Classic Audiobook Collection

The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. Reeve audiobook. Genre: mysteryWhen the managing editor of the New York Star orders reporter Walter Jameson to spend a month shadowing his friend Professor Craig Kennedy, Jameson thinks he is signing up for a profile. Instead, he is pulled into a relentless chain of cases that show why Kennedy is feared by criminals and admired by police: he investigates with microscopes, chemicals, wires, and a cool logic that treats every clue as a measurable fact. The assignment begins with a baffling death on Broadway. Prominent broker Price Maitland is found conscious yet suddenly paralyzed and speechless, a typewritten farewell note in his pocket and a tiny wound on his hand. As rumors swirl around Maitland's wife, her prophetic nightmares, and a doctor tied to strange new theories of the mind, Kennedy suspects a method of murder so subtle it can slip past ordinary autopsies. From that opening, the month accelerates into a panorama of early twentieth-century New York crime: secret listening devices, eerie curses, vanishing evidence, and schemes that weaponize both technology and psychology. With Jameson racing to record it all, Kennedy must prove that even dreams and human suggestion can be traced back to a real, deliberate hand.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:30:29) Chapter 02(00:55:23) Chapter 03(01:19:48) Chapter 04(01:44:52) Chapter 05(02:05:45) Chapter 06(02:27:28) Chapter 07(02:52:25) Chapter 08(03:24:56) Chapter 09(03:49:14) Chapter 10(04:11:12) Chapter 11(04:34:14) Chapter 12(04:51:04) Chapter 13(05:19:14) Chapter 14(05:52:55) Chapter 15(06:19:43) Chapter 16(06:40:28) Chapter 17(07:00:17) Chapter 18(07:30:35) Chapter 19(07:55:38) Chapter 20(08:21:57) Chapter 21(08:48:59) Chapter 22(09:22:45) Chapter 23(09:45:59) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett audiobook. Genre: dramaIn a narrow corner of Clerkenwell, a steep little passage called Riceyman Steps leads to the cramped secondhand bookshop of Henry Earlforward, a man of strict habits and even stricter accounts. Henry lives by ledgers and bargains, measuring every candle stub and crumb of coal, convinced that thrift is the only true virtue in a city that wastes. Yet the world presses in: the everyday bustle of London trade, the small dramas of neighbors and customers, and the lives of the women who keep his shop and his rooms running. When Henry forms an unexpected attachment that promises companionship and comfort, his hard-won routines are tested by desires he does not know how to name and fears he cannot easily master. Around him, quieter figures carry their own longings and compromises, revealing how poverty, pride, and respectability can shape a life as decisively as any grand ambition. Arnold Bennett crafts an intimate portrait of obsession and tenderness, asking what it costs to hoard safety, and what might be lost when a man tries to count his way to happiness.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:06:56) Chapter 02(00:17:39) Chapter 03(00:28:04) Chapter 04(00:42:15) Chapter 05(00:53:21) Chapter 06(01:01:22) Chapter 07(01:07:58) Chapter 08(01:21:00) Chapter 09(01:29:31) Chapter 10(01:38:47) Chapter 11(01:51:45) Chapter 12(01:59:23) Chapter 13(02:18:06) Chapter 14(02:35:46) Chapter 15(02:53:41) Chapter 16(03:02:49) Chapter 17(03:24:09) Chapter 18(03:31:37) Chapter 19(03:58:16) Chapter 20(04:11:13) Chapter 21(04:20:18) Chapter 22(04:38:56) Chapter 23(04:49:02) Chapter 24(05:01:19) Chapter 25(05:23:18) Chapter 26(05:51:33) Chapter 27(06:05:54) Chapter 28(06:19:18) Chapter 29(06:40:26) Chapter 30(06:53:43) Chapter 31(07:02:32) Chapter 32(07:10:57) Chapter 33(07:31:14) Chapter 34(07:48:42) Chapter 35(08:02:25) Chapter 36(08:12:43) Chapter 37(08:23:05) Chapter 38(08:31:50) Chapter 39(08:53:47) Chapter 40(09:09:05) Chapter 41(09:18:50) Chapter 42(09:33:22) Chapter 43(09:42:49) Chapter 44(10:22:04) Chapter 45(10:33:07) Chapter 46(10:44:19) Chapter 47(10:54:07) Chapter 48(11:03:28) Chapter 49 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: romanceDoctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personalities of the Church of England, or politics on the national level (though there is lots of politicking in the mythical county of Barsetshire itself). The plot revolves around the illegitimate Mary Thorne, who has been lovingly raised by her uncle, a country doctor, and who, as she comes of age, finds herself wondering whether she is a lady (in the county sense of the term). Frank Gresham, son of the squire of Greshamsbury, is in love with her (much against the wishes of his noble de Courcy relatives at the Castle), but she dismisses his affection at first as mere puppy love, thereby setting the scene for a series of entanglements, social, romantic, and of course, financial and propertied (never far from the action in Trollope's works). Their resolution, of course, makes up the meat of the novel. One critic has remarked that in Doctor Thorne Trollope succeeds in one of the most difficult tasks an author of fiction can face: how to make genuinely good people genuinely interesting, so that they engage not only the sympathies but also the interest of readersFor ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:46:41) Chapter 02(01:19:04) Chapter 03(02:01:10) Chapter 04(02:54:46) Chapter 05(03:22:34) Chapter 06(03:54:12) Chapter 07(04:24:12) Chapter 08(05:04:13) Chapter 09(05:32:54) Chapter 10(06:01:55) Chapter 11(06:24:53) Chapter 12(06:59:51) Chapter 13(07:26:15) Chapter 14(08:08:16) Chapter 15(08:32:51) Chapter 16(08:59:34) Chapter 17(09:43:11) Chapter 18(10:24:39) Chapter 19(10:50:32) Chapter 20(11:14:20) Chapter 21(11:53:54) Chapter 22(12:20:17) Chapter 23(12:46:41) Chapter 24(13:24:30) Chapter 25(14:07:11) Chapter 26(14:38:42) Chapter 27(15:15:19) Chapter 28(15:47:27) Chapter 29(16:30:23) Chapter 30(16:51:39) Chapter 31(17:23:13) Chapter 32(17:48:35) Chapter 33(18:19:50) Chapter 34(19:10:34) Chapter 35(19:38:02) Chapter 36(20:01:59) Chapter 37(20:30:17) Chapter 38(21:15:00) Chapter 39(21:41:43) Chapter 40(22:10:15) Chapter 41(22:39:20) Chapter 42(23:19:57) Chapter 43(23:49:01) Chapter 44(24:26:13) Chapter 45(24:55:55) Chapter 46(25:28:12) Chapter 47 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: dramaIn the hot, uneasy backcountry of colonial Australia, Harry Heathcote is a young squatter determined to hold together Gangoil, the cattle station he has built into a symbol of order, hard work, and English respectability. But the frontier has its own rules. As drought tightens its grip and political winds favor small settlers over big runs, the boundary lines around Gangoil turn into fault lines: neighbors resent what Harry owns, rumors travel faster than the mail, and every decision he makes is judged as arrogance or weakness. When fire breaks out in the bush and suspicion falls on those closest to the station, Harry finds himself fighting on several fronts at once - against the land, against a hostile community, and against the fear that his own temper will cost him everything. With his wife watching the conflict reshape their home life and loyalties in the district shifting by the day, Harry must decide what justice means when the law feels distant and reputation can burn as quickly as grass. Trollope delivers a tense, intimate portrait of pride, property, and responsibility at the edge of empire.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:22:48) Chapter 02(00:41:37) Chapter 03(00:58:56) Chapter 04(01:17:15) Chapter 05(01:35:56) Chapter 06(01:56:50) Chapter 07(02:14:28) Chapter 08(02:32:40) Chapter 09(02:53:53) Chapter 10(03:16:25) Chapter 11(03:28:14) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: tragedyIn An Eye for an Eye, Anthony Trollope turns a sharp, compassionate gaze on love, pride, and the quiet violence of social rules. When Fred Neville, a young English officer from a powerful family, is stationed in Ireland, he meets Kate McDermot, the spirited daughter of a struggling local gentleman. Their attraction is immediate, but the world around them is built to keep such a match from becoming more than a summer dream. Fred is bound by the expectations of rank, money, and family influence, while Kate and her father carry the weight of old grievances and a fierce sense of honor. As affection deepens into promises, every choice becomes entangled with questions of duty, reputation, and the long shadow of resentment between England and Ireland. Trollope builds the tension through intimate conversations, anxious letters, and the steady tightening of consequences, asking whether love can survive when it must be hidden, denied, or bargained over. With psychological precision and a mounting sense of inevitability, the novel explores how a single careless act can demand a terrible price.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:03:48) Chapter 01(00:21:10) Chapter 02(00:41:18) Chapter 03(00:58:00) Chapter 04(01:14:24) Chapter 05(01:40:31) Chapter 06(01:54:23) Chapter 07(02:12:34) Chapter 08(02:27:58) Chapter 09(02:48:31) Chapter 10(03:08:26) Chapter 11(03:23:48) Chapter 12(03:39:08) Chapter 13(03:58:18) Chapter 14(04:17:37) Chapter 15(04:34:29) Chapter 16(04:52:22) Chapter 17(05:12:18) Chapter 18(05:32:27) Chapter 19(05:53:41) Chapter 20(06:05:52) Chapter 21(06:26:17) Chapter 22(06:46:26) Chapter 23(07:02:36) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 13) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folkloreThis is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators, and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800 and 900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband to prevent him from executing her. In translating the Nights, R. F. Burton attempted to invent an English equivalent of medieval Arabic. In doing so, he drew upon Chaucerian English, Elizabethan English, and the 1653 English translation by Sir Thomas Urquhart of the first three books of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-1546).For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:38:43) Chapter 02(01:10:31) Chapter 03(01:57:44) Chapter 04(02:44:13) Chapter 05(03:30:49) Chapter 06(04:18:51) Chapter 07(05:02:41) Chapter 08(05:50:39) Chapter 09(06:26:32) Chapter 10(07:04:26) Chapter 11(08:04:04) Chapter 12(08:58:35) Chapter 13(09:34:25) Chapter 14(10:11:51) Chapter 15(10:37:06) Chapter 16(11:17:29) Chapter 17(11:44:22) Chapter 18(12:23:18) Chapter 19(13:03:04) Chapter 20(13:50:40) Chapter 21(14:20:20) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 12) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folkloreThis is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the twelfth of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton and comprises a number of new tales and variants of earlier ones.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:01:16) Chapter 01(00:23:23) Chapter 02(00:29:36) Chapter 03(00:38:23) Chapter 04(00:41:10) Chapter 05(00:44:22) Chapter 06(00:50:39) Chapter 07(00:58:27) Chapter 08(01:17:25) Chapter 09(01:26:59) Chapter 10(01:31:38) Chapter 11(01:39:12) Chapter 12(01:42:21) Chapter 13(01:45:53) Chapter 14(01:53:41) Chapter 15(01:59:13) Chapter 16(02:01:54) Chapter 17(02:10:20) Chapter 18(02:28:11) Chapter 19(02:55:45) Chapter 20(03:19:37) Chapter 21(03:42:33) Chapter 22(04:01:35) Chapter 23(04:23:51) Chapter 24(04:29:42) Chapter 25(04:37:06) Chapter 26(04:42:05) Chapter 27(04:46:42) Chapter 28(05:05:24) Chapter 29(05:29:55) Chapter 30(05:48:13) Chapter 31(06:06:58) Chapter 32(06:29:36) Chapter 33(06:55:32) Chapter 34(07:18:46) Chapter 35(07:43:57) Chapter 36(08:03:14) Chapter 37(08:25:57) Chapter 38(08:36:16) Chapter 39(08:38:24) Chapter 40(08:57:53) Chapter 41(09:06:50) Chapter 42(09:19:45) Chapter 43(09:31:46) Chapter 44(09:36:28) Chapter 45(09:40:37) Chapter 46(09:43:34) Chapter 47(09:55:19) Chapter 48(10:00:18) Chapter 49(10:07:15) Chapter 50(10:13:53) Chapter 51(10:41:55) Chapter 52(11:06:33) Chapter 53(11:21:29) Chapter 54(11:37:32) Chapter 55(11:42:49) Chapter 56(11:53:35) Chapter 57(11:55:02) Chapter 58(11:56:16) Chapter 59(12:09:12) Chapter 60(12:24:02) Chapter 61(12:25:26) Chapter 62(12:37:00) Chapter 63(13:00:33) Chapter 64(13:15:54) Chapter 65(13:21:03) Chapter 66(13:35:11) Chapter 67(13:53:10) Chapter 68(14:11:28) Chapter 69(14:21:04) Chapter 70(14:22:35) Chapter 71(14:42:49) Chapter 72(14:44:28) Chapter 73(14:45:43) Chapter 74(14:47:42) Chapter 75(14:51:46) Chapter 76 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 11) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folkloreThis is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the eleventh of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:05:27) Chapter 01(00:12:24) Chapter 02(00:50:52) Chapter 03(01:21:04) Chapter 04(01:28:02) Chapter 05(01:31:07) Chapter 06(01:34:15) Chapter 07(01:48:05) Chapter 08(02:05:20) Chapter 09(02:20:27) Chapter 10(02:38:21) Chapter 11(02:47:07) Chapter 12(03:07:26) Chapter 13(03:19:47) Chapter 14(03:28:00) Chapter 15(03:45:46) Chapter 16(04:03:35) Chapter 17(04:27:45) Chapter 18(04:50:40) Chapter 19(05:00:52) Chapter 20(05:07:46) Chapter 21(05:11:14) Chapter 22(05:13:02) Chapter 23(05:15:12) Chapter 24(05:20:30) Chapter 25(05:28:02) Chapter 26(05:32:36) Chapter 27(05:52:17) Chapter 28(06:06:11) Chapter 29(06:21:14) Chapter 30(06:31:49) Chapter 31(06:41:08) Chapter 32(06:50:27) Chapter 33(06:57:46) Chapter 34(07:04:51) Chapter 35(07:09:25) Chapter 36(07:17:26) Chapter 37(07:23:46) Chapter 38(07:27:44) Chapter 39(07:37:39) Chapter 40(07:39:58) Chapter 41(07:47:23) Chapter 42(07:52:32) Chapter 43(07:57:38) Chapter 44(08:16:27) Chapter 45(08:23:47) Chapter 46(08:35:16) Chapter 47(08:53:04) Chapter 48(09:00:59) Chapter 49(09:11:50) Chapter 50(09:24:41) Chapter 51(09:31:07) Chapter 52(09:59:19) Chapter 53(10:25:17) Chapter 54(10:42:27) Chapter 55(10:49:58) Chapter 56 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 10) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folkloreThis is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the tenth of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:09:16) Chapter 02(00:19:27) Chapter 03(00:31:14) Chapter 04(00:43:32) Chapter 05(00:55:12) Chapter 06(01:04:09) Chapter 07(01:14:43) Chapter 08(01:23:14) Chapter 09(01:32:50) Chapter 10(01:41:47) Chapter 11(01:51:35) Chapter 12(01:59:43) Chapter 13(02:21:58) Chapter 14(02:29:02) Chapter 15(02:54:33) Chapter 16(03:20:57) Chapter 17(03:26:31) Chapter 18(04:07:34) Chapter 19(04:36:26) Chapter 20(05:10:02) Chapter 21(05:45:39) Chapter 22(06:06:33) Chapter 23(06:44:17) Chapter 24(07:07:05) Chapter 25(07:12:37) Chapter 26(07:48:37) Chapter 27(08:19:13) Chapter 28(08:48:56) Chapter 29(08:54:34) Chapter 30(09:29:20) Chapter 31(10:09:03) Chapter 32(10:37:40) Chapter 33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 9) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folkloreThis is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the ninth of sixteen volumes translated by Burton.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:17:05) Chapter 02(00:33:47) Chapter 03(00:51:00) Chapter 04(01:03:21) Chapter 05(01:15:38) Chapter 06(01:27:06) Chapter 07(01:46:45) Chapter 08(02:04:05) Chapter 09(02:23:07) Chapter 10(02:42:40) Chapter 11(03:02:25) Chapter 12(03:19:22) Chapter 13(03:38:20) Chapter 14(03:58:48) Chapter 15(04:19:04) Chapter 16(04:39:17) Chapter 17(04:56:49) Chapter 18(05:15:11) Chapter 19(05:36:00) Chapter 20(05:53:26) Chapter 21(06:20:16) Chapter 22(06:34:16) Chapter 23(06:51:21) Chapter 24(07:09:43) Chapter 25(07:25:49) Chapter 26(07:41:52) Chapter 27(07:59:31) Chapter 28(08:14:21) Chapter 29(08:40:14) Chapter 30(08:54:52) Chapter 31(09:14:12) Chapter 32(09:36:27) Chapter 33(09:53:40) Chapter 34(10:12:39) Chapter 35(10:30:47) Chapter 36(10:52:49) Chapter 37(11:09:58) Chapter 38(11:32:18) Chapter 39(11:48:53) Chapter 40(12:04:09) Chapter 41(12:20:36) Chapter 42(12:34:41) Chapter 43(12:51:49) Chapter 44(13:09:38) Chapter 45(13:20:57) Chapter 46(13:42:13) Chapter 47(13:59:28) Chapter 48(14:22:30) Chapter 49(14:46:03) Chapter 50(15:06:36) Chapter 51(15:20:47) Chapter 52 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices