadays, but had just started to develop at the time when the book was written. For instance, t...

May 08, 202417 hr 54 min

Sidelights on Relativity by Albert Einstein ~ Full Audiobook [science]

Sidelights on Relativity by Albert Einstein audiobook. Genre: science In Sidelights on Relativity, Albert Einstein steps away from heavy mathematics to offer an illuminating companion to his revolutionary theory, aimed at listeners who want the ideas as clearly as the equations allow. The book gathers two concise public lectures that explore what relativity changed-and what it did not. In 'Ether and the Theory of Relativity,' Einstein revisits the long-disputed notion of an all-pervading ether, ...

May 07, 20241 hr 6 min

The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon ~ Full Audiobook [self help]

The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon audiobook. Genre: self help Written by legendary champion Harry Vardon, The Complete Golfer is a clear, practical guide to learning and improving the game from the perspective of one of its great masters. Blending instruction with hard-won experience, Vardon breaks down golf into understandable parts: choosing clubs, building a reliable grip and stance, and shaping a repeatable swing that holds up under pressure. He walks listeners through the full range of sh...

May 06, 20249 hr 21 min

The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison audiobook. Genre: scifi In a future where most worlds have engineered crime out of existence, James Bolivar diGriz - better known as Slippery Jim - makes a career out of being the one exception. Smart, charming, and always three steps ahead, Jim lives for the perfect con: the kind that humiliates smug authorities and leaves him richer, freer, and grinning. But when a job goes wrong, he is cornered by an elite, off-the-books law enforcement unit whose age...

May 04, 202457 min

Mobilizing Woman-Power by Harriot Stanton Blatch ~ Full Audiobook [history]

Mobilizing Woman-Power by Harriot Stanton Blatch audiobook. Genre: history In Mobilizing Woman-Power, suffrage leader and reformer Harriot Stanton Blatch lays out a bold, practical argument for turning women's daily work into organized public power. Writing in the tense, fast-changing America of the early twentieth century, Blatch moves from kitchens, factories, farms, schools, and offices to city streets and legislative halls, insisting that the nation cannot afford to treat half its people as ...

May 03, 20244 hr 32 min

Technical Error by Hal Clement ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

Technical Error by Hal Clement audiobook. Genre: scifi When a human spacecraft is forced into an emergency landing on a lonely asteroid, the crew watches their own ship fail beyond repair and realizes the real countdown is not fuel or distance, but breathable air. Salvation appears in the least likely form: an ancient derelict vessel of unmistakably alien design, sealed and silent, its controls built around sound engineering principles but executed with methods no Terran manual ever imagined. As...

May 02, 20241 hr 16 min

Allan's Wife and other Tales by H. Rider Haggard ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

Allan's Wife and other Tales by H. Rider Haggard audiobook. Genre: adventure In 1885, H. Rider Haggard introduced Allan Quatermain, elephant hunter extraordinaire, in his best-selling African adventure novel 'King Solomon's Mines'. Haggard went on to publish twelve Quatermain novels and several novellas and short stories, including the four in this collection. 'Allan's Wife' explains how Quatermain became a hunter early in life and recounts the tragedy of his brief marriage to Stella, his childh...

May 01, 20248 hr 26 min

At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft ~ Full Audiobook [horror]

At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft audiobook. Genre: horror An ambitious Antarctic expedition sets out to claim scientific glory at the coldest edge of the world - but what the team uncovers beneath the ice will challenge every assumption they have about life on Earth. Narrated by a shaken survivor, At the Mountains of Madness follows Professor William Dyer of Miskatonic University as he tries to warn the world away from a return to the polar wastes. When a secondary party makes a st...

Apr 27, 20244 hr 24 min

Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: mystery In Twelve Stories and a Dream, H. G. Wells gathers a dozen vivid tales and one longer, moodier piece that showcase his gift for turning ordinary moments into unsettling questions about human nature and the unknown. Moving from everyday streets and domestic settings to strange encounters and uncanny possibilities, these stories follow clerks, dreamers, scientists, and wanderers who find their routines disrupted by sudden accident...

Apr 26, 20248 hr 1 min

Dr. Nikola's Experiment by Guy Boothby ~ Full Audiobook [thriller]

Dr. Nikola's Experiment by Guy Boothby audiobook. Genre: thriller Guy Boothby's fourth novel of five about the svelte mysterious anti-hero Dr Nikola sees him progress further on his search for immortality. Here we find him deep in the wilds of Northumbria conducting an experiment of longevity and restoration of youth with another somewhat naive assistant. He is pursued by his Chinese enemies who will stop at nothing to achieve his demise. In this novel he displays a slight hint of emotion regard...

Apr 25, 20245 hr 24 min

Baseball Ballads by Grantland Rice ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]

Baseball Ballads by Grantland Rice audiobook. Genre: poetry Baseball Ballads (originally published as Base-ball Ballads) gathers Grantland Rice's early twentieth-century verse into a spirited celebration of Americas game, written by a sportswriter who understood both the box score and the crowds heartbeat. Across quick, musical poems and longer narrative ballads, Rice turns innings into scenes, players into larger-than-life figures, and ordinary afternoons into contests of nerve, luck, and pride...

Apr 24, 20242 hr 18 min

Not Under The Law by Grace Livingston Hill ~ Full Audiobook [romance]

Not Under The Law by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook. Genre: romance After the death of the only relative who ever offered her shelter, Joyce Radway finds herself trapped in a house where grief quickly turns into cruelty. Her aunt's family expects her to earn her keep as an all-but-unpaid servant, and they mock her quiet determination to become a teacher and build an independent life. When Joyce slips out to take the examinations that could change her future, she sets off a dangerous chain of co...

Apr 23, 20248 hr 14 min

The Incomparableness of God by George Swinnock ~ Full Audiobook [religion]

The Incomparableness of God by George Swinnock audiobook. Genre: religion In The Incomparableness of God, Puritan pastor George Swinnock unfolds Psalm 89:6 as a searching meditation on the question, Who can be compared to the Lord? With pastoral warmth and careful reasoning, Swinnock leads the listener through a sustained exploration of Gods unmatched being, his glorious attributes, his mighty works, and his authoritative word. He lingers over Gods self-existence and independence, his perfection...

Apr 22, 20246 hr 30 min

Rampolli by George MacDonald ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]

Rampolli by George MacDonald audiobook. Genre: poetry Rampolli is George MacDonald's richly varied volume of verse that pairs his own spiritual lyricism with carefully crafted translations drawn from across Europe. Opening with a thoughtful preface on the art and duty of translation, MacDonald explains his aim to preserve not only meaning but also the living spirit, music, and character of each poet in English. The collection then ranges widely: selections from German writers such as Novalis, Sc...

Apr 20, 20242 hr 39 min

The Principles of Secularism by George J. Holyoake ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

The Principles of Secularism by George J. Holyoake audiobook. Genre: philosophy In The Principles of Secularism, reformer and freethought advocate George J. Holyoake sets out to explain what secularism is - and what it is not - in a period when the word was often treated as synonymous with hostility to religion. Writing with the practical concerns of a public lecturer and social campaigner, Holyoake defines secularism as an approach to life that bases duty, morality, and progress on the needs an...

Apr 19, 20241 hr 58 min

Personal Recollections of Johannes Brahms by George Henschel ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

Personal Recollections of Johannes Brahms by George Henschel audiobook. Genre: biography In Personal Recollections of Johannes Brahms, George Henschel - celebrated baritone, conductor, and one-time close collaborator of Brahms - offers an intimate portrait of the composer as friend, colleague, and fiercely private artist. Drawn from meetings, rehearsals, dinners, walks, and correspondence, these sketches bring the reader into the everyday world behind the masterpieces: the practical realities of...

Apr 18, 20241 hr 36 min

The True Stories of Celebrated Crimes by George Barton ~ Full Audiobook [history]

The True Stories of Celebrated Crimes by George Barton audiobook. Genre: history In The True Stories of Celebrated Crimes, George Barton turns away from invented whodunits to present a brisk, international tour of real cases chosen for what they reveal about detection itself. Across fifteen self-contained narratives, Barton invites the listener into the pressure-filled hours after a notorious offense, when scattered clues, unreliable witnesses, and public panic can bury the truth as easily as ex...

Apr 17, 20245 hr 15 min

Dr. John Dee - Elizabethan Mystic and Astrologer by G. M. Hort ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

Dr. John Dee - Elizabethan Mystic and Astrologer by G. M. Hort audiobook. Genre: biography In Dr. John Dee - Elizabethan Mystic and Astrologer, G. M. Hort offers a compact, atmospheric portrait of one of Tudor England's most controversial minds: John Dee (1527-1608/9), a learned mathematician and astronomer who also pursued astrology, alchemy, and spiritual inquiry. Set against the rivalries, fears, and ambitions of Elizabeth I's court, the narrative follows Dee's rise from brilliant scholar to ...

Apr 16, 20241 hr 28 min

The Secret of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

The Secret of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: mystery In The Secret of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton introduces an unlikely detective: Father Brown, a quiet Catholic priest whose shabby umbrella and absentminded manner hide a razor-sharp understanding of human nature. Moving through drawing rooms, country houses, crowded streets, and secluded gardens, Father Brown is repeatedly drawn into baffling crimes involving stolen jewels, missing persons, and apparently impossible acts...

Apr 12, 20246 hr 38 min

The Cornet of Horse by G. A. Henty ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

The Cornet of Horse by G. A. Henty audiobook. Genre: adventure In January 1702, at Windthorpe Chace near Derby, young Rupert Holliday is being shaped into a gentleman of the old school: hawking, riding, and relentless practice with the sword under his Jacobite grandfather, Colonel Holliday, and a French fencing master, Monsieur Dessin. But the politics of England run as hot as Rupert's temper, and when he intervenes to protect Dessin's daughter, Adele, from a brutal insult, a lightning-quick due...

Apr 10, 202410 hr 47 min

Destiny Times Three by Fritz Leiber ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

Destiny Times Three by Fritz Leiber audiobook. Genre: scifi In a seemingly perfected future, artists and scientists Thorn and his friend Clawly are preparing to brief the World Executive Committee on a discovery that should have remained theoretical: a way to make alternate timelines real. At the center of it all is the Probability Engine, a mind-responsive device that can split history into multiple living worlds, each diverging from a crucial point in the past. The breakthrough promises wonder...

Apr 09, 20243 hr 54 min

A Town is Drowning by Frederik Pohl ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

A Town is Drowning by Frederik Pohl audiobook. Genre: scifi This novel takes you right into the heart of the new flood country, the Northeast United States which had generally been free of hurricanes and attendant floods. Now disaster has struck, more than once--terrible and grim. Although this novel will give you an accurate and brilliantly vivid picture of what it's like to live through a flood, even more importantly it will show you what the people are like who fought the catastrophe and how ...

Apr 08, 20244 hr 45 min

Israel - A Prince with God by Frederick Brotherton Meyer ~ Full Audiobook [religion]

Israel - A Prince with God by Frederick Brotherton Meyer audiobook. Genre: religion An old-world story this! In its strange Eastern dress, it appears to be as remote from us as the garb of an Arab, or the barter of an Oriental Bazaar. And yet human life is much the same, whenever and wherever lived. Our critics complain of our poring over these timeworn pages of ancient biography, but, with all deference to them, we feel bound to say that we learn better how to live, we inhale more spiritual ozo...

Apr 05, 20245 hr 17 min

The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon audiobook. Genre: mystery When teenage brothers Frank and Joe Hardy return to their hometown of Bayport, they expect a quiet stretch of summer ahead - until a rash of daring robberies hits the community. Their father, famed detective Fenton Hardy, is drawn into a puzzling case involving a stolen collection of valuable securities, and the boys cannot resist joining the hunt. Following scattered clues through docks, back roads, and shadowy hideouts, Frank an...

Apr 04, 20244 hr 17 min

The Secret of the Old Mill by Franklin W. Dixon ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

The Secret of the Old Mill by Franklin W. Dixon audiobook. Genre: mystery The Secret of the Old Mill is the third volume of the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories. This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon in 1927. After becoming victims of a counterfeiting ring, the boys become suspicious of the activities surrounding a previously disused mill on a deserted road by the river. When they give a boat ride to a stranger with a...

Apr 03, 20243 hr 58 min

The House on the Cliff by Franklin W. Dixon ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

The House on the Cliff by Franklin W. Dixon audiobook. Genre: mystery When teenage brothers Frank and Joe Hardy think they are done with their latest case, a new mystery pulls them toward the rocky shoreline of Barmet Bay. A strange old house stands on the cliff above the water, and the locals whisper about secrets hidden inside. Curious and determined, the Hardy Boys begin to investigate, only to find their questions met with evasive answers, unexplained noises, and signs that someone else is w...

Apr 02, 20244 hr 5 min

Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 9 - Nip and Tuck by Frank Tousey ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 9 - Nip and Tuck by Frank Tousey audiobook. Genre: adventure In turn-of-the-century New York, two sharp, headstrong young men known as Nip and Tuck have spent their whole lives locked in friendly competition. Now their rivalry moves to the biggest arena they can imagine: Wall Street. Each has scraped together the courage and capital to open a tiny brokerage office, and by sheer coincidence (or fate) they hang their shingles in the very same building. To the seasoned b...

Apr 01, 20242 hr 36 min

Japan and Korea by Frank G. Carpenter ~ Full Audiobook [history]

Japan and Korea by Frank G. Carpenter audiobook. Genre: history In Japan and Korea, veteran travel writer Frank G. Carpenter leads listeners on a brisk, inquisitive tour of East Asia as it appeared to Western eyes in the early twentieth century. Beginning in Tokyo, he moves from crowded business streets and modern institutions to the pageantry of the imperial household, using each stop to ask larger questions about how Japan is governed, how its society is organized, and what daily life looks li...

Mar 30, 20249 hr 11 min

The Man with a Thousand Legs by Frank Belknap Long ~ Full Audiobook [horror]

The Man with a Thousand Legs by Frank Belknap Long audiobook. Genre: horror Told through a trail of letters, statements, and recovered documents, The Man with a Thousand Legs pieces together a case that no single witness can explain alone. When unsettling reports begin to circulate about a brilliant but obsessive researcher, Dr. Marston, curiosity turns to dread as friends, officials, and bystanders try to make sense of what he has done behind locked doors. Marston is certain he has found a way ...

Mar 29, 20241 hr 2 min

Three Good Giants by Francois Rabelais ~ Full Audiobook [folklore]

Three Good Giants by Francois Rabelais audiobook. Genre: folklore Three Good Giants gathers the most spirited episodes from Francois Rabelais' giant legends and reshapes them into a fast, family-friendly chronicle. It begins with the tall-tale origins of giantkind and quickly introduces three unforgettable rulers of outsized appetites and even larger hearts: Grandgousier, his son Gargantua, and Gargantua's son Pantagruel. Gargantua's early years overflow with comic mishaps, impossible meals, and...

Mar 28, 20246 hr 21 min
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