Classic Audiobook Collection

Is Shakespeare Dead by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: history A short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean literary canon via satire, anecdote, and extensive quotation of contemporary authors on the subject. In the book, Twain expounds the view that Shakespeare of Stratford was not the author of the canon, and lends tentative support to the Baconian theory. The book opens with a scene from his early adulthood, where he was trained to be a steamboat pilot by an elder who often argued with him over the controversy. Twain's arguments include the following points: That little was known about Shakespeare's life, and the bulk of his biographies were based on conjecture. That a number of eminent British barristers and judges found Shakespeare's plays permeated with precise legal thought, and that the author could only have been a veteran legal professional. That in contrast, Shakespeare of Stratford had never held a legal position or office, and had only been in court over petty lawsuits late in life. That small towns lionize and celebrate their famous authors for generations, but this had not happened in Shakespeare's case. He described his own fame in Hannibal as a case in point. Twain draws parallels and analogies from the pretensions of modern religious figures and commentators on the nature of Satan. He compares the believers in Shakespeare to adherents of Arthur Orton and Mary Baker Eddy. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:30) Chapter 02 (00:41:39) Chapter 03 (01:02:14) Chapter 04 (01:28:26) Chapter 05 (02:01:59) Chapter 06 (02:29:58) Chapter 07 (02:44:12) Chapter 08 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Thing in the Woods by Margery Williams audiobook. Genre: fantasy Dr. Haverill is asked to fill in as local physician for the skittish Dr. Lennox in a small Pennsylvania town. The locals seem to be a superstitious bunch, prone to fearing traveling in the woods at night and with good reason. It seems a series of vicious attacks have occurred by what appears to be some kind of large animal. As the bodies begin to pile up, Dr. Haverill starts to question whether the responsible party could be something beyond humanity. Writer Margery Williams Bianco (writing here under the pseudonym Harper Williams) is perhaps better known for writing the children's classic 'The Velveteen Rabbit', but this dark slice of mystery horror fiction was found to be admired by none other than H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft scholars have noted in particular a distinct influence that this book had on his famous story 'The Dunwich Horror'. Also please note that this book is of its time and features racially insensitive language in the early chapters. Those who are concerned with such language should be advised. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:17) Chapter 02 (00:25:09) Chapter 03 (00:47:46) Chapter 04 (01:03:53) Chapter 05 (01:16:23) Chapter 06 (01:25:32) Chapter 07 (01:43:53) Chapter 08 (02:04:54) Chapter 09 (02:17:00) Chapter 10 (02:27:04) Chapter 11 (02:36:49) Chapter 12 (02:45:24) Chapter 13 (02:56:35) Chapter 14 (03:07:54) Chapter 15 (03:25:50) Chapter 16 (03:36:54) Chapter 17 (03:48:14) Chapter 18 (04:07:06) Chapter 19 (04:32:18) Chapter 20 (04:54:47) Chapter 21 (05:17:56) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill by Margaret Vandercook audiobook. Genre: adventure Fifteen-year-old Betty Ashton has everything a girl in Woodford, New Hampshire, is supposed to want-except a sense of purpose. Restless in her old family home, she is stunned when her mother brings in Esther Clark, a blunt, big-hearted girl from the local orphan asylum, to serve as Betty's companion. Esther carries something Betty has never tried before: the Camp Fire Girls' ideals of work, health, and love, along with the practical courage to build a fire, learn outdoor skills, and earn hard-won honors. Soon Betty, Esther, and their friends - including the bright, loyal Polly O'Neill - trade drawing rooms for pine woods and create a summer camp at beautiful Sunrise Hill under the steady guidance of their guardian, Miss McMurtry. But camp life is more than songs and ceremonies. Old grudges and new jealousies follow the girls into the woods, a troubled outsider tests the group's compassion, and rumors of a reckless plan by local boys threaten the safety and unity of the camp. As the season deepens, Betty must decide what kind of leader - and friend - she truly wants to be. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:51) Chapter 02 (00:36:20) Chapter 03 (00:53:37) Chapter 04 (01:03:26) Chapter 05 (01:15:09) Chapter 06 (01:27:44) Chapter 07 (01:55:39) Chapter 08 (02:15:48) Chapter 09 (02:42:49) Chapter 10 (03:01:19) Chapter 11 (03:12:35) Chapter 12 (03:35:45) Chapter 13 (03:53:17) Chapter 14 (04:05:08) Chapter 15 (04:22:08) Chapter 16 (04:33:19) Chapter 17 (04:49:52) Chapter 18 (04:57:04) Chapter 19 (05:12:05) Chapter 20 (05:23:09) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Baseball Joe in the Big League by Lester Chadwick audiobook. Genre: adventure 'Baseball Joe' Matson's great ambition is to become a professional baseball pitcher. The Baseball Joe series follows his career as he seeks to attain his goal. In this fifth volume, Joe is drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the major leagues. A successful season of pitching is marred by mishaps beginning with a request for a loan by a has-been ball player and ending with the kidnapping of our hero. Lester Chadwick is one of dozens of house pseudonyms created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate in the early to mid 1900's, to 'author' children's series. Contract writers (whose identities were to remain unknown under tight secrecy) were hired to write the books in the series under the various names, usually multiple writers contributing volumes to a particular series. Howard R. Garis (1873-1962) is thought to have ghost-written most, if not all (sources vary), of the 14-volume Baseball Joe series. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:24) Chapter 02 (00:23:07) Chapter 03 (00:36:15) Chapter 04 (00:46:55) Chapter 05 (00:57:27) Chapter 06 (01:07:38) Chapter 07 (01:16:24) Chapter 08 (01:28:22) Chapter 09 (01:36:42) Chapter 10 (01:49:07) Chapter 11 (02:01:24) Chapter 12 (02:08:48) Chapter 13 (02:19:39) Chapter 14 (02:31:50) Chapter 15 (02:40:22) Chapter 16 (02:53:16) Chapter 17 (03:02:59) Chapter 18 (03:09:13) Chapter 19 (03:20:13) Chapter 20 (03:36:08) Chapter 21 (03:45:32) Chapter 22 (03:56:17) Chapter 23 (04:08:31) Chapter 24 (04:17:20) Chapter 25 (04:28:27) Chapter 26 (04:35:41) Chapter 27 (04:43:42) Chapter 28 (04:50:14) Chapter 29 (04:57:50) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Shall We Do by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: philosophy A vivid description of wealth and poverty in Russia in Tolstoy's day, an inquiry into the root causes of economic inequality, and a vision of a more just way of living. Tolstoy recounts his own disturbing encounters with extreme poverty in Moscow, his initial idea of making the problem disappear by generous financial contributions, and his subsequent realization that the problem of poverty was much more intractable than he had imagined. He concludes that poverty is fundamentally linked with the luxurious lifestyle to which he and his class were accustomed, and that both are detrimental both to the rich and to the poor. He goes on to investigate the roots of power imbalances, both in the state and in markets, and to make suggestions for a fundamental social and economic reform in the interest of justice and well-being. Both his social critique and his proposed reforms are grounded in a deeply held and somewhat unorthodox religious faith, as well as in a vigorously applied but somewhat unconventional view of science. Unfortunately he also expresses some views on the role and duties of women and the use of birth control which some readers may find offensive. This material is mostly contained in Chapter 40, the last chapter. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:59) Chapter 01 (00:11:34) Chapter 02 (00:26:02) Chapter 03 (00:39:32) Chapter 04 (00:46:08) Chapter 05 (00:55:13) Chapter 06 (01:02:15) Chapter 07 (01:08:47) Chapter 08 (01:21:29) Chapter 09 (01:27:34) Chapter 10 (01:39:39) Chapter 11 (01:46:30) Chapter 12 (01:56:06) Chapter 13 (02:12:19) Chapter 14 (02:26:31) Chapter 15 (02:40:26) Chapter 16 (02:51:38) Chapter 17 (03:12:41) Chapter 18 (03:42:49) Chapter 19 (03:56:53) Chapter 20 (04:25:25) Chapter 21 (05:02:03) Chapter 22 (05:13:44) Chapter 23 (05:21:47) Chapter 24 (05:49:46) Chapter 25 (06:10:42) Chapter 26 (06:28:00) Chapter 27 (06:46:00) Chapter 28 (06:57:29) Chapter 29 (07:14:56) Chapter 30 (07:35:30) Chapter 31 (07:50:05) Chapter 32 (08:00:44) Chapter 33 (08:07:02) Chapter 34 (08:30:44) Chapter 35 (08:34:22) Chapter 36 (08:54:21) Chapter 37 (09:10:06) Chapter 38 (09:55:07) Chapter 39 (10:31:12) Chapter 40 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin audiobook. Genre: family Orphaned young but brimming with imagination, Rebecca Rowena Randall is sent from her quiet country home in Maine to live with her two aunts in the village of Riverboro. Aunt Miranda rules her household with strict economy and firm expectations, while Aunt Jane offers gentleness and quiet support. Rebecca, determined to be useful and to win affection without losing her sparkle, must learn the rhythms of a new home where rules feel sharper and approval is hard-earned. At school she meets spirited friends, faces embarrassing missteps, and discovers the pleasures and perils of being noticed for her quick mind and expressive ways. As she grows, Rebecca finds outlets for her creativity in writing, recitation, and performance, and she begins to imagine a future beyond what her circumstances seem to allow. Warm, funny, and heartfelt, this classic coming-of-age story follows a bright girl's struggle to balance duty and dreams, independence and belonging, as she works to shape a life of her own in a world that keeps trying to shape her first. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:58) Chapter 01 (00:30:54) Chapter 02 (00:42:37) Chapter 03 (00:59:52) Chapter 04 (01:06:14) Chapter 05 (01:25:59) Chapter 06 (01:41:05) Chapter 07 (01:54:51) Chapter 08 (02:06:15) Chapter 09 (02:20:08) Chapter 10 (02:33:17) Chapter 11 (02:45:35) Chapter 12 (03:04:00) Chapter 13 (03:15:45) Chapter 14 (03:28:40) Chapter 15 (03:41:48) Chapter 16 (03:59:20) Chapter 17 (04:13:06) Chapter 18 (04:29:04) Chapter 19 (04:43:10) Chapter 20 (04:57:01) Chapter 21 (05:16:34) Chapter 22 (05:37:37) Chapter 23 (05:50:32) Chapter 24 (06:05:15) Chapter 25 (06:23:32) Chapter 26 (06:37:43) Chapter 27 (06:54:39) Chapter 28 (07:13:45) Chapter 29 (07:26:45) Chapter 30 (07:37:20) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Trial of a New Society by Justus Ebert audiobook. Genre: philosophy In 1912 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, mostly immigrants, went on strike in response to a pay cut, speedups, and unsafe working conditions. Representatives from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW/Wobblies) came in to help organize the strike. The city declared martial law and a tense standoff went on for weeks. National newspapers provided breathless coverage of the strike and painted drastically different pictures of what was happening and who was to blame. When a woman was shot in ambiguous circumstances, strike leaders were tried for murder--not for shooting her, but for purportedly inciting mob violence leading to her death. They were acquitted. This book by an ardent IWW member, which seems to have been written in haste as well as in great enthusiasm, gives a vivid journalistic account of labor conditions, of the strike which was afterward known as the Bread and Roses strike, of the trial of strike leaders Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovanitti, and of the general strike organized to support them. The linked text includes reproductions of various cartoons, posters, and leaflets from the strike, which have not been read aloud. It also includes many footnotes, detailed citations of sources for quotes, which also have not been read aloud--only those footnotes required to explain quotes which had no attribution in the main text have been included For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:05:32) Chapter 01 (00:37:27) Chapter 02 (00:57:40) Chapter 03 (01:45:57) Chapter 04 (02:10:57) Chapter 05 (02:45:40) Chapter 06 (03:19:46) Chapter 07 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu audiobook. Genre: horror In a lonely Styrian castle, sheltered young Laura lives a quiet life with her father, attended only by servants and the hush of surrounding woods. Everything changes when a carriage accident brings a mysterious girl to their doorstep: Carmilla, elegant, languid, and strangely familiar. As the two form an intense friendship, Laura is drawn into a world of whispered confidences, unsettling dreams, and a growing sense that something in the house is not what it seems. Nearby villages speak of an illness that leaves its victims pale and weakened, and a local investigation begins to circle ever closer to Laura's home. With the help of a blunt-spoken doctor and a determined former soldier, Laura's family must piece together fragments of folklore, half-remembered encounters, and disturbing clues that point to an ancient, predatory secret. Told with a lingering, gothic atmosphere and a steady rise of dread, Carmilla explores desire, identity, and the peril that can hide behind tenderness. As Laura's strength fades, the question becomes whether anyone can name the danger in time - and whether love itself may be part of the trap. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:13) Chapter 01 (00:14:11) Chapter 02 (00:31:26) Chapter 03 (00:49:03) Chapter 04 (01:13:33) Chapter 05 (01:22:46) Chapter 06 (01:33:03) Chapter 07 (01:46:10) Chapter 08 (01:54:36) Chapter 09 (02:06:03) Chapter 10 (02:12:54) Chapter 11 (02:22:55) Chapter 12 (02:33:07) Chapter 13 (02:43:56) Chapter 14 (02:53:51) Chapter 15 (03:02:22) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chance by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: drama In Chance, Joseph Conrad turns his maritime world into a tense study of reputation, power, and the precariousness of love. The story is framed by Marlow, who pieces together the fate of Flora de Barral, a young woman left socially stranded after her financier father is disgraced. With few allies and many watchers, Flora becomes vulnerable to exploitation and rumor in a society that treats a woman's future as a negotiable commodity. Her path crosses Captain Roderick Anthony, a principled seaman whose blunt integrity draws him into a conflict he only half understands, and whose ship becomes both refuge and pressure cooker. Around them swirl men who interpret events through pride, jealousy, self-interest, and a desire to control the narrative: protectors who may also be possessors, friends who may become adversaries. Moving between drawing rooms, docks, and the claustrophobic quarters of a vessel at sea, Conrad builds a suspenseful moral drama about what people will sacrifice for security, what they will invent to preserve face, and how a single misjudgment can set lives on a dangerous course. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:39:36) Chapter 02 (00:55:00) Chapter 03 (01:28:09) Chapter 04 (01:54:29) Chapter 05 (02:34:59) Chapter 06 (02:52:46) Chapter 07 (03:14:22) Chapter 08 (03:44:14) Chapter 09 (04:03:03) Chapter 10 (04:32:04) Chapter 11 (04:56:07) Chapter 12 (05:33:18) Chapter 13 (05:55:29) Chapter 14 (06:27:40) Chapter 15 (07:12:24) Chapter 16 (07:37:26) Chapter 17 (08:04:16) Chapter 18 (08:29:44) Chapter 19 (08:46:42) Chapter 20 (09:14:10) Chapter 21 (09:38:17) Chapter 22 (10:23:00) Chapter 23 (10:43:52) Chapter 24 (11:03:31) Chapter 25 (11:16:09) Chapter 26 (11:42:10) Chapter 27 (12:04:36) Chapter 28 (12:29:31) Chapter 29 (12:44:17) Chapter 30 (13:09:46) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: drama In a remote river settlement in the Malay Archipelago, Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer clings to a single dream: striking it rich and escaping the humid, decaying outpost that has swallowed his youth. Propped up by the lingering promises of his seafaring patron Captain Lingard, Almayer builds a grand, unfinished house the locals mock as his 'folly' - a monument to ambition in a place governed by shifting alliances, rumor, and power. But the fortunes he chases remain out of reach, and the life he has made becomes a tangle of cultural mistrust and private bitterness. Bound to a marriage that has turned into a war of resentment, Almayer pours his hopes into his daughter Nina, believing she will be the bridge to a European future. When Nina is drawn toward the charismatic Dain Maroola and the dangerous currents of local politics, Almayer is forced to confront how little control he has over the people he loves - or over the world he thought he could master. Joseph Conrad's debut novel is a haunting study of colonial illusion, pride, and the slow unraveling of a man living on the edge of someone else's country. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:32:32) Chapter 02 (00:58:02) Chapter 03 (01:26:16) Chapter 04 (01:49:25) Chapter 05 (02:19:16) Chapter 06 (02:47:31) Chapter 07 (03:21:05) Chapter 08 (03:58:54) Chapter 09 (04:37:40) Chapter 10 (05:13:32) Chapter 11 (05:56:54) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Voice and Public Speaking by John Poole Sandlands audiobook. Genre: self help I write for public speakers. I wish to take them into my confidence. I feel I can do them good. My object is to help them to speak with greater ease and efficiency. When the voice is developed and in a condition to answer the calls made upon it, then it will naturally seek to put its powers into operation.... Develop the powers of the voice and it will not be satisfied till it find scope for their exercise. This is a marvellous feature of the human voice, and yet, perhaps, it is more or less common to all the powers we possess. Whenever we develop a power, whatever it be, nothing gives us greater pleasure than the exercise of it. Every artist thinks his own art the most sublime. The painter prefers painting, and the musician music; yet there does seem a diviner charm and more real pleasure in exercising the powers of the voice. Holding the opinion as I do, that if the voice be developed it will perform its work aright, it will be my object to notice and dilate upon those principles which, when worked out, For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:36:14) Chapter 02 (01:06:10) Chapter 03 (01:16:30) Chapter 04 (01:40:41) Chapter 05 (02:04:03) Chapter 06 (02:19:34) Chapter 07 (02:45:20) Chapter 08 (03:04:47) Chapter 09 (03:30:12) Chapter 10 (03:39:57) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The History of Britain by John Milton audiobook. Genre: history Written by the poet and polemicist John Milton, The History of Britain is an ambitious attempt to trace the story of the British Isles from legendary beginnings through the arrival of the Saxons and into the early medieval period. Drawing on classical writers, medieval chronicles, and national tradition, Milton moves from mythic founders and heroic battles to the hard questions of governance, succession, and the making of a people. Along the way he weighs the reputations of rulers, examines the tension between liberty and kingship, and challenges easy patriotic storytelling by pointing out contradictions in his sources. More than a simple chronicle, this work reveals Milton's larger concerns: how histories are written, how power is justified, and how language shapes national memory. Readers will hear a learned mind at work, balancing scholarship with sharp judgment and moral intensity, as the island's past becomes a stage for enduring debates about authority, faith, and civic responsibility. Ideal for listeners who enjoy foundational narratives and the craft of early modern historiography, The History of Britain offers a vivid, opinionated tour through Britain before it became Britain as we know it. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (01:02:38) Chapter 02 (02:10:20) Chapter 03 (03:17:33) Chapter 04 (03:47:51) Chapter 05 (04:18:08) Chapter 06 (04:50:37) Chapter 07 (05:32:33) Chapter 08 (06:14:15) Chapter 09 (06:50:44) Chapter 10 (07:44:58) Chapter 11 (08:40:59) Chapter 12 (09:24:48) Chapter 13 (10:01:58) Chapter 14 (10:58:26) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cinnamon and Angelica by John Middleton Murry audiobook. Genre: drama First published in 1920, John Middleton Murry's Cinnamon and Angelica is a four-act verse play that turns romance into a glittering fable of rival houses and restless desire. In a world where even the names taste of spice, Cinnamon, Prince of the Peppercorns, finds his imagination and his fate pulled toward Angelica, Princess of the Cloves - a meeting that threatens to ignite more than private longing. Around them gather vivid attendants and officers: Vanilla Bean keeps watch over Cinnamon's household, Caraway guards Angelica's confidence, and the martial voices of Mace and Marjoram speak for the duties of rank, loyalty, and war. As the forces of the Peppercorns and the Cloves press against each other, the lovers are asked to choose what kind of people they will be, and what kind of future their realms can survive. Lyrical, symbolic, and deliberately heightened, the play explores love as a transforming power set against pride, tradition, and the claims of public life - asking whether a single voice can change the course of a conflict that has begun to feel inevitable. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:30:53) Chapter 2 (00:50:32) Chapter 3 (01:39:26) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All That Glitters Is Not Gold by John Maddison Morton audiobook. Genre: romance Set in a bustling Victorian world of cotton mills and drawing rooms, All That Glitters Is Not Gold follows wealthy factory owner Jasper Plum as he tries to steer his family safely through the treacherous waters of love, status, and money. His sensible son Stephen risks his father's disapproval by courting Martha Gibbs, an earnest factory worker whose lack of fortune makes her an easy target for suspicion. Meanwhile, Jasper is far more impressed by titles and polish, especially when his other son, Frederick, becomes captivated by the dazzling Lady Valeria - a woman whose charm raises an unsettling question: is she in love, or in pursuit of the Plum inheritance? Into this swirl steps Sir Arthur Lassell, a confident gentleman whose attentions and flirtations complicate both romances and expose the social games everyone is playing. As gossip spreads and motives are questioned, Jasper must decide whom to trust, and the young lovers must prove that sincerity can outshine glittering appearances. Blending romantic entanglements with sharp observations about class and ambition, the story tests whether true worth is found in wealth and titles, or in character. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:55:07) Chapter 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Money and Trade Considered by John Law audiobook. Genre: business Written at the dawn of modern finance, John Law's Money and Trade Considered sets out a bold claim: a nation's prosperity depends less on hoarded metal than on the smart circulation of credit. Speaking to the chronic shortages of coin and the economic stagnation he saw in Britain, Law builds an accessible, argumentative case that money is not merely treasure but a tool - one that can be redesigned. Moving from first principles to practical policy, he critiques how scarce cash suppresses wages, trade, and enterprise, then proposes a new system to expand the money supply through paper credit backed by land and administered through a national bank. Along the way, he tackles interest rates, prices, and the relationship between liquidity and growth, insisting that well-structured credit can unlock industry without collapsing trust. Part manifesto, part economic reasoning, the book invites listeners into the high-stakes debate over what gives money value and how governments can shape commerce. For anyone curious about the origins of central banking ideas and the perennial tension between stability and expansion, this is a foundational and provocative starting point. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:49) Chapter 02 (00:27:50) Chapter 03 (00:40:35) Chapter 04 (00:57:10) Chapter 05 (01:10:58) Chapter 06 (01:25:00) Chapter 07 (01:38:52) Chapter 08 (01:54:25) Chapter 09 (02:09:18) Chapter 10 (02:19:34) Chapter 11 (02:33:52) Chapter 12 (02:49:14) Chapter 13 (03:02:45) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Divine Conduct, or the Mystery of Providence by John Flavel audiobook. Genre: religion In Divine Conduct, or the Mystery of Providence, Puritan pastor John Flavel guides listeners through a careful, Scripture-soaked exploration of how God governs the world and the lives of ordinary believers. Written for Christians who wrestle with confusion, loss, delay, and sudden change, this classic work treats providence not as an abstract doctrine but as a lived reality that meets the soul in daily anxieties and long seasons of waiting. Flavel asks how faith can remain steady when circumstances appear tangled, prayers seem unanswered, or afflictions feel undeserved. With pastoral warmth and clear reasoning, he defines what providence is, distinguishes it from chance and fate, and shows how God can pursue wise and gracious ends through ordinary means and painful trials. Along the way, he addresses common temptations: interpreting events without humility, forgetting past mercies, envying the prosperity of others, or assuming that hardship proves abandonment. The central conflict is inward: learning to read lifes changing scenes in the light of Gods character, and to practice watchful trust when the meaning of events is still hidden. This is a companion for troubled consciences and a call to patient, reverent confidence. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:53) Chapter 02 (01:04:27) Chapter 03 (01:47:10) Chapter 04 (02:24:34) Chapter 05 (02:39:14) Chapter 06 (03:02:03) Chapter 07 (03:23:45) Chapter 08 (03:52:36) Chapter 09 (04:03:31) Chapter 10 (04:50:02) Chapter 11 (05:19:44) Chapter 12 (05:53:28) Chapter 13 (06:53:06) Chapter 14 (07:03:57) Chapter 15 (07:46:47) Chapter 16 (08:39:34) Chapter 17 (08:45:24) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Last Secrets by John Buchan audiobook. Genre: history In The Last Secrets (1923), John Buchan turns from spy fiction to the real-world drama of the map's final blank spaces, tracing how early twentieth-century expeditions transformed rumor and legend into surveyed fact. With a storyteller's pace and a geographer's eye, Buchan revisits the great set pieces of a rapidly shrinking world: the long-guarded road to Lhasa, the perilous gorges of the Brahmaputra, the contested dreams of the North and South Poles (with polar chapters contributed by Charles Turley Smith), and the strange equatorial snows of Ruwenzori, the 'Mountains of the Moon.' He ranges on to the high gamble of Mount McKinley, the guarded holy cities of Islam, the hard-won routes through New Guinea's interior, and the early reconnaissance that set the stage for Mount Everest. Across these episodes runs the book's central tension: the irresistible pull of the Unknown versus the bittersweet realization that discovery increasingly means precise measurement, patient logistics, and scientific detail rather than forbidden cities and mythical rivers. The result is both a chronicle of daring journeys and a meditation on why exploration matters when wonder seems to be running out of room. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:06:47) Chapter 01 (00:45:44) Chapter 02 (01:02:12) Chapter 03 (01:42:03) Chapter 04 (02:03:09) Chapter 05 (02:33:52) Chapter 06 (03:09:39) Chapter 07 (03:42:43) Chapter 08 (04:24:05) Chapter 09 (05:01:36) Chapter 10 (05:30:37) Chapter 11 (06:00:02) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greenmantle by John Buchan audiobook. Genre: adventure On the eve of the First World War's next turning point, veteran spy Richard Hannay is pulled back into Britain's shadow war against a new and terrifying threat. Rumors swirl of Greenmantle - a mysterious figure or movement capable of igniting a wave of religious fervor across the Islamic world and shattering Allied strategy in the Middle East. To stop it, Hannay and a small band of allies must slip through a Europe of checkpoints, informers, and shifting loyalties, following a trail that leads from London to the Continent and toward the Ottoman sphere of influence. Among his comrades are the brilliant and volatile Sandy Arbuthnot, whose mastery of disguise and languages makes him both indispensable and hard to truly know, and other operatives whose courage is matched only by the danger they attract. As identities fracture and every safe house becomes a trap, Hannay faces a ruthless enemy network that weaponizes faith, propaganda, and fear. Part chase, part espionage puzzle, Greenmantle blends high-stakes adventure with a portrait of friendship under pressure, asking what patriotism, belief, and deception cost when the fate of nations hinges on secrets. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:44) Chapter 02 (00:55:08) Chapter 03 (01:19:59) Chapter 04 (01:47:14) Chapter 05 (02:14:52) Chapter 06 (02:46:28) Chapter 07 (03:13:52) Chapter 08 (03:36:03) Chapter 09 (04:01:10) Chapter 10 (04:21:25) Chapter 11 (04:48:43) Chapter 12 (05:12:31) Chapter 13 (05:39:35) Chapter 14 (06:05:50) Chapter 15 (06:37:16) Chapter 16 (07:03:18) Chapter 17 (07:27:37) Chapter 18 (07:50:55) Chapter 19 (08:12:01) Chapter 20 (08:43:52) Chapter 21 (09:18:32) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meditations and Prayers by John Bradford audiobook. Genre: religion Meditations and Prayers by John Bradford gathers the devotional writings of one of the English Reformation's most compelling voices. Written in a plain, urgent style shaped by pastoral care and personal suffering, these meditations lead the listener through confession, repentance, gratitude, and steadfast trust in God's mercy. Bradford speaks as both teacher and fellow pilgrim, addressing the restless conscience, the fear of judgment, and the daily struggle to live faithfully amid uncertainty. The prayers are practical and intimate: petitions for humility, patience, purity of heart, and courage to endure hardship without bitterness. Interwoven throughout is Bradford's deep reliance on Scripture and his conviction that true comfort comes not from self-reliance, but from grace received and returned in worship. Whether approached as a daily companion, a guide for private prayer, or a historical window into persecuted Protestant devotion, this book offers a disciplined rhythm of self-examination and hope. Its central conflict is spiritual rather than external: the battle to surrender pride and anxiety, and to cultivate a life ordered toward God. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:31) Chapter 02 (00:10:10) Chapter 03 (00:14:46) Chapter 04 (00:21:47) Chapter 05 (00:29:41) Chapter 06 (00:36:12) Chapter 07 (00:42:25) Chapter 08 (00:49:00) Chapter 09 (01:04:43) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Destination Of Man by Johann Gottlieb Fichte audiobook. Genre: philosophy Johanne Fichte published The Destination of Man (Die Bestimmung des Menschen) in 1799. It was translated into English in 1846 by Jane Sinnett and then again in 1848 by William Smith. Fichte says his book is designed to 'raise [the reader] from the sensuous world, to that which is above sense.' Francis Bacon said, in The Advancement of Learning, 'the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.' Rene Descartes said 'in order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.' Fichte moves from doubt to knowledge and finally to faith in his exploration of the self. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:07:02) Chapter 01 (00:25:54) Chapter 02 (00:38:22) Chapter 03 (00:47:52) Chapter 04 (01:11:22) Chapter 05 (01:34:02) Chapter 06 (01:51:28) Chapter 07 (02:06:28) Chapter 08 (02:24:09) Chapter 09 (02:35:28) Chapter 10 (03:01:56) Chapter 11 (03:16:59) Chapter 12 (03:38:20) Chapter 13 (03:43:38) Chapter 14 (03:58:58) Chapter 15 (04:11:56) Chapter 16 (04:22:36) Chapter 17 (04:37:39) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance by Janet D. Wheeler audiobook. Genre: mystery High-spirited Billie Bradley is the kind of girl who turns an ordinary errand into an uproar - and she does it the day she and her best friends, Laura and Violet, slip back into their closed school building to retrieve a forgotten book. A bit of joking goes too far, a valuable statue is broken, and suddenly Billie is facing a crushing problem: how can she possibly raise the money to make things right? Before she can catch her breath, a surprising piece of news arrives - Billie has inherited an old, unoccupied homestead in a lonely rural corner known as Cherry Corners. The gift sounds like a lifeline, but the place comes with whispers, secrets, and a steady stream of strange incidents that make the girls wonder who - or what - really wants them there. With loyal chums at her side and danger creeping in from the shadows, Billie must balance responsibility and curiosity, untangle rumors from reality, and uncover the truth behind the 'queer' homestead before trouble claims her inheritance for good. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:11) Chapter 02 (00:19:42) Chapter 03 (00:29:53) Chapter 04 (00:42:04) Chapter 05 (00:51:32) Chapter 06 (01:02:37) Chapter 07 (01:11:35) Chapter 08 (01:21:19) Chapter 09 (01:34:30) Chapter 10 (01:45:04) Chapter 11 (01:56:32) Chapter 12 (02:07:35) Chapter 13 (02:19:50) Chapter 14 (02:30:51) Chapter 15 (02:43:06) Chapter 16 (02:54:51) Chapter 17 (03:08:04) Chapter 18 (03:21:39) Chapter 19 (03:35:28) Chapter 20 (03:44:38) Chapter 21 (03:55:42) Chapter 22 (04:06:14) Chapter 23 (04:17:13) Chapter 24 (04:27:15) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell audiobook. Genre: fantasy In a quiet medieval town, Jurgen is a middle-aged pawnbroker with a sharp tongue, a restless imagination, and a marriage that has settled into routine with his formidable wife, Dame Lisa. When a mysterious encounter offers him a chance to step outside his ordinary life, Jurgen seizes it and finds himself moving through a chain of uncanny courts and legendary landscapes where desire, reputation, and virtue are all negotiable. Along the way he crosses paths with figures drawn from romance, myth, and scripture, each testing a different version of what it means to be honorable, faithful, and free. But Jurgen is no simple hero: he is witty, evasive, and endlessly self-justifying, and his greatest weapon is the ability to turn any moral demand into a joke. As the temptations grow grander and the rules grow stranger, he must navigate bargains, judgments, and the consequences of his own cleverness. Part fairy tale, part philosophical prank, this classic novel skewers piety and hypocrisy while asking whether justice is a higher law or just another story we tell ourselves. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:11:30) Chapter 01 (00:20:04) Chapter 02 (00:26:41) Chapter 03 (00:33:45) Chapter 04 (00:54:52) Chapter 05 (01:03:42) Chapter 06 (01:17:38) Chapter 07 (01:38:58) Chapter 08 (01:49:40) Chapter 09 (01:58:34) Chapter 10 (02:08:31) Chapter 11 (02:15:30) Chapter 12 (02:23:51) Chapter 13 (02:35:14) Chapter 14 (02:53:03) Chapter 15 (03:04:13) Chapter 16 (03:22:26) Chapter 17 (03:33:43) Chapter 18 (03:45:45) Chapter 19 (03:53:49) Chapter 20 (04:02:49) Chapter 21 (04:09:22) Chapter 22 (04:23:13) Chapter 23 (04:47:14) Chapter 24 (04:59:22) Chapter 25 (05:07:58) Chapter 26 (05:19:26) Chapter 27 (05:33:18) Chapter 28 (05:55:39) Chapter 29 (06:10:14) Chapter 30 (06:19:41) Chapter 31 (06:26:50) Chapter 32 (06:45:02) Chapter 33 (06:53:07) Chapter 34 (06:59:23) Chapter 35 (07:06:33) Chapter 36 (07:18:31) Chapter 37 (07:25:41) Chapter 38 (07:41:08) Chapter 39 (07:53:55) Chapter 40 (08:04:09) Chapter 41 (08:24:58) Chapter 42 (08:35:20) Chapter 43 (08:56:58) Chapter 44 (09:09:51) Chapter 45 (09:17:44) Chapter 46 (09:25:35) Chapter 47 (09:32:29) Chapter 48 (09:44:51) Chapter 49 (09:58:08) Chapter 50 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac audiobook. Genre: drama In Big Sur, Jack Kerouac turns his restless, beat-fueled legend inward, following writer Jack Duluoz as fame, exhaustion, and alcoholism begin to close in. Hoping to escape the noise of city life and the demands of being a public symbol, Duluoz accepts an invitation to a secluded cabin on the rugged California coast, where redwood forests and crashing surf promise silence and recovery. But solitude does not automatically bring peace. As days stretch into nights, he wrestles with cravings, memory, and a relentless inner monologue that swings between wonder at the landscape and dread of what he carries with him. Friends drift in and out, offering companionship, temptation, and uneasy mirrors of his own self-destructive patterns. With raw, improvisational prose and a fierce sense of immediacy, Kerouac captures a man trying to hold onto creativity and dignity while confronting the limits of escape. Big Sur is a haunting portrait of burnout, spiritual hunger, and the cost of living too fast for too long. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:31) Chapter 01 (00:07:24) Chapter 02 (00:11:01) Chapter 03 (00:18:50) Chapter 04 (00:22:00) Chapter 05 (00:34:18) Chapter 06 (00:46:45) Chapter 07 (00:59:42) Chapter 08 (01:04:18) Chapter 09 (01:09:30) Chapter 10 (01:18:45) Chapter 11 (01:39:35) Chapter 12 (01:46:45) Chapter 13 (01:54:53) Chapter 14 (02:09:45) Chapter 15 (02:15:05) Chapter 16 (02:17:17) Chapter 17 (02:22:38) Chapter 18 (02:30:49) Chapter 19 (02:36:43) Chapter 20 (02:41:47) Chapter 21 (03:04:13) Chapter 22 (03:16:08) Chapter 23 (03:33:22) Chapter 24 (03:43:02) Chapter 25 (03:48:27) Chapter 26 (04:01:10) Chapter 27 (04:07:03) Chapter 28 (04:11:55) Chapter 29 (04:16:07) Chapter 30 (04:25:12) Chapter 31 (04:41:45) Chapter 32 (04:44:38) Chapter 33 (04:52:04) Chapter 34 (05:12:09) Chapter 35 (05:18:23) Chapter 36 (05:37:17) Chapter 37 (05:50:49) Chapter 38 (05:59:46) Chapter 39 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tommy and Grizel by J. M. Barrie audiobook. Genre: drama Tommy and Grizel (1900) is J. M. Barrie's bittersweet sequel to Sentimental Tommy, following Thomas (Tommy) Sandys as he tries to turn boyhood imagination into a life worth living. Sixteen and solemn, Tommy arrives in foggy London with his devoted sister, Elspeth, and falls into the orbit of O. P. Pym, a booming, unreliable popular writer who hires the farm-bred youth as an assistant. Under Pym's chaotic mentorship, Tommy discovers both the seduction of authorship and the danger of believing his own carefully staged sentiments. Fame comes in an unexpected form, and the persona he invents begins to harden into a cage. When Tommy is drawn back toward his Scottish roots and the small-town world that first shaped his fantasies, he is forced to face Grizel, the steadfast girl he has long idealized, along with a web of friends, rivals, and memories that refuse to fit his tidy stories. Moving between sharp comedy and quiet ache, Barrie explores love that is easier to preach than to practice, the costs of ambition, and the painful work of growing up when your truest enemy is the myth you have made of yourself. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:23:07) Chapter 02 (00:48:43) Chapter 03 (01:14:03) Chapter 04 (01:39:19) Chapter 05 (02:05:50) Chapter 06 (02:25:30) Chapter 07 (02:48:51) Chapter 08 (03:05:38) Chapter 09 (03:25:11) Chapter 10 (03:32:40) Chapter 11 (04:00:00) Chapter 12 (04:24:19) Chapter 13 (04:43:58) Chapter 14 (04:57:09) Chapter 15 (05:12:46) Chapter 16 (05:37:13) Chapter 17 (05:59:25) Chapter 18 (06:21:50) Chapter 19 (06:46:47) Chapter 20 (07:20:50) Chapter 21 (07:40:45) Chapter 22 (07:55:31) Chapter 23 (08:18:44) Chapter 24 (08:49:14) Chapter 25 (09:17:28) Chapter 26 (09:41:46) Chapter 27 (09:58:43) Chapter 28 (10:22:48) Chapter 29 (10:37:05) Chapter 30 (11:02:43) Chapter 31 (11:28:03) Chapter 32 (11:45:33) Chapter 33 (12:05:58) Chapter 34 (12:38:37) Chapter 35 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alice Sit-by-the-Fire by J. M. Barrie audiobook. Genre: drama In Alice Sit-by-the-Fire, J. M. Barrie brings the family home front into sharp, playful focus. Alice Gray returns to London after years abroad, eager to reclaim her place as the heart of the household and to enjoy the comfortable routines she has imagined from afar. But home has changed: her children, especially the imaginative Amy, have developed their own loyalties, private dramas, and ideas about what a mother should be. When Alice tries to guide the family as if she were stepping back into a familiar role, she collides with misunderstandings, youthful romantic fantasies, and the influence of a smooth, well-meaning outsider whose presence upsets the domestic balance. As everyday conversations begin to resemble scenes from the melodramas Amy adores, Alice finds herself cast in parts she never auditioned for - jealous wife, neglected mother, comic villain - and must decide whether to fight the story her family is telling or rewrite it with honesty and warmth. By turns witty and tender, the novel explores motherhood, identity, and the thin line between performance and real feeling in the place we call home. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (01:03:12) Chapter 2 (01:56:06) Chapter 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:42:46) Chapter 2 (01:22:00) Chapter 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.) For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by George MacDonald audiobook. Genre: family This delightful story begins in a little town called Marshmallows, where a young man, the new vicar, Harry Walton, has just arrived. As he begins his work Harry realizes that everything is not quite 'right' in his little parish and it all seems to center around Oldcastle Hall. As he wins the affection of the people secrets begin to unfold, and Harry Walton attempts to free them from guilt of the past, help them overcome pride and while he is at it, he falls in love with a woman whose past is the most mysterious yet, and whose tyrannical mother is the mistress of Oldcastle Hall. This Is a wonderful, heartwarming romance and a unique mystery, told from the viewpoint of the young vicar. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:26:11) Chapter 02 (00:36:29) Chapter 03 (00:55:59) Chapter 04 (01:16:07) Chapter 05 (01:37:20) Chapter 06 (02:12:44) Chapter 07 (02:38:43) Chapter 08 (03:16:08) Chapter 09 (03:28:47) Chapter 10 (03:51:09) Chapter 11 (04:23:12) Chapter 12 (04:51:19) Chapter 13 (05:31:15) Chapter 14 (06:14:24) Chapter 15 (06:32:24) Chapter 16 (07:09:28) Chapter 17 (07:41:46) Chapter 18 (08:05:11) Chapter 19 (08:46:52) Chapter 20 (08:55:16) Chapter 21 (09:17:52) Chapter 22 (09:30:48) Chapter 23 (09:54:32) Chapter 24 (10:19:19) Chapter 25 (10:29:19) Chapter 26 (10:53:43) Chapter 27 (11:13:49) Chapter 28 (11:30:49) Chapter 29 (11:52:24) Chapter 30 (12:17:19) Chapter 31 (12:38:02) Chapter 32 (13:09:03) Chapter 33 (13:27:49) Chapter 34 (13:59:44) Chapter 35 (14:18:40) Chapter 36 (14:37:20) Chapter 37 (14:52:15) Chapter 38 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angels of the Battlefield by George Barton audiobook. Genre: history Angels of the Battlefield is George Barton's sweeping Civil War history of the Catholic sisterhoods who became some of the era's most indispensable nurses, organizers, and steady hands in the midst of mass suffering. Drawing on interviews, letters, official records, and community archives, Barton reconstructs how orders such as the Sisters of Charity, Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of St. Joseph, and Sisters of Holy Cross moved from convent routines into makeshift wards, overcrowded military hospitals, and field stations where disease spread as fast as bullets. The book travels from Richmond to Washington, from St. Louis to New Orleans, and onto major flashpoints like Shiloh, Antietam, and Gettysburg, introducing vivid figures including the formidable Sister Anthony and the capable administrator Sister Mary Gonzaga, as well as church leaders navigating wartime politics and practical logistics. At the center is a single urgent conflict: how to preserve life and dignity when resources are scarce, prejudice is real, and the wounded keep coming, regardless of whether they wore blue or gray. Both a tribute and a documentary record, Barton's narrative highlights faith translated into action, and the often-uncredited labor that held thousands of soldiers together long enough to heal, reconcile, or simply be comforted. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:06:30) Chapter 01 (00:12:38) Chapter 02 (00:26:04) Chapter 03 (00:37:27) Chapter 04 (00:52:24) Chapter 05 (01:05:42) Chapter 06 (01:20:40) Chapter 07 (01:34:28) Chapter 08 (01:50:56) Chapter 09 (02:05:02) Chapter 10 (02:17:22) Chapter 11 (02:34:10) Chapter 12 (02:50:07) Chapter 13 (03:06:04) Chapter 14 (03:16:50) Chapter 15 (03:28:23) Chapter 16 (03:50:04) Chapter 17 (04:10:02) Chapter 18 (04:24:50) Chapter 19 (04:38:19) Chapter 20 (04:53:59) Chapter 21 (05:11:10) Chapter 22 (05:29:48) Chapter 23 (05:49:12) Chapter 24 (06:06:32) Chapter 25 (06:27:37) Chapter 26 (06:47:38) Chapter 27 (06:57:50) Chapter 28 (07:10:52) Chapter 29 (07:29:31) Chapter 30 (07:44:36) Chapter 31 (08:11:44) Chapter 32 (08:26:41) Chapter 33 (08:41:00) Chapter 34 (09:15:22) Chapter 35 (09:32:55) Chapter 36 (09:48:45) Chapter 37 (09:50:13) Chapter 38 (09:51:59) Chapter 39 (09:55:29) Chapter 40 (09:57:25) Chapter 41 (10:04:54) Chapter 42 (10:18:43) Chapter 43 (10:28:09) Chapter 44 (10:40:24) Chapter 45 (10:45:22) Chapter 46 (10:56:51) Chapter 47 (11:03:03) Chapter 48 (11:10:30) Chapter 49 (11:17:00) Chapter 50 (11:31:55) Chapter 51 (11:40:14) Chapter 52 (11:42:41) Chapter 53 (11:47:28) Chapter 54 (11:50:39) Chapter 55 (12:07:34) Chapter 56 (12:19:03) Chapter 57 (12:32:05) Chapter 58 (12:44:52) Chapter 59 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: religion This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does not deal directly with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own life; and about which I am already writing a more purely controversial volume. It is impossible, I hope, for any Catholic to write any book on any subject, above all this subject, without showing that he is a Catholic; but this study is not specially concerned with the differences between a Catholic and a Protestant. Much of it is devoted to many sorts of Pagans rather than any sort of Christians; and its thesis is that those who say that Christ stands side by side with similar myths, and his religion side by side with similar religions, are only repeating a very stale formula contradicted by a very striking fact. To suggest this I have not needed to go much beyond matters known to us all; I make no claim to learning; and have to depend for some things, as has rather become the fashion, on those who are more learned. As I have more than once differed from Mr. H. G. Wells in his view of history, it is the more right that I should here congratulate him on the courage and constructive imagination which carried through his vast and varied and intensely interesting work; but still more on having asserted the reasonable right of the amateur to do what he can with the facts which the specialists provide. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:27:30) Chapter 2 (01:06:34) Chapter 3 (01:45:18) Chapter 4 (02:48:31) Chapter 5 (03:32:59) Chapter 6 (04:10:40) Chapter 7 (05:02:52) Chapter 8 (05:36:42) Chapter 9 (06:11:56) Chapter 10 (06:52:08) Chapter 11 (07:26:40) Chapter 12 (07:54:52) Chapter 13 (08:36:17) Chapter 14 (09:17:31) Chapter 15 (09:45:10) Chapter 16 (10:07:40) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

G.K. Chesterton in The Open Road by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: religion In G.K. Chesterton in The Open Road, the great English essayist turns two short book reviews into a brisk, brainy ride through the controversies of his day. Originally published in 1911 in The Open Road, these pieces show Chesterton at his most playful and provocative as he tests fashionable ideas against common sense, history, and the stubborn facts of human nature. In 'The Dulness of New Religions,' he pokes at spiritual movements that promise novelty but often recycle the same old human impulses, asking what a faith is worth if it cannot surprise, challenge, or enlarge the soul. In 'Broken Backed History,' he takes aim at tidy, secondhand versions of the past, arguing that history becomes lifeless when it is reduced to slogans, dates, and convenient moral lessons. Moving with paradox, humor, and sudden seriousness, Chesterton invites listeners to reexamine what they think they know about belief, progress, and the stories societies tell about themselves. This compact collection is ideal for anyone who enjoys sharp criticism, big questions, and a narrator who can turn an argument into entertainment. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:10:32) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Great Inventors and Their Inventions by Frank Puterbaugh Bachman audiobook. Genre: biography This book is about Great inventors and what they created. It has different stories like Alexander Bell, Wrights, Morse, Gutenberg, and Edison. ON August 17, 1807, a curious crowd of people in New York gathered at a boat landing. Tied to the dock was a strange-looking craft. A smokestack rose above the deck. From the sides of the boat, there stood out queer shaped paddle wheels. Of a sudden, the clouds of smoke from the smokestack grew larger, the paddle wheels turned, and the boat, to the astonishment of all, moved. It was 'Fulton's Folly,' the Clermont, on her first trip to Albany. The first boat used by man was probably the trunk of a fallen tree, moved about by means of a broken branch or pole. Then some savage saw that a better boat could be made by tying a number of logs together to make a raft. But rafts are hard to move, so the heart of a log was hollowed out by means of a stone ax or fire, to make a still better boat, or strips of birch bark were skillfully fastened together to form a graceful cano For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:49) Chapter 01 (00:25:29) Chapter 02 (00:56:32) Chapter 03 (01:27:33) Chapter 04 (01:47:23) Chapter 05 (02:06:17) Chapter 06 (02:31:13) Chapter 07 (02:57:28) Chapter 08 (03:20:32) Chapter 09 (03:59:17) Chapter 10 (04:28:58) Chapter 11 (05:00:39) Chapter 12 (05:26:09) Chapter 13 (05:33:41) Chapter 14 (05:42:54) Chapter 15 (05:48:41) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Billy Whiskers Jr. by Frances Trego Montgomery audiobook. Genre: adventure Restless after only a few quiet weeks back on the farm, Night - Billy Whiskers Jr. - decides that ordinary pasture life is not for him. Brimming with swagger and curiosity, the young goat dreams of the wide-open West, where tough herds, long trails, and bigger dangers promise the kind of fame a born troublemaker thinks he deserves. When an unexpected change of owners sends him toward ranch country, Billy Jr. takes every new fence, corral, and camp as a personal invitation to test his luck and his wits. Before long he is dodging threats on the range, tangling with wary animals and watchful humans, and learning that freedom on the frontier comes with real consequences. His journey carries him beyond open country and into the bustle of San Francisco, where he finds an unlikely ally in Stubby, a scrappy yellow dog with a talent for getting into (and out of) trouble. Together they set off on a fast, funny chain of misadventures that turns Billy Jr.'s hunger for excitement into a crash course in friendship, courage, and what it truly means to lead. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:35) Chapter 02 (00:18:34) Chapter 03 (00:29:24) Chapter 04 (00:38:01) Chapter 05 (00:50:59) Chapter 06 (01:05:42) Chapter 07 (01:23:00) Chapter 08 (01:43:29) Chapter 09 (01:55:01) Chapter 10 (02:07:07) Chapter 11 (02:14:54) Chapter 12 (02:24:05) Chapter 13 (02:35:54) Chapter 14 (02:43:59) Chapter 15 (02:55:09) Chapter 16 (03:10:10) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Billy Whiskers Adventures by Frances Trego Montgomery audiobook. Genre: adventure Billy Whiskers is not an ordinary goat - he is a quick-witted troublemaker with a big heart and an even bigger appetite for adventure. After spending the war years in France alongside American troops, Billy returns to New York Harbor with his inseparable companions: Stubby the loyal dog and Button the sharp-eyed cat. Home is finally in sight, but the city has plans of its own. Mistaken for valuable mascots and nearly shipped off again, the three friends have to rely on daring escapes, fast talking, and pure nerve to stay together and stay free.Loose in bustling streets, crowded docks, and unfamiliar neighborhoods, Billy turns every close call into a new exploit - sometimes heroic, sometimes ridiculous, and always unpredictable. Along the way, the trio meets strangers both kind and dangerous, tests the limits of friendship, and discovers that getting home can be harder than any battlefield. Warm, playful, and packed with cliffhanger chapter endings, this classic animal tale blends slapstick comedy with genuine peril, celebrating loyalty, courage, and the wild joy of curiosity. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:42) Chapter 02 (00:24:05) Chapter 03 (00:36:42) Chapter 04 (00:45:37) Chapter 05 (01:02:40) Chapter 06 (01:19:48) Chapter 07 (01:31:04) Chapter 08 (01:46:56) Chapter 09 (01:56:50) Chapter 10 (02:16:55) Chapter 11 (02:23:15) Chapter 12 (02:32:50) Chapter 13 (02:39:14) Chapter 14 (02:51:07) Chapter 15 (03:07:52) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw by Frances Milton Trollope audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, Frances Milton Trollope follows a restless young American, Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, as he chases fortune and importance along the Mississippi River in the rough-and-ready decades of westward expansion. Eager to rise in a nation he believes rewards boldness above all else, Jonathan plunges into a world of steamboats, booming river towns, land schemes, taverns, pulpits, and plantations, meeting an ever-shifting cast of hustlers, politicians, preachers, enslavers, and the enslaved. As opportunities multiply, so do the moral compromises demanded by ambition. Trollope blends brisk travel and episodic escapades with sharp social observation, exposing the contradictions between public virtue and private greed, and between lofty talk of liberty and the violence underpinning everyday life. Jonathan's journey becomes a test of character: whether to treat the frontier as a stage for self-making at any cost, or to confront what his success depends on. Witty, unsettling, and vividly atmospheric, this novel turns one man's adventures into a sweeping portrait of a young country at its most confident and most conflicted. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:25:16) Chapter 02 (00:46:24) Chapter 03 (01:05:55) Chapter 04 (01:26:58) Chapter 05 (01:39:05) Chapter 06 (02:00:39) Chapter 07 (02:08:19) Chapter 08 (02:25:56) Chapter 09 (02:42:58) Chapter 10 (03:25:20) Chapter 11 (03:42:00) Chapter 12 (03:55:24) Chapter 13 (04:07:39) Chapter 14 (04:22:21) Chapter 15 (04:36:58) Chapter 16 (04:59:30) Chapter 17 (05:17:47) Chapter 18 (05:27:25) Chapter 19 (05:44:56) Chapter 20 (06:01:24) Chapter 21 (06:19:18) Chapter 22 (06:49:47) Chapter 23 (07:05:47) Chapter 24 (07:23:52) Chapter 25 (07:44:42) Chapter 26 (08:01:26) Chapter 27 (08:21:03) Chapter 28 (08:34:31) Chapter 29 (08:57:44) Chapter 30 (09:22:20) Chapter 31 (09:31:29) Chapter 32 (09:43:29) Chapter 33 (10:10:39) Chapter 34 (10:26:53) Chapter 35 (10:48:42) Chapter 36 (11:10:42) Chapter 37 (11:25:49) Chapter 38 (11:46:20) Chapter 39 (12:05:17) Chapter 40 (12:22:54) Chapter 41 (12:50:36) Chapter 42 (13:05:07) Chapter 43 (13:22:23) Chapter 44 (13:52:28) Chapter 45 (14:15:42) Chapter 46 (14:32:09) Chapter 47 (14:48:09) Chapter 48 (15:06:11) Chapter 49 (15:34:09) Chapter 50 (16:10:44) Chapter 51 (16:29:13) Chapter 52 (16:51:41) Chapter 53 (17:06:09) Chapter 54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sleeping Sickness by Fleming Mant Sandwith audiobook. Genre: science In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children and a hazard to tourists in East African game parks.The protozoan parasite is transmitted by the tsetse fly, a buzzing insect with reddish eyes and a large biting proboscis. In 1912, when this short monograph was written, physicians of the British Empire understood that trans-continental expeditions manned by infected African porters, had set off an epidemic of sleeping sickness that had claimed half a million lives. Dr. Sandwith, an eyewitness to the disaster, traces this legacy of imperialism, from the traders who learned to reject slaves with swollen glands, through Stanley's trypanosome-transporting treks in search of Dr. Livingstone and of Emin Pasha, to the clinical description of the tremulous patient, his head aching and his body painfully sensitive to touch, whose sufferings are at last ended by a stupor from which he cannot be roused. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:44:12) Chapter 02 (01:13:49) Chapter 03 (01:31:35) Chapter 04 (02:05:29) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Frithiof Saga by Ferdinand Schmidt audiobook. Genre: folklore In this dramatic retelling of a classic Norse legend, Ferdinand Schmidt follows Frithiof, a fearless young warrior whose strength at sea and in battle is matched only by his stubborn pride. Raised alongside Ingeborg, the beloved daughter of King Bele, Frithiof grows from childhood companion to devoted suitor - only to be blocked by Ingeborg's royal brothers, who refuse to let a hero of lesser birth claim her hand. When politics and duty pull Ingeborg toward an unwanted marriage alliance, Frithiof is driven into a life of wandering, raids, and hard choices that test his honor as much as his sword-arm. Set amid fjords, stormy voyages, and the stern codes of Viking society, the story weaves human passion together with echoes of Norse myth, including sacred places and tales of the gods that deepen the stakes of every vow and betrayal. As Frithiof fights to prove his worth and keep faith with the woman he loves, he must also confront the consequences of anger, the demands of kinship, and the price of reconciliation in a world where reputation can be destiny. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:05:44) Chapter 02 (00:21:30) Chapter 03 (00:30:03) Chapter 04 (00:39:55) Chapter 05 (00:44:41) Chapter 06 (00:49:07) Chapter 07 (00:51:48) Chapter 08 (00:54:15) Chapter 09 (01:03:27) Chapter 10 (01:07:04) Chapter 11 (01:15:38) Chapter 12 (01:23:04) Chapter 13 (01:27:30) Chapter 14 (01:31:04) Chapter 15 (01:35:01) Chapter 16 (01:40:56) Chapter 17 (01:43:14) Chapter 18 (01:50:20) Chapter 19 (01:53:32) Chapter 20 (01:55:57) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Social Life in England 1750-1850 by F. J. Foakes-Jackson audiobook. Genre: history In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ranging and engaging talks, the author describes British life between 1750-1850. There are John Wesley's horseback peregrinations over thousands of miles of English countryside. Next, Foakes-Jackson introduces the mordant rural poet, George Crabbe, who began life as a surgeon apothecary and ended up as a parish rector who made house calls. He gives us a female convict, assorted Cambridge University dons, Regency fops and rakes, and Victorian slices of life from Dickens and Thackeray. In the last lecture we barrel over hedges and fences and through muddy lanes in headlong chase of the fox. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:19) Chapter 02 (00:29:35) Chapter 03 (00:45:11) Chapter 04 (00:56:11) Chapter 05 (01:07:48) Chapter 06 (01:18:38) Chapter 07 (01:30:50) Chapter 08 (01:54:02) Chapter 09 (02:16:04) Chapter 10 (02:29:54) Chapter 11 (02:44:34) Chapter 12 (02:59:18) Chapter 13 (03:15:06) Chapter 14 (03:32:02) Chapter 15 (03:49:27) Chapter 16 (04:03:36) Chapter 17 (04:20:16) Chapter 18 (04:36:56) Chapter 19 (04:51:11) Chapter 20 (05:04:55) Chapter 21 (05:23:24) Chapter 22 (05:40:18) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Desire of Ages by Ellen G. White audiobook. Genre: religion The Desire of Ages is Ellen G. White's sweeping, devotional portrait of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, told with vivid narrative force and a pastor's concern for the inner life. Moving from the promises and longings that precede Christ's birth through the defining moments of His public work, the book follows the unfolding conflict between faith and unbelief, humility and pride, mercy and self-righteousness. Familiar scenes are revisited with close attention to motives and meaning: the calling of disciples, encounters with outcasts and leaders, miracles that stir hope and controversy, and teachings that challenge comfortable religion. Along the way, White highlights the character of Christ as the clearest revelation of God's love, and she invites listeners to consider what it means to follow Him in daily choices, relationships, and service. With a tone that blends storytelling, reflection, and spiritual appeal, this classic work aims not merely to inform, but to awaken a deeper trust in God and a more compassionate way of living. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:19) Chapter 02 (00:28:17) Chapter 03 (00:41:29) Chapter 04 (00:51:25) Chapter 05 (01:07:05) Chapter 06 (01:22:14) Chapter 07 (01:37:03) Chapter 08 (01:53:47) Chapter 09 (02:10:59) Chapter 10 (02:37:34) Chapter 11 (02:47:58) Chapter 12 (03:12:52) Chapter 13 (03:26:35) Chapter 14 (03:53:04) Chapter 15 (04:15:07) Chapter 16 (04:41:13) Chapter 17 (05:02:33) Chapter 18 (05:12:35) Chapter 19 (05:39:24) Chapter 20 (05:48:17) Chapter 21 (06:21:03) Chapter 22 (06:49:47) Chapter 23 (07:00:56) Chapter 24 (07:18:33) Chapter 25 (07:32:48) Chapter 26 (07:56:00) Chapter 27 (08:20:10) Chapter 28 (08:41:43) Chapter 29 (09:02:14) Chapter 30 (09:20:46) Chapter 31 (09:59:22) Chapter 32 (10:12:15) Chapter 33 (10:28:58) Chapter 34 (10:39:50) Chapter 35 (11:00:40) Chapter 36 (11:11:17) Chapter 37 (11:34:50) Chapter 38 (11:46:49) Chapter 39 (12:03:38) Chapter 40 (12:17:23) Chapter 41 (12:46:40) Chapter 42 (12:56:22) Chapter 43 (13:08:13) Chapter 44 (13:22:28) Chapter 45 (13:44:38) Chapter 46 (13:55:51) Chapter 47 (14:07:30) Chapter 48 (14:33:47) Chapter 49 (14:49:40) Chapter 50 (15:08:50) Chapter 51 (15:39:42) Chapter 52 (15:54:35) Chapter 53 (16:17:04) Chapter 54 (16:31:35) Chapter 55 (16:41:59) Chapter 56 (16:52:08) Chapter 57 (17:02:16) Chapter 58 (17:29:33) Chapter 59 (17:42:04) Chapter 60 (17:53:08) Chapter 61 (18:03:26) Chapter 62 (18:28:48) Chapter 63 (18:50:35) Chapter 64 (19:06:18) Chapter 65 (19:35:40) Chapter 66 (19:54:12) Chapter 67 (20:20:18) Chapter 68 (20:35:04) Chapter 69 (20:59:05) Chapter 70 (21:11:45) Chapter 71 (21:34:53) Chapter 72 (21:55:40) Chapter 73 (22:38:48) Chapter 74 (23:03:14) Chapter 75 (23:38:06) Chapter 76 (23:54:40) Chapter 77 (24:35:41) Chapter 78 (25:12:57) Chapter 79 (25:30:15) Chapter 80 (25:53:42) Chapter 81 (26:08:50) Chapter 82 (26:21:14) Chapter 83 (26:32:02) Chapter 84 (26:45:41) Chapter 85 (27:02:26) Chapter 86 (27:29:33) Chapter 87 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blotted Out by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding audiobook. Genre: mystery Fresh off a ship into New York, James Ross expects anonymity: no family, no friends, no ties. Instead, before he can even step onto the dock, a note pulls him into a stranger's life. A woman named Amy Solway claims to be his cousin and begs him to help her immediately by posing as her newly hired chauffeur. James agrees, thinking it will be a brief favor. But the moment he enters Amy's house, he stumbles on a horrifying secret: a dead man hidden under a sofa, and a household acting as if nothing is wrong. Worse, Amy has been waiting for a different James Ross altogether, and the mistake could be dangerous for both of them. Alone in a city that does not know his face, James must decide whether to walk away, or to stay and untangle a web of false names, desperate lies, and quiet threats that spread far beyond one locked room. As the pressure mounts and every explanation contradicts the last, James learns how quickly a life can be rewritten, and how hard it is to prove the truth once it has been blotted out. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:03) Chapter 02 (00:20:26) Chapter 03 (00:29:01) Chapter 04 (00:40:06) Chapter 05 (00:50:03) Chapter 06 (01:00:50) Chapter 07 (01:11:27) Chapter 08 (01:20:15) Chapter 09 (01:30:15) Chapter 10 (01:39:18) Chapter 11 (01:48:17) Chapter 12 (01:58:38) Chapter 13 (02:08:24) Chapter 14 (02:20:03) Chapter 15 (02:30:24) Chapter 16 (02:40:08) Chapter 17 (02:50:57) Chapter 18 (03:02:48) Chapter 19 (03:13:41) Chapter 20 (03:19:10) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Successward - A Young Man's Book for Young Men by Edward Bok audiobook. Genre: self help In Successward: A Young Man's Book for Young Men, editor and writer Edward W. Bok speaks directly to ambitious young men who feel success is reserved for the lucky, the wealthy, or the well-connected. Writing as someone still close to the struggle himself, Bok reframes success as something built from clear self-knowledge, steady habits, and honorable motives rather than flash or privilege. Across a series of practical, conversational chapters, he challenges the listener to define what success really means, then to pursue it with discipline in work and restraint in pleasure. Bok moves from the realities of business life to the pressures of social amusement, offering blunt counsel about temptation, reputation, and the quiet power of good judgment. He also turns to everyday conduct, from clothing and manners to faith, and addresses relationships with unusual directness for his era, including a young man's attitude toward women and the serious responsibilities of marriage. Part moral guide, part career compass, Successward is a snapshot of turn-of-the-century expectations and a timeless argument that character is the foundation on which any lasting achievement is made. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:17) Chapter 01 (00:12:47) Chapter 02 (00:23:16) Chapter 03 (00:56:15) Chapter 04 (01:23:22) Chapter 05 (01:33:28) Chapter 06 (01:43:12) Chapter 07 (02:01:57) Chapter 08 (02:15:12) Chapter 09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Moon Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi In The Moon Men, Edgar Rice Burroughs turns a futuristic America into a hard-edged battleground for freedom. Generations after a disastrous first contact between Earth and the Moon, humanity lives under the yoke of the Kalkars, ruthless Lunarian conquerors who rule through forced labor, taxes, and terror. In the teeming, fenced-in districts of a broken Chicago, Julian, a young man born into occupation, grows up hearing dangerous whispers about the world that existed before the Moon Men came - and about the long blood feud that began with the original expedition and its bitter betrayals. As Julian is drawn into a secret resistance, he must navigate collaborators, informers, and the constant threat of sudden punishment, all while trying to keep hope alive among people trained to expect defeat. With swift action, stark injustice, and Burroughs' trademark pulp momentum, the novel follows one man and his allies as they gamble everything on the possibility that the Kalkars can be challenged, and that a future beyond servitude is still imaginable. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:14:24) Chapter 01 (00:30:17) Chapter 02 (00:43:24) Chapter 03 (01:05:06) Chapter 04 (01:20:28) Chapter 05 (01:41:16) Chapter 06 (02:01:38) Chapter 07 (02:09:40) Chapter 08 (02:21:32) Chapter 09 (02:43:22) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices