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**Classic Audiobook Collection**

Explore over a thousand great books by authors from the ancient world through to the twentieth century. From Jane Austen to Herman Melville to Sun Tzu, from the ancient Greeks to American modernists: If a book changed the world, it’s here. Share these full-length audiobooks with friends and start an audiobook club!

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The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith ~ Full Audiobook [comedy] Apr 06, 2023

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The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith audiobook.

Genre: comedy

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:00:51) Chapter 2

(00:08:14) Chapter 3

(00:21:21) Chapter 4

(00:34:10) Chapter 5

(00:46:04) Chapter 6

(01:02:33) Chapter 7

(01:12:58) Chapter 8

(01:24:13) Chapter 9

(01:36:05) Chapter 10

(01:43:33) Chapter 11

(01:50:41) Chapter 12

(02:05:59) Chapter 13

(02:14:10) Chapter 14

(02:27:01) Chapter 15

(02:42:20) Chapter 16

(02:50:29) Chapter 17

(02:57:19) Chapter 18

(03:02:54) Chapter 19

(03:18:55) Chapter 20

(03:27:59) Chapter 21

(03:38:33) Chapter 22

(03:50:09) Chapter 23

(04:08:49) Chapter 24

(04:19:58) Chapter 25

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A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Apr 06, 2023

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A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in rural Indiana at the edge of the mysterious Limberlost swamp, A Girl of the Limberlost follows Elnora Comstock, a bright, determined teenager aching for an education and a life larger than the hard poverty and silence of her home. Her widowed mother, Katharine, is sharp with grief and refuses to spend money on schooling, forcing Elnora to find her own way. With the help of kind neighbors and a growing knowledge of the natural world, Elnora begins collecting rare moths and specimens from the swamp to sell, turning long, risky days among the trees and marshes into a plan for independence. As her confidence grows, so do the pressures: gossip in a small town, the sting of social class, and the painful question of why her mother seems unable to love her openly. At school, Elnora meets people who challenge her assumptions and awaken new hopes, including the possibility of first love. Rich with vivid nature writing and emotional realism, this coming-of-age story explores resilience, reconciliation, and the price of becoming yourself.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:35:33) Chapter 2

(00:55:17) Chapter 3

(01:18:28) Chapter 4

(01:53:51) Chapter 5

(02:14:10) Chapter 6

(02:43:13) Chapter 7

(03:26:22) Chapter 8

(03:38:03) Chapter 9

(04:03:20) Chapter 10

(04:40:09) Chapter 11

(05:09:39) Chapter 12

(05:54:16) Chapter 13

(06:25:32) Chapter 14

(06:45:35) Chapter 15

(07:08:36) Chapter 16

(07:31:09) Chapter 17

(08:02:59) Chapter 18

(08:23:31) Chapter 19

(08:47:26) Chapter 20

(09:02:47) Chapter 21

(09:32:18) Chapter 22

(10:06:16) Chapter 23

(10:29:49) Chapter 24

(10:51:50) Chapter 25

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The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy] Apr 05, 2023

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The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society. The teeming St Petersburg community he enters is far from receptive to an innocent like himself, despite some early successes and relentless pursuit by grotesque fortune-hunters. His naive gaucheries give rise to extreme reactions among his new acquaintance, ranging from anguished protectiveness to mockery and contempt. But even before reaching the city, during the memorable train journey that opens the novel, he has encountered the demonic Rogozhin, the son of a wealthy merchant who is in thrall to the equally doomed Natasha Filippovna: beautiful, capricious and destructively neurotic, she joins with the two weirdly contrasted men in a spiralling dance of death...

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:29:43) Chapter 02

(00:58:33) Chapter 03

(01:34:11) Chapter 04

(02:14:49) Chapter 05

(03:00:29) Chapter 06

(03:29:17) Chapter 07

(04:06:06) Chapter 08

(04:44:20) Chapter 09

(05:08:07) Chapter 10

(05:28:32) Chapter 11

(05:48:53) Chapter 12

(06:20:31) Chapter 13

(06:49:03) Chapter 14

(07:18:36) Chapter 15

(07:46:16) Chapter 16

(08:23:19) Chapter 17

(08:52:23) Chapter 18

(09:34:01) Chapter 19

(10:17:06) Chapter 20

(10:34:00) Chapter 21

(11:14:40) Chapter 22

(11:56:15) Chapter 23

(12:24:19) Chapter 24

(13:18:31) Chapter 25

(13:56:36) Chapter 26

(14:40:37) Chapter 27

(15:23:53) Chapter 28

(15:44:49) Chapter 29

(16:20:23) Chapter 30

(16:50:26) Chapter 31

(17:26:21) Chapter 32

(18:00:18) Chapter 33

(18:29:32) Chapter 34

(19:06:05) Chapter 35

(19:37:47) Chapter 36

(20:10:01) Chapter 37

(20:38:46) Chapter 38

(20:54:50) Chapter 39

(21:22:58) Chapter 40

(21:44:19) Chapter 41

(22:11:19) Chapter 42

(22:41:13) Chapter 43

(23:25:06) Chapter 44

(24:02:43) Chapter 45

(24:45:24) Chapter 46

(25:31:51) Chapter 47

(26:01:56) Chapter 48

(26:34:45) Chapter 49

(27:08:45) Chapter 50

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The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Apr 04, 2023

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The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton audiobook.

Genre: mystery

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:33:59) Chapter 2

(01:15:18) Chapter 3

(01:51:01) Chapter 4

(02:31:04) Chapter 5

(03:07:24) Chapter 6

(03:45:07) Chapter 7

(04:17:49) Chapter 8

(05:03:01) Chapter 9

(05:37:54) Chapter 10

(06:09:41) Chapter 11

(06:46:27) Chapter 12

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The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Apr 04, 2023

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The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton audiobook.

Genre: mystery

In The Innocence of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton introduces an unlikely detective: Father Brown, a quiet Catholic priest with a shabby umbrella, a round face, and a disarming manner that makes criminals underestimate him. Moving through English villages, country houses, and city streets, Father Brown is repeatedly drawn into baffling crimes - stolen jewels, sudden disappearances, impossible murders, and deceptions staged with theatrical flair. While others chase evidence, reputation, or spectacle, he listens patiently, notices what vanity hides, and uses a deep understanding of human weakness to see through lies. Alongside him appears the elegant and notorious thief Flambeau, whose encounters with the priest become a tense contest of wits and conscience. Each case is a compact puzzle, but the stories also explore larger questions about pride, temptation, forgiveness, and the thin line between respectability and wrongdoing. Wry, philosophical, and richly atmospheric, this classic collection invites listeners into mysteries where the smallest detail - or the smallest act of mercy - can change everything.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:56:44) Chapter 2

(01:58:03) Chapter 3

(02:56:49) Chapter 4

(03:38:57) Chapter 5

(04:28:42) Chapter 6

(05:11:34) Chapter 7

(06:06:22) Chapter 8

(07:08:04) Chapter 9

(07:59:26) Chapter 10

(08:50:25) Chapter 11

(09:42:46) Chapter 12

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Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy] Apr 04, 2023

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Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche launches a provocative investigation into the hidden motives behind moral beliefs and the cultural assumptions people treat as timeless truths. Written as a series of sharp, energetic sections rather than a single linear argument, the book challenges readers to question ideas such as objective morality, absolute truth, and the comforting stories societies tell themselves about virtue and vice. Nietzsche targets the legacy of traditional European philosophy and religion, arguing that many 'higher' ideals can mask deeper drives: the will to interpret, to rank, to control, and to give life a meaning that favors certain types of people. Along the way he examines the psychology of philosophers, the social power of moral language, the tension between individual creativity and herd conformity, and the costs of intellectual honesty. With aphorisms that move from biting critique to visionary calls for new values, Nietzsche invites readers to look past familiar categories of good and evil and confront the unsettling possibility that moral systems are human creations, shaped by history, temperament, and struggle. The central conflict is the reader's own: whether to cling to inherited certainties or risk a harder freedom of thought.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:06:02) Chapter 01

(01:05:30) Chapter 02

(01:45:35) Chapter 03

(02:29:39) Chapter 04

(02:53:09) Chapter 05

(03:50:42) Chapter 06

(04:44:18) Chapter 07

(05:54:20) Chapter 08

(06:56:06) Chapter 09

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Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer ~ Full Audiobook [biography] Apr 04, 2023

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Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer audiobook.

Genre: biography

A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, 'It is designed in these pages to bring the reader face to face with Edison; to glance at an interesting childhood and a youthful period marked by a capacity for doing things, and by an insatiable thirst for knowledge; then to accompany him into the great creative stretch of forty years, during which he has done so much. This book shows him plunged deeply into work for which he has always had an incredible capacity, reveals the exercise of his unsurpassed inventive ability, his keen reasoning powers, his tenacious memory, his fertility of resource; follows him through a series of innumerable experiments, conducted methodically, reaching out like rays of search-light into all the regions of science and nature, and finally exhibits him emerging triumphantly from countless difficulties bearing with him in new arts the fruits of victorious struggle.'

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:05:39) Chapter 2

(00:19:23) Chapter 3

(00:41:07) Chapter 4

(01:26:59) Chapter 5

(01:57:01) Chapter 6

(02:48:57) Chapter 7

(03:13:31) Chapter 8

(03:57:40) Chapter 9

(04:55:12) Chapter 10

(06:03:17) Chapter 11

(06:50:36) Chapter 12

(07:42:05) Chapter 13

(08:35:03) Chapter 14

(09:05:05) Chapter 15

(10:03:23) Chapter 16

(11:08:00) Chapter 17

(12:04:14) Chapter 18

(13:03:22) Chapter 19

(13:52:01) Chapter 20

(14:37:52) Chapter 21

(15:13:41) Chapter 22

(16:06:29) Chapter 23

(16:46:14) Chapter 24

(17:23:16) Chapter 25

(18:10:53) Chapter 26

(18:56:17) Chapter 27

(19:40:25) Chapter 28

(20:32:35) Chapter 29

(21:42:49) Chapter 30

(22:53:14) Chapter 31

(22:55:31) Chapter 32

(23:10:18) Chapter 33

(23:42:32) Chapter 34

(24:01:26) Chapter 35

(24:31:55) Chapter 36

(24:41:18) Chapter 37

(24:51:20) Chapter 38

(24:56:38) Chapter 39

(25:11:37) Chapter 40

(25:24:38) Chapter 41

(25:56:47) Chapter 42

(26:12:46) Chapter 43

(26:23:12) Chapter 44

(26:41:01) Chapter 45

(26:47:01) Chapter 46

(26:55:39) Chapter 47

(27:13:56) Chapter 48

(27:23:41) Chapter 49

(27:39:15) Chapter 50

(27:48:43) Chapter 51

(28:54:18) Chapter 52

(29:42:21) Chapter 53

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The Grell Mystery by Frank Froest ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Apr 03, 2023

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The Grell Mystery by Frank Froest audiobook.

Genre: mystery

On a rain-swept London night, American millionaire-adventurer Robert Grell leaves the comfort of his club for a secret appointment, just days before his society wedding to Lady Eileen Meredith. By morning, Grell is at the center of a scandalous puzzle: a man has been found murdered in the study of Grell's home, yet the dead man is not who the household insists he is. As whispers spread from drawing rooms to back alleys, Scotland Yard is called in to prevent a high-profile case from turning into a public humiliation. Leading the inquiry is Chief Inspector Heldon Foyle, a patient, relentless investigator who quickly realizes that every straightforward explanation falls apart under scrutiny. Grell himself has vanished, a veiled woman seems to hover at the edge of events, and a missing foreign valet deepens the sense that someone has staged the scene with care. With aristocratic reputations on the line and the criminal underworld offering its own shadowy truths, Foyle must sort genuine clues from deliberate misdirection and answer the question that drives the case: is this murder the work of chance, revenge, or a plan close to perfection?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:08:03) Chapter 02

(00:15:01) Chapter 03

(00:24:04) Chapter 04

(00:28:40) Chapter 05

(00:33:54) Chapter 06

(00:40:14) Chapter 07

(00:46:59) Chapter 08

(00:54:12) Chapter 09

(00:59:17) Chapter 10

(01:05:11) Chapter 11

(01:13:46) Chapter 12

(01:20:57) Chapter 13

(01:29:52) Chapter 14

(01:36:53) Chapter 15

(01:42:22) Chapter 16

(01:51:52) Chapter 17

(01:59:28) Chapter 18

(02:05:41) Chapter 19

(02:14:18) Chapter 20

(02:20:06) Chapter 21

(02:30:25) Chapter 22

(02:35:40) Chapter 23

(02:44:30) Chapter 24

(02:54:30) Chapter 25

(03:02:01) Chapter 26

(03:10:18) Chapter 27

(03:17:58) Chapter 28

(03:28:34) Chapter 29

(03:36:23) Chapter 30

(03:40:48) Chapter 31

(03:47:53) Chapter 32

(03:53:07) Chapter 33

(04:01:48) Chapter 34

(04:07:31) Chapter 35

(04:14:39) Chapter 36

(04:25:26) Chapter 37

(04:33:46) Chapter 38

(04:43:15) Chapter 39

(04:47:51) Chapter 40

(04:56:44) Chapter 41

(05:06:05) Chapter 42

(05:19:20) Chapter 43

(05:31:21) Chapter 44

(05:39:13) Chapter 45

(05:49:53) Chapter 46

(06:02:24) Chapter 47

(06:12:30) Chapter 48

(06:24:17) Chapter 49

(06:29:34) Chapter 50

(06:43:01) Chapter 51

(06:50:55) Chapter 52

(07:06:23) Chapter 53

(07:13:11) Chapter 54

(07:24:27) Chapter 55

(07:33:02) Chapter 56

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Cathay by Ezra Pound ~ Full Audiobook [poetry] Apr 03, 2023

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Cathay by Ezra Pound audiobook.

Genre: poetry

The Cathay poems appeared in a slim volume in 1915. They are, in effect, Ezra Pound’s English translations/interpretations from notebooks written by the Japanese scholar Ernest Fenollosa. Pound, not knowing any Chinese or Japanese at all, promptly created a new and somewhat complex style of translation, as he had done with words from several other languages. The Cathay poems are primarily written by the Chinese poet Li Po, referred to throughout these translations as Rihaku, the Japanese form of his name. These poems came to have a profound influence on 20th Century poetry, spawning, among other things, the Imagist movement, and helped in the generation of widespread interest in Asian literature and thought. Also included in this collection are two poems from Pound’s 1912 collection Ripostes. “The Seafarer” is another of Pound’s experiments in translation, this one from the Anglo-Saxon.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:02:24) Chapter 02

(00:03:32) Chapter 03

(00:06:52) Chapter 04

(00:09:06) Chapter 05

(00:11:36) Chapter 06

(00:12:57) Chapter 07

(00:15:01) Chapter 08

(00:20:55) Chapter 09

(00:23:44) Chapter 10

(00:25:01) Chapter 11

(00:26:28) Chapter 12

(00:28:00) Chapter 13

(00:29:30) Chapter 14

(00:31:49) Chapter 15

(00:34:19) Chapter 16

(00:41:27) Chapter 17

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Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Apr 03, 2023

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Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In the perfectly ordered world of Flatland, everything and everyone is a geometric shape, and your place in society is literally defined by the number of sides you have. A Square, a respectable middle-class professional, lives a predictable life governed by rigid rules, sharp prejudices, and an unquestioned faith in the dimensions he can see. But on the eve of the centennial celebration, his routine is interrupted by unsettling encounters that hint at realities beyond length and width. When a mysterious visitor from a higher dimension appears, the Square is drawn into a mind-bending journey that challenges his understanding of space, logic, and even the limits of imagination. As he struggles to communicate what he has learned to a society terrified of the unknown, Flatland becomes both a playful mathematical thought experiment and a pointed satire of social hierarchy, conformity, and intellectual censorship. By blending wit with wonder, Edwin Abbott Abbott crafts a story that invites listeners to reconsider how easily 'common sense' can become a cage - and how daring it is to see the world from a different angle.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:22:55) Chapter 2

(00:50:48) Chapter 3

(01:15:58) Chapter 4

(01:46:01) Chapter 5

(02:06:29) Chapter 6

(02:34:13) Chapter 7

(03:10:04) Chapter 8

(03:54:33) Chapter 9

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