Classic Audiobook Collection

The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: adventureSet during the Hundred Years' War with France, The White Company tells the story of a young Saxon man who is learning what it is to be a knight. Raised by Cistercian Monks and rejected by a violent elder brother, Alleyn Edricson takes service with one of the foremost knights in the country. When Alleyn falls in love with the knight's daughter, he must prove himself to be a courageous and honourable knight before he can win her hand. Alleyn and his friends set forth with the other men-at-arms to join Prince Edward in Bordeaux, from where they will take part in the Prince's campaign into Spain. It is in Spain that Alleyn and others must prove themselves to be very valiant and hardy cavaliers.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:21:44) Chapter 2(00:34:55) Chapter 3(00:47:52) Chapter 4(01:15:32) Chapter 5(01:43:03) Chapter 6(02:09:09) Chapter 7(02:33:46) Chapter 8(02:55:42) Chapter 9(03:36:20) Chapter 10(04:20:42) Chapter 11(04:51:17) Chapter 12(05:14:23) Chapter 13(05:30:42) Chapter 14(05:54:03) Chapter 15(06:21:57) Chapter 16(06:40:00) Chapter 17(06:56:38) Chapter 18(07:19:49) Chapter 19(07:44:13) Chapter 20(08:04:39) Chapter 21(08:26:38) Chapter 22(08:42:46) Chapter 23(09:04:35) Chapter 24(09:25:18) Chapter 25(09:38:50) Chapter 26(10:08:21) Chapter 27(10:29:39) Chapter 28(10:57:42) Chapter 29(11:22:51) Chapter 30(11:42:45) Chapter 31(12:05:51) Chapter 32(12:22:36) Chapter 33(12:41:42) Chapter 34(13:04:08) Chapter 35(13:33:22) Chapter 36(14:04:33) Chapter 37(14:25:48) Chapter 38 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mysteryWhen Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the lonely moor near his ancestral home, the whispered legend of a supernatural hound returns to haunt the Baskerville family. With the young heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, newly arrived from London and marked as the next possible victim, Dr. James Mortimer turns to the only man who might untangle terror from truth: Sherlock Holmes. Holmes dispatches Dr. John Watson to Baskerville Hall to guard Sir Henry and report every strange occurrence - eerie cries in the night, suspicious neighbors, secretive servants, and a landscape that seems to swallow sound and light. As Watson navigates the brooding manor and the treacherous, fog-laced moor, he uncovers a web of motives tied to inheritance, hidden histories, and desperate ambition. Meanwhile, Holmes pursues the invisible thread connecting rumor, evidence, and human deception. With danger tightening around Sir Henry and fear feeding on the old curse, the investigation becomes a race to identify the real predator before the moor claims another life.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:14:39) Chapter 02(00:36:57) Chapter 03(00:54:20) Chapter 04(01:18:15) Chapter 05(01:39:06) Chapter 06(02:00:26) Chapter 07(02:31:03) Chapter 08(02:47:46) Chapter 09(03:27:42) Chapter 10(03:49:53) Chapter 11(04:17:20) Chapter 12(04:42:19) Chapter 13(05:06:01) Chapter 14(05:30:37) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Story of the Middle Ages by Samuel B. Harding audiobook. Genre: historyIn The Story of the Middle Ages, historian Samuel B. Harding guides listeners through the long, dramatic centuries that bridged the ancient world and the modern age. Beginning with the fragmentation of the Roman world and the rise of new kingdoms, Harding traces how Europe slowly reorganized itself around the competing forces of kingship, feudal obligation, and the authority of the Church. Along the way, he introduces the people and movements that shaped medieval life - warriors and monks, emperors and popes, townsmen and merchants - and explains how their ambitions and conflicts remade politics, society, and belief. From noticing how law and custom evolved to understanding why crusades, reform movements, and dynastic struggles mattered, the book connects everyday institutions to the era's larger turning points. Clear, steady, and focused on the forces that drove change, Harding's narrative helps listeners see the Middle Ages not as a dark gap between brighter ages, but as a complex period of creation and transformation whose legacies still echo in modern Europe.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:05:33) Chapter 2(00:20:23) Chapter 3(00:32:39) Chapter 4(00:44:06) Chapter 5(01:06:57) Chapter 6(01:22:21) Chapter 7(01:43:09) Chapter 8(01:57:52) Chapter 9(02:18:30) Chapter 10(02:30:58) Chapter 11(02:48:08) Chapter 12(03:09:54) Chapter 13(03:24:48) Chapter 14(03:43:37) Chapter 15(04:11:46) Chapter 16(04:28:30) Chapter 17(04:47:40) Chapter 18(05:12:51) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook. Genre: mysteryIn fog-bound Victorian London, reputable lawyer Gabriel John Utterson becomes troubled by an unsettling name that keeps surfacing in connection with his longtime friend, the brilliant and charitable Dr Henry Jekyll. The name is Edward Hyde - a violent, secretive figure who seems to possess an uncanny claim on Jekyll's life, fortune, and even his safety. As disturbing incidents mount across the city, Utterson is drawn into a slow, obsessive investigation, navigating locked doors, contradictory testimonies, and a growing fear that something unnatural is at work behind Jekyll's respectable facade. Meanwhile, Jekyll retreats from society, his behavior shifting between warmth and cold panic, as if he is fighting a private battle no one else can see. What begins as a legal concern over a troubling will becomes a tense psychological mystery about identity, temptation, and the masks people wear to keep their darkest impulses hidden. With each clue, the boundary between civilized appearance and savage desire grows thinner, and Utterson must confront a question that threatens the very idea of a single, stable self: how well can anyone truly know another person - or themselves?For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:43:09) Chapter 2(01:22:06) Chapter 3(02:14:47) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More William by Richmal Crompton audiobook. Genre: comedyThe second of Crompton's series of 39 books about William Brown, our cheeky 11 year-old protagonist. A hero to some, a dastardly villain to others, this book is structured round a year in his life. Starting with William waking up on Christmas morning and ending with him going to sleep the following Christmas Eve, there are the usual round of misadventures, misunderstanding and general mayhem in between. When a boy like William wakes up under a motto that says 'A Busy Day Is A Happy Day' alongside a copy of 'Things A Boy Can Do', the chaos is just around the corner. Includes the very first William short story - 'Rice Mould'. Often dismissed as children's literature, the first few books of William stories were probably aimed more at an adult audience. They resonate with a distinctly English humour, but there are obvious echoes from 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn'.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:31:34) Chapter 2(00:57:36) Chapter 3(01:21:31) Chapter 4(01:36:25) Chapter 5(01:50:17) Chapter 6(02:17:08) Chapter 7(02:34:49) Chapter 8(02:58:23) Chapter 9(03:15:04) Chapter 10(03:36:49) Chapter 11(04:08:45) Chapter 12(04:29:50) Chapter 13(04:47:29) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And Then the Town Took Off by Richard Wilson audiobook. Genre: scifiThe town of Superior, Ohio, certainly was living up to its name! In what was undoubtedly the most spectacular feat of the century, it simply picked itself up one night and rose two full miles above Earth! Radio messages stated simply that Superior had seceded from Earth. But Don Cort, stranded on that rising town, was beginning to suspect that nothing was simple about Superior except its citizens. Calmly they accepted their rise in the world as being due to one of their local townspeople, a crackpot professor. But after a couple of weeks of floating around, it began to be obvious that the professor had no idea how to get them down. So then it was up to Cort: either find a way to anchor Superior, or spend the rest of his days on the smallest—and the nuttiest—planet in the galaxy!For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:32:00) Chapter 2(01:10:13) Chapter 3(01:34:13) Chapter 4(02:02:21) Chapter 5(02:55:37) Chapter 6(03:38:42) Chapter 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini audiobook. Genre: adventureSet in pre-revolutionary France, Scaramouche follows Andre-Louis Moreau, a sharp-tongued young lawyer of uncertain birth who believes he can stay above politics - until injustice forces him into the widening conflict between privilege and the people. When a nobleman kills Andre-Louis' friend and the courts offer no remedy, Andre-Louis is driven from his quiet provincial life into a perilous journey through radical pamphleteering, political agitation, and the dangerous spotlight of public debate. Hunted by powerful enemies and betrayed by shifting alliances, he discovers that wit can be a weapon, but survival demands reinvention. Taking refuge with a traveling theater troupe, Andre-Louis learns the art of performance and adopts the mask of Scaramouche, using the stage to hide in plain sight and to strike back with satire as France edges toward upheaval. Along the way he crosses swords and hearts with Aline de Kercadiou, whose loyalties and affections complicate his pursuit of justice, and he is repeatedly drawn into confrontation with the ruthless Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr. Swashbuckling action, romance, and political intrigue combine in a story about identity, courage, and the price of speaking truth to power.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:24:42) Chapter 2(00:52:06) Chapter 3(01:18:44) Chapter 4(01:34:07) Chapter 5(01:46:32) Chapter 6(02:07:44) Chapter 7(02:45:37) Chapter 8(03:08:53) Chapter 9(03:32:05) Chapter 10(04:10:48) Chapter 11(04:33:46) Chapter 12(05:04:08) Chapter 13(05:27:39) Chapter 14(05:51:38) Chapter 15(06:30:28) Chapter 16(06:56:19) Chapter 17(07:15:18) Chapter 18(08:09:07) Chapter 19(08:35:41) Chapter 20(09:24:12) Chapter 21(10:07:32) Chapter 22(10:29:07) Chapter 23(10:55:08) Chapter 24(11:37:01) Chapter 25(12:05:38) Chapter 26(12:31:23) Chapter 27(13:01:55) Chapter 28(13:25:01) Chapter 29(14:04:37) Chapter 30(14:30:56) Chapter 31(14:52:01) Chapter 32(15:40:57) Chapter 33(16:05:27) Chapter 34(16:32:43) Chapter 35(16:55:59) Chapter 36 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini audiobook. Genre: adventureIn late 17th-century England, Dr. Peter Blood is a skilled Irish physician who wants nothing more than a quiet life of duty and reason. But when he offers medical aid to a wounded rebel after the failed Monmouth Rebellion, Blood is swept up in the Crown's vengeance. Wrongly condemned as a traitor, he is shipped across the Atlantic and sold into bondage on Barbados, where his sharp mind, steady hands, and stubborn sense of honor make him both valuable and dangerous. When an unexpected opportunity for escape appears, Blood seizes it and is reborn on the high seas as a daring sea captain with a growing reputation, a disciplined crew, and a code that sets him apart from the cutthroats around him. His rising fortunes bring him into conflict with powerful enemies, shifting colonial politics, and the relentless reach of empire, even as his complicated connection to Arabella Bishop, the governor's spirited niece, tests the boundaries between conscience and survival. Captain Blood is a swashbuckling tale of injustice, transformation, and the price of freedom.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:23:06) Chapter 2(00:46:04) Chapter 3(01:23:44) Chapter 4(01:38:22) Chapter 5(02:06:38) Chapter 6(02:39:10) Chapter 7(03:02:52) Chapter 8(03:17:18) Chapter 9(03:44:52) Chapter 10(03:59:42) Chapter 11(04:24:52) Chapter 12(04:39:16) Chapter 13(04:58:42) Chapter 14(05:18:35) Chapter 15(05:44:25) Chapter 16(06:14:10) Chapter 17(06:48:47) Chapter 18(07:16:17) Chapter 19(07:40:25) Chapter 20(08:07:10) Chapter 21(08:37:05) Chapter 22(08:57:38) Chapter 23(09:28:22) Chapter 24(09:57:26) Chapter 25(10:18:46) Chapter 26(10:48:58) Chapter 27(11:10:16) Chapter 28(11:24:46) Chapter 29(11:41:46) Chapter 30(11:56:06) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde audiobook. Genre: folkloreOscar Wilde's Happy Prince and Other Tales gathers a set of luminous fairy stories that look like bedtime favorites but speak with sharp tenderness to readers of any age. In the city where a jewel-studded statue of the Happy Prince stands high above the streets, the Prince can finally see the poverty and sorrow around him, and he enlists a small migrating Swallow to carry his gold and gems to those in need - a fragile partnership tested by cold weather, urgent requests, and the cost of compassion. Around this central tale, Wilde introduces princes and paupers, selfish giants, devoted friends, and creatures caught between beauty and survival, each facing choices that measure the difference between comfort and conscience. With wit, lyric imagery, and bittersweet emotion, these stories explore generosity, sacrifice, friendship, social inequality, and the quiet bravery of doing what is right when no one is watching. The collection invites listeners to savor Wilde's elegant voice while discovering how wonder can illuminate hard truths.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:22:02) Chapter 02(00:36:25) Chapter 03(00:46:26) Chapter 04(01:12:37) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli audiobook. Genre: philosophyWritten in the turbulence of Renaissance Italy, The Prince is Niccolo Machiavelli's stark, practical manual on how power is gained, protected, and lost. Addressed to a ruler seeking to unify and stabilize a fractured land, the book studies leaders both celebrated and feared, weighing their choices against the harsh realities of war, loyalty, fortune, and public opinion. Machiavelli asks what a successful prince owes to morality, religion, tradition, and promises when the safety of the state is at stake, and he challenges the comforting idea that good intentions guarantee good outcomes. Moving from the management of armies and territories to the delicate art of alliances and reputation, he examines when generosity becomes weakness, when mercy turns dangerous, and how appearances can decide survival. The Prince is not a tale of heroes but an argument about necessity: a ruler must understand human nature as it is, not as it should be, and must be ready to act decisively when circumstances shift. Provocative, concise, and endlessly debated, this classic invites listeners to confront the uneasy boundary between ethics and effective leadership.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:34:11) Chapter 02(01:28:02) Chapter 03(01:47:23) Chapter 04(02:09:14) Chapter 05(02:39:25) Chapter 06(03:01:16) Chapter 07 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices