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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Mysterious Island is Jules Verne's 1874 novel of five castaways who turn a bare Pacific rock into a working nineteenth-century civilisation — and then discover the rock was never as empty as it looked. It begins in the air. During the American...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Treasure Island is Robert Louis Stevenson's founding adventure novel, narrated by Jim Hawkins, the son of an innkeeper on the Devon coast. When the sinister old sea-dog Billy Bones takes a room at the Admiral Benbow and dies of a stroke, Jim opens his...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Jeff Ramsden is driving a hired Ford up the Geiger Trail above Virginia City when Joan Angela Leich comes down the grade with her lights out and shoves him over the edge. That collision is the least of it: Joan Angela's ranch has a flaw in its title...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Lost Continent is C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne's 1900 novel of Atlantis, and the one that gave the lost island its most durable English voice — a first-person memoir written by the man who watched it sink. It opens in the dry present. Two Englishmen, a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Tarzan and the Lost Empire is Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1929 Tarzan novel, and the one that takes the ape-man furthest from the jungle he is known for — into a Roman empire that never fell. It begins with a young man's errand. Erich von Harben, son of...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Talbot Mundy's The Caves of Terror — first published as "The Gray Mahatma" in Adventure, 10 November 1922 — is the sixth book in his Yasmini series, and it is told by Ramsden, the narrator of Mundy's Ramsden and King adventures. Meldrum Strange, the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Land That Time Forgot is Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1918 novel of a lost continent, the first book of the Caspak trilogy and one of the earliest sustained treatments of a land where evolution itself has never finished. It opens as a manuscript found in...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Out of Time's Abyss is Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1918 novel, the third and final book of the Caspak trilogy that began with At the Earth's Core and continued in The Land That Time Forgot. Where the earlier books carried a whole expedition into the walled...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The People That Time Forgot is Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1918 novel, the second book of the Caspak trilogy that opened with The Land That Time Forgot and closed with Out of Time's Abyss. Where the first book took a whole expedition into the walled island...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A cipher, a crater, and a sea under the world. Professor Otto Liedenbrock, a mineralogist of the Johannæum in Hamburg, buys a rune-scrawled manuscript of Snorri Sturluson and finds a slip of parchment inside it signed by Arne Saknussemm, a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. King Solomon's Mines is the classic adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard that gave birth to the "lost world" genre, narrated in the first person by the elephant-hunter Allan Quatermain. In the English countryside Quatermain meets Sir Henry Curtis and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Allan Quatermain is H. Rider Haggard's sequel to King Solomon's Mines, and the book in which he deliberately set out to kill his own hero. It opens with the old hunter mourning the death of his only son, a young doctor just beginning a promising career...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. At the Earth's Core is Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1914 novel of the hollow world, the first book of the Pellucidar series and one of the founding texts of the "hollow earth" strain in science fiction. It is told by David Innes, a young American who has paid...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. She is H. Rider Haggard's most famous novel after King Solomon's Mines, and the book that fixed the image of the deathless woman-queen in the English imagination. It opens in a Cambridge study, where a poor, ugly, hen-pecked lecturer named Ludwig Horace...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Lost World is Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the Amazonian plateau, and the book that gave Professor Challenger to the world. It opens in London with a young Irish reporter, Edward Malone, trying to impress the woman he loves by doing something...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Paradise Mystery is a twenty-seven-chapter detective novel by J. S. Fletcher, set in the old cathedral city of Wrychester. One morning a visitor to the town, a man who has registered at the Mitre Hotel under the name of John Braden, is found dead at...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Borough Treasurer is a thirty-one-chapter mystery by J. S. Fletcher, first published in 1907, set in the Yorkshire manufacturing town of Highmarket. One dark winter night, when the town's business is winding down, an elderly man named Kitely is...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. At Friocksheim, the ancient English country seat of the Dangerfields, a stolen heirloom bracelet—the legendary Talisman—returns on its own, as family lore promises. Engineer Conway Westenhanger, house guest and amateur sleuth, is drawn into a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman (1901; published in the United States as The Black Mask) continues the escapades of A. J. Raffles, the gentleman cracksman, and his loyal accomplice Harry "Bunny" Manders, told in the first person by...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. **Persuasion**, Jane Austen's final completed novel, is her most tender and mature work. Eight years ago, Anne Elliot was persuaded to break her engagement with the young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. Now twenty-seven and faded in the eyes of her...