Great Audiobooks - podcast cover

Great Audiobooks

Great Literatureredcircle.com

100 Great Audiobooks of Literary Masterpieces!

Last refreshed:
Download Metacast podcast app
Podcasts are better in Metacast mobile app
Don't just listen to podcasts. Learn from them with transcripts, summaries, and chapters for every episode. Skim, search, and bookmark insights. Learn more

Episodes

The History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages, Volume 1, by Hartmann Grisar. Part VII.

This present work may be described as history of the medieval Popes, with the history of the city of Rome, and its civilization, as a background. The author's desire being to combine the two stories as to produce a true picture of what Rome was in the middle ages. Volume one will deal with the state of the Roman Empire at the end of the fourth century, the final struggle between Paganism and Christianity (AD 394), the rise of the Primacy of Peter, and the church's struggle with Arianism. Adverti...

Jul 08, 20241 hr 30 min

The History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages, Volume 1, by Hartmann Grisar. Part VI.

This present work may be described as history of the medieval Popes, with the history of the city of Rome, and its civilization, as a background. The author's desire being to combine the two stories as to produce a true picture of what Rome was in the middle ages. Volume one will deal with the state of the Roman Empire at the end of the fourth century, the final struggle between Paganism and Christianity (AD 394), the rise of the Primacy of Peter, and the church's struggle with Arianism. Adverti...

Jul 08, 20241 hr 44 min

The History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages, Volume 1, by Hartmann Grisar. Part V.

This present work may be described as history of the medieval Popes, with the history of the city of Rome, and its civilization, as a background. The author's desire being to combine the two stories as to produce a true picture of what Rome was in the middle ages. Volume one will deal with the state of the Roman Empire at the end of the fourth century, the final struggle between Paganism and Christianity (AD 394), the rise of the Primacy of Peter, and the church's struggle with Arianism. Adverti...

Jul 08, 20241 hr 47 min

The History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages, Volume 1, by Hartmann Grisar. Part IV.

This present work may be described as history of the medieval Popes, with the history of the city of Rome, and its civilization, as a background. The author's desire being to combine the two stories as to produce a true picture of what Rome was in the middle ages. Volume one will deal with the state of the Roman Empire at the end of the fourth century, the final struggle between Paganism and Christianity (AD 394), the rise of the Primacy of Peter, and the church's struggle with Arianism. Adverti...

Jul 08, 20241 hr 28 min

The History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages, Volume 1, by Hartmann Grisar. Part III.

This present work may be described as history of the medieval Popes, with the history of the city of Rome, and its civilization, as a background. The author's desire being to combine the two stories as to produce a true picture of what Rome was in the middle ages. Volume one will deal with the state of the Roman Empire at the end of the fourth century, the final struggle between Paganism and Christianity (AD 394), the rise of the Primacy of Peter, and the church's struggle with Arianism. Adverti...

Jul 08, 20241 hr 41 min

The History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages, Volume 1, by Hartmann Grisar. Part II.

This present work may be described as history of the medieval Popes, with the history of the city of Rome, and its civilization, as a background. The author's desire being to combine the two stories as to produce a true picture of what Rome was in the middle ages. Volume one will deal with the state of the Roman Empire at the end of the fourth century, the final struggle between Paganism and Christianity (AD 394), the rise of the Primacy of Peter, and the church's struggle with Arianism. Adverti...

Jul 08, 20241 hr 43 min

The History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages, Volume 1, by Hartmann Grisar. Part I.

This present work may be described as history of the medieval Popes, with the history of the city of Rome, and its civilization, as a background. The author's desire being to combine the two stories as to produce a true picture of what Rome was in the middle ages. Volume one will deal with the state of the Roman Empire at the end of the fourth century, the final struggle between Paganism and Christianity (AD 394), the rise of the Primacy of Peter, and the church's struggle with Arianism. Adverti...

Jul 08, 20241 hr 47 min

Selected Poems, by Leopoldo Lugones.

Leopoldo Lugones was a poet, short story author, novelist and biographer from Argentina. These poems were translated by Alice Stone Blackwell, Muna Lee, Thomas Walsh and Garret Strange and were published in the 1920s. Poems Journey Autumnal Sweetness The Palm Tree Last Roses How the Mountains Talk The Gift of Day Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jul 04, 202412 min

Bartleby, the Scrivener, by Herman Melville. Part II.

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's Magazine, and was reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. (From Wikipedia.) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jul 04, 202446 min

Bartleby, the Scrivener, by Herman Melville. Part I.

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's Magazine, and was reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. (From Wikipedia.) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jul 04, 20241 hr 9 min

Charles Dickens, by G. K. Chesterton. Part IV.

G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style. This is a collaborative reading. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jul 04, 20241 hr 36 min

Charles Dickens, by G. K. Chesterton. Part III.

G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style. This is a collaborative reading. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jul 04, 20241 hr 37 min

Charles Dickens, by G. K. Chesterton. Part II.

G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style. This is a collaborative reading. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jul 04, 20241 hr 55 min

Charles Dickens, by G. K. Chesterton. Part I.

G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style. This is a collaborative reading. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jul 04, 20242 hr 22 min

Four Max Carrados Detective Stories, by Ernest Bramah. Part II.

Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his ' Kai Lung ' books - Dorothy L. Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime however he was equally well known for his detective stories. Since Sherlock Holmes we have had French detectives, Belgian detectives, aristocratic detectives, royal detectives, ecclesiastical detectives, drunken detectives and even a (very) few quite normal happily married detectives. Max Carrados was however probably the first blind detective. Advert...

Jul 01, 20242 hr 5 min

Four Max Carrados Detective Stories, by Ernest Bramah. Part I.

Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his ' Kai Lung ' books - Dorothy L. Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime however he was equally well known for his detective stories. Since Sherlock Holmes we have had French detectives, Belgian detectives, aristocratic detectives, royal detectives, ecclesiastical detectives, drunken detectives and even a (very) few quite normal happily married detectives. Max Carrados was however probably the first blind detective. Advert...

Jul 01, 20241 hr 34 min

Michael Strogoff, by Jules Verne. Part VI.

This is the account of the perilous mission of Michael Strogoff, courier for Czar Alexander II, who is sent from Moscow to the besieged city of Irkutsk, where the governor, brother of the Czar, has taken his last stand against a Tartar rebellion led by the fearsome Feofar-Khan. When telegraph lines are cut between the Russian Far East and the mainland, Strogoff must make his way through hostile territory to warn the governor of the return of the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a disgraced former officer w...

Jul 01, 20241 hr 27 min

Michael Strogoff, by Jules Verne. Part V.

This is the account of the perilous mission of Michael Strogoff, courier for Czar Alexander II, who is sent from Moscow to the besieged city of Irkutsk, where the governor, brother of the Czar, has taken his last stand against a Tartar rebellion led by the fearsome Feofar-Khan. When telegraph lines are cut between the Russian Far East and the mainland, Strogoff must make his way through hostile territory to warn the governor of the return of the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a disgraced former officer w...

Jul 01, 20241 hr 35 min

Michael Strogoff, by Jules Verne. Part IV.

This is the account of the perilous mission of Michael Strogoff, courier for Czar Alexander II, who is sent from Moscow to the besieged city of Irkutsk, where the governor, brother of the Czar, has taken his last stand against a Tartar rebellion led by the fearsome Feofar-Khan. When telegraph lines are cut between the Russian Far East and the mainland, Strogoff must make his way through hostile territory to warn the governor of the return of the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a disgraced former officer w...

Jul 01, 20241 hr 39 min

Michael Strogoff, by Jules Verne. Part III.

This is the account of the perilous mission of Michael Strogoff, courier for Czar Alexander II, who is sent from Moscow to the besieged city of Irkutsk, where the governor, brother of the Czar, has taken his last stand against a Tartar rebellion led by the fearsome Feofar-Khan. When telegraph lines are cut between the Russian Far East and the mainland, Strogoff must make his way through hostile territory to warn the governor of the return of the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a disgraced former officer w...

Jul 01, 20241 hr 48 min

Michael Strogoff, by Jules Verne. Part II.

This is the account of the perilous mission of Michael Strogoff, courier for Czar Alexander II, who is sent from Moscow to the besieged city of Irkutsk, where the governor, brother of the Czar, has taken his last stand against a Tartar rebellion led by the fearsome Feofar-Khan. When telegraph lines are cut between the Russian Far East and the mainland, Strogoff must make his way through hostile territory to warn the governor of the return of the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a disgraced former officer w...

Jul 01, 20241 hr 36 min

Michael Strogoff, by Jules Verne. Part I.

This is the account of the perilous mission of Michael Strogoff, courier for Czar Alexander II, who is sent from Moscow to the besieged city of Irkutsk, where the governor, brother of the Czar, has taken his last stand against a Tartar rebellion led by the fearsome Feofar-Khan. When telegraph lines are cut between the Russian Far East and the mainland, Strogoff must make his way through hostile territory to warn the governor of the return of the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a disgraced former officer w...

Jul 01, 20241 hr 41 min

Toxophilus, by R. Ascham and J. A. Giles. Part III.

Toxophilus is a book about target archery using the English Longbow. The book is divided into two parts: The first part is an extended argument that target archery should be encouraged as a healthy activity benefiting both the individual and the defense of the country; the second part is an instruction manual about the use of the English longbow for target archery. In 1545, when the book was written, the English Longbow had been in continuous use in European warfare since the medieval period. As...

Jun 27, 20241 hr 19 min

Toxophilus, by R. Ascham and J. A. Giles. Part II.

Toxophilus is a book about target archery using the English Longbow. The book is divided into two parts: The first part is an extended argument that target archery should be encouraged as a healthy activity benefiting both the individual and the defense of the country; the second part is an instruction manual about the use of the English longbow for target archery. In 1545, when the book was written, the English Longbow had been in continuous use in European warfare since the medieval period. As...

Jun 27, 20241 hr 49 min

Toxophilus, by R. Ascham and J. A. Giles. Part I.

Toxophilus is a book about target archery using the English Longbow. The book is divided into two parts: The first part is an extended argument that target archery should be encouraged as a healthy activity benefiting both the individual and the defense of the country; the second part is an instruction manual about the use of the English longbow for target archery. In 1545, when the book was written, the English Longbow had been in continuous use in European warfare since the medieval period. As...

Jun 27, 20242 hr 7 min

The Dark Chamber, by Leonard Cline. Part IV.

"...this is an absolutely magnificent work of art! Poetry — song — & the ultimate quintessence of atmospheric morbidity & horror...the main stream is superb — the terrible quest of a scholar back through the corridors of memory, personal & ancestral. Ugh! The strange odour…. & that hellish hound Tod, that bays in the night…. Don’t miss it!" (Summary by H. P. Lovecraft, 1928) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jun 27, 202435 min

The Dark Chamber, by Leonard Cline. Part III.

"...this is an absolutely magnificent work of art! Poetry — song — & the ultimate quintessence of atmospheric morbidity & horror...the main stream is superb — the terrible quest of a scholar back through the corridors of memory, personal & ancestral. Ugh! The strange odour…. & that hellish hound Tod, that bays in the night…. Don’t miss it!" (Summary by H. P. Lovecraft, 1928) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jun 27, 20241 hr 27 min

The Dark Chamber, by Leonard Cline. Part II.

"...this is an absolutely magnificent work of art! Poetry — song — & the ultimate quintessence of atmospheric morbidity & horror...the main stream is superb — the terrible quest of a scholar back through the corridors of memory, personal & ancestral. Ugh! The strange odour…. & that hellish hound Tod, that bays in the night…. Don’t miss it!" (Summary by H. P. Lovecraft, 1928) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jun 27, 20241 hr 48 min

The Dark Chamber, by Leonard Cline. Part I.

"...this is an absolutely magnificent work of art! Poetry — song — & the ultimate quintessence of atmospheric morbidity & horror...the main stream is superb — the terrible quest of a scholar back through the corridors of memory, personal & ancestral. Ugh! The strange odour…. & that hellish hound Tod, that bays in the night…. Don’t miss it!" (Summary by H. P. Lovecraft, 1928) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jun 27, 20241 hr 57 min

Sir Nigel, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Part VIII.

By 1348 the House of Loring has fallen on hard times. Together, the Black Death and the greedy monks of Waverley have bled away all of the Loring wealth. Even the manor house will have to go to pay their debts. Then a chance encounter with the King of England provides Nigel, the last of the Lorings, with the chance to seek his fortune in the constant wars with France. But more importantly for Nigel it also means that he may be able to do the "three small deeds" that will show he is worthy to ask...

Jun 24, 202450 min
For the best experience, listen in Metacast app for iOS or Android