Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1809-1837: Lincoln's Frontier Background Shapes the Future President

Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1837-1842: A Righteous Lawyer Deals With an Unhappy Marriage

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Michael Burlingame
• Narrated By Sean Pratt
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Lincoln's studies lead to him becoming a successful lawyer in Illinois. He is often published anonymously during the political campaign of 1837 and his works include detailed rebuttals against opposing politicians. As a pivotal member of the Whig party, Lincoln openly begins to condemn mob violence and lynching, and begins to publicly denounce slavery in his speeches. This chapter details much of the wrongdoings and disorderly conduct that mark the political landscape of the time.

Abraham Lincoln: A Life, Volume One

• UNABRIDGED (49 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Michael Burlingame
• Narrated By Sean Pratt

In the first multivolume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce our current understanding of America's 16th president.

Abraham Lincoln: A Life, Volume Two

• UNABRIDGED (53 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Michael Burlingame
• Narrated By Sean Pratt

In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's presidency and the trials of the Civil War. He supplies fascinating details on the crisis over Fort Sumter and the relentless office seekers who plagued Lincoln. He introduces listeners to the president's battles with hostile newspaper editors and his quarrels with incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also interprets Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd, the untimely death of his son, Willie, to disease in 1862, and his recurrent anguish over the enormous human costs of the war.

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years

• UNABRIDGED (44 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Carl Sandburg
• Narrated By Arthur Morey

Originally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg’s generation. He later distilled this monumental work into one volume that critics and readers alike consider his greatest work of nonfiction, as well as the most distinguished, authoritative biography of Lincoln ever published.

Growing up in an Illinois prairie town, Sandburg listened to stories of old-timers who had known Lincoln. By the time this single-volume edition was competed, he had spent a lifetime studying, researching, and writing about our 16th president.

Napoleon: A Life

• UNABRIDGED (32 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Andrew Roberts
• Narrated By John Lee
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Andrew Roberts' Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon's thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine.

Don Quixote: Translated by Edith Grossman

• UNABRIDGED (39 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman (translator)
• Narrated By George Guidall

Sixteenth-century Spanish gentleman Don Quixote, fed by his own delusional fantasies, takes to the road in search of chivalrous adventures. But his quest leads to more trouble than triumph. At once humorous, romantic, and sad, Don Quixote is a literary landmark. This fresh edition, by award-winning translator Edith Grossman, brings the tale to life as never before.

Washington: A Life

• UNABRIDGED (41 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Ron Chernow
• Narrated By Scott Brick

In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. This crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian War, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president.

Walden: Life in the Woods

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Henry David Thoreau
• Narrated By Alec Sand
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Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, Walden vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts.

The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

• UNABRIDGED (40 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Robert A. Caro
• Narrated By Grover Gardner
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This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered.

David Copperfield [Audible]

• UNABRIDGED (36 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Charles Dickens
• Narrated By Richard Armitage
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Between his work on the 2014 Audible Audiobook of the Year, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel, and his performance of Classic Love Poems, narrator Richard Armitage (The Hobbit, Hannibal) has quickly become a listener favorite. Now, in this defining performance of Charles Dickens' classic David Copperfield, Armitage lends his unique voice and interpretation, truly inhabiting each character and bringing real energy to the life of one of Dickens' most famous characters.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Walter M. Miller
• Narrated By Tom Weiner

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of 20th-century literature—a chilling and still-provocative look at a postapocalyptic future.

The Guns of August

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Barbara W. Tuchman
• Narrated By Nadia May
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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of Kings and Kaisers and Czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed...and how horrible it became.