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An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde ~ Full Audiobook [comedy] Apr 17, 2023

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An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde audiobook.

Genre: comedy

In the glittering drawing rooms of late-Victorian London, Sir Robert Chiltern seems to have everything: a brilliant political career, a spotless public reputation, and the devoted love of his wife, Lady Chiltern, who believes in honor without compromise. But their carefully composed world begins to tremble when Mrs. Cheveley, a clever and dangerous society woman with a talent for leverage, arrives with information that could ruin Sir Robert overnight. As whispers spread and alliances shift, Sir Robert must choose between protecting his position and telling the truth to the person whose opinion matters most. Caught in the middle is Lord Goring, a witty bachelor and close friend to the Chilterns, whose charm and apparent frivolity conceal a sharper sense of loyalty and strategy. With epigrams as sharp as daggers and manners that mask motives, Wilde turns social comedy into a biting examination of hypocrisy, ambition, and the price of moral perfection. As pressure mounts and secrets threaten to surface, the characters must confront what an 'ideal' person really is - and what it costs to maintain that illusion.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:57:44) Chapter 2

(01:53:15) Chapter 3

(02:38:58) Chapter 4

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He Can Who Thinks He Can by Orison Swett Marden ~ Full Audiobook [self help] Apr 17, 2023

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He Can Who Thinks He Can by Orison Swett Marden audiobook.

Genre: self help

In He Can Who Thinks He Can, motivational pioneer Orison Swett Marden makes a brisk, conviction-filled case that the turning point in any life is often a decision of belief. Drawing on vivid anecdotes, practical observations, and the optimistic spirit of early twentieth-century self-improvement, Marden argues that confidence, clear purpose, and persistent effort are not optional extras but the inner tools that shape opportunity. He explores how fear and self-doubt quietly limit ambition, how enthusiasm and courage can be trained like muscles, and why setbacks become either excuses or stepping-stones depending on the mindset behind them. Chapter by chapter, Marden urges listeners to cultivate disciplined habits, constructive thinking, and a resilient will, while warning against negative influences, aimless drifting, and the habit of expecting failure. More than a pep talk, this short classic offers a framework for strengthening character, setting higher standards, and acting with steady determination when circumstances are uncertain. It is a direct invitation to test the power of self-belief in work, relationships, and personal goals.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:19:50) Chapter 02

(00:30:53) Chapter 03

(00:46:11) Chapter 04

(01:05:04) Chapter 05

(01:26:41) Chapter 06

(01:41:55) Chapter 07

(02:03:07) Chapter 08

(02:18:16) Chapter 09

(02:31:32) Chapter 10

(02:48:31) Chapter 11

(03:10:16) Chapter 12

(03:25:38) Chapter 13

(03:40:16) Chapter 14

(03:55:11) Chapter 15

(04:11:29) Chapter 16

(04:20:45) Chapter 17

(04:34:56) Chapter 18

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The Four Million by O. Henry ~ Full Audiobook [comedy] Apr 14, 2023

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The Four Million by O. Henry audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Step into turn-of-the-century New York City through the sharp, affectionate eyes of O. Henry in The Four Million, a landmark collection of short stories that finds drama and wonder in ordinary lives. Across bustling streets, cramped flats, quiet boardinghouses, and glittering storefronts, clerks, shopgirls, artists, policemen, swindlers, dreamers, and lonely souls chase small fortunes and bigger hopes. With wit that can turn tender in a heartbeat, O. Henry sketches a city of chance encounters and hard choices, where pride, love, and sacrifice often hide behind everyday routines. From a young woman longing for beauty amid gray surroundings to strangers drawn together by misadventure, each tale builds toward a moral puzzle: what is a person worth when nobody is looking, and what do we owe one another in a crowded world? Threaded with humor, irony, and deep compassion, this collection celebrates the overlooked 'four million' New Yorkers and the surprising turns that can reshape a life in a single evening.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:16:46) Chapter 02

(00:29:37) Chapter 03

(00:42:53) Chapter 04

(00:55:44) Chapter 05

(01:10:14) Chapter 06

(01:22:59) Chapter 07

(01:38:56) Chapter 08

(01:49:57) Chapter 09

(02:04:44) Chapter 10

(02:16:51) Chapter 11

(02:27:24) Chapter 12

(02:38:50) Chapter 13

(02:52:56) Chapter 14

(03:07:27) Chapter 15

(03:24:42) Chapter 16

(03:35:49) Chapter 17

(03:51:18) Chapter 18

(04:06:21) Chapter 19

(04:21:04) Chapter 20

(04:30:40) Chapter 21

(04:38:22) Chapter 22

(04:53:34) Chapter 23

(05:02:00) Chapter 24

(05:18:06) Chapter 25

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The Hollow Needle - Further Adventures of Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Apr 14, 2023

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The Hollow Needle - Further Adventures of Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc audiobook.

Genre: mystery

A daring burglary at the chateau of Ambrumesy leaves more behind than missing jewels: it sparks a riddle that seems to reach back through centuries of French history. As the brilliant and elusive gentleman-thief Arsene Lupin circles the case with charm, audacity, and a knack for vanishing at the worst possible moment, an unexpected rival steps onto the stage - Isidore Beautrelet, a young detective whose quick mind and stubborn sense of logic refuse to be dazzled by Lupin's theatrics. With Inspector Ganimard and the authorities always a step behind, Beautrelet follows a trail of coded messages, strange coincidences, and carefully staged deceptions that point toward a legendary secret known as the Hollow Needle. The hunt sweeps from aristocratic drawing rooms to windswept coastlines, where every clue could be a trap and every ally could be an enemy in disguise. Blending cat-and-mouse suspense with playful wit, The Hollow Needle pits intellect against audacity in a race to uncover a treasure that could change everything - if either pursuer can survive the twists of Lupin's game.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:43:07) Chapter 2

(01:37:07) Chapter 3

(02:17:01) Chapter 4

(03:07:02) Chapter 5

(03:38:15) Chapter 6

(04:12:08) Chapter 7

(04:59:26) Chapter 8

(05:31:28) Chapter 9

(06:12:21) Chapter 10

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The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Apr 14, 2023

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The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart audiobook.

Genre: mystery

Mary Roberts Rinehart -- 'America's Agatha Christie,' as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful doctor, who in the course of events becomes engaged to Elizabeth Wheeler. But there is a mystery about his past, and he thinks himself honor-bound to unravel it before giving himself to her in marriage. In particular, a shock of undetermined origin has wiped out his memory prior to roughly the last decade. Rinehart, who presumably had been reading, or reading about, the then popular Sigmund Freud, plays on what today is called 'repressed memory,' as she takes Dick into his past, and into the dangers that, unknown to him, lurk there. Is she correct about the behavior of memory? Who knows? After all, this is not a clinical treatise, but a work of fiction, one of the thrillers that made her such a popular writer of the earlier twentieth century.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:18:08) Chapter 02

(00:29:44) Chapter 03

(00:52:36) Chapter 04

(00:59:03) Chapter 05

(01:08:54) Chapter 06

(01:16:36) Chapter 07

(01:31:52) Chapter 08

(01:41:27) Chapter 09

(01:48:48) Chapter 10

(01:56:33) Chapter 11

(02:18:31) Chapter 12

(02:31:25) Chapter 13

(02:54:53) Chapter 14

(03:11:09) Chapter 15

(03:24:01) Chapter 16

(03:40:37) Chapter 17

(03:49:09) Chapter 18

(03:58:50) Chapter 19

(04:09:14) Chapter 20

(04:17:55) Chapter 21

(04:32:19) Chapter 22

(04:48:28) Chapter 23

(05:03:02) Chapter 24

(05:21:15) Chapter 25

(05:41:06) Chapter 26

(05:55:00) Chapter 27

(06:10:31) Chapter 28

(06:25:10) Chapter 29

(06:36:04) Chapter 30

(06:47:08) Chapter 31

(07:04:05) Chapter 32

(07:18:41) Chapter 33

(07:31:59) Chapter 34

(07:47:08) Chapter 35

(08:05:48) Chapter 36

(08:21:28) Chapter 37

(08:30:36) Chapter 38

(08:52:01) Chapter 39

(09:13:32) Chapter 40

(09:34:17) Chapter 41

(09:59:45) Chapter 42

(10:17:52) Chapter 43

(10:23:54) Chapter 44

(10:35:28) Chapter 45

(10:52:30) Chapter 46

(11:01:47) Chapter 47

(11:21:11) Chapter 48

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The People's Idea of God by Mary Baker Eddy ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Apr 14, 2023

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The People's Idea of God by Mary Baker Eddy audiobook.

Genre: religion

In The People's Idea of God: Its Effect on Health and Christianity, Mary Baker Eddy presents a compact, provocative sermon that asks a practical question: what happens to human life when our concept of God is shaped by fear, materialism, and limitation? Speaking to an audience wrestling with traditional theology and modern medicine, Eddy argues that a society's view of Deity quietly governs its morals, its worship, and even its expectations about sickness and healing. She challenges the notion of God as a finite personal ruler and recasts God as divine Principle - Life, Truth, and Love - urging listeners to trade sense-bound assumptions for a more spiritual understanding of existence. Moving between Scripture, moral reasoning, and pointed critique of religious custom, Eddy links spiritual reform with inner purification: baptism as transformed thought, repentance as the washing away of motives for sin, and faith as reliance on Spirit rather than matter. The result is a passionate call to reexamine first principles and to let a higher idea of God reshape how we live, pray, and seek wholeness.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy] Apr 13, 2023

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

First published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty is a foundational work of political philosophy that asks a deceptively simple question: when, if ever, is it right for society or the state to limit an individual's freedom? Mill argues that liberty is not only a personal good but a public necessity, essential to progress, truth-seeking, and human flourishing. Moving from principles to practical tests, he introduces his famous harm principle, insisting that coercion is justified only to prevent harm to others - not to enforce morality, tradition, or majority preference. Along the way, Mill examines the dangers of social pressure and conformity, warning that public opinion can be as oppressive as law. He defends freedom of thought and speech as the engine of intellectual life, explores individuality as a vital ingredient of well-being, and considers the limits of authority in society. Clear, forceful, and provocative, this short book invites listeners into an ongoing debate about rights, responsibility, tolerance, and the boundaries of power in a free society.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:44:57) Chapter 2

(01:37:36) Chapter 3

(02:38:25) Chapter 4

(03:27:33) Chapter 5

(04:17:51) Chapter 6

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Love and Freindship by Jane Austen ~ Full Audiobook [comedy] Apr 13, 2023

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Love and Freindship by Jane Austen audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear even from the subtitle, 'Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love,' which neatly undercuts the title.

Written in epistolary form, it resembles a fairy tale as much as anything else, featuring wild coincidences and turns of fortune, but Austen is determined to lampoon the conventions of romantic stories, right down to the utter failure of romantic fainting spells, which always turn out dreadfully for the female characters.

In this story one can see the development of Austen's sharp wit and disdain for romantic sensibility, so characteristic of her later novels.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:28:06) Chapter 2

(00:50:59) Chapter 3

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Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John H. Haaren ~ Full Audiobook [history] Apr 13, 2023

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Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John H. Haaren audiobook.

Genre: history

Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John H. Haaren (with A. B. Poland) introduces the medieval world through brisk, story-driven biographies meant to make history feel personal and vivid. Beginning with the legends and beliefs that shaped early European peoples, the book quickly moves into the stormy centuries after Rome's power broke, when Goths, Vandals, Huns, Franks, and Vikings fought for kingdoms and identity. Across a sequence of self-contained chapters, listeners meet rulers, warriors, reformers, and adventurers whose choices helped steer Europe (and its neighbors) toward the modern age: Alaric and Attila on the move, Justinian building an empire, Mohammed reshaping faith and politics, Charlemagne forging a new order, William the Conqueror remaking England, and later figures like Marco Polo, Edward the Black Prince, Joan of Arc, and Gutenberg. Each life becomes a window into larger forces - invasion and nation-building, the pull of religion, the code of chivalry, and the spread of ideas - as the medieval centuries emerge not as a 'dark age,' but as a turning point filled with decisive personalities and hard-won change.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:04:05) Chapter 01

(00:15:29) Chapter 02

(00:28:37) Chapter 03

(00:37:33) Chapter 04

(00:47:31) Chapter 05

(00:58:26) Chapter 06

(01:05:48) Chapter 07

(01:16:24) Chapter 08

(01:26:27) Chapter 09

(01:39:01) Chapter 10

(01:49:30) Chapter 11

(01:58:44) Chapter 12

(02:05:05) Chapter 13

(02:11:03) Chapter 14

(02:21:23) Chapter 15

(02:28:16) Chapter 16

(02:34:07) Chapter 17

(02:38:20) Chapter 18

(02:46:26) Chapter 19

(02:51:01) Chapter 20

(02:57:57) Chapter 21

(03:05:03) Chapter 22

(03:10:57) Chapter 23

(03:23:50) Chapter 24

(03:31:04) Chapter 25

(03:38:59) Chapter 26

(03:46:46) Chapter 27

(03:55:50) Chapter 28

(04:02:45) Chapter 29

(04:07:51) Chapter 30

(04:15:43) Chapter 31

(04:24:01) Chapter 32

(04:30:51) Chapter 33

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The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper ~ Full Audiobook [history] Apr 12, 2023

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The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper audiobook.

Genre: history

Set in the tense borderlands of the American Revolution, The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground follows the dangerous uncertainty of Westchester County, New York, where farms and villages sit between British-occupied New York City and the American lines. When the well-born Henry Wharton is captured under suspicious circumstances, his fate becomes entangled with a shadowy local peddler named Harvey Birch, a man widely branded as a traitor and informer. As patrols tighten and loyalties are tested, Birch moves through taverns, wooded byways, and secret meetings, trading in rumors and coded messages while trying to stay one step ahead of both sides. Around him, the Wharton family struggles to navigate honor, romance, and survival as accusations mount and violence threatens to erupt at any moment. With cavalry officer Major Dunwoodie, the shrewd and ruthless Captain Lawton, and whispers of Washington's unseen hand, James Fenimore Cooper builds a world where appearances deceive and the cost of service can be paid in reputation as well as blood. The result is a gripping portrait of espionage, identity, and moral courage in wartime America.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:33:58) Chapter 2

(00:46:52) Chapter 01

(01:18:29) Chapter 02

(01:42:04) Chapter 03

(02:13:52) Chapter 04

(02:50:34) Chapter 05

(03:16:13) Chapter 06

(03:51:44) Chapter 07

(04:31:37) Chapter 08

(05:04:35) Chapter 09

(05:30:44) Chapter 10

(06:02:50) Chapter 11

(06:26:14) Chapter 12

(06:45:10) Chapter 13

(07:10:07) Chapter 14

(07:33:23) Chapter 15

(07:45:47) Chapter 16

(08:11:29) Chapter 17

(08:26:05) Chapter 18

(08:47:25) Chapter 19

(09:15:25) Chapter 20

(09:43:32) Chapter 21

(10:25:18) Chapter 22

(11:07:01) Chapter 23

(11:35:53) Chapter 24

(12:05:21) Chapter 25

(12:22:41) Chapter 26

(12:53:51) Chapter 27

(13:21:44) Chapter 28

(14:00:01) Chapter 29

(14:26:10) Chapter 30

(14:59:00) Chapter 31

(15:18:19) Chapter 32

(15:50:18) Chapter 33

(16:13:10) Chapter 34

(16:29:24) Chapter 35

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