Classic Audiobook Collection

The Moving Picture Girls by Laura Lee Hope audiobook. Genre: adventureRuth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City - times are hard, even for a talented actor like Mr. DeVere. Just as he successfully auditions for a new play, an old voice affliction renders him terribly hoarse and he loses the role. Despite voice rest and medical treatment, Mr. DeVere's voice fails to improve, and it is impossible to find theatre work.A friend and neighbour in their apartment building suggests that Mr. DeVere tries acting in the moving pictures (which being silent, would not need him to speak at all) but Mr. DeVere considers that business to be common and cheap. However, when they receive an eviction notice, and local shops refuse to extend credit, Mr. DeVere may have no choice ... and where he goes, his daughters will follow.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:12:06) Chapter 02(00:23:21) Chapter 03(00:38:46) Chapter 04(00:51:15) Chapter 05(01:00:59) Chapter 06(01:11:27) Chapter 07(01:24:01) Chapter 08(01:33:36) Chapter 09(01:44:47) Chapter 10(01:55:54) Chapter 11(02:08:01) Chapter 12(02:16:17) Chapter 13(02:29:30) Chapter 14(02:39:22) Chapter 15(02:48:34) Chapter 16(03:01:41) Chapter 17(03:11:35) Chapter 18(03:25:19) Chapter 19(03:38:41) Chapter 20(03:47:54) Chapter 21(03:57:23) Chapter 22(04:06:37) Chapter 23(04:17:15) Chapter 24(04:25:39) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tze audiobook. Genre: philosophyThe Tao Te Ching, attributed to the sage Lao-Tze, is a compact yet far-reaching guide to living in harmony with the Tao - the subtle, unnamed source and pattern behind nature, society, and the self. Told in short, poetic chapters, it invites listeners to trade force for flexibility, certainty for curiosity, and struggle for balance. Through images of water, valleys, uncarved wood, and the turning of seasons, the book explores wu-wei (effortless action), humility, simplicity, and the quiet strength of yielding. It speaks to the individual seeking steadiness in a noisy world, and also to leaders who want to govern without coercion, influence without domination, and create order without exhausting control. Rather than offering rigid commandments, the text works like a mirror, challenging ambition, pride, and excess while pointing toward compassion, moderation, and clarity. Each passage can be returned to again and again, revealing new meaning as circumstances change. Whether approached as philosophy, spiritual teaching, or practical wisdom, the Tao Te Ching remains an enduring invitation to align intention with the natural flow of life.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:08:57) Chapter 2(00:19:16) Chapter 3(00:30:04) Chapter 4(00:41:18) Chapter 5(00:51:43) Chapter 6(01:02:00) Chapter 7(01:14:09) Chapter 8(01:24:31) Chapter 9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: thrillerSet in the fog and ferment of late-Victorian London, The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale follows Adolf Verloc, a mild-mannered shopkeeper whose dingy storefront hides a more dangerous trade in secrets. Verloc drifts between two worlds: the shabby circles of self-styled revolutionaries who gather in back rooms to talk of upheaval, and the cold, bureaucratic machinery of a foreign embassy that expects results rather than excuses. Pressured to prove his usefulness, Verloc is pushed toward a reckless act meant to jolt the public into fear and the government into overreaction. At home, his seemingly quiet domestic life with his practical wife Winnie and her vulnerable younger brother Stevie becomes entangled with his covert obligations, turning private loyalties into potential casualties. As suspicion tightens and the city reacts, an inspector with a patient, methodical mind begins to pull at the loose threads, revealing how ideology, greed, and inertia can combine into catastrophe. Tense, darkly ironic, and sharply psychological, Conrad's novel examines the ordinary faces behind political violence and the devastating cost of living a double life.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:16:36) Chapter 02(01:14:43) Chapter 03(01:54:51) Chapter 04(02:29:29) Chapter 05(03:15:14) Chapter 06(04:11:16) Chapter 07(04:42:57) Chapter 08(05:40:11) Chapter 09(06:38:26) Chapter 10(07:05:59) Chapter 11(07:53:34) Chapter 12(08:20:17) Chapter 13(08:55:45) Chapter 14(09:30:37) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Letters of Jane Austen by Jane Austen audiobook. Genre: biographyThis recording includes a selection of Jane Austen's letters, edited by Susan Coolidge and chosen from the collection of Austen's great-nephew, Edward, Lord Brabourne. The letters are mostly addressed to Austen's sister Cassandra, with whom she was very close. There are also some letters written to two of her nieces, Anna Austen Lefroy and Fanny Knight. They include some references to her published work, including Sense and Sensibility (abbreviated 'S and S'), Pride and Prejudice (also called First Impressions, or P and P), Mansfield Park ('MP') and Emma. They are also replete with details about her family life, including the extended families and careers of her brothers, James, Edward, Frank, Henry, and Charles.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:11:43) Chapter 01(00:21:07) Chapter 02(00:30:48) Chapter 03(00:41:58) Chapter 04(00:56:49) Chapter 05(01:07:45) Chapter 06(01:21:55) Chapter 07(01:33:27) Chapter 08(01:45:01) Chapter 09(01:55:08) Chapter 10(02:11:41) Chapter 11(02:26:31) Chapter 12(02:42:34) Chapter 13(02:59:15) Chapter 14(03:15:01) Chapter 15(03:28:55) Chapter 16(03:47:28) Chapter 17(04:04:26) Chapter 18(04:15:33) Chapter 19(04:35:20) Chapter 20(04:44:17) Chapter 21(05:08:54) Chapter 22(05:24:07) Chapter 23(05:39:30) Chapter 24(05:50:51) Chapter 25(06:04:00) Chapter 26(06:15:14) Chapter 27(06:28:39) Chapter 28(06:40:16) Chapter 29(06:51:32) Chapter 30(07:02:57) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dead by James Joyce audiobook. Genre: dramaOn a snowy Epiphany night in Dublin, Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta arrive at the annual holiday dance hosted by Gabriel's aunts, the warm-hearted Morkan sisters, whose crowded house fills with music, laughter, and talk that cuts as sharply as the winter air outside. As Gabriel moves through the evening - giving a speech, navigating old friendships, and sparring with a young nationalist's barbed questions - small tensions surface beneath the party's glow: class and culture, Ireland and the wider world, public polish and private unease. The festivities culminate in a lavish supper and spirited dancing, yet Gabriel cannot shake a sense that he is slightly out of step with everyone around him, including the woman he loves. When a song stirs an unexpected emotion in Gretta, Gabriel is drawn into a more intimate reckoning, where desire, jealousy, and tenderness collide with the weight of memory. In Joyce's most celebrated story, a simple gathering becomes a haunting meditation on marriage, identity, and the thin boundary between the living present and the past that still speaks.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:23:40) Chapter 2(00:41:26) Chapter 3(01:01:09) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Room in the Dragon Volant by J. Sheridan LeFanu audiobook. Genre: mysteryIn Napoleonic-era Paris, young English traveler Richard Beckett arrives full of money, confidence, and the thrill of being anonymous in a glittering foreign city. An evening visit to a church delivers an instant obsession: a veiled, aristocratic beauty, the Comtesse de St Alyre, whose sadness and mystery seem to beckon him closer. A chance introduction pulls Richard into her orbit, where whispers of family danger, secret meetings, and urgent pleas for discretion make him feel both chosen and indispensable. But Paris has its own predators, and Richard's romantic certainty begins to collide with unsettling details: watchful strangers, oddly timed invitations, and a growing sense that every step has been anticipated. When he is steered toward a secluded inn called the Dragon Volant and assigned a particular room, the story tightens into a claustrophobic spiral of suspicion and dread. Blending gothic atmosphere with a sharp-eyed look at greed and manipulation, LeFanu spins a tense tale about the perils of desire, the ease of self-deception, and how quickly a traveler can become a target.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:08:29) Chapter 02(00:17:02) Chapter 03(00:24:41) Chapter 04(00:33:31) Chapter 05(00:48:04) Chapter 06(00:59:34) Chapter 07(01:12:56) Chapter 08(01:21:29) Chapter 09(01:30:46) Chapter 10(01:41:10) Chapter 11(01:51:00) Chapter 12(02:00:52) Chapter 13(02:11:39) Chapter 14(02:25:49) Chapter 15(02:39:20) Chapter 16(02:53:00) Chapter 17(03:01:54) Chapter 18(03:14:37) Chapter 19(03:24:36) Chapter 20(03:33:19) Chapter 21(03:40:36) Chapter 22(03:49:02) Chapter 23(03:57:33) Chapter 24(04:06:14) Chapter 25(04:13:19) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu audiobook. Genre: horrorIn a lonely corner of Styria, a sheltered young woman named Laura lives with her widowed father in an old estate surrounded by forest and superstition. Their quiet routine is broken when a carriage accident delivers a mysterious, elegant stranger into their care: Carmilla, a girl of Laura's age who seems both fragile and strangely commanding. As the two grow inseparable, Laura is drawn into a relationship that feels like friendship, infatuation, and something darker all at once. Then unsettling changes begin to spread through the household and nearby villages - exhausted servants, fearful neighbors, and a pattern of illness that no doctor can explain. Laura herself starts to suffer vivid dreams and a weakening that deepens with Carmilla's nightly visits and cryptic confessions. With the help of a determined general, a skeptical physician, and a learned investigator of old legends, Laura's father is forced to confront the possibility that the threat is not a natural disease but an ancient predator hidden behind a beautiful face. Gothic, intimate, and charged with forbidden longing, Carmilla explores desire, secrecy, and the danger of trusting what you most want to believe.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:14:16) Chapter 02(00:32:32) Chapter 03(00:49:41) Chapter 04(01:14:12) Chapter 05(01:23:12) Chapter 06(01:33:06) Chapter 07(01:46:58) Chapter 08(01:55:12) Chapter 09(02:06:38) Chapter 10(02:13:47) Chapter 11(02:25:12) Chapter 12(02:36:21) Chapter 13(02:48:00) Chapter 14(02:59:07) Chapter 15(03:08:04) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Maisie Knew by Henry James audiobook. Genre: dramaIn late-19th-century England, young Maisie Farange becomes the unwilling prize in a bitter divorce, passed back and forth between two self-absorbed parents who treat custody as leverage and their child as a messenger, witness, and weapon. As Maisie grows, her world fills with shifting households, new marriages, and flirtations that blur the lines between guardianship and desire. With a keen, observant mind and a hunger for stability, she tries to make sense of adult motives that are rarely spoken plainly and never entirely innocent. Around her orbit a small cast of caretakers and would-be protectors - some genuinely kind, others opportunistic - each claiming to know what is best for her while pursuing private agendas. Through Maisie's limited but sharpening perspective, Henry James builds a tense moral drama about innocence and knowledge, manipulation and responsibility, and the quiet resilience it takes for a child to claim an inner life amid relentless emotional bargaining. As pressure mounts and loyalties fracture, Maisie must decide whom to trust and what kind of future she can choose for herself.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:09:53) Chapter 01(00:17:44) Chapter 02(00:25:32) Chapter 03(00:31:34) Chapter 04(00:39:56) Chapter 05(00:49:03) Chapter 06(01:00:40) Chapter 07(01:14:24) Chapter 08(01:33:42) Chapter 09(01:49:05) Chapter 10(02:01:57) Chapter 11(02:20:31) Chapter 12(02:38:48) Chapter 13(02:54:10) Chapter 14(03:10:55) Chapter 15(03:27:13) Chapter 16(03:44:17) Chapter 17(04:01:50) Chapter 18(04:19:30) Chapter 19(04:42:47) Chapter 20(05:11:45) Chapter 21(05:32:05) Chapter 22(05:45:02) Chapter 23(06:00:56) Chapter 24(06:21:09) Chapter 25(06:39:46) Chapter 26(07:00:01) Chapter 27(07:13:51) Chapter 28(07:29:12) Chapter 29(07:49:43) Chapter 30(08:15:31) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James audiobook. Genre: dramaThe Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular long novels, and is regarded by critics as one of his finest. The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who 'affronts her destiny' and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. Like many of James's novels, it is set in Europe, mostly England and Italy. Generally regarded as the masterpiece of James's early period, this novel reflects James's continuing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old, often to the detriment of the former. It also treats in a profound way the themes of personal freedom, responsibility, and betrayalFor ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:24:56) Chapter 02(00:39:30) Chapter 03(01:00:04) Chapter 04(01:16:31) Chapter 05(01:46:03) Chapter 06(02:08:11) Chapter 07(02:30:46) Chapter 08(02:45:41) Chapter 09(03:01:13) Chapter 10(03:28:25) Chapter 11(03:44:20) Chapter 12(04:10:20) Chapter 13(04:42:12) Chapter 14(05:04:29) Chapter 15(05:38:57) Chapter 16(06:07:02) Chapter 17(06:23:07) Chapter 18(06:59:56) Chapter 19(07:48:22) Chapter 20(08:20:22) Chapter 21(08:36:50) Chapter 22(09:20:39) Chapter 23(09:41:41) Chapter 24(10:14:29) Chapter 25(10:28:10) Chapter 26(10:59:33) Chapter 27(11:24:31) Chapter 28(11:39:30) Chapter 29(12:01:17) Chapter 30(12:14:13) Chapter 31(12:30:47) Chapter 32(12:47:23) Chapter 33(13:03:02) Chapter 34(13:25:41) Chapter 35(13:44:31) Chapter 36(14:05:08) Chapter 37(14:30:05) Chapter 38(14:55:24) Chapter 39(15:24:48) Chapter 40(15:57:22) Chapter 41(16:16:33) Chapter 42(16:52:46) Chapter 43(17:19:54) Chapter 44(17:53:28) Chapter 45(18:19:39) Chapter 46(18:45:00) Chapter 47(19:16:47) Chapter 48(19:53:48) Chapter 49(20:24:21) Chapter 50(20:42:38) Chapter 51(21:18:56) Chapter 52(21:45:00) Chapter 53(22:04:41) Chapter 54(22:31:06) Chapter 55 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Guide to Men by Helen Rowland audiobook. Genre: comedyA series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bland, sexist (in both directions!) and funny. From the text:A man is like a park squirrel; if you fling your favors or your charms at his head he will never come up and eat out of your hand.Even Satan could find a woman to call him 'Dearie,' if he would simply tell her that all he needed was 'a beautiful woman's uplifting influence.'Every bride fancies that she married the original 'cave-man' until she tries to persuade him to go out and argue with the furniture-movers.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:05:20) Chapter 02(00:15:40) Chapter 03(00:22:07) Chapter 04(00:30:21) Chapter 05(00:41:54) Chapter 06(00:50:54) Chapter 07(00:57:57) Chapter 08(01:05:30) Chapter 09(01:13:40) Chapter 10(01:21:47) Chapter 11(01:26:51) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices