Classic Audiobook Collection

The Frog Prince and Other Stories by Walter Crane audiobook. Genre: folkloreIn The Frog Prince and Other Stories, celebrated Victorian artist and storyteller Walter Crane brings a handful of beloved fairy tales to life with a clear-eyed, lyrical simplicity and a painter's sense of wonder. At the heart of the collection is the classic Frog Prince: a proud young princess makes an impulsive promise to a strange, speaking frog, only to discover that a careless word can become a binding oath. Around this central tale, Crane's other stories explore the timeless logic of folklore - where ordinary homes and quiet forests can hide enchantment, where kindness can be tested, and where selfishness carries a price. Each episode turns on a sharp moral question: Will a character keep their promise when it becomes inconvenient? Will they choose compassion over disgust, honesty over pride, courage over comfort? With brisk pacing, vivid imagery, and a gentle but firm sense of consequence, these stories invite listeners of all ages into a world of transformations, riddles, and hard-won wisdom - and remind us that magic often begins the moment someone chooses to do the right thing.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:09:47) Chapter 2(00:29:18) Chapter 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Last Plainsmen by Zane Grey audiobook. Genre: adventureOften listed as The Last of the Plainsmen, this Zane Grey classic follows the author on a rugged 1907 expedition across the Arizona desert and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in the company of Charles 'Buffalo' Jones - a larger-than-life frontiersman famous not for killing, but for capturing wild animals alive. As the old West begins to vanish, Jones undertakes what feels like a final, defining mission: to track and take living cougars and other untamed creatures from a country of painted cliffs, deep canyons, and towering pines. Grey turns the journey into a vivid, boots-on-the-ground adventure, detailing brutal miles, makeshift camps, narrow escapes, and the tense, physical work of roping and handling dangerous animals without turning the hunt into slaughter. Along the way, the party faces the relentless demands of wilderness travel and uneasy encounters with the people and powers that still shape the frontier. Part travel narrative, part character portrait, the book asks what it means to master nature, and what it costs when an era - and its wildlife - is slipping away.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:03:40) Chapter 01(00:39:50) Chapter 02(01:13:51) Chapter 03(01:41:39) Chapter 04(02:14:24) Chapter 05(02:27:34) Chapter 06(02:45:52) Chapter 07(03:10:08) Chapter 08(03:25:37) Chapter 09(03:46:16) Chapter 10(04:17:10) Chapter 11(04:48:19) Chapter 12(05:16:08) Chapter 13(05:44:33) Chapter 14(06:13:06) Chapter 15(06:28:47) Chapter 16(07:05:54) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mohawk Valley by W. Max Reid audiobook. Genre: historyW. Max Reid's The Mohawk Valley is a sweeping, scene-by-scene history of New York's great river corridor from the first sustained European contacts in the early 1600s through the upheavals of the late 1700s. Moving along the valley between Schenectady and Rome, Reid traces how a landscape of forests, waterways, and frontier settlements became a crossroads of diplomacy, trade, mission work, and war. At the heart of the narrative are the Native nations who shaped the region's fate - especially the Mohawks and the wider Iroquois world - alongside Dutch traders, French rivals, and later British and American forces competing for alliances and territory. Blending documented episodes with the valley's long-lived local tales, the book brings forward the human texture behind maps and dates: shifting loyalties, hard choices in isolated communities, and the constant pressure of raids, fort-building, and retaliation. What emerges is not just a timeline of conflicts, but an account of how cultures met, clashed, and adapted in a place whose legends and history are tightly entwined.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:04:14) Chapter 01(00:12:37) Chapter 02(00:37:39) Chapter 03(01:37:34) Chapter 04(02:08:43) Chapter 05(02:18:17) Chapter 06(02:41:16) Chapter 07(03:05:01) Chapter 08(03:19:24) Chapter 09(04:06:16) Chapter 10(04:39:23) Chapter 11(04:57:10) Chapter 12(05:21:58) Chapter 13(06:19:22) Chapter 14(06:58:04) Chapter 15(07:26:23) Chapter 16(08:14:15) Chapter 17(08:55:04) Chapter 18(09:38:08) Chapter 19(10:20:29) Chapter 20(11:19:43) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Beast With Five Fingers by W. F. Harvey audiobook. Genre: horrorEustace Borlsover is a cool-headed English scholar, more comfortable with heredity charts and specimen drawers than with grief. But when his eccentric, blind uncle Adrian dies, Eustace inherits more than an enormous library. A strange, ventilated box arrives at Borlsover Conyers carrying an object that should be inert, yet is unmistakably alive: Adrian's severed right hand, preserved and restless. Years earlier, Adrian had developed a disturbing talent for automatic writing, his hand scribbling messages that sounded like a sly, separate personality speaking from behind the veil. Now that same clever hand is loose in Eustace's home, slipping from confinement, defying locks, and turning ordinary corridors, desks, and safes into stages for quiet terror. With only his wary secretary, Saunders, to help him, Eustace tries to approach the phenomenon as a solvable problem - something to study, restrain, and control. But the longer the hand survives, the more intimate its intrusions become, and the more Eustace must face a question that threatens his rational world: what, exactly, has Eustace invited into his house, and what does it want from him?For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:16:02) Chapter 02(00:31:51) Chapter 03(00:51:58) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey audiobook. Genre: adventureThe year is 1871, and wealthy ranch owner Jane Withersteen is in trouble. She has incurred the displeasure of her Mormon church leaders by refusing to marry a church elder and by befriending Gentiles (non-Mormons). In rides Lassiter, the quintessential Western hero: mysterious, purposeful, a deadly gunslinger, but with an unexpected streak of gentleness. While Lassiter is assisting Jane at the ranch, her friend and rider Bern Venters is having an adventure of his own in the Utah canyonlands. Riders of the Purple Sage is a story of heroism, love, brave men and strong women, good dogs and fast horses. And who is that Masked Rider?For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:20:53) Chapter 02(00:43:03) Chapter 03(01:07:15) Chapter 04(01:34:15) Chapter 05(01:59:26) Chapter 06(02:33:13) Chapter 07(02:54:01) Chapter 08(03:23:24) Chapter 09(03:54:23) Chapter 10(04:25:40) Chapter 11(05:00:57) Chapter 12(05:33:38) Chapter 13(06:01:57) Chapter 14(06:22:27) Chapter 15(07:03:01) Chapter 16(07:25:26) Chapter 17(08:00:46) Chapter 18(08:34:06) Chapter 19(09:01:35) Chapter 20(09:26:55) Chapter 21(10:03:24) Chapter 22(10:18:48) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Majesty of Calmness by William George Jordan audiobook. Genre: self helpIn The Majesty of Calmness, William George Jordan offers a timeless guide to cultivating inner steadiness in a noisy, reactive world. Through short, pointed chapters, he argues that calmness is not passivity but a form of strength - a practiced self-command that clarifies judgment, steadies emotion, and influences others without force. Drawing on vivid examples from everyday conflicts, public life, and private worry, Jordan explores how irritability, haste, and fear can quietly sabotage character, relationships, and work. He invites the listener to treat serenity as a discipline: to pause before speaking, to meet criticism without being ruled by it, and to turn setbacks into training for the mind. Along the way, he examines themes of self-control, courage under pressure, and the moral power of composure, presenting calmness as a kind of personal leadership that radiates outward. Practical in tone and inspirational in aim, this classic of character-building encourages anyone facing stress, ambition, or uncertainty to reclaim attention, simplify the inner life, and live from a centered place where clear purpose can take root.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:09:11) Chapter 2(00:19:14) Chapter 3(00:29:17) Chapter 4(00:40:43) Chapter 5(00:53:05) Chapter 6(01:07:58) Chapter 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Abandoned by William Clark Russell audiobook. Genre: adventureOn the morning she is meant to become Mrs. Reynolds, Miss Lucretia Lane walks down the aisle with a secret dread she cannot explain, and the ceremony ends in scandalous silence. Captain Francis Reynolds, a hard-tested officer of the British Merchant Service, is certain his new wife loves him - yet she refuses to speak to him or live with him, leaving both families stunned and humiliated. When word arrives that Reynolds has been grievously injured and wishes to see Lucretia one last time before sailing, she rushes to the ship in a storm of duty, anger, and confusion - only to be caught in a decision that cannot be undone. What begins as a desperate attempt to hold a marriage together turns into an extended, globe-spanning ordeal: long passages at sea, harsh shipboard discipline, perilous weather, and the relentless pressure of isolation. As years pass and reputations, identities, and loyalties strain under the weight of the ocean, Lucretia and Reynolds are forced to confront what they truly fear in each other - and what, if anything, can be rebuilt after betrayal and captivity.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:28:33) Chapter 02(00:56:31) Chapter 03(01:32:12) Chapter 04(02:06:23) Chapter 05(02:47:57) Chapter 06(03:25:20) Chapter 07(03:58:40) Chapter 08(04:31:01) Chapter 09(05:05:56) Chapter 10(05:37:57) Chapter 11(06:17:52) Chapter 12(06:50:56) Chapter 13(07:25:39) Chapter 14(08:03:46) Chapter 15(08:52:37) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans) by Xenophon audiobook. Genre: historyThe Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by Lycurgus, which train and develop Spartan citizens from birth to old age. It only because of Xenophon that we have most of our knowledge about the Spartans. Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens which may explain why he is so negative and sarcastic when describing the Athenian democracy. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.CFor ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:37:59) Chapter 02(01:09:44) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa audiobook. Genre: religionThe content of the text is a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna taking place on the battlefield of Kurukshetra just prior to the start of a climactic war. Responding to Arjuna's confusion and moral dilemma, Krishna explains to Arjuna his duties as a warrior and Prince and elaborates on a number of different Yogic and Vedantic philosophies, with examples and analogies. This has led to the Gita often being described as a concise guide to Hindu philosophy and also as a practical, self-contained guide to life. During the discourse, Krishna reveals his identity as the Supreme Being Himself (Bhagavan), blessing Arjuna with an awe-inspiring glimpse of His divine absolute form.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:03:04) Chapter 2(00:12:46) Chapter 3(00:30:45) Chapter 4(00:39:46) Chapter 5(00:49:30) Chapter 6(00:57:07) Chapter 7(01:07:06) Chapter 8(01:13:37) Chapter 9(01:19:30) Chapter 10(01:29:10) Chapter 11(01:39:22) Chapter 12(02:00:04) Chapter 13(02:05:04) Chapter 14(02:12:52) Chapter 15(02:18:51) Chapter 16(02:25:14) Chapter 17(02:31:10) Chapter 18(02:36:57) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf audiobook. Genre: drama'Mrs. Dalloway' recounts a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in the middle of June 1923. Clarissa Dalloway is a high society London lady. On that day, she is hosting a party, meeting people, going to the park, and reflecting on her choices. Where would she have been if she married Peter Walsh and not Richard Dalloway? What if she would not invite this or that person to her party? Her feelings about Peter Walsh grow because on that particular day he returns from India to settle some affairs in London. Other people also reflect on their choices. Mr. Smith who cannot move on from the horrors he saw in battle, his Italian born wife, members of Clarissa's family and friends.This book is considered a classic. It appears on many lists of best novels including the 100 best novels list by the Guardian. Indeed, some of the them are timeless and touch all of us.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:14:08) Chapter 02(00:28:08) Chapter 03(00:41:37) Chapter 04(00:55:24) Chapter 05(01:06:22) Chapter 06(01:18:28) Chapter 07(01:31:03) Chapter 08(01:44:07) Chapter 09(01:56:15) Chapter 10(02:08:54) Chapter 11(02:21:22) Chapter 12(02:35:06) Chapter 13(02:46:12) Chapter 14(02:59:03) Chapter 15(03:11:06) Chapter 16(03:24:42) Chapter 17(03:38:22) Chapter 18(03:52:11) Chapter 19(04:05:05) Chapter 20(04:17:45) Chapter 21(04:30:27) Chapter 22(04:43:07) Chapter 23(04:54:55) Chapter 24(05:07:04) Chapter 25(05:21:59) Chapter 26(05:36:00) Chapter 27(05:47:21) Chapter 28(05:59:47) Chapter 29(06:12:12) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices