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The Cathedral by Hugh Walpole ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Jan 09, 2024

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The Cathedral by Hugh Walpole audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in the cathedral town of Polchester during the summer of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, Hugh Walpole's The Cathedral follows Archdeacon Adam Brandon, a commanding High Churchman whose confidence and authority seem as immovable as the great building he serves. Brandon has built his life around influence in the Close, public admiration, and an unshakable certainty that he alone understands what the cathedral and the town should be. But the Jubilee season brings visitors, scrutiny, and a rising tide of private resentments. Rival clergy and townspeople begin to test his control, and the ambitious Canon Ronder proves a particularly dangerous opponent, skilled at turning gossip, politics, and piety into weapons. At home, Brandon's rigidity strains the fragile bonds of his household, where his wife and children live in the long shadow of his vocation and pride. As pressures mount in parish meetings, drawing rooms, and echoing aisles, the cathedral itself becomes a living presence: inspiring, oppressive, and indifferent to human schemes. Walpole builds a tense portrait of power, faith, and vanity, asking what remains when a man who has always ruled must finally face the limits of his dominion.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:36:26) Chapter 02

(00:57:45) Chapter 03

(01:42:22) Chapter 04

(02:24:02) Chapter 05

(02:48:21) Chapter 06

(03:27:41) Chapter 07

(04:08:49) Chapter 08

(04:41:00) Chapter 09

(04:52:32) Chapter 10

(05:21:13) Chapter 11

(05:49:33) Chapter 12

(06:37:41) Chapter 13

(07:19:13) Chapter 14

(07:59:05) Chapter 15

(08:38:00) Chapter 16

(08:52:20) Chapter 17

(09:37:40) Chapter 18

(10:28:49) Chapter 19

(11:01:13) Chapter 20

(11:37:19) Chapter 21

(12:06:43) Chapter 22

(12:32:40) Chapter 23

(13:01:33) Chapter 24

(13:16:01) Chapter 25

(13:42:44) Chapter 26

(14:14:37) Chapter 27

(14:35:07) Chapter 28

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The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole ~ Full Audiobook [horror] Jan 09, 2024

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The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole audiobook.

Genre: horror

On the eve of his son Conrad's wedding, Prince Manfred of the Castle of Otranto is shaken by a grotesque and seemingly impossible catastrophe that shatters his plans for securing his family's rule. Convinced that an ancient prophecy threatens his claim, Manfred becomes desperate to control Otranto's future, and his panic turns quickly into ruthless determination. As fear spreads through the fortress corridors, the castle itself seems to come alive with ominous signs: unexplained apparitions, whispered warnings, and towering relics that defy reason. Caught in the turmoil are the young bride-to-be Isabella, who must rely on her courage and wits to escape Manfred's grasp, and Theodore, a mysterious stranger whose arrival entwines him with the castle's darkest secrets. With allies and enemies shifting in the candlelit halls, loyalties are tested, identities are questioned, and the boundary between superstition and reality grows dangerously thin. Blending medieval intrigue with supernatural terror, Walpole's pioneering tale explores inheritance, legitimacy, and the costs of unchecked ambition, building an atmosphere of dread that helped define the Gothic tradition.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:13:47) Chapter 01

(01:03:46) Chapter 02

(01:53:48) Chapter 03

(02:40:09) Chapter 04

(03:24:07) Chapter 05

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The Way to Will-Power by Henry Hazlitt ~ Full Audiobook [self help] Jan 06, 2024

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The Way to Will-Power by Henry Hazlitt audiobook.

Genre: self help

In The Way to Will-Power, Henry Hazlitt takes up a question that haunts every ambitious plan and every broken resolution: why do we know what we should do, yet fail to do it? Blending clear reasoning with practical counsel, Hazlitt treats willpower not as a mystical gift but as a skill that can be trained through understanding motives, directing attention, and building habits that make right action easier. He explores how desire, fear, comfort, and distraction quietly steer behavior, and how a person can reclaim agency by learning to choose deliberately instead of drifting. Along the way, he challenges popular excuses about temperament and luck, urging listeners to examine their daily routines, the company they keep, and the small decisions that harden into character. Each chapter aims to turn vague resolve into workable method: setting aims that are concrete, breaking tasks into manageable steps, resisting procrastination, and cultivating persistence when enthusiasm fades. Written in a brisk, encouraging voice, this is a guide for anyone who wants more self-command, not through harsh self-denial, but through disciplined thinking and purposeful practice.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:18:15) Chapter 02

(00:40:33) Chapter 03

(00:59:48) Chapter 04

(01:21:09) Chapter 05

(01:49:02) Chapter 06

(02:34:35) Chapter 07

(02:55:59) Chapter 08

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Don Quixote in England by Henry Fielding ~ Full Audiobook [comedy] Jan 05, 2024

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Don Quixote in England by Henry Fielding audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Henry Fielding takes Cervantes' famously book-addled knight and drops him into the very different, very worldly landscape of eighteenth-century England. Don Quixote and his long-suffering squire Sancho Panza arrive at a country inn expecting a realm of honor, damsels, and noble causes, only to find a bustling crossroads of hunters, servants, squires, and self-important local officials. Quixote, convinced that chivalry can still set the world right, reads every gesture as a challenge and every coincidence as a sign of destiny. Sancho, hungry, practical, and armed with earthy proverbs, tries to keep his master from tumbling headlong into yet another misunderstanding. Around them, Fielding parades a gallery of English types - boisterous country gentry, slippery professionals, and electioneering schemers - exposing how vanity, appetite, and politics can make ordinary people just as mad, in their own way, as the knight of La Mancha. Part literary send-up and part sharp social critique, Don Quixote in England turns a familiar pair of wanderers into a witty lens on ambition, corruption, and the stubborn human need to believe in grand stories.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:42:46) Chapter 2

(01:22:00) Chapter 3

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The Spirit of Bambatse by H. Rider Haggard ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Jan 05, 2024

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The Spirit of Bambatse by H. Rider Haggard audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Also published as Benita: An African Romance, The Spirit of Bambatse follows Benita Clifford, a young Englishwoman sailing toward southern Africa to reunite with the father she has barely known and to start over on his isolated Transvaal farm. On the voyage she encounters Robert Seymour, a restless young man whose sudden attachment to Benita promises safety and scandal in equal measure. But the land they enter is charged with old wars, uneasy alliances, and rumors of a vanished Portuguese fortune hidden somewhere near the forbidding hill called Bambatse. Drawn into a search that mixes scholarship, greed, and sheer survival, Benita discovers that she possesses an unsettling gift: vivid visions that arrive like messages from beyond, pointing toward dangers and possibilities others cannot see. As rival motives tighten around the expedition and local powers watch every move, the quest turns into a test of courage, loyalty, and faith. With shipwreck, wilderness travel, and a haunting presence tied to Bambatse itself, Haggard blends romance with the supernatural to ask what the past demands from the living, and what a person is willing to risk for love and treasure. (Sources: plot summaries and publication notes commonly listed under Benita (novel) and The Spirit of Bambatse.)

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:59) Chapter 01

(00:25:51) Chapter 02

(00:45:54) Chapter 03

(01:04:51) Chapter 04

(01:26:02) Chapter 05

(01:47:06) Chapter 06

(02:05:43) Chapter 07

(02:24:56) Chapter 08

(02:47:58) Chapter 09

(03:08:45) Chapter 10

(03:28:15) Chapter 11

(03:48:22) Chapter 12

(04:07:42) Chapter 13

(04:27:21) Chapter 14

(04:46:11) Chapter 15

(05:04:23) Chapter 16

(05:24:19) Chapter 17

(05:41:11) Chapter 18

(06:05:08) Chapter 19

(06:23:40) Chapter 20

(06:43:40) Chapter 21

(07:05:04) Chapter 22

(07:26:18) Chapter 23

(07:45:25) Chapter 24

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Men Like Gods by H. G. Wells ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Jan 04, 2024

