Classic Audiobook Collection

The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne audiobook. Genre: adventureWriting at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade, determines to build his own fast ship and run guns to the Confederates in exchange for the cotton piling up unsold on their wharves. His simple plan becomes complicated by two passengers who board his new ship under false pretenses in order to carry out a rescue mission, one which Capt. Playfair adopts as his own cause. This is going make the Rebels in Charleston rather unhappy with him.Sure, his new ship is fast - but can it escape the cannonballs of both North and South?For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:12:25) Chapter 02(00:24:54) Chapter 03(00:38:41) Chapter 04(00:53:53) Chapter 05(01:07:02) Chapter 06(01:18:02) Chapter 07(01:28:31) Chapter 08(01:45:31) Chapter 09(01:59:49) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Point of Honor by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: dramaSet during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. At the beginning, Feraud is the one who jealously guards his honor and repeatedly demands satisfaction anew when a duelling encounter ends inconclusively; he aggressively pursues every opportunity to locate and duel his foe. As the story progresses, D'Hubert also finds himself caught up in the contest, unable to back down or walk away.This Conrad short story evidently has its genesis in the real duels that two French Hussar officers fought in the Napoleonic era. Their names were Dupont and Fournier, which Conrad disguised slightly, changing Dupont into D'Hubert and Fournier into Feraud. In 1977, it was turned into a movie, 'The Duellists', starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:49:04) Chapter 2(01:34:09) Chapter 3(02:22:33) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Discoveries at Jamestown by John L. Cotter audiobook. Genre: historyChances are, you are reading this because you are aware that Jamestown, Virginia, celebrated its 400th birthday in 2007. It was the first 'successful' English settlement in America. Although the colonists eventually moved upriver to be quit of the hard luck and difficult conditions on the small island, they left behind a trove of possessions - used, worn out, or forgotten.Did you ever stop to consider just how many different items you have, need, or use, to live, work, and amuse yourself? Chances are that you would seriously underestimate! But once you put such a list together, another person could tell quite a story about the life you lead.The puzzle of archeology is how to tell that story, just from the discovery of the traces you leave behind. Literally hundreds of thousands of artifacts have been recovered from this pioneering community during three major efforts (1903, the 1950's, and 1994-present) to reconstruct how Europeans of the early 17th century managed to transplant themselves to a wild and hostile land.The authors, writing for the National Park Service in 1956, relate a fascinating tale of the colonists' resources, their possessions, and their manufactures. They relate documentary evidence from England, Virginia, and elsewhere, and then match it up with items found on the site.Think about packing for a trip to a new world, where you will spend the rest of your life. There are no shops, no regular supply deliveries. You will build your own home. Food is strictly grown or caught on your own. The local folks (Indians) may be (and were, at some times!) hostile to your presence. You will depend on only a few dozen other people to help you with the things you don't know how to do, and they will depend on you. How do you prepare? What do you take?This is that story.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:04:07) Chapter 2(00:31:37) Chapter 3(01:12:25) Chapter 4(01:27:20) Chapter 5(01:34:39) Chapter 6(01:49:15) Chapter 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris audiobook. Genre: folkloreThat the little boy loved Uncle Remus and his stories was so obvious that the tale-spinning sessions began drawing additional listeners. Daddy Jack, an old 'Africa man' visiting from down-state; Sis Tempy, the strong chief of the mansion's servants; and Tildy, a young and pretty servant-girl - all found their way to Uncle Remus' rude cabin when their duties or interests permitted, to sit around the hearth and hear the wonderful tales of the animals, and foremost among them, Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox.It turned out that some of the tales had different ways of telling, and the visitors took their turns at being the story-teller. Always one or more clever animals humbled or hornswoggled others among their community with flattery, wide-eyed mystery, or outright fraud.After the success of Harris' 'Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings' , he went on to write eight more books compiling the tales he himself had heard on the plantation in his young days. This is the first of those sequels.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:09:43) Chapter 02(00:19:48) Chapter 03(00:28:47) Chapter 04(00:37:36) Chapter 05(00:47:36) Chapter 06(00:59:55) Chapter 07(01:11:05) Chapter 08(01:22:10) Chapter 09(01:35:58) Chapter 10(01:47:31) Chapter 11(01:56:58) Chapter 12(02:09:46) Chapter 13(02:20:02) Chapter 14(02:28:04) Chapter 15(02:36:19) Chapter 16(02:50:42) Chapter 17(02:59:47) Chapter 18(03:11:21) Chapter 19(03:25:35) Chapter 20(03:35:20) Chapter 21(03:43:34) Chapter 22(03:54:25) Chapter 23(04:02:30) Chapter 24(04:10:59) Chapter 25(04:27:14) Chapter 26(04:37:31) Chapter 27(04:51:22) Chapter 28(05:04:09) Chapter 29(05:15:01) Chapter 30(05:36:01) Chapter 31(05:49:49) Chapter 32(06:05:14) Chapter 33(06:15:36) Chapter 34(06:24:14) Chapter 35(06:34:00) Chapter 36(06:44:34) Chapter 37(06:58:56) Chapter 38(07:12:20) Chapter 39(07:24:00) Chapter 40(07:33:45) Chapter 41(07:46:52) Chapter 42(07:58:30) Chapter 43(08:09:39) Chapter 44(08:25:07) Chapter 45(08:34:46) Chapter 46(08:45:52) Chapter 47(08:57:26) Chapter 48(09:07:53) Chapter 49(09:17:49) Chapter 50(09:28:01) Chapter 51(09:35:37) Chapter 52(09:43:45) Chapter 53(09:49:21) Chapter 54(09:58:54) Chapter 55(10:10:41) Chapter 56(10:19:21) Chapter 57(10:27:26) Chapter 58(10:37:27) Chapter 59(10:46:14) Chapter 60(10:56:10) Chapter 61(11:04:14) Chapter 62(11:11:43) Chapter 63(11:21:00) Chapter 64(11:27:53) Chapter 65(11:36:06) Chapter 66(11:41:42) Chapter 67(11:49:37) Chapter 68(11:56:09) Chapter 69(12:06:47) Chapter 70(12:25:43) Chapter 71 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Diary of a Country Parson by James Woodforde audiobook. Genre: biographyThe Revd. James Woodforde was an English clergyman, best known for his vivid account of parish life in the 18th century. His diary, edited by John Beresford, remained unpublished until the 20th century. The diary provides a wonderfully full account of the small community in which the diarist lived — of the births and deaths, comings and goings, illnesses, and annual celebrations, along with many other details of daily life.As a churchman, Woodforde himself was conscientious by the standards of his time, charitable and pious without being sanctimonious and again typical of his day, deeply suspicious of enthusiasm.The value of the diary to the historian lies in the wealth of primary source material it provides, while the general reader can bring from it the authentic flavor of 18th-century English country lifeFor ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:29:00) Chapter 01(00:35:13) Chapter 02(00:39:08) Chapter 03(00:47:13) Chapter 04(00:56:15) Chapter 05(01:18:47) Chapter 06(01:35:36) Chapter 07(01:57:52) Chapter 08(02:14:22) Chapter 09(02:28:29) Chapter 10(02:57:55) Chapter 11(03:21:58) Chapter 12(03:37:03) Chapter 13(03:56:32) Chapter 14(04:04:39) Chapter 15(04:15:57) Chapter 16(04:56:42) Chapter 17(05:56:12) Chapter 18(06:10:42) Chapter 19(06:41:39) Chapter 20(07:23:06) Chapter 21(08:18:49) Chapter 22(09:18:16) Chapter 23(10:16:19) Chapter 24(10:50:59) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper audiobook. Genre: adventureNatty Bumppo goes by many names: La Longue Carabine, Hawk Eye, Leatherstocking, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and when put to it, soldier, he also fills a lot of roles in pre-Revolution upstate New York. An old friend, Sergeant Dunham of the 55th Regiment of Foot, asks him to guide his daughter through the wilderness to the fort at Oswego where Dunham serves. With the French engaging native Indian allies against the British and the Yankee colonists, such a journey is far from safe.Dunham has a plan in mind - to see his daughter Mable married off to the most redoubtable frontiersman and marksman in the territory, who is Pathfinder himself. But as an attractive and marriageable young lady, she draws other suitors. Then a military expedition contrives to put Sgt. Dunham, Mable, Pathfinder, and two other wooers into an isolated and dangerous garrison. Here treachery raises the stakes, and with the soldiers of the detachment shot down or captured, all of them must show mettle for any of them to escape with their scalps.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:35:10) Chapter 02(01:09:22) Chapter 03(01:39:17) Chapter 04(02:12:12) Chapter 05(02:49:49) Chapter 06(03:19:29) Chapter 07(03:57:42) Chapter 08(04:39:52) Chapter 09(05:12:27) Chapter 10(05:49:20) Chapter 11(06:36:52) Chapter 12(07:05:24) Chapter 13(07:53:53) Chapter 14(08:29:09) Chapter 15(09:07:38) Chapter 16(09:38:27) Chapter 17(10:10:09) Chapter 18(11:00:05) Chapter 19(12:14:50) Chapter 20(13:05:43) Chapter 21(13:31:49) Chapter 22(14:16:46) Chapter 23(15:11:03) Chapter 24(15:56:10) Chapter 25(16:24:30) Chapter 26(16:49:18) Chapter 27(17:22:52) Chapter 28(17:55:56) Chapter 29(18:26:20) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Call of the Wild by Jack London audiobook. Genre: adventureWhen Buck, a powerful and pampered dog living an easy life in California, is stolen and sold into the brutal world of the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, everything he knows is stripped away. Thrown onto the frozen trails as a sled dog, Buck must quickly learn the law of club and fang - a ruthless code ruled by violence, hierarchy, and survival. Passed from one owner to the next, he encounters cruelty and kindness in equal measure, from hard men driven by gold to exhausted dreamers unprepared for the North. As Buck grows tougher, stronger, and more cunning, he begins to feel an older pull rising inside him: an instinctive connection to the wild that challenges the leash of domestication. Haunted by the wilderness beyond the firelight and driven by the need to endure, Buck's journey becomes a test of loyalty, identity, and what it means to answer a deeper nature. Jack London's classic adventure delivers vivid landscapes, relentless danger, and a primal transformation that asks whether civilization can ever fully silence the call of the wild.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:24:03) Chapter 02(00:45:17) Chapter 03(01:18:27) Chapter 04(01:38:56) Chapter 05(02:14:02) Chapter 06(02:44:39) Chapter 07 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: adventureA collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published in May 1856. Except for the newly written title story, 'The Piazza,' all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', 'Benito Cereno', and 'The Encantadas', his sketches of the Galápagos Islands. (Billy Budd, arguably his greatest piece of short fiction, would remain unpublished in his lifetime.) One should note that the era's prevalent racism occasionally surfaces, as in describing blacks as 'indisputable inferiors', to be found in 'Benito Cereno'.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:41:25) Chapter 02(01:39:16) Chapter 03(02:24:18) Chapter 04(03:26:06) Chapter 05(04:31:31) Chapter 06(05:24:44) Chapter 07(06:08:50) Chapter 08(06:28:07) Chapter 09(06:42:44) Chapter 10(06:53:30) Chapter 11(07:07:01) Chapter 12(07:25:16) Chapter 13(07:29:36) Chapter 14(07:37:51) Chapter 15(07:51:27) Chapter 16(08:28:31) Chapter 17(08:53:44) Chapter 18(09:04:08) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: dramaSet in the cramped offices of Wall Street, Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener follows a cautious, self-satisfied lawyer who prides himself on running an orderly business with minimal disturbance. To keep up with an increasing workload, he hires a new copyist, Bartleby, a pale, quiet man whose diligence at the desk initially seems like a blessing. But when asked to perform even the smallest task beyond copying, Bartleby answers with a baffling refrain: 'I would prefer not to.' As his refusals spread from one request to the next, the lawyer finds his authority, patience, and sense of moral responsibility tested in ways he never anticipated. Caught between sympathy and self-preservation, he struggles to understand Bartleby's motives, the limits of charity, and what society owes to those who will not-or cannot-fit its expectations. With dark humor and mounting unease, the story turns a simple workplace dispute into a haunting meditation on isolation, conformity, and the quiet forms of resistance that can unravel a life and a city built on routine.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:35:27) Chapter 02(01:09:12) Chapter 03(01:34:41) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: scifiBritain won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his 'giant leap for mankind' two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating.Mr. Bedford, who narrates the tale, tells of how he fell in with eccentric inventor Mr. Cavor, grew to believe in his researches, helped him build a sphere for traveling in space, and then partnered with him in an expedition to the Moon.What they found was fantastic! There was not only air and water, but the Moon was honeycombed with caverns and tunnels in which lived an advanced civilization of insect-like beings. While Bedford is frightened by them and bolts home, Cavor stays and is treated with great respect.So why didn't Armstrong and later astronauts find the evidence of all this? Well, according to broadcasts by Cavor over the newly-discovered radio technology, he told the Selenites too much about mankind, and apparently, they removed the welcome mat!For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:36:54) Chapter 2(00:54:17) Chapter 3(01:12:20) Chapter 4(01:21:25) Chapter 5(01:34:46) Chapter 6(01:44:23) Chapter 7(01:55:47) Chapter 8(02:05:11) Chapter 9(02:25:07) Chapter 10(02:37:15) Chapter 11(03:00:51) Chapter 12(03:11:05) Chapter 13(03:27:28) Chapter 14(03:39:43) Chapter 15(04:03:08) Chapter 16(04:20:26) Chapter 17(04:42:47) Chapter 18(05:02:10) Chapter 19(05:26:45) Chapter 20(05:43:46) Chapter 21(06:15:45) Chapter 22(06:24:43) Chapter 23(06:42:40) Chapter 24(07:22:50) Chapter 25(07:58:25) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices