Classic Audiobook Collection

The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog, Too by Alfred Elwes audiobook. Genre: familyTold as the autobiography of a streetwise dog named Job, The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog, Too begins in the curious city of Caneville, where dogs have their own society, rivalries, and rules. Job grows up hungry and unwanted, learning to scavenge, avoid bullies, and survive rough treatment without letting bitterness harden him. Framed by an introduction from the feline editor Miss Minette Gattina, Job's plainspoken account follows him through a string of trials - quarrels over food, fights he never sought but cannot always escape, sudden changes of fortune, and moments when courage means choosing restraint instead of revenge. Along the way, Job discovers how easily strength can become cruelty, and how difficult it is to stay honest when the world rewards swagger and violence. As danger rises in Caneville, including a sweeping natural emergency that tests every creature's instincts, Job is pushed toward a life defined not by luck but by duty. Part animal adventure, part moral fable, this 19th century tale celebrates loyalty, compassion, and the hard-earned dignity of being good when no one is watching.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:16:29) Chapter 01(00:48:17) Chapter 02(01:18:47) Chapter 03(01:38:28) Chapter 04(02:00:27) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mind and the Brain by Alfred Binet audiobook. Genre: scienceIn The Mind and the Brain, pioneering psychologist Alfred Binet explores one of the most enduring questions in human inquiry: how does the inner life of thoughts, feelings, and will relate to the physical organ of the brain? Writing at a moment when experimental psychology and neurology were rapidly reshaping medicine and philosophy, Binet guides listeners through the major debates of his era, weighing materialist explanations against views that defend the autonomy of mental life. He examines perception, memory, attention, and personality, asking what can be measured, what can be inferred, and where scientific description reaches its limits. Along the way, Binet introduces key clinical and laboratory observations, including cases of brain injury and disorders of consciousness, to show how changes in the nervous system can illuminate the structure of experience. Clear, argumentative, and often surprisingly modern in its caution about easy answers, the book offers a thoughtful framework for anyone curious about the origins of consciousness and the methods we use to study it. This is a brisk, idea-driven work that connects early psychology, philosophy of mind, and emerging brain science into a single, provocative investigation.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:08:21) Chapter 02(00:30:18) Chapter 03(00:52:40) Chapter 04(01:02:56) Chapter 05(01:10:06) Chapter 06(01:36:29) Chapter 07(01:53:17) Chapter 08(02:05:18) Chapter 09(02:17:53) Chapter 10(02:45:52) Chapter 11(02:56:00) Chapter 12(03:09:24) Chapter 13(04:10:20) Chapter 14(04:30:41) Chapter 15(04:46:41) Chapter 16(05:19:40) Chapter 17(05:33:41) Chapter 18(06:15:30) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne audiobook. Genre: mysteryWhen a quiet weekend at an English country estate turns violent, the calm facade of Red House is shattered by a murder that seems to defy common sense. Mark Ablett, newly returned from overseas and eager to settle into his family home, is drawn into a web of suspicion when the wealthy and unpopular Cayley is found dead inside a locked room, and a mysterious visitor has vanished without a trace. With the household rattled and the local police following the most obvious leads, Mark turns for help to his close friend Antony Gillingham, an amiable, sharp-minded amateur sleuth with a taste for puzzles and a talent for seeing what others overlook. Together they sift through contradictory statements, hidden motives, and the estate's geography, testing each theory against the stubborn facts of time, space, and opportunity. As the investigation deepens, the pair must separate coincidence from design and decide whom to trust before panic and accusation destroy the household from within. Clever, playful, and classically structured, The Red House Mystery invites listeners to match wits with its investigators in a quintessentially British whodunit where every detail matters.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:16:53) Chapter 02(00:36:49) Chapter 03(00:56:01) Chapter 04(01:14:36) Chapter 05(01:34:02) Chapter 06(01:50:08) Chapter 07(02:06:02) Chapter 08(02:28:34) Chapter 09(02:49:00) Chapter 10(03:07:33) Chapter 11(03:25:12) Chapter 12(03:40:25) Chapter 13(03:58:45) Chapter 14(04:17:23) Chapter 15(04:36:50) Chapter 16(04:57:22) Chapter 17(05:27:57) Chapter 18(05:43:54) Chapter 19(06:04:06) Chapter 20(06:17:07) Chapter 21(06:42:07) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Under the Andes by Rex Stout audiobook. Genre: mysteryUnder the Andes was written by Rex Stout years before his creation of the immensely popular Nero Wolfe series of novels, and while perhaps his future writing style is still blossoming, certainly his knack for weaving a fantastic tale of mystery and adventure will have most readers anxious for the next phase of adventure at every turn.The story finds two brothers and a pretty female companion on a journey which eventually takes them to a series of underground caves under the Andes of South America, where they encounter a lost tribe of Incas who have apparently survived hundreds of years oblivious of the outside world. The apparent 'king' of the tribe has become infatuated with the fair-skinned female intruder of the group and, well, suffice it to say there's a lot of action, attempted escapes, heroism, and peculiar interactions between all, reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard with a touch of Edgar Rice Burroughs.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:23:16) Chapter 02(00:43:10) Chapter 03(01:07:54) Chapter 04(01:36:04) Chapter 05(01:57:49) Chapter 06(02:24:11) Chapter 07(02:43:36) Chapter 08(03:12:35) Chapter 09(03:43:10) Chapter 10(04:12:23) Chapter 11(04:41:24) Chapter 12(05:10:42) Chapter 13(05:40:36) Chapter 14(06:11:56) Chapter 15(06:42:56) Chapter 16(07:11:10) Chapter 17(07:41:06) Chapter 18(08:11:26) Chapter 19(08:40:09) Chapter 20(09:08:59) Chapter 21(09:38:42) Chapter 22(10:07:52) Chapter 23(10:38:24) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People Minus X by Raymond Z. Gallun audiobook. Genre: scifiWhen young Ed Dukas sits down to write a simple letter, he notices something impossible: faint words forming on the page as if an unseen hand is writing beside him. The incident cracks open a lifetime of buried fear and wonder, all tracing back to his uncle, Dr. Mitchell Prell, the brilliant scientist blamed for an experiment that shattered the Moon and helped trigger catastrophe on Earth. In the aftermath, Prell's most controversial breakthrough spreads through the Solar System: living artificial flesh that can rebuild bodies and, paired with recorded memories and personality patterns, restore the dead as humanlike androids. To some, the restored are humanity's second chance. To others, they are For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(01:04:20) Chapter 02(01:40:29) Chapter 03(02:11:30) Chapter 04(02:31:35) Chapter 05(03:07:36) Chapter 06(03:43:25) Chapter 07(04:16:54) Chapter 08(04:44:10) Chapter 09(05:18:23) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wandl the Invader by Ray Cummings audiobook. Genre: scifiThere were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce and began trading with the ancient Martian civilization. And then they discovered a tenth planet--a maverick! This tenth world, if it had an orbit, had a strange one, for it was heading inwards from interstellar space, heading close to the Earth-Mars spaceways, upsetting astronautic calculations and raising turmoil on the two inhabited worlds. But even so none suspected then just how much trouble this new world would make. For it was WANDL THE INVADER and it was no barren planetoid. It was a manned world, manned by minds and monsters and traveling into our system with a purpose beyond that of astronomical accident!For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:14:15) Chapter 02(00:41:09) Chapter 03(00:59:20) Chapter 04(01:24:52) Chapter 05(01:51:24) Chapter 06(02:05:53) Chapter 07(02:29:56) Chapter 08(02:41:52) Chapter 09(02:59:15) Chapter 10(03:16:26) Chapter 11(03:30:04) Chapter 12(03:39:50) Chapter 13(03:52:34) Chapter 14(04:15:14) Chapter 15(04:32:19) Chapter 16(04:44:50) Chapter 17(04:56:17) Chapter 18(05:09:45) Chapter 19(05:15:03) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unwise Child by Randall Garrett audiobook. Genre: scifiIn a future New York where street gangs carry vibroblades and advanced electronics are as common as cigarettes, power designer Michael Raphael Gabriel, known on the job as Mike the Angel, expects danger to come with the territory. What he does not expect is to be targeted twice in a single morning, then abruptly reassigned as engineering officer aboard an experimental spacecraft with one secret mission: get an extraordinary machine off Earth before it becomes an existential threat. That machine is Snookums, a super-robot with a childlike personality and a terrifying new talent for invention, and he travels under the anxious supervision of Dr. Fitzhugh, his creator, and Leda Crannon, a child psychologist pressed into the role of nursemaid. Once the ship is underway, a string of frightening incidents turns the voyage into a locked-room puzzle in zero gravity: systems fail, nerves fray, and a crew member is murdered, with suspicion falling where no one wants it to fall. Caught between official duty and personal survival, Mike must untangle sabotage, motive, and machine logic before fear, secrecy, and a brilliant 'child' of metal doom them all.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:08:04) Chapter 02(00:17:13) Chapter 03(00:29:56) Chapter 04(00:40:53) Chapter 05(00:51:06) Chapter 06(01:07:31) Chapter 07(01:26:35) Chapter 08(01:50:11) Chapter 09(02:08:52) Chapter 10(02:21:51) Chapter 11(02:39:53) Chapter 12(03:02:27) Chapter 13(03:27:37) Chapter 14(03:42:54) Chapter 15(04:01:10) Chapter 16(04:08:16) Chapter 17(04:18:13) Chapter 18(04:35:19) Chapter 19(04:48:03) Chapter 20(04:55:59) Chapter 21(05:16:41) Chapter 22(05:19:13) Chapter 23(05:38:30) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Man Who Hated Mars by Randall Garrett audiobook. Genre: scifiRon Clayton has spent fifteen bitter years in exile on Mars - a punishment sold as 'freedom' for criminals Earth no longer wants. Trapped in the thin air, dependent on oxidation pills, and driven half-mad by the planet's relentless cold, Clayton storms into the Terran Rehabilitation Service and begs Lieutenant Phoebe Harris for the one thing he never expected to want: a prison cell back on Earth. She refuses, and Clayton is forced to accept that the system is designed to keep men like him off-world forever. citeturn1view0 When a Space Transport Service ship drops in, opportunity arrives in the form of Herbert 'Parks' Parkinson, a talkative crewman with a nose oxygen rig and a careless streak. One desperate night later, Clayton gambles everything on a stolen uniform, a borrowed identity, and a plan to slip past steel walls, security routines, and suspicious officers. citeturn3view1turn3view2 But survival aboard the ship demands more than hiding his name: Clayton must work, improvise, and keep his fear in check while Mars' harsh rules echo in his muscles and his mind. Tight, tense, and morally thorny, Randall Garrett's classic tale asks what exile does to a man - and whether escape is ever the same as redemption. citeturn0search1For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:36:23) Chapter 02(01:26:05) Chapter 03(01:53:09) Chapter 04(02:04:31) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

That Sweet Little Old Lady by Randall Garrett audiobook. Genre: mysteryRandall Garrett had this story first published in Astounding Science Fiction September and October of 1959. His twisted sense of humor and gift for the bizarre situation with believable characters shines here. In the not too distant future, Ken Malone, young but promising FBI agent , is given the most important and difficult assignment of his career: find a spy who is stealing information from the Ultra Top Absolute Secret project to develop a non-rocket space ship at Yucca Flats Labs in Nevada. But this is not a normal spy, this spy laughs at the FBI and all attempts to find him or her because they use an unknown new method to steal the information directly from the minds of the scientists. And then of course, there is the Sweet Little Old Lady who is immortal and the stunning nurse and the Las Vegas gangsters and ... well, you had better listen to the story to find out the detailsFor ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:29:19) Chapter 2(00:59:53) Chapter 3(01:48:52) Chapter 4(02:14:38) Chapter 5(02:46:07) Chapter 6(03:24:30) Chapter 7(03:44:30) Chapter 8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quest of the Golden Ape by Randall Garrett audiobook. Genre: scifiA lonely, forbidden mansion hidden in the backwoods has repelled curious visitors for a century, guarded by uncanny psychological barriers that feel stronger than iron. But John Pride, a steady middle-aged lawyer bound by an old family promise, forces his way through on the one night the barriers weaken and finds an impossibly ancient man clinging to life, desperate for a final duty to be fulfilled. Far across space on the planet Tarth, rival nations converge on the empty Plains of Ofrid to witness the end of a legend: an indestructible tower built by Portox, the vanished scientist of a slaughtered people, and a great clock counting down one hundred years to an awakening and an avenger. When the clock tolls, violence and politics ignite at once, and the shockwave reaches Pride's secret vault on Earth, where a powerful young man rises with a perfect body, a fractured mind, and only echoes of terror and vengeance where a past should be. Pulled between two worlds, he must piece together who he is, why he was hidden, and what price Tarth will demand when old crimes come due.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:05:33) Chapter 02(00:14:15) Chapter 03(00:22:16) Chapter 04(00:31:59) Chapter 05(00:45:47) Chapter 06(00:56:08) Chapter 07(01:04:44) Chapter 08(01:25:10) Chapter 09(01:33:45) Chapter 10(01:44:06) Chapter 11(01:58:22) Chapter 12(02:15:51) Chapter 13(02:45:10) Chapter 14(03:00:59) Chapter 15(03:15:08) Chapter 16(03:37:48) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices