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A Room With A View by E. M. Forster ~ Full Audiobook [romance] Aug 10, 2022

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A Room With A View by E. M. Forster audiobook.

Genre: romance

When young Lucy Honeychurch travels to Florence with her cautious cousin and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett, she expects a tasteful tour of art, manners, and proper society. Instead, a simple mix-up at their pension introduces Lucy to the unconventional Emersons - the candid, emotionally perceptive Mr. Emerson and his impulsive son George - whose openness challenges everything Lucy has been taught to value. As the citys beauty stirs new feelings, Lucy finds herself caught between the safety of convention and the unsettling pull of honesty and passion. Back in England, the pressure to be agreeable and respectable closes in: family expectations, social rituals, and a seemingly ideal match promise comfort, while memories of Italy refuse to fade. With sharp wit and tender insight, Forster traces Lucys growing awareness of what it costs to live by other peoples rules. A Room with a View is a luminous story of self-discovery and class, where love becomes a test of courage and authenticity, and where the choice between appearance and truth can reshape a life.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:28:17) Chapter 02

(01:02:14) Chapter 03

(01:26:25) Chapter 04

(01:42:40) Chapter 05

(02:12:14) Chapter 06

(02:38:53) Chapter 07

(03:05:51) Chapter 08

(03:38:55) Chapter 09

(04:08:09) Chapter 10

(04:27:53) Chapter 11

(04:40:23) Chapter 12

(05:01:23) Chapter 13

(05:19:54) Chapter 14

(05:33:38) Chapter 15

(06:02:32) Chapter 16

(06:19:52) Chapter 17

(06:32:05) Chapter 18

(07:04:18) Chapter 19

(07:36:10) Chapter 20

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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen ~ Full Audiobook [romance] Aug 09, 2022

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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen audiobook.

Genre: romance

Taken from a crowded Portsmouth home to the grand estate of her wealthy relatives, young Fanny Price grows up on the margins of Mansfield Park - quiet, observant, and never allowed to forget her dependence on the Bertrams' charity. As she comes of age, Fanny finds her closest ally in her kind cousin Edmund, whose steady friendship becomes her moral compass in a household that prizes comfort and appearances. The calm routines of the estate are upended when the charming, fashionable Crawford siblings arrive, bringing wit, flirtation, and a taste for London sophistication. Their presence sparks rivalries, tests loyalties, and draws the Bertram family into choices that blur the line between amusement and impropriety. Caught between gratitude and principle, Fanny must navigate powerful expectations, romantic pressures, and the subtle cruelties of class while holding fast to her own sense of right and wrong. With sharp social comedy and psychological insight, Mansfield Park explores love and duty, reputation and conscience, and what it costs to remain true to oneself in a world eager to reward charm over character.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:16:24) Chapter 2

(00:36:00) Chapter 3

(00:55:04) Chapter 4

(01:13:48) Chapter 5

(01:28:45) Chapter 6

(01:48:34) Chapter 7

(02:10:18) Chapter 8

(02:25:04) Chapter 9

(02:49:18) Chapter 10

(03:06:24) Chapter 11

(03:19:51) Chapter 12

(03:31:44) Chapter 13

(03:48:43) Chapter 14

(04:03:34) Chapter 15

(04:24:32) Chapter 16

(04:38:21) Chapter 17

(04:49:14) Chapter 18

(05:06:33) Chapter 19

(05:29:38) Chapter 20

(05:46:09) Chapter 21

(06:02:58) Chapter 22

(06:25:02) Chapter 23

(06:46:23) Chapter 24

(07:03:38) Chapter 25

(07:28:46) Chapter 26

(07:45:27) Chapter 27

(08:06:30) Chapter 28

(08:24:27) Chapter 29

(08:40:37) Chapter 30

(08:53:32) Chapter 31

(09:13:08) Chapter 32

(09:40:32) Chapter 33

(09:56:37) Chapter 34

(10:18:14) Chapter 35

(10:38:38) Chapter 36

(10:58:12) Chapter 37

(11:15:21) Chapter 38

(11:40:22) Chapter 39

(11:49:56) Chapter 40

(12:02:43) Chapter 41

(12:18:33) Chapter 42

(12:30:11) Chapter 43

(12:40:17) Chapter 44

(12:58:38) Chapter 45

(13:14:58) Chapter 46

(13:35:42) Chapter 47

(14:00:43) Chapter 48

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Ulysses by James Joyce ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Aug 09, 2022

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Ulysses by James Joyce audiobook.

Genre: drama

On a single summer day in Dublin, two wanderers trace separate paths that quietly begin to mirror each other. Leopold Bloom, a thoughtful advertising canvasser, moves through the city's streets, pubs, shops, and seaside promenades, observing its rituals with a tender, skeptical eye as private worries shadow his ordinary errands. Stephen Dedalus, a young writer and teacher, wrestles with intellect, faith, family, and ambition, drifting among friends and rivals while searching for a place to belong. As their routes crisscross, Joyce turns the everyday into epic: conversations become battles of wit, meals become ceremonies, and passing impressions swell into a chorus of voices that capture a whole city in motion. Told through dazzling shifts in style - from precise realism to parody, mythic echo, and intimate interior monologue - Ulysses invites you to listen inside minds as they grapple with desire, guilt, loneliness, and hope. At its heart is a question both simple and immense: how do we endure the hours, love imperfectly, and still find connection in a world that rarely slows down?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(01:00:49) Chapter 02

(01:35:27) Chapter 03

(02:22:44) Chapter 04

(03:06:15) Chapter 05

(03:56:39) Chapter 06

(05:19:56) Chapter 07

(06:17:53) Chapter 1

(07:04:26) Chapter 2

(07:47:53) Chapter 3

(08:39:00) Chapter 4

(09:21:49) Chapter 5

(10:07:17) Chapter 6

(10:53:01) Chapter 7

(11:37:50) Chapter 8

(12:33:16) Chapter 9

(13:42:32) Chapter 10

(15:20:09) Chapter 11

(15:40:29) Chapter 12

(16:14:36) Chapter 13

(16:41:58) Chapter 14

(17:08:10) Chapter 15

(18:08:29) Chapter 16

(19:03:35) Chapter 17

(19:58:14) Chapter 18

(20:50:06) Chapter 19

(21:24:59) Chapter 20

(22:06:47) Chapter 21

(22:37:47) Chapter 22

(23:29:56) Chapter 23

(24:25:54) Chapter 24

(25:14:12) Chapter 25

(26:10:06) Chapter 26

(27:07:50) Chapter 27

(27:58:30) Chapter 28

(28:55:54) Chapter 29

(29:48:33) Chapter 30

(30:32:24) Chapter 31

(31:34:11) Chapter 32

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The United States Bill of Rights by James Madison ~ Full Audiobook [history] Aug 09, 2022

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The United States Bill of Rights by James Madison audiobook.

Genre: history

Presented through the words and political imagination of James Madison, The United States Bill of Rights follows the birth of the first ten amendments to the Constitution - a compact designed to protect individual liberty while defining the limits of federal power. Moving from the unsettled aftermath of ratification to the fierce arguments between Federalists and Anti-Federalists, this work centers on Madison as he wrestles with a difficult question: how can a new republic promise energetic national government without endangering the freedoms that justified independence? As Madison drafts, revises, and defends a slate of amendments, the text illuminates the concrete anxieties of the era - standing armies, unreasonable searches, censorship, religious coercion, and the concentration of authority far from ordinary citizens. Alongside the language that would become the enduring guarantees of American civil life, listeners encounter the ideals and compromises that shaped them, and the tension between principle and political necessity that Madison must navigate. More than a list of rights, this is the story of how rights were argued into existence, and why their meaning continues to invite debate.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:03:57) Chapter 2

(00:07:29) Chapter 3

(00:11:16) Chapter 4

(00:15:03) Chapter 5

(00:19:00) Chapter 6

(00:23:15) Chapter 7

(00:27:23) Chapter 8

(00:31:01) Chapter 9

(00:34:36) Chapter 10

(00:37:57) Chapter 11

(00:42:00) Chapter 12

(00:45:40) Chapter 13

(00:49:07) Chapter 14

(00:52:55) Chapter 15

(00:56:49) Chapter 16

(01:00:57) Chapter 17

(01:06:30) Chapter 18

(01:10:13) Chapter 19

(01:14:12) Chapter 20

(01:18:13) Chapter 21

(01:22:16) Chapter 22

(01:27:57) Chapter 23

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Dubliners by James Joyce ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Aug 08, 2022

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Dubliners by James Joyce audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in early 20th century Dublin, Dubliners is James Joyce's landmark collection of fifteen interconnected short stories that map a city through the private lives of its residents. From schoolboys and shop girls to clerks, musicians, and middle-class families, each tale offers a close, unsentimental look at everyday hopes: a first crush, a chance at success, a night out, an unexpected invitation, a dream of escape. Yet as these characters reach for change, they collide with the weight of routine, social expectation, poverty, politics, and religion. Joyce's Dublin is vivid and intimate - a place of crowded streets, dim parlors, public houses, and quiet rooms where a single conversation can alter how a person sees themselves. Moving from youth to adulthood and into public life, the collection builds a larger portrait of a community struggling between tradition and modernity, desire and duty, action and hesitation. Written with precise realism and sharp psychological insight, Dubliners invites listeners to witness the small turning points that reveal a society, and the inner lives that both sustain it and constrain it.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:17:21) Chapter 02

(00:39:58) Chapter 03

(00:56:06) Chapter 04

(01:09:47) Chapter 05

(01:23:09) Chapter 06

(01:46:37) Chapter 07

(02:05:40) Chapter 08

(02:35:53) Chapter 09

(03:00:17) Chapter 10

(03:17:40) Chapter 11

(03:40:27) Chapter 12

(04:12:06) Chapter 13

(04:36:18) Chapter 14

(05:20:23) Chapter 15

(05:54:33) Chapter 16

(06:27:17) Chapter 17

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Above Life’s Turmoil by James Allen ~ Full Audiobook [self help] Aug 07, 2022

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Above Life’s Turmoil by James Allen audiobook.

Genre: self help

The turmoil of the world we cannot avoid, but the disturbances of mind we can overcome. The duties and difficulties of life claim our attention, but we can rise above all anxiety concerning them. Surrounded by noise, we can yet have a quiet mind; involved in responsibilities, the heart can be at rest; in the midst of strife, we can know the abiding peace. The twenty pieces which comprise this book, unrelated as some of them are in the letter, will be found to be harmonious in the spirit, in that they point the reader towards those heights of self-knowledge and self-conquest which, rising above the turbulence of the world, lift their peaks where the Heavenly Silence reigns.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 0

(00:12:37) Chapter 1

(00:28:57) Chapter 2

(00:40:21) Chapter 3

(00:54:04) Chapter 4

(01:03:55) Chapter 5

(01:18:22) Chapter 6

(01:34:34) Chapter 7

(01:52:47) Chapter 8

(02:04:10) Chapter 9

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Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin ~ Full Audiobook [history] Aug 07, 2022

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Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin audiobook.

Genre: history

Fifty Famous Stories Retold is a classic collection for listeners who love brisk, memorable tales drawn from the lives of notable people and the turning points of earlier times. Written for young readers but engaging for all ages, James Baldwin gathers fifty short narratives and retells them in clear, lively language, shaping each episode into a complete story with a strong sense of character and consequence. Across the book you will meet courageous leaders, clever strategists, steadfast patriots, and everyday individuals whose choices ripple outward, from moments of quiet integrity to dramatic acts of daring. Each selection stands on its own, yet together they form a fast-moving introduction to the kind of history that is easiest to remember: history as story. Baldwin focuses on decisive scenes, vivid details, and simple moral tensions - pride versus humility, freedom versus tyranny, fear versus resolve - inviting listeners to consider what makes a deed admirable and what kind of courage endures. Perfect in short sittings, these retellings offer a gateway to further reading and a timeless reminder that great lives are often shaped in a single hour of choice.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:03:08) Chapter 01

(00:06:44) Chapter 02

(00:10:34) Chapter 03

(00:13:42) Chapter 04

(00:19:07) Chapter 05

(00:24:23) Chapter 06

(00:31:48) Chapter 07

(00:37:46) Chapter 08

(00:40:22) Chapter 09

(00:44:22) Chapter 10

(00:46:44) Chapter 11

(00:52:12) Chapter 12

(00:54:51) Chapter 13

(00:57:03) Chapter 14

(00:59:20) Chapter 15

(01:01:16) Chapter 16

(01:05:55) Chapter 17

(01:08:07) Chapter 18

(01:09:57) Chapter 19

(01:13:37) Chapter 20

(01:16:40) Chapter 21

(01:20:01) Chapter 22

(01:27:43) Chapter 23

(01:29:30) Chapter 24

(01:35:29) Chapter 25

(01:39:36) Chapter 26

(01:43:11) Chapter 27

(01:47:28) Chapter 28

(01:52:05) Chapter 29

(01:54:36) Chapter 30

(01:57:57) Chapter 31

(02:01:04) Chapter 32

(02:03:02) Chapter 33

(02:05:23) Chapter 34

(02:08:09) Chapter 35

(02:10:33) Chapter 36

(02:13:20) Chapter 37

(02:14:29) Chapter 38

(02:19:38) Chapter 39

(02:21:36) Chapter 40

(02:25:05) Chapter 41

(02:29:56) Chapter 42

(02:34:00) Chapter 43

(02:36:40) Chapter 44

(02:41:56) Chapter 45

(02:46:02) Chapter 46

(03:01:02) Chapter 47

(03:04:41) Chapter 48

(03:10:29) Chapter 49

(03:16:37) Chapter 50

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Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott ~ Full Audiobook [biography] Aug 07, 2022

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Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott audiobook.

Genre: biography

Jacob Abbott's Cleopatra brings to life the most famous queen of ancient Egypt through a clear, storytelling style that blends historical context with vivid scenes. Beginning with the world Cleopatra inherits - a turbulent Ptolemaic dynasty in Alexandria, rival siblings, and a kingdom caught between tradition and upheaval - Abbott follows her early rise and the hard choices required to hold power. As Rome's influence spreads across the Mediterranean, Cleopatra must navigate shifting alliances, court intrigue, and the constant threat of being replaced by family members and courtiers who see her as an obstacle. The narrative introduces the key Roman figures whose ambitions collide with Egypt's fate, including Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and shows how diplomacy, image-making, and personal charisma become tools of statecraft. Alongside battles and political maneuvering, Abbott explores questions of leadership, loyalty, and the price of ruling in an era where authority rests on fragile claims and public perception. Written to be accessible and engaging, the book paints a portrait of a ruler fighting to protect her throne and her country against forces far larger than herself.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:34:44) Chapter 02

(01:08:30) Chapter 03

(01:45:21) Chapter 04

(02:15:47) Chapter 05

(02:44:24) Chapter 06

(03:10:08) Chapter 07

(03:42:28) Chapter 08

(04:06:16) Chapter 09

(04:34:14) Chapter 10

(05:11:44) Chapter 11

(05:49:00) Chapter 12

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Moby Dick, or the Whale by Herman Melville ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Aug 06, 2022

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Moby Dick, or the Whale by Herman Melville audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Young sailor Ishmael arrives in New Bedford hungry for work and meaning, and soon signs on to a Nantucket whaling ship, the Pequod. He shares cramped quarters with Queequeg, a tattooed harpooner whose quiet courage and steadfast friendship challenge Ishmael's assumptions about faith, culture, and what it means to be civilized. Once at sea, the Pequod's world expands into a floating society of craftsmen, deckhands, and officers bound together by danger, routine, and the relentless hunt for whale oil. Over all of it looms Captain Ahab, a magnetic, battle-scarred commander whose private obsession with the great white whale, Moby Dick, begins to reshape the voyage into something far more perilous than a commercial expedition. As the ship crosses vast oceans and encounters storms, strange ships, and moments of eerie beauty, Ishmael's vivid narration blends adventure with dark humor, philosophical reflection, and richly detailed lore about whaling and the natural world. Moby-Dick is an epic of obsession and fate, pitting human will against the immensities of sea and creature, and asking what we truly chase when we believe we have found our purpose.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 000

(00:29:17) Chapter 001

(00:53:17) Chapter 003

(01:28:15) Chapter 004

(01:55:29) Chapter 008

(02:25:10) Chapter 010

(02:44:41) Chapter 013

(03:07:52) Chapter 016

(03:43:16) Chapter 017

(04:26:12) Chapter 022

(04:53:42) Chapter 026

(05:13:05) Chapter 028

(05:38:08) Chapter 032

(06:15:11) Chapter 033

(06:53:28) Chapter 036

(07:35:51) Chapter 041

(08:02:24) Chapter 042

(08:46:06) Chapter 045

(09:23:21) Chapter 048

(10:01:56) Chapter 051

(10:29:05) Chapter 054

(11:23:27) Chapter 055

(12:00:42) Chapter 059

(12:39:33) Chapter 064

(13:16:44) Chapter 068

(13:51:11) Chapter 072

(14:15:49) Chapter 074

(14:46:20) Chapter 078

(15:10:27) Chapter 081

(15:47:18) Chapter 083

(16:25:01) Chapter 087

(17:05:38) Chapter 089

(17:39:39) Chapter 092

(18:22:32) Chapter 097

(19:06:03) Chapter 101

(19:46:12) Chapter 105

(20:23:24) Chapter 109

(21:04:30) Chapter 114

(21:30:31) Chapter 119

(22:03:19) Chapter 124

(22:36:04) Chapter 128

(23:18:33) Chapter 133

(23:43:34) Chapter 134

(24:06:25) Chapter 135

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Walden by Henry David Thoreau ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy] Aug 06, 2022

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Walden by Henry David Thoreau audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond. Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised. Along with his critique of the civilized world, Thoreau examines other issues afflicting man in society, ranging from economy and reading to solitude and higher laws. He also takes time to talk about the experience at Walden Pond itself, commenting on the animals and the way people treated him for living there, using those experiences to bring out his philosophical positions. This extended commentary on nature has often been interpreted as a strong statement to the natural religion that transcendentalists like Thoreau and Emerson were preaching.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:30:20) Chapter 2

(01:09:01) Chapter 3

(02:08:08) Chapter 4

(02:54:40) Chapter 5

(03:18:09) Chapter 6

(03:45:32) Chapter 7

(04:11:26) Chapter 8

(04:47:24) Chapter 9

(05:37:55) Chapter 10

(06:09:57) Chapter 11

(06:43:28) Chapter 12

(07:13:49) Chapter 13

(07:28:01) Chapter 14

(08:41:20) Chapter 15

(09:03:42) Chapter 16

(09:40:14) Chapter 17

(10:17:10) Chapter 18

(11:00:26) Chapter 19

(11:39:46) Chapter 20

(12:06:54) Chapter 21

(12:45:12) Chapter 22

(13:41:20) Chapter 23

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