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Lilith by George MacDonald ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] Jul 29, 2022

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Lilith by George MacDonald audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

George MacDonald's Lilith follows Mr. Vane, a practical, solitary young man who inherits a mysterious house with an equally mysterious library. When a strange mirror-like door opens onto another world, Vane is drawn into a stark, dreamlike realm where night seems permanent and the laws of ordinary life feel suspended. Guided and challenged by an enigmatic figure known as Raven, Vane wanders through haunted landscapes and a silent city filled with sleepers who wait for a dawn that may or may not come. Along the way he encounters children living by their own fierce logic of play and survival, shadowy soldiers loyal to a beautiful and terrifying queen, and the queen herself: Lilith, whose will to rule collides with the possibility of surrender and change. Part visionary fantasy, part spiritual parable, Lilith turns an otherworldly journey into a searching exploration of freedom, pride, compassion, and what it means to awaken. Vane must decide what kind of person he will become as every meeting tests his motives and every path seems to lead deeper into the heart of darkness and toward an unseen morning.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:03:07) Chapter 01

(00:14:43) Chapter 02

(00:20:14) Chapter 03

(00:35:36) Chapter 04

(00:50:48) Chapter 05

(00:57:08) Chapter 06

(01:10:18) Chapter 07

(01:26:25) Chapter 08

(01:38:35) Chapter 09

(01:50:45) Chapter 10

(02:02:32) Chapter 11

(02:15:23) Chapter 12

(02:24:32) Chapter 13

(02:45:44) Chapter 14

(02:57:34) Chapter 15

(03:22:00) Chapter 16

(03:43:59) Chapter 17

(04:00:33) Chapter 18

(04:21:16) Chapter 19

(04:34:29) Chapter 20

(04:45:27) Chapter 21

(04:53:33) Chapter 22

(05:03:20) Chapter 23

(05:09:06) Chapter 24

(05:17:25) Chapter 25

(05:35:39) Chapter 26

(05:46:09) Chapter 27

(05:54:19) Chapter 28

(06:01:40) Chapter 29

(06:18:03) Chapter 30

(06:28:19) Chapter 31

(06:40:28) Chapter 32

(06:52:57) Chapter 33

(07:09:56) Chapter 34

(07:22:44) Chapter 35

(07:34:10) Chapter 36

(07:45:27) Chapter 37

(07:52:19) Chapter 38

(08:10:36) Chapter 39

(08:39:32) Chapter 40

(09:09:26) Chapter 41

(09:18:55) Chapter 42

(09:33:03) Chapter 43

(09:53:18) Chapter 44

(10:05:40) Chapter 45

(10:15:46) Chapter 46

(10:25:31) Chapter 47

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The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] Jul 29, 2022

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The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

In a lonely mountain kingdom, eight-year-old Princess Irene lives in a sprawling castle with secret stairways, empty corridors, and a sense that something is watching from below. When her father is away and her mother is gone, Irene's world is guarded by servants and rules - but her curiosity keeps pulling her toward forbidden places. Beneath the castle, a race of hostile goblins nurses an old grievance against humankind and prepares a dangerous plan that could put the royal household and nearby miners in mortal peril. Irene's unlikely friend is Curdie, a practical, brave miner's son who knows the mountain's tunnels and the goblins' tricks far better than any courtier. As rumors harden into threats, Irene discovers a mysterious great-great-grandmother who may be more than she seems, offering Irene a strange gift: a thread of guidance that must be trusted even when it makes no sense. Together, Irene and Curdie are drawn into a test of courage, faith, and loyalty, where clear sight matters as much as strength, and where the boundary between the ordinary and the magical grows thin.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:05:45) Chapter 02

(00:11:13) Chapter 03

(00:23:44) Chapter 04

(00:31:10) Chapter 05

(00:36:22) Chapter 06

(00:55:23) Chapter 07

(01:02:59) Chapter 08

(01:17:33) Chapter 09

(01:33:22) Chapter 10

(01:42:27) Chapter 11

(01:58:45) Chapter 12

(02:03:25) Chapter 13

(02:11:19) Chapter 14

(02:19:33) Chapter 15

(02:37:37) Chapter 16

(02:41:55) Chapter 17

(02:47:27) Chapter 18

(03:03:28) Chapter 19

(03:13:19) Chapter 20

(03:22:57) Chapter 21

(03:42:48) Chapter 22

(03:54:46) Chapter 23

(04:10:39) Chapter 24

(04:15:35) Chapter 25

(04:24:50) Chapter 26

(04:29:58) Chapter 27

(04:42:00) Chapter 28

(04:49:09) Chapter 29

(04:54:06) Chapter 30

(05:00:01) Chapter 31

(05:09:30) Chapter 32

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Adam Bede by George Eliot ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Jul 29, 2022

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Adam Bede by George Eliot audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in the rural English Midlands in 1799, Adam Bede follows a community bound by labor, faith, and reputation. Adam, a skilled young carpenter, prides himself on steadiness and moral clarity as he works alongside his friends and family in the village of Hayslope. His quiet certainties are tested when he becomes entangled in a web of affection, expectation, and social pressure centered on two very different women: Hetty Sorrel, a beautiful and vain dairymaid whose hunger for admiration leads her toward dangerous choices, and Dinah Morris, a compassionate Methodist preacher whose uncommon vocation challenges the village's ideas about a woman's place. As private desires collide with public judgment, George Eliot traces how gossip, class, and religious conviction shape lives, and how one mistake can ripple through an entire community. With psychological depth and sharp social observation, the novel explores duty versus longing, the cost of self-deception, and the possibility of sympathy and moral growth amid hardship. Eliot's richly detailed world invites listeners to feel the rhythms of farm and workshop, the pull of conscience, and the fragile ties that hold people together when scandal threatens to tear them apart.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:20:25) Chapter 01

(00:44:17) Chapter 02

(01:28:15) Chapter 02

(01:58:57) Chapter 03

(02:17:49) Chapter 03

(02:46:24) Chapter 04

(03:17:45) Chapter 04

(03:36:29) Chapter 05

(04:13:16) Chapter 05

(04:37:24) Chapter 06

(05:08:36) Chapter 06

(05:29:22) Chapter 07

(05:44:41) Chapter 07

(06:04:53) Chapter 08

(06:23:48) Chapter 08

(06:52:28) Chapter 09

(07:07:03) Chapter 09

(07:41:45) Chapter 10

(08:18:38) Chapter 10

(08:33:39) Chapter 11

(08:57:57) Chapter 11

(09:20:59) Chapter 12

(09:45:19) Chapter 12

(10:05:25) Chapter 13

(10:17:03) Chapter 13

(10:51:16) Chapter 14

(11:10:00) Chapter 14

(11:33:00) Chapter 15

(12:02:05) Chapter 15

(12:35:53) Chapter 16

(13:03:30) Chapter 16

(13:19:05) Chapter 17

(13:39:25) Chapter 17

(14:05:34) Chapter 18

(14:54:08) Chapter 18

(15:33:36) Chapter 19

(15:48:23) Chapter 19

(16:25:41) Chapter 20

(17:02:30) Chapter 20

(17:31:17) Chapter 21

(18:06:14) Chapter 21

(18:38:24) Chapter 22

(19:03:24) Chapter 22

(19:37:35) Chapter 23

(19:48:19) Chapter 23

(20:07:41) Chapter 24

(20:24:58) Chapter 24

(20:51:44) Chapter 25

(21:12:31) Chapter 25

(21:36:56) Chapter 26

(22:04:38) Chapter 26

(22:24:44) Chapter 27

(22:47:00) Chapter 27

(23:10:18) Chapter 28

(23:26:30) Chapter 28

(23:57:13) Chapter 29

(24:15:45) Chapter 29

(24:29:24) Chapter 30

(24:56:14) Chapter 30

(25:19:14) Chapter 31

(25:39:22) Chapter 31

(26:02:56) Chapter 32

(26:26:04) Chapter 32

(26:57:19) Chapter 33

(27:12:37) Chapter 33

(27:45:29) Chapter 34

(27:55:02) Chapter 34

(28:17:46) Chapter 35

(28:30:06) Chapter 35

(28:53:31) Chapter 36

(29:13:41) Chapter 36

(29:51:17) Chapter 37

(30:22:31) Chapter 37

(30:51:04) Chapter 38

(31:26:28) Chapter 38

(31:53:26) Chapter 39

(32:09:18) Chapter 39

(32:28:43) Chapter 40

(32:48:52) Chapter 40

(33:02:02) Chapter 41

(33:15:37) Chapter 41

(33:32:34) Chapter 42

(33:43:20) Chapter 42

(34:09:13) Chapter 43

(34:26:48) Chapter 43

(35:03:14) Chapter 44

(35:21:52) Chapter 44

(36:02:29) Chapter 45

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer ~ Full Audiobook [poetry] Jul 29, 2022

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer audiobook.

Genre: poetry

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a group of pilgrims on their way from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

The themes of the tales vary, and include topics such as courtly love, treachery, and avarice. The genres also vary, and include romance, Breton lai, sermon, beast fable, and fabliau. The characters, introduced in the General Prologue of the book, tell tales of great cultural relevance.

The version read here was edited by D. Laing Purves (1838-1873) “for popular perusal” and the language is mostly updated.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:06:22) Chapter 02

(01:04:49) Chapter 03

(01:43:55) Chapter 1

(02:50:25) Chapter 2

(04:10:28) Chapter 05

(05:05:18) Chapter 06

(05:28:48) Chapter 07

(05:36:40) Chapter 08

(06:56:42) Chapter 09

(08:00:14) Chapter 10

(08:23:07) Chapter 11

(09:06:16) Chapter 12

(10:26:33) Chapter 13

(11:48:10) Chapter 14

(12:19:49) Chapter 15

(13:03:36) Chapter 16

(13:20:40) Chapter 17

(14:00:48) Chapter 18

(14:28:28) Chapter 19

(14:43:37) Chapter 20

(14:53:51) Chapter 21

(15:29:57) Chapter 22

(16:17:33) Chapter 23

(17:04:47) Chapter 24

(17:32:34) Chapter 25

(18:10:08) Chapter 26

(18:27:14) Chapter 27

(19:22:20) Chapter 28

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The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Jul 29, 2022

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The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux audiobook.

Genre: mystery

Gaston Leroux, perhaps best known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera in its novel form, was also the author of a popular series of mystery novels featuring a young journalist cum detective named Joseph Rouletabille. It is most likely that Leroux styled his hero after himself. Rouletabille was in the tradition of other great detectives who solved their cases by pure deductive reasoning. Much as Sherlock Holmes, who eliminated the impossible and concluded that whatever remained, however improbable must be the truth, Rouletabille included the known facts about the case and eliminated everything that was not a known fact, no matter how much it appeared to relate to the case. In The Secret of the Night, the names of the characters are often challengingly Russian and the plot involves, appropriately, both the Czar and the Nihilists.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:24:37) Chapter 02

(01:01:36) Chapter 03

(01:24:47) Chapter 04

(01:44:45) Chapter 05

(02:32:30) Chapter 06

(03:01:24) Chapter 07

(03:38:12) Chapter 08

(04:03:00) Chapter 09

(05:01:47) Chapter 10

(05:44:41) Chapter 11

(06:07:59) Chapter 12

(06:28:09) Chapter 13

(07:06:43) Chapter 14

(07:36:43) Chapter 15

(07:54:56) Chapter 16

(08:07:38) Chapter 17

(08:21:05) Chapter 18

(08:27:57) Chapter 19

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The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Jul 28, 2022

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The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton audiobook.

Genre: mystery

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential and prolific English writer of the early 20th century. He was a journalist, a poet and a novelist. He wrote 80 books and 200 short stories in addition to his other work. He is perhaps best remembered for his ‘Father Brown’ stories; two collections of which are available at Librivox.org.

‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’ has some similarities to the Father Brown stories: Horne Fisher the eponymous hero is connected and indeed related to many of the high-ranking politicians of his age and thus ‘knows too much’ about the background of the mysteries in which he becomes embroiled and which he unravels.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:42:56) Chapter 2

(01:25:39) Chapter 3

(01:56:47) Chapter 4

(02:33:18) Chapter 5

(03:14:32) Chapter 6

(04:08:21) Chapter 7

(05:03:52) Chapter 8

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The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton ~ Full Audiobook [thriller] Jul 28, 2022

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The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton audiobook.

Genre: thriller

In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist task force at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over the purpose of poetry with Gabriel Syme, who takes the opposite view. After some time, the frustrated Gregory finds Syme and leads him to a local anarchist meeting-place to prove that he is a true anarchist. Instead of the anarchist Gregory getting elected, the officer Syme uses his wits and is elected as the local representative to the worldwide Central Council of Anarchists. The Council consisting of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code name; Syme is given the name of Thursday...

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:04:14) Chapter 2

(00:27:12) Chapter 3

(00:44:57) Chapter 4

(01:08:57) Chapter 5

(01:30:49) Chapter 6

(01:51:20) Chapter 7

(02:10:15) Chapter 8

(02:29:47) Chapter 9

(02:57:06) Chapter 10

(03:31:09) Chapter 11

(04:05:33) Chapter 12

(04:24:04) Chapter 13

(04:55:04) Chapter 14

(05:16:45) Chapter 15

(05:41:06) Chapter 16

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass ~ Full Audiobook [biography] Jul 27, 2022

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass audiobook.

Genre: biography

In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass recounts his early years in bondage and his emergence as one of the 19th century's most powerful voices against slavery. Born into a system designed to erase identity and deny education, Douglass pieces together the story of his childhood on Maryland plantations, the constant threat of separation from family, and the everyday violence used to enforce obedience. As he grows older, he becomes determined to understand the world that enslaves him, pursuing literacy despite harsh prohibitions and learning how knowledge can be both dangerous and liberating. Douglass also confronts the psychological machinery of slavery: how it distorts religion, corrodes relationships, and rewards cruelty. Moving from one owner to another, he faces escalating tests of endurance and self-possession, including moments that force him to decide what kind of man he will be under relentless oppression. Clear-eyed, urgent, and fiercely humane, this memoir is not only a personal account of survival and awakening, but a direct challenge to a nation built on contradiction, demanding that listeners reckon with freedom, dignity, and the cost of injustice.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:20:24) Chapter 2

(00:27:26) Chapter 01

(00:39:18) Chapter 02

(00:51:15) Chapter 03

(00:59:52) Chapter 04

(01:09:13) Chapter 05

(01:18:38) Chapter 06

(01:26:20) Chapter 07

(01:40:40) Chapter 08

(01:52:37) Chapter 09

(02:05:24) Chapter 10

(03:19:29) Chapter 3

(03:50:27) Chapter 4

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The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit ~ Full Audiobook [family] Jul 26, 2022

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The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit audiobook.

Genre: family

When the once-comfortable Bastable family falls on hard times, six lively brothers and sisters decide they will not simply wait for grown-ups to fix everything. Led by imaginative Oswald, with practical Dora, stubborn Dicky, sensitive Noel, fearless H.O., and the youngest, clever Alice, the children form the Bastable Society of Treasure Seekers. Their mission is straightforward: find treasure, restore the family fortune, and make their father happy again. What follows is a chain of schemes that veer from bold to absurd - digging for buried riches, attempting business ventures, courting wealthy benefactors, and chasing romantic legends of hidden gold. Each plan brings new friends and unexpected complications, and the children must learn what honesty, loyalty, and real courage look like when their best intentions collide with the messy rules of the adult world. Warm, witty, and full of everyday wonder, Edith Nesbit's classic captures the thrill of adventure in ordinary places and the fierce love that holds a family together, even when money is scarce and hope feels like the rarest treasure of all.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:38) Chapter 02

(00:22:20) Chapter 03

(00:39:58) Chapter 04

(00:50:04) Chapter 05

(01:00:37) Chapter 06

(01:13:46) Chapter 07

(01:27:32) Chapter 08

(01:45:27) Chapter 09

(02:02:40) Chapter 10

(02:14:47) Chapter 11

(02:38:47) Chapter 12

(02:59:45) Chapter 13

(03:25:55) Chapter 14

(03:39:28) Chapter 15

(03:53:25) Chapter 16

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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Jul 26, 2022

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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka audiobook.

Genre: drama

One morning, traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes to find his body inexplicably transformed into a giant insect. Trapped in his bedroom and struggling to communicate, Gregor must navigate the immediate terror of his new existence and the practical realities of a life that can no longer conform to work schedules, family expectations, or ordinary human routines. As his worried sister Grete and their beleaguered parents react in fear, shame, and reluctant responsibility, the Samsa household begins to unravel under financial strain and emotional pressure. Gregor, once the family's primary breadwinner, becomes an unsettling secret behind a locked door, forced to listen as decisions are made about survival, duty, and what it means to belong. With stark, dreamlike logic and darkly comic precision, Franz Kafka explores alienation, guilt, and the fragile bonds of love when confronted by the grotesque and the inexplicable. The story follows Gregor's attempt to find dignity and purpose in isolation while the people closest to him are tested by a change they cannot understand and do not know how to accept.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:49:59) Chapter 2

(01:43:58) Chapter 3

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