Classic Audiobook Collection

Donal Grant by George MacDonald audiobook. Genre: drama In the rugged shadow of Scotland's hills, Donal Grant leaves the life he knows behind and accepts a position as a tutor in the town of Auchars - a step that draws him into a great house where wealth, pride, and long-guarded wrongs press in on every side. Donal is not a polished hero of society but a young man of plain speech, hard-won faith, and unbending conscience, and those qualities quickly unsettle the household he is meant to serve. At the center stands Lady Arctura, a proud, lonely heiress shaped by family expectations and the influence of those who claim to know what is best for her. Around her gather figures who trade in half-truths and quiet control, while the ancient Castle Graham broods nearby with its locked spaces, strange music, and stories that refuse to stay buried. As Donal grows closer to Arctura, he must navigate class prejudice, spiritual deception, and the question of whether goodness can withstand a darkness that wears a respectable face. Part gothic mystery and part moral drama, Donal Grant explores truth-telling, compassion, and the cost of choosing the light when it threatens everything you hoped to keep. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:18:01) Chapter 02 (00:28:30) Chapter 03 (00:35:39) Chapter 04 (00:43:53) Chapter 05 (00:53:11) Chapter 06 (01:10:21) Chapter 07 (01:24:36) Chapter 08 (01:31:24) Chapter 09 (01:38:09) Chapter 10 (01:42:18) Chapter 11 (01:55:47) Chapter 12 (02:06:21) Chapter 13 (02:16:30) Chapter 14 (02:30:51) Chapter 15 (02:37:40) Chapter 16 (02:54:51) Chapter 17 (03:12:07) Chapter 18 (03:36:34) Chapter 19 (03:46:05) Chapter 20 (03:52:05) Chapter 21 (03:57:10) Chapter 22 (04:05:20) Chapter 23 (04:20:51) Chapter 24 (04:41:49) Chapter 25 (04:51:21) Chapter 26 (05:09:12) Chapter 27 (05:21:15) Chapter 28 (05:32:11) Chapter 29 (05:38:18) Chapter 30 (05:56:39) Chapter 31 (06:12:07) Chapter 32 (06:19:13) Chapter 33 (06:40:17) Chapter 34 (06:53:56) Chapter 35 (07:06:10) Chapter 36 (07:14:19) Chapter 37 (07:19:01) Chapter 38 (07:33:18) Chapter 39 (07:48:03) Chapter 40 (08:00:32) Chapter 41 (08:29:11) Chapter 42 (08:35:58) Chapter 43 (08:44:16) Chapter 44 (08:51:27) Chapter 45 (09:12:07) Chapter 46 (09:28:38) Chapter 47 (09:39:01) Chapter 48 (09:47:26) Chapter 49 (09:56:48) Chapter 50 (10:11:04) Chapter 51 (10:18:23) Chapter 52 (10:32:31) Chapter 53 (10:38:29) Chapter 54 (10:45:04) Chapter 55 (10:54:10) Chapter 56 (11:07:42) Chapter 57 (11:43:20) Chapter 58 (12:09:25) Chapter 59 (12:15:24) Chapter 60 (12:27:55) Chapter 61 (12:38:38) Chapter 62 (12:48:05) Chapter 63 (12:54:24) Chapter 64 (13:01:16) Chapter 65 (13:09:13) Chapter 66 (13:17:12) Chapter 67 (13:35:38) Chapter 68 (13:41:38) Chapter 69 (13:48:43) Chapter 70 (13:57:47) Chapter 71 (14:03:11) Chapter 72 (14:08:53) Chapter 73 (14:18:10) Chapter 74 (14:23:25) Chapter 75 (14:30:04) Chapter 76 (14:34:38) Chapter 77 (14:44:40) Chapter 78 (15:08:50) Chapter 79 (15:23:56) Chapter 80 (15:34:41) Chapter 81 (15:43:41) Chapter 82 (15:48:24) Chapter 83 (15:59:43) Chapter 84 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Buffalo Ran by George Bird Grinnell audiobook. Genre: biography Told in the plain, direct voice of its young narrator, When Buffalo Ran follows Wikis, a Plains Indian boy growing up in the mid-1800s, when buffalo still covered the prairie and a small camp of families could live by the seasons, the hunt, and the old teachings. Wikis learns what it means to belong - to listen to elders, to help his mother, to master a bow, to ride, and to measure himself by courage, generosity, and self-control. But the world he is born into is not peaceful. Raids and sudden violence can shatter an ordinary day, and Wikis must carry early memories of fear while he is still learning how to be brave. As he grows, he is drawn deeper into the demanding rhythms of buffalo life: hard travel, close attention to animals and weather, and the discipline of living together when every choice affects the whole camp. Along the way, Grinnell weaves in ceremonies, childhood games that mirror adult responsibilities, and the fierce pride of a people determined to keep their ways alive as everything around them begins to change. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:58) Chapter 01 (00:15:21) Chapter 02 (00:23:32) Chapter 03 (00:35:37) Chapter 04 (00:51:17) Chapter 05 (01:10:20) Chapter 06 (01:24:09) Chapter 07 (01:42:30) Chapter 08 (01:51:10) Chapter 09 (02:05:22) Chapter 10 (02:21:32) Chapter 11 (02:41:57) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brewsters Millions by George Barr McCutcheon audiobook. Genre: comedy When young Montgomery Brewster, a down-on-his-luck New Yorker with a stubborn sense of honor, learns he has been named in an extraordinary will, it feels like a miracle. But the legacy comes with a maddening condition: before he can claim a vast fortune, he must first spend a smaller fortune in a limited time, and he must do it under strict rules that prevent easy loopholes. Suddenly Brewster is racing the calendar, hounded by lawyers, watched by skeptics, and tempted by strangers who want a piece of the spectacle. As he tries to burn through money without falling into scandal or outright crime, every impulsive purchase creates new problems: friendships are tested, motives are questioned, and romance becomes tangled with suspicion. George Barr McCutcheon turns Brewster's predicament into a sharp, fast-moving satire about greed, appearances, and the strange ways society treats wealth. Is it possible to spend extravagantly and still keep your integrity intact - and what does money really reveal about the people closest to you? Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:03) Chapter 02 (00:16:45) Chapter 03 (00:28:51) Chapter 04 (00:42:07) Chapter 05 (01:01:01) Chapter 06 (01:18:48) Chapter 07 (01:26:04) Chapter 08 (01:35:25) Chapter 09 (01:45:14) Chapter 10 (01:57:40) Chapter 11 (02:13:18) Chapter 12 (02:23:36) Chapter 13 (02:34:28) Chapter 14 (02:47:05) Chapter 15 (03:03:01) Chapter 16 (03:17:23) Chapter 17 (03:27:41) Chapter 18 (03:38:17) Chapter 19 (03:46:57) Chapter 20 (04:02:52) Chapter 21 (04:14:55) Chapter 22 (04:27:37) Chapter 23 (04:39:23) Chapter 24 (04:56:23) Chapter 25 (05:07:31) Chapter 26 (05:18:41) Chapter 27 (05:32:16) Chapter 28 (05:44:21) Chapter 29 (05:57:12) Chapter 30 (06:08:12) Chapter 31 (06:20:44) Chapter 32 (06:30:35) Chapter 33 (06:42:22) Chapter 34 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the Future of Our Educational Institutions by Friedrich Nietzsche audiobook. Genre: philosophy In On the Future of Our Educational Institutions, Friedrich Nietzsche delivers a provocative diagnosis of what education is becoming and what it ought to be. Framed as a sequence of public lectures, the work follows a young listener drawn into an intense conversation about the fate of schools, universities, and culture itself. Nietzsche argues that modern education is being pulled in two dangerous directions at once: toward mass expansion that prizes usefulness and quick credentials, and toward narrow specialization that produces experts without inner cultivation. Against these trends, he defends Bildung - the slow formation of character, taste, and intellectual integrity - and insists that great teachers, serious language study, and a living relationship to art and classical learning are not luxuries but the conditions for genuine culture. Along the way, he questions who education should serve, what kind of human being it should shape, and how institutions can resist the pressures of the state, the market, and fashionable opinion. Urgent, satirical, and fiercely idealistic, Nietzsche's lectures remain a bracing challenge to anyone who cares about what learning is for. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:07:45) Chapter 02 (00:21:11) Chapter 03 (01:17:26) Chapter 04 (02:16:00) Chapter 05 (03:04:30) Chapter 06 (03:59:40) Chapter 07 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Nietzsche audiobook. Genre: philosophy In The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism, Friedrich Nietzsche launches a bold investigation into the origins of Greek tragedy and what it reveals about art, culture, and the human need to find meaning in suffering. Writing with the urgency of a young classical scholar turning into a philosopher, Nietzsche argues that the greatest works of Greek drama arose from a tense partnership between two artistic drives: the Apollonian, associated with form, clarity, and dreamlike beauty, and the Dionysian, associated with ecstasy, music, intoxication, and the dissolution of the individual into a larger life-force. Through this lens he revisits the world of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the role of chorus and myth, and the cultural turning point he sees in Socrates and the rise of rational optimism. Nietzsche also draws a provocative line from ancient Athens to modern Europe, asking whether modern culture has lost the capacity for tragic wisdom and how music, especially the spirit of drama and opera, might restore it. Part cultural diagnosis and part manifesto, this book challenges listeners to reconsider why we create art and what it costs to face reality without illusions. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:44:40) Chapter 01 (01:21:05) Chapter 02 (01:24:20) Chapter 03 (01:38:55) Chapter 04 (01:49:35) Chapter 05 (02:00:20) Chapter 06 (02:12:31) Chapter 07 (02:30:51) Chapter 08 (02:42:51) Chapter 09 (02:59:06) Chapter 10 (03:19:46) Chapter 11 (03:38:11) Chapter 12 (03:49:06) Chapter 13 (04:06:11) Chapter 14 (04:24:21) Chapter 15 (04:34:46) Chapter 16 (04:48:41) Chapter 17 (05:04:56) Chapter 18 (05:23:26) Chapter 19 (05:41:11) Chapter 20 (05:54:23) Chapter 21 (06:18:53) Chapter 22 (06:27:43) Chapter 23 (06:49:08) Chapter 24 (07:02:48) Chapter 25 (07:16:28) Chapter 26 (07:30:23) Chapter 27 (07:35:30) Chapter 28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices