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Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] Jul 19, 2022

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Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

When Alice steps through the mirror above her parlor mantel, she enters a world that runs on riddles, reversals, and the peculiar logic of a chessboard come to life. In this Looking-glass country, every path seems to double back, every conversation tilts sideways, and familiar things become strange in an instant. Determined to make sense of the rules, Alice sets out as a small chess piece with an ambitious goal: to cross the board, meet the odd inhabitants of each square, and earn her place in a game where words can be weapons and nonsense can hide sharp truths. Along the way she encounters quarrelsome twins who speak in contradictions, formidable queens who demand impossible obedience, and unforgettable characters whose songs, poems, and puzzles test Alice's patience and courage. As the squares change and the challenges grow more bewildering, Alice must rely on her curiosity and stubborn common sense to keep moving forward in a land that insists reality is always up for debate. Playful, surreal, and slyly satirical, this classic tale explores identity, language, and growing up through a cascade of dreamlike adventures.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:21:26) Chapter 2

(00:41:24) Chapter 3

(01:01:35) Chapter 4

(01:21:53) Chapter 5

(01:43:11) Chapter 6

(02:04:39) Chapter 7

(02:24:04) Chapter 8

(02:51:15) Chapter 9

(03:18:55) Chapter 10

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The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll ~ Full Audiobook [poetry] Jul 19, 2022

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The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll audiobook.

Genre: poetry

Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark is a fast-moving, gleefully illogical narrative poem that follows an unlikely crew setting out to sea in search of a creature no one can properly define. Commanded by the resolute Bellman, the expedition gathers a catalogue of eccentric characters - including a Beaver, a Baker, and a Barrister - each armed with the wrong tools, the wrong expertise, and complete confidence. Their journey unfolds through absurd rules of navigation, baffling conversations, and comically solemn lectures on what to fear, what to pack, and what not to ask. As the crew closes in on the elusive Snark, the story tightens into a blend of playful nonsense and creeping unease, raising questions about obsession, certainty, and the human need to impose meaning on the unknowable. Musical in its rhythms and packed with memorable lines, Carroll's masterpiece rewards both first-time listeners and returning fans, offering a surreal voyage where language itself becomes the landscape - and where the hunt matters as much as whatever might be found.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

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Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] Jul 19, 2022

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Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

In Sylvie and Bruno, Lewis Carroll steps beyond Wonderland into a stranger, more intricate dream: a Victorian narrator who drifts between everyday England and a shimmering Fairyland, sometimes in the space of a single conversation. In the enchanted realm, the gentle child Sylvie and her irrepressible companion Bruno discover that their country is in peril - not from dragons, but from the small, sharp evils of vanity, bureaucracy, and ambition. As rumors and rivalries gather around the throne, the two friends are drawn into a struggle that tests courage, kindness, and what it really means to do the right thing when rules and justice no longer align. Meanwhile, in the narrator's waking life, polite society and modern ideas collide in drawing rooms and on country walks: questions of faith, science, charity, and love are argued with wit and wonder. Blending fairy tale adventure, social satire, and Carroll's taste for paradox and playful logic, this book invites you to listen for the thin seam where imagination and reality meet - and to decide which world is the truer one.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:22:45) Chapter 01

(00:40:26) Chapter 02

(00:55:59) Chapter 03

(01:12:28) Chapter 04

(01:27:10) Chapter 05

(01:46:09) Chapter 06

(02:01:24) Chapter 07

(02:14:41) Chapter 08

(02:27:46) Chapter 09

(02:43:58) Chapter 10

(02:58:32) Chapter 11

(03:08:51) Chapter 12

(03:24:30) Chapter 13

(03:42:27) Chapter 14

(04:06:30) Chapter 15

(04:23:20) Chapter 16

(04:37:09) Chapter 17

(04:58:57) Chapter 18

(05:17:29) Chapter 19

(05:35:12) Chapter 20

(05:53:51) Chapter 21

(06:17:08) Chapter 22

(06:41:16) Chapter 23

(07:00:41) Chapter 24

(07:25:45) Chapter 25

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Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ~ Full Audiobook [romance] Jul 19, 2022

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Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch audiobook.

Genre: romance

The framing story concerns a man who dreams of speaking to Venus about love while she wears furs. The unnamed narrator tells his dreams to a friend, Severin, who tells him how to break him of his fascination with cruel women by reading a manuscript, Memoirs of a Supersensual Man.

This manuscript tells of a man, Severin von Kusiemski, so infatuated with a woman, Wanda von Dunajew, that he requests to be treated as her slave, and encourages her to treat him in progressively more degrading ways. At first Wanda does not understand or relate to the request, but after humouring Severin a bit she finds the advantages of the method to be interesting and enthusiastically embraces the idea; though at the same time, she disdains Severin for allowing her to do so.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 0

(00:09:38) Chapter 1

(00:58:51) Chapter 2

(01:50:55) Chapter 3

(02:22:49) Chapter 4

(02:53:32) Chapter 5

(03:28:52) Chapter 6

(03:58:42) Chapter 7

(04:32:11) Chapter 8

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The Three Hostages by John Buchan ~ Full Audiobook [thriller] Jul 19, 2022

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The Three Hostages by John Buchan audiobook.

Genre: thriller

Years after his earlier adventures, Richard Hannay is enjoying the quiet life of a country gentleman when an unexpected visitor shatters his peace: a renowned American doctor with a strange gift for reading minds and a warning about a new kind of enemy. Three people have been taken, not for ransom or politics, but as pieces in a far-reaching scheme that uses fear, persuasion, and psychological control as weapons. Hannay, drawn back into danger by duty and curiosity, is tasked with finding the captives before time runs out and before the plot behind their disappearance tightens its grip on society. From drawing rooms and lonely country roads to shadowed corners of the city and the Highlands, Hannay follows a trail of coded clues, evasive witnesses, and unsettling performances that blur the line between entertainment and manipulation. As he works alongside allies old and new, he must confront an adversary who prefers to corrupt the will rather than break the body, and who may already have influence where Hannay least expects it.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:25:15) Chapter 2

(01:07:56) Chapter 3

(01:40:28) Chapter 4

(02:21:24) Chapter 5

(02:52:42) Chapter 6

(03:34:52) Chapter 7

(04:07:44) Chapter 8

(04:29:48) Chapter 9

(04:52:15) Chapter 10

(05:29:28) Chapter 11

(06:12:17) Chapter 12

(06:35:55) Chapter 13

(06:58:06) Chapter 14

(07:15:26) Chapter 15

(07:48:38) Chapter 16

(08:14:29) Chapter 17

(08:50:03) Chapter 18

(09:10:40) Chapter 19

(09:48:15) Chapter 20

(10:28:29) Chapter 21

(11:00:15) Chapter 22

(11:33:28) Chapter 23

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Your Mind and How to Use It by William Walker Atkinson ~ Full Audiobook [self help] Jul 14, 2022

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Your Mind and How to Use It by William Walker Atkinson audiobook.

Genre: self help

William Walker Atkinson was one of the most prominent contributors to the literature of the New Thought movement, a non-denomination spiritual philosophy which developed in the late Nineteenth Century. Although he achieved eminence in a number of professions, Atkinson never sought personal publicity, and many of his numerous works were published under a variety of pseudonyms.

Most of Atkinson’s works are manuals of practice rather than pure expositions of philosophy. Many of his books are concerned with the training of the mind, and one of the most typical of these is Your Mind and How to Use It: A Manual of Practical Psychology, first published in 1911.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:26:59) Chapter 02

(00:55:18) Chapter 03

(01:18:32) Chapter 04

(01:43:26) Chapter 05

(02:08:23) Chapter 06

(02:40:34) Chapter 07

(03:01:35) Chapter 08

(03:18:36) Chapter 09

(03:40:20) Chapter 10

(03:59:12) Chapter 11

(04:20:42) Chapter 12

(04:43:27) Chapter 13

(05:02:07) Chapter 14

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Thought Vibration by William Walker Atkinson ~ Full Audiobook [self help] Jul 14, 2022

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Thought Vibration by William Walker Atkinson audiobook.

Genre: self help

William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 – November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement.

Atkinson was a prolific writer, and his many books achieved wide circulation among New Thought devotees and occult practitioners. He published under several pen names, including Magus Incognito, Theodore Sheldon, Theron Q. Dumont, Swami Panchadasi, Yogi Ramacharaka, Swami Bhakta Vishita, and probably other names not identified at present. The works published under the name of William Walker Atkinson generally treat themes related to the mental world, occultism, divination, psychic reality, and mankind's nature. They constitute a basis for what Atkinson called 'New Psychology' or 'New Thought'. These titles include Thought-Force in Business & Everyday Life (1900), Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World (1906) and Practical Mental Influence (1908).

Due in part to Atkinson's intense personal secrecy and extensive use of pseudonyms, he is now largely forgotten, despite having obtained mention in past editions of Who's Who in America, Religious Leaders of America, and several similar publications - and having written more than 100 books in the last 30 years of his life. His works have remained in print more or less continuously since 1900.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:42:39) Chapter 2

(01:14:36) Chapter 3

(01:40:14) Chapter 4

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Dynamic Thought; Or, The Law of Vibrant Energy by William Walker Atkinson ~ Full Audiobook [self help] Jul 14, 2022

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Dynamic Thought; Or, The Law of Vibrant Energy by William Walker Atkinson audiobook.

Genre: self help

This book is a marriage of the Ancient Occult Teachings to the latest and most advanced conceptions of Modern Science--an odd union, for the parties thereto are of entirely different temperaments. The marriage might be expected to result disastrously, were it not for the fact that a connecting link has been found that gives them a bond of common interest. No two people may truly love each other, unless they also love something in common--the more they love in common, the greater will be their love for each other. And, let us trust that this will prove true in this marriage of Occultism and Science, celebrated in this book.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:07:59) Chapter 02

(00:22:14) Chapter 03

(00:35:25) Chapter 04

(00:50:18) Chapter 05

(01:17:38) Chapter 06

(01:38:50) Chapter 07

(02:05:19) Chapter 08

(02:24:06) Chapter 09

(02:41:17) Chapter 10

(03:00:18) Chapter 11

(03:27:19) Chapter 12

(03:47:35) Chapter 13

(04:05:22) Chapter 14

(04:34:00) Chapter 15

(04:41:17) Chapter 16

(05:02:05) Chapter 17

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The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2 by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy] Jul 14, 2022

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The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2 by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's first book, it describes the three-stage dialectical life of Spirit. The title can be translated as either The Phenomenology of Spirit or The Phenomenology of Mind, because the German word Geist has both meanings. Phenomenology was the basis of Hegel's later philosophy and marked a significant development in German idealism after Kant. Focusing on topics in metaphysics, epistemology, physics, ethics, history, religion, perception, consciousness, and political philosophy, The Phenomenology is where Hegel develops his concepts of dialectic (including the Master-slave dialectic), absolute idealism, ethical life, and Aufhebung. The book had a profound effect in Western philosophy, and 'has been praised and blamed for the development of existentialism, communism, fascism, death of God theology, and historicist nihilism.' Note, this is the second volume of two.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:12:28) Chapter 02

(00:15:19) Chapter 03

(00:51:01) Chapter 04

(01:24:18) Chapter 05

(01:39:30) Chapter 06

(01:53:30) Chapter 07

(02:28:56) Chapter 08

(03:08:31) Chapter 09

(03:28:42) Chapter 10

(04:31:28) Chapter 11

(04:48:53) Chapter 12

(05:12:33) Chapter 13

(05:20:20) Chapter 14

(05:46:48) Chapter 15

(06:16:52) Chapter 16

(07:00:09) Chapter 17

(07:37:17) Chapter 18

(08:03:52) Chapter 19

(08:12:05) Chapter 20

(08:17:03) Chapter 21

(08:21:21) Chapter 22

(08:30:46) Chapter 23

(08:39:02) Chapter 24

(09:04:53) Chapter 25

(09:16:36) Chapter 26

(09:54:43) Chapter 27

(10:26:32) Chapter 28

(11:17:36) Chapter 29

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The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1 by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy] Jul 14, 2022

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The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1 by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:42:00) Chapter 01

(01:13:15) Chapter 02

(01:46:34) Chapter 03

(02:19:02) Chapter 04

(02:43:52) Chapter 05

(03:11:49) Chapter 06

(03:37:46) Chapter 07

(04:15:31) Chapter 08

(04:42:09) Chapter 09

(05:25:10) Chapter 10

(05:49:36) Chapter 11

(06:16:12) Chapter 12

(07:14:01) Chapter 13

(08:01:34) Chapter 14

(08:30:59) Chapter 15

(09:11:23) Chapter 16

(09:27:48) Chapter 17

(09:55:50) Chapter 18

(10:38:20) Chapter 19

(10:58:50) Chapter 20

(11:11:38) Chapter 21

(11:31:53) Chapter 22

(11:53:54) Chapter 23

(12:00:28) Chapter 24

(12:43:33) Chapter 25

(12:56:27) Chapter 26

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