Classic Audiobook Collection

Classic Audiobook Collection

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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October 4, 2025 408 mins
The Man with the Red Beard, A Story of Moscow and London by David Whitelaw audiobook. Genre: thriller Step into a smoky world of shadowed streets, whispered secrets, and high-stakes intrigue with The Man with the Red Beard: A Story of Moscow and London. When a single enigmatic figure—marked by a startling red beard—appears at the edge of two great capitals, a chain of events is set in motion that threads through diplomatic salons,...
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Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe audiobook. Genre: biography Rendered with razor-sharp realism and wicked wit, Moll Flanders is the breathless, candid life story of a woman who refuses to be crushed by the strictures of 18th-century England. Told in her own irrepressible voice, this gripping narrative follows Moll from her hardscrabble beginnings and a string of marriages to daring acts of theft, cunning schemes, arrests, and voyages...
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Lady Chatterleys Lover by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: romance Immerse yourself in D. H. Lawrence’s daring, lyrical tale of love, desire and social fracture: Lady Chatterley’s Lover follows Constance Reid—trapped in an emotionally distant marriage to an aristocratic intellectual—and her passionate, awakening relationship with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. On the wind-swept estates and in the intimate hush of woodlands, Lawren...
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The Soul Stealers by Chester S. Geier audiobook. Genre: horror Step into the chilling, old-world atmosphere of Chester S. Geier’s The Soul Stealers, a slow-burning supernatural tale that unspools like a midnight confession. When ordinary lives begin to fray—neighbors growing listless, treasured memories evaporating, and a small town’s laughter turning hollow—one determined soul follows the faintest traces to a lurking, inexplicabl...
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Hours of Sorrow by Charlotte Elliott audiobook. Genre: religion Hours of Sorrow by Charlotte Elliott invites the listener into a gentle, deeply felt conversation about pain, faith, and consolation. Written by the Victorian hymn-writer whose moving lines include the beloved hymn “Just As I Am,” this collection of devotional poems and reflections transforms private grief into a public balm: quiet meditations, pastoral images, and hy...
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The Crooked Cross by Charles J. Dutton audiobook. Genre: history In 'The Crooked Cross,' Charles J. Dutton delivers a gripping, unflinching exploration of how ideology, opportunism, and ordinary choices can bend the arc of a nation toward darkness. Told with the meticulous eye of a historian and the urgency of a storyteller, Dutton weaves archival research, eyewitness accounts, and sharp analysis into a narrative that follows the ...
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Square Deal Sanderson by Charles Alden Seltzer audiobook. Genre: adventure Square Deal Sanderson sweeps you into the sunbaked, lawless world of the American frontier, where one man's uncompromising sense of fairness becomes the last line between chaos and community. Charles Alden Seltzer's lean, action-packed tale follows the titular Sanderson, a stalwart rancher whose commitment to a 'square deal'—honesty, hard work, and standing...
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The Syndic by C. M. Kornbluth audiobook. Genre: scifi C. M. Kornbluth's The Syndic is a razor-sharp, fast-moving political fable set in a near-future America torn between two orders: a sleek, corporate-run “United States” and the gritty, fiercely organized city-states run by syndicates of labor. When a man from the corporate side crosses the border into syndicate territory on a covert mission, he steps into a landscape of suspicio...
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian audiobook. Genre: philosophy Step into the razor-sharp mind of Baltasar Gracián with The Art of Worldly Wisdom, a compact treasury of aphorisms and maxims that has guided statesmen, writers, and strategists for centuries. This audiobook transforms Gracián’s concise, often aphoristic counsel into an accessible companion for modern life: each short chapter offers a distilled lesson in pr...
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The Shining Pyramid by Arthur Machen audiobook. Genre: horror Step into Arthur Machen’s eerie and intoxicating vision with 'The Shining Pyramid,' a compact but unforgettable journey into the uncanny where antiquity and nightmare collide. Machen's prose unfurls like a whispered confession: atmospheric, sensual, and deeply unsettling, drawing listeners into a world where a strange luminous monument—half-dream, half-artifact—casts it...
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Ornaments in Jade by Arthur Machen audiobook. Genre: fantasy Step into Arthur Machen’s Ornaments in Jade and let a master of the uncanny guide you through a collection of luminous essays, sketches and short meditations where beauty and mystery meet. Machen’s prose is ornate yet intimate—here are vignettes of memory and art, glimpses of the ancient and the otherworldly woven into reflections on everyday life, nature and the small o...
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Wage Labour and Capital by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: philosophy Wage Labour and Capital is Karl Marx’s compact, razor-sharp introduction to how capitalist economies organize work, value, and power. In this invigorating audiobook edition, Marx’s clear, urgent prose breaks down complex ideas—commodity, labour-power, the source of surplus value, and the structural relation between wages and capital—into arguments that still ring tr...
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The Book of Musical Knowledge by Arthur Elson audiobook. Genre: history Embark on a captivating sonic journey with The Book of Musical Knowledge by Arthur Elson, a timeless guide that transforms the mysteries of music into clear, engaging understanding. Written by a distinguished music educator of the early 20th century, this audiobook walks listeners step-by-step through the building blocks of musical language — notation, rhythm,...
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Movement & Progression of Animals by Aristotle audiobook. Genre: science In Movement & Progression of Animals, Aristotle takes listeners on a surprisingly modern-sounding voyage into the mechanics and meanings of animal motion. Written more than two millennia ago but pulsing with observational detail, this short book combines careful natural history, anatomical insight and philosophical inquiry as Aristotle classifies different ki...
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Practical Sermons by Archibald Alexander audiobook. Genre: religion Practical Sermons by Archibald Alexander offers a treasury of calm, incisive preaching that guides both heart and conscience toward a disciplined, compassionate Christian life. Drawn from the sermons of one of early American Presbyterianism’s most respected pastors and theologians, these addresses combine clear doctrinal insight with down-to-earth application—on t...
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The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov audiobook. Genre: tragedy Step into the shadowy heart of Anton Chekhov’s haunting tale, where the quiet rhythms of country life are fractured by a voice only one man can hear. The Black Monk follows Andrey Kovrin, a brilliant but lonely scholar who, while resting at a provincial estate, begins to see a mysterious, nocturnal figure — the Black Monk — who crowns him with prophetic assurances of genius...
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The Theological Tractates by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius audiobook. Genre: philosophy Enter the austere, luminous mind of Boethius and follow one of the late antique world’s great thinkers as he brings classical reason to bear on the deepest questions of faith. In The Theological Tractates, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius moves beyond aphorism to sustained, crystalline argument: what is the nature of God and the Trinity,...
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The Poverty of Philosophy by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Poverty of Philosophy is Karl Marx’s blistering 1847 polemic against Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s influential book The Philosophy of Poverty, and in this vividly narrated audiobook you’ll hear the intellectual heat and rigorous argumentation that helped shape modern critiques of political economy. Marx dismantles Proudhon’s theories step by step—exposing confusion...
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Tanar of Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Dive into the sunless heart of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Pellucidar and follow Tanar, a bold young warrior, as he carves his legend in a world where the rules above do not apply. In this thrilling installment of the Hollow Earth saga you will find savage beauty at every turn: thunderous prehistoric beasts stalking primeval forests, warring tribes whose loyalties ...
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A Fourth Form Friendship - A School Story by Angela Brazil audiobook. Genre: family Step into the lively world of a turn-of-the-century English boarding school with A Fourth Form Friendship — A School Story, a charming and spirited tale by Angela Brazil that delights listeners with its warmth, wit, and timeless coming-of-age moments. Follow a fourth-form heroine as she navigates the everyday dramas of dormitory life — new friendsh...
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