All audiobooks

Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures

Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures is a collections of rhymes for children portraying exaggerated consequences for children misbehavior. Interesting to note that the Heinrich Hoffmann, a German psychiatrist has written & illustrated this book while he could not get an impressive story book for his children from book stores...

De Profundis

by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde's controversial relationship with his intimate friend Lord Alfred Douglas lead to his imprisonment for indecent behavior. He has written De Profundis as a letter addressing to Alfred, while he remained in prison. Written in two parts, first part narrates their relationship and good times; the second Part narrates Wilde's spiritual devel..

The Symposium

by Plato

The Symposium is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with the genealogy, nature and purpose of love, on another level the book deals with the topic of knowledge, specifically how does one know what one knows. The topic of love is taken up in the form of a group of speeches, given by a group of m..

The Ten Books on Architecture

by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

One of the oldest books on Architecture to survive its text, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio's Ten Books on Architecture is a treatise to state the qualities of architecture. The author specifies any architecture should adhere to three qualities namely Useful, Beautiful and Solid. Architecture should be built from natural sources similar to nests built by ..

Ivanhoe: A Romance

by Sir Walter Scott

Walter Scott's Ivanhoe is a historical romance novel set during the period the Saxon families were losing ground and Normans were overpowering. Cedric of Ivanhoe disowns his son Wilfred for his support to Norman King Richard I. The protagonist Wilfred falls in love with Cedric's ward Rowena, while his father had plans to marry him to beautiful Rebe..

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

by Jules Verne

Professor Lidenbrock decodes a manuscript which states a volcanic passage in Iceland would lead to center of the earth. Lidenbrock starts A Journey to the Center of the Earth along with his shaky nephew Axel and an Iceland hunter Hans Bjelke. The trio encounters many dangerous adventures including prehistoric animals and strange creatures. After th..

Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan of the Apes is jungle fiction novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs which has opened the way for Burroughs' creation of fictitious hero Tarzan and the series of novels. John Clayton, an English boy orphaned on birth, has been under motherly care from a Tribe named Kala. Kala names him as Tarzan and he is growing without knowing he is of huma..

King Arthur and His Knights

by Maude L. Radford Warren

King Arthur and His Knights is a collection of stories for children which narrates the English legend's life with a sequence of stories relating other legends. Maude L. Radford Warren claims to have filled the gap of Thomas Malory's version of King Arthur which are loosely connected stories and miss the connecting elements. This collection is a com..