The Brooklyn Murders by G. D. H. Cole audiobook. Genre: mystery On the night Sir Vernon Brooklyn turns seventy, his country-house birthday dinner is meant to be a triumph: the celebrated theatrical manager gathers relatives, friends, and a future son-in-law under one roof, and the talk turns to money, marriages, and the shape of the Brooklyn legacy. But old resentments simmer beneath the toasts, especially around Joan Cowper, Sir Vernon's strong-willed niece, whose unwanted engagement to the smo...
Nov 22, 2025•9 hr 15 min
Bunce, the Bobby and the Broads by Fritz Zorn audiobook. Genre: comedy A genial holiday on England's Norfolk Broads is meant to be quiet, restorative, and properly planned - until the plans collapse and chance companions turn the trip into a rolling comedy of misunderstandings. Narrated as a breezy, postcard-like yarn, Fritz Zorn drops you aboard The Shamrock, a small hired sailing boat, where the storyteller is soon joined by Mr Bradley, a capable East End policeman - the 'Bobby' of the title. ...
Nov 21, 2025•7 hr 44 min
The Sea Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts audiobook. Genre: mystery When a quiet fishing trip in the Burry Inlet off the South Wales coast turns up a heavy cargo crate snagged from the seabed, local manager Mr. Morgan and his son Evan expect nothing more than a nuisance. Instead, they haul ashore a gruesome discovery: a battered, decomposed body packed for transport, with no clear clue to the victim's name, the killer's motive, or even how the crate reached these waters. With the case already drif...
Nov 20, 2025•8 hr 48 min
Little Johannes by Frederik van Eeden audiobook. Genre: fantasy In Little Johannes, Frederik van Eeden turns a child's first questions about life into a luminous fairy tale with an adult's bite. Johannes is a dreamy boy growing up in a comfortable country house, half in love with moonlight, gardens, and the idea that the world must have a single, beautiful secret at its heart. On a strange night, he is lured beyond the safety of home by Windekind, an airy, mischievous spirit of the woods who pro...
Nov 19, 2025•5 hr 19 min
Abraham Lincoln - The Practical Mystic by Francis Grierson audiobook. Genre: biography Francis Grierson's Abraham Lincoln - The Practical Mystic is a brief, provocative portrait of the 16th president that shifts the spotlight from policy and battlefield headlines to the inner life behind them. Writing in the early twentieth century, Grierson argues that Lincoln's greatest strength was a rare fusion of hardheaded realism and spiritual perception: a leader who could weigh men and events with a law...
Nov 18, 2025•1 hr 52 min
Last Post by Ford Madox Ford audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the uneasy calm after World War I, Last Post brings Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End to its final movement, where the battles are no longer fought in trenches but in memory, conscience, and the brittle rituals of English country life. At the center is Christopher Tietjens, once the model of duty and integrity, now returned to a changed nation and a changed self, as war's aftershocks reshape his mind, his work, and his place in society. Ar...
Nov 17, 2025•6 hr 59 min
The Diamond Lens with Other Stories by Fitz-James OBrien audiobook. Genre: horror Fitz-James O'Brien's The Diamond Lens with Other Stories gathers eerie, inventive tales from a pioneer of American weird fiction, where ordinary city life brushes up against the uncanny. In the title story, a brilliant but restless student becomes consumed by the hidden universe revealed through microscopy. When his curiosity turns into fixation, he hunts for a legendary lens said to surpass all others, convinced i...
Nov 15, 2025•9 hr 55 min
With Trumpet and Drum by Eugene Field audiobook. Genre: poetry With Trumpet and Drum is Eugene Field's classic 1892 collection of verse devoted to the music, make-believe, and quiet mysteries of childhood. Opening with the title poem, Field listens as children march in with a tin trumpet and a red drum, and the simple parade becomes a doorway into an older narrator's heart - hearty, welcoming, and touched by longing. From there, the book moves through lullabies, play-songs, and miniature story-p...
Nov 14, 2025•1 hr 59 min
A Text-book of Assaying by Cornelius Beringer audiobook. Genre: science A Text-book of Assaying is a practical guide to one of mining and metallurgy's most exacting arts: determining, by careful experiment, what valuable metals and compounds are truly present in an ore, alloy, or industrial material. Written as an instructional manual for students and working analysts, Cornelius Beringer leads the listener from foundational laboratory habits and essential apparatus into the core techniques of as...
Nov 13, 2025•23 hr 43 min
Army Mental Tests by Clarence Stone Yoakum audiobook. Genre: science Written in the wake of World War I, Army Mental Tests by Clarence Stone Yoakum explores one of the most ambitious experiments in psychological measurement ever attempted: the mass testing of soldiers to gauge aptitude, literacy, and problem-solving ability. Yoakum guides listeners through how these examinations were designed, administered, and scored at unprecedented scale, translating the practical demands of mobilization into...
Nov 12, 2025•5 hr 1 min
Crime, Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Crime, Its Cause and Treatment, famed defense attorney and public advocate Clarence Darrow turns from the courtroom to the larger question that haunted his era and still resonates today: why do people commit crimes, and what should society do about it? Drawing on decades of experience representing the accused, Darrow challenges the reader to look past sensational headlines and easy moral judgments. He explores how ...
Nov 11, 2025•7 hr 59 min
Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe audiobook. Genre: poetry In Christopher Marlowe's lush, witty narrative poem Hero and Leander, a familiar classical myth becomes a daring study of desire, persuasion, and the risks lovers take to reach each other. Hero is a celebrated young priestess living in Sestos, pledged to a life of chastity and honored for her beauty and status. Across the narrow but treacherous Hellespont, Leander, a handsome youth of Abydos, sees her at a festival and is struck wi...
Nov 10, 2025•3 hr 47 min
Secret history revealed by Lady Peggy OMalley by Charles Norris Williamson audiobook. Genre: romance Sixteen-year-old Marguerite - Peggy - O'Malley has come to London from Ireland with her beautiful sister Diana, carrying more pride than money and a sharp eye for the rules of fashionable society. When Peggy falls in love with a white frock trimmed with roses in a Selfridge's window, her desperate wish to afford it sparks a chain of encounters that will pull the O'Malley sisters into a far larger...
Nov 07, 2025•11 hr 2 min
The Fourth Dimension by Charles Howard Hinton audiobook. Genre: science First published in the late Victorian era, Charles Howard Hinton's The Fourth Dimension is an ambitious attempt to make a new kind of space feel thinkable. Writing for readers who may not have advanced mathematics, Hinton starts with a simple but unsettling question: if we live comfortably in three dimensions, what would it mean for a fourth spatial direction to exist alongside length, breadth, and height? Through vivid thou...
Nov 06, 2025•9 hr 19 min
The Laws and Practice of the Game of Euchre. As Adopted by the Washington, D.C. Euchre Club by Charles Henry Wharton Meehan audiobook. Genre: self help Charles Henry Wharton Meehan's The Laws and Practice of the Game of Euchre is a clear, club-tested guide to one of the most beloved partnership card games, presenting the rules as adopted by the Washington, D.C. Euchre Club. Written for players who want more than casual, house-rule play, it lays out how a proper game should be organized - from se...
Nov 05, 2025•2 hr 27 min
The Knave of Diamonds by Ethel M. Dell audiobook. Genre: romance On her twenty-fifth birthday, Lady Anne Carfax slips away from the glare of a country Hunt Ball, certain only of her own exhaustion and the cold civility of a marriage that has long since curdled into duty. In a quiet card room she meets an audacious American outsider, Napoleon 'Nap' Errol, who amuses himself by telling fortunes with a deck of cards - and seems disturbingly quick at reading the truths Anne works hardest to hide. Wh...
Nov 04, 2025•12 hr 29 min
Greatheart by Ethel M. Dell audiobook. Genre: romance In a glittering Alpine winter resort, spirited Dinah Bathurst and her younger brother, Billy, chafe under the sharp-eyed guardianship of the de Vigne household, where every waltz, whisper, and moonlit walk is weighed against duty and reputation. Into this charged world come the Studleys: Sir Eustace, handsome, confident, and dangerously persuasive, and his brother Scott, small and lame, moving quietly at the edge of the crowd. Scott is there ...
Nov 03, 2025•17 hr 49 min
Rain Magic by Erle Stanley Gardner audiobook. Genre: adventure In Rain Magic, Erle Stanley Gardner (best known for Perry Mason) turns to fast-moving pulp adventure with a strange, half-believed tale that begins in the California desert. A drifter is found exhausted and nearly dead, and when he revives he insists he has just returned from tropical Africa - carrying a story so vivid and bizarre that listeners are left wondering how much is truth, how much is invention, and why it still terrifies h...
Nov 01, 2025•1 hr 20 min
A Love Episode, Book Eight of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the quiet, respectable neighborhoods of Second Empire Paris, A Love Episode follows Helene Grandjean, a young widow determined to build a calm life for herself and her fragile daughter, Jeanne. Keeping her past buried and her ambitions modest, Helene tries to find safety in routine and propriety, believing that stability is the only cure for loss. But when Jeanne's recurring illnesses draw the attent...
Oct 31, 2025•27 hr 11 min
LAssommoir, Book Seven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: tragedy In L'Assommoir, Emile Zola turns to the working-class streets of mid-19th-century Paris to follow Gervaise Macquart, a laundress determined to build a decent life through steady work, cleanliness, and a stubborn faith in ordinary happiness. Abandoned by a lover and left with little more than her hands and her children, Gervaise tries to carve out security in a neighborhood where wages are uncertain, debts mul...
Oct 30, 2025•17 hr 20 min
His Excellency Eugene Rougon, Book Six of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama In His Excellency Eugene Rougon, the sixth novel in Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, Paris under Napoleon III becomes a glittering arena where ambition, favors, and fear decide who rises and who is ruined. Eugene Rougon, a powerful minister and master of backroom alliances, believes he can control the Empire's machinery through disciplined loyalty and carefully chosen clients. Around him gath...
Oct 29, 2025•17 hr 19 min
Abbe Mourets Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama In Abbe Mourets Transgression, the fifth novel in Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, a young priest named Serge Mouret is sent to a remote Provençal village to serve a troubled parish and to escape the pressures of the wider world. Exhausted by rigid devotion and spiritual strain, Serge suffers a collapse that leaves him vulnerable, and he is taken in by those who hope fresh air and quiet routin...
Oct 28, 2025•15 hr 28 min
The Conquest of Plassans, Book Four of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama In the sun-baked Provençal town of Plassans, the Second Empire's politics seep into every parlor and confessional. Francois Mouret, a cautious, self-made municipal official, wants nothing more than a quiet life with his delicate wife, Marthe, and their children in the old family house on the Rue de la Banne. That peace ends when they take in a new lodger, the priest Abbe Faujas, a man whose piety m...
Oct 27, 2025•15 hr 14 min
The Fat and the Thin, Book Three of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama In The Fat and the Thin, Emile Zola plunges listeners into the bustling heart of Second Empire Paris, where the vast iron-and-glass food markets of Les Halles become a stage for hunger, comfort, and power. Florent, gaunt and worn down by years of hardship, slips back into the city hoping for a quiet life and a place to belong. He is taken in by his half brother, Quenu, a well-meaning butcher, and Quen...
Oct 25, 2025•14 hr 57 min
The Rush for the Spoil, Book Two of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama In The Rush for the Spoil, Emile Zola turns to the glittering, feverish world of Second Empire Paris, where fortunes are made overnight and lives are just as quickly broken. At the center is Aristide Saccard, a hungry, opportunistic man determined to claw his way into the new age of speculation unleashed by Baron Haussmann's vast rebuilding of the city. With Paris reshaped street by street, Saccard se...
Oct 24, 2025•13 hr 47 min
The Fortune of the Rougons, Book One of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama In a small Provençal town called Plassans, Emile Zola opens the sweeping Rougon-Macquart saga with a story of family hunger and political upheaval. As France trembles on the edge of Louis-Napoleon's December 1851 coup, Pierre Rougon and his formidable wife, Felicite, see history not as tragedy but as opportunity. Determined to claw their way into respectability, they maneuver through gossip, backr...
Oct 23, 2025•14 hr 51 min
The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim audiobook. Genre: comedy In The Caravaners, Elizabeth von Arnim turns an Edwardian summer holiday into a razor-sharp comedy of manners, told entirely through the diary of Baron Otto von Ottringel, a retired Prussian officer with enormous pride and very little self-awareness. Hoping for a dignified anniversary adventure, Otto agrees to join a month-long caravanning tour through the English countryside, sharing horse-drawn living quarters with a mixed party of...
Oct 22, 2025•9 hr 11 min
Our Little Mexican Cousin by Edward Crompton Butler audiobook. Genre: history Our Little Mexican Cousin invites listeners into Mexico at the start of the twentieth century through the lively viewpoint of Juanita, a young girl whose ordinary days become a doorway to a whole world of history, customs, and place. From New Year celebrations to schoolroom routines, Juanita and her friends move through a city of markets, family visits, and neighborhood pastimes, where manners, meals, and faith are wov...
Oct 21, 2025•1 hr 50 min
Four Hymns by Edmund Spenser audiobook. Genre: poetry Four Hymns is Edmund Spenser's celebrated sequence of devotional and philosophical poems that traces a powerful ascent from earthly desire to spiritual contemplation. Written in Spenser's richly musical verse, the collection unfolds through four linked hymns: two that explore the pull of human love and the allure of beauty as they are experienced in the world, and two that turn the same energies upward toward divine love and heavenly beauty. ...
Oct 20, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand audiobook. Genre: drama In 17th-century Paris, Cyrano de Bergerac is a brilliant poet, fearless duelist, and sharp-tongued wit whose confidence in everything except his appearance keeps him at arm's length from the love he most wants. Secretly devoted to the intelligent and kind Roxane, Cyrano believes his prominent nose makes him unworthy of her affection, even as he dazzles crowds with improvised verse and swordplay. When Roxane confides that she has fallen...
Oct 18, 2025•4 hr 50 min
