Classic Audiobook Collection

Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America audiobook. Genre: self help The Boy Scouts Handbook by the Boy Scouts of America is the essential field guide for a young person stepping into the world of Scouting, where character is built through action, service, and outdoor adventure. Written to be carried, consulted, and lived, it introduces the Scout Oath and Scout Law as a practical compass for everyday choices, then backs those ideals with step-by-step skills for real situations. Readers learn how to plan and lead as part of a patrol, camp responsibly, cook outdoors, care for gear, and travel safely in the backcountry. Clear instruction covers knots and lashings, navigation and map reading, fire building and outdoor ethics, fitness and personal safety, and first aid that can make a difference when help is far away. Alongside hands-on techniques, the handbook explores citizenship, community involvement, and leadership habits that grow with each rank and challenge. Whether used to prepare for a first campout or to set goals for advancement, this classic manual frames Scouting as a journey: becoming more capable, more reliable, and more ready to serve others, one skill and one choice at a time. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:25:54) Chapter 01 (00:39:33) Chapter 02 (00:54:41) Chapter 03 (01:08:25) Chapter 04 (01:52:55) Chapter 05 (02:11:11) Chapter 06 (02:28:05) Chapter 07 (02:43:21) Chapter 08 (02:56:51) Chapter 09 (03:11:23) Chapter 10 (03:27:53) Chapter 11 (03:41:01) Chapter 12 (04:00:52) Chapter 13 (04:17:24) Chapter 14 (04:31:17) Chapter 15 (04:43:19) Chapter 16 (05:00:43) Chapter 17 (05:16:59) Chapter 18 (05:40:51) Chapter 19 (05:58:05) Chapter 20 (06:04:28) Chapter 21 (06:16:28) Chapter 22 (06:27:25) Chapter 23 (06:46:32) Chapter 24 (06:58:12) Chapter 25 (07:12:11) Chapter 26 (07:28:49) Chapter 27 (07:49:52) Chapter 28 (08:03:40) Chapter 29 (08:16:10) Chapter 30 (08:30:40) Chapter 31 (08:46:01) Chapter 32 (08:58:26) Chapter 33 (09:10:14) Chapter 34 (09:19:33) Chapter 35 (09:26:45) Chapter 36 (09:43:22) Chapter 37 (09:54:44) Chapter 38 (10:08:51) Chapter 39 (10:21:41) Chapter 40 (10:35:03) Chapter 41 (10:51:45) Chapter 42 (11:10:07) Chapter 44 (11:24:31) Chapter 45 (11:42:45) Chapter 46 (12:17:57) Chapter 47 (12:35:01) Chapter 48 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Artist by B. F. Gandee audiobook. Genre: self help First published in 1835, The Artist by B. F. Gandee is an art manual disguised as a friendly lesson book, inviting listeners into the drawing room where technique is taught through conversation, encouragement, and careful practice. The guide follows Charlotte as she tutors her cousin Ellen, moving step by step from foundational habits of hand and eye to the ornamental styles that fascinated early Victorian makers. Along the way, Gandee explains how to plan, prepare, and execute a variety of period methods, including Grecian painting, Japan painting, oriental tinting, mezzotinting, transferring, and inlaying, with practical advice on materials, surfaces, and common pitfalls. The instruction is geared toward creating decorative work that could be displayed at home or turned into attractive objects for bazaars and fancy fairs, making the book both a snapshot of nineteenth-century taste and a usable set of lessons for patient beginners. Part historical craft handbook and part gentle apprenticeship story, The Artist centers on discipline, experimentation, and the confidence that grows when practice starts to look like art. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:38) Chapter 01 (00:18:23) Chapter 02 (00:33:27) Chapter 03 (00:44:30) Chapter 04 (00:54:02) Chapter 05 (01:08:42) Chapter 06 (01:21:49) Chapter 07 (01:32:12) Chapter 08 (01:46:04) Chapter 09 (01:53:44) Chapter 10 (02:02:58) Chapter 11 (02:10:33) Chapter 12 (02:19:49) Chapter 13 (02:27:03) Chapter 14 (02:33:14) Chapter 15 (02:39:29) Chapter 16 (02:46:25) Chapter 17 (02:51:35) Chapter 18 (02:56:49) Chapter 19 (03:02:32) Chapter 20 (03:17:00) Chapter 21 (03:25:13) Chapter 22 (03:34:04) Chapter 23 (03:52:08) Chapter 24 (03:58:32) Chapter 25 (04:07:42) Chapter 26 (04:18:58) Chapter 27 (04:36:10) Chapter 28 (04:46:10) Chapter 29 (04:55:28) Chapter 30 (05:02:17) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Case of the Lamp That Went Out by Auguste Groner audiobook. Genre: mystery In late-19th-century Vienna, an ordinary morning turns grim when a milk girl, Anna, discovers the body of a well-dressed man in an empty lot. With no clear witnesses and only a handful of puzzling traces, the case is handed to Joseph Muller, a quiet, dutiful member of the Imperial Austrian police whose unassuming manner hides a razor-sharp talent for reading people and details. As officialdom pressures the investigation toward easy answers, Muller follows a subtler trail: a nervous woman glimpsed at a garden gate, a household full of guarded servants, and a strange recollection from a night watchman - a red-shaded lamp in an upstairs window that was not simply blown out by the wind, but deliberately extinguished by a human hand. The vanished light becomes a doorway into a tangle of respectability, secrecy, and motive, where every polite conversation seems to conceal a fear, and every object in a room may be a message. Patient, methodical, and quietly stubborn, Muller must separate coincidence from design before the truth disappears into Vienna's shadows. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:05:17) Chapter 01 (00:18:42) Chapter 02 (00:34:05) Chapter 03 (00:45:19) Chapter 04 (01:04:59) Chapter 05 (01:14:21) Chapter 06 (01:34:41) Chapter 07 (02:11:24) Chapter 08 (02:30:00) Chapter 09 (03:00:13) Chapter 10 (03:14:58) Chapter 11 (03:24:46) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guy Garrick by Arthur B. Reeve audiobook. Genre: mystery In early twentieth-century New York, private detective Guy Garrick makes his name by treating crime like a laboratory problem. With his loyal friend and assistant Tom Marshall at his side, Garrick is pulled into a baffling case that begins with a rich young man, Mortimer Warrington, reporting the theft of his prized automobile and quickly escalates into violence, intimidation, and a trail of clues that suggest the robbery is only the surface of something far bigger. As the police and an insurance investigator struggle to keep pace with a fast-moving underworld, Garrick applies emerging forensic methods and ingenious devices to test evidence, trace hidden connections, and expose the mechanisms of a motor-driven criminal ring. The investigation leads from respectable drawing rooms to backroom gambling, blackmail, and official corruption, where every witness seems compromised and every lead may be a trap. Blending brisk action with the excitement of new technology, Guy Garrick is a classic mystery of modernity arriving at street level, and a detective determined to prove that science can outthink the citys most ruthless operators. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:06:31) Chapter 02 (00:15:58) Chapter 03 (00:28:28) Chapter 04 (00:40:40) Chapter 05 (00:55:37) Chapter 06 (01:12:47) Chapter 07 (01:28:11) Chapter 08 (01:43:07) Chapter 09 (01:59:08) Chapter 10 (02:14:09) Chapter 11 (02:30:59) Chapter 12 (02:54:17) Chapter 13 (03:08:30) Chapter 14 (03:21:26) Chapter 15 (03:35:51) Chapter 16 (03:52:14) Chapter 17 (04:03:03) Chapter 18 (04:15:53) Chapter 19 (04:34:12) Chapter 20 (04:48:50) Chapter 21 (05:09:00) Chapter 22 (05:20:26) Chapter 23 (05:31:49) Chapter 24 (05:54:35) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

History of Animals by Aristotle audiobook. Genre: science Book I Grouping of animals and the parts of the human body. Book II Different parts of red-blooded animals. Book III Internal organs. Book IV Animals without blood (invertebrates). Books V & VI Animal reproduction. Book VII Human reproduction. Book VIII Habits (food, migration, health, diseases). Book IX Social behavior. Book X Dealing with barrenness in women was excluded from the translation of D'Arcy Thompson for being spurious so the translation of the Clergyman Richard Cresswell (Vicar of Salcombe Regis, Devon) is used instead. Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson was a biologist, mathematician and classicist who also wrote On Growth and Form which discusses the mathematical patterns and structures formed in plants and animals. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:10) Chapter 02 (00:31:30) Chapter 03 (00:55:30) Chapter 04 (01:16:06) Chapter 05 (01:34:42) Chapter 06 (02:01:27) Chapter 07 (02:17:58) Chapter 08 (02:39:35) Chapter 09 (02:57:43) Chapter 10 (03:13:15) Chapter 11 (03:32:07) Chapter 12 (03:51:28) Chapter 13 (04:13:28) Chapter 14 (04:37:19) Chapter 15 (04:50:54) Chapter 16 (05:07:17) Chapter 17 (05:24:17) Chapter 18 (05:40:41) Chapter 19 (06:05:16) Chapter 20 (06:17:37) Chapter 21 (06:37:01) Chapter 22 (06:54:15) Chapter 23 (07:17:21) Chapter 24 (07:33:27) Chapter 25 (07:47:30) Chapter 26 (08:02:37) Chapter 27 (08:19:40) Chapter 28 (08:33:50) Chapter 29 (08:55:44) Chapter 30 (09:17:33) Chapter 31 (09:39:43) Chapter 32 (10:02:29) Chapter 33 (10:23:52) Chapter 34 (10:39:10) Chapter 35 (10:55:33) Chapter 36 (11:12:05) Chapter 37 (11:25:03) Chapter 38 (11:51:11) Chapter 39 (12:15:26) Chapter 40 (12:32:05) Chapter 41 (12:56:26) Chapter 42 (13:09:52) Chapter 43 (13:22:08) Chapter 44 (13:39:47) Chapter 45 (13:57:53) Chapter 46 (14:15:38) Chapter 47 (14:39:18) Chapter 48 (15:00:16) Chapter 49 (15:27:22) Chapter 50 (15:47:08) Chapter 51 (16:04:00) Chapter 52 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore In The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer, an anonymous classic of Northern European legend, the young hero Siegfried rises from gifted outsider to figure of awe and fear. Tempered by hard training and a restless desire for glory, he leaves the safety of home to seek trials worthy of a song. His path leads to perilous wilderness, to the shadow of a monstrous dragon, and to treasure whose glitter promises power but carries a dangerous reputation. Marked by the consequences of his victories, Siegfried is drawn into the glittering world of kings and courts, where honor is performed as carefully as it is defended, and where a warrior's reputation can be weaponized by friends and foes alike. As he serves royal ambitions and pursues love, Siegfried must navigate rivalries, oaths, and schemes that test whether strength alone can secure lasting peace. Sweeping, swift, and mythic in tone, this tale explores courage, pride, loyalty, and the high cost of fame when heroic deeds collide with human jealousy and political intrigue. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:38) Chapter 02 (00:19:14) Chapter 03 (00:38:07) Chapter 04 (00:54:11) Chapter 05 (01:22:18) Chapter 06 (01:25:44) Chapter 07 (01:28:57) Chapter 08 (01:37:15) Chapter 09 (01:42:50) Chapter 10 (01:52:56) Chapter 11 (02:04:05) Chapter 12 (02:35:07) Chapter 13 (02:45:08) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chicot the Jester by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: adventure In turbulent late-16th-century France, the court of King Henry III is a glittering stage where every smile can hide a dagger. Into this danger steps Chicot, the king's sharp-tongued jester - a fool by title, but a keen observer and fearless improviser by nature. While nobles posture and factions harden, Chicot slips between worlds: bantering in public, listening in private, and carrying messages that could topple alliances. With the Catholic League tightening its grip and the powerful Duke of Guise threatening the crown, the king needs more than soldiers - he needs someone who can move unnoticed, speak freely, and turn mockery into a weapon. As conspiracies multiply and the line between performance and deception blurs, Chicot is drawn into secret missions, perilous encounters, and tests of loyalty that place him squarely in the path of France's most ruthless ambitions. Alexandre Dumas blends swashbuckling momentum with political intrigue, showing how a man dismissed as comic relief can become the most dangerous player of all. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:46) Chapter 02 (00:38:45) Chapter 03 (00:48:40) Chapter 04 (00:57:59) Chapter 05 (01:07:55) Chapter 06 (01:17:07) Chapter 07 (01:26:44) Chapter 08 (01:37:54) Chapter 09 (01:46:55) Chapter 10 (02:00:17) Chapter 11 (02:21:23) Chapter 12 (02:30:10) Chapter 13 (02:56:19) Chapter 14 (03:10:32) Chapter 15 (03:21:21) Chapter 16 (03:32:25) Chapter 17 (03:40:34) Chapter 18 (03:58:14) Chapter 19 (04:09:08) Chapter 20 (04:30:13) Chapter 21 (04:40:02) Chapter 22 (04:50:07) Chapter 23 (05:01:05) Chapter 24 (05:07:22) Chapter 25 (05:17:48) Chapter 26 (05:25:36) Chapter 27 (05:32:27) Chapter 28 (05:38:17) Chapter 29 (05:44:04) Chapter 30 (05:51:30) Chapter 31 (06:02:02) Chapter 32 (06:12:55) Chapter 33 (06:21:57) Chapter 34 (06:30:35) Chapter 35 (06:40:05) Chapter 36 (06:49:40) Chapter 37 (06:55:51) Chapter 38 (07:06:29) Chapter 39 (07:14:44) Chapter 40 (07:22:04) Chapter 41 (07:31:20) Chapter 42 (07:40:30) Chapter 43 (07:51:56) Chapter 44 (08:01:16) Chapter 45 (08:12:16) Chapter 46 (08:24:08) Chapter 47 (08:32:21) Chapter 48 (08:39:59) Chapter 49 (08:48:50) Chapter 50 (08:59:31) Chapter 51 (09:07:14) Chapter 52 (09:14:22) Chapter 53 (09:21:17) Chapter 54 (09:31:24) Chapter 55 (09:37:45) Chapter 56 (09:46:00) Chapter 57 (10:01:45) Chapter 58 (10:08:30) Chapter 59 (10:13:25) Chapter 60 (10:18:51) Chapter 61 (10:27:56) Chapter 62 (10:37:20) Chapter 63 (10:46:17) Chapter 64 (10:55:20) Chapter 65 (11:02:04) Chapter 66 (11:09:12) Chapter 67 (11:16:48) Chapter 68 (11:24:35) Chapter 69 (11:33:51) Chapter 70 (11:42:14) Chapter 71 (11:48:35) Chapter 72 (11:53:57) Chapter 73 (12:01:05) Chapter 74 (12:06:44) Chapter 75 (12:13:13) Chapter 76 (12:21:37) Chapter 77 (12:28:30) Chapter 78 (12:36:00) Chapter 79 (12:44:37) Chapter 80 (12:54:38) Chapter 81 (13:11:12) Chapter 82 (13:15:15) Chapter 83 (13:19:52) Chapter 84 (13:28:51) Chapter 85 (13:37:42) Chapter 86 (13:50:42) Chapter 87 (13:58:02) Chapter 88 (14:05:52) Chapter 89 (14:14:16) Chapter 90 (14:21:36) Chapter 91 (14:40:42) Chapter 92 (14:49:44) Chapter 93 (14:58:10) Chapter 94 (15:03:09) Chapter 95 Max Character Limit reached Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Book of Jubilees by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: religion The Book of Jubilees is an ancient Jewish work, traditionally attributed to an unknown author, that retells and reorders the foundational stories of Genesis and the early chapters of Exodus. Framed as a revelation delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai, it revisits creation, the lives of the patriarchs, and the shaping of Israel's identity, but with a distinctive emphasis on sacred time: history is measured in precise cycles of jubilees, weeks, and years. Familiar figures like Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph reappear, yet their choices are interpreted through a strong moral lens and a detailed vision of covenant faithfulness. Along the way, Jubilees expands brief biblical episodes with additional dialogue, motives, and rules, presenting a world where angels, ritual purity, and obedience to divine law stand at the center of communal survival. Part history, part commentary, and part exhortation, this book offers a window into the beliefs, debates, and spiritual priorities of Second Temple Judaism, inviting listeners to hear an old story in a strikingly new register. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:22) Chapter 02 (00:17:28) Chapter 03 (00:25:32) Chapter 04 (00:34:04) Chapter 05 (00:40:47) Chapter 06 (00:50:10) Chapter 07 (00:59:40) Chapter 08 (01:07:28) Chapter 09 (01:12:07) Chapter 10 (01:22:10) Chapter 11 (01:29:30) Chapter 12 (01:37:48) Chapter 13 (01:45:02) Chapter 14 (01:50:36) Chapter 15 (01:59:38) Chapter 16 (02:05:40) Chapter 17 (02:09:52) Chapter 18 (02:14:28) Chapter 19 (02:20:53) Chapter 20 (02:24:29) Chapter 21 (02:33:02) Chapter 22 (02:43:02) Chapter 23 (02:52:47) Chapter 24 (03:01:42) Chapter 25 (03:08:19) Chapter 26 (03:17:00) Chapter 27 (03:24:05) Chapter 28 (03:32:31) Chapter 29 (03:37:36) Chapter 30 (03:44:35) Chapter 31 (03:52:17) Chapter 32 (04:00:31) Chapter 33 (04:06:21) Chapter 34 (04:12:42) Chapter 35 (04:20:17) Chapter 36 (04:27:16) Chapter 37 (04:34:08) Chapter 38 (04:38:21) Chapter 39 (04:42:31) Chapter 40 (04:46:05) Chapter 41 (04:52:07) Chapter 42 (04:57:34) Chapter 43 (05:03:17) Chapter 44 (05:09:13) Chapter 45 (05:13:51) Chapter 46 (05:18:25) Chapter 47 (05:21:43) Chapter 48 (05:27:02) Chapter 49 (05:33:38) Chapter 50 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Women of the French Revolution by Winifred Stephens Whale audiobook. Genre: history (Excerpt) One aspect of this subject of revolutionary women, their connection with the secret societies of the day I have purposely ignored. It is obscure and highly controversial. Unfortunately, though these societies have been much, written about, and especially of late, it has often been in a partisan spirit. This book will constantly deal with parties, but I trust not in the spirit of a partisan. Of the three methods of treating this subject, the strictly chronological method, the biographical, and a classification according to the play of ideas and the modes and fields of action, I have chosen the last. Though it has its drawbacks, one of which is some slight repetition, it seems to me that this method gives the clearest impression of the movement as a whole, and of the part women played in it. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:15:20) Chapter 01 (00:43:23) Chapter 02 (01:10:22) Chapter 03 (01:36:51) Chapter 04 (02:01:12) Chapter 05 (02:25:48) Chapter 06 (02:49:43) Chapter 07 (03:27:30) Chapter 08 (03:56:07) Chapter 09 (04:24:58) Chapter 10 (04:54:10) Chapter 11 (05:10:34) Chapter 12 (05:41:33) Chapter 13 (06:10:09) Chapter 14 (06:38:23) Chapter 15 (07:15:08) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sandman - His Farm Stories by William John Hopkins audiobook. Genre: family In The Sandman: His Farm Stories, William John Hopkins invites young listeners into a gentle bedtime world where everyday farm work becomes an adventure worth staying awake for - and then drifting off to sleep with. The stories follow Little John, a curious boy growing up amid barns, fields, and kitchen warmth, guided by steady grownups like Uncle John and Uncle Solomon. Each short tale centers on a real task and the small, absorbing questions that come with it: how to work with patient oxen, what happens when apples are gathered and cider is made, how corn is ground into fine hominy, why rails become a fence, and how maple sap turns into sugar. Along the way, Little John learns to watch closely, do his part, and understand the animals, tools, and seasons that shape life on the land. Written with the soothing rhythm of a story told to one child at the end of a long day, these episodes celebrate family closeness, practical know-how, and the quiet wonder of country life - where even a simple errand can feel like a journey. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:50) Chapter 01 (00:06:34) Chapter 02 (00:18:06) Chapter 03 (00:25:57) Chapter 04 (00:35:37) Chapter 05 (00:39:21) Chapter 06 (00:43:48) Chapter 07 (00:50:27) Chapter 08 (00:53:13) Chapter 09 (01:02:30) Chapter 10 (01:13:56) Chapter 11 (01:20:19) Chapter 12 (01:31:57) Chapter 13 (01:40:02) Chapter 14 (01:45:51) Chapter 15 (01:51:24) Chapter 16 (01:58:05) Chapter 17 (02:05:01) Chapter 18 (02:16:15) Chapter 19 (02:19:21) Chapter 20 (02:25:05) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Short Stories Of William Henry Harrison Murray by William Henry Harrison Murray audiobook. Genre: adventure Murray (1840-1904) was a sometime clergyman, journalist, and purveyor of the outdoor life. His books did much to popularize the virtues of outdoor experience, especially in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Here are stories, some humorous some serious, of the out-of-doors, of love between man and woman, man and horse, man and dog, teacher and acolyte, of wisdom and foolishness. This recording is a selection of his short stories from 'The Busted Ex-Texan And Other Stories' (1889), 'How Deacon Tubman And Parson Whitney Kept New Years And Other Stories' (1888) and 'A Ride With A Mad Horse In A Freight-Car' (1898). For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:55:04) Chapter 02 (01:15:10) Chapter 03 (01:59:06) Chapter 04 (02:37:18) Chapter 05 (03:07:33) Chapter 06 (03:45:35) Chapter 07 (04:29:03) Chapter 08 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages by Wilhelm Wagner audiobook. Genre: poetry This volume contains the principal hero-lays of the six great epic cycles of the Teutonic Middle Ages: The Langobardian Legends, the Amelung and Kindred Legends; Dietrich of Bern's Adventures; the Nibelung Legends; the Hegeling Legends; and Beowulf. To them, the author has added the great mythical Carolingian cycle, which centred round the persons of Charlemagne and his heroes, and the Breton ones of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, as well as the legend of the Holy Grail. Therefore, this one book tells all of the great epic and romances of the Middle Ages in accessible language for the general public. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:09:44) Chapter 01 (00:22:12) Chapter 02 (01:07:53) Chapter 03 (01:52:27) Chapter 04 (02:26:35) Chapter 05 (02:52:10) Chapter 06 (03:13:31) Chapter 07 (03:22:08) Chapter 08 (03:57:42) Chapter 09 (04:29:47) Chapter 10 (04:58:55) Chapter 11 (05:15:40) Chapter 12 (05:35:27) Chapter 13 (05:42:16) Chapter 14 (05:45:05) Chapter 15 (05:55:33) Chapter 16 (06:02:30) Chapter 17 (06:23:27) Chapter 18 (06:31:30) Chapter 19 (06:45:43) Chapter 20 (07:02:30) Chapter 21 (07:33:36) Chapter 22 (07:41:31) Chapter 23 (08:36:14) Chapter 24 (08:46:36) Chapter 25 (08:59:35) Chapter 26 (09:10:29) Chapter 27 (09:24:41) Chapter 28 (09:36:52) Chapter 29 (09:46:23) Chapter 30 (09:50:09) Chapter 31 (10:01:30) Chapter 32 (10:06:28) Chapter 33 (10:11:26) Chapter 34 (10:20:28) Chapter 35 (10:45:04) Chapter 36 (11:10:07) Chapter 37 (11:29:30) Chapter 38 (11:53:50) Chapter 39 (12:06:41) Chapter 40 (13:00:16) Chapter 41 (13:17:28) Chapter 42 (13:37:46) Chapter 43 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Among the Great Masters of the Drama by Walter Rowlands audiobook. Genre: biography Among the Great Masters of the Drama is Walter Rowlands' brisk, story-driven tour through the people who shaped the modern stage - not only the playwrights whose works endured, but the performers who made theaters roar, weep, and gasp. Opening with portraits of towering writers like Shakespeare, Moliere, and Voltaire, Rowlands then turns the spotlight toward the craft of acting itself, tracing how reputation is built in rehearsal rooms, on smoky playhouse nights, and under the unforgiving gaze of an audience. Across a sequence of vivid sketches, he introduces legendary stage personalities such as Adrienne Lecouvreur, David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Edmund Kean, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Booth, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, Coquelin, Sarah Bernhardt, and many more. Blending biography, theatrical anecdote, and a critic's appreciation for style and technique, the book explores the costs of fame, the rivalry and devotion inside companies, and the strange alchemy by which a role becomes a legend. Part cultural history and part backstage chronicle, it invites listeners to see the theater as a living art made by flawed, daring, unforgettable individuals. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:31) Chapter 02 (00:16:40) Chapter 03 (00:29:01) Chapter 04 (00:36:08) Chapter 05 (00:43:57) Chapter 06 (00:53:01) Chapter 07 (01:01:05) Chapter 08 (01:10:38) Chapter 09 (01:18:00) Chapter 10 (01:25:11) Chapter 11 (01:33:17) Chapter 12 (01:42:30) Chapter 13 (01:51:45) Chapter 14 (02:01:32) Chapter 15 (02:12:24) Chapter 16 (02:27:27) Chapter 17 (02:34:03) Chapter 18 (02:44:42) Chapter 19 (02:52:11) Chapter 20 (02:57:28) Chapter 21 (03:06:20) Chapter 22 (03:13:04) Chapter 23 (03:19:20) Chapter 24 (03:26:00) Chapter 25 (03:33:46) Chapter 26 (03:38:58) Chapter 27 (03:42:47) Chapter 28 (03:51:43) Chapter 29 (03:58:01) Chapter 30 (04:07:53) Chapter 31 (04:11:55) Chapter 32 (04:16:07) Chapter 33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Napoleon The First, An Intimate Biography by Walter Geer audiobook. Genre: biography Written a century after Napoleon's final defeat, Walter Geer's Napoleon The First, An Intimate Biography sets out to strip away both hero worship and demonization and to portray the man behind the legend. From a young Corsican outsider hungry for recognition, Napoleon Bonaparte rises through the upheavals of the French Revolution, wins startling victories that remake Europe, and learns to command not only armies but also opinion, law, and government. Geer follows the private pressures that shadow the public triumphs: the fierce pull of family, the complicated devotion to Josephine, the rivalries of brilliant subordinates, and the loneliness of a ruler who must trust few. As Napoleon forges an empire and then struggles to hold it together, every decision carries a personal cost, and every relationship becomes entangled with power. With a storyteller's pace and an eye for character, Geer balances campaign drama with court politics, showing how charisma, impatience, and relentless ambition can build a world and endanger it at the same time. The result is a portrait of strategy and temperament, and of a life that still provokes argument long after the cannons fall silent. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:28) Chapter 01 (00:32:46) Chapter 02 (00:59:00) Chapter 03 (01:21:55) Chapter 04 (01:50:12) Chapter 05 (02:19:30) Chapter 06 (02:58:09) Chapter 07 (03:30:19) Chapter 08 (04:02:32) Chapter 09 (04:33:43) Chapter 10 (05:07:45) Chapter 11 (05:33:13) Chapter 12 (06:10:23) Chapter 13 (06:46:31) Chapter 14 (07:22:30) Chapter 15 (07:42:50) Chapter 16 (08:21:31) Chapter 17 (08:50:58) Chapter 18 (09:28:45) Chapter 19 (10:01:02) Chapter 20 (10:40:17) Chapter 21 (11:15:15) Chapter 22 (11:47:55) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Napoleon and Josephine The Rise of the Empire by Walter Geer audiobook. Genre: biography FOREWORD: 'In the popular estimation the Empress Josephine is crowned with a halo of goodness which makes the task of her biographer one of peculiar difficulty. The aversion which many feel towards Napoleon is not a little due to what they conceive to be the cruelty with which he treated the woman who for fourteen years was the companion of his glory. The writer of this book holds no brief either for the prosecution or the defence. He wants to draw a portrait - not to pronounce a judgment: his object is to depict Josephine as she was, and he leaves the reader to decide as to her goodness.' Walter Geer For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:37:29) Chapter 02 (01:10:01) Chapter 03 (01:49:08) Chapter 04 (02:27:09) Chapter 05 (02:54:42) Chapter 06 (03:34:09) Chapter 07 (04:03:46) Chapter 08 (04:43:26) Chapter 09 (05:07:19) Chapter 10 (05:31:54) Chapter 11 (06:09:16) Chapter 12 (06:45:24) Chapter 13 (07:22:26) Chapter 14 (07:54:23) Chapter 15 (08:33:38) Chapter 16 (09:07:19) Chapter 17 (09:40:35) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blue Island by W. T. Stead audiobook. Genre: religion Written in the shadow of the RMS Titanic disaster, The Blue Island presents itself as an extraordinary report from beyond death. W. T. Stead, the famed British editor and reforming journalist who perished when the Titanic sank, returns here as the books guiding voice, speaking through a claimed process of automatic writing overseen by his daughter, Estelle Stead. The conduit is Pardoe Woodman, a young man in Estelle's theatrical circle who is described as psychically gifted and drawn into a strange responsibility: to record messages that arrive as if dictated from another shore. What emerges is a vivid, plainspoken tour of an otherworldly way-station called the Blue Island - a place of rest, orientation, and work for those newly departed, especially those taken suddenly. As Stead recounts the shock of his final night at sea and the bewildering first steps after death, the narrative becomes both consolation and challenge: if the boundary between worlds is thinner than we think, what does that mean for grief, fear, duty, and the life we choose to live now? Part spiritual testimony, part afterlife travelogue, this classic of early twentieth-century Spiritualism invites listeners to consider death not as an ending, but as a difficult transition into continued purpose. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:23) Chapter 02 (00:16:19) Chapter 03 (00:23:25) Chapter 04 (00:30:12) Chapter 05 (00:35:31) Chapter 06 (00:39:29) Chapter 07 (00:46:30) Chapter 08 (00:54:44) Chapter 09 (01:04:30) Chapter 10 (01:10:55) Chapter 11 (01:13:49) Chapter 12 (01:23:05) Chapter 13 (01:29:28) Chapter 14 (01:34:40) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Easter Hymns by Various audiobook. Genre: religion Easter Hymns by Various is a devotional collection of classic songs of praise centered on the Easter story and the Christian hope of resurrection. Gathered from multiple writers and traditions, these hymns trace the journey from the sorrow of the cross to the wonder of the empty tomb, giving listeners language for gratitude, awe, repentance, and renewed faith. Designed for congregational singing, personal meditation, or seasonal worship, the selections blend memorable melodies with richly theological lyrics that celebrate Christ's victory over sin and death, the promise of new life, and the call to joyful witness. Each hymn functions like a small sermon in verse, pairing vivid biblical imagery with simple, singable lines that invite reflection and participation. Whether you are revisiting familiar favorites or discovering lesser-known texts, this anthology offers a steady rhythm of comfort and celebration, moving through themes of sacrifice, triumph, peace, and spiritual awakening. Ideal for Holy Week, Easter morning, or year-round encouragement, Easter Hymns offers a timeless soundtrack for worship and a gentle guide for prayerful contemplation. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:02:11) Chapter 02 (00:03:32) Chapter 03 (00:04:58) Chapter 04 (00:07:22) Chapter 05 (00:09:35) Chapter 06 (00:12:20) Chapter 07 (00:14:31) Chapter 08 (00:16:07) Chapter 09 (00:17:42) Chapter 10 (00:19:30) Chapter 11 (00:21:23) Chapter 12 (00:23:51) Chapter 13 (00:24:59) Chapter 14 (00:26:49) Chapter 15 (00:29:14) Chapter 16 (00:31:46) Chapter 17 (00:37:28) Chapter 18 (00:39:24) Chapter 19 (00:41:25) Chapter 20 (00:43:34) Chapter 21 (00:46:14) Chapter 22 (00:48:19) Chapter 23 (00:49:43) Chapter 24 (00:51:18) Chapter 25 (00:52:55) Chapter 26 (00:54:40) Chapter 27 (00:56:02) Chapter 28 (00:57:27) Chapter 29 (01:00:42) Chapter 30 (01:03:30) Chapter 31 (01:06:05) Chapter 32 (01:10:46) Chapter 33 (01:11:43) Chapter 34 (01:13:05) Chapter 35 (01:15:17) Chapter 36 (01:18:01) Chapter 37 (01:21:06) Chapter 38 (01:22:35) Chapter 39 (01:24:10) Chapter 40 (01:27:37) Chapter 41 (01:29:01) Chapter 42 (01:31:24) Chapter 43 (01:32:52) Chapter 44 (01:37:11) Chapter 45 (01:39:03) Chapter 46 (01:40:43) Chapter 47 (01:42:36) Chapter 48 (01:44:12) Chapter 49 (01:45:54) Chapter 50 (01:48:04) Chapter 51 (01:52:24) Chapter 52 (01:54:41) Chapter 53 (01:57:20) Chapter 54 (02:00:09) Chapter 55 (02:01:56) Chapter 56 (02:03:52) Chapter 57 (02:06:41) Chapter 58 (02:09:27) Chapter 59 (02:12:50) Chapter 60 (02:14:56) Chapter 61 (02:16:59) Chapter 62 (02:19:24) Chapter 63 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Galopoff, the Talking Pony by Tudor Jenks audiobook. Genre: fantasy In Tudor Jenks' Galopoff, the Talking Pony, an ordinary stable yard becomes the doorway to the extraordinary when, for one day each year, the animals are able to speak. Galopoff, a spirited pony with a sharp mind and a flair for drama, finally gets his chance to tell the humans in his life what he has seen and survived. Gathered close are his young mistress and her visiting cousin, eager to hear why this small pony carries himself like a seasoned traveler. What follows is a fast-moving chain of tales that sweeps from quiet domestic life into far-flung exploits: a journey into Russia, the shock of being bought and sold, the strange rules of show business, and the glittering danger of the circus ring. Along the way Galopoff crosses paths with larger-than-life strangers, brushes up against high society, and faces tests that demand courage, quick thinking, and loyalty to friends old and new. By turns funny, tense, and tender, Jenks' story celebrates imagination, self-reliance, and the power of a good yarn to turn an ordinary afternoon into an adventure. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:11:39) Chapter 02 (00:20:42) Chapter 03 (00:31:11) Chapter 04 (00:41:10) Chapter 05 (00:50:15) Chapter 06 (00:58:06) Chapter 07 (01:06:57) Chapter 08 (01:16:23) Chapter 09 (01:32:36) Chapter 10 (01:53:47) Chapter 11 (02:09:48) Chapter 12 (02:22:06) Chapter 13 (02:34:20) Chapter 14 (02:49:48) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus audiobook. Genre: poetry On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philosophy and science to have survived from antiquity. Far from being a dry treatise on the many topics it covers, the original Latin version (entitled De Rerum Natura) was written in the form of an extended poem in hexameter, with a beauty of style that was admired and emulated by his successors, including Ovid and Cicero. The version read here is an English verse translation written by William Ellery Leonard. Although Leonard penned his version in the early twentieth century, he chose to adhere to both the vocabulary and meter (alternating between pentameter and hexameter) of Elizabethan-era poetry. While the six untitled books that comprise On the Nature of Things delve into a broad range of subjects, including the physical nature of the universe, the workings of the human mind and body, and the natural history of the Earth, Lucretius repeatedly asserts throughout the work that his chief purpose is to provide the reader with a means to escape the 'darkness of the mind' imposed by superstition and ignorance. To this end he offers us his enlightening verses, that through them might be revealed to us 'nature's aspect, and her laws' For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:10:37) Chapter 02 (00:24:22) Chapter 03 (00:36:41) Chapter 04 (00:49:44) Chapter 05 (01:05:56) Chapter 06 (01:19:58) Chapter 07 (01:33:06) Chapter 08 (01:47:41) Chapter 09 (02:01:14) Chapter 10 (02:14:55) Chapter 11 (02:28:44) Chapter 12 (02:46:15) Chapter 13 (02:58:16) Chapter 14 (03:10:25) Chapter 15 (03:16:25) Chapter 16 (03:26:40) Chapter 17 (03:32:04) Chapter 18 (03:38:46) Chapter 19 (03:52:22) Chapter 20 (04:08:31) Chapter 21 (04:25:43) Chapter 22 (04:35:10) Chapter 23 (04:48:28) Chapter 24 (05:05:53) Chapter 25 (05:23:21) Chapter 26 (05:40:31) Chapter 27 (05:58:34) Chapter 28 (06:16:44) Chapter 29 (06:33:25) Chapter 30 (06:48:37) Chapter 31 (07:06:27) Chapter 32 (07:22:10) Chapter 33 (07:37:02) Chapter 34 (07:52:32) Chapter 35 (08:07:45) Chapter 36 (08:22:56) Chapter 37 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook. Genre: family In The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad, Thornton W. Burgess invites listeners into the Green Meadows and the Smiling Pool, where a small, warty, wide-mouthed fellow becomes the center of big curiosity and bigger trouble. Old Mr. Toad is not fast like Peter Rabbit, not fierce like Reddy Fox, and not flashy like some of the birds, but he has his own quiet strengths and a stubborn determination to live his life in peace. When newcomers and old neighbors begin to wonder about his strange looks, his nighttime wanderings, and his mysterious ways, Old Mr. Toad finds himself misunderstood, teased, and sometimes hunted. As he searches for food, avoids sharp-eyed enemies, and navigates the shifting dangers of meadow and roadside, he must rely on patience, caution, and a few surprising tricks. Along the way, familiar friends and rivals from Burgess' woodland world appear, turning each chapter into a lively episode of close calls, clever escapes, and hard-earned wisdom. Warm, playful, and gently instructive, this classic tale celebrates nature, resilience, and the value of being judged by character rather than appearance. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:05:17) Chapter 02 (00:09:50) Chapter 03 (00:13:59) Chapter 04 (00:18:15) Chapter 05 (00:21:50) Chapter 06 (00:25:56) Chapter 07 (00:30:41) Chapter 08 (00:35:07) Chapter 09 (00:40:52) Chapter 10 (00:45:01) Chapter 11 (00:49:39) Chapter 12 (00:53:41) Chapter 13 (01:00:34) Chapter 14 (01:06:47) Chapter 15 (01:13:15) Chapter 16 (01:17:20) Chapter 17 (01:21:40) Chapter 18 (01:26:00) Chapter 19 (01:31:17) Chapter 20 (01:36:27) Chapter 21 (01:40:32) Chapter 22 (01:45:28) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Man's Restoration by Grace by Thomas Goodwin audiobook. Genre: religion In Mans Restoration by Grace, Puritan pastor and theologian Thomas Goodwin traces the heart of the Christian message: that humanity, ruined by sin and unable to repair itself, is restored only by the free and powerful grace of God. With the clarity of a seasoned preacher, Goodwin sets the scene by describing the depth of the fall and the futility of self-salvation, then turns to the hope announced in the gospel - a restoration accomplished through Christ and applied to the sinner by the Spirit. Along the way he presses searching questions that still feel modern: What does true conversion look like? How can a troubled conscience find peace? What is the difference between outward religion and inward renewal? Goodwin explores themes of mercy, faith, repentance, and spiritual transformation, urging listeners to examine their hearts while also offering strong comfort to those who fear they are beyond help. Both doctrinal and deeply pastoral, this work invites you to see grace not as a vague sentiment, but as Gods deliberate remedy for real guilt, real weakness, and real need. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:06:01) Chapter 02 (00:28:42) Chapter 03 (00:37:46) Chapter 04 (00:48:06) Chapter 05 (01:08:55) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch audiobook. Genre: comedy In the genteel Cornish harbor town of Troy - a thinly veiled portrait of Fowey - respectability is measured by a single shibboleth: being 'cumeelfo' (as Troy pronounces comme il faut). Into this snug world of drawing-room evenings, gossip, and small tyrannies comes a thrilling disturbance: the arrival of the apparently aristocratic Frederic and Geraldine Goodwyn-Sandys, tenants of the house called The Bower across from the prim Misses Limpenny and the blustering Admiral Hornaby Buzza. Their glamour dazzles the town's self-appointed elite, even as quiet rivalries, infatuations, and moral posturing begin to surface. Meanwhile Philip Fogo - absent-minded, wounded by an old love, and seeking solitude - arrives by train and is promptly mistaken for the newcomer, only to slip away upriver to rent the secluded Kit's House with the help of the dockworker Caleb Trotter and the plainspoken Dearlove family. As Troy's 'best' society strains to imitate its fashionable guests, Fogo is drawn back toward community and conscience, and a darker undercurrent gathers around the visitors' secrets and a dangerous cargo expected in the harbor. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:44) Chapter 01 (00:12:40) Chapter 02 (00:24:59) Chapter 03 (00:37:29) Chapter 04 (00:53:39) Chapter 05 (01:05:07) Chapter 06 (01:22:11) Chapter 07 (01:36:33) Chapter 08 (01:51:59) Chapter 09 (02:10:42) Chapter 10 (02:28:54) Chapter 11 (02:56:18) Chapter 12 (03:16:29) Chapter 13 (03:33:57) Chapter 14 (03:56:18) Chapter 15 (04:14:00) Chapter 16 (04:26:05) Chapter 17 (04:40:34) Chapter 18 (05:00:56) Chapter 19 (05:21:49) Chapter 20 (05:36:56) Chapter 21 (05:49:02) Chapter 22 (06:01:49) Chapter 23 (06:15:31) Chapter 24 (06:33:59) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Round The Fire Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: horror In Round The Fire Stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gathers a set of unsettling tales meant to be told in the flicker of lamplight, when a familiar room can suddenly feel strange. Across these stories, respectable doctors, scholars, and travelers are drawn into encounters that test the limits of reason: a medical case that seems to defy anatomy, a creature glimpsed where no creature should be, a relic that carries a lingering stain of the past, and remote landscapes where old fears still have teeth. Doyle writes with the calm confidence of a man who understands evidence and argument, which only makes the unexplained feel more plausible - and more disturbing. Some narratives lean toward the supernatural, others toward the psychological, but all share a steady build of dread and a fascination with what people will do when confronted by the unknown. By turns eerie, adventurous, and quietly macabre, this collection showcases the darker corners of Doyle's imagination beyond his famous detective, delivering classic fireside chills with sharp Victorian clarity. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:08) Chapter 01 (00:30:15) Chapter 02 (01:08:41) Chapter 03 (01:50:57) Chapter 04 (02:23:53) Chapter 05 (02:55:19) Chapter 06 (03:39:24) Chapter 07 (04:10:46) Chapter 08 (04:58:14) Chapter 09 (05:42:43) Chapter 10 (06:23:54) Chapter 11 (06:53:07) Chapter 12 (07:41:53) Chapter 13 (08:16:55) Chapter 14 (08:53:19) Chapter 15 (09:22:04) Chapter 16 (09:37:50) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud audiobook. Genre: science These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis, and also describes its main methods and results as only a master and originator of a new school of thought can do. A text like this is the most opportune and will naturally more or less supersede all other introductions to the general subject of psychoanalysis. It presents the author in a new light, as an effective and successful popularizer, and is certain to be welcomed not only by the large and growing number of students of psychoanalysis in this country but by the yet larger number of those who wish to begin its study here and elsewhere. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:08:44) Chapter 01 (00:33:25) Chapter 02 (01:06:53) Chapter 03 (01:53:00) Chapter 04 (02:46:15) Chapter 05 (03:29:00) Chapter 06 (04:00:31) Chapter 07 (04:31:05) Chapter 08 (04:56:53) Chapter 09 (05:22:46) Chapter 10 (06:14:47) Chapter 11 (06:45:07) Chapter 12 (07:19:15) Chapter 13 (07:51:10) Chapter 14 (08:29:12) Chapter 15 (09:00:54) Chapter 16 (09:36:14) Chapter 17 (10:17:49) Chapter 18 (10:50:50) Chapter 19 (11:31:15) Chapter 20 (12:12:32) Chapter 21 (12:59:27) Chapter 22 (13:41:39) Chapter 23 (14:30:10) Chapter 24 (15:03:33) Chapter 25 (15:46:36) Chapter 26 (16:29:41) Chapter 27 (17:12:29) Chapter 28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Wishing Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to become the Emperor of Oz, with his magic horse Chalk as his advisor. All the residents of Oz are enchanted to forget Ozma and their own rulers, except for Dorothy and Pigasus the flying pig. Can Dorothy and Pigasus break the enchantment and rescue Princess Ozma? Will they forge an unlikely alliance with the Gnome King? And who is the real owner and possessor of the secret of the wishing emeralds? The Wishing Horse of Oz is the twenty-ninth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:23) Chapter 01 (00:20:20) Chapter 02 (00:37:37) Chapter 03 (00:51:08) Chapter 04 (01:02:10) Chapter 05 (01:17:54) Chapter 06 (01:32:07) Chapter 07 (01:38:17) Chapter 08 (01:49:34) Chapter 09 (02:05:19) Chapter 10 (02:21:26) Chapter 11 (02:38:17) Chapter 12 (02:43:42) Chapter 13 (02:59:46) Chapter 14 (03:12:17) Chapter 15 (03:24:26) Chapter 16 (03:37:26) Chapter 17 (03:52:55) Chapter 18 (04:10:35) Chapter 19 (04:24:45) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Policy and Passion by Rosa Campbell Praed audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the rough-edged boomtowns and parliamentary backrooms of colonial Queensland, Policy and Passion follows the Longleat family as private desire collides with public ambition. Thomas Longleat, a self-made political leader on the rise, is determined to shape the young colony's future and to secure a place among its powerful men. But the closer he comes to office, the more vulnerable he becomes to scandal, rivals, and the pull of a dangerous attachment that could undo everything he has built.At home, his daughter Honoria chafes against a society she finds narrow and material, dreaming instead of the culture and glamour she associates with England. When an English gentleman, Barrington, turns his charm on her, Honoria is drawn into a romance charged with fascination and control, even as steadier affections and colonial loyalties press their claim.Moving between hotel verandahs, drawing rooms, and the legislative arena, Rosa Campbell Praed blends political maneuvering with intimate emotional stakes, exposing how class, gender expectations, and the colony's uneasy relationship to Britain shape what love and power can cost. The result is a vivid saga of a community, and a family, tested by policy and passion. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:04:19) Chapter 01 (00:17:45) Chapter 02 (00:34:30) Chapter 03 (01:01:59) Chapter 04 (01:29:00) Chapter 05 (01:48:31) Chapter 06 (02:12:40) Chapter 07 (02:48:38) Chapter 08 (03:09:46) Chapter 09 (03:25:12) Chapter 10 (03:49:29) Chapter 11 (04:14:38) Chapter 12 (04:29:34) Chapter 13 (05:00:54) Chapter 14 (05:15:59) Chapter 15 (05:29:35) Chapter 16 (05:56:04) Chapter 17 (06:16:17) Chapter 18 (06:29:31) Chapter 19 (06:44:44) Chapter 20 (07:01:14) Chapter 21 (07:17:39) Chapter 22 (07:29:01) Chapter 23 (07:51:06) Chapter 24 (08:10:32) Chapter 25 (08:26:14) Chapter 26 (08:51:03) Chapter 27 (09:10:09) Chapter 28 (09:36:46) Chapter 29 (09:57:09) Chapter 30 (10:20:01) Chapter 31 (10:32:53) Chapter 32 (10:49:51) Chapter 33 (11:03:23) Chapter 34 (11:21:43) Chapter 35 (11:41:08) Chapter 36 (12:00:42) Chapter 37 (12:14:13) Chapter 38 (12:33:31) Chapter 39 (12:49:23) Chapter 40 (13:14:15) Chapter 41 (13:44:40) Chapter 42 (14:11:16) Chapter 43 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Hound From the North by Ridgwell Cullum audiobook. Genre: thriller Set against the wind-scoured prairie of southern Manitoba and the ice-hard reaches of the Yukon trail, The Hound From the North follows Prudence, a capable young woman helping her mother keep a struggling ranch afloat. Trouble rides in with her brother, back from his northern gold hunt changed, broke, and shadowed by whatever he saw in the mountains - and trailed by a vicious, three-legged husky with a reputation that seems larger than life. Prudence is already promised to Leslie Grey, a determined Customs officer whose work keeps him on the edge of danger as he tracks an opium smuggler moving silently by canoe through the border country. When violence strikes close to home, the quiet routines of ranch life fracture into suspicion, fear, and a grim vow: Prudence will not let the crime go unanswered. As storms roll in off the plains and secrets tighten like a noose, Prudence is pulled between love and duty, justice and vengeance, while the ominous 'hound' of the North haunts every step toward the truth. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:25) Chapter 02 (00:45:29) Chapter 03 (01:13:04) Chapter 04 (01:44:36) Chapter 05 (02:08:07) Chapter 06 (02:34:44) Chapter 07 (03:01:29) Chapter 08 (03:31:44) Chapter 09 (04:10:50) Chapter 10 (04:49:18) Chapter 11 (05:23:33) Chapter 12 (06:03:06) Chapter 13 (06:25:13) Chapter 14 (06:52:33) Chapter 15 (07:20:56) Chapter 16 (07:41:17) Chapter 17 (08:14:18) Chapter 18 (08:38:18) Chapter 19 (09:11:31) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

William - The Fourth by Richmal Crompton audiobook. Genre: comedy In William - The Fourth, Richmal Crompton returns to the riotous world of eleven-year-old William Brown, self-appointed leader of the Outlaws and constant thorn in the side of respectable village life. William means well, in his own way, but his fierce sense of justice and unstoppable imagination turn every ordinary afternoon into a campaign. After overhearing grown-up talk about politics and equality, William decides it is time for action - and the Outlaws are drafted into a new movement that no one else quite understands. From schoolroom rivalries and would-be entrepreneurial schemes to misadventures involving photography, fairs, costumes, and mistaken identities, William charges ahead with complete confidence, dragging friends, enemies, and bewildered adults along behind him. At home, his long-suffering parents and siblings brace for the latest disaster, while the formidable Great-Aunt Jane proves one of the few people capable of meeting William on his own ground. Warm, sharp, and relentlessly funny, this collection captures the serious intensity of childhood plans and the comic fallout when they collide with the adult world. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:17) Chapter 02 (00:44:48) Chapter 03 (01:09:04) Chapter 04 (01:31:45) Chapter 05 (01:49:45) Chapter 06 (02:14:40) Chapter 07 (02:37:49) Chapter 08 (03:06:06) Chapter 09 (03:28:19) Chapter 10 (03:53:27) Chapter 11 (04:23:45) Chapter 12 (04:44:18) Chapter 13 (05:08:53) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anne of Geierstein, Volume 2 by Sir Walter Scott audiobook. Genre: adventure In Anne of Geierstein, Volume 2, Sir Walter Scott deepens his tale of perilous travel and political intrigue as the young Englishman Arthur Philipson and his wary companion, Sir Archibald of Ardennes, press onward through a Europe on the brink of upheaval. Guided and challenged by the proud Swiss maiden Anne of Geierstein and the fierce independence of her Alpine countrymen, Arthur is drawn into the sharpening conflict between the Swiss Confederacy and the glittering, ruthless power of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. What began as a hazardous journey becomes a test of character: Arthur must navigate shifting alliances, secret councils, and the clash between chivalric ambition and republican liberty, all while guarding a personal mystery that could remake his future. As armies gather and diplomacy turns treacherous, Scott blends romance, battlefield tension, and vivid historical atmosphere, showing how private lives are swept into the tide of nations. Volume 2 raises the stakes with larger dangers, harder choices, and a mounting question of where honor truly lies when every side demands loyalty. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:57:40) Chapter 02 (01:42:25) Chapter 03 (02:30:14) Chapter 04 (03:06:02) Chapter 05 (03:41:21) Chapter 06 (04:29:36) Chapter 07 (05:16:23) Chapter 08 (05:44:17) Chapter 09 (06:22:28) Chapter 10 (07:11:06) Chapter 11 (07:40:40) Chapter 12 (08:38:40) Chapter 13 (09:09:16) Chapter 14 (10:12:47) Chapter 15 (10:33:58) Chapter 16 (11:14:00) Chapter 17 (11:55:00) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Interrupted Kiss by Richard Marsh audiobook. Genre: mystery In a quiet household where propriety is meant to keep life orderly, Clare is jolted awake in the dead of night by a nameless unease. Her husband, Rupert, is not beside her, and when she searches the shadowed rooms she collides with her cousin Elsie, who has heard Rupert cry out in fear. Clare returns to find a baffling, unsettling sight: Rupert feeding papers into the fire, as if desperate to erase evidence before dawn. By morning, the family is struck by a brutal discovery - Uncle John, a grasping and thoroughly disliked moneylender, has been murdered. With motives scattered through old debts, bruised pride, and private entanglements, suspicion settles over everyone who shared a roof with the victim, and even the smallest domestic detail begins to feel like a clue. As Clare tries to protect the life she thought she understood, she is forced to weigh loyalty against truth, and affection against doubt, while the mystery tightens around a household full of secrets. At stake is not only the answer to a killing, but whether Clare and Rupert can reclaim the intimacy that was interrupted before everything went wrong. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:34:49) Chapter 02 (01:12:31) Chapter 03 (01:41:15) Chapter 04 (02:22:47) Chapter 05 (02:51:14) Chapter 06 (03:25:33) Chapter 07 (03:55:08) Chapter 08 (04:29:21) Chapter 09 (05:02:12) Chapter 10 (05:39:11) Chapter 11 (06:08:20) Chapter 12 (06:43:38) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Judith Lee - Pages From Her Life by Richard Marsh audiobook. Genre: mystery In Judith Lee - Pages From Her Life, Richard Marsh introduces an unconventional sleuth whose sharp eye for human nature is matched only by her refusal to be underestimated. Judith Lee, a young woman of independent means and restless intelligence, keeps careful notes on the odd incidents and private dramas that cross her path - and those pages soon become a record of mysteries no one else can quite explain. From chance encounters in drawing rooms and on city streets to puzzling disappearances and seemingly trivial clues that point to darker designs, Judith follows the thread of each case with calm persistence, practical courage, and a knack for noticing what others overlook. As rumors, misdirection, and social expectations close in, she must navigate a world where appearances are weaponized and where the smallest detail can expose a carefully hidden truth. Blending brisk investigations with the atmosphere of late-Victorian and Edwardian London, Marsh crafts a portrait of a pioneering female detective who turns everyday observation into a quiet form of power - and proves that the most dangerous secrets are often the ones kept in plain sight. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:36:02) Chapter 02 (01:27:23) Chapter 03 (02:10:45) Chapter 04 (02:55:23) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan by Richard Gordon Smith audiobook. Genre: folklore Collected and retold by British traveler and naturalist Richard Gordon Smith, Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan gathers 57 legends, ghost stories, and local traditions recorded during his years journeying through Japan and listening to fishermen, farmers, priests, and townspeople. Rather than drifting in a vague fairy-tale past, most of these narratives are anchored to specific provinces, temples, lakes, and villages, giving each wonder a distinct sense of place. Across the collection, ordinary lives collide with the unseen: willow spirits that demand respect, haunted wells and temples that refuse to stay silent, and encounters shaped by Shinto reverence for landscapes, trees, and the sea. Alongside the supernatural run intensely human stakes - love strained by social boundaries, pride and loyalty tested by samurai ideals, and moral choices framed by Buddhist ethics. Smith's plain, unsentimental style lets the strangeness speak for itself, moving from eerie to moving to darkly ironic without losing its grounded, historical texture. The result is an immersive doorway into Japan's storytelling traditions, where every path, river, and household might hide a spirit, a warning, or a hard-won lesson. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:04:14) Chapter 01 (00:29:17) Chapter 02 (00:45:51) Chapter 03 (00:58:47) Chapter 04 (01:13:18) Chapter 05 (01:27:15) Chapter 06 (01:35:31) Chapter 07 (01:50:50) Chapter 08 (02:03:36) Chapter 09 (02:12:33) Chapter 10 (02:20:55) Chapter 11 (02:29:17) Chapter 12 (02:42:16) Chapter 13 (02:52:29) Chapter 14 (02:58:34) Chapter 15 (03:10:17) Chapter 16 (03:20:11) Chapter 17 (03:34:16) Chapter 18 (03:45:27) Chapter 19 (03:53:26) Chapter 20 (04:04:53) Chapter 21 (04:16:58) Chapter 22 (04:24:06) Chapter 23 (04:38:37) Chapter 24 (04:49:09) Chapter 25 (05:02:05) Chapter 26 (05:11:50) Chapter 27 (05:21:07) Chapter 28 (05:36:51) Chapter 29 (05:46:21) Chapter 30 (05:55:50) Chapter 31 (06:08:32) Chapter 32 (06:18:57) Chapter 33 (06:35:09) Chapter 34 (06:47:59) Chapter 35 (07:01:13) Chapter 36 (07:12:32) Chapter 37 (07:25:54) Chapter 38 (07:39:01) Chapter 39 (07:57:19) Chapter 40 (08:07:40) Chapter 41 (08:26:53) Chapter 42 (08:42:04) Chapter 43 (08:59:49) Chapter 44 (09:08:15) Chapter 45 (09:14:26) Chapter 46 (09:28:44) Chapter 47 (09:41:44) Chapter 48 (09:49:39) Chapter 49 (09:59:07) Chapter 50 (10:09:59) Chapter 51 (10:21:07) Chapter 52 (10:29:57) Chapter 53 (10:40:29) Chapter 54 (10:53:05) Chapter 55 (11:04:16) Chapter 56 (11:17:12) Chapter 57 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure by Rex Beach audiobook. Genre: adventure First published in 1916, The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure gathers eleven fast-moving stories from Rex Beach at the height of his popularity. The title novella drops blasé New York society man Roland Van Dam into the riotous color of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where a simple costume and a white flower pinned to his chest turn him into the wrong man at the wrong moment. A masked young woman begs him to follow, warns him that danger is near, and pulls him into a night of secret signals, shadowy pursuers, and sudden tests of nerve, as carnival gaiety collides with real violence. From there, Beach ranges widely: a desperate fight for survival in the wake of political unrest, a hard bargain struck on the edges of the law, a storm-bound tale where words and courage matter as much as weapons, and Western episodes of gunplay, stampedes, and brand marks that can ruin a life. Across deserts, dance halls, and lonely outposts, Beach favors plain-spoken heroes who discover, too late to back out, what they will risk for love, pride, or simple decency. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:33:37) Chapter 02 (01:01:03) Chapter 03 (01:37:20) Chapter 04 (01:58:13) Chapter 05 (02:28:22) Chapter 06 (02:53:34) Chapter 07 (03:12:20) Chapter 08 (03:49:19) Chapter 09 (04:18:22) Chapter 10 (04:41:49) Chapter 11 (05:06:23) Chapter 12 (05:55:28) Chapter 13 (06:33:59) Chapter 14 (07:07:31) Chapter 15 (07:45:46) Chapter 16 (07:59:59) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Thorndyke's Cases by R. Austin Freeman audiobook. Genre: mystery In John Thorndyke's Cases, R. Austin Freeman introduces a different kind of detective story - one in which crimes are solved not by hunches or theatrics, but by patient observation and the cool logic of science. Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke is a barrister and physician whose specialty is the shadowy borderland where medicine, physical evidence, and the law collide. When puzzling deaths, disputed wills, and apparently impossible thefts leave police and families grasping for answers, Thorndyke turns to the smallest clues: a smear of dust, a faint odor, a fragment of paper, a curious footprint, a tool mark, a microscope slide. Often assisted by a practical narrator who records both the procedures and the human stakes, Thorndyke follows each problem from baffling discovery through careful experiment and courtroom-ready proof. These cases reveal a London of cramped lodgings, quiet offices, and tense inquests, where a single overlooked detail can decide guilt or innocence. Blending legal drama with early forensic detection, the book invites listeners to think alongside its methodical hero as justice is pursued one measurable fact at a time. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (01:00:46) Chapter 02 (02:03:03) Chapter 03 (02:59:13) Chapter 04 (03:46:48) Chapter 05 (04:28:25) Chapter 06 (05:27:30) Chapter 07 (06:38:14) Chapter 08 (07:41:20) Chapter 09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eryxias by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Eryxias, a short Socratic dialogue traditionally transmitted under Plato's name (though often considered spurious), Socrates steps into the Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios and is drawn into a sharp public argument about money and the good life. Eryxias is confident that material prosperity is plainly beneficial: with enough silver, he insists, a person can secure comfort, influence, and freedom from want. Critias, less impressed, counters that wealth can just as easily amplify vice, feed reckless desires, and bring new dangers in its wake. As the discussion tightens, Socrates presses both men to say what wealth is for, what makes anything genuinely useful, and whether value belongs to objects by nature or only by social agreement. Each example meant to defend riches becomes a test case, as Socrates separates possessing resources from possessing wisdom, and asks whether buying what helps you is the same as being helped. The conversation turns into an early meditation on ethics and economics, challenging listeners to examine what they call 'profit' and what they are truly seeking when they chase more. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charmides by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Charmides, Plato stages a tense, witty conversation about what it really means to be temperate - and why the answer matters for how a person should live. Returning to Athens after military service, Socrates meets the striking young Charmides and the influential guardian Critias. What begins as a seemingly simple request to define sophrosyne (often translated as temperance, moderation, or self-control) quickly becomes a searching investigation of character, knowledge, and moral authority. Charmides offers confident definitions drawn from good manners and quiet behavior; Critias pushes more sophisticated claims about self-knowledge and the mind's ability to know itself. Socrates, with relentless questions and careful logic, tests each proposal, exposing hidden assumptions and the risks of treating virtue as a slogan rather than a discipline. As the discussion tightens, the stakes rise: if temperance is a kind of knowledge, what does it know, and how could it guide a life? At the heart of the dialogue is a conflict between reputation and genuine wisdom, and between political power and ethical clarity. The result is a brisk, dramatic introduction to Socratic inquiry and the uneasy gap between seeming good and being good. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:38:20) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anno Domini 2071 by Pieter Harting audiobook. Genre: scifi Curious to see how the world was imagined to be 50 years from now? Harting, under the pseudonym Dr. Dioscorides, originally published his steampunk utopian novelette in 1865 under the title Anno 2065, but soon had to publish new editions because of all the changes happening at the time. We have in the catalogue the 1870 edition 'Anno 2070' recorded in Dutch. This is the English translation of that edition, published in 1871, and naturally titled 'Anno Domini 2071'. It isn't free from racial defamation, but it does contain some radical ideas for its time, like the Suffragette movement, the Darwinian Evolution model, and many creatively imagined inventions! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:24) Chapter 01 (00:16:57) Chapter 02 (00:33:58) Chapter 03 (00:46:18) Chapter 04 (01:00:21) Chapter 05 (01:12:14) Chapter 06 (01:32:08) Chapter 07 (01:45:33) Chapter 08 (01:54:23) Chapter 09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Barber of Seville by Pierre Beaumarchais audiobook. Genre: comedy In a sunlit corner of Seville, a young nobleman, Count Almaviva, arrives with one urgent goal: to win the heart of Rosine, a clever young woman kept under the watchful control of her guardian, Dr. Bartolo. Bartolo intends to marry her himself, and he guards his household with contracts, locks, and suspicion. To break through those defenses, Almaviva turns to the citys most resourceful operator, Figaro, a former servant turned barber, matchmaker, and master of improvisation. Together they spin a fast-moving web of serenades, disguises, false identities, and perfectly timed interruptions, all while Rosine proves she is far from a passive prize. As rumors spread and rivals close in, every plan threatens to collapse into chaos, forcing Figaro and Almaviva to outthink Bartolo and his slippery accomplice, Don Basilio. Bright, mischievous, and sharply observant, The Barber of Seville is a comic battle of wits about freedom, love, and the absurd ways power tries to police desire. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:28:47) Chapter 2 (01:15:37) Chapter 3 (01:52:46) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written at the turn of the 20th century, Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread is a passionate, practical argument for a society organized around human needs rather than profit. Kropotkin challenges the idea that poverty and scarcity are inevitable, tracing how wealth is produced collectively yet controlled by a few, and asking what would happen if communities directly managed land, factories, housing, and distribution. Moving from critiques of wage labor and private property to concrete proposals, he explores how food, shelter, clothing, and comfort could be guaranteed for all through voluntary cooperation, shared resources, and decentralized decision-making. Along the way, he confronts the hard questions any social transformation must face: how to feed cities, how to coordinate work without coercion, how to balance individual freedom with collective responsibility, and how to prevent new forms of domination from replacing the old. Both a manifesto and a blueprint, the book blends moral urgency with everyday details of production and logistics, inviting listeners to imagine what mutual aid could look like when treated not as charity, but as the foundation of social life. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:25) Chapter 02 (00:41:08) Chapter 03 (01:03:23) Chapter 04 (01:31:44) Chapter 05 (02:01:44) Chapter 06 (02:23:22) Chapter 07 (02:29:07) Chapter 08 (02:43:06) Chapter 09 (03:01:57) Chapter 10 (03:17:55) Chapter 11 (03:25:16) Chapter 12 (04:02:08) Chapter 13 (04:35:21) Chapter 14 (04:50:01) Chapter 15 (04:56:35) Chapter 16 (05:18:42) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) by Oskar Pfungst audiobook. Genre: science In Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten), psychologist Oskar Pfungst reconstructs one of the most famous puzzles in the history of animal intelligence: a horse in early 1900s Germany that appeared able to solve arithmetic, tell time, and answer questions by tapping its hoof. As crowds gather and skeptics argue, Pfungst steps in to test what is really happening - not with ridicule, but with careful observation, controlled trials, and a willingness to question human assumptions as much as the animal's abilities. Moving from public demonstrations to tightly designed experiments, he examines how questions are asked, who is present, what the horse can see, and how subtle shifts in attention and posture might shape an animal's responses. The investigation becomes a larger story about perception, suggestion, and the hidden ways expectations can influence results. Clear, methodical, and surprisingly suspenseful, Pfungst's account offers a foundational lesson for anyone curious about psychology, scientific method, and the uneasy boundary between genuine discovery and self-deception. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:29:12) Chapter 02 (00:59:09) Chapter 03 (01:56:10) Chapter 04 (02:49:35) Chapter 05 (03:17:10) Chapter 06 (04:23:43) Chapter 07 (05:12:49) Chapter 08 (06:02:51) Chapter 09 (06:51:30) Chapter 10 (07:46:11) Chapter 11 (07:53:39) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beauty's Hour by Olivia Shakespear audiobook. Genre: fantasy In late-Victorian London, Mary Gower is clever, observant, and quietly funny, the sort of woman whose conversation lingers in a room long after she has left it. But in a society that rewards faces more than minds, Mary is dismissed as too plain to be truly seen, especially by Gerald Harman, the charming man she cannot help watching from the edges of fashionable life. Then, in a moment of uncanny discovery at her dressing-table mirror, Mary learns she can change her appearance by sheer force of will. With that single, impossible talent, she steps into the world again as Mary Hatherley, a woman of striking beauty who suddenly commands attention, invitations, and desire. Yet the new face does not erase the old self, and each transformation sharpens the story's central question: what, exactly, do people love when they claim to love you? As Mary's double life pulls her toward romance and social triumph, it also draws suspicion, obsession, and a mounting sense that the power she has awakened may demand a price. Beauty's Hour is a gothic-tinged psychological fantasy about self-image, gendered expectations, and the perilous gap between being admired and being known. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:11:12) Chapter 02 (00:21:42) Chapter 03 (00:31:49) Chapter 04 (00:42:23) Chapter 05 (00:55:16) Chapter 06 (01:05:54) Chapter 07 (01:23:46) Chapter 08 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Crime of the French Cafe and Other Stories by Nicholas Carter audiobook. Genre: mystery In this classic trio of Nick Carter mysteries, the famous detective is pulled from routine surveillance into a string of baffling cases where appearances are carefully staged and every witness seems to know only part of the truth. The collection opens in New York's Tenderloin, when Carter notices a waiter bolt from a fashionable French restaurant and senses something far more serious than petty theft. Inside a private dining room, a brutal crime has been committed, and Carter must piece together scattered clues, conflicting accounts, and hidden relationships before the killer can vanish into the city. In the stories that follow, Carter and his trusted allies face an investigation colored by whispers of the uncanny and a separate puzzle tied to a place meant for healing, where secrecy and fear make every corridor suspect. Fast-paced, clue-driven, and rich with disguises, misdirection, and sharp deduction, these tales showcase a detective who relies on observation and nerve as much as logic. Each story builds to a high-stakes confrontation with cunning criminals, while exploring how greed, loyalty, and desperation can push ordinary people into extraordinary crimes. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:11:43) Chapter 02 (00:21:49) Chapter 03 (00:31:20) Chapter 04 (00:40:55) Chapter 05 (00:50:20) Chapter 06 (01:00:45) Chapter 07 (01:09:42) Chapter 08 (01:19:17) Chapter 09 (01:28:02) Chapter 10 (01:37:23) Chapter 11 (01:52:50) Chapter 12 (02:05:41) Chapter 13 (02:18:30) Chapter 14 (02:30:24) Chapter 15 (02:45:07) Chapter 16 (02:56:25) Chapter 17 (03:03:59) Chapter 18 (03:16:30) Chapter 19 (03:27:30) Chapter 20 (03:39:55) Chapter 21 (03:51:10) Chapter 22 (04:01:27) Chapter 23 (04:13:55) Chapter 24 (04:25:22) Chapter 25 (04:36:57) Chapter 26 (04:46:59) Chapter 27 (04:58:37) Chapter 28 (05:10:25) Chapter 29 (05:19:36) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Master of the Vineyard by Myrtle Reed audiobook. Genre: romance In a quiet river valley hemmed in by hills and vineyards, Rosemary Starr has spent twenty-five years living for other people. Orphaned young and bound to the constant demands of her stern grandmother and exacting aunt, she steals her only moments of freedom on solitary walks to the hill she calls the Hill of the Muses, where she can imagine a life beyond duty and small-town scrutiny. Below her, the Marsh vineyard spreads across the slope like a living inheritance, and its troubled heir, Alden Marsh, feels just as trapped by family expectation as Rosemary does. A reluctant master of a failing estate and a part-time schoolteacher, Alden meets Rosemary in discreet, carefully measured intervals, lending her novels and poems that awaken a hunger for beauty, choice, and love. As the seasons turn and the vineyard demands decisions that cannot be postponed, Rosemary and Alden are forced to confront what they truly owe to family, tradition, and themselves. Lyrical and intimate, Myrtle Reed's novel weaves romance with questions of independence, sacrifice, and the price of becoming the author of your own life. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:16:42) Chapter 02 (00:36:27) Chapter 03 (00:57:53) Chapter 04 (01:18:24) Chapter 05 (01:38:08) Chapter 06 (01:56:55) Chapter 07 (02:16:40) Chapter 08 (02:38:48) Chapter 09 (02:57:58) Chapter 10 (03:19:26) Chapter 11 (03:41:24) Chapter 12 (04:01:29) Chapter 13 (04:20:22) Chapter 14 (04:40:01) Chapter 15 (04:59:58) Chapter 16 (05:20:08) Chapter 17 (05:39:29) Chapter 18 (05:57:33) Chapter 19 (06:16:55) Chapter 20 (06:36:29) Chapter 21 (06:53:56) Chapter 22 (07:13:09) Chapter 23 (07:32:13) Chapter 24 (07:51:30) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Weaver of Dreams by Myrtle Reed audiobook. Genre: romance In this tender Edwardian romance, Judith Sylvester has grown up in the hushed comforts of a large house shaped by illness, duty, and the quiet authority of her wealthy invalid aunt. When Judith becomes engaged to the ambitious Dr. Carter Keith, she believes she is stepping at last into an ordinary, radiant future. But after she introduces Carter to Margery Gordon, a young woman from another guarded household, small shifts in attention become unmistakable, and Judith finds herself watching love turn into something stranger and less certain. Refusing to bargain for affection, Judith retreats into solitude and into an idea that has haunted her since childhood: the picture of a perfect lover, modeled on the devoted man who once wrote exquisite letters to her aunt. Those letters, full of tenderness and restraint, become Judith's private standard for what love should be - and a clue to a hidden connection between the families around her. As friendships deepen and other hearts move toward their own difficult choices, Judith must decide whether dreams are a refuge from life, or the very threads that can remake it. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:37) Chapter 02 (00:40:52) Chapter 03 (00:59:30) Chapter 04 (01:18:39) Chapter 05 (01:37:59) Chapter 06 (01:57:29) Chapter 07 (02:20:04) Chapter 08 (02:38:14) Chapter 09 (02:57:19) Chapter 10 (03:16:45) Chapter 11 (03:38:50) Chapter 12 (03:59:11) Chapter 13 (04:18:46) Chapter 14 (04:39:16) Chapter 15 (04:58:46) Chapter 16 (05:17:40) Chapter 17 (05:39:07) Chapter 18 (06:00:04) Chapter 19 (06:20:16) Chapter 20 (06:39:56) Chapter 21 (06:58:37) Chapter 22 (07:17:32) Chapter 23 (07:38:02) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Behind the Green Door by Mildred A. Wirt-Benson audiobook. Genre: mystery Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the 'Riverview Star,' Penny has been raised to be self-sufficient, outspoken, innovative, and extraordinarily tenacious. Her cheerful, chatty manner belies a shrewd and keenly observant mind. Penny was the creation of Mildred A. Wirt, who was also the author of the original Nancy Drew series (under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene). Wirt became frustrated when she was pushed to 'tone down' Nancy Drew and make her less independent and daring. With Penny Parker, Wirt had a freer hand and received full credit. Wirt once said, ' 'I always thought Penny Parker was a better Nancy Drew than Nancy is.' In BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR, the Parkers' long-planned trip to the Pine Top ski resort for the Christmas holiday is upset when the 'Riverview Star' is sued for libel. Publisher Anthony Parker remains behind to deal with the crisis while Penny is sent to Pine Top. There, she encounters multiple mysteries, including an elderly recluse who keeps his granddaughter a prisoner in his remote cabin and the unexplained presence of a reporter from a rival newspaper. Worse, the man suing the 'Star' also shows up in Pine Top. Penny's nose for news combined with her penchant for dare-devil skiing soon land her in the middle of a dangerous tangle she must unravel to save both the 'Star' and the ski resort. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:33) Chapter 02 (00:27:34) Chapter 03 (00:39:25) Chapter 04 (00:49:54) Chapter 05 (01:02:00) Chapter 06 (01:11:59) Chapter 07 (01:22:22) Chapter 08 (01:34:24) Chapter 09 (01:44:06) Chapter 10 (01:56:28) Chapter 11 (02:07:03) Chapter 12 (02:17:00) Chapter 13 (02:29:37) Chapter 14 (02:40:03) Chapter 15 (02:47:42) Chapter 16 (02:59:14) Chapter 17 (03:10:25) Chapter 18 (03:18:37) Chapter 19 (03:31:59) Chapter 20 (03:45:56) Chapter 21 (03:57:31) Chapter 22 (04:06:54) Chapter 23 (04:17:13) Chapter 24 (04:29:21) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Clue of the Silken Ladder by Mildred A. Wirt Benson audiobook. Genre: mystery In 'the clue of the silken ladder', Penny investigates multiple mysteries. What is the purpose of the singular silken ladder made by the secretive and somewhat sinister old Japanese curio shop owner? How can the 'Riverview Star' obtain evidence that a popular troupe of spiritualists really are heartless con artists? Last, who is perpetrating the gravity-defying burglaries that have rocked the town ? Meanwhile, the Parker housekeeper, Mrs. Weems, has come into an inheritance and plans to leave Riverview, much to the Parkers' dismay. Can Penny change her mind? PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the 'Riverview Star,' Penny has been raised to be self-sufficient, outspoken, innovative, and extraordinarily tenacious. Her cheerful, chatty manner belies a shrewd and keenly observant mind. Penny was the creation of Mildred A. Wirt, who was also the author of the original Nancy Drew series (under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene). Wirt became frustrated when she was pushed to 'tone down' Nancy Drew and make her less independent and daring. With Penny Parker, Wirt had a freer hand and received full credit. Wirt once said, ' 'I always thought Penny Parker was a better Nancy Drew than Nancy is.' For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:39) Chapter 02 (00:27:52) Chapter 03 (00:38:14) Chapter 04 (00:51:05) Chapter 05 (01:00:03) Chapter 06 (01:11:26) Chapter 07 (01:22:05) Chapter 08 (01:32:10) Chapter 09 (01:44:48) Chapter 10 (01:56:49) Chapter 11 (02:06:40) Chapter 12 (02:19:19) Chapter 13 (02:27:56) Chapter 14 (02:38:06) Chapter 15 (02:50:25) Chapter 16 (02:58:41) Chapter 17 (03:10:02) Chapter 18 (03:17:18) Chapter 19 (03:24:07) Chapter 20 (03:30:46) Chapter 21 (03:39:14) Chapter 22 (03:47:46) Chapter 23 (03:57:05) Chapter 24 (04:12:05) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And Even Now by Max Beerbohm audiobook. Genre: comedy This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, and Somerset Maugham. Much of Beerbohm's work was humorous, including parodies of various aspects of the upper class life into which he was born. Some of these pieces are humorous, some philosophical, and some even sad. They include, for instance: a frankly self-critical piece on the pomposity and self-importance of his early literary ambitions; a half-eager, half-repining essay on a missing and uncompleted portrait of the great German writer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; and a funny, but politically critical essay on 'the servant question.' For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:18:55) Chapter 02 (00:37:51) Chapter 03 (01:09:37) Chapter 04 (01:20:51) Chapter 05 (02:16:17) Chapter 06 (02:28:20) Chapter 07 (02:52:51) Chapter 08 (03:06:22) Chapter 09 (03:41:04) Chapter 10 (04:00:46) Chapter 11 (04:42:08) Chapter 12 (04:51:14) Chapter 13 (05:28:03) Chapter 14 (05:43:12) Chapter 15 (05:58:56) Chapter 16 (06:15:04) Chapter 17 (06:28:59) Chapter 18 (07:01:10) Chapter 19 (07:21:07) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc audiobook. Genre: mystery When rumors spread through Paris of a new master thief who steals with impeccable manners and a smile, society is equal parts outraged and fascinated. He is Arsene Lupin: a brilliant gentleman-burglar who can slip into a drawing room as easily as he can empty a safe, leaving behind taunting calling cards and impossible riddles. Told through a string of cleverly linked adventures, the story follows Lupin as he stages audacious robberies, pulls off dazzling impersonations, and outwits police inspectors who can never decide whether he is a scandal or a legend. But Lupin's greatest challenges are not only locked doors and guarded jewels - they are the sharp minds determined to expose him, the dangerous criminals who underestimate him, and the moral line he redraws with every caper. As disguises multiply and traps close in, alliances shift and reputations hang in the balance. Witty, fast-paced, and full of elegant sleight of hand, this classic of French crime fiction invites you to savor the thrill of the con and the charm of a hero who lives by his own code. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:28:34) Chapter 02 (00:52:09) Chapter 03 (01:11:26) Chapter 04 (01:40:40) Chapter 05 (01:57:09) Chapter 06 (02:29:56) Chapter 07 (03:04:38) Chapter 08 (03:42:51) Chapter 09 (04:14:02) Chapter 10 (04:36:47) Chapter 11 (05:08:18) Chapter 12 (05:30:36) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vindication Of The Rights Of Men by Mary Wollstonecraft audiobook. Genre: philosophy Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), which was a defence of constitutional monarchy, aristocracy, and the Church of England, and an attack on Wollstonecraft's friend, the Rev Richard Price. Hers was the first response in a pamphlet war that subsequently became known as the Revolution Controversy, in which Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (1792) became the rallying cry for reformers and radicals. Wollstonecraft attacked not only monarchy and hereditary privilege but also the language that Burke used to defend and elevate it. Wollstonecraft was unique in her attack on Burke's gendered language. In her arguments for republican virtue, Wollstonecraft invokes an emerging middle-class ethos in opposition to what she views as the vice-ridden aristocratic code of manners. Influenced by Enlightenment thinkers, she believed in progress and derides Burke for re For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:40) Chapter 01 (00:35:14) Chapter 02 (01:19:37) Chapter 03 (02:04:38) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart audiobook. Genre: mystery On a wild, storm-lashed night, independent society matron Cornelia Van Gorder settles into an eerie rented country house that seems determined to empty itself: servants quit, lights falter, and rumors swarm about a masked criminal prowling the area, a master thief and killer the newspapers have nicknamed 'The Bat.' Cornelia is not easily rattled, but the house comes with too many secrets to ignore. Its owner, a powerful banker, has recently died under suspicious circumstances, his bank is in turmoil, and whispers of stolen securities point to a fortune hidden somewhere within the mansion's walls. As Cornelia, her niece Dale, and the sharp-tongued maid Lizzie try to keep their wits, unexpected visitors arrive, alibis crumble, and the line between protector and predator blurs. Every creak suggests a hidden passage, every shadow could be a disguise, and every helpful hand might be reaching for the money first. Part locked-room puzzle and part nerve-jangling chase, The Bat mixes brisk suspense with darkly comic moments as Cornelia races to uncover the truth before the house claims another victim. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:41) Chapter 01 (00:25:18) Chapter 02 (00:53:23) Chapter 03 (01:17:24) Chapter 04 (01:40:52) Chapter 05 (02:08:20) Chapter 06 (02:32:17) Chapter 07 (02:52:35) Chapter 08 (03:17:04) Chapter 09 (03:37:56) Chapter 10 (04:01:17) Chapter 11 (04:23:09) Chapter 12 (04:45:12) Chapter 13 (05:09:16) Chapter 14 (05:29:40) Chapter 15 (05:57:06) Chapter 16 (06:11:21) Chapter 17 (06:27:59) Chapter 18 (06:46:05) Chapter 19 (07:06:01) Chapter 20 (07:15:48) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices