Classic Audiobook Collection

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott audiobook. Genre: historyIn medieval England, the long-absent King Richard is rumored to be returning, but the country is tense with rival loyalties, private vendettas, and the lingering divide between Norman rulers and Saxon subjects. Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a disinherited Saxon knight, comes home from crusade determined to restore his honor and win the hand of the high-born Lady Rowena, even as his estranged father Cedric pursues a different future for their people. When a grand tournament draws nobles, outlaws, and opportunists into the open, Ivanhoe is pulled into a web of feuds and kidnappings that tests his courage and his code of chivalry. Alongside him stand unlikely allies: the enigmatic pilgrim who seems to know more than he should, the bold yeoman Locksley and his forest band, and Rebecca, a brilliant healer whose compassion places her in grave danger in a world ruled by prejudice and power. With clashes of swords and clashes of conscience, Ivanhoe explores loyalty, justice, faith, and the price of belonging.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:24:54) Chapter 02(00:58:12) Chapter 03(01:19:06) Chapter 04(01:40:17) Chapter 05(02:04:33) Chapter 06(02:40:21) Chapter 07(03:13:42) Chapter 08(03:44:05) Chapter 09(04:08:26) Chapter 10(04:35:11) Chapter 11(04:54:45) Chapter 12(05:25:55) Chapter 13(05:49:40) Chapter 14(06:13:48) Chapter 15(06:28:07) Chapter 16(06:59:03) Chapter 17(07:12:14) Chapter 18(07:34:18) Chapter 19(07:53:38) Chapter 20(08:10:46) Chapter 21(08:32:38) Chapter 22(08:57:21) Chapter 23(09:18:21) Chapter 24(09:49:18) Chapter 25(10:12:20) Chapter 26(10:31:47) Chapter 27(11:19:09) Chapter 28(11:52:44) Chapter 29(12:20:54) Chapter 30(12:46:47) Chapter 31(13:23:17) Chapter 32(13:54:19) Chapter 33(14:23:07) Chapter 34(14:42:13) Chapter 35(15:14:10) Chapter 36(15:35:53) Chapter 37(16:11:48) Chapter 38(16:33:26) Chapter 39(17:04:26) Chapter 40(17:45:04) Chapter 41(18:05:35) Chapter 42(18:35:15) Chapter 43(19:01:49) Chapter 44 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud audiobook. Genre: philosophyAnyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert—it is still Freud's argument—that our contemporary civilisation favours this sort of hypocrisy and that there are more civilised hypocrites than truly cultured persons, and it is even a question whether a certain amount of hypocrisy is not indispensable to maintain civilisation. When this travesty of civilisation, this infallible state that has regimented and dragooned its citizens into obedience, goes to war, Freud is pained but not surprised that it makes free use of every injustice, of every act of violence that would dishonour the individual, that it employs not only permissible cunning but conscious lies and intentional deception against the enemy, that it absolves itself from guarantees and treaties by which it was bound to other states and makes unabashed confession of its greed and aspiration to power. For conscience, the idea of right and wrong, in the Freudian sense, is not the inexorable judge that teachers of ethics say it is: it has its origin in nothing but 'social fear,' and whereas in times of peace the state forbids the individual to do wrong, not because it wishes to do away with wrongdoing but because it wishes to monopolise it, like salt or tobacco, it suspends its reproach in times of war. The suppression of evil desires also ceases, and men, finding the moral ties loosened between large human units, commit acts of cruelty, treachery, deception and brutality the very possibility of which would have been considered incompatible with their degree of culture.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:40:52) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch audiobook. Genre: scifiRobert Bloch (1917 – 1994) was a prolific writer in many genres. As a young man he was encouraged by his mentor H. P. Lovecraft, and was a close friend of Stanley G. Weinbaum. Besides hundreds of short stories and novels he wrote a number of television and film scripts including several for the original Star Trek. In 1959 Bloch wrote the novel Psycho which Alfred Hitchcock adapted to film a year later. He received the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and he is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America. Published in Amazing Stories in 1958, This Crowded Earth is a thriller set on an overpopulated Earth of the future.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:29:26) Chapter 02(01:09:47) Chapter 03(01:17:04) Chapter 04(01:23:39) Chapter 05(01:31:43) Chapter 06(02:00:10) Chapter 07(02:11:06) Chapter 08(02:32:48) Chapter 09(02:49:36) Chapter 10(03:05:31) Chapter 11(03:11:23) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stamped Caution by Raymond Z. Gallun audiobook. Genre: scifiWhen a strange spacecraft slams into a Missouri hillside, the Army moves in fast, sealing the site behind barbed wire and unanswered questions. Colonel Miller and a small team of investigators and scientists pick through scorched metal, radioactive fuel residue, and baffling machinery that looks unsettlingly familiar in places and utterly alien in others. Then they find the most troubling piece of evidence of all: a living Martian infant, sealed in a protective capsule, too fragile to send back and too unprecedented to ignore.Nicknamed Etl, the creature becomes the focus of a long, secret experiment in care, observation, and communication. As Etl grows from a helpless oddity into a curious, thinking being, the team faces escalating pressures from military protocol, scientific ambition, and the fear of what first contact might cost. Is Etl a guest, a specimen, or the opening move in an interplanetary encounter? And if humanity cannot even agree on what he is, how can they hope to meet his people on honest terms?Stamped Caution is a tense, humane classic of first contact science fiction, asking who the real monsters are when the unknown arrives.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:40:48) Chapter 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedyP. G. Wodehouse's Love Among the Chickens is a bright, fast-talking comedy of friendship, optimism, and spectacularly bad planning. The story is related by steady, long-suffering Jeremy Garnet, a struggling writer who is persuaded to join his irrepressible school friend, Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, in a bold new venture: chicken farming. Ukridge has the confidence of a born entrepreneur and the attention span of a man chasing the next great idea, and he is certain their farm will make them rich in no time. What Jeremy gets instead is a rural crash course in unpaid bills, improvised business strategy, and the daily chaos of keeping both poultry and creditors at bay. Complicating matters is Jeremy's growing attachment to a sensible young woman whose good opinion is hard to maintain when your closest companion treats common sense as an optional extra. As the farm wobbles from one misadventure to another, Jeremy must decide how far loyalty should stretch, what it costs to keep the peace, and whether any scheme can survive on charm alone.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:07:36) Chapter 2(00:24:07) Chapter 3(00:38:00) Chapter 4(00:53:23) Chapter 5(01:07:09) Chapter 6(01:20:43) Chapter 7(01:36:17) Chapter 8(01:53:43) Chapter 9(02:05:24) Chapter 10(02:25:33) Chapter 11(02:39:52) Chapter 12(02:56:03) Chapter 13(03:11:13) Chapter 14(03:29:56) Chapter 15(03:47:36) Chapter 16(04:03:04) Chapter 17(04:13:33) Chapter 18(04:34:37) Chapter 19(04:50:02) Chapter 20(05:10:13) Chapter 21(05:21:31) Chapter 22(05:42:18) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley audiobook. Genre: scifiWhen Lionel Verney looks back on the vanished world that raised him, he remembers an England poised between old hierarchies and revolutionary hopes. Orphaned and proud, Lionel grows up on the margins until fate draws him into the orbit of Adrian, the idealistic son of a deposed ruler, and Raymond, a dazzling leader whose ambition and charisma can ignite a nation. Friendships deepen into rivalries as love, duty, and political vision collide, and the fate of Britain seems to hinge on the choices of a few extraordinary individuals. But beyond parliament and passion, an ominous threat begins to spread across borders - a mysterious plague that ignores class, talent, and power. As society strains under fear and scarcity, Lionel must decide what it means to remain human when institutions fail and familiar certainties dissolve. Sweeping, intimate, and eerily prophetic, Mary Shelley's The Last Man blends political drama, romance, and apocalyptic dread into a meditation on companionship, loss, and the fragile story civilization tells itself to survive.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:11:53) Chapter 01(00:43:00) Chapter 02(01:18:18) Chapter 03(01:43:14) Chapter 04(02:23:14) Chapter 05(03:03:25) Chapter 06(03:32:25) Chapter 07(04:09:31) Chapter 08(04:44:38) Chapter 09(05:34:23) Chapter 10(06:20:25) Chapter 11(06:48:33) Chapter 12(07:27:42) Chapter 13(08:10:05) Chapter 14(08:39:41) Chapter 15(09:07:28) Chapter 16(09:36:07) Chapter 17(10:07:20) Chapter 18(10:31:27) Chapter 19(11:34:31) Chapter 20(12:20:22) Chapter 21(12:46:52) Chapter 22(13:18:26) Chapter 23(14:03:19) Chapter 24(14:51:59) Chapter 25(15:19:23) Chapter 26(15:50:08) Chapter 27(16:23:35) Chapter 28(16:55:12) Chapter 29(17:26:33) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Child’s Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson audiobook. Genre: biographyThe Child's Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson introduces young listeners to the lives that helped shape the United States, told in clear, story-forward portraits designed to spark curiosity rather than overwhelm with dates. Moving from the earliest days of the nation into later generations, the book gathers a gallery of Americans - leaders and lawmakers, explorers and inventors, writers, reformers, and builders of communities - and shows what each person cared about, what obstacles stood in the way, and what choices set them apart. Stimpson writes with an educator's eye for what children want most: human moments, vivid scenes, and the moral questions behind public achievements. Each chapter stands on its own as a short, readable life story, yet together they form a wider picture of a growing country and the ideals, arguments, and experiments that defined it. Whether heard in the classroom, on family trips, or at bedtime, these biographies invite listeners to consider how courage, persistence, and imagination can ripple outward into history - and how ordinary beginnings can lead to lasting influence.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:09:30) Chapter 02(00:18:08) Chapter 03(00:29:35) Chapter 04(00:39:19) Chapter 05(00:50:23) Chapter 06(00:59:40) Chapter 07(01:08:59) Chapter 08(01:23:20) Chapter 09(01:30:14) Chapter 10(01:41:42) Chapter 11(01:49:29) Chapter 12(01:58:23) Chapter 13(02:09:07) Chapter 14(02:18:26) Chapter 15(02:27:09) Chapter 16(02:37:26) Chapter 17(02:46:47) Chapter 18(02:53:34) Chapter 19(03:04:11) Chapter 20(03:14:34) Chapter 21(03:23:19) Chapter 22(03:31:28) Chapter 23(03:41:10) Chapter 24(03:49:10) Chapter 25(04:01:06) Chapter 26(04:08:56) Chapter 27(04:17:11) Chapter 28(04:25:03) Chapter 29(04:32:23) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook. Genre: scifiAt one time Race Cargill had been the best Terran Intelligence agent on the complex and mysterious planet of Wolf. He had repeatedly imperiled his life amongst the half-human and non-human creatures of the sullen world. And he had repeatedly accomplished the fantastic missions until his name was emblazoned with glory.But that had all seemingly ended. For six long years he'd sat behind a boring desk inside the fenced-in Terran Headquarters, cut off there ever since he and a rival had scarred and ripped each other in blood-feud.But when THE DOOR THROUGH SPACE swung suddenly open, the feud was on again—and with it a plot designed to check and destroy the Terran Empire.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:01:52) Chapter 01(00:10:03) Chapter 02(00:25:23) Chapter 03(00:45:19) Chapter 04(00:59:11) Chapter 05(01:17:52) Chapter 06(01:27:45) Chapter 07(01:49:06) Chapter 08(02:03:36) Chapter 09(02:15:51) Chapter 10(02:22:35) Chapter 11(02:39:39) Chapter 12(02:50:45) Chapter 13(03:17:56) Chapter 14(03:29:08) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany audiobook. Genre: fantasyFirst published in 1912, The Book of Wonder gathers Lord Dunsany's luminous, dreamlike short tales into a single volume of mythic imagination. Each story opens a different door: a traveler strays into uncanny streets where ordinary rules dissolve; a king bargains with forces older than his throne; a hunter follows signs that seem to come from the edge of the world; and distant gods, monsters, and marvels drift through scenes that feel both ancient and newly invented. Dunsany's prose is rich, musical, and deceptively simple, conjuring enchanted cities, impossible beasts, and fateful choices with the calm certainty of a legend being remembered rather than invented. Beneath the jeweled surfaces lies a steady pulse of longing - for beauty, for escape, for answers that remain just out of reach - and a recurring reminder that wonder can humble as easily as it can delight. Ideal for listeners who love poetic fantasy and folklore-like storytelling, this collection invites you to surrender to atmosphere, mystery, and the strange logic of dreams, where every path may lead to awe and every wish carries its own shadow.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:12:06) Chapter 02(00:21:42) Chapter 03(00:28:29) Chapter 04(00:38:19) Chapter 05(00:47:27) Chapter 06(00:58:18) Chapter 07(01:05:53) Chapter 08(01:18:53) Chapter 09(01:29:22) Chapter 10(01:41:23) Chapter 11(01:53:24) Chapter 12(02:05:06) Chapter 13(02:15:48) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Men Live By and Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: religionAlthough Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experience went on to inform his writing and his lifestyle in profound ways. His views transcended the specifics of religion, as known in his day - so much so he came to be a helpful guide both to Mohandas Gandhi and to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The four stories in this collection ask profound questions and gently supply helpful, non-dogmatic hints to their answerings: What is the most important thing to do? Who is the most important person? When is the most important time? What is worth owning? What is the most profound religion? What rules should men live by? How much land does a man need? Who is God? What should we bother to discuss? How should we act towards one another? How should we respond to cruelty and violence? And many more. Wonderful stories written in a relaxed style. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:58:35) Chapter 2(01:09:44) Chapter 3(01:30:19) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices