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🟡 Free Audiobooks: Classic Books

Free Audiobook Library

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🟡 Free Audiobooks: Classic Books features free audiobooks, classic audiobooks, full audiobooks, full-length audiobooks, complete audiobook recordings, classic books, public domain books, public domain audiobooks, classic novels, classic literature, and famous works of world literature. Listen to complete classic audiobooks from some of the greatest authors in history, including Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain, Alexandre Dumas, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more. Episodes include mystery audiobooks, adventure audiobooks, science fiction audiobooks, gothic horror audiobooks, romance audiobooks, philosophy classics, historical fiction, children’s classics, timeless novels, and public domain stories. Whether you are looking for a free audiobook, a full audiobook, a classic audiobook, a public domain audiobook, a classic novel, or a complete classic book in audio form, Free Audiobooks: Classic Books gives you a simple audiobook library of timeless stories to stream anytime. Perfect for bedtime listening, relaxing, studying, long drives, quiet background listening, and discovering famous classics you may have missed. New free classic audiobooks are added regularly. 📚 Explore the complete Free Audiobook Library in one convenient place and help us keep classic audiobooks freely available: https://www.patreon.com/freeaudiobooklibrary Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/free-audiobooks-classic-books--7224393/support.

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  1. 🟡 Penguin Island (Full Audiobook) | Anatole France

    · 9 h 05 min · Episode 265

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The novel (original French title -- L'le des Pingouins) is a satire on human nature. The first publication was in 1908. Author: Anatole France Length: 9 hours 4 minutes…

  2. 🟡 Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Full Audiobook) | Howard Pyle

    · 11 h 01 min · Episode 277

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the medival era who, in modern versions of the legend, is famous for robbing…

  3. 🟡 This Side of Paradise (Full Audiobook) | F. Scott Fitzgerald

    · 8 h 57 min · Episode 267

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Genre: Published 1900 onward Chapters: 00:00 -…

  4. 🟡 Eve’s Diary (Full Audiobook) | Mark Twain

    · 38 min · Episode 261

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Eve's Diary is a humorous monologue about Eve's experiences at the dawn of creation. She is fascinated by every aspect of the new world around her and... Adam. Author: Mark…

  5. 🟡 Notes from the Underground (Full Audiobook) | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    · 5 h 07 min · Episode 263

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the absurdities and weakness of humans…

  6. 🟡 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Full Audiobook) | L. Frank Baum

    · 4 h 16 min · Episode 259

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz was the fourth of 14 Oz books written by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919). Author: L. Frank Baum Length: 4 hours 15 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure…

  7. 🟡 Northanger Abbey (Full Audiobook) | Jane Austen

    · 8 h 12 min · Episode 255

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many "horrid" gothic novels and would love…

  8. 🟡 Journey to the Interior of the Earth (Full Audiobook) | Jules Verne

    · 8 h 10 min · Episode 251

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Journey to the Interior of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). The story involves a…

  9. 🟡 Canterville Ghost (Full Audiobook) | Oscar Wilde

    · 1 h 23 min · Episode 249

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The American Minister and his family have bought the English stately home Canterville Chase, complete with the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville - blood-stains, clanking…

  10. 🟡 Romeo and Juliet (Full Audiobook) | William Shakespeare

    · 3 h 02 min · Episode 243

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare's plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history. It concerns the fate of two very young…

  11. 🟡 Call of the Wild (Full Audiobook) | Jack London

    · 3 h 24 min · Episode 231

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com In this novel (often mistakenly classified a children's book) the main protagonist Buck, a St. Bernard/Collie mix, is abducted and sold to a trainer of sled dogs in Alaska.…

  12. 🟡 Christmas Carol (Full Audiobook) | Charles Dickens

    · 3 h 15 min · Episode 223

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A classic tale of what comes to those whose hearts are hard. In a series of ghostly visits, Scrooge visits his happy past, sees the difficulties of the present, views a…

  13. 🟡 Anne of Avonlea (Full Audiobook) | Lucy Maud Montgomery

    · 8 h 48 min · Episode 225

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Following Anne of Green Gables, the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. Anne of Avonlea follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years…

  14. 🟡 Anne of Green Gables (Full Audiobook) | Lucy Maud Montgomery

    · 10 h 32 min · Episode 227

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic children's novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can't help but love. Despite her…

  15. 🟡 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Full Audiobook) | Lewis Carroll

    · 2 h 59 min · Episode 237

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com In this children's classic, a girl named Alice follows falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm full of talking creatures. She attends a never-ending tea party and…

  16. 🟡 Wind in the Willows (Full Audiobook) | Kenneth Grahame

    · 6 h 30 min · Episode 211

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure ... and as adventure pursues them. The chief characters - Mole,…

  17. 🟡 Anne of the Island (Full Audiobook) | Lucy Maud Montgomery

    · 7 h 52 min · Episode 233

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This is the continuing story of Anne Shirley and the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series. In it Anne attends Redmond College where she is studying for her BA.…

  18. 🟡 Art of War (Full Audiobook) | Sun Tzu

    · 1 h 12 min · Episode 213

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com "The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it…

  19. 🟡 Last of the Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757 (Remastered) (Full Audiobook) | James Fenimore Cooper

    · 15 h 26 min · Episode 217

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of from 500 to 1,500…

  20. 🟡 Odyssey (Full Audiobook) | Homer

    · 11 h 50 min · Episode 203

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly dated to between 800 and 600 BC.…

  21. 🟡 Emma (Full Audiobook) | Jane Austen

    · 18 h 03 min · Episode 209

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Sherry reads Jane Austen's sparkling comedy of manners with wit and vivacity, and brings the characters to life. Mr. Author: Jane Austen Length: 18 hours 2 minutes Genre:…

  22. 🟡 Death and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ (Full Audiobook) | St. John Chrysostom

    · 12 h 55 min · Episode 175

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Homilies 65 though 90 of St John Chrysostom's commentary on the Holy Gospel according to St Matthew, which include the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. -…

  23. 🟡 Early Lives of Dante (Full Audiobook) | Giovanni Boccaccio

    · 3 h 53 min · Episode 141

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This recording contains two early biographies of Dante, both written by notable Florentine literati. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 -1375) was an Italian poet, most famous for his…

  24. 🟡 Men of Zanzibar (Full Audiobook) | Richard Harding Davis

    · 1 h 18 min · Episode 137

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This is the story of Hemingway, who, after a hunting trip in Uganda, settles in Zanzibar for a while to live among the English-speaking expatriate community on that island.…

  25. 🟡 Monarchia (Full Audiobook) | Dante Alighieri

    · 3 h 47 min · Episode 125

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The De Monarchia is one of the main works by Dante Alighieri. It is a treatise on secular and religious power, and more specifically on the relationship between secular…

  26. 🟡 My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard (Full Audiobook) | Elizabeth Cooper

    · 5 h 02 min · Episode 121

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com "I hope that this book, based on letters shown me many years after they were written, will give a faint idea of the life of a Chinese lady. The story is told in two series…

  27. 🟡 Love’s Bitterest Cup (Full Audiobook) | E.D.E.N. Southworth

    · 8 h 29 min · Episode 157

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The sequel to "Her Mother's Secret". A wedding between Le and Odalite is rudely interrupted by Angus Anglesea, coming to claim his bride, or at least to keep her from…

  28. 🟡 Dove in the Eagle’s Nest (Full Audiobook) | Charlotte Mary Yonge

    · 11 h 21 min · Episode 133

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Christina is an ordinary girl who lives with her aunt and uncle. Life is normal until one day when her father appears and plans to take Christina away to live with him at a…

  29. 🟡 Wet Magic (Full Audiobook) | E. Nesbit

    · 5 h 48 min · Episode 147

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A book about children who find magic in every day life. and discover that mermen and mermaids actually have a whole underwater kingdom with Kings and Queens and of course…

  30. 🟡 Christie’s Old Organ (Full Audiobook) | Mrs. O. F. Walton

    · 2 h 21 min · Episode 149

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Christie is all alone in the world after his mother dies. He lives in a boarding house and every night creeps up the attic stairs to hear an old barrel organ play. Author:…

  31. 🟡 Mistress of the Inn (La locandiera) (Full Audiobook) | Carlo Goldoni

    · 1 h 36 min · Episode 123

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Mirandolina runs an inn in Florence alone with only the help of her loyal employee Fabricius, and all of her guests are in love with her. The wealthy but only newly…

  32. 🟡 Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth (Full Audiobook) | Arthur Hugh Clough

    · 19 min · Episode 155

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist…

  33. 🟡 Mother and Daughter (Full Audiobook) | Augusta Webster

    · 48 min · Episode 151

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Uncompleted at her death, Augusta Webster's posthumously published sonnet sequence Mother and Daughter celebrates the relationship between a mother and her only child. As…

  34. 🟡 In the Autumn Grass (Full Audiobook) | Hamlin Garland

    · 19 min · Episode 153

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com LibriVox volunteers take us out on the prairie among the wind and blue stem with readings of In the Autumn Grass by Hamlin Garland. This is the fortnightly poem for November…

  35. 🟡 Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3 (Full Audiobook) | Edgar Allan Poe

    · 11 h 30 min · Episode 109

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This, the third of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 6 of his short stories as well as Poe's only complete novel, <i>The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym</i>. This is…

  36. 🟡 Little Match Girl (Full Audiobook) | Hans Christian Andersen

    · 1 h 21 min · Episode 119

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This is a recording of seven immortal and delightful fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen. The Little Match Girl is of course the first, followed by The Swineherd,…

  37. 🟡 Lady Barbarina (Full Audiobook) | Henry James

    · 3 h 54 min · Episode 117

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to prop up the waning strength of the…

  38. 🟡 Titus: a comrade of the cross (Full Audiobook) | Florence Morse Kingsley

    · 6 h 44 min · Episode 115

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Titus: A Comrade of the cross is a book full of suspense and drama, but more importantly truth. It is about Titus, a young man living in the time of Christ. This is Titus: a…

  39. 🟡 Disagreeable Man (Full Audiobook) | W. S. Gilbert

    · 54 min · Episode 105

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of The Disagreeable Man by Sir W. S. This is Disagreeable Man by W. S. Gilbert. Author: W. S. Gilbert Length: 54 minutes Genre:…

  40. 🟡 Curse of Carne’s Hold (Full Audiobook) | G. A. Henty

    · 11 h 27 min · Episode 103

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com When Ronald Mervyn from Devonshire is falsely accused of murder he emigrates to South Africa. He takes part in the Kaffir war and during this time he rescues a family from…

  41. 🟡 Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems (Full Audiobook) | Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow

    · 1 h 59 min · Episode 111

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This is a volume of poems by Mary Ann Bigelow, who turned her historical research into a poem in "the Kings and Queens of England". This volume also contains a number of her…

  42. 🟡 Heart of Darkness (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Joseph Conrad

    · 4 h 39 min · Episode 101

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. This is Heart of…

  43. 🟡 Mr. Standfast (Full Audiobook) | John Buchan

    · 11 h 52 min · Episode 99

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, during World War I, it deals Brigadier-General…

  44. 🟡 King of Ireland’s Son (Full Audiobook) | Pdraic Colum

    · 5 h 57 min · Episode 97

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The King of Ireland's Son is a children's novel published in Ireland in 1916 written by Padraic Colum, and illustrated by Willy Pogany. It is the story of the eldest of the…

  45. 🟡 The Holy Bible in Modern English, 1 Kings-Ezekiel (Full Aud| Ferrar Fenton Bible

    · 14 h 41 min · Episode 95

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Work on the translation began in 1853 by a London businessman called Ferrar Fenton (1832-1920). The complete Bible was first published in 1903, though parts were published…

  46. 🟡 Summer (Alternate Reading) Edith Wharton

    · 5 h 42 min · Episode 93

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs to escape the claustrophobic…

  47. 🟡 Flower Garden: A Handbook of Practical Garden Lore (Full Audiobook) | Ida Dandridge Bennett

    · 6 h 26 min · Episode 91

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This book is a good reference on the perennial flower gardening and landscaping. It contains information on growing the plants from seed and explains how to grow and care…

  48. 🟡 Selection of Poems by Sir Walter Raleigh (Full Audiobook) | Sir Walter Raleigh

    · 34 min · Episode 89

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552 – 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. This is Selection of Poems by Sir Walter…

  49. 🟡 Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909-1922 (Full Audiobook) | Lucy Maud Montgomery

    · 10 h 36 min · Episode 87

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com L. M. This is Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909-1922 by Lucy Maud Montgomery — a timeless story of discovery and change. Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery Length: 10 hours…

  50. 🟡 Plastic Age (Full Audiobook) | Percy Marks

    · 9 h 18 min · Episode 85

    https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Plastic Age (1924) is a novel by Percy Marks, which tells the story of co-eds at a fictional college called Sanford. With contents that covered or implied hazing,…

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