Classic Audiobook Collection

Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes by Ella Cheever Thayer audiobook. Genre: romanceIn the bustling, wire-laced world of late 19th-century America, Nattie Rogers lives by a strict code: keep your private life private, keep your feelings in check, and never mix romance with the telegraph key. A skilled operator known on the line by a crisp, professional handle, Nattie spends her days translating human urgency into dots and dashes and her nights guarding her independence in a society eager to define what a woman should be. But the telegraph also offers something intoxicating - connection without appearances, intimacy without introductions. When Nattie strikes up a playful, increasingly personal correspondence with a charming operator she knows only by his signal name, the exchange turns into a contest of wit, willpower, and vulnerability. As their messages grow bolder, the risks rise: misunderstandings can travel as fast as electricity, reputations can be damaged by rumor, and the boundary between on-the-wire fantasy and real-world consequence begins to blur. Moving from offices and boardinghouses to social gatherings and chance encounters, this pioneering romance explores identity, trust, and the strange thrill of falling for a voice you cannot see - while asking what it means to choose love on your own terms.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:17:55) Chapter 02(00:37:30) Chapter 03(01:04:13) Chapter 04(01:20:01) Chapter 05(01:37:29) Chapter 06(01:54:06) Chapter 07(02:10:46) Chapter 08(02:26:11) Chapter 09(02:47:31) Chapter 10(03:10:50) Chapter 11(03:34:11) Chapter 12(03:50:07) Chapter 13(04:03:48) Chapter 14(04:14:06) Chapter 15(04:43:54) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Autobiography of a Newspaper Girl by Elizabeth L. Banks audiobook. Genre: comedyElizabeth Banks was an American journalist and author. She grew up in Wisconsin, then lived in England the last forty years of her life. She became a regular contributor to English publications such as The Daily News, Punch, St James' Gazette, and London Illustrated. She created a sensation by recording her observations on the plight of the lower classes, which she researched posing as a housemaid, street sweeper, and Covent Garden flower girl. Her later journalistic writings promoted women's right to vote and denounced prison conditions for jailed suffragettes. This memoir was written about 10 years into her career, when she was better known but was not financially secure.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:11:01) Chapter 02(00:33:54) Chapter 03(01:00:45) Chapter 04(01:26:34) Chapter 05(01:47:23) Chapter 06(02:11:51) Chapter 07(02:34:10) Chapter 08(03:00:24) Chapter 09(03:14:16) Chapter 10(03:42:00) Chapter 11(03:57:19) Chapter 12(04:03:39) Chapter 13(04:24:22) Chapter 14(04:38:15) Chapter 15(05:04:20) Chapter 16(05:24:30) Chapter 17(05:50:00) Chapter 18(06:12:57) Chapter 19(06:20:21) Chapter 20(06:42:42) Chapter 21(07:02:33) Chapter 22(07:25:48) Chapter 23(07:46:22) Chapter 24(08:03:46) Chapter 25(08:24:57) Chapter 26(08:48:06) Chapter 27(09:05:45) Chapter 28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cave Girl by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventureBlueblooded mama's boy Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones is swept overboard during a south seas voyage for his lifelong ill health. He finds himself on a jungle island. His bookish education has not prepared him to cope with these surroundings, and he is a coward. He is terrified when he encounters primitive, violent men, ape-like throwbacks in mankind's evolutionary history. He runs from them, but when he reaches a dead end, he successfully makes a stand, astonishing himself. While keeping the hairy brutes at bay, he meets a beautiful girl, Nadara, also on the run. In an uncharacteristic gesture, he saves her from the grasp of one ape-man during their escape.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:20:37) Chapter 02(00:37:01) Chapter 03(00:59:40) Chapter 04(01:23:25) Chapter 05(01:49:03) Chapter 06(02:03:11) Chapter 07(02:19:15) Chapter 08(02:30:10) Chapter 09(02:50:59) Chapter 10(03:11:52) Chapter 11(03:42:45) Chapter 12(04:04:00) Chapter 13(04:27:53) Chapter 14(04:47:38) Chapter 15(05:09:03) Chapter 16(05:25:31) Chapter 17(05:46:14) Chapter 18(06:18:10) Chapter 19(06:41:25) Chapter 20(07:06:29) Chapter 21(07:27:32) Chapter 22(07:54:02) Chapter 23(08:21:49) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Book of All Power by Edgar Wallace audiobook. Genre: thrillerThe Book of All Power by Edgar Wallace is set in London at the beginning, and then the action moves to Russia. The story covers the period from 1910 to 1919 during which the Russian Revolution takes place and this results in drastic changes to Russian society. This book could be described as a romantic adventure story and the main characters are a weird assortment - Malcolm Hay, a young Englishman, a beautiful Grand Duchess of the Russian Aristocracy, a Russian general, a Jewish bookbinder, and an American sharp shooter. Much happens, and the Russian characters, heavily influenced by their religion and politics, provide a fascinating insight into the mind of the Russian people, aristocrats and peasants, and all those in between.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:21:12) Chapter 02(00:40:40) Chapter 03(01:05:00) Chapter 04(01:19:16) Chapter 05(01:36:20) Chapter 06(01:56:28) Chapter 07(02:17:50) Chapter 08(02:36:00) Chapter 09(02:53:00) Chapter 10(03:10:45) Chapter 11(03:24:22) Chapter 12(03:42:00) Chapter 13(04:00:31) Chapter 14(04:09:45) Chapter 15(04:26:52) Chapter 16(04:41:03) Chapter 17(04:56:07) Chapter 18(05:09:31) Chapter 19(05:21:13) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Secresy, or, the Ruin on the Rock by Eliza Fenwick audiobook. Genre: romanceTold through an intimate web of letters, Eliza Fenwick's Secresy, or, the Ruin on the Rock draws listeners into a remote coastal estate where affection, reputation, and power collide. Caroline Ashburn, thoughtful and clear-eyed, writes with growing alarm about her friend Sibella Valmont, a young heiress kept under the stern rule of her uncle, Mr. Valmont. Behind the castle walls and the constant roar of the sea, Sibella's lively intelligence and hunger for freedom clash with a household that treats obedience as virtue and silence as safety. As Sibella's attachment to Clement Montgomery deepens, Mr. Valmont tightens his control, and a private crisis emerges that cannot be easily contained. What begins as concern for a friend's welfare becomes a tense struggle over who gets to decide a woman's future: family authority, social expectation, or the woman herself. Part Gothic atmosphere and part social critique, Fenwick explores female friendship, moral courage, and the cost of hidden truths, as every letter inches closer to consequences no one can fully predict.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:01:19) Chapter 01(00:05:55) Chapter 02(00:16:40) Chapter 03(00:41:08) Chapter 04(00:47:51) Chapter 05(01:17:20) Chapter 06(01:33:14) Chapter 07(02:14:32) Chapter 08(02:22:50) Chapter 09(02:38:26) Chapter 10(02:55:17) Chapter 11(03:02:56) Chapter 12(03:06:24) Chapter 13(03:26:04) Chapter 14(03:30:29) Chapter 15(03:33:03) Chapter 16(03:35:17) Chapter 17(03:36:23) Chapter 18(03:43:23) Chapter 19(03:55:08) Chapter 20(04:19:52) Chapter 21(04:25:34) Chapter 22(04:32:26) Chapter 23(04:35:37) Chapter 24(04:54:46) Chapter 25(05:08:25) Chapter 26(05:20:31) Chapter 27(05:32:58) Chapter 28(05:54:56) Chapter 29(05:59:04) Chapter 30(06:01:02) Chapter 31(06:14:16) Chapter 32(06:26:13) Chapter 33(06:40:51) Chapter 34(07:15:07) Chapter 35(07:31:23) Chapter 36(07:41:31) Chapter 37(07:54:34) Chapter 38(08:01:02) Chapter 39(08:21:03) Chapter 40(08:36:04) Chapter 41(08:43:13) Chapter 42(08:46:30) Chapter 43(08:50:18) Chapter 44(08:52:02) Chapter 45(08:55:56) Chapter 46(08:57:05) Chapter 47(08:59:46) Chapter 48(09:12:34) Chapter 49(09:13:47) Chapter 50(09:15:15) Chapter 51(09:17:36) Chapter 52(09:21:32) Chapter 53(09:23:32) Chapter 54(09:25:19) Chapter 55(09:26:51) Chapter 56(09:29:58) Chapter 57(09:38:48) Chapter 58(09:39:56) Chapter 59(09:40:45) Chapter 60(09:56:31) Chapter 61(09:59:07) Chapter 62(10:03:26) Chapter 63(10:06:52) Chapter 64(10:12:21) Chapter 65(10:14:57) Chapter 66(10:18:50) Chapter 67(10:23:05) Chapter 68(10:24:27) Chapter 69(10:26:15) Chapter 70(10:32:48) Chapter 71(10:33:54) Chapter 72(10:35:16) Chapter 73(10:37:36) Chapter 74(10:57:11) Chapter 75(11:00:56) Chapter 76(11:08:59) Chapter 77(11:14:08) Chapter 78(11:16:09) Chapter 79(11:32:01) Chapter 80(11:37:53) Chapter 81 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Voyage to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac audiobook. Genre: scifiIn A Voyage to the Moon, Cyrano de Bergerac launches a bold, mischievous tale that blends adventure with razor-edged satire. The narrator, a quick-witted skeptic with an appetite for daring theories, becomes obsessed with the possibility of life beyond Earth and devises a series of improbable schemes to reach the Moon. When his experiments finally hurl him into the heavens, he arrives in a world that is unmistakably alien yet uncomfortably familiar: a society with its own customs, hierarchies, and assumptions about what is natural, moral, and true. As an outsider, he is forced to justify his origin, his beliefs, and even his humanity before curious (and often hostile) lunar authorities and philosophers. Each encounter becomes a contest of ideas, where accepted wisdom is flipped on its head and earthly dogmas about religion, science, politics, and social status are tested under an unforgiving new logic. By turns comic, confrontational, and imaginative, this early classic invites listeners to question certainty itself and to wonder how strange our own world might look from far away.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:22:06) Chapter 01(00:24:45) Chapter 02(00:32:18) Chapter 03(00:37:15) Chapter 04(00:43:12) Chapter 05(00:56:38) Chapter 06(01:02:15) Chapter 07(01:08:41) Chapter 08(01:27:31) Chapter 09(01:41:22) Chapter 10(01:55:48) Chapter 11(02:16:32) Chapter 12(02:22:30) Chapter 13(02:36:00) Chapter 14(02:55:15) Chapter 15(03:05:12) Chapter 16(03:21:43) Chapter 17(03:34:51) Chapter 18(03:42:11) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Calico Cat by Charles Miner Thompson audiobook. Genre: comedyIn a quiet village where reputation is everything, Solomon Peaslee is determined to be taken seriously. He has his eye on public respectability, and he is especially pleased with the prospect of serving on the grand jury, a role that feels like proof he has finally arrived. But the one thing that reliably unmans him is a bold, trespassing calico cat that treats his property as its personal kingdom. One impulsive night, Solomon decides to end the nuisance for good, raising his shotgun at the cat on the fence. The blast misses its target and strikes something far more dangerous: a man lurking in the dark. In the stunned aftermath, Solomon scrambles to protect his standing, dodge suspicion, and keep the village from turning its sharp attention on him. As gossip spreads and half-truths multiply, the incident ripples outward, pulling neighbors and family into a tightening knot of fear, blame, and misplaced certainty. When a boy becomes entangled in the fallout, Solomon must face a conflict that no civic title can solve: whether preserving his image is worth the cost of his conscience.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:22:10) Chapter 2(00:46:26) Chapter 3(01:07:14) Chapter 4(01:26:14) Chapter 5(01:43:02) Chapter 6(02:04:40) Chapter 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Adopting of Rosa Marie by Carroll Watson Rankin audiobook. Genre: familyBack at their beloved, tumble-down Dandelion Cottage in Lakeville, four inseparable friends - practical Jean Mapes, dramatic Marjory Vale, tenderhearted Mabel Bennett, and small but spirited Bettie Tucker - are determined to stretch the last warm days of the season into one more round of make-believe housekeeping. Then Mabel wanders too far from their usual haunts and comes home with an unexpected 'foundling': a quiet, sturdy Indian toddler named Rosa Marie. What begins as a game of playing mother turns into something far more complicated as the girls try to feed her, bathe her, entertain her, and keep her presence hidden from watchful neighbors and parents. Disagreements flare, consciences prick, and the Cottage girls discover that real caretaking does not follow the rules of pretend. When a new girl, Henrietta Slater, arrives with different manners and her own private homesickness, the circle of friendship is tested again - and the question of what Rosa Marie truly needs becomes impossible to ignore. Warm, funny, and clear-eyed about childhood loyalty, the story explores responsibility, belonging, and the big feelings that come with small hands trying to do a grown-up thing.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:06:49) Chapter 02(00:14:16) Chapter 03(00:21:30) Chapter 04(00:27:15) Chapter 05(00:34:04) Chapter 06(00:41:27) Chapter 07(00:51:05) Chapter 08(00:58:25) Chapter 09(01:06:09) Chapter 10(01:12:42) Chapter 11(01:20:39) Chapter 12(01:28:19) Chapter 13(01:34:58) Chapter 14(01:43:42) Chapter 15(01:53:19) Chapter 16(02:04:17) Chapter 17(02:13:53) Chapter 18(02:25:17) Chapter 19(02:33:21) Chapter 20(02:43:06) Chapter 21(02:52:01) Chapter 22(03:02:49) Chapter 23(03:14:14) Chapter 24(03:25:38) Chapter 25(03:36:35) Chapter 26(03:44:55) Chapter 27(03:53:27) Chapter 28(04:03:36) Chapter 29(04:14:35) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mystery of the Sycamore by Carolyn Wells audiobook. Genre: mysteryWhen Curtis Keefe, trusted secretary to former Massachusetts governor Samuel Appleby, accompanies his employer to a tense weekend at Sycamore Ridge, he expects political bargaining, not bloodshed. Appleby has come to the Connecticut estate of Daniel Wheeler, an old rival living under the shadow of a humiliating past and a punishing, conditional pardon that keeps his family balanced on the edge of ruin. Appleby wants Wheeler's public support for Appleby Jr.'s run for governor, and he is willing to trade influence, mercy, or pressure to get it. But the house is already a tinderbox of grievances: a proud host determined to protect his name, a family with everything to lose, and a web of loyalties stretched thin by money, inheritance, and love. Then, amid a sudden commotion and a strange atmosphere of whispered stories and late-night sounds, a gunshot shatters the uneasy peace - and Appleby is found dead in his chair, a bullet through his heart. With motives multiplying and local authorities overwhelmed, master detective Fleming Stone and his quick-witted assistant Fibsy arrive to untangle alibis, decode human nature, and expose the truth hiding in Sycamore Ridge's shadows.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:24:45) Chapter 02(00:50:09) Chapter 03(01:14:43) Chapter 04(01:39:30) Chapter 05(02:05:35) Chapter 06(02:30:55) Chapter 07(02:55:04) Chapter 08(03:17:48) Chapter 09(03:41:53) Chapter 10(04:05:19) Chapter 11(04:29:46) Chapter 12(04:53:15) Chapter 13(05:16:44) Chapter 14(05:39:45) Chapter 15(06:05:11) Chapter 16(06:30:03) Chapter 17(06:54:06) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Crime, Its Causes and Remedies by Cesare Lombroso audiobook. Genre: scienceIn Crime, Its Causes and Remedies, pioneering Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso lays out a sweeping, controversial attempt to explain why people commit crimes and how societies should respond. Writing at the crossroads of medicine, psychology, and emerging social science, Lombroso examines the criminal not only as a legal subject but as a human being shaped by heredity, environment, education, poverty, addiction, and mental illness. Moving from case studies and observational claims to broader arguments about prisons, punishment, rehabilitation, and prevention, he challenges purely moral or purely legal explanations of wrongdoing and insists on studying crime as a phenomenon with discoverable patterns and practical implications. Along the way, he engages questions that still feel urgent: What role do social conditions play in violence and theft? How should the law treat youth, repeat offenders, and those with psychiatric disorders? And can public policy reduce crime more effectively than harsher penalties? The result is a foundational work of positivist criminology - provocative, historically influential, and essential for listeners interested in the origins of modern debates about justice and reform.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(01:04:04) Chapter 01(01:34:42) Chapter 02(01:41:40) Chapter 03(02:27:05) Chapter 04(03:01:54) Chapter 05(03:35:10) Chapter 06(03:53:02) Chapter 07(04:26:56) Chapter 08(04:53:49) Chapter 09(05:25:01) Chapter 10(05:39:55) Chapter 11(05:51:41) Chapter 12(06:35:53) Chapter 13(06:45:41) Chapter 14(07:07:11) Chapter 15(07:41:33) Chapter 16(07:47:28) Chapter 17(08:15:58) Chapter 18(08:52:35) Chapter 19(09:13:07) Chapter 20(09:34:53) Chapter 21(09:56:43) Chapter 22(10:31:56) Chapter 23(10:50:49) Chapter 24(11:42:58) Chapter 25(11:53:37) Chapter 26(12:39:37) Chapter 27(13:04:40) Chapter 28(13:43:15) Chapter 29(14:26:29) Chapter 30(15:13:36) Chapter 31(15:23:35) Chapter 32(15:37:14) Chapter 33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices