Classic Audiobook Collection

The Courage of the Commonplace by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews audiobook. Genre: drama Set against the pageantry and pressure-cooker rituals of early-20th-century Yale, The Courage of the Commonplace follows Johnny McLean, a likable, athletic junior who discovers that the verdict of his classmates can feel like a verdict on his whole life. As Tap Day approaches - the moment when a select few are chosen for the elite senior societies - Johnny measures himself against rivals who seem effortlessly destined for honor, and against a family legacy that leaves little room for ordinary outcomes. When the campus celebration turns into a private reckoning, Johnny must decide whether to keep chasing approval or to rebuild his sense of worth from the inside out. Pushing himself into demanding work and tougher standards than he has ever lived by, he carries those hard-won habits beyond New Haven and into the industrial world, where status means nothing and responsibility can be immediate and unforgiving. In a community shaped by engines, ore, and risk, Johnny is tested by leadership, loyalty, and fear - and learns what kind of bravery lasts when the cheering stops. A poignant coming-of-age story, it asks what success really is, and whether quiet, daily discipline can be its own form of heroism. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:40) Chapter 02 (00:42:58) Chapter 03 (01:02:59) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook. Genre: scifi On the isolated world of Darkover, a terrifying epidemic returns like clockwork: Trailmen's fever, a disease that flares every forty-eight years and can sweep through the human settlements with catastrophic speed. The Terran Trade City is desperate for a cure, and Dr. Randall Forth believes the key lies not only in medicine but in understanding the planet's elusive indigenous people, the tree-dwelling Trailmen of the Hellers. His best hope may be the brilliant but dangerously ill Dr. Jay Allison, a man whose mind has been split by hypnosis into two competing selves: the cold, scientific Jay and the daring, charismatic Jason, who has the survival skills and childhood ties needed to reach the Trailmen. Sent into the mountains with a mixed party of Terrans and Darkovans, including the politically powerful Regis Hastur and the formidable guide Kyla Raineach, Allison must navigate perilous terrain, armed hostility, and deep cultural mistrust. As the expedition pushes toward first contact and fragile negotiation, Allison's inner war becomes as urgent as the plague itself, raising the question of what it will cost to save an entire planet. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:43:40) Chapter 2 (01:34:07) Chapter 3 (02:22:50) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Falcons of Narabedla by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook. Genre: scifi Mike Kenscott is an ordinary twentieth-century American still haunted by a past catastrophe: a strange laboratory accident, a surge of unseen forces, and the sense that reality has a weak seam running through it. Then, on what should be a simple outing, that seam splits. Mike is flung across the Time Ellipse into Narabedla, a world under twin suns where Terran influence and Darkovan bloodlines have mingled into a brilliant, perilous, and decadent civilization of towers, pleasure-cities, and razor-edged etiquette. Worse, the man who arrives is not only Mike: in this future he is also known as Adric of the Scarlet Tower, a name that carries debts, enemies, and expectations he does not understand. Caught in courtly intrigues and psychic undercurrents, Mike must learn the rules of a society built on dream, domination, and dangerous mind-born powers. To reclaim his life and his name, he is driven toward a single, ominous goal: the Keep of the Dreamer, and the legendary Falcons of Narabedla that may be the key to everything. Falcons of Narabedla blends time displacement, identity crisis, and baroque planetary adventure into a tense, uncanny journey. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:43) Chapter 02 (00:46:07) Chapter 03 (01:02:32) Chapter 04 (01:14:47) Chapter 05 (01:24:20) Chapter 06 (01:39:55) Chapter 07 (01:58:40) Chapter 08 (02:10:16) Chapter 09 (02:22:03) Chapter 10 (02:42:21) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mystery of the Hidden Room by Marion Harvey audiobook. Genre: mystery A classic mystery/detective story in the Sherlock Holmes tradition, the hidden room suggested by the title of this book does not remain a mystery for very long as the book progresses. Written in the first person, the husband of his (Carlton Davies) former lover is found dead one night at the stroke of midnight, and Davies finds his ex-lover standing over the dead body immediately after the shot was fired, with a gun in her hand. It was no secret that she never truly loved her husband, who had blackmailed her into marrying him. The jury ships Ruth to prison, and the stage is set for Davies to locate the right detective for the case, and for a series of events with twists and turns and surprises that will keep the reader guessing who was responsible for this murder. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:17) Chapter 02 (00:26:56) Chapter 03 (00:45:10) Chapter 04 (01:06:59) Chapter 05 (01:21:24) Chapter 06 (01:34:10) Chapter 07 (01:44:22) Chapter 08 (01:58:28) Chapter 09 (02:14:56) Chapter 10 (02:28:12) Chapter 11 (02:40:23) Chapter 12 (02:53:52) Chapter 13 (03:09:48) Chapter 14 (03:26:54) Chapter 15 (03:40:35) Chapter 16 (03:51:22) Chapter 17 (04:16:06) Chapter 18 (04:31:38) Chapter 19 (04:41:10) Chapter 20 (05:03:15) Chapter 21 (05:23:58) Chapter 22 (05:44:22) Chapter 23 (06:14:04) Chapter 24 (06:30:34) Chapter 25 (06:46:47) Chapter 26 (07:03:11) Chapter 27 (07:14:52) Chapter 28 (07:29:01) Chapter 29 (07:43:51) Chapter 30 (07:58:36) Chapter 31 (08:13:50) Chapter 32 (08:29:30) Chapter 33 (08:45:24) Chapter 34 (09:02:16) Chapter 35 (09:21:21) Chapter 36 (09:33:50) Chapter 37 (09:50:06) Chapter 38 (10:13:49) Chapter 39 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Montessori’s Own Handbook by Maria Montessori audiobook. Genre: self help This is the authoritative book written by Montessori to describe her methods. It gives an overview of the Montessori Method as developed for 3 to 6 year olds. It is a short work, intended as a manual for teachers and parents, detailing the materials used as well as her philosophy in developing them. 'As a result of the widespread interest that has been taken in my method of child education, certain books have been issued, which may appear to the general reader to be authoritative expositions of the Montessori system. I wish to state definitely that the present work, the English translation of which has been authorized and approved by me, is the only authentic manual of the Montessori method ... For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:40) Chapter 01 (00:14:10) Chapter 02 (00:24:45) Chapter 03 (00:27:44) Chapter 04 (00:40:14) Chapter 05 (01:34:19) Chapter 06 (01:44:50) Chapter 07 (01:49:58) Chapter 08 (02:11:52) Chapter 09 (02:17:20) Chapter 10 (02:33:01) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ormond by Maria Edgeworth audiobook. Genre: drama Maria Edgeworth was one of the most popular writers of her time, a sharp and witty observer of society manners, and a favorite author for Jane Austen. “Ormond,” published in 1817, is a “coming-of-age” novel, tracing a young man’s development as he approaches the age of majority. When we meet him, Harry Ormond has his “heart in the right place,” but is unsettled of character, naïve and impulsive. The central issue is: “What kind of man will he become?” In part, Harry is influenced by the books he reads: Fielding’s “Tom Jones,” Richardson’s “Sir Charles Grandison,” and works of the French Enlightenment. More important, however, are influences from the company he keeps, much as Prince Hal in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV” takes shape as a reflection of the people around him. As an orphan, Harry had been adopted by Sir Ulick O’Shane, a man of society, full of subtlety and strategies, who exploits his public trust for private advantage (a practice known at that time as “jobbing”). Harry also spends time with Sir Ulick’s cousin Cornelius, a Falstaffian figure of hearty good cheer and eccentric rural lifestyle. (He enthrones himself on a tiny island in an Irish lake, calls himself the “King of the Black Islands” and nicknames Ormond “Prince Harry.”) Later, Harry follows Cornelius’s daughter to Paris, where he witnesses the glamorous dissipation of French society in the years before the Revolution. This novel explores the challenges of bringing together apparent oppositions: reconciling promised loyalty with assertion of self, Anglo-Irish landlords with their Irish tenants, Catholics with Protestants, and the impulsive heart with the rational head. “Ormond” is named in the reference list “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.” For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:33:56) Chapter 02 (00:59:30) Chapter 03 (01:24