Classic Audiobook Collection

American Myths and Legends, Volume 1 by Charles M. Skinner audiobook. Genre: folklore American Myths and Legends, Volume 1 gathers a wide-ranging set of American folktales as retold by journalist and folklorist Charles M. Skinner, a writer whose collections helped fix many regional stories in the popular imagination. Framed as a follow-up to his larger series Myths and Legends of Our Own Land, this first volume roams from lonely New England woods and stormy coasts to village greens, rocky ledges, and shadowed byways where the past still seems close to the present. Across these tales, ordinary people brush against the uncanny: warning signs in the natural world, places with long memories, spirits and strange visitors, and local heroes whose courage or stubbornness becomes part of community lore. Skinner's voice balances campfire immediacy with a collector's curiosity, treating each story as both entertainment and a clue to how Americans have explained danger, luck, grief, and wonder. The central tension is constant: skepticism versus belief, and the pull between modern life and the older stories that keep resurfacing whenever the night gets quiet and the landscape starts to speak. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:30) Chapter 01 (00:06:26) Chapter 02 (00:14:30) Chapter 03 (00:18:24) Chapter 04 (00:23:11) Chapter 05 (00:27:47) Chapter 06 (00:33:55) Chapter 07 (00:41:22) Chapter 08 (00:46:05) Chapter 09 (00:49:24) Chapter 10 (00:53:51) Chapter 11 (00:58:19) Chapter 12 (01:01:47) Chapter 13 (01:08:04) Chapter 14 (01:14:19) Chapter 15 (01:22:35) Chapter 16 (01:27:38) Chapter 17 (01:33:49) Chapter 18 (01:37:14) Chapter 19 (01:40:33) Chapter 20 (01:45:12) Chapter 21 (01:51:41) Chapter 22 (01:57:22) Chapter 23 (02:05:45) Chapter 24 (02:11:23) Chapter 25 (02:16:28) Chapter 26 (02:21:03) Chapter 27 (02:26:25) Chapter 28 (02:34:41) Chapter 29 (02:38:01) Chapter 30 (02:43:03) Chapter 31 (02:48:04) Chapter 32 (02:53:58) Chapter 33 (02:57:14) Chapter 34 (03:01:19) Chapter 35 (03:08:41) Chapter 36 (03:21:53) Chapter 37 (03:26:10) Chapter 38 (03:32:19) Chapter 39 (03:34:58) Chapter 40 (03:38:04) Chapter 41 (03:40:52) Chapter 42 (03:46:11) Chapter 43 (03:49:44) Chapter 44 (03:54:45) Chapter 45 (03:57:51) Chapter 46 (04:01:21) Chapter 47 (04:12:37) Chapter 48 (04:15:32) Chapter 49 (04:21:26) Chapter 50 (04:25:03) Chapter 51 (04:28:04) Chapter 52 (04:32:29) Chapter 53 (04:39:25) Chapter 54 (04:46:52) Chapter 55 (04:51:55) Chapter 56 (04:57:20) Chapter 57 (05:03:05) Chapter 58 (05:07:24) Chapter 59 (05:11:08) Chapter 60 (05:26:37) Chapter 61 (05:32:12) Chapter 62 (05:35:10) Chapter 63 (05:39:34) Chapter 64 (05:46:06) Chapter 65 (05:51:12) Chapter 66 (05:56:03) Chapter 67 (05:59:46) Chapter 68 (06:05:31) Chapter 69 (06:13:04) Chapter 70 (06:17:35) Chapter 71 (06:22:18) Chapter 72 (06:28:18) Chapter 73 (06:30:10) Chapter 74 (06:33:53) Chapter 75 (06:38:37) Chapter 76 (06:45:39) Chapter 77 (06:51:29) Chapter 78 (06:55:38) Chapter 79 (06:58:08) Chapter 80 (07:00:50) Chapter 81 (07:06:02) Chapter 82 (07:09:27) Chapter 83 (07:11:39) Chapter 84 (07:17:09) Chapter 85 (07:24:42) Chapter 86 (07:28:20) Chapter 87 (07:36:21) Chapter 88 (07:43:11) Chapter 89 (07:46:45) Chapter 90 (07:54:00) Chapter 91 Max Character Limit reached Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mistress of Court Regna by Charles Garvice audiobook. Genre: romance On the death of Lord Wharton, beautiful young Claire is shocked to find herself the heiress to Court Regna along with the title, the vast fortune and lands that it entails. She meets a poor, handsome architect, and as their love blooms, she misinterprets a chance meeting, which leads her to doubt and refuse him. He immediately leaves Regna not realizing that in doing so, he is suspected of running away with a local village girl who disappeared the same night.. A reversal of fortune, lies, treachery, murder and long hidden secrets abound as we follow the separate adventures of Claire and Gerald and those who become entangled in their lives lives along the way. The past and the present unite in the end, proving that Love does conquer all in this old-fashioned romance by best-selling novelist Charles Garvice. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:38:36) Chapter 02 (01:16:58) Chapter 03 (01:54:29) Chapter 04 (02:37:31) Chapter 05 (03:19:59) Chapter 06 (04:01:48) Chapter 07 (04:41:30) Chapter 08 (05:18:33) Chapter 09 (05:55:23) Chapter 10 (06:37:29) Chapter 11 (07:12:28) Chapter 12 (07:51:25) Chapter 13 (08:28:06) Chapter 14 (09:06:26) Chapter 15 (09:23:45) Chapter 16 (09:57:48) Chapter 17 (10:39:48) Chapter 18 (11:09:05) Chapter 19 (11:40:36) Chapter 20 (12:10:59) Chapter 21 (12:47:29) Chapter 22 (13:30:21) Chapter 23 (14:07:07) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

American Notes by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: history When celebrated English novelist Charles Dickens crosses the Atlantic in 1842, he arrives in the young United States as a literary star - and an intensely curious observer. In American Notes, Dickens records his travels from the bustle of the Eastern cities to the edges of the frontier, moving through hotels, streets, public institutions, steamboats, and railroads with a sharp eye for detail and a storyteller's sense of scene. Along the way he encounters politicians, reformers, performers, and everyday citizens, comparing American habits and ideals with the traditions of Britain and the promises of a new democracy. As admiration gives way to frustration and moral unease, Dickens probes what national character looks like in practice, especially in questions of public manners, the press, poverty, and the treatment of the vulnerable. Part travelogue, part social critique, and part personal journal, the book blends vivid sketches with pointed commentary, revealing both the author's wit and his outrage as he tries to reconcile America's rhetoric of liberty with what he witnesses on the ground. American Notes is an energetic portrait of a country in motion - and a timeless reminder that progress and conscience do not always travel at the same speed. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:04:10) Chapter 01 (00:24:07) Chapter 02 (00:57:41) Chapter 03 (01:47:29) Chapter 04 (02:27:21) Chapter 05 (02:48:00) Chapter 06 (03:08:09) Chapter 07 (03:49:22) Chapter 08 (04:25:12) Chapter 09 (05:03:47) Chapter 10 (05:44:06) Chapter 11 (06:08:34) Chapter 12 (06:30:12) Chapter 13 (06:57:01) Chapter 14 (07:16:09) Chapter 15 (07:53:49) Chapter 16 (08:36:32) Chapter 17 (08:55:25) Chapter 18 (09:30:29) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vicky Van by Carolyn Wells audiobook. Genre: family Carolyn Wells always provides an enjoyable read and this one is probably one of her most intriguing murder mysteries. Vicky Van is a lithe, joyful and vibrant society woman beloved by all. A man named Sommers shows up uninvited at one of her famous parties. He is found murdered shortly after he follows her out of the card room and Vicky Van is seen standing next to him with blood on her dress. She disappears before the police arrive and is considered guilty. In spite of little notes she leaves here and there no one can find her or her maid Julie. Why did she kill a stranger? Why can't the police find her? This one will baffle Fleming Stone more than any other For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:18:03) Chapter 02 (00:35:45) Chapter 03 (00:51:52) Chapter 04 (01:10:11) Chapter 05 (01:27:13) Chapter 06 (01:44:47) Chapter 07 (02:03:04) Chapter 08 (02:21:20) Chapter 09 (02:39:12) Chapter 10 (02:58:49) Chapter 11 (03:16:34) Chapter 12 (03:33:55) Chapter 13 (03:51:17) Chapter 14 (04:09:13) Chapter 15 (04:27:59) Chapter 16 (04:45:56) Chapter 17 (05:04:49) Chapter 18 (05:21:59) Chapter 19 (05:43:44) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Diamond Pin by Carolyn Wells audiobook. Genre: mystery Eccentric and wealthy New York widow Ursula Pell loves playing cruel jokes on her guests and particularly on her niece and nephew who are destined to inherit the millions in gems left to her by her late husband. Therefore when she is found brutally murdered in a locked room the morning after a dinner party her niece Iris the most recent victim of Ursula's humiliating pranks is first suspected until all the clues point to her nephew. Where did she stash the gemstones and the much mentioned diamond pin promised Iris. Enter Fleming Stone, famous detective who hopefully can prove the innocence of the nephew, the true value of the diamond pin and discover WHO killed Mrs. Pell. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:20:01) Chapter 02 (00:40:31) Chapter 03 (00:59:53) Chapter 04 (01:17:57) Chapter 05 (01:37:04) Chapter 06 (01:56:31) Chapter 07 (02:16:15) Chapter 08 (02:36:01) Chapter 09 (02:55:23) Chapter 10 (03:14:32) Chapter 11 (03:33:34) Chapter 12 (03:52:21) Chapter 13 (04:11:35) Chapter 14 (04:30:59) Chapter 15 (04:51:03) Chapter 16 (05:09:43) Chapter 17 (05:27:50) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Curved Blades by Carolyn Wells audiobook. Genre: mystery At the showplace Long Island estate known as Garden Steps, wealth is a performance and every visitor has a role to play, until the household's formidable mistress, Lucy Carrington, is found dead in her private rooms. She is discovered bizarrely posed for display, dressed in finery and glittering with jewels, with unsettling details at the scene that hint at more than one method of murder. The local police face a maze of motives and alibis, and suspicion quickly spreads through Lucy's inner circle, including her charming niece, a devoted social secretary, a cousin entangled in financial affairs, a sharp-eyed maid, and a mysterious man styling himself a count. To cut through the elegant lies, celebrated criminologist Fleming Stone is summoned, bringing patience, logic, and an instinct for the small inconsistencies others miss. But the case turns dangerously personal when Stone finds himself drawn to the very person the evidence seems to circle. As interviews tighten and secrets surface, Stone must balance heart and duty before the killer can vanish behind the estate's polished manners and cultivated beauty. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:34:50) Chapter 02 (01:05:18) Chapter 03 (01:39:24) Chapter 04 (02:10:07) Chapter 05 (02:42:56) Chapter 06 (03:12:02) Chapter 07 (03:43:37) Chapter 08 (04:17:36) Chapter 09 (04:53:08) Chapter 10 (05:22:12) Chapter 11 (05:55:43) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Faulkner's Folly by Carolyn Wells audiobook. Genre: mystery Eric Stannard, wealthy artist and portrait painter of international reputation is found dead in his studio, an etching needle protruding from his chest. The lights had gone out momentarily just before he was found by a footman and a long-time friend. Standing beside the victim is Joyce his wife and his model Natalie both seeming to be struck with terror and shock!! At first glance the suspects seem obvious...but what about the artist's son who is in love with Natalie, the neighbor in love with the wife, a burglar? Will a psychic help find the murderer? Or will it fall upon the great detective Alan Ford to solve this one? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:22) Chapter 02 (00:34:27) Chapter 03 (00:52:05) Chapter 04 (01:09:44) Chapter 05 (01:27:44) Chapter 06 (01:45:04) Chapter 07 (02:02:21) Chapter 08 (02:21:14) Chapter 09 (02:39:01) Chapter 10 (02:56:25) Chapter 11 (03:15:03) Chapter 12 (03:35:07) Chapter 13 (03:50:08) Chapter 14 (04:06:50) Chapter 15 (04:23:36) Chapter 16 (04:40:13) Chapter 17 (04:57:15) Chapter 18 (05:14:13) Chapter 19 (05:30:55) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anybody But Anne by Carolyn Wells audiobook. Genre: romance Narrated in the first person by Raymond Sturgis, Anne's old high-school beau, the story opens with a lavish house party hosted by the Van Wycks. David Van Wyck has suddenly decided to become a philanthropist and proposes to give away his entire fortune to the building of a new library in the community, thus leaving his family penniless. The morning following his late meeting with the library committee, David is found dead in his locked study. The Van Wyck pearls are missing as is the deed giving away the fortune. But is it murder or suicide? A detective is hired but when he fails to solve the mystery Fleming Stone is called in to wrap things up. The characters are diverse & interesting, not to mention that a few of the men are extremely anxious to become Anne's next husband For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:34:46) Chapter 02 (01:11:56) Chapter 03 (01:49:58) Chapter 04 (02:28:16) Chapter 05 (03:01:31) Chapter 06 (03:39:10) Chapter 07 (04:18:00) Chapter 08 (05:04:02) Chapter 09 (05:42:41) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mystery of the Iron Box by Bruce Campbell audiobook. Genre: mystery Ken Holt, a sharp, levelheaded teenage reporter for the Brentwood Advance, is counting the days until his father, Richard Holt, a globe-traveling newspaper correspondent, finally comes home for a Christmas visit. The reunion feels like a holiday gift in itself - until Richard arrives with an odd present for the Allens (the family Ken lives with): an antique iron box, heavy, ornate, and seemingly not worth the trouble it soon attracts. Almost immediately, Ken and his best friend, Sandy Allen, notice unsettling signs around the house: strange noises, unexplained drafts, and the sense that someone has been prowling where they do not belong. When an attempted burglary and other escalating incidents point back to the box, the boys' reporter instincts kick in. Why would anyone risk arrest for an old metal container? Following their hunch from the Allens' home to local shops and shadowy encounters, Ken and Sandy dig into the box's history and the people desperate to get their hands on it. Each clue pulls them deeper into a web of deception that tests their courage, their judgment, and the line between curiosity and real danger. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:25) Chapter 02 (00:37:33) Chapter 03 (00:53:13) Chapter 04 (01:08:41) Chapter 05 (01:24:28) Chapter 06 (01:46:20) Chapter 07 (01:59:10) Chapter 08 (02:13:51) Chapter 09 (02:34:24) Chapter 10 (02:50:44) Chapter 11 (03:06:55) Chapter 12 (03:22:42) Chapter 13 (03:42:54) Chapter 14 (03:56:34) Chapter 15 (04:08:03) Chapter 16 (04:21:25) Chapter 17 (04:35:29) Chapter 18 (04:49:26) Chapter 19 (04:59:40) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Chain of Destiny by Bram Stoker audiobook. Genre: horror Frank Stanford, strapping young man, heads out to the countryside to visit his old friends Mr. and Mrs. Trevor as the Scarp estate. What begins as a warm visit with his ersatz parental figures turns into something both ominous and wonderful with the announcement by Mrs. Trevor that they are to be visited by a young Miss Fothering who Mrs. Trevor feels Frank will fall in love with almost immediately. Frank takes it all in stride until he has a terrible nightmare that evening of dreadful things to come upon Miss Fothering's arrival. Will there be a 'happily ever after' for the pair of lovebirds or will an ancient family curse finally come to bare? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:32) Chapter 02 (00:42:05) Chapter 03 (01:12:22) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena by Betsy Balcombe audiobook. Genre: biography In this memoir written by Betsy Balcombe, who was a precocious 14 year old at the time of events, we are provided with a rare account of the character, the moods and humanity of Napoleon Bonaparte. She recalls her initial shock and fear at the arrival of the famous, exiled prisoner on the remote Island of St. Helena where she and her family resided. And how surprised she was when Napoleon decided he wanted to live with them at 'the Briars' until his home in Longwood would be made ready for him. She relates from memory how she came to think of him as a friend, a delightful companion, and a remarkable man. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:28) Chapter 01 (00:25:58) Chapter 02 (00:47:42) Chapter 03 (01:07:00) Chapter 04 (01:23:42) Chapter 05 (01:44:16) Chapter 06 (02:10:51) Chapter 07 (02:33:42) Chapter 08 (02:59:38) Chapter 09 (03:17:09) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ABC of Atoms by Bertrand Russell audiobook. Genre: science Written at the dawn of modern physics, Bertrand Russell's The ABC of Atoms invites the general reader into a world where solid matter turns out to be mostly empty space, stitched together by forces that are stranger than common sense. With a philosopher's clarity and a teacher's patience, Russell explains how scientists moved from chemistry's periodic law to the discovery of electrons, nuclei, and the architecture of atoms. He guides listeners through the evidence hidden in light itself: the hydrogen spectrum and its puzzling lines, the emerging quantum ideas needed to account for atomic behavior, and the refinements that reshaped what an atom could be. Along the way, the story broadens to include rings and shells of electrons, the revelations of X-rays and radioactivity, and the developing picture of nuclear structure. The book also places atomic theory inside the wider revolution of early twentieth-century science, touching on wave theories of light and the unsettling implications of relativity. Both an accessible primer and a snapshot of scientific thinking in 1923, this concise classic captures the thrill, uncertainty, and rigor of learning what matter is made of. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:10:51) Chapter 02 (00:24:22) Chapter 03 (00:42:45) Chapter 04 (00:59:18) Chapter 05 (01:11:27) Chapter 06 (01:25:53) Chapter 07 (01:42:51) Chapter 08 (01:58:48) Chapter 09 (02:13:19) Chapter 10 (02:30:43) Chapter 11 (02:45:46) Chapter 12 (03:00:30) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Octave of Claudius by Barry Pain audiobook. Genre: horror Claudius Sandell is young, clever, and nearly broken: disowned by his father, rejected by publishers, and left to starve on the streets of London. When the formidable surgeon Dr. Gabriel Lamb rescues him from the brink of death, the help comes with a proposition that is as tempting as it is terrifying. Lamb offers Claudius a fortune and an octave of time - eight days to live as he pleases - but at the end of that brief holiday Claudius must report back to the doctor and submit to a secret experiment that Lamb insists will benefit mankind. Suddenly armed with money and possibility, Claudius tries to rebuild everything that seemed lost: his work, his reputation, his future, and the chance of love. Yet every triumph only sharpens the same question: what is a life worth when it has already been sold? As the eighth day draws closer, Claudius is pulled between pride, gratitude, fear, and a growing suspicion that Dr. Lamb's household hides darker histories than any simple bargain can explain. Barry Pain blends social satire with mounting dread in a compact tale of ambition, debt, and the cost of desperation. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:11:07) Chapter 02 (00:24:02) Chapter 03 (00:35:40) Chapter 04 (00:48:23) Chapter 05 (01:03:16) Chapter 06 (01:27:39) Chapter 07 (01:42:35) Chapter 08 (02:07:44) Chapter 09 (02:42:18) Chapter 10 (03:10:50) Chapter 11 (03:34:21) Chapter 12 (03:54:44) Chapter 13 (04:20:58) Chapter 14 (04:44:38) Chapter 15 (05:03:00) Chapter 16 (05:18:24) Chapter 17 (05:40:25) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bronze Eagle - A Story of the Hundred Days by Baroness E. Orczy audiobook. Genre: adventure France, 1815: the Bourbons have been restored, loyalties are brittle, and then a startling rumor becomes reality - Napoleon has escaped Elba and is marching back toward Paris. In this charged moment, Crystal de Cambray, proud daughter of an uncompromising royalist exile, is being drawn into a brilliant match with Victor de Marmont, a polished young aristocrat who carefully hides a dangerous truth: his heart belongs to the Emperor. Standing between them is Bobby Clyffurde, an English gentleman whose affection for Crystal is complicated by his outsider's view of French politics and by his growing alarm at the webs of deception tightening around her family. As factions maneuver, friends become rivals, and private promises collide with public cause, Crystal is forced to question what honor demands when the country itself is changing shape overnight. Sweeping from glittering salons to shadowed meetings, The Bronze Eagle blends romance and intrigue with the thunder of history, as the Hundred Days rush toward an inevitable reckoning. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:13:00) Chapter 01 (01:01:01) Chapter 02 (01:38:56) Chapter 03 (02:36:01) Chapter 04 (03:09:41) Chapter 05 (04:15:50) Chapter 06 (05:22:49) Chapter 07 (06:32:17) Chapter 08 (07:42:00) Chapter 09 (08:42:18) Chapter 10 (09:17:50) Chapter 11 (10:20:37) Chapter 12 (11:21:09) Chapter 13 (12:10:35) Chapter 14 (12:51:08) Chapter 15 (13:30:48) Chapter 16 (14:14:39) Chapter 17 (14:46:01) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beau Brocade by Baroness E. Orczy audiobook. Genre: romance In the tense aftermath of the Jacobite defeat, the moors and villages of Derbyshire fill with King George's troops, proclamations, and rewards for anyone accused of treason. Philip James Gascoyne, young Earl of Stretton, has become a hunted man - not for what he has done, but for what a powerful enemy insists he has done. Forced into rough disguise and desperate secrecy, Philip finds precarious shelter at the forge of John Stitch, an honest blacksmith whose loyalty could cost him everything. Philip's one hope lies in reaching his sister, Lady Patience Gascoyne, and placing in her hands the letters that can clear his name. But the road to London is watched, and Sir Humphrey Challoner is determined to tighten the net. Into this danger rides Beau Brocade, a masked highwayman whispered of with equal parts fear and admiration, who steals boldly from the privileged and seems to answer to a private code of honor. As Patience wagers her safety on trust and speed, Orczy weaves romance, pursuit, and secret identity into a swashbuckling struggle against injustice, where one misstep could mean ruin for them all. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:23:42) Chapter 02 (00:36:25) Chapter 03 (00:53:41) Chapter 04 (01:12:55) Chapter 05 (01:36:53) Chapter 06 (01:47:52) Chapter 07 (02:02:01) Chapter 08 (02:07:42) Chapter 09 (02:29:07) Chapter 10 (02:53:13) Chapter 11 (03:01:12) Chapter 12 (03:13:15) Chapter 13 (03:32:07) Chapter 14 (03:55:47) Chapter 15 (04:03:36) Chapter 16 (04:20:15) Chapter 17 (04:30:58) Chapter 18 (05:02:26) Chapter 19 (05:17:56) Chapter 20 (05:34:37) Chapter 21 (05:54:16) Chapter 22 (06:08:12) Chapter 23 (06:20:49) Chapter 24 (06:33:04) Chapter 25 (06:47:52) Chapter 26 (07:01:06) Chapter 27 (07:16:36) Chapter 28 (07:32:38) Chapter 29 (07:50:05) Chapter 30 (08:03:14) Chapter 31 (08:13:16) Chapter 32 (08:24:53) Chapter 33 (08:42:37) Chapter 34 (09:05:30) Chapter 35 (09:20:16) Chapter 36 (09:43:38) Chapter 37 (09:54:50) Chapter 38 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. Reeve audiobook. Genre: mystery When the managing editor of the New York Star orders reporter Walter Jameson to spend a month shadowing his friend Professor Craig Kennedy, Jameson thinks he is signing up for a profile. Instead, he is pulled into a relentless chain of cases that show why Kennedy is feared by criminals and admired by police: he investigates with microscopes, chemicals, wires, and a cool logic that treats every clue as a measurable fact. The assignment begins with a baffling death on Broadway. Prominent broker Price Maitland is found conscious yet suddenly paralyzed and speechless, a typewritten farewell note in his pocket and a tiny wound on his hand. As rumors swirl around Maitland's wife, her prophetic nightmares, and a doctor tied to strange new theories of the mind, Kennedy suspects a method of murder so subtle it can slip past ordinary autopsies. From that opening, the month accelerates into a panorama of early twentieth-century New York crime: secret listening devices, eerie curses, vanishing evidence, and schemes that weaponize both technology and psychology. With Jameson racing to record it all, Kennedy must prove that even dreams and human suggestion can be traced back to a real, deliberate hand. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:30:29) Chapter 02 (00:55:23) Chapter 03 (01:19:48) Chapter 04 (01:44:52) Chapter 05 (02:05:45) Chapter 06 (02:27:28) Chapter 07 (02:52:25) Chapter 08 (03:24:56) Chapter 09 (03:49:14) Chapter 10 (04:11:12) Chapter 11 (04:34:14) Chapter 12 (04:51:04) Chapter 13 (05:19:14) Chapter 14 (05:52:55) Chapter 15 (06:19:43) Chapter 16 (06:40:28) Chapter 17 (07:00:17) Chapter 18 (07:30:35) Chapter 19 (07:55:38) Chapter 20 (08:21:57) Chapter 21 (08:48:59) Chapter 22 (09:22:45) Chapter 23 (09:45:59) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett audiobook. Genre: drama In a narrow corner of Clerkenwell, a steep little passage called Riceyman Steps leads to the cramped secondhand bookshop of Henry Earlforward, a man of strict habits and even stricter accounts. Henry lives by ledgers and bargains, measuring every candle stub and crumb of coal, convinced that thrift is the only true virtue in a city that wastes. Yet the world presses in: the everyday bustle of London trade, the small dramas of neighbors and customers, and the lives of the women who keep his shop and his rooms running. When Henry forms an unexpected attachment that promises companionship and comfort, his hard-won routines are tested by desires he does not know how to name and fears he cannot easily master. Around him, quieter figures carry their own longings and compromises, revealing how poverty, pride, and respectability can shape a life as decisively as any grand ambition. Arnold Bennett crafts an intimate portrait of obsession and tenderness, asking what it costs to hoard safety, and what might be lost when a man tries to count his way to happiness. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:06:56) Chapter 02 (00:17:39) Chapter 03 (00:28:04) Chapter 04 (00:42:15) Chapter 05 (00:53:21) Chapter 06 (01:01:22) Chapter 07 (01:07:58) Chapter 08 (01:21:00) Chapter 09 (01:29:31) Chapter 10 (01:38:47) Chapter 11 (01:51:45) Chapter 12 (01:59:23) Chapter 13 (02:18:06) Chapter 14 (02:35:46) Chapter 15 (02:53:41) Chapter 16 (03:02:49) Chapter 17 (03:24:09) Chapter 18 (03:31:37) Chapter 19 (03:58:16) Chapter 20 (04:11:13) Chapter 21 (04:20:18) Chapter 22 (04:38:56) Chapter 23 (04:49:02) Chapter 24 (05:01:19) Chapter 25 (05:23:18) Chapter 26 (05:51:33) Chapter 27 (06:05:54) Chapter 28 (06:19:18) Chapter 29 (06:40:26) Chapter 30 (06:53:43) Chapter 31 (07:02:32) Chapter 32 (07:10:57) Chapter 33 (07:31:14) Chapter 34 (07:48:42) Chapter 35 (08:02:25) Chapter 36 (08:12:43) Chapter 37 (08:23:05) Chapter 38 (08:31:50) Chapter 39 (08:53:47) Chapter 40 (09:09:05) Chapter 41 (09:18:50) Chapter 42 (09:33:22) Chapter 43 (09:42:49) Chapter 44 (10:22:04) Chapter 45 (10:33:07) Chapter 46 (10:44:19) Chapter 47 (10:54:07) Chapter 48 (11:03:28) Chapter 49 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: romance Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personalities of the Church of England, or politics on the national level (though there is lots of politicking in the mythical county of Barsetshire itself). The plot revolves around the illegitimate Mary Thorne, who has been lovingly raised by her uncle, a country doctor, and who, as she comes of age, finds herself wondering whether she is a lady (in the county sense of the term). Frank Gresham, son of the squire of Greshamsbury, is in love with her (much against the wishes of his noble de Courcy relatives at the Castle), but she dismisses his affection at first as mere puppy love, thereby setting the scene for a series of entanglements, social, romantic, and of course, financial and propertied (never far from the action in Trollope's works). Their resolution, of course, makes up the meat of the novel. One critic has remarked that in Doctor Thorne Trollope succeeds in one of the most difficult tasks an author of fiction can face: how to make genuinely good people genuinely interesting, so that they engage not only the sympathies but also the interest of readers For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:46:41) Chapter 02 (01:19:04) Chapter 03 (02:01:10) Chapter 04 (02:54:46) Chapter 05 (03:22:34) Chapter 06 (03:54:12) Chapter 07 (04:24:12) Chapter 08 (05:04:13) Chapter 09 (05:32:54) Chapter 10 (06:01:55) Chapter 11 (06:24:53) Chapter 12 (06:59:51) Chapter 13 (07:26:15) Chapter 14 (08:08:16) Chapter 15 (08:32:51) Chapter 16 (08:59:34) Chapter 17 (09:43:11) Chapter 18 (10:24:39) Chapter 19 (10:50:32) Chapter 20 (11:14:20) Chapter 21 (11:53:54) Chapter 22 (12:20:17) Chapter 23 (12:46:41) Chapter 24 (13:24:30) Chapter 25 (14:07:11) Chapter 26 (14:38:42) Chapter 27 (15:15:19) Chapter 28 (15:47:27) Chapter 29 (16:30:23) Chapter 30 (16:51:39) Chapter 31 (17:23:13) Chapter 32 (17:48:35) Chapter 33 (18:19:50) Chapter 34 (19:10:34) Chapter 35 (19:38:02) Chapter 36 (20:01:59) Chapter 37 (20:30:17) Chapter 38 (21:15:00) Chapter 39 (21:41:43) Chapter 40 (22:10:15) Chapter 41 (22:39:20) Chapter 42 (23:19:57) Chapter 43 (23:49:01) Chapter 44 (24:26:13) Chapter 45 (24:55:55) Chapter 46 (25:28:12) Chapter 47 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: drama In the hot, uneasy backcountry of colonial Australia, Harry Heathcote is a young squatter determined to hold together Gangoil, the cattle station he has built into a symbol of order, hard work, and English respectability. But the frontier has its own rules. As drought tightens its grip and political winds favor small settlers over big runs, the boundary lines around Gangoil turn into fault lines: neighbors resent what Harry owns, rumors travel faster than the mail, and every decision he makes is judged as arrogance or weakness. When fire breaks out in the bush and suspicion falls on those closest to the station, Harry finds himself fighting on several fronts at once - against the land, against a hostile community, and against the fear that his own temper will cost him everything. With his wife watching the conflict reshape their home life and loyalties in the district shifting by the day, Harry must decide what justice means when the law feels distant and reputation can burn as quickly as grass. Trollope delivers a tense, intimate portrait of pride, property, and responsibility at the edge of empire. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:48) Chapter 02 (00:41:37) Chapter 03 (00:58:56) Chapter 04 (01:17:15) Chapter 05 (01:35:56) Chapter 06 (01:56:50) Chapter 07 (02:14:28) Chapter 08 (02:32:40) Chapter 09 (02:53:53) Chapter 10 (03:16:25) Chapter 11 (03:28:14) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: tragedy In An Eye for an Eye, Anthony Trollope turns a sharp, compassionate gaze on love, pride, and the quiet violence of social rules. When Fred Neville, a young English officer from a powerful family, is stationed in Ireland, he meets Kate McDermot, the spirited daughter of a struggling local gentleman. Their attraction is immediate, but the world around them is built to keep such a match from becoming more than a summer dream. Fred is bound by the expectations of rank, money, and family influence, while Kate and her father carry the weight of old grievances and a fierce sense of honor. As affection deepens into promises, every choice becomes entangled with questions of duty, reputation, and the long shadow of resentment between England and Ireland. Trollope builds the tension through intimate conversations, anxious letters, and the steady tightening of consequences, asking whether love can survive when it must be hidden, denied, or bargained over. With psychological precision and a mounting sense of inevitability, the novel explores how a single careless act can demand a terrible price. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:03:48) Chapter 01 (00:21:10) Chapter 02 (00:41:18) Chapter 03 (00:58:00) Chapter 04 (01:14:24) Chapter 05 (01:40:31) Chapter 06 (01:54:23) Chapter 07 (02:12:34) Chapter 08 (02:27:58) Chapter 09 (02:48:31) Chapter 10 (03:08:26) Chapter 11 (03:23:48) Chapter 12 (03:39:08) Chapter 13 (03:58:18) Chapter 14 (04:17:37) Chapter 15 (04:34:29) Chapter 16 (04:52:22) Chapter 17 (05:12:18) Chapter 18 (05:32:27) Chapter 19 (05:53:41) Chapter 20 (06:05:52) Chapter 21 (06:26:17) Chapter 22 (06:46:26) Chapter 23 (07:02:36) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 13) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators, and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800 and 900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband to prevent him from executing her. In translating the Nights, R. F. Burton attempted to invent an English equivalent of medieval Arabic. In doing so, he drew upon Chaucerian English, Elizabethan English, and the 1653 English translation by Sir Thomas Urquhart of the first three books of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-1546). For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:38:43) Chapter 02 (01:10:31) Chapter 03 (01:57:44) Chapter 04 (02:44:13) Chapter 05 (03:30:49) Chapter 06 (04:18:51) Chapter 07 (05:02:41) Chapter 08 (05:50:39) Chapter 09 (06:26:32) Chapter 10 (07:04:26) Chapter 11 (08:04:04) Chapter 12 (08:58:35) Chapter 13 (09:34:25) Chapter 14 (10:11:51) Chapter 15 (10:37:06) Chapter 16 (11:17:29) Chapter 17 (11:44:22) Chapter 18 (12:23:18) Chapter 19 (13:03:04) Chapter 20 (13:50:40) Chapter 21 (14:20:20) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 12) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the twelfth of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton and comprises a number of new tales and variants of earlier ones. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:16) Chapter 01 (00:23:23) Chapter 02 (00:29:36) Chapter 03 (00:38:23) Chapter 04 (00:41:10) Chapter 05 (00:44:22) Chapter 06 (00:50:39) Chapter 07 (00:58:27) Chapter 08 (01:17:25) Chapter 09 (01:26:59) Chapter 10 (01:31:38) Chapter 11 (01:39:12) Chapter 12 (01:42:21) Chapter 13 (01:45:53) Chapter 14 (01:53:41) Chapter 15 (01:59:13) Chapter 16 (02:01:54) Chapter 17 (02:10:20) Chapter 18 (02:28:11) Chapter 19 (02:55:45) Chapter 20 (03:19:37) Chapter 21 (03:42:33) Chapter 22 (04:01:35) Chapter 23 (04:23:51) Chapter 24 (04:29:42) Chapter 25 (04:37:06) Chapter 26 (04:42:05) Chapter 27 (04:46:42) Chapter 28 (05:05:24) Chapter 29 (05:29:55) Chapter 30 (05:48:13) Chapter 31 (06:06:58) Chapter 32 (06:29:36) Chapter 33 (06:55:32) Chapter 34 (07:18:46) Chapter 35 (07:43:57) Chapter 36 (08:03:14) Chapter 37 (08:25:57) Chapter 38 (08:36:16) Chapter 39 (08:38:24) Chapter 40 (08:57:53) Chapter 41 (09:06:50) Chapter 42 (09:19:45) Chapter 43 (09:31:46) Chapter 44 (09:36:28) Chapter 45 (09:40:37) Chapter 46 (09:43:34) Chapter 47 (09:55:19) Chapter 48 (10:00:18) Chapter 49 (10:07:15) Chapter 50 (10:13:53) Chapter 51 (10:41:55) Chapter 52 (11:06:33) Chapter 53 (11:21:29) Chapter 54 (11:37:32) Chapter 55 (11:42:49) Chapter 56 (11:53:35) Chapter 57 (11:55:02) Chapter 58 (11:56:16) Chapter 59 (12:09:12) Chapter 60 (12:24:02) Chapter 61 (12:25:26) Chapter 62 (12:37:00) Chapter 63 (13:00:33) Chapter 64 (13:15:54) Chapter 65 (13:21:03) Chapter 66 (13:35:11) Chapter 67 (13:53:10) Chapter 68 (14:11:28) Chapter 69 (14:21:04) Chapter 70 (14:22:35) Chapter 71 (14:42:49) Chapter 72 (14:44:28) Chapter 73 (14:45:43) Chapter 74 (14:47:42) Chapter 75 (14:51:46) Chapter 76 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 11) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the eleventh of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:05:27) Chapter 01 (00:12:24) Chapter 02 (00:50:52) Chapter 03 (01:21:04) Chapter 04 (01:28:02) Chapter 05 (01:31:07) Chapter 06 (01:34:15) Chapter 07 (01:48:05) Chapter 08 (02:05:20) Chapter 09 (02:20:27) Chapter 10 (02:38:21) Chapter 11 (02:47:07) Chapter 12 (03:07:26) Chapter 13 (03:19:47) Chapter 14 (03:28:00) Chapter 15 (03:45:46) Chapter 16 (04:03:35) Chapter 17 (04:27:45) Chapter 18 (04:50:40) Chapter 19 (05:00:52) Chapter 20 (05:07:46) Chapter 21 (05:11:14) Chapter 22 (05:13:02) Chapter 23 (05:15:12) Chapter 24 (05:20:30) Chapter 25 (05:28:02) Chapter 26 (05:32:36) Chapter 27 (05:52:17) Chapter 28 (06:06:11) Chapter 29 (06:21:14) Chapter 30 (06:31:49) Chapter 31 (06:41:08) Chapter 32 (06:50:27) Chapter 33 (06:57:46) Chapter 34 (07:04:51) Chapter 35 (07:09:25) Chapter 36 (07:17:26) Chapter 37 (07:23:46) Chapter 38 (07:27:44) Chapter 39 (07:37:39) Chapter 40 (07:39:58) Chapter 41 (07:47:23) Chapter 42 (07:52:32) Chapter 43 (07:57:38) Chapter 44 (08:16:27) Chapter 45 (08:23:47) Chapter 46 (08:35:16) Chapter 47 (08:53:04) Chapter 48 (09:00:59) Chapter 49 (09:11:50) Chapter 50 (09:24:41) Chapter 51 (09:31:07) Chapter 52 (09:59:19) Chapter 53 (10:25:17) Chapter 54 (10:42:27) Chapter 55 (10:49:58) Chapter 56 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 10) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the tenth of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:16) Chapter 02 (00:19:27) Chapter 03 (00:31:14) Chapter 04 (00:43:32) Chapter 05 (00:55:12) Chapter 06 (01:04:09) Chapter 07 (01:14:43) Chapter 08 (01:23:14) Chapter 09 (01:32:50) Chapter 10 (01:41:47) Chapter 11 (01:51:35) Chapter 12 (01:59:43) Chapter 13 (02:21:58) Chapter 14 (02:29:02) Chapter 15 (02:54:33) Chapter 16 (03:20:57) Chapter 17 (03:26:31) Chapter 18 (04:07:34) Chapter 19 (04:36:26) Chapter 20 (05:10:02) Chapter 21 (05:45:39) Chapter 22 (06:06:33) Chapter 23 (06:44:17) Chapter 24 (07:07:05) Chapter 25 (07:12:37) Chapter 26 (07:48:37) Chapter 27 (08:19:13) Chapter 28 (08:48:56) Chapter 29 (08:54:34) Chapter 30 (09:29:20) Chapter 31 (10:09:03) Chapter 32 (10:37:40) Chapter 33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 9) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the ninth of sixteen volumes translated by Burton. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:05) Chapter 02 (00:33:47) Chapter 03 (00:51:00) Chapter 04 (01:03:21) Chapter 05 (01:15:38) Chapter 06 (01:27:06) Chapter 07 (01:46:45) Chapter 08 (02:04:05) Chapter 09 (02:23:07) Chapter 10 (02:42:40) Chapter 11 (03:02:25) Chapter 12 (03:19:22) Chapter 13 (03:38:20) Chapter 14 (03:58:48) Chapter 15 (04:19:04) Chapter 16 (04:39:17) Chapter 17 (04:56:49) Chapter 18 (05:15:11) Chapter 19 (05:36:00) Chapter 20 (05:53:26) Chapter 21 (06:20:16) Chapter 22 (06:34:16) Chapter 23 (06:51:21) Chapter 24 (07:09:43) Chapter 25 (07:25:49) Chapter 26 (07:41:52) Chapter 27 (07:59:31) Chapter 28 (08:14:21) Chapter 29 (08:40:14) Chapter 30 (08:54:52) Chapter 31 (09:14:12) Chapter 32 (09:36:27) Chapter 33 (09:53:40) Chapter 34 (10:12:39) Chapter 35 (10:30:47) Chapter 36 (10:52:49) Chapter 37 (11:09:58) Chapter 38 (11:32:18) Chapter 39 (11:48:53) Chapter 40 (12:04:09) Chapter 41 (12:20:36) Chapter 42 (12:34:41) Chapter 43 (12:51:49) Chapter 44 (13:09:38) Chapter 45 (13:20:57) Chapter 46 (13:42:13) Chapter 47 (13:59:28) Chapter 48 (14:22:30) Chapter 49 (14:46:03) Chapter 50 (15:06:36) Chapter 51 (15:20:47) Chapter 52 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 8) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the eighth of sixteen volumes translated by Burton. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:57) Chapter 02 (00:41:16) Chapter 03 (01:04:25) Chapter 04 (01:26:12) Chapter 05 (01:47:46) Chapter 06 (02:06:48) Chapter 07 (02:26:28) Chapter 08 (02:48:34) Chapter 09 (03:07:41) Chapter 10 (03:27:50) Chapter 11 (03:49:56) Chapter 12 (04:09:01) Chapter 13 (04:29:27) Chapter 14 (04:52:35) Chapter 15 (05:12:26) Chapter 16 (05:30:45) Chapter 17 (05:45:05) Chapter 18 (06:05:55) Chapter 19 (06:22:14) Chapter 20 (06:39:49) Chapter 21 (06:54:52) Chapter 22 (07:07:59) Chapter 23 (07:35:47) Chapter 24 (08:01:36) Chapter 25 (08:28:35) Chapter 26 (08:48:00) Chapter 27 (09:07:03) Chapter 28 (09:26:16) Chapter 29 (09:46:20) Chapter 30 (10:03:42) Chapter 31 (10:28:00) Chapter 32 (10:51:50) Chapter 33 (11:12:00) Chapter 34 (11:33:02) Chapter 35 (11:52:25) Chapter 36 (12:12:07) Chapter 37 (12:32:52) Chapter 38 (12:50:12) Chapter 39 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 7) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the seventh of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:21:24) Chapter 2 (00:46:00) Chapter 3 (01:04:42) Chapter 4 (01:30:13) Chapter 5 (01:50:49) Chapter 6 (02:08:44) Chapter 7 (02:28:50) Chapter 8 (02:47:03) Chapter 9 (03:05:10) Chapter 10 (03:20:16) Chapter 11 (03:38:58) Chapter 12 (03:54:18) Chapter 13 (04:06:01) Chapter 14 (04:18:22) Chapter 15 (04:38:27) Chapter 16 (05:02:22) Chapter 17 (05:20:03) Chapter 18 (05:37:48) Chapter 19 (05:59:05) Chapter 20 (06:19:11) Chapter 21 (06:39:12) Chapter 22 (06:56:20) Chapter 23 (07:17:47) Chapter 24 (07:37:04) Chapter 25 (07:59:21) Chapter 26 (08:20:32) Chapter 27 (08:55:06) Chapter 28 (09:19:52) Chapter 29 (09:53:11) Chapter 30 (10:28:15) Chapter 31 (10:50:17) Chapter 32 (11:13:55) Chapter 33 (11:34:47) Chapter 34 (11:57:08) Chapter 35 (12:19:11) Chapter 36 (12:41:10) Chapter 37 (13:00:36) Chapter 38 (13:18:52) Chapter 39 (13:35:41) Chapter 40 (14:03:03) Chapter 41 (14:28:41) Chapter 42 (14:56:51) Chapter 43 (15:19:05) Chapter 44 (15:40:35) Chapter 45 (16:07:19) Chapter 46 (16:30:19) Chapter 47 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 6) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the sixth of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:19:01) Chapter 2 (00:32:39) Chapter 3 (00:51:32) Chapter 4 (01:13:08) Chapter 5 (01:28:51) Chapter 6 (01:46:10) Chapter 7 (02:03:57) Chapter 8 (02:31:52) Chapter 9 (02:55:07) Chapter 10 (03:11:44) Chapter 11 (03:29:14) Chapter 12 (03:56:44) Chapter 13 (04:21:28) Chapter 14 (04:50:05) Chapter 15 (05:09:38) Chapter 16 (05:35:00) Chapter 17 (06:00:42) Chapter 18 (06:36:52) Chapter 19 (06:56:36) Chapter 20 (07:15:43) Chapter 21 (07:35:17) Chapter 22 (07:53:16) Chapter 23 (08:26:00) Chapter 24 (08:45:29) Chapter 25 (09:04:09) Chapter 26 (09:21:18) Chapter 27 (09:37:35) Chapter 28 (10:01:03) Chapter 29 (10:25:31) Chapter 30 (10:45:18) Chapter 31 (11:03:00) Chapter 32 (11:22:05) Chapter 33 (11:44:32) Chapter 34 (12:08:32) Chapter 35 (12:32:42) Chapter 36 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 5) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the first of sixteen volumes translated by Richard Francis Burton. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:31:57) Chapter 2 (00:55:21) Chapter 3 (01:13:19) Chapter 4 (01:42:26) Chapter 5 (02:15:59) Chapter 6 (02:49:10) Chapter 7 (03:18:39) Chapter 8 (03:47:52) Chapter 9 (04:09:47) Chapter 10 (04:28:53) Chapter 11 (04:49:42) Chapter 12 (05:23:53) Chapter 13 (05:43:35) Chapter 14 (06:05:39) Chapter 15 (06:25:42) Chapter 16 (06:38:28) Chapter 17 (06:58:04) Chapter 18 (07:19:56) Chapter 19 (07:39:48) Chapter 20 (07:58:48) Chapter 21 (08:23:43) Chapter 22 (08:52:01) Chapter 23 (09:16:33) Chapter 24 (09:37:06) Chapter 25 (10:06:02) Chapter 26 (10:31:55) Chapter 27 (11:01:19) Chapter 28 (11:35:17) Chapter 29 (11:56:58) Chapter 30 (12:23:09) Chapter 31 (12:52:20) Chapter 32 (13:11:44) Chapter 33 (13:37:59) Chapter 34 (14:05:10) Chapter 35 (14:29:07) Chapter 36 (14:48:36) Chapter 37 (15:06:56) Chapter 38 (15:25:56) Chapter 39 (15:45:34) Chapter 40 (16:06:55) Chapter 41 (16:27:16) Chapter 42 (16:46:31) Chapter 43 (17:02:28) Chapter 44 (17:17:23) Chapter 45 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 4) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the third of sixteen volumes translated by Burton. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:20:54) Chapter 2 (00:38:24) Chapter 3 (00:57:00) Chapter 4 (01:21:06) Chapter 5 (01:49:17) Chapter 6 (02:15:19) Chapter 7 (02:35:00) Chapter 8 (03:00:24) Chapter 9 (03:32:51) Chapter 10 (04:00:41) Chapter 11 (04:20:50) Chapter 12 (04:42:42) Chapter 13 (04:58:14) Chapter 14 (05:13:04) Chapter 15 (05:26:35) Chapter 16 (05:40:00) Chapter 17 (06:01:58) Chapter 18 (06:17:38) Chapter 19 (06:38:25) Chapter 20 (07:03:41) Chapter 21 (07:28:22) Chapter 22 (07:48:16) Chapter 23 (08:08:06) Chapter 24 (08:30:42) Chapter 25 (08:44:57) Chapter 26 (09:03:13) Chapter 27 (09:21:31) Chapter 28 (09:39:08) Chapter 29 (10:13:26) Chapter 30 (10:30:58) Chapter 31 (10:57:48) Chapter 32 (11:16:14) Chapter 33 (11:34:31) Chapter 34 (11:57:27) Chapter 35 (12:15:39) Chapter 36 (12:31:30) Chapter 37 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 3) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the third of sixteen volumes translated by Burton. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:19:22) Chapter 2 (00:41:13) Chapter 3 (01:04:09) Chapter 4 (01:29:21) Chapter 5 (01:59:29) Chapter 6 (02:31:16) Chapter 7 (02:52:53) Chapter 8 (03:23:36) Chapter 9 (03:33:14) Chapter 10 (04:11:58) Chapter 11 (04:36:29) Chapter 12 (05:06:27) Chapter 13 (05:37:30) Chapter 14 (06:03:12) Chapter 15 (06:30:00) Chapter 16 (06:47:35) Chapter 17 (07:10:49) Chapter 18 (07:24:44) Chapter 19 (07:50:35) Chapter 20 (08:12:31) Chapter 21 (08:34:41) Chapter 22 (08:51:50) Chapter 23 (09:07:58) Chapter 24 (09:21:19) Chapter 25 (09:45:28) Chapter 26 (10:03:20) Chapter 27 (10:23:56) Chapter 28 (10:44:47) Chapter 29 (11:05:25) Chapter 30 (11:23:23) Chapter 31 (11:44:59) Chapter 32 (12:05:21) Chapter 33 (12:29:45) Chapter 34 (12:57:31) Chapter 35 (13:20:03) Chapter 36 (13:40:41) Chapter 37 (14:00:20) Chapter 38 (14:26:45) Chapter 39 (14:45:06) Chapter 40 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 2) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her. Many tales that have become independently famous come from the Book, among them Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. This collection comes from the second of sixteen volumes translated by Burton. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:15:54) Chapter 2 (00:48:52) Chapter 3 (01:04:03) Chapter 4 (01:31:14) Chapter 5 (01:52:53) Chapter 6 (02:12:06) Chapter 7 (02:30:26) Chapter 8 (02:53:05) Chapter 9 (03:03:53) Chapter 10 (03:16:59) Chapter 11 (03:36:07) Chapter 12 (03:50:11) Chapter 13 (04:15:29) Chapter 14 (04:26:09) Chapter 15 (04:46:48) Chapter 16 (05:24:12) Chapter 17 (05:49:49) Chapter 18 (06:18:24) Chapter 19 (06:46:24) Chapter 20 (07:06:09) Chapter 21 (07:22:00) Chapter 22 (07:40:13) Chapter 23 (07:56:05) Chapter 24 (08:09:09) Chapter 25 (08:22:06) Chapter 26 (08:41:05) Chapter 27 (09:00:24) Chapter 28 (09:17:38) Chapter 29 (09:42:39) Chapter 30 (10:11:06) Chapter 31 (10:29:32) Chapter 32 (10:52:23) Chapter 33 (11:12:26) Chapter 34 (11:33:13) Chapter 35 (11:48:26) Chapter 36 (12:07:56) Chapter 37 (12:16:55) Chapter 38 (12:37:04) Chapter 39 (12:54:32) Chapter 40 (13:13:13) Chapter 41 (13:28:35) Chapter 42 (13:50:04) Chapter 43 (14:13:36) Chapter 44 (14:32:26) Chapter 45 (14:49:34) Chapter 46 (15:06:23) Chapter 47 (15:28:29) Chapter 48 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(Volume 1) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then declares all women to be unfaithful. He begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning. Scheherazade agrees to marry him and each night, beginning on the night of their marriage, she tells the king a tale but does not end it so that the king keeps her alive in order to hear the next tale. The stories proceed from this original tale; some are framed within other tales, while others begin and end of their own accord. Some editions contain only a few hundred tales, while others include 1001 or more stories and 'nights.' Well known stories from the Nights include Aladdin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:33:54) Chapter 2 (01:14:42) Chapter 3 (01:52:47) Chapter 4 (02:25:17) Chapter 5 (03:04:58) Chapter 6 (03:40:06) Chapter 7 (04:16:09) Chapter 8 (04:51:14) Chapter 9 (05:28:57) Chapter 10 (06:00:21) Chapter 11 (06:34:54) Chapter 12 (07:09:10) Chapter 13 (07:47:02) Chapter 14 (08:21:17) Chapter 15 (08:58:31) Chapter 16 (09:33:07) Chapter 17 (10:03:30) Chapter 18 (10:37:47) Chapter 19 (11:12:31) Chapter 20 (11:48:48) Chapter 21 (12:22:27) Chapter 22 (13:03:13) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams audiobook. Genre: romance On the brush-country ranch of Las Palomas in southern Texas, young Tom Quirk thinks he has signed on for honest work with cattle, horses, and open range. Instead, he finds himself apprenticed to a legend: Lance 'Uncle Lance' Lovelace, a tough, sixty-something ranchero, old pioneer, and three-time husband who has made it his personal business to steer lonely men toward marriage as surely as he steers a herd across unforgiving country. As Tom learns the demanding rhythms of ranch life - roundups, long rides, and the hard logic of the cattle business - he also becomes Uncle Lance's trusted interpreter and go-between, carrying messages, reading motives, and smoothing the way when bashful vaqueros and ranch hands fall headlong into love. Before long, Tom is drawn into the same web of courtship, aiming his own hopes at the quietly compelling Esther McLeod while trying to keep his dignity intact under Uncle Lance's sharp eye and sharper advice. Part frontier portrait and part wry comedy of manners, A Texas Matchmaker blends romance with the authentic textures of early Texas ranching and the complicated human need for belonging. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:38) Chapter 02 (00:46:37) Chapter 03 (01:17:12) Chapter 04 (01:37:54) Chapter 05 (02:11:25) Chapter 06 (02:43:27) Chapter 07 (03:13:13) Chapter 08 (03:31:26) Chapter 09 (03:51:59) Chapter 10 (04:23:05) Chapter 11 (04:44:45) Chapter 12 (05:21:54) Chapter 13 (05:50:27) Chapter 14 (06:24:59) Chapter 15 (06:51:49) Chapter 16 (07:18:21) Chapter 17 (07:43:50) Chapter 18 (08:10:04) Chapter 19 (08:34:08) Chapter 20 (09:02:16) Chapter 21 (09:32:10) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Border Riflemen by Albert W. Aiken audiobook. Genre: adventure Set on the raw edge of the American frontier during the Black Hawk War, The Border Riflemen follows Sadie Wescott, a spirited young settler trying to keep her family's riverside cabin safe as rumor and violence spread through the timber. When the dangerous woodsman William 'Black Will' Jackwood corners her with threats he intends to make good on, Sadie's unlikely champion appears in the form of Cooney Joe Bent, a brawling scout with a fierce sense of justice. Soon Captain Charley Melton and his mounted riflemen are riding the border country, trying to prevent open war even as hotheaded settlers and hard-bitten renegades fan the flames. Into this volatile mix steps Minneoba, the daughter of Black Hawk, whose warnings and divided loyalties reveal how close the region is to catastrophe. Betrayals for whiskey, secret messages, river chases, and bush fights pull Sadie and her friends into a widening struggle where every ally is precious and every shadowed grove may hide an enemy. And haunting the conflict is a mysterious figure whispered about as the Forest Fiend, striking from the darkness with motives no one can quite trust. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:36) Chapter 02 (00:34:04) Chapter 03 (00:50:14) Chapter 04 (01:04:22) Chapter 05 (01:21:54) Chapter 06 (01:37:44) Chapter 07 (01:49:19) Chapter 08 (02:08:18) Chapter 09 (02:24:21) Chapter 10 (02:40:17) Chapter 11 (02:56:19) Chapter 12 (03:12:02) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Songs of Love and Life by Zora Cross audiobook. Genre: poetry First published in Australia in 1917, Songs of Love and Life is the collection that made poet and journalist Zora Cross a national sensation. Built largely around a sequence of love sonnets, it speaks in an intimate first-person voice that refuses to treat desire as something shameful or silent. Across these tightly wrought poems, Cross traces the exhilaration and ache of passionate attachment, the pull between private longing and public respectability, and the way love can feel at once bodily, reverent, and defiantly modern. Alongside its charged romantic focus, the collection threads in a broader conscience about the world Cross lived in, questioning inherited Victorian ideals and sounding notes that can be read as feminist and anti-war in spirit. The result is a book that moves between tenderness and provocation, worship and appetite, lyric beauty and blunt honesty, offering a portrait of a woman insisting on the full range of her experience. For listeners, it is both a time capsule of early twentieth-century literary scandal and a vivid, enduring exploration of what it means to claim love in your own language. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 001 (00:01:00) Chapter 002 (00:02:05) Chapter 003 (00:03:17) Chapter 004 (00:04:19) Chapter 005 (00:05:27) Chapter 006 (00:06:29) Chapter 007 (00:07:30) Chapter 008 (00:08:32) Chapter 009 (00:09:29) Chapter 010 (00:10:33) Chapter 011 (00:11:34) Chapter 012 (00:12:35) Chapter 013 (00:13:43) Chapter 014 (00:14:42) Chapter 015 (00:15:56) Chapter 016 (00:16:58) Chapter 017 (00:18:02) Chapter 018 (00:19:01) Chapter 019 (00:20:04) Chapter 020 (00:21:08) Chapter 021 (00:22:09) Chapter 022 (00:23:10) Chapter 023 (00:24:11) Chapter 024 (00:25:13) Chapter 025 (00:26:13) Chapter 026 (00:27:22) Chapter 027 (00:28:29) Chapter 028 (00:29:30) Chapter 029 (00:30:35) Chapter 030 (00:31:40) Chapter 031 (00:32:40) Chapter 032 (00:33:39) Chapter 033 (00:34:42) Chapter 034 (00:35:43) Chapter 035 (00:36:48) Chapter 036 (00:38:01) Chapter 037 (00:39:11) Chapter 038 (00:40:12) Chapter 039 (00:41:13) Chapter 040 (00:42:14) Chapter 041 (00:43:27) Chapter 042 (00:44:24) Chapter 043 (00:45:32) Chapter 044 (00:46:29) Chapter 045 (00:47:27) Chapter 046 (00:48:26) Chapter 047 (00:49:28) Chapter 048 (00:50:44) Chapter 049 (00:51:45) Chapter 050 (00:52:44) Chapter 051 (00:53:46) Chapter 052 (00:54:43) Chapter 053 (00:55:51) Chapter 054 (00:56:51) Chapter 055 (00:58:02) Chapter 056 (00:59:03) Chapter 057 (01:00:06) Chapter 058 (01:01:02) Chapter 059 (01:02:15) Chapter 060 (01:03:16) Chapter 061 (01:11:54) Chapter 062 (01:12:55) Chapter 063 (01:14:04) Chapter 064 (01:15:35) Chapter 065 (01:17:10) Chapter 066 (01:18:24) Chapter 067 (01:19:23) Chapter 068 (01:20:18) Chapter 069 (01:21:44) Chapter 070 (01:23:36) Chapter 071 (01:28:09) Chapter 072 (01:29:49) Chapter 073 (01:31:01) Chapter 074 (01:32:28) Chapter 075 (01:33:52) Chapter 076 (01:34:55) Chapter 077 (01:36:11) Chapter 078 (01:38:03) Chapter 079 (01:39:19) Chapter 080 (01:40:02) Chapter 081 (01:41:42) Chapter 082 (01:42:27) Chapter 083 (01:45:31) Chapter 084 (01:46:33) Chapter 085 (01:49:52) Chapter 086 (01:57:33) Chapter 087 (01:59:08) Chapter 088 (02:00:19) Chapter 089 Max Character Limit reached Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind by William Hanna Thomson audiobook. Genre: science In Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind, physician and thinker William Hanna Thomson explores one of the most enduring questions in human self-understanding: how the material brain relates to the immaterial experiences we call thought, character, will, and consciousness. Writing for curious readers as well as students of medicine and philosophy, Thomson surveys what anatomy and physiology can say about the nervous system, then presses onward into the harder territory of personality: why individuals differ, how habits and emotions take root, and what it means to speak of a self that can reflect and choose. Along the way, he weighs popular assumptions about heredity, mental effort, and the limits of scientific explanation, arguing for careful observation without reducing the whole of mind to mere mechanism. Part scientific primer and part philosophical inquiry, this book invites listeners into a disciplined conversation between laboratory facts and lived experience, aiming to clarify where physical causation ends, where interpretation begins, and how both perspectives can inform a humane view of mental life. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:38:00) Chapter 02 (00:55:01) Chapter 03 (01:07:32) Chapter 04 (01:25:01) Chapter 05 (01:59:58) Chapter 06 (02:29:32) Chapter 07 (02:53:40) Chapter 08 (03:16:55) Chapter 09 (03:43:18) Chapter 10 (04:09:03) Chapter 11 (04:35:14) Chapter 12 (04:58:49) Chapter 13 (05:24:21) Chapter 14 (05:49:46) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gloves Past and Present by Willard M. Smith audiobook. Genre: history In Gloves Past and Present, Willard M. Smith turns an everyday accessory into a surprising lens on power, faith, fashion, and work. Drawing on decades in the glove trade, Smith sets out to explain why gloves once carried the weight of ceremony and status: as emblems of royal authority, symbols in religious ritual, and tokens used to seal pledges, issue challenges, or confer honor. Moving across centuries, he traces how hand coverings evolved from practical protection into coded social signals that shaped etiquette and public life. The book then shifts from legend to craft, opening the workshop door on how gloves are designed, cut, sewn, fitted, and finished, and how changing tastes and technologies transformed the modern industry. Along the way, Smith highlights the people behind the product - artisans, merchants, and designers - and the economic networks that made gloves a global business. Part cultural history and part insider's guide, this is a spirited invitation to look closely at what you wear and discover the long human story stitched into it. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:47) Chapter 01 (00:15:10) Chapter 02 (00:32:38) Chapter 03 (00:55:08) Chapter 04 (01:14:59) Chapter 05 (01:33:46) Chapter 06 (02:02:21) Chapter 07 (02:23:49) Chapter 08 (02:43:16) Chapter 09 (03:18:01) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hans of Iceland by Victor Hugo audiobook. Genre: tragedy Hans of Iceland was written in 1821 and is the very first novel written by young Victor, years before he became the great Hugo. It has all the ingredients of a gothic novel: dreadful murders by the hand of a human monster, a young hero in love with the destitute heroine, royal court-intrigues and rebellious uprising, all set in dungeons, dark towers and the untamed nature of Norway. This audio-book has been recorded as Dramatic Reading with all the voices performed by one single reader, including laughs, sobs, groans, occasional screams and a lot of growls. I hope you will enjoy listening to this adventurous journey just as much as I enjoyed recording it For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:05:10) Chapter 02 (00:08:04) Chapter 03 (00:21:05) Chapter 04 (00:39:58) Chapter 05 (00:43:39) Chapter 06 (00:53:08) Chapter 07 (00:57:26) Chapter 08 (01:25:58) Chapter 09 (01:40:54) Chapter 10 (02:00:27) Chapter 11 (02:15:30) Chapter 12 (02:44:02) Chapter 13 (02:55:41) Chapter 14 (03:07:08) Chapter 15 (04:02:50) Chapter 16 (04:16:16) Chapter 17 (04:29:16) Chapter 18 (04:37:42) Chapter 19 (04:55:07) Chapter 20 (04:58:24) Chapter 21 (05:08:50) Chapter 22 (05:25:45) Chapter 23 (05:31:34) Chapter 24 (05:37:32) Chapter 25 (06:08:42) Chapter 26 (06:13:49) Chapter 27 (06:39:39) Chapter 28 (07:19:31) Chapter 29 (07:22:30) Chapter 30 (07:26:24) Chapter 31 (07:51:39) Chapter 32 (08:11:19) Chapter 33 (08:23:28) Chapter 34 (08:42:00) Chapter 35 (08:43:34) Chapter 36 (08:51:21) Chapter 37 (08:57:38) Chapter 38 (09:03:10) Chapter 39 (09:17:25) Chapter 40 (09:35:04) Chapter 41 (09:40:49) Chapter 42 (10:00:26) Chapter 43 (10:19:38) Chapter 44 (10:29:36) Chapter 45 (10:38:07) Chapter 46 (11:20:26) Chapter 47 (11:42:06) Chapter 48 (12:00:30) Chapter 49 (12:05:52) Chapter 50 (12:10:02) Chapter 51 (12:28:03) Chapter 52 (12:40:30) Chapter 53 (13:02:11) Chapter 54 (13:05:23) Chapter 55 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver, Thornton W. Burgess returns to the Green Forest and Smiling Pool to follow one of its most determined builders. When Paddy arrives with his big teeth, clever paws, and a plan to make a home of his own, the woods quickly learn that a beaver does not do anything halfway. As Paddy gathers branches, gnaws down trees, and shapes the water to suit his needs, his work changes the neighborhood in ways that amaze some and worry others. Familiar friends and busybodies - from curious birds to wary pond dwellers - watch closely, trade rumors, and argue about what Paddy is up to and whether his ambitious projects will help or harm the life around the water. But the forest is never without danger, and Paddy must use patience, skill, and plain hard work to protect himself and his home from threats that cannot be solved with wood and mud alone. Warm, playful, and full of nature lore, this classic tale celebrates ingenuity, perseverance, and the complicated ripples one animal can make in a shared world. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:04:22) Chapter 02 (00:08:54) Chapter 03 (00:13:05) Chapter 04 (00:18:09) Chapter 05 (00:23:57) Chapter 06 (00:28:43) Chapter 07 (00:33:52) Chapter 08 (00:38:52) Chapter 09 (00:43:27) Chapter 10 (00:47:55) Chapter 11 (00:51:56) Chapter 12 (00:57:09) Chapter 13 (01:01:58) Chapter 14 (01:06:21) Chapter 15 (01:10:44) Chapter 16 (01:15:43) Chapter 17 (01:20:21) Chapter 18 (01:25:04) Chapter 19 (01:29:14) Chapter 20 (01:33:29) Chapter 21 (01:37:38) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Centuries of Meditations by Thomas Traherne audiobook. Genre: religion Centuries of Meditations gathers the luminous spiritual reflections of Thomas Traherne, a 17th-century Anglican priest and metaphysical writer whose voice feels both intimate and expansive. Written as a sequence of brief, numbered meditations arranged in groups of one hundred, these prose passages move like sparks: each one turns an ordinary fact of life into a doorway toward wonder. Traherne returns again and again to a central struggle of the soul - how to recover a clear, childlike vision of the world in the face of habit, distraction, pride, and spiritual dullness. With a poet's eye and a theologian's tenderness, he explores joy, gratitude, innocence, desire, eternity, and the divine love he believes saturates creation. Rather than offering a rigid system, Traherne invites the listener into a practice of attention: to see blessings where we have stopped looking, to re-learn amazement, and to let worship arise from daily experience. The result is a devotional classic that feels like a companion for prayer and contemplation, speaking to anyone hungry for a life enlarged by praise. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:33:38) Chapter 01 (01:01:06) Chapter 02 (01:28:53) Chapter 03 (01:58:04) Chapter 04 (02:21:16) Chapter 05 (02:47:04) Chapter 06 (03:09:34) Chapter 07 (03:31:07) Chapter 08 (04:01:02) Chapter 09 (04:29:31) Chapter 10 (04:54:40) Chapter 11 (05:23:52) Chapter 12 (05:48:32) Chapter 13 (06:14:28) Chapter 14 (06:38:53) Chapter 15 (07:12:27) Chapter 16 (07:42:19) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bashan And I by Thomas Mann audiobook. Genre: biography Written in the shadow of World War I, Bashan and I is Thomas Mann's intimate, clear-eyed portrait of life with his dog, a spirited German shorthaired pointer named Bashan. In a Munich landscape of gardens, paths, and wild edges, the narrator builds his days around small rituals: the moment he steps outside, the eager arrival of his companion, and the long walks that turn ordinary mornings into excursions of discovery. Mann watches Bashan with the precision of a novelist and the tenderness of a devoted owner, tracing the dog's instincts for scent and chase, his pride and mischief, his sudden raptures in nature, and his unwavering readiness to follow. As their companionship deepens, the book becomes more than a charming animal tale. Mann uses Bashan's presence to reflect on freedom and discipline, loyalty and independence, and the baffling gap between human thought and an animal's private world. Warm, humorous, and quietly philosophical, this short narrative offers refuge from a troubled era while asking what it really means to know, and to love, another living being. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:52) Chapter 01 (00:25:12) Chapter 02 (00:42:46) Chapter 03 (01:08:02) Chapter 04 (01:36:05) Chapter 05 (02:10:32) Chapter 06 (02:40:19) Chapter 07 (03:11:08) Chapter 08 (03:43:02) Chapter 09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eleven years a drunkard by Thomas Doner audiobook. Genre: biography He tells of the shame, misery and pain which alcohol brought on him, and will bring to anyone whosoever be tempted by the pleasant feeling it produces at the time of drinking. It doesn't bring one home to shelter but drives them away. It leads one to forget the evil it brings and tempts one to pursue more for the pleasant feeling it produces. This 'pleasant feeling' produces many murderers in our land. It doesn't push the sufferer to ask for help but to lie about the drinking. Once Satan has a foothold he wants an even tighter grasp. He exhorts - you boys, to learn this lesson, 'If you do not take the first drink, you will not be tempted to take the second.' And if you take the first drink do not take the second or the monster will have done its work and will surely lead you to a third and a fourth and to associate with the inmates of taverns until you are committed to prison, executed in the gallows, a cripple (like Doner) or to a drunkard's grave. Filth, drunkenness, crime and blasphemy, Doner writes, are the rewards for stepping in this Snare of the Devil. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 0 (00:01:02) Chapter 1 (00:08:46) Chapter 2 (00:43:36) Chapter 3 (01:07:13) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Crook in the Lot by Thomas Boston audiobook. Genre: religion In The Crook in the Lot, Scottish Presbyterian pastor Thomas Boston turns a single piercing question from Ecclesiastes 7:13 into a steady guide for anyone living with burdens they cannot simply fix: if God has made something crooked in your life, who can make it straight? Boston calls the unchosen trials of daily life the 'crook' and the overall shape of a person's circumstances the 'lot.' With the directness of a preacher and the tenderness of a counselor, he argues that afflictions are not random intrusions but belong to God's wise providence, and that peace begins when the sufferer learns to see the crook as the work of God rather than a mistake to be fought at all costs. Drawing from Scripture and lived pastoral experience, Boston explores why certain troubles strike the most sensitive places in our hearts, how impatience and pride harden the soul, and what it looks like to respond with humility, repentance, prayer, and persevering faith. The book reads like a series of sermons meant to steady trembling hands and reframe suffering as a severe mercy that can shape holiness. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:29) Chapter 02 (00:40:22) Chapter 03 (01:24:19) Chapter 04 (01:44:05) Chapter 05 (02:20:42) Chapter 06 (02:40:03) Chapter 07 (03:14:39) Chapter 08 (03:49:04) Chapter 09 (04:07:39) Chapter 10 (04:52:23) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elizabethan Demonology by Thomas Alfred Spalding audiobook. Genre: history Written as a scholarly essay, Elizabethan Demonology investigates what educated and ordinary people in England believed about devils, witches, possession, and unseen spiritual forces during the Reformation and the decades that followed. Thomas Alfred Spalding argues that to read Elizabethan drama clearly, especially the plays of William Shakespeare, modern readers must recover the religious assumptions and folk ideas that shaped daily life and public imagination. Moving between theology, popular superstition, and literary evidence, Spalding traces how older pagan or foreign gods were reinterpreted as lesser spirits, how fear of diabolic agency found support in sermons and pamphlets, and how these convictions surfaced on the stage in vivid scenes of temptation, prophecy, and haunting. Along the way he pays particular attention to Shakespeare's handling of the supernatural, using close readings to show how an audience that took demons seriously would have heard certain words, symbols, and moral stakes differently than we do today. Expanded from papers first delivered to the New Shakespeare Society, this compact work is both a window into early modern belief and a guide for readers who want to understand why the devil felt so real in Elizabethan literature. citeturn0search1turn0search7turn0search0 For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:09) Chapter 02 (00:42:53) Chapter 03 (01:01:28) Chapter 04 (01:26:45) Chapter 05 (01:53:36) Chapter 06 (02:18:31) Chapter 07 (02:44:28) Chapter 08 (02:59:38) Chapter 09 (03:25:28) Chapter 10 (03:48:14) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Characters Of Theophrastus by Theophrastus audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written in the lively streets and marketplaces of classical Athens, The Characters offers a gallery of sharply observed human types that still feel familiar today. Attributed to Theophrastus, successor to Aristotle, this compact classic presents a sequence of brief sketches, each one isolating a single vice, folly, or social habit and then showing how it plays out in daily life. You will meet the Flatterer who lives by borrowed praise, the Gossip who cannot keep a confidence, the Superstitious Man who reads omens into every coincidence, the Boor who misses every cue, and many more. Rather than telling a continuous story, the book builds its power through accumulation: scene by scene, it invites listeners to recognize patterns of behavior in neighbors, leaders, friends, and themselves. At once ethical inquiry and social satire, these portraits ask what makes a person trustworthy, civic minded, and self controlled, and what happens when small failings harden into a way of life. The result is a witty, unsettling mirror held up to human nature across time. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:34:18) Chapter 01 (00:53:06) Chapter 02 (01:11:42) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Brothers by Terence audiobook. Genre: comedy In The Brothers (Adelphoe), Terence sets a sharply observed domestic comedy in Athens where two very different men try to raise the next generation. Demea is severe, hardworking, and convinced that discipline is the only path to virtue. His brother Micio is relaxed, affluent, and proud of the trust-based freedom he gives his adopted son, Aeschinus. When a scandal erupts in the city and Aeschinus is blamed for behavior that looks reckless and cruel, the brothers' philosophies collide in public and in private. As rumors spread and tempers flare, Demea becomes certain that leniency has bred corruption, while Micio insists that harshness only teaches young men to lie. Meanwhile, the quieter Ctesipho, Demea's natural son raised under strict rules, is pulled into the same tangle of desire, loyalty, and fear of exposure. Through quick dialogue, clever servants, and anxious lovers, Terence turns family conflict into a debate about love, authority, and what it means to truly know your children. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:14:33) Chapter 2 (00:33:00) Chapter 3 (00:55:33) Chapter 4 (01:21:47) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters by Susan Petigru King-Bowen audiobook. Genre: romance Portugal, 1812: while the Peninsular War grinds on, a British brigade settles into winter quarters at Elvas, where officers and their families try to turn boredom, uncertainty, and old-world etiquette into something like a season. Into this charged half-peacetime steps Lady Mabel Stewart, newly arrived from Scotland at her father Lord Strathern's summons. Young, observant, and suddenly surrounded by uniforms, rank, and rumor, Mabel must learn the unwritten rules of camp society - and decide which ones are worth obeying. The arrival of the captivating Spaniard Colonel l'Isle brings glamour and danger in equal measure, stirring talk of allegiance, reputation, and forbidden attachment. But romance here is never private: every glance is witnessed, every kindness interpreted, and jealousies flare as quickly as flirtations. As theatricals, dinners, and petty rivalries play out against a landscape marked by marching armies, Mabel finds herself caught between duty and desire, family expectations and personal judgment. Part courtship tale, part social portrait, this episode asks what love can mean when war is only a few miles away. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:48) Chapter 02 (00:43:16) Chapter 03 (01:09:28) Chapter 04 (01:33:12) Chapter 05 (01:54:38) Chapter 06 (02:19:17) Chapter 07 (02:56:13) Chapter 08 (03:07:59) Chapter 09 (03:30:23) Chapter 10 (04:01:37) Chapter 11 (04:45:20) Chapter 12 (05:02:03) Chapter 13 (05:36:48) Chapter 14 (06:05:51) Chapter 15 (06:50:39) Chapter 16 (07:07:52) Chapter 17 (07:41:24) Chapter 18 (08:28:31) Chapter 19 (08:49:22) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Above the French Lines by Stuart Walcott audiobook. Genre: history Above the French Lines presents World War I through the intimate, immediate voice of Stuart Walcott, a young American who crosses the Atlantic in 1917 to learn to fly and serve with the French aviation forces. Told as a sequence of letters written between July 4 and December 8, 1917, the book traces his transformation from eager trainee to combat-ready pilot, capturing the routines and hazards of early airfields: punishing instruction, mechanical troubles, weather that can turn lethal in minutes, and the constant pressure to prove yourself in a brand-new kind of warfare. Walcott writes to friends and family with a mix of humor, longing, and hard-earned seriousness, painting vivid scenes of barracks life, friendships among fellow fliers, and the tightening suspense as he nears the front. As patrols begin to carry him above the trenches and into enemy-held skies, the letters become a record of courage under uncertainty, where ideals of service collide with the stark realities of combat. Part personal testimony and part wartime document, this is a moving portrait of youth, duty, and the cost of taking flight when the world is at war. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:07:30) Chapter 01 (00:14:48) Chapter 02 (00:51:52) Chapter 03 (01:30:05) Chapter 04 (01:31:22) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane audiobook. Genre: history In Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, a young farm boy named Henry Fleming leaves home to enlist in the Union Army, convinced that battle will reveal the heroic version of himself he has always imagined. But when his regiment is suddenly thrown into combat, Henry discovers that courage is not a simple, shining certainty - it is a shifting struggle of fear, pride, shame, and survival. As smoke, noise, and confusion swallow the battlefield, Henry measures himself against the reactions of other soldiers: the steady veterans, the frightened newcomers, and the blunt, relentless officers who drive men forward. Haunted by the question of whether he will stand firm or break, he becomes obsessed with earning proof of bravery - a 'red badge' that would silence doubt. Crane's stark, immersive style turns war into an intense psychological landscape, capturing how rumor, panic, and fleeting moments of resolve can reshape a person in an instant. More than a battle story, it is a coming-of-age journey under fire, tracing one soldier's fight to define honor and identity when nothing feels certain and the cost of self-deception can be as dangerous as the enemy. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:33) Chapter 02 (00:40:09) Chapter 03 (00:58:16) Chapter 04 (01:05:12) Chapter 05 (01:18:43) Chapter 06 (01:32:17) Chapter 07 (01:40:46) Chapter 08 (01:51:56) Chapter 09 (02:03:24) Chapter 10 (02:12:46) Chapter 11 (02:26:36) Chapter 12 (02:39:47) Chapter 13 (02:51:34) Chapter 14 (03:02:27) Chapter 15 (03:09:36) Chapter 16 (03:21:10) Chapter 17 (03:30:50) Chapter 18 (03:40:05) Chapter 19 (03:51:29) Chapter 20 (04:02:51) Chapter 21 (04:14:51) Chapter 22 (04:25:23) Chapter 23 (04:36:05) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices