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!
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May 1, 2024 • 504 mins
Allan's Wife and other Tales by H. Rider Haggard audiobook.
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 tr...
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April 27, 2024 • 263 mins
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft audiobook.
In the most cold and remote region of the planet lies mountains towering higher than the Himalayas and containing abominable secrets the mind can scarcely fathom. When an intrepid expedition stumbles across the remains of an ancient race of creatures that predates humanity by millions of years, they believe they've discovered the scientific find of the century. Instead, the...
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April 26, 2024 • 479 mins
Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells audiobook.
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April 25, 2024 • 323 mins
Dr. Nikola's Experiment by Guy Boothby audiobook.
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...
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April 24, 2024 • 136 mins
Baseball Ballads by Grantland Rice audiobook.
Grantland Rice, was a sports journalist with several newspapers, although his Sportlights column, in the New York Tribune was what brought him fame, and through it he helped popularize golf in the US, and to help the cause of American Professional Football. This book of poetry, is a tribute to baseball, the sport he played at Vanderbilt.
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April 23, 2024 • 492 mins
Not Under The Law by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook.
After both of Joyce's parents passed away, her beloved aunt raised her. But when her aunt gets sick and dies, Joyce's world turns upside down. No longer feeling welcome in her childhood home, she flees during the night to escape the cruel treatment of her aunt's son and his wife. With very little money and only the clothes on her back, Joyce tries to make a new life for herself...
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April 22, 2024 • 389 mins
The Incomparableness of God by George Swinnock audiobook.
The Incomparableness of God, in His Being, Attributes, Works, and Word
'For who in the heavens can be compared to the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the Lord?'
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April 20, 2024 • 157 mins
Rampolli by George MacDonald audiobook.
A collection of poems by George MacDonald translated from various European languages including works by Novalis, Schiller, Goethe, Heine, Petrach, Milton and Martin Luther.
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April 19, 2024 • 117 mins
The Principles of Secularism by George J. Holyoake audiobook.
George Jacob Holyoake was an English secularist and newspaper editor. He was one of the last people convicted for blasphemy and served six months in prison. In 1851, he coined the term 'secularism'.
In this short pamphlet from 1871, he explains the meaning of the term - essentially a separation of church and state in all matters of life. He also lists the benefits of a ...
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April 18, 2024 • 94 mins
Personal Recollections of Johannes Brahms by George Henschel audiobook.
George Henschel, a well-known pianist, singer, composer, and conductor was close friends with Johannes Brahms from 1874 to 1897 and he provides intimate and fascinating recollections of his time spent with Brahms during this period. The book includes the journal he kept of his meetings with Brahms as well as some letters he received from Brahms.
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April 17, 2024 • 313 mins
The True Stories of Celebrated Crimes by George Barton audiobook.
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April 16, 2024 • 87 mins
Dr. John Dee - Elizabethan Mystic and Astrologer by G. M. Hort audiobook.
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April 12, 2024 • 396 mins
The Secret of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton audiobook.
A new series of adventures and mysteries solved by the skill and quick wit of Father Brown, the one detective in English fiction who can compete with Sherlock Holmes.
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April 10, 2024 • 646 mins
The Cornet of Horse by G. A. Henty audiobook.
Rupert Holiday is forced to flee England after wounding a miscreant in fight, and joins the Duke of Marlborough in his campaigns during the War of Spanish Succession. Rupert has many adventures and hairbreadth escapes, as he greatly distinguishes himself during the conflict. This was one of Henty's earliest books, and helped launch Henty's career as a Historical Fiction writer.
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April 9, 2024 • 233 mins
Destiny Times Three by Fritz Leiber audiobook.
Thorn and Clawly seek to present to the World Executive Committee some most disturbing findings, findings that indicate that we may not be alone within the nexus of realities, that there could be other worlds existing parallel to our own, springing forth from a specific point in time. That in and of itself may not constitute a significant problem, but what if one of these worlds was n...
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April 8, 2024 • 283 mins
A Town is Drowning by Frederik Pohl audiobook.
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 th...
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April 5, 2024 • 315 mins
Israel - A Prince with God by Frederick Brotherton Meyer audiobook.
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 lear...
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April 4, 2024 • 255 mins
The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon audiobook.
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April 3, 2024 • 237 mins
The Secret of the Old Mill by Franklin W. Dixon audiobook.
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 riv...
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April 2, 2024 • 244 mins
The House on the Cliff by Franklin W. Dixon audiobook.
In this early Hardy Boys book (the second to be published), the boys journey to a haunted house where a murder took place, and upon entering, hear a spine tingling shriek. At first they tuck their tails and go back outside, but then being the adventurous sleuths they are, they go back into the house to investigate. Why does everyone believe the house is haunted, and where did ...
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