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Men Like Gods by H. G. Wells audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In the summer of 1921, a disenchanted journalist escapes the rat race for a drive in the country. But Mr. Barnstaple's trip exceeds his expectations when he and other motorists are swept 3,000 years into the future. The inadvertent time travelers arrive in a world that corresponds exactly to Barnstaple's ideals: a utopian state, free of crime, poverty, war, disease, and bigotry. Unfettered by the constraints of government and organized religion, the citizens lead rich, meaningful lives, passed in pursuit of their creative fancies. Barnstaple's traveling companions, however, quickly contrive a scheme to remake the utopia in the image of their twentieth-century world.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:15) Chapter 02

(00:33:24) Chapter 03

(00:58:01) Chapter 04

(01:16:56) Chapter 05

(02:04:19) Chapter 06

(03:03:07) Chapter 07

(03:37:52) Chapter 08

(04:17:33) Chapter 09

(04:37:33) Chapter 10

(05:18:46) Chapter 11

(06:10:13) Chapter 12

(06:30:01) Chapter 13

(06:48:03) Chapter 14

(07:37:34) Chapter 15

(07:58:17) Chapter 16

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Bealby; A Holiday by H. G. Wells ~ Full Audiobook [comedy] Jan 04, 2024

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Bealby; A Holiday by H. G. Wells audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Bealby: A Holiday is a brisk, mischievous comic tale from H. G. Wells that turns a simple seaside vacation into a sharp-eyed satire of Edwardian respectability. The hero, young Bealby, is no swashbuckling adventurer - he is an ordinary boy with an inconvenient talent for drifting into trouble at exactly the wrong moment. Sent away for a holiday under the watchful care of his formidable Aunt Bridget and a circle of well-meaning adults, Bealby discovers that the grown-up world is full of rules, appearances, and anxious social judgments that do not leave much room for curiosity or high spirits. As the days unfold, small misunderstandings and impulsive decisions snowball into escalating embarrassments, reprimands, and frantic attempts to restore order, all while Bealby tries to defend his own sense of fairness and fun. With quick scenes, sly narration, and a steadily tightening tangle of complications, Wells delivers a humorous portrait of youth pushing against authority, and of adults whose moral certainty often makes matters worse.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:31:33) Chapter 02

(01:38:02) Chapter 03

(02:00:24) Chapter 04

(02:40:31) Chapter 05

(03:19:34) Chapter 06

(03:44:14) Chapter 07

(04:32:22) Chapter 08

(05:22:36) Chapter 09

(06:05:51) Chapter 10

(06:28:36) Chapter 11

(07:09:46) Chapter 12

(07:23:02) Chapter 13

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Arizona Argonauts by H. Bedford-Jones ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Jan 03, 2024

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Arizona Argonauts by H. Bedford-Jones audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Imagine it's early 1900's and you want to get away from it all. So you head to Two Palms, Arizona. Where for entertainment, people await the arrival of the daily stage coach. Gold mining is an avocation. There is desert everywhere, deadly rattlers, no paved roads, some people travel in model T's which they call flivvers. They must carry their own water, gasoline and tire patch kits for the many blowouts they encounter. The heat is blinding! The nearest 'big' town is Meteorite which has an ice cream shop, a post office and a stage coach head office. Here's where it gets interesting! Three misfits, a disgraced surgeon, an ex bank robber and a former prominent businessman type all meet on the road to nowhere to team up and head to Two Palms to turn their lives around. Already there is a wealthy San Francisco businessman and his beautiful daughter the apple of everyone's eyes. Arizona Argonauts would make a great movie! There's intrigue, murder, mayhem, mystery and of course romance. Try it - you'll like it!

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:14) Chapter 02

(00:36:31) Chapter 03

(01:00:34) Chapter 04

(01:27:48) Chapter 05

(01:50:07) Chapter 06

(02:12:17) Chapter 07

(02:30:00) Chapter 08

(02:48:29) Chapter 09

(03:14:00) Chapter 10

(03:32:07) Chapter 11

(03:57:30) Chapter 12

(04:14:54) Chapter 13

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A Voice in the Wilderness by Grace Livingston Hill ~ Full Audiobook [romance] Jan 03, 2024

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A Voice in the Wilderness by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook.

Genre: romance

When Margaret Earle leaves the East to take a teaching post in the Arizona Territory, she expects hardship, but not to step off the train into darkness at a lonely desert stop and watch the cars vanish into the night. Alone in unfamiliar country, with coyotes crying and danger close at hand, Margaret must rely on courage, quick thinking, and the faith that carried her west in the first place. Her desperate flight from a threatening stranger leads to an unexpected protector: Lance Gardley, a young cowboy with steady eyes, quiet strength, and questions he does not easily answer. Brought to safety, Margaret enters a frontier community where rough living, rumor, and spiritual emptiness press in on every side, and where a determined schoolteacher may be the only clear voice calling people back to what is right. As Margaret builds a life among the mesas and sagebrush, her growing bond with Lance is tested by distance, misunderstanding, and the cost of choosing integrity in a place that rewards compromise. Tender, suspenseful, and deeply rooted in Christian conviction, this classic western romance follows two outsiders as they search for home in a wilderness of both land and heart.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:14:08) Chapter 02

(00:26:36) Chapter 03

(00:38:41) Chapter 04

(00:53:45) Chapter 05

(01:07:15) Chapter 06

(01:22:50) Chapter 07

(01:40:50) Chapter 08

(01:57:22) Chapter 09

(02:14:48) Chapter 10

(02:29:33) Chapter 11

(02:50:51) Chapter 12

(03:05:05) Chapter 13

(03:31:22) Chapter 14

(03:45:24) Chapter 15

(03:57:55) Chapter 16

(04:16:01) Chapter 17

(04:43:35) Chapter 18

(04:59:09) Chapter 19

(05:14:11) Chapter 20

(05:30:05) Chapter 21

(05:52:44) Chapter 22

(06:15:22) Chapter 23

(06:33:58) Chapter 24

(06:51:34) Chapter 25

(07:15:56) Chapter 26

(07:45:17) Chapter 27

(08:08:01) Chapter 28

(08:27:34) Chapter 29

(08:56:12) Chapter 30

(09:13:46) Chapter 31

(09:28:20) Chapter 32

(09:40:17) Chapter 33

(10:02:27) Chapter 34

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The Elect Lady by George MacDonald ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Jan 03, 2024

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The Elect Lady by George MacDonald audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in rural Scotland, George MacDonald's The Elect Lady follows the collision of class, conscience, and faith in a small community where everyone knows their place - until a few unlikely friendships begin to challenge it. Andrew Ingram, the tenant's son, is poor, bookish, and quietly devout, more interested in truth and service than status. Dawtie, a humble servant girl with a tender care for animals and the overlooked, becomes an unexpected measure of what real goodness looks like. Over them stands Alexa Fordyce, the landlord's intelligent, forceful daughter, whose confidence in her own judgment and position puts her at odds with the plain integrity she encounters in the Ingrams' world. When a sudden train accident draws new people and pressures into their lives, the village's assumptions about worth, piety, and power are tested. As Andrew grows into adulthood, MacDonald uses everyday labor, sharp conversation, and hard choices to explore what makes a person truly 'chosen' - and whether the church is best found in institutions, reputations, or lives shaped by humility, honesty, and love.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:09:11) Chapter 02

(00:12:48) Chapter 03

(00:18:49) Chapter 04

(00:25:37) Chapter 05

(00:35:33) Chapter 06

(00:42:54) Chapter 07

(00:47:16) Chapter 08

(00:51:32) Chapter 09

(00:58:29) Chapter 10

(01:29:48) Chapter 11

(01:46:52) Chapter 12

(01:55:11) Chapter 13

(02:07:10) Chapter 14

(02:16:04) Chapter 15

(02:23:34) Chapter 16

(02:38:24) Chapter 17

(02:53:54) Chapter 18

(03:16:01) Chapter 19

(03:24:37) Chapter 20

(03:33:20) Chapter 21

(03:40:45) Chapter 22

(03:54:51) Chapter 23

(04:10:15) Chapter 24

(04:21:28) Chapter 25

(04:33:25) Chapter 26

(04:37:00) Chapter 27

(04:41:19) Chapter 28

(04:45:56) Chapter 29

(04:56:38) Chapter 30

(05:13:52) Chapter 31

(05:21:14) Chapter 32

(05:30:10) Chapter 33

(05:34:45) Chapter 34

(05:42:01) Chapter 35

(05:50:58) Chapter 36

(05:56:49) Chapter 37

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