Classic Audiobook Collection

Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine audiobook. Genre: adventureWhen young Arizona cowboy Dave Sanders steps in to help a stranger being robbed, one split-second act of courage twists into a nightmare: Dave is blamed for a killing he did not commit and learns how quickly frontier justice can turn rough and careless. By the time he rides back to cattle country, the range he knew is changing fast. An oil boom has rolled in behind the drill rigs and promoters, bringing easy money, hard bargains, and a fresh breed of crook that plays by rules even meaner than the old ones. Caught between honest ranchers trying to hold their ground and a ruthless operator willing to buy, bully, or steal whatever stands in his way, Dave finds himself pulled into a dangerous fight over leases, water, and reputation. With old grudges flaring and new fortunes at stake, every trail seems to lead toward ambush. Dave must decide who to trust, how far he will go to clear his name, and whether a man can stay decent when the West he believed in is being rebuilt overnight. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:12:24) Chapter 02(00:21:11) Chapter 03(00:34:35) Chapter 04(00:42:58) Chapter 05(00:52:32) Chapter 06(01:05:32) Chapter 07(01:18:27) Chapter 08(01:27:28) Chapter 09(01:46:31) Chapter 10(02:03:24) Chapter 11(02:11:53) Chapter 12(02:20:19) Chapter 13(02:28:00) Chapter 14(02:33:53) Chapter 15(02:45:15) Chapter 16(03:00:35) Chapter 17(03:12:44) Chapter 18(03:19:37) Chapter 19(03:38:34) Chapter 20(03:45:04) Chapter 21(03:56:42) Chapter 22(04:10:01) Chapter 23(04:17:59) Chapter 24(04:38:43) Chapter 25(04:52:48) Chapter 26(05:11:54) Chapter 27(05:18:29) Chapter 28(05:27:58) Chapter 29(05:35:42) Chapter 30(05:42:16) Chapter 31(05:59:05) Chapter 32(06:07:38) Chapter 33(06:14:14) Chapter 34(06:25:30) Chapter 35(06:32:36) Chapter 36(06:52:40) Chapter 37(07:02:11) Chapter 38(07:09:18) Chapter 39(07:19:31) Chapter 40(07:30:50) Chapter 41(07:46:42) Chapter 42(07:56:29) Chapter 43(08:04:04) Chapter 44(08:14:35) Chapter 45 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Wilkie Collins audiobook. Genre: historyIn Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot, Wilkie Collins steps away from the drawing rooms and detective plots he would later make famous and invites listeners onto the open road. Writing as a curious, sharp-eyed traveler, Collins chronicles a walking tour through Cornwall in the mid-19th century, moving from coastal towns to mining districts, lonely moorland paths, and out-of-the-way villages that sit beyond the reach of the railway. Along the way he sketches vivid encounters with local people, inns and lodging houses, weather that can turn in an hour, and landscapes shaped as much by industry as by legend. His central preoccupation is the changing face of the region: ancient customs and stories set against modern travel, commerce, and the steady pull of the city. By blending practical observation with humor, social commentary, and a storyteller's instinct for scene and character, Collins turns an unhurried journey on foot into a portrait of Cornwall that feels immediate and alive. It is a travel book that rewards listeners who enjoy place, mood, and the pleasure of wandering with an intelligent guide. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:05:40) Chapter 02(00:11:25) Chapter 03(00:38:26) Chapter 04(01:23:55) Chapter 05(02:07:05) Chapter 06(02:21:49) Chapter 07(02:54:46) Chapter 08(03:21:04) Chapter 09(03:43:43) Chapter 10(04:19:21) Chapter 11(04:43:25) Chapter 12(05:09:42) Chapter 13(05:30:13) Chapter 14(06:00:30) Chapter 15(06:19:26) Chapter 16(06:35:32) Chapter 17(06:53:14) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Year with the Birds by W. Warde Fowler audiobook. Genre: scienceIn A Year with the Birds, Oxford scholar and naturalist W. Warde Fowler invites listeners into a patient, season-by-season apprenticeship in seeing. Beginning with brisk morning walks through Oxford's parks, riversides, and college gardens, Fowler trades the angler's rod for field-glass and discovers a different kind of sport: learning the habits, voices, and sudden appearances of everyday birds. As the months turn, he follows migration, winter gatherings, spring song, nesting, and the small dramas of feeding and weather, noting how city lanes, meadows, hedgerows, and woodland edges each shape what can be found. Holiday chapters carry the attention farther afield to the Alps, where altitude and light bring new species and new puzzles, before returning to the familiar life of a Midland village garden and railway cutting. Written to encourage beginners as much as delight seasoned watchers, the book blends close observation with quiet humor, gentle ethics, and literary reflection, including an excursion into the birds of Virgil. The result is a calm, richly detailed companion for anyone who wants to hear the year change through wings and song. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:03:59) Chapter 01(00:37:40) Chapter 02(01:12:19) Chapter 03(01:59:06) Chapter 04(02:32:27) Chapter 05(03:08:06) Chapter 06(03:43:49) Chapter 07 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Musings of a Chinese Mystic - Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu by Lionel Giles audiobook. Genre: philosophyMusings of a Chinese Mystic presents a clear, inviting gateway into the thought of Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi), one of the great voices of Taoist philosophy. In these carefully chosen passages, editor and translator Lionel Giles gathers the work's most memorable parables, dialogues, and whimsical anecdotes, revealing a mind that argues by laughter as much as by logic. Across stories of dreamers and butchers, sages and officials, Chuang Tzu questions the everyday certainties that govern ambition, reputation, and even our sense of self. What is truly useful? How do we know what we know? Where do rigid distinctions between right and wrong, success and failure, life and death begin to dissolve? With gentle irony and startling imagery, these selections explore the Tao as an underlying way of nature, urging a life of simplicity, spontaneity, and inner freedom. Giles' presentation emphasizes readability and reflection, making this short volume ideal for newcomers while still rewarding listeners who return to its pages as a companion for meditation on change, perspective, and the art of living lightly in a complicated world. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:22:08) Chapter 02(00:40:45) Chapter 03(00:48:00) Chapter 04(00:56:54) Chapter 05(01:00:54) Chapter 06(01:13:33) Chapter 07(01:22:54) Chapter 08(01:26:22) Chapter 09(01:37:37) Chapter 10(01:44:21) Chapter 11(01:49:42) Chapter 12(01:59:17) Chapter 13(02:22:14) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: philosophyIn A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx lays out a concentrated, foundational statement of the method and problems that will define his later economic writings. Written in the wake of revolutionary upheavals and amid rapid industrial change, the book argues that to understand politics, law, and culture you must begin with the material organization of society: how people produce, exchange, and reproduce the conditions of life. Marx introduces his theory of historical development, explaining how forms of property and production shape social classes, conflict, and the rise and fall of entire economic systems. Turning to the analysis of exchange and value, he investigates how commodities acquire social meaning in the market, why money emerges, and how economic categories that seem natural can conceal the specific social relations of capitalism. Along the way, Marx challenges the assumptions of classical political economy and sets a program for a deeper critique of modern society, emphasizing that ideas and institutions are bound to the realities of labor, production, and power. Both philosophical and analytical, this work serves as a rigorous entry point to Marx's critique of capitalism and a guide to the historical forces that move societies. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:18:38) Chapter 01(01:24:35) Chapter 02(01:56:09) Chapter 03(02:28:52) Chapter 04(02:57:44) Chapter 05(03:33:57) Chapter 06(03:58:11) Chapter 07(04:40:53) Chapter 08(05:21:25) Chapter 09(05:53:11) Chapter 10(06:05:10) Chapter 11(06:19:54) Chapter 12(07:15:28) Chapter 13(07:47:03) Chapter 14(08:04:01) Chapter 15(08:34:57) Chapter 16(08:59:43) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some Short Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: familySome Short Christmas Stories gathers six of Charles Dickens' most intimate seasonal pieces into one fireside-ready volume, each turning the sparkle of Christmas into a lens for memory, mercy, and the people society overlooks. In 'A Christmas Tree,' a narrator stands before a glittering tree and finds its candles lighting up the past, summoning childhood pleasures alongside the first shadows of growing up. 'What Christmas is as we Grow Older' follows the season through the years, asking what remains when youth fades and life adds losses as well as loves. The remaining tales shift into storytelling voices and sketches: a 'poor relation' endured as a holiday obligation, a child's perspective on adult sorrow, a schoolboy's yearning for home, and the quiet ache of 'Nobody,' a man so often ignored he begins to doubt his own place in the world. Linked by Dickens' mix of warmth, humor, and moral clarity, these stories circle a central question: can kindness, attention, and human fellowship transform cold rooms and colder hearts, even when time, poverty, and loneliness press in? Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:52:55) Chapter 02(01:07:37) Chapter 03(01:38:09) Chapter 04(01:50:44) Chapter 05(02:17:59) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Pickle For the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter audiobook. Genre: comedyFirst published in the early 1800s by self-made Newburyport merchant Timothy Dexter, A Pickle For the Knowing Ones is part memoir, part provocation, and part prank on the polite reading public. Dexter, an untrained writer with boundless confidence, sets out to prove his brilliance to the neighbors, businessmen, and gentlemen who mocked him, while also offering sharp, scattershot opinions on politics, religion, trade, and everyday behavior in the young United States. The result is a wildly unconventional narrative voice: boastful, defensive, funny, and strangely insightful, leaping from personal triumphs and grudges to public events and moral advice with little warning. As Dexter battles for recognition, he turns the book itself into a contest between author and audience, daring readers to keep up with his logic, his insults, and his self-mythologizing. Beneath the bravado is a vivid portrait of early American ambition and insecurity, where social status can matter as much as money, and where a man determined to be heard will invent his own rules of print to do it. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:13:57) Chapter 01(00:41:17) Chapter 02(01:08:47) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last Poems by Laurence Hope audiobook. Genre: poetryLast Poems gathers the final verse of Laurence Hope, the pen name of Adela Florence Nicolson, whose writing became known for its lyrical intensity and its imagined, sensual landscapes of British India. In this collection, the speaking voice moves through moonlit gardens, temple courts, and quiet interior rooms where memory and desire feel equally vivid. Across interconnected lyrics, Hope returns to recurring figures - the lover who waits, the beloved who is absent or unreachable, and the solitary observer caught between public duty and private longing. The central conflict is emotional rather than plot-driven: the poems wrestle with the pull between passion and restraint, between fleeting physical experience and the ache to preserve it in words. As the collection unfolds, the tone deepens from rapture into reflection, tracing how love can both exalt and exhaust, and how beauty can sharpen grief as much as it consoles. Read aloud, these poems work like intimate monologues, each one a moment of confession and atmosphere, shaped by musical phrasing, vivid imagery, and the tension of wanting what cannot be held for long. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:01:43) Chapter 01(00:05:33) Chapter 02(00:06:56) Chapter 03(00:14:38) Chapter 04(00:16:16) Chapter 05(00:19:34) Chapter 06(00:21:10) Chapter 07(00:22:18) Chapter 08(00:23:50) Chapter 09(00:26:48) Chapter 10(00:27:46) Chapter 11(00:29:31) Chapter 12(00:30:36) Chapter 13(00:35:06) Chapter 14(00:37:00) Chapter 15(00:41:35) Chapter 16(00:43:59) Chapter 17(00:46:10) Chapter 18(00:47:32) Chapter 19(00:52:48) Chapter 20(00:54:22) Chapter 21(00:58:21) Chapter 22(01:00:53) Chapter 23(01:02:17) Chapter 24(01:03:35) Chapter 25(01:05:56) Chapter 26(01:07:25) Chapter 27(01:08:38) Chapter 28(01:09:53) Chapter 29(01:15:51) Chapter 30(01:18:13) Chapter 31(01:20:40) Chapter 32(01:22:04) Chapter 33(01:24:24) Chapter 34(01:30:34) Chapter 35(01:33:09) Chapter 36(01:36:22) Chapter 37(01:37:24) Chapter 38(01:38:10) Chapter 39(01:39:13) Chapter 40(01:42:36) Chapter 41(01:44:37) Chapter 42(01:47:24) Chapter 43(01:52:45) Chapter 44(01:59:08) Chapter 45(02:06:38) Chapter 46(02:10:53) Chapter 47 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Automobile Girls at Newport by Laura Crane audiobook. Genre: adventurePublished in 1910, The Automobile Girls at Newport follows spirited sisters Barbara (Bab) and Mollie Thurston, whose hard-working family suddenly gets a rare chance to taste a different world. When their wealthy friend Ruth Stuart invites them to Newport, Rhode Island, the girls join Ruth, capable at the wheel of her motor car, along with lively Grace Carter and a sensible chaperone, Aunt Sallie, for a summer journey that promises seaside glamour and the famous parade of fashionable visitors. But the trip is not only about pretty dresses, grand houses, and tennis matches. Along the roads and in Newport's glittering crowds, the girls face mishaps, close calls, and unsettling hints that crime is brushing up against high society. As rumors of theft and suspicious strangers ripple through their holiday, Bab and Mollie must rely on quick thinking, courage, and the loyalty of their new circle of friends. Laura Dent Crane blends early automobile-era excitement with friendship, class contrasts, and a touch of debate about what young women can do and who they can become. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:11:39) Chapter 02(00:28:22) Chapter 03(00:39:17) Chapter 04(00:49:09) Chapter 05(01:02:36) Chapter 06(01:19:15) Chapter 07(01:34:14) Chapter 08(01:42:36) Chapter 09(01:56:11) Chapter 10(02:04:01) Chapter 11(02:15:27) Chapter 12(02:26:50) Chapter 13(02:38:17) Chapter 14(02:47:15) Chapter 15(02:58:29) Chapter 16(03:06:31) Chapter 17(03:17:41) Chapter 18(03:29:18) Chapter 19(03:44:50) Chapter 20(03:55:13) Chapter 21(04:09:19) Chapter 22(04:22:48) Chapter 23(04:30:28) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Black Flemings by Kathleen Norris audiobook. Genre: horrorOn a bleak New England shoreline, Wastewater Hall stands like a brooding memory - a brick mansion battered by salt wind, shuttered rooms, and decades of Fleming pride. When young David Fleming returns to the estate after years away, he finds the household unchanged on the surface and quietly poisoned underneath: his formidable Aunt Flora still rules with watchful eyes, old grievances still echo through the corridors, and the family name still carries a reputation for darkness. Soon Gabrielle, who once knew Wastewater as her only home, is drawn back as well, expecting familiarity but sensing something newly vicious in the house itself. As the cousins navigate inheritance, loyalty, and love, Gabrielle begins to question what is truly wrong at Wastewater - whether it is mere decay and family bitterness, or something more sinister rooted in the Flemings' past. With every locked door, half-finished confession, and uneasy night, the mansion tightens its grip, forcing Gabrielle and David to confront the secrets that keep the family bound to the cliffs. Kathleen Norris blends gothic atmosphere with intimate domestic drama, building dread from the slow pressure of history, reputation, and blood ties. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:22:52) Chapter 02(00:41:58) Chapter 03(01:07:24) Chapter 04(01:22:17) Chapter 05(01:54:47) Chapter 06(02:13:33) Chapter 07(02:45:38) Chapter 08(03:24:34) Chapter 09(03:50:34) Chapter 10(04:15:19) Chapter 11(04:49:26) Chapter 12(05:19:27) Chapter 13(05:54:11) Chapter 14(06:18:57) Chapter 15(06:45:20) Chapter 16(07:31:32) Chapter 17(07:58:38) Chapter 18(08:28:38) Chapter 19(09:03:14) Chapter 20(09:14:40) Chapter 21(09:46:07) Chapter 22(10:14:10) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices