Classic Audiobook Collection

A Poor Wise Man by Mary Roberts Rinehart audiobook. Genre: thriller In a smoke-laden American steel city still reeling from the Great War, Lily Cardew returns home with new eyes. After a year of hard, unglamorous service among soldiers and vulnerable young women, the sheltered rituals of the Cardew mansion feel unreal - and the iron-willed patriarch Anthony Cardew feels more like a judge than a grandfather. Below their hilltop world, the mills grind on, immigrants pour through the station, and the streets buzz with talk of strikes, bombs, and revolution. Lily is drawn to arguments she was never allowed to hear: the bitter logic of the radicals, the slick charm of a union lawyer with dangerous ambitions, and the unsettling influence of her aunt Elinor, long estranged and bound to the notorious Jim Doyle. Caught between family loyalty and a fierce need to be useful, Lily risks her name, her inheritance, and her freedom. Watching from the edge is Willy Cameron, a poor but stubbornly honest young man whose clear-eyed courage places him at the center of a citizen movement - and in Lily's path - just as the city tilts toward upheaval. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:25:00) Chapter 02 (00:51:42) Chapter 03 (01:21:32) Chapter 04 (01:51:45) Chapter 05 (02:32:18) Chapter 06 (03:07:04) Chapter 07 (03:51:44) Chapter 08 (04:33:06) Chapter 09 (05:13:53) Chapter 10 (05:54:46) Chapter 11 (06:46:46) Chapter 12 (07:24:34) Chapter 13 (07:56:43) Chapter 14 (08:37:56) Chapter 15 (09:15:16) Chapter 16 (09:53:49) Chapter 17 (10:40:07) Chapter 18 (11:15:45) Chapter 19 (11:56:33) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rose Mather - A Tale by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: romance Set in the Northern village of Rockland as the news of Fort Sumter ignites the Civil War, Rose Mather: A Tale follows a community suddenly forced to measure its ideals against its losses. Rose Mather is young, fashionable, and newly married to wealthy William Mather, and she arrives at the first war meeting with the careless confidence of someone certain the conflict will touch other people first. Around her, the stakes are immediate: gentle Annie Graham wrestles with duty and devotion as her husband considers enlisting, while the sharp-tongued Widow Simms and the struggling Bakers watch their own sons step forward. As neighbors march off, letters and rumors begin to reshape life at home, and the lines between patriotism, fear, and ambition blur. Rose, who can be silly and coquettish as often as she is kind-hearted, finds her world challenged by grief, courage, and the moral weight of class prejudice. With a large cast of soldiers, sweethearts, and rivals - including the steadfast Tom Carleton and the resilient Isaac Simms - Holmes builds a homefront romance where love is tested by uncertainty, sacrifice, and the hard truth that war changes everyone it reaches. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:54) Chapter 02 (00:44:29) Chapter 03 (01:10:15) Chapter 04 (01:39:49) Chapter 05 (02:06:51) Chapter 06 (02:37:10) Chapter 07 (02:59:37) Chapter 08 (03:17:26) Chapter 09 (03:38:43) Chapter 10 (04:05:19) Chapter 11 (04:34:29) Chapter 12 (04:58:44) Chapter 13 (05:19:35) Chapter 14 (05:48:40) Chapter 15 (06:15:39) Chapter 16 (06:55:09) Chapter 17 (07:30:54) Chapter 18 (08:03:52) Chapter 19 (08:32:52) Chapter 20 (09:03:00) Chapter 21 (09:28:09) Chapter 22 (09:55:16) Chapter 23 (10:20:25) Chapter 24 (10:48:53) Chapter 25 (11:09:20) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maggie Miller by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: romance In the shadowy New England hills, the decaying Old House by the Mill shelters a proud exile, Madam Conway, and the servant who has served her family for years: Hagar Warren, sharp-eyed, resentful of poverty, and fiercely devoted to her daughter, Hester. When tragedy strikes and Madam Conway's grieving daughter, Margaret Miller, returns home, two babies are born within days of each other - and Hagar makes a reckless choice that binds all their futures to a single, devastating secret. Years later, Maggie Miller grows up bright, beautiful, and headstrong, certain of her place in the world, while Hagar, half haunted and half triumphant, watches from her lonely cottage in the woods. As Maggie steps into society, friendships and romances bloom: charming visitors arrive at Mill Farm, and Maggie becomes entangled with the warmhearted Henry Warner, his fragile sister Rose, and suitors whose interest may not be as innocent as it seems. With Madam Conway's rigid obsession with birth and blood pressing down on every relationship, Maggie's search for love and belonging collides with the truth Hagar has sworn to keep - a truth powerful enough to remake families, fortunes, and hearts. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:28:41) Chapter 02 (01:03:49) Chapter 03 (01:43:01) Chapter 04 (02:19:02) Chapter 05 (02:56:56) Chapter 06 (03:40:49) Chapter 07 (04:21:20) Chapter 08 (04:56:00) Chapter 09 (05:33:28) Chapter 10 (06:04:18) Chapter 11 (06:38:44) Chapter 12 (07:12:22) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: romance If you're a fan of mid-19th Century melodramas with many twists and turns you will love this book. Acclaimed as Holmes greatest commercial success the charming heroine of this tale is Lena Rivers whose mother died when she was a baby. The father is unknown, and she is brought up by her grandparents in the New England mountains. When the grandfather dies, she and her grandmother are uprooted to live with her uncle in Kentucky. His wealthy wife and 3 spoiled children are not at all happy about taking in these poor relations and do all they can to make them feel unwelcome. Sometimes highly emotional, sometimes hilarious the characters in this good old-fashioned romance are captivating and will pull you in until the very satisfying end. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:27:49) Chapter 02 (01:02:59) Chapter 03 (01:21:06) Chapter 04 (01:58:03) Chapter 05 (02:38:27) Chapter 06 (03:10:51) Chapter 07 (03:44:44) Chapter 08 (04:04:43) Chapter 09 (04:37:23) Chapter 10 (05:04:58) Chapter 11 (05:27:40) Chapter 12 (05:49:58) Chapter 13 (06:16:56) Chapter 14 (06:47:52) Chapter 15 (07:25:15) Chapter 16 (07:59:43) Chapter 17 (08:30:39) Chapter 18 (08:59:55) Chapter 19 (09:25:11) Chapter 20 (09:59:52) Chapter 21 (10:33:16) Chapter 22 (10:58:34) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gretchen by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: romance When wealthy, fastidious Arthur Tracy returns to Tracy Park after years abroad, his homecoming should restore order to the grand estate and the quiet town of Shannondale. Instead, Arthur arrives shaken and mentally unsteady, speaking obsessively of a woman named Gretchen and insisting she was with him on the journey, though no one can find her. His brother Frank, who has grown comfortable managing Arthur's fortune and hosting glittering society gatherings with his ambitious wife Dolly, is gripped by fear that Arthur's return will expose long-buried compromises. Then a brutal storm sweeps in, and a grim discovery at the eerie Tramp House leaves an abandoned child, nicknamed Jerry, at the center of the town's whispers. Taken in by the poor but proud Harold and his grandmother, Jerry becomes a living question mark that refuses to fade, especially as Arthur feels a strange, unsettling pull toward her. As years pass, old loyalties strain, missing jewels spark suspicion, and young hearts tangle with class, pride, and desire. Between drawing-room display and hard-won survival, Gretchen unfolds as a tale of mystery, conscience, and the dangerous cost of keeping secrets. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:31:55) Chapter 02 (01:01:23) Chapter 03 (01:22:37) Chapter 04 (01:46:42) Chapter 05 (02:11:40) Chapter 06 (02:43:00) Chapter 07 (02:57:55) Chapter 08 (03:26:13) Chapter 09 (03:56:23) Chapter 10 (04:31:23) Chapter 11 (05:10:26) Chapter 12 (05:46:38) Chapter 13 (06:33:18) Chapter 14 (07:08:11) Chapter 15 (07:39:06) Chapter 16 (08:17:12) Chapter 17 (08:49:43) Chapter 18 (09:27:53) Chapter 19 (09:50:18) Chapter 20 (10:18:56) Chapter 21 (10:57:38) Chapter 22 (11:28:20) Chapter 23 (11:52:17) Chapter 24 (12:22:20) Chapter 25 (12:55:03) Chapter 26 (13:16:00) Chapter 27 (13:40:18) Chapter 28 (14:04:23) Chapter 29 (14:28:49) Chapter 30 (14:56:59) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cousin Maude by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: family When Matilda's husband James dies, she marries rich Dr. Kennedy thinking he will provide a good home for her daughter Maude. However, the doctor is a miser and assumes that Matty will be his housekeeper. They have a little boy who is crippled and the doctor ignores him. Maude is totally devoted to him and on her mother's deathbed promises to look after him always. The story then evolves with Maude meeting her stepsister Nellie's cousins JC and James. Nellie has set her sights on JC who is after her money while Maude develops strong feelings towards James. JC begins to fall for Maude and when he learns that she has come into an inheritance bequeathed to her by her mother's former servant/nurse Janet he proposes to her. The complications that follow along with the arrival of a new stepmother add just the right amount of drama to this sweet romance. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:52) Chapter 02 (00:47:45) Chapter 03 (01:26:54) Chapter 04 (01:55:55) Chapter 05 (02:15:31) Chapter 06 (02:42:09) Chapter 07 (03:12:39) Chapter 08 (03:45:42) Chapter 09 (04:10:32) Chapter 10 (04:37:03) Chapter 11 (04:59:48) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bessie's Fortune by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: mystery In Boston and quiet Allington, New England, the polished Jerrold household is built on ambition, appearances, and a carefully guarded past. When an aging patriarch on a lonely farm insists on making a final confession, old wounds reopen and whispers of a long-buried crime begin to circle through the family - along with rumors of money that vanished the same night. Across the Atlantic, another branch of this tangled history is taking shape: Daisy McPherson, dazzling and reckless, drifts from hotel to hotel and gaming table to gaming table, while her gentle husband Archie clings to honor and a promise never to gamble. Their daughter, Bessie, grows up bright, dutiful, and painfully familiar with poverty, learning to work, to wait, and to hope in the shadow of her mother's appetites. When the search for a rightful heir finally reaches Bessie's doorstep, she is pulled from the worn rooms of Stoneleigh into a world of scrutiny and temptation - and into the competing attentions of three very different men. Caught between love, duty, and the seductive power of wealth, Bessie must decide what kind of fortune she truly wants. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:34:16) Chapter 02 (00:56:28) Chapter 03 (01:25:27) Chapter 04 (01:55:52) Chapter 05 (02:20:57) Chapter 06 (02:58:00) Chapter 07 (03:34:22) Chapter 08 (04:10:50) Chapter 09 (04:34:21) Chapter 10 (05:01:39) Chapter 11 (05:34:06) Chapter 12 (05:58:27) Chapter 13 (06:34:24) Chapter 14 (07:02:29) Chapter 15 (07:23:28) Chapter 16 (07:53:44) Chapter 17 (08:24:20) Chapter 18 (08:55:48) Chapter 19 (09:18:33) Chapter 20 (09:43:04) Chapter 21 (10:20:38) Chapter 22 (10:48:11) Chapter 23 (11:20:53) Chapter 24 (11:55:40) Chapter 25 (12:31:06) Chapter 26 (12:58:18) Chapter 27 (13:23:10) Chapter 28 (13:50:53) Chapter 29 (14:11:40) Chapter 30 (14:48:03) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thou Art The Man by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery Mary Elizabeth Braddon's late-Victorian mystery opens on a tragedy that shatters a young love story. At the Scottish estate of Ellerslie, Brandon Mountford, a sensitive gentleman burdened by epilepsy and frightening gaps in memory, is discovered near a brutal death and quickly becomes the obvious suspect. Forced to flee rather than face a trial that seems decided in advance, Brandon vanishes, and the woman who loved him, heiress Sibyl Higginson, is left to rebuild her life under the shadow of unanswered questions. Ten years later, Sibyl, now Lady Penrith, is traveling across a bleak stretch of moorland when a disturbed stranger thrusts a scrawled message into her hands, a message Sibyl believes can only have come from Brandon. With her spirited niece Coralie Urquhart at her side, Sibyl begins to trace the note back to its source, reopening the old case and stirring up long-buried rivalries, family secrets, and motives for murder. Blending relentless suspense with Braddon's fascination for contemporary ideas about disease, heredity, and criminal responsibility, Thou Art the Man drives toward a moral reckoning in which someone must finally be named and confronted. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:43:38) Chapter 02 (00:53:14) Chapter 03 (01:23:49) Chapter 04 (02:15:03) Chapter 05 (03:04:27) Chapter 06 (04:00:50) Chapter 07 (04:36:25) Chapter 08 (04:55:20) Chapter 09 (05:48:50) Chapter 10 (06:27:09) Chapter 11 (06:41:03) Chapter 12 (07:10:49) Chapter 13 (07:51:34) Chapter 14 (08:35:11) Chapter 15 (09:03:28) Chapter 16 (09:26:05) Chapter 17 (10:02:24) Chapter 18 (10:24:22) Chapter 19 (10:45:45) Chapter 20 (11:08:42) Chapter 21 (11:29:47) Chapter 22 (11:58:23) Chapter 23 (12:16:21) Chapter 24 (12:40:04) Chapter 25 (13:05:46) Chapter 26 (13:40:46) Chapter 27 (14:29:58) Chapter 28 (15:18:56) Chapter 29 (15:43:32) Chapter 30 (15:57:27) Chapter 31 (16:29:26) Chapter 32 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Day Will Come by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery In the quiet Dorset village of Cheriton, wedding bells welcome Juanita Dalbrook home as a bride. She is the only child of James Dalbrook, now Lord Cheriton, a brilliant barrister turned self-made peer whose ambition has bought him an ancient estate and a place among the county families. Juanita's marriage to Sir Godfrey Carmichael seems to seal that rise at last, joining new money to old blood and turning Cheriton Chase into the perfect honeymoon refuge. But beneath the pageantry lie old resentments, anxious hopes of inheritance, and a past Lord Cheriton has worked hard to bury. When violence shatters the household and suspicion spreads through servants' corridors and drawing rooms alike, the tragedy becomes more than private grief - it becomes a puzzle with consequences for names, fortunes, and reputations. Into the gathering darkness steps Theodore Dalbrook, Juanita's capable cousin and a working barrister, determined to uncover the truth. His search draws him from country lanes to London streets, through legal traps and social masks, toward the hidden motive that could explain a crime born of betrayal and revenge. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:37:57) Chapter 02 (01:09:18) Chapter 03 (01:21:14) Chapter 04 (01:41:10) Chapter 05 (02:02:55) Chapter 06 (02:30:38) Chapter 07 (02:51:53) Chapter 08 (03:40:25) Chapter 09 (04:18:39) Chapter 10 (04:39:58) Chapter 11 (04:58:19) Chapter 12 (05:23:16) Chapter 13 (05:40:59) Chapter 14 (06:17:46) Chapter 15 (06:59:25) Chapter 16 (07:35:10) Chapter 17 (08:16:30) Chapter 18 (08:50:22) Chapter 19 (09:33:31) Chapter 20 (10:08:48) Chapter 21 (10:50:57) Chapter 22 (11:05:41) Chapter 23 (11:30:18) Chapter 24 (11:47:09) Chapter 25 (12:09:06) Chapter 26 (12:32:10) Chapter 27 (12:43:52) Chapter 28 (13:21:25) Chapter 29 (13:33:38) Chapter 30 (14:04:29) Chapter 31 (14:26:40) Chapter 32 (14:40:54) Chapter 33 (15:08:45) Chapter 34 (15:37:55) Chapter 35 (15:56:59) Chapter 36 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taken at the Flood by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: thriller In Victorian England, Sylvia Carew has been raised in modest circumstances by a parish schoolmaster whose carefully guarded history has left her with more questions than security. Clever, beautiful, and fiercely determined to escape poverty, Sylvia finds herself torn between the steady devotion of Edmund Standen, a respectable young banker, and the glittering promise of rank, money, and a great house. When an unexpected path opens to a titled marriage, Sylvia seizes it, convinced she can outpace regret and remake herself as Lady Perriam. But society has a long memory, and Sylvia's new life comes with watchful eyes: anxious relatives, a hard-headed family adviser, and neighbors eager to turn rumor into scandal. As old affections flare back to life and buried facts begin to surface, Sylvia is forced into ever riskier bargains to protect her position and her child. Driven by ambition as much as love, she must decide how far she will go to keep what she has gained - and what it will cost when the tide of consequences turns. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:46) Chapter 02 (00:48:22) Chapter 03 (01:17:09) Chapter 04 (01:47:16) Chapter 05 (02:17:32) Chapter 06 (02:44:25) Chapter 07 (03:11:03) Chapter 08 (03:47:11) Chapter 09 (04:20:23) Chapter 10 (04:53:39) Chapter 11 (05:28:35) Chapter 12 (06:09:45) Chapter 13 (06:48:26) Chapter 14 (07:23:48) Chapter 15 (07:48:13) Chapter 16 (08:19:25) Chapter 17 (08:46:49) Chapter 18 (09:12:23) Chapter 19 (09:45:26) Chapter 20 (10:19:46) Chapter 21 (10:50:43) Chapter 22 (11:25:55) Chapter 23 (12:01:02) Chapter 24 (12:27:49) Chapter 25 (12:53:39) Chapter 26 (13:15:55) Chapter 27 (13:50:25) Chapter 28 (14:20:17) Chapter 29 (14:49:28) Chapter 30 (15:17:13) Chapter 31 (15:46:12) Chapter 32 (16:11:01) Chapter 33 (16:39:27) Chapter 34 (17:04:40) Chapter 35 (17:36:01) Chapter 36 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One Life, One Love by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: romance Clara and Robert Hatrell lead an ideal life with their young daughter Daisy in a beautiful old fashioned cottage on the banks of the Thames. When his son Cyril goes away to school their friend and neighbor Ambrose Arden who is a notable scholar offers to tutor Daisy. Some time later Robert carrying a large amount in banknotes is found stabbed to death in a London rooming house supposedly lured there by the mention of someone called Toinette. The murderer is not found and the money trail implicates a Frenchwoman exchanging the notes in Cannes, Nice and Paris. As the story progresses we are taken to Paris where new characters are introduced. Will one of them lead us to the actual villain??? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:40:21) Chapter 02 (01:08:59) Chapter 03 (01:26:09) Chapter 04 (02:04:10) Chapter 05 (02:46:20) Chapter 06 (03:27:03) Chapter 07 (04:12:58) Chapter 08 (04:48:53) Chapter 09 (05:21:27) Chapter 10 (06:03:35) Chapter 11 (06:39:07) Chapter 12 (07:09:21) Chapter 13 (07:41:45) Chapter 14 (08:13:38) Chapter 15 (08:48:41) Chapter 16 (09:19:23) Chapter 17 (09:48:45) Chapter 18 (10:21:56) Chapter 19 (10:51:47) Chapter 20 (11:25:15) Chapter 21 (11:57:51) Chapter 22 (12:27:49) Chapter 23 (12:54:03) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mount Royal Volume III by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery In Mount Royal Volume III, Mary Elizabeth Braddon drives her Victorian sensation tale toward its most dangerous reckonings. At the isolated estate of Mount Royal, Christabel Tregonell lives under the weight of a marriage soured by jealousy and a past love that refuses to stay buried. As winter closes in, the house turns quiet and watchful, and every polite visit or whispered message feels like a threat. Christabel's circle tightens around a few figures whose loyalties are uncertain: her perceptive companion Miss Bridgeman, the steady Major Bree, and a man from beyond England whose presence fans suspicion into obsession. Old injuries, a disputed encounter on a lonely coast, and unanswered questions about honor and violence re-emerge, until talk of a duel begins to sound too much like a plan for murder. Forced to choose between revenge and conscience, Christabel must protect what matters most to her while confronting how far a wounded heart can be pushed before it breaks. Romance, moral struggle, and dark intrigue intertwine as Braddon tests the cost of secrets in a world ruled by appearances. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:06) Chapter 02 (00:42:10) Chapter 03 (00:56:43) Chapter 04 (01:20:37) Chapter 05 (01:31:06) Chapter 06 (01:51:31) Chapter 07 (02:11:29) Chapter 08 (02:25:57) Chapter 09 (02:55:50) Chapter 10 (03:12:37) Chapter 11 (03:47:31) Chapter 12 (04:21:34) Chapter 13 (04:43:52) Chapter 14 (05:08:45) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mount Royal Volume II by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: romance Mount Royal Volume II deepens Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Victorian tale of passion tested by conscience and circumstance. Angus Hamleigh, shaken by a dangerous illness and the shadow of his own past, receives a letter from his beloved Christabel Courtenay that asks for sacrifice instead of vows: she cannot marry him unless he makes amends for a wrong that society will never forget. As Angus weighs love against duty, Christabel returns to the sheltered grandeur of Mount Royal under the watchful devotion of her aunt, Mrs. Tregonell, only to find the old household schemes tightening into a trap. Mrs. Tregonell's son, Leonard, comes home with jealousy, charm, and a sense of entitlement to the woman he has always expected to claim, and his presence turns every conversation into a contest of pride and note-perfect manners. While visitors drift through the Cornish estate and gossip blooms into accusation, Braddon layers romance with unease: half-heard rumors, compromised reputations, and the hint that violence may follow where selfishness leads. In this volume, love is not a simple choice, but a trial that demands courage, secrecy, and a price no one wants to pay. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:09) Chapter 02 (00:24:19) Chapter 03 (00:49:13) Chapter 04 (01:29:09) Chapter 05 (01:58:32) Chapter 06 (02:14:24) Chapter 07 (02:32:52) Chapter 08 (02:47:54) Chapter 09 (03:28:25) Chapter 10 (04:08:20) Chapter 11 (04:43:10) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mount Royal Volume I by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery At Mount Royal, an old manor perched above the Cornish coast near Boscastle, Christabel Courtenay has grown up sheltered, clever, and restlessly romantic under the watchful care of her aunt, Mrs. Tregonell. The household runs on memories: Mrs. Tregonell still cherishes the story of Captain Hamleigh, the widower she loved and lost, and she clings just as fiercely to her absent son Leonard, a charismatic heir whose wild youth and reckless temper have been forgiven again and again. When Mrs. Tregonell invites Captain Hamleigh's son, Angus Hamleigh, to visit, Christabel's quiet world tilts. Angus arrives not as a hearty country sportsman, but as an accomplished, world-weary man of the town, drawn to Mount Royal by sentiment and the faint hope of peace. Between Christabel's quickening curiosity, Jessie Bridgeman's sharp-eyed counsel, and Mrs. Tregonell's private determination to secure Christabel's future in the family, every conversation begins to feel like a test. In Volume I, Braddon threads romance with unease as old attachments, whispered reputations, and the pressure of duty gather around a young woman forced to decide what love should cost. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:35:38) Chapter 02 (01:13:39) Chapter 03 (01:48:03) Chapter 04 (02:15:00) Chapter 05 (02:31:15) Chapter 06 (02:58:37) Chapter 07 (03:29:59) Chapter 08 (04:00:34) Chapter 09 (04:25:43) Chapter 10 (04:50:44) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dead Love Has Chains by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery We see another facet of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's amazing talent in Dead Love Has Chains, written in her seventies. Focusing on character and human psychology rather than detection and crime, this is one of her most interesting novels. Pregnant and unmarried Irene Thelliston is sent home from India to live with her Aunt in Ireland. On her sea voyage she reveals her secret to Lady Mary Harling who swears to keep her confidence. Several years later to the horror of Lady Mary she becomes engaged to her son Conrad who has his own rather questionable past. Desperate to prevent this union, will Lady Mary break her oath?? When Irene's former lover returns threatening to come between her and Conrad, will their love prevail?????? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:21) Chapter 02 (00:42:12) Chapter 03 (01:18:49) Chapter 04 (01:33:41) Chapter 05 (02:04:17) Chapter 06 (02:26:56) Chapter 07 (02:55:43) Chapter 08 (03:23:56) Chapter 09 (03:53:39) Chapter 10 (04:26:35) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Strange World by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery In Victorian England, seventeen-year-old Justina Elgood has grown up under the footlights, touring with her worn-down actor-father, Matthew, and dreaming of a life that feels more real than painted scenery and nightly applause. When a chance meeting in the countryside introduces her to two very different young gentlemen, the earnest James and the thoughtful Maurice Clissold, Justina glimpses a world of comfort, education, and choice - and begins to wonder what she might become if she could step off the stage for good. But Maurice is drawn into darker country-house shadows: the lonely reach of Penwyn Manor, a suffering family with a history it refuses to name, and a frightened household where illness and old grief have sharpened into secrecy. As Justina's career edges toward success, whispers of a long-ago scandal, a missing child, and strange connections between respectable lives and theatrical ones tighten around her. Love, ambition, and identity collide as Maurice searches for the truth - and discovers that in this strange world, the past is never safely buried, and innocence can be the most dangerous disguise of all. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:32:59) Chapter 02 (01:06:49) Chapter 03 (01:38:16) Chapter 04 (02:08:21) Chapter 05 (02:41:27) Chapter 06 (03:13:56) Chapter 07 (03:44:26) Chapter 08 (04:12:18) Chapter 09 (04:39:36) Chapter 10 (05:21:05) Chapter 11 (05:59:34) Chapter 12 (06:30:42) Chapter 13 (06:55:37) Chapter 14 (07:23:11) Chapter 15 (07:49:03) Chapter 16 (08:14:52) Chapter 17 (08:41:40) Chapter 18 (09:09:50) Chapter 19 (09:41:09) Chapter 20 (10:12:19) Chapter 21 (10:39:50) Chapter 22 (11:09:33) Chapter 23 (11:36:13) Chapter 24 (12:02:58) Chapter 25 (12:29:48) Chapter 26 (12:54:29) Chapter 27 (13:28:17) Chapter 28 (14:01:09) Chapter 29 (14:22:26) Chapter 30 (14:46:23) Chapter 31 (15:17:50) Chapter 32 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elsie's New Relations by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's New Relations, Martha Finley returns to the warm, principled world of Ion, where Elsie Travilla has stepped into a new season of life as the steady heart of an expanding family. As summer at the seaside ends and the households settle back at Ion, the story shifts to the next generation and the challenges that come with blending families, raising children, and living out faith in everyday trials. Violet Raymond is learning to be a stepmother while Captain Raymond is often absent on duty, and her spirited stepchildren - especially outspoken Lulu and impressionable Max - test boundaries in ways that threaten the peace of the home. Around them, marriages and new households bring fresh joys as well as quiet insecurities, including the question of how newcomers can truly belong among close-knit relatives. Through misunderstandings, temptations, and moments of tenderness, Elsie and her loved ones face the ongoing work of guiding young hearts toward honesty, obedience, and forgiveness. Set against domestic routines, holiday gatherings, and the ever-present pull of the wider world beyond Ion, the novel offers a gentle but insistent portrait of family life shaped by conscience and Christian conviction. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:11:41) Chapter 02 (00:23:54) Chapter 03 (00:38:11) Chapter 04 (00:50:19) Chapter 05 (01:04:19) Chapter 06 (01:23:12) Chapter 07 (01:36:14) Chapter 08 (01:50:45) Chapter 09 (02:07:56) Chapter 10 (02:23:03) Chapter 11 (02:39:18) Chapter 12 (02:55:31) Chapter 13 (03:06:47) Chapter 14 (03:29:45) Chapter 15 (03:48:24) Chapter 16 (04:12:33) Chapter 17 (04:30:37) Chapter 18 (04:43:15) Chapter 19 (04:55:52) Chapter 20 (05:14:49) Chapter 21 (05:34:53) Chapter 22 (05:50:15) Chapter 23 (06:05:27) Chapter 24 (06:23:03) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Grandmother Elsie, Martha Finley returns to the devout and closely knit Dinsmore-Ion circle at a turning point in Elsie Dinsmore's life. As the Ion family comes home from a summer on the New Jersey coast, the household is shadowed by sickness and worry, and Elsie must keep her calm faith while caring for those she loves and leaning on the steady support of her father, Horace Dinsmore. But the most dramatic changes are not only in the sickroom. Elsie's children are no longer little ones, and the story follows them into adulthood as new responsibilities, long distances, and hard decisions test family bonds. When troubling news arrives from overseas, young Elsie and her brother Edward are drawn into an urgent journey that will reshape their futures. Back at home, Violet faces the uncertainties of love and duty, especially when life at sea and life on shore pull in different directions. Through courtship, travel, and trials of conscience, Finley weaves a portrait of intergenerational devotion, everyday courage, and a Christian commitment to doing what is right, even when it is costly. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:19) Chapter 02 (00:28:36) Chapter 03 (00:44:30) Chapter 04 (01:02:53) Chapter 05 (01:16:16) Chapter 06 (01:31:40) Chapter 07 (01:53:03) Chapter 08 (02:09:46) Chapter 09 (02:23:28) Chapter 10 (02:35:47) Chapter 11 (02:53:28) Chapter 12 (03:13:48) Chapter 13 (03:28:55) Chapter 14 (03:45:23) Chapter 15 (03:57:54) Chapter 16 (04:15:44) Chapter 17 (04:31:07) Chapter 18 (04:48:49) Chapter 19 (05:04:51) Chapter 20 (05:17:49) Chapter 21 (05:42:08) Chapter 22 (05:56:12) Chapter 23 (06:15:26) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elsie's Widowhood by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's Widowhood, Martha Finley carries the long-running Elsie Dinsmore saga into a season of sudden loss and steady courage. Elsie Travilla, devoted wife and mother, is forced to reimagine her home after the unexpected death of her husband, Edward Travilla Jr. With her children watching her every step, Elsie must balance private sorrow with the daily work of guiding a large, affectionate family whose needs do not pause for grief. As letters and news arrive from abroad, the younger generation faces its own heartaches, including young Elsie's separation from Lester, who has gone to Italy to study art, and Violet's anxious struggle with rumors and wounded feelings. In the midst of strained relationships, overheard conversations, and the sharp judgments of extended kin, Elsie leans on her father, Horace Dinsmore, and on the faith that has shaped her since childhood. Tender, domestic, and intensely moral, the novel follows a household learning how to endure, forgive, and hope when a beloved presence is gone, yet love remains. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:13) Chapter 01 (00:14:47) Chapter 02 (00:27:37) Chapter 03 (00:40:56) Chapter 04 (00:52:13) Chapter 05 (01:07:14) Chapter 06 (01:19:24) Chapter 07 (01:34:56) Chapter 08 (01:47:58) Chapter 09 (02:02:12) Chapter 10 (02:20:08) Chapter 11 (02:36:22) Chapter 12 (02:52:41) Chapter 13 (03:08:01) Chapter 14 (03:27:09) Chapter 15 (03:43:46) Chapter 16 (04:03:07) Chapter 17 (04:19:17) Chapter 18 (04:36:27) Chapter 19 (04:55:30) Chapter 20 (05:08:33) Chapter 21 (05:27:43) Chapter 22 (05:46:43) Chapter 23 (06:07:32) Chapter 24 (06:41:35) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elsie's Children by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's Children, Martha Finley returns to the warm, orderly world of Viamede, where Elsie Travilla's greatest work is not managing an estate but shaping the hearts of the lively young people who call her 'mamma.' The household is stirred by the arrival of a new baby, a joy that brings laughter to the nursery even as it tests Elsie's strength and patience. As days unfold, the Travilla home becomes a refuge for others in need - including an injured young cousin and a nearly blind child connected to Elsie's past - and each new guest adds pressure to an already bustling family circle. While Mr. Travilla offers steady support, Elsie must navigate misunderstandings, childhood quarrels, and the first hints that her children are growing up faster than she can hold them close. Through moments of tenderness and trials touched by sorrow, Elsie clings to the faith that has guided her since girlhood, determined to teach her children courage, kindness, and duty. But when old troubles resurface and new attachments begin to form, Elsie must decide how to protect her family without hardening their hearts. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:18) Chapter 01 (00:09:20) Chapter 02 (00:26:33) Chapter 03 (00:34:49) Chapter 04 (00:45:32) Chapter 05 (00:56:58) Chapter 06 (01:07:25) Chapter 07 (01:18:19) Chapter 08 (01:30:17) Chapter 09 (01:46:00) Chapter 10 (01:58:16) Chapter 11 (02:15:24) Chapter 12 (02:31:08) Chapter 13 (02:38:25) Chapter 14 (02:58:47) Chapter 15 (03:13:25) Chapter 16 (03:26:25) Chapter 17 (03:43:11) Chapter 18 (03:57:33) Chapter 19 (04:18:33) Chapter 20 (04:34:00) Chapter 21 (04:48:03) Chapter 22 (05:07:57) Chapter 23 (05:23:22) Chapter 24 (05:35:57) Chapter 25 (05:49:55) Chapter 26 (05:57:36) Chapter 27 (06:10:56) Chapter 28 (06:27:18) Chapter 29 (06:38:59) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elsie's Motherhood by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's Motherhood, Martha Finley returns to the Travilla home in the years after the Civil War, when Elsie Dinsmore Travilla is no longer the beleaguered girl readers first met, but a devoted wife and a steady, affectionate mother. The story opens on a happy family milestone and quickly settles into the daily rhythms of a bustling household: children full of questions and high spirits, relatives who drift in and out with their own opinions, and a community still shaped by old loyalties and new uncertainties. Elsie's guiding hope is simple but demanding: to raise her children with tenderness, self-control, and a living Christian faith, even when small missteps, misunderstandings, and outside influences threaten the peace she works so hard to keep. As Elsie and her husband, Edward, weigh discipline against mercy and privilege against responsibility, each scene becomes a test of character, revealing how love is proved not in grand speeches but in patient choices. Warm, earnest, and quietly suspenseful in its moral stakes, this installment centers on the joys and burdens of motherhood and the strength it takes to lead a family well. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:32) Chapter 01 (00:19:14) Chapter 02 (00:31:14) Chapter 03 (00:46:39) Chapter 04 (01:09:31) Chapter 05 (01:23:28) Chapter 06 (01:37:46) Chapter 07 (01:55:04) Chapter 08 (02:16:48) Chapter 09 (02:30:10) Chapter 10 (02:54:22) Chapter 11 (03:09:13) Chapter 12 (03:38:54) Chapter 13 (03:52:23) Chapter 14 (04:16:43) Chapter 15 (04:33:24) Chapter 16 (04:44:15) Chapter 17 (05:21:19) Chapter 18 (05:34:35) Chapter 19 (05:57:55) Chapter 20 (06:24:51) Chapter 21 (06:33:55) Chapter 22 (06:46:52) Chapter 23 (07:09:13) Chapter 24 (07:25:58) Chapter 25 (07:37:34) Chapter 26 (07:56:11) Chapter 27 (08:10:11) Chapter 28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's Womanhood, Martha Finley follows Elsie Dinsmore as she steps out of girlhood and into the weightier choices of adulthood on her Southern home, the Oaks. Now a young woman of deep conviction and tender conscience, Elsie faces the joys and anxieties of an engagement to Edward Travilla, her father's longtime friend - a match that promises protection and companionship, yet forces Elsie to reckon with what it means to leave her childhood home and define her own role in the world. As family members debate, celebrate, and worry over the coming marriage, Elsie is pulled between loyalty to her beloved father, responsibility to extended kin, and the practical demands of managing an estate. Finley weaves domestic scenes with moral tests: questions of authority and obedience, the everyday consequences of wealth and power, and Elsie's growing awareness of the suffering bound up in the institution of slavery around her. With the nation edging toward open conflict, Elsie must learn how to act with courage and mercy when comfort and principle collide, and how to carry her faith into marriage, stewardship, and uncertain times. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:02:27) Chapter 02 (00:17:31) Chapter 03 (00:24:53) Chapter 04 (00:38:49) Chapter 05 (00:57:13) Chapter 06 (01:12:49) Chapter 07 (01:30:17) Chapter 08 (01:50:57) Chapter 09 (02:06:34) Chapter 10 (02:26:01) Chapter 11 (02:41:17) Chapter 12 (02:59:58) Chapter 13 (03:21:10) Chapter 14 (03:34:30) Chapter 15 (03:44:36) Chapter 16 (04:04:20) Chapter 17 (04:21:50) Chapter 18 (04:38:07) Chapter 19 (04:53:08) Chapter 20 (05:13:19) Chapter 21 (05:23:22) Chapter 22 (05:53:35) Chapter 23 (06:17:00) Chapter 24 (06:32:42) Chapter 25 (06:40:06) Chapter 26 (06:50:07) Chapter 27 (07:17:25) Chapter 28 (07:29:46) Chapter 29 (08:01:36) Chapter 30 (08:22:09) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elsie's Girlhood by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's Girlhood, Martha Finley continues the story of Elsie Dinsmore as she moves from a sensitive, bookish childhood into the sharper tests of growing up in a proud Southern household. Elsie is bright and affectionate, but her deepest wish is painfully simple: to be truly loved and understood by her stern father, Horace Dinsmore, whose strict sense of authority and quick temper often leave her walking on eggshells. As Elsie learns the manners, lessons, and expectations of her class, she also faces the everyday pressures that can quietly shape a young life - teasing cousins, social judgments, misunderstandings, and the constant demand to please people who do not share her tender conscience. Anchored by her Christian faith, Elsie tries to meet cruelty with patience, pride with humility, and injustice with forgiveness, even when obedience comes at a personal cost. With emotional intensity and strong moral themes, the novel explores family power, spiritual conviction, and what it means for a girl to keep her integrity when love feels conditional. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:21) Chapter 01 (00:27:13) Chapter 02 (00:45:22) Chapter 03 (01:03:06) Chapter 04 (01:11:19) Chapter 05 (01:28:19) Chapter 06 (01:51:08) Chapter 07 (02:09:24) Chapter 08 (02:34:39) Chapter 09 (02:59:02) Chapter 10 (03:22:18) Chapter 11 (03:47:07) Chapter 12 (04:13:32) Chapter 13 (04:35:47) Chapter 14 (05:02:56) Chapter 15 (05:17:31) Chapter 16 (05:38:36) Chapter 17 (06:09:08) Chapter 18 (06:35:21) Chapter 19 (07:00:29) Chapter 20 (07:26:52) Chapter 21 (08:10:21) Chapter 22 (08:25:49) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holidays at Roselands by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: religion In Holidays at Roselands, Martha Finley returns to young Elsie Dinsmore just as she is beginning to heal from the trials of the first story. At Roselands, the outward calm of family visits, gentle outings, and familiar friends masks a deeper struggle: Elsie's fierce desire to please her beloved father, Horace Dinsmore, collides with a conscience shaped by her Christian faith. When Horace makes a demand that Elsie believes would be wrong, her quiet refusal ignites a painful standoff that isolates her from the affection she craves most. As days turn into weeks, Elsie leans on prayer, Scripture, and the support of those who understand her, while others interpret her steadfastness as stubbornness. The conflict escalates beyond hurt feelings into a household crisis that tests the limits of authority, love, and endurance, and even threatens Elsie's fragile health. Tender and intense by turns, this classic sequel explores obedience, spiritual conviction, and the cost of pride, while tracing how a family learns what it truly means to protect and cherish one another. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:27:25) Chapter 02 (00:44:38) Chapter 03 (01:03:05) Chapter 04 (01:22:00) Chapter 05 (01:41:29) Chapter 06 (02:09:02) Chapter 07 (02:35:09) Chapter 08 (02:55:19) Chapter 09 (03:13:57) Chapter 10 (03:36:42) Chapter 11 (03:53:57) Chapter 12 (04:11:40) Chapter 13 (04:25:54) Chapter 14 (04:48:43) Chapter 15 (05:21:15) Chapter 16 (05:39:11) Chapter 17 (05:56:43) Chapter 18 (06:22:20) Chapter 19 (06:44:27) Chapter 20 (07:00:45) Chapter 21 (07:15:17) Chapter 22 (07:32:51) Chapter 23 (07:51:57) Chapter 24 (08:17:10) Chapter 25 (08:40:18) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In post-Civil War America, gentle, intensely principled Elsie Dinsmore grows up surrounded by comfort yet starved for affection. Raised on her wealthy grandfather's plantation, Elsie is an unusually devout child who clings to her Bible and a keen sense of right and wrong. That steadfast faith becomes her refuge, but it also makes her a target. Jealous cousins, impatient aunts, and a household that prizes pride and appearances test her at every turn, demanding conformity even when it conflicts with her conscience. When Elsie's long-absent father, Horace Dinsmore, finally returns, her deepest hope is simple: to be loved and understood by him. Instead, she finds herself caught between a father's strict expectations and her determination to obey God above all. As family pressures harden into ultimatums, Elsie must choose how to remain respectful and obedient without betraying the beliefs that define her. Tender, dramatic, and openly spiritual, Elsie Dinsmore follows one girl's struggle for love, belonging, and moral courage in a world that often punishes softness. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:26:32) Chapter 02 (00:42:50) Chapter 03 (01:04:56) Chapter 04 (01:38:13) Chapter 05 (01:59:03) Chapter 06 (02:18:44) Chapter 07 (02:44:06) Chapter 08 (03:08:44) Chapter 09 (03:39:40) Chapter 10 (04:06:13) Chapter 11 (04:28:41) Chapter 12 (04:58:27) Chapter 13 (05:22:26) Chapter 14 (05:32:37) Chapter 15 (06:10:27) Chapter 16 (06:31:59) Chapter 17 (06:57:45) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black Magic - a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist by Marjorie Bowen audiobook. Genre: horror Set in medieval Europe, Black Magic follows a talented but restless woodcarver in a northern French town who begins his days gilding a figure of the Devil and ends them studying forbidden arts. Drawn to secret texts, whispered rituals, and the promise of knowledge without limits, he makes a deliberate step into the occult - and discovers that power, once touched, demands to be pursued. His rise carries him far beyond his workshop into a world of ruthless nobles, shifting alliances, and a Church whose spiritual authority is inseparable from politics. Along the way, desire and devotion tangle into dangerous attachments, and acts of violence and deception spread like a stain through courts and cloisters alike. As rumors of witchcraft and sacrilege multiply, the cost of ambition becomes impossible to ignore: every gain invites a darker bargain, every victory creates a new enemy, and the line between human will and supernatural influence grows frighteningly thin. Part Gothic nightmare, part historical intrigue, Bowen's novel builds a tense struggle between temptation and conscience, and between the hunger for dominion and the possibility of grace. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:27) Chapter 02 (00:34:26) Chapter 03 (00:49:01) Chapter 04 (01:05:06) Chapter 05 (01:19:14) Chapter 06 (01:37:08) Chapter 07 (02:09:26) Chapter 08 (02:30:07) Chapter 09 (02:49:45) Chapter 10 (03:05:03) Chapter 11 (03:25:43) Chapter 12 (03:42:41) Chapter 13 (04:10:42) Chapter 14 (04:40:27) Chapter 15 (05:11:02) Chapter 16 (05:23:26) Chapter 17 (05:48:46) Chapter 18 (06:07:16) Chapter 19 (06:31:47) Chapter 20 (06:50:53) Chapter 21 (07:08:07) Chapter 22 (07:23:38) Chapter 23 (07:40:30) Chapter 24 (08:04:06) Chapter 25 (08:22:51) Chapter 26 (08:40:34) Chapter 27 (08:57:12) Chapter 28 (09:11:18) Chapter 29 (09:20:09) Chapter 30 (09:35:28) Chapter 31 (09:43:42) Chapter 32 (09:59:38) Chapter 33 (10:12:58) Chapter 34 (10:29:42) Chapter 35 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ardath by Marie Corelli audiobook. Genre: fantasy In late-Victorian London, Theos Alwyn is a gifted but struggling young writer who has begun to doubt the value of art, faith, and even his own moral compass. When an enigmatic Eastern mystic offers him a strange, fateful gift, Theos is drawn into an experience that feels like a dream and a judgment at once: a sweeping vision of a vanished world called Ardath, a radiant civilization that seems to promise everything his modern life denies him - beauty, knowledge, power, and a love that could eclipse all earthly attachments. Yet Ardath is not merely an escape. As Theos moves through its dazzling splendor and perilous allure, he is forced to confront the deadlier temptations of pride, desire, and self-worship, and to ask what it truly means to be redeemed. Lyrical, theatrical, and spiritually charged, Marie Corelli blends romance, mysticism, and moral parable into a story about ambition and conscience, the seduction of perfection, and the hard cost of choosing the soul over the self. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:15) Chapter 02 (00:52:53) Chapter 03 (01:21:25) Chapter 04 (01:38:31) Chapter 05 (02:07:45) Chapter 06 (02:29:52) Chapter 07 (02:50:36) Chapter 08 (03:08:40) Chapter 09 (03:25:50) Chapter 10 (03:51:20) Chapter 11 (04:14:00) Chapter 12 (04:46:24) Chapter 13 (05:15:58) Chapter 14 (05:40:52) Chapter 15 (06:14:03) Chapter 16 (07:02:38) Chapter 17 (08:04:14) Chapter 18 (08:50:00) Chapter 19 (09:27:02) Chapter 20 (10:06:02) Chapter 21 (10:54:05) Chapter 22 (11:28:36) Chapter 23 (12:07:01) Chapter 24 (12:51:14) Chapter 25 (13:17:41) Chapter 26 (13:48:54) Chapter 27 (14:29:05) Chapter 28 (14:55:02) Chapter 29 (15:34:40) Chapter 30 (16:22:55) Chapter 31 (16:54:34) Chapter 32 (17:29:56) Chapter 33 (18:01:49) Chapter 34 (18:25:55) Chapter 35 (19:13:06) Chapter 36 (19:53:24) Chapter 37 (20:29:17) Chapter 38 (20:58:08) Chapter 39 (21:24:39) Chapter 40 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Daredevil by Maria Thompson Daviess audiobook. Genre: romance In the shadow of the Great War, Roberta Carruthers - the bold, quick-witted daughter of an American soldier and a French marquise - sails into New York carrying grief, responsibility, and one urgent hope: help for her frail younger brother, Pierre. But a clerical mistake and an iron-willed, woman-hating uncle in Tennessee turn her homecoming into a high-wire act. Mistaken for the long-awaited nephew, Roberta makes a reckless, loving choice: she becomes 'Robert' to secure Pierre's care and keep their future intact. What begins as a disguise quickly becomes a dangerous education in power, politics, and desire, as Roberta navigates Southern society, suspicious household allies, and wartime intrigue that reaches from American drawing rooms to the needs of France itself. With German espionage whispers in the air and patriotic duty at stake, she must keep her secret, outmaneuver those who would exploit the war, and decide what kind of life - and love - she can claim when the mask fits too well. Clever, romantic, and suspenseful, The Daredevil is a story of daring identity, sacrifice, and the freedom to redefine oneself. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:23:53) Chapter 02 (00:49:15) Chapter 03 (01:11:47) Chapter 04 (01:27:35) Chapter 05 (01:41:06) Chapter 06 (01:56:20) Chapter 07 (02:05:27) Chapter 08 (02:22:53) Chapter 09 (02:39:32) Chapter 10 (03:02:12) Chapter 11 (03:22:15) Chapter 12 (03:41:29) Chapter 13 (04:01:33) Chapter 14 (04:18:49) Chapter 15 (04:35:55) Chapter 16 (04:51:59) Chapter 17 (05:10:32) Chapter 18 (05:28:48) Chapter 19 (05:50:58) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Castle of Twilight by Margaret Horton Potter audiobook. Genre: fantasy For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:30:23) Chapter 02 (01:13:36) Chapter 03 (01:53:25) Chapter 04 (02:27:11) Chapter 05 (03:09:14) Chapter 06 (03:36:56) Chapter 07 (04:11:45) Chapter 08 (04:41:23) Chapter 09 (05:13:23) Chapter 10 (05:53:08) Chapter 11 (06:24:06) Chapter 12 (06:59:24) Chapter 13 (07:37:28) Chapter 14 (08:14:09) Chapter 15 (08:36:53) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant by Marcus Eli Ravage audiobook. Genre: biography For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:08:41) Chapter 01 (00:33:30) Chapter 02 (00:58:03) Chapter 03 (01:11:46) Chapter 04 (01:34:35) Chapter 05 (01:55:07) Chapter 06 (02:15:19) Chapter 07 (02:32:49) Chapter 08 (02:59:48) Chapter 09 (03:39:33) Chapter 10 (04:05:36) Chapter 11 (04:28:09) Chapter 12 (04:56:41) Chapter 13 (05:14:47) Chapter 14 (05:40:00) Chapter 15 (06:07:36) Chapter 16 (06:27:09) Chapter 17 (06:54:25) Chapter 18 (07:22:27) Chapter 19 (07:50:15) Chapter 20 (08:19:55) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust audiobook. Genre: drama Swann's Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust's monumental In Search of Lost Time, invites listeners into a richly detailed world where memory, desire, and social performance shape a life as surely as events do. From the quiet rituals of childhood in the provincial village of Combray, a sensitive narrator learns how longing can attach itself to places, habits, and especially to the approval of others. Years later, in Paris, the narrator moves at the edges of fashionable society, observing its codes and vanities with sharp tenderness. Interwoven with these recollections is the celebrated story of Charles Swann, a cultivated man drawn into an obsessive love for the enigmatic Odette de Crecy, a relationship that pulls him through salons, rumors, and self-deception. As the narrator and Swann each confront the distance between inner feeling and outward appearance, Proust transforms seemingly small moments - a taste, a phrase, a glance - into revelations about time and the self. Lyrical, psychologically precise, and often quietly comic, Swann's Way explores how we construct our identities from what we remember, what we misread, and what we cannot let go. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:36:42) Chapter 02 (01:26:15) Chapter 03 (02:01:22) Chapter 04 (02:40:12) Chapter 05 (03:27:20) Chapter 06 (04:15:08) Chapter 07 (05:04:37) Chapter 08 (05:49:58) Chapter 09 (06:31:52) Chapter 10 (07:20:17) Chapter 11 (08:09:11) Chapter 12 (08:54:02) Chapter 13 (09:29:48) Chapter 14 (10:07:59) Chapter 15 (11:01:29) Chapter 16 (11:57:57) Chapter 17 (12:48:31) Chapter 18 (13:43:39) Chapter 19 (14:40:45) Chapter 20 (15:33:13) Chapter 21 (16:27:31) Chapter 22 (17:24:49) Chapter 23 (18:18:59) Chapter 24 (19:18:53) Chapter 25 (20:17:34) Chapter 26 (21:12:24) Chapter 27 (22:01:47) Chapter 28 (22:47:25) Chapter 29 (23:30:29) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily of New Moon by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: family Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely -- until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious classmates by holding her head high and using her quick wit. Things begin to change when she makes friends: with Teddy, who does marvelous drawings; with Perry, who's sailed all over the world with his father yet has never been to school; and above all, with Use, a tomboy with a blazing temper. Amazingly, Emily finds New Moon beautiful and fascinating. With new friends and adventures, Emily might someday think of herself as Emily of New Moon. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:03) Chapter 02 (00:38:29) Chapter 03 (01:06:49) Chapter 04 (01:28:51) Chapter 05 (01:45:02) Chapter 06 (02:08:53) Chapter 07 (02:41:34) Chapter 08 (03:06:51) Chapter 09 (03:19:56) Chapter 10 (03:38:49) Chapter 11 (03:56:26) Chapter 12 (04:15:14) Chapter 13 (04:34:31) Chapter 14 (04:50:32) Chapter 15 (05:11:03) Chapter 16 (05:26:29) Chapter 17 (05:52:54) Chapter 18 (06:23:04) Chapter 19 (06:53:35) Chapter 20 (07:32:22) Chapter 21 (07:42:13) Chapter 22 (08:06:49) Chapter 23 (08:32:28) Chapter 24 (08:51:04) Chapter 25 (09:15:02) Chapter 26 (09:32:10) Chapter 27 (09:47:09) Chapter 28 (10:15:20) Chapter 29 (10:41:19) Chapter 30 (11:00:27) Chapter 31 (11:29:53) Chapter 32 (11:57:44) Chapter 33 (12:29:17) Chapter 34 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily Climbs by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: family Emily Byrd Starr longs to attend Queen's Academy to earn her teaching license, but her tradition-bound relatives at New Moon refuse. She is instead offered the chance to go to Shrewsbury High School with her friends, on two conditions. The first is that she board with her disliked Aunt Ruth, but it is the second that causes Emily difficulties. Emily must not write a word during her high-school education. From the author of Anne of Green Gables, Emily Climbs carries forward the story of the lovable little heroine whom a multitude of readers met in Emily of New Moon. This story covers Emily's happy years from 14 to 17. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:56) Chapter 02 (01:03:01) Chapter 03 (01:40:08) Chapter 04 (02:14:46) Chapter 05 (02:39:57) Chapter 06 (03:03:41) Chapter 07 (03:37:36) Chapter 08 (04:06:30) Chapter 09 (04:17:51) Chapter 10 (04:52:51) Chapter 11 (05:29:11) Chapter 12 (05:59:29) Chapter 13 (06:35:09) Chapter 14 (06:52:59) Chapter 15 (07:14:09) Chapter 16 (07:51:15) Chapter 17 (08:08:34) Chapter 18 (08:24:53) Chapter 19 (08:58:09) Chapter 20 (09:14:31) Chapter 21 (09:45:55) Chapter 22 (10:14:00) Chapter 23 (10:26:08) Chapter 24 (10:49:27) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tales of War by Lord Dunsany audiobook. Genre: history In Tales of War, Lord Dunsany turns his lyrical imagination toward the mud, wire, and sudden terror of the First World War, shaping a sequence of short sketches that feel like dispatches, parables, and haunted memories all at once. From the men of the small village of Daleswood, who carry thoughts of home into the trenches, to solitary sentries listening to the dark beyond the parapet, these pieces follow soldiers as they endure boredom, fear, and bursts of violence, then try to make sense of what remains. Dunsany moves through ruined roads and fields in Picardy, the strange etiquette of No Man's Land, and the brittle humor that surfaces when survival depends on it. Alongside moments of stark realism are flashes of the uncanny and satiric: sudden shifts in perspective, dreams that feel truer than waking, and bitter commentary on the forces that send ordinary people to suffer. Woven throughout is a longing for England and for spring returning to a wounded landscape, even as the war threatens to erase everything familiar. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:33) Chapter 02 (00:17:35) Chapter 03 (00:22:38) Chapter 04 (00:27:48) Chapter 05 (00:32:26) Chapter 06 (00:38:22) Chapter 07 (00:41:17) Chapter 08 (00:49:01) Chapter 09 (00:54:23) Chapter 10 (00:58:11) Chapter 11 (01:01:10) Chapter 12 (01:04:44) Chapter 13 (01:08:23) Chapter 14 (01:13:09) Chapter 15 (01:16:02) Chapter 16 (01:19:12) Chapter 17 (01:27:11) Chapter 18 (01:32:46) Chapter 19 (01:40:09) Chapter 20 (01:44:05) Chapter 21 (01:48:38) Chapter 22 (01:53:25) Chapter 23 (01:55:41) Chapter 24 (02:00:37) Chapter 25 (02:05:18) Chapter 26 (02:10:55) Chapter 27 (02:17:21) Chapter 28 (02:24:31) Chapter 29 (02:29:01) Chapter 30 (02:33:30) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo da Vinci audiobook. Genre: philosophy Thoughts on Art and Life gathers Leonardo da Vinci's own words into a vivid portrait of a mind that refused to separate beauty from truth. Drawn from his notebooks, these short observations, reflections, and practical notes move between the studio and the wider world: how a painter should study light and shadow, why perspective matters, what careful drawing teaches the eye, and how nature's patterns can guide an artist's hand. Leonardo writes as both craftsman and philosopher, urging discipline, patience, and relentless curiosity, while also capturing the wonder that comes from looking closely at water, clouds, plants, faces, and motion. As the entries unfold, listeners meet Leonardo not through a conventional life story, but through his working methods and inner questions - what it means to learn, to see, to invent, and to pursue excellence when perfection always feels one step away. The central tension is timeless: balancing imagination with observation, and ambition with the hard, daily practice required to turn insight into art. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:27:16) Chapter 01 (00:48:00) Chapter 02 (01:01:14) Chapter 03 (01:18:54) Chapter 04 (01:38:40) Chapter 05 (01:52:01) Chapter 06 (02:08:23) Chapter 07 (02:27:42) Chapter 08 (02:47:09) Chapter 09 (03:03:54) Chapter 10 (03:20:27) Chapter 11 (03:38:27) Chapter 12 (03:55:00) Chapter 13 (04:13:59) Chapter 14 (04:33:53) Chapter 15 (04:54:32) Chapter 16 (05:15:40) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Impossibles by Laurence M. Janifer audiobook. Genre: scifi In this classic, tongue-in-cheek science-fiction mystery co-written by Laurence M. Janifer (with Randall Garrett), FBI agent Kenneth Malone is assigned a case that sounds like a bad joke and quickly turns into a national-security headache. A wave of thefts targets one oddly specific prize: flashy red Cadillacs. Witnesses cannot agree on what they saw, suspects seem to vanish at the worst possible moments, and the evidence points toward something the Bureau is not supposed to admit exists - people with psionic talents. Malone already knows that telepaths and other psi-powered operatives can be more dangerous than any gun, but this time the trail is littered with contradictions, missing teenagers, and an unsettling pattern that suggests someone is testing the limits of what is possible. Ordered around by a maddeningly cryptic FBI Director and aided by fellow agents (and the unforgettable Rose Thompson, nicknamed Queen Elizabeth I), Malone has to separate prankish chaos from a carefully engineered plot before an impossible crime becomes an unstoppable one. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:25) Chapter 02 (01:00:04) Chapter 03 (01:26:43) Chapter 04 (02:08:49) Chapter 05 (02:38:45) Chapter 06 (03:10:25) Chapter 07 (03:34:24) Chapter 08 (03:56:58) Chapter 09 (04:25:44) Chapter 10 (04:48:37) Chapter 11 (05:06:52) Chapter 12 (05:38:42) Chapter 13 (05:56:36) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods by Laura Lee Hope audiobook. Genre: adventure Bunny Brown and his little sister, Sue, have been having adventures and fun, and getting into scrapes, since the early 1900s. From Chapter One: 'Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were at Camp Rest-a-While with their father and their mother. They had come from their home in Bellemere to live for a while in the forest, on the shore of Lake Wanda, where they were all enjoying the life in the open air. They had journeyed to the woods in an automobile, carrying two tents which were set up under the trees. One tent was used to sleep in and the other for a dining room. There was also a place to cook...' This is Volume 6 of the Bunny Brown series. This book contains racial prejudices that were once commonplace. They are retained, as originally written in this recording, because to do otherwise would be to deny they existed. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:11:07) Chapter 02 (00:23:51) Chapter 03 (00:33:01) Chapter 04 (00:45:21) Chapter 05 (00:57:27) Chapter 06 (01:08:02) Chapter 07 (01:23:52) Chapter 08 (01:33:13) Chapter 09 (01:41:02) Chapter 10 (01:52:48) Chapter 11 (01:59:39) Chapter 12 (02:12:48) Chapter 13 (02:21:22) Chapter 14 (02:30:20) Chapter 15 (02:39:31) Chapter 16 (02:46:30) Chapter 17 (02:57:14) Chapter 18 (03:12:12) Chapter 19 (03:20:14) Chapter 20 (03:28:15) Chapter 21 (03:35:17) Chapter 22 (03:42:31) Chapter 23 (03:50:17) Chapter 24 (03:58:50) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A World of Girls - The Story of a School by L. T. Meade audiobook. Genre: family If you are a fan of Girl's School tales this one will definitely not disappoint. Filled with fantastic adventures of midnight feasts, gypsy sightings and naughty pranks, this charming story centers on two very opposite characters. Hester Thornton, very proud, mourning the recent loss of her mother and the separation of her beloved little sister is determined to hate the school to which her father has sent her. Annie Forest, a very pretty, rather wild yet kind hearted girl who has been a resident of the school the last 4 years is the school favourite in spite of her many pranks and scrapes. Miscommunication and envy causes a strong mutual dislike between them, and the addition of mean-spirited actions by a 3rd party leads to many exciting and dramatic events as well as touching moments. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:25:18) Chapter 02 (00:48:21) Chapter 03 (01:15:50) Chapter 04 (01:44:34) Chapter 05 (02:13:30) Chapter 06 (02:38:27) Chapter 07 (03:10:48) Chapter 08 (03:37:37) Chapter 09 (04:12:12) Chapter 10 (04:44:19) Chapter 11 (05:08:37) Chapter 12 (05:37:12) Chapter 13 (06:00:57) Chapter 14 (06:27:15) Chapter 15 (06:52:22) Chapter 16 (07:21:01) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy An evil Arabian sorcerer loans a golden flask full of the Great Elixir - a magic liquid that endows a person with pronounced health, strength, and longevity - to a colorblind baker's wife to stop it falling into the wrong hands. Unfortunately, the woman mixes up the Elixir with her rheumatism medicine, which, through even more misunderstanding, then ends up being used in batch of gingerbread. Out of this dough comes John Dough, a six-foot novelty gingerbread man who promptly comes to life and runs away, in an echo of an old nursery rhyme. Pursued by the evil sorcerer, who wants to eat him to gain the power of immortality, and children, who want to eat him because he's made of cake, John Dough and his sidekick the Cherub flee through a variety of strange fantasy lands and bizarre scenarios, including an encounter with 'The King of Fairy Beavers,' an animated Wooden Indian, a girl executioner who never gets to kill anybody and weeps over the fact, a two-legged talking horse that bullies its rider, and the youthful and tyrannical 'Kinglet' of Phreex. Will John Dough escape those who want him eaten? Though the novel (published in 1906) is not considered part of the Oz canon, its main characters make cameo appearances in The Road to Oz (1909). For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:15) Chapter 02 (00:16:05) Chapter 03 (00:24:40) Chapter 04 (00:39:02) Chapter 05 (01:30:50) Chapter 06 (01:47:42) Chapter 07 (02:00:54) Chapter 08 (02:13:28) Chapter 09 (02:18:38) Chapter 10 (02:36:18) Chapter 11 (02:47:32) Chapter 12 (03:00:43) Chapter 13 (03:17:26) Chapter 14 (03:29:41) Chapter 15 (03:48:34) Chapter 16 (03:58:59) Chapter 17 (04:08:41) Chapter 18 (04:22:12) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Drummer, or, The Haunted House by Joseph Addison audiobook. Genre: comedy In Joseph Addison's stage comedy The Drummer, or, The Haunted House, Lady Truman is trying to rebuild her life after devastating news: her husband, Sir George Truman, has been reported killed in battle, leaving her a wealthy widow in possession of a prized country estate. Grief, however, quickly becomes only one of her problems. Two persistent would-be husbands, the fashionable Mr. Tinsel and the theatrically melancholy Mr. Fantome, circle her household with competing plans to secure her fortune. Then the nights turn strange. A relentless, unseen drum begins to beat through the house after dark, unsettling servants, rousing rumors of a ghost, and throwing every courtship scheme into confusion. With the practical steward Vellum attempting to keep order and a colorful staff of household attendants caught between fear and opportunism, Lady Truman is pushed toward a desperate solution when a mysterious old man arrives, claiming he can put the disturbance to rest. Part satire, part haunted-house farce, Addison uses the phantom drumming to test courage, expose hypocrisy, and ask what people will believe when self-interest is at stake. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 0 (00:04:58) Chapter 1 (00:33:47) Chapter 2 (00:55:12) Chapter 3 (01:17:27) Chapter 4 (01:41:16) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All for Love; or, The World Well Lost by John Dryden audiobook. Genre: tragedy All for Love is widely considered to be John Dryden's finest work, dramatic or otherwise. A tragedy written in blank verse, it retells the story of Roman general Marc Antony's love affair with the alluring Egyptian queen Cleopatra and their eventual double-suicide. Compared to the more famous rendition of the tale by William Shakespeare, however, which is grand and hectic in terms of setting, Dryden chooses instead to focus in on the lovers' last days in Alexandria as the threat of their defeat looms and their legacies are contested. The result is a swelling, elegant, emotional drama that perceptively considers such themes as loyalty and love, fidelity in marriage, the lasting endurance of friendship, and even the tenuous construct of masculinity. In short, it's truly a gem of the Restoration repertoire. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:33:10) Chapter 2 (01:01:15) Chapter 3 (01:31:31) Chapter 4 (02:06:57) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army by James Norman Hall audiobook. Genre: biography In 1914, as Europe slides into war, young American James Norman Hall makes an impulsive decision that will reshape his life: he crosses the Atlantic to enlist in the British Army. Thrown into the swelling ranks of Kitchener's New Army - the citizen volunteers nicknamed 'Kitchener's Mob' - Hall moves from recruiting offices and drilling grounds to the hard routine of camps, transport, and finally the grim logic of the Western Front. With a reporter's eye and a soldier's growing awareness, he captures the odd mix of comedy and terror that defines military life: the bureaucratic tangles, the relentless marching, the small kindnesses between strangers, and the sudden, intimate dangers of trench warfare. As he learns to live by orders, luck, and loyalty to the men beside him, Hall also wrestles with what it means to fight for a country that is not his own. Part memoir, part battlefield sketchbook, this vivid account explores courage, disillusionment, and the thin line between adventure and catastrophe in the first years of World War I. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:48) Chapter 02 (00:17:56) Chapter 03 (00:44:59) Chapter 04 (01:04:07) Chapter 05 (01:20:45) Chapter 06 (01:48:23) Chapter 07 (02:08:03) Chapter 08 (02:32:40) Chapter 09 (02:49:45) Chapter 10 (03:29:00) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses by Kincaid audiobook. Genre: self help A practical, old-school manual of horsemanship, The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses sets out to answer a question that has tested riders and stablehands for centuries: how do you take an animal built on speed and fear, sometimes made dangerous by mishandling, and bring it safely into partnership with a human? Writing in the direct, instructive style of a working horseman, Kincaid presents a method associated with Arabian practice and applies it to the hardest cases - unbroken horses, confirmed kickers and biters, and animals that bolt, rear, or refuse the harness. The book walks the listener through preparation, safe handling, and the first critical encounters, emphasizing calm control, timing, and the careful use of restraint so that force does not become a substitute for understanding. Along the way, it offers guidance on reading a horse's signals, correcting fear-based resistance, and building obedience without destroying spirit. Part training guide and part window into a historical approach to animal behavior, it is aimed at anyone who wants practical principles for turning chaos in the stall or on the lead rope into steadier, safer work. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:12:08) Chapter 01 (00:19:34) Chapter 02 (00:45:41) Chapter 03 (01:08:11) Chapter 04 (01:28:02) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The End Of The Tether by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: tragedy In a humid corner of the Malay Archipelago, Captain Henry Whalley is a celebrated seaman at the end of his long career - respected, proud, and quietly desperate. Age has begun to strip away the one thing he cannot admit losing: his ability to see clearly enough to command a ship. With money needed to secure his daughters future and his reputation hanging by a thread, Whalley takes charge of a small coastal steamer and tries to hide his failing eyesight from officers, owners, and crew. Among those closest to him is the hard-edged, observant first mate, a man whose loyalty is tested by the risks Whalley insists on taking and the compromises he asks others to share. As the vessel moves through rivers, ports, and shadowy trading outposts, routine voyages become charged with dread, pride, and moral pressure. Joseph Conrad turns a seafaring predicament into an intense study of dignity, duty, and the terrifying cost of self-deception - when a mans last tether to identity and honor is stretched to its limit. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:29) Chapter 02 (00:27:15) Chapter 03 (00:40:17) Chapter 04 (00:58:42) Chapter 05 (01:21:43) Chapter 06 (01:34:47) Chapter 07 (01:47:11) Chapter 08 (02:05:43) Chapter 09 (02:29:10) Chapter 10 (02:52:00) Chapter 11 (03:21:41) Chapter 12 (03:53:05) Chapter 13 (04:31:37) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andiron Tales by John Kendrick Bangs audiobook. Genre: fantasy In Andiron Tales, John Kendrick Bangs invites listeners to the warm edge of a fireplace, where an ordinary household object becomes an unlikely master of ceremonies. Framed as a set of fireside stories, the book gathers a playful assortment of short fantasies and comic fables, each spun with Bangs' trademark wit and gentle mischief. As the narrator settles into the comfort of the hearth, the andiron's voice ushers him into a parade of imagined worlds: courtly adventures that refuse to behave like proper legends, modern intrusions that upset old-fashioned fairy-tale expectations, and characters who argue, bargain, and blunder with thoroughly human vanity. Beneath the lightness is a sharp but affectionate satire of manners, ambition, and the stories people tell themselves to feel important. The central pleasure is the tug-of-war between cozy domestic reality and the unruly imagination that keeps breaking in, turning the familiar glow of home into a stage for wonder and laughter. Andiron Tales is a celebration of storytelling itself: quick, clever, and designed to be shared aloud by the fire. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:10:33) Chapter 02 (00:19:20) Chapter 03 (00:36:51) Chapter 04 (00:46:02) Chapter 05 (00:54:34) Chapter 06 (01:07:45) Chapter 07 (01:19:56) Chapter 08 (01:32:29) Chapter 09 (01:45:25) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Money Moon by John Jeffery Farnol audiobook. Genre: romance When American millionaire George Bellew is left reeling by the news that his beloved Sylvia Marchmont will marry the Duke of Ryde, he does the only thing that makes sense to a man with too much money and no clear purpose: he walks out of London and into the Kentish countryside. With his dryly competent valet Baxter at his heels, Bellew drifts from heartbreak into a world of hedgerows, hop fields, and village characters who measure a man by his conduct rather than his fortune. A chance meeting with an earnest runaway boy, Georgy Porgy (Small Porges), draws Bellew into the boy's impossible quest to find wealth enough to save his proud Aunt Anthea and her threatened home. To keep hope alive, Bellew spins a half-mocking, half-enchanted legend of the Money Moon - a night when the moon turns the color of a golden sovereign, and fortunes might be found by those bold enough to seek them. As the search deepens, Bellew must confront what money can buy, what it cannot, and whether an invented fairy tale can lead to something real. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:01:56) Chapter 02 (00:09:18) Chapter 03 (00:20:28) Chapter 04 (00:28:55) Chapter 05 (00:42:55) Chapter 06 (00:49:52) Chapter 07 (01:06:41) Chapter 08 (01:20:44) Chapter 09 (01:34:25) Chapter 10 (01:45:15) Chapter 11 (02:04:10) Chapter 12 (02:31:10) Chapter 13 (02:41:16) Chapter 14 (03:08:04) Chapter 15 (03:16:13) Chapter 16 (03:22:17) Chapter 17 (03:34:51) Chapter 18 (03:42:30) Chapter 19 (03:57:34) Chapter 20 (04:02:27) Chapter 21 (04:15:38) Chapter 22 (04:21:37) Chapter 23 (04:26:08) Chapter 24 (04:37:21) Chapter 25 (04:42:56) Chapter 26 (04:54:49) Chapter 27 (05:02:32) Chapter 28 (05:08:25) Chapter 29 (05:14:38) Chapter 30 (05:24:58) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Wheat Princess by Jean Webster audiobook. Genre: romance Marcia Copley arrives in Rome expecting an effortless season of parties, art, and sunshine with her well-placed American relatives at a villa near the hill town of Palestrina. Instead, she finds herself marked by a nickname she cannot quite escape: the 'Wheat Princess,' heiress to the fortune her father made through grain speculation. In the expatriate circles of diplomats and idle travelers, Marcia is admired, judged, and quietly maneuvered as if she were part of the scenery. Two very reminding men pull her in different directions: Paul Dessart, a charming would-be painter who treats life as a lark, and Laurence Sybert, a sharp, guarded embassy official whose moral seriousness clashes with Marcia's bright confidence. When unrest in the countryside and uneasy conversations begin to point back to the consequences of her family's wealth, Marcia is forced to look beyond salon gossip and romantic intrigue to the real cost of privilege. Set against ancient roads, ruined temples, and a modern Italy strained by hunger and politics, Jean Webster's novel blends sparkling dialogue with a coming-of-age reckoning about love, responsibility, and what it means to do good when doing good is complicated. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:10:02) Chapter 01 (00:33:55) Chapter 02 (00:52:22) Chapter 03 (01:13:30) Chapter 04 (01:20:04) Chapter 05 (01:35:17) Chapter 06 (02:03:32) Chapter 07 (02:18:44) Chapter 08 (02:51:17) Chapter 09 (03:03:37) Chapter 10 (03:30:24) Chapter 11 (04:04:20) Chapter 12 (04:35:55) Chapter 13 (04:56:36) Chapter 14 (05:23:08) Chapter 15 (05:49:31) Chapter 16 (06:15:37) Chapter 17 (06:38:15) Chapter 18 (06:53:43) Chapter 19 (07:06:10) Chapter 20 (07:20:32) Chapter 21 (07:31:10) Chapter 22 (07:41:28) Chapter 23 (08:11:46) Chapter 24 (08:44:27) Chapter 25 (09:02:34) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall by Janet D. Wheeler audiobook. Genre: mystery Billie Bradley is back, and this time the bright, headstrong girl finds herself at the storied boarding school known as Three Towers Hall. Eager to prove she belongs among its traditions and tight knit social circles, Billie throws herself into classes, athletics, and the lively rhythm of dorm life. But the Hall is not as peaceful as its ivy covered walls suggest. Rivalries simmer, newcomers are tested, and a string of troubling incidents begins to shadow the school, from unsettling rumors to petty sabotage that threatens to grow into something far more serious. With her best friends close by and her instincts on high alert, Billie must navigate strict rules, prickly classmates, and the pressure to keep her reputation intact, all while trying to uncover who is stirring up trouble and why. As secrets ripple through corridors and loyalties are put to the test, Billie learns that courage at Three Towers Hall is not only about winning on the playing field, but also about standing up for what is right when it would be easier to stay silent. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:11:48) Chapter 02 (00:21:55) Chapter 03 (00:33:15) Chapter 04 (00:43:41) Chapter 05 (00:53:15) Chapter 06 (01:03:28) Chapter 07 (01:13:10) Chapter 08 (01:24:50) Chapter 09 (01:33:38) Chapter 10 (01:45:04) Chapter 11 (01:52:25) Chapter 12 (02:03:30) Chapter 13 (02:11:49) Chapter 14 (02:21:54) Chapter 15 (02:31:45) Chapter 16 (02:48:15) Chapter 17 (03:01:42) Chapter 18 (03:17:15) Chapter 19 (03:25:24) Chapter 20 (03:36:44) Chapter 21 (03:47:57) Chapter 22 (03:59:35) Chapter 23 (04:09:48) Chapter 24 (04:23:11) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Philomene's Marriages by Henry Greville audiobook. Genre: romance 'Philomène’s Marriages' is a story of French life, located in Normandy, and also in Paris, and is a translation from the French of a new work by the gifted and popular authoress, Henry Gréville, whose works have become so famous and popular, that they no longer require any elaborate introduction to the reading public. The heroine’s life in this charming story is one of every-day occurrences, made up of the never-ending round of country pleasures and duties, narrated in a most fascinating manner, amid scenes of French life in Normandy, and is an admirable picture of peasant country home-life, being a comedy of life, full of cleverness and wit, while the book is commendable for its high moral tone, as well as its interest, which is preserved throughout. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:05:04) Chapter 01 (00:41:48) Chapter 02 (01:09:20) Chapter 03 (01:39:11) Chapter 04 (02:08:23) Chapter 05 (02:35:19) Chapter 06 (03:08:53) Chapter 07 (03:39:52) Chapter 08 (04:07:07) Chapter 09 (04:31:02) Chapter 10 (05:00:32) Chapter 11 (05:23:55) Chapter 12 (05:58:44) Chapter 13 (06:28:00) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette by Henriette Campan audiobook. Genre: biography Introduced into the royal household as court reader at the age of 15 and later rising to the office of first lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette, Mme Campan was privy to the many trials and tribulations of this unfortunate queen. Her memoirs offer a fascinating insight into the intrigues, the complexities of court life, the characters and behaviors of its occupants and guests rather than on the tumultuous historical events of the period. QUOTE: 'I shall relate what I have seen. I shall make known the character of Marie Antoinette, her domestic habits, the way in which she spent her time, her maternal affection, her constancy in friendship, her dignity in misfortune. I shall, in some degree, throw open her private apartments, where I have passed so many hours with her, both in the happiest and the most sorrowful years of her life.'(Mme Campan) For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:05:05) Chapter 02 (00:45:49) Chapter 03 (01:27:54) Chapter 04 (02:07:14) Chapter 05 (02:25:52) Chapter 06 (03:00:40) Chapter 07 (03:43:52) Chapter 08 (04:13:49) Chapter 09 (04:38:44) Chapter 10 (05:09:33) Chapter 11 (05:50:30) Chapter 12 (06:32:31) Chapter 13 (07:07:14) Chapter 14 (07:31:39) Chapter 15 (08:04:47) Chapter 16 (08:27:55) Chapter 17 (08:55:02) Chapter 18 (09:17:31) Chapter 19 (09:41:03) Chapter 20 (10:08:54) Chapter 21 (10:34:57) Chapter 22 (11:04:37) Chapter 23 (11:31:26) Chapter 24 (11:55:07) Chapter 25 (12:31:47) Chapter 26 (12:57:24) Chapter 27 (13:21:10) Chapter 28 (13:38:37) Chapter 29 (14:02:13) Chapter 30 (14:27:27) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices