Wonderful London by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: history Wonderful London: Its Lights and Shadows of Humour and Sadness is a lively, sharp-eyed portrait of Victorian London, told through a sequence of short, scene-driven essays by an anonymous middle-class observer. Moving from foggy streets and late-night corners to drawing-room dinners and cramped lodging houses, the narrator listens, watches, and records the city as it really feels: crowded, talkative, contradictory, and always in motion. Each...
Aug 02, 2025•14 hr 28 min
English as She is Wrote by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: comedy English as She is Wrote is a famously odd little volume that turns language learning into unintended comedy. Presented as a practical guide to English, this anonymous phrasebook (compiled from Portuguese sources) offers translations that are technically recognizable but wildly mischosen, producing a parade of malapropisms, tangled idioms, and baffling literal renderings. Each entry reads like a sincere attempt to be helpful - how to g...
Aug 01, 2025•1 hr 28 min
When Woman Proposes by Anne Warner audiobook. Genre: romance In Anne Warner's When Woman Proposes, a daring young heiress named Nathalie decides that waiting to be chosen is a waste of time. At a glittering social event she spots Captain Mowbray, a disciplined officer whose charm is matched by an immovable conviction: he will not marry, especially on a soldier's pay. Nathalie, however, believes in love at first sight and in the right to shape her own future. Rich, fearless, and stubbornly practi...
Jul 31, 2025•3 hr 22 min
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary by Anne Warner audiobook. Genre: comedy In early 20th-century New York, Aunt Mary Watkins is a formidable presence: wealthy, sharp-tongued, and so deaf that every conversation becomes a small battle of wills. She has poured her pride (and her money) into her favorite grand-nephew, Jack, a charming scapegrace whose talent for trouble keeps testing the limits of her patience. When word arrives that Jack is once again on the edge of scandal at college, Aunt Mary summon...
Jul 30, 2025•8 hr 12 min
The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang audiobook. Genre: folklore First published in 1897, The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang gathers a dazzling assortment of traditional tales from around the world into one inviting treasury. In these pages you will meet brave youngest sons and clever daughters, wandering princes and enchanted princesses, talking animals, witches, giants, and mysterious strangers who arrive just when fate turns. Some stories unfold in candlelit castles and deep forests, others in d...
Jul 29, 2025•9 hr 38 min
The Parenticide Club by Ambrose Bierce audiobook. Genre: comedy In The Parenticide Club, Ambrose Bierce invites you into a gentlemen's society with a single, unspeakable qualification: every member claims to have killed a parent. Framed as a series of club proceedings and confessions, the book unfolds through sharply drawn testimonies in which each speaker tries to justify the unforgivable, arguing motives that range from cold practicality to wounded pride to twisted ideas of mercy. As the narra...
Jul 28, 2025•51 min
Secret Chambers and Hiding Places by Allan Fea audiobook. Genre: history In Secret Chambers and Hiding Places, antiquary and storyteller Allan Fea invites listeners into the shadowed architecture of Britain where walls conceal more than timber and stone. Moving through manor houses, castles, and old religious buildings, Fea traces the real historical pressures that produced secret rooms, false floors, sliding panels, disguised trapdoors, and hidden staircases, especially during eras when pursuiv...
Jul 26, 2025•3 hr 53 min
The Wolf-Leader by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: horror In a rural corner of France where old superstitions still cling to the woods, Thibault is a poor, embittered gamekeeper who feels mocked by fate and crushed by the privileges of the nobles. When a chance encounter in the forest places him face to face with a mysterious stranger who seems to know his deepest resentments, Thibault is tempted by a bargain that promises power, wealth, and the ability to take what life has always denied him....
Jul 25, 2025•8 hr 36 min
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce audiobook. Genre: horror In Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories, Ambrose Bierce turns the everyday world of 19th-century America into a place where death never fully lets go. Soldiers, travelers, skeptics, and ordinary townspeople find themselves confronted by disturbances that cannot be explained away: a strange execution witnessed too closely, a quiet room that refuses to stay empty, a familiar face that should not be able...
Jul 24, 2025•2 hr 7 min
Tarzan Triumphant by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Deep in the African interior, danger comes from two directions at once. When Lady Barbara Collis, an English aviatrix, is forced down over the forbidding Ghenzi Mountains, she stumbles into a hidden volcanic valley called Midian - a lost, isolated people split into rival factions and ruled by prophets who enforce a warped, violent echo of an ancient faith. Barbara's survival depends on quick wits, uneasy alliances, and the loy...
Jul 23, 2025•8 hr 19 min
The Tarzan Twins by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure When fourteen-year-old cousins Dick and Doc discover that one of them is distantly related to the legendary Lord Greystoke, they earn a new nickname at school: the Tarzan Twins. Now they have the chance of a lifetime - a holiday on Tarzan's African estate. But before they can even reach their hero, disaster strikes. A rail mishap and a wrong turn plunge the boys into the vast, unforgiving jungle, where every mile is a lesson an...
Jul 22, 2025•1 hr 53 min
Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: history In turbulent 16th-century France, the royal court of the Valois is a glittering trap: a place where weddings are arranged like treaties, faith is weaponized, and a careless word can cost a life. At the center stands Marguerite de Valois - clever, observant, and determined to shape her own fate even as her family uses her as a pawn. Her political marriage to the Protestant Henry of Navarre is meant to calm a kingdom split by religi...
Jul 21, 2025•20 hr 48 min
The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Forty-Five Guardsmen, Alexandre Dumas plunges listeners into the perilous politics of late 16th-century France, where the throne is weak, factions sharpen their knives, and loyalty is bought at a terrible price. King Henry III, besieged by rivals and public unrest, forms an elite corps of forty-five Gascon gentlemen - hard-bitten soldiers hired to serve as his personal shield and secret instrument. Into this volatile ...
Jul 19, 2025•16 hr 1 min
An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope audiobook. Genre: philosophy Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man is a philosophical poem that wrestles with one of humanity's oldest questions: how can a world filled with suffering, limitation, and contradiction still make moral and spiritual sense? Written in a series of tightly argued, brilliantly crafted epistles, the work guides the listener through a grand survey of the human condition - our place in the universe, the boundaries of our knowledge, the pulls of...
Jul 18, 2025•1 hr 52 min
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus by Lady Mary Wroth audiobook. Genre: poetry Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is Lady Mary Wroth's groundbreaking early modern sonnet sequence, spoken in the voice of Pamphilia, a woman caught between her vow of constancy and the painful knowledge that her beloved, Amphilanthus, is changeable. Through tightly wrought sonnets and interwoven songs, Pamphilia turns the conventions of courtly love inside out: instead of a silent lady adored from afar, she becomes the thinking, desi...
Jul 17, 2025•1 hr 46 min
Moving the Mountain by Charlotte Perkins Gilman audiobook. Genre: scifi When John Robertson returns to the United States after three decades away, he expects to find familiar streets, old habits, and the same social battles he once knew. Instead, he steps into a nation quietly transformed by a sweeping, practical reorganization of everyday life. Taken in by relatives and new acquaintances, John becomes a curious outsider in his own homeland, touring workplaces, homes, schools, and public spaces ...
Jul 16, 2025•5 hr 12 min
Maude by Christina Rossetti audiobook. Genre: drama Written as a 'tale for girls' and threaded with early poems, Christina Rossetti's Maude follows fifteen-year-old Maude Foster, a pale, clever, quietly intense London girl whose private writing-book is part diary, part sketchbook, and part confession. Praised for her verses yet unsettled by the attention they draw, Maude is pulled between the warmth and bustle of social life and an inward discipline shaped by religious devotion and relentless se...
Jul 15, 2025•1 hr 29 min
Victory by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: tragedy Set in the Dutch East Indies at the edge of empire, Joseph Conrad's Victory follows Axel Heyst, a wealthy, disillusioned European who retreats from the world to a remote island, convinced that detachment is the only safe philosophy. His self-imposed solitude is disrupted when he intervenes to help Lena, a young musician trapped in a seedy touring troupe. Bringing her to his island refuge, Heyst discovers that withdrawal does not cancel responsib...
Jul 14, 2025•12 hr 10 min
The Stolen Brain by Nicholas Carter audiobook. Genre: mystery In a quiet stretch of the Bronx, not far from the New York Zoological Park, a feared surgeon has turned his rambling home into a private hospital - and whispers say the screams are not only animal. Dr. Hiram A. Grantley is brilliant, ruthless, and obsessed with pushing surgery beyond accepted limits. When antivivisectionist John D. Wallace brings alarming suspicions to famed detective Nick Carter, Carter decides the only way to learn ...
Jul 12, 2025•6 hr 54 min
Sinister House by Leland Hall audiobook. Genre: horror In an ordinary American suburb, Pierre and his practical wife, Annette, try to welcome new neighbors, Eric and Julia Grier, into the community. But the Griers' home is anything but ordinary: an aging, unfashionable house that seems to drink in light and warmth, leaving behind a chill that Pierre cannot explain. Julia insists the place comforts her, yet bruises and strange injuries begin to appear on her body, and Eric starts to change in way...
Jul 11, 2025•4 hr 7 min
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: religion In Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton sets out to explain how he came to embrace historic Christian belief - not as a dry system of doctrines, but as a living vision of reality that makes sense of wonder, morality, and human experience. Writing with wit and paradox, Chesterton retraces an intellectual journey that begins with a desire to defend the ordinary joys of life and ends in a challenge to the fashionable ideas of his age: skepticism, rela...
Jul 10, 2025•7 hr 45 min
Night Fears and Other Stories by L. P. Hartley audiobook. Genre: horror First published in May 1924, Night Fears and Other Stories gathers 17 early tales from L. P. Hartley that turn ordinary settings into stages for unease - where a polite conversation can feel like a trap, and a quiet room can seem to listen back. citeturn0search0 Across pieces such as 'Night Fears,' 'The Island,' 'The Telephone Call,' and 'St. George and the Dragon,' Hartley moves between subtle supernatural suggestion and...
Jul 09, 2025•4 hr 19 min
A Moment of Time by Richard Hughes audiobook. Genre: horror A Moment of Time is Richard Hughes's early collection of short fiction, where everyday life in coastal towns, rural lanes, and cramped lodging houses can tilt, in an instant, into the uncanny. Moving between wry observation and gothic unease, Hughes follows ordinary people as they stumble into moments that refuse to stay ordinary: a journey that turns unsettling, a quiet night made strange by a presence that cannot be explained away, a ...
Jul 08, 2025•5 hr 44 min
Lost On Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi Carson Napier never meant to go to Venus. Trying to pilot an experimental craft to Mars, he crashes instead on Amtor, a cloud-wrapped world of steaming jungles, impossible beasts, and city-states locked in ruthless rivalries. In Lost on Venus, the second adventure in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Venus series, Carson begins in a nightmare trap: the Room of the Seven Doors, where choice itself is a weapon and most paths mean certain death. Esc...
Jul 07, 2025•7 hr 15 min
The Life of Christ by Frederic Farrar audiobook. Genre: religion Frederic W. Farrar's The Life of Christ is a sweeping, reverent portrait of Jesus of Nazareth, told with the pace of a vivid narrative and the care of a scholar-pastor. Drawing on the Gospel accounts and the geography, customs, and politics of first-century Judea and Galilee, Farrar follows Jesus from the quiet beginnings of his ministry to the widening circle of disciples, the crowds who gather for healing and teaching, and the mo...
Jul 05, 2025•23 hr 46 min
The House Without A Key by Earl Derr Biggers audiobook. Genre: mystery When a respected Honolulu judge is found murdered in his own beachside home, the case threatens to ignite more than local scandal - it risks inflaming tensions within the islands' tight-knit social circles and the visiting mainland elite. Into the uneasy mix steps Charlie Chan, a quiet, methodical Chinese-Hawaiian detective whose sharp mind and patient manners are routinely underestimated by those around him. Pressured by inf...
Jul 04, 2025•13 hr 57 min
The Door with Seven Locks by Edgar Wallace audiobook. Genre: mystery On the day he expects to leave Scotland Yard for good, Inspector Dick Martin is handed one last, odd assignment: track down a stolen library book. The small case draws him to the quick-witted librarian Sybil Lansdown, and then to a darker circle of rumors involving Gallows Cottage, a missing young heir, and a long-sealed family tomb said to be protected by a door with seven separate locks. When a nervous lock-picker hints that ...
Jul 03, 2025•5 hr 49 min
Deirdre by James Stephens audiobook. Genre: folklore James Stephens' Deirdre retells one of the most haunting legends of Ireland's heroic age with a storyteller's wit and a poet's ear. In the court of Ulster, King Conachur mac Nessa hears a prophecy that a newborn girl will grow into such beauty that she will draw rivalries, betrayals, and blood-feuds in her wake. Determined to master fate, Conachur has the child, Deirdre, raised in strict seclusion under the watch of Lavarcham, shaping her into...
Jul 02, 2025•5 hr 23 min
The Crimson Patch by Augusta Huiell Seaman audiobook. Genre: mystery Seventeen-year-old Patricia Meade expects a quiet summer in a grand city hotel while her father, Captain Meade, completes a confidential government assignment linked to the recent war. But the hotel proves to be anything but restful. Patricia is lonely, her mother is away recovering her health, and her father warns her that in a place full of strangers, even a careless conversation can be dangerous. Then Patricia befriends Virg...
Jul 01, 2025•3 hr 46 min
Brattons Idea by Manly Wade Wellman audiobook. Genre: scifi In a bustling Hollywood film studio, Old Bratton is just another overlooked janitor - until night falls and he retreats to a hidden workshop where he pursues his true calling: creating life with wires, motors, and crackling electricity. His experiments have produced only disappointing failures, but a sudden opportunity arrives when a temperamental ventriloquist, Ben Gascon, casts off his stage partner, a wooden dummy named Tom-Tom, in t...
Jun 30, 2025•1 hr 9 min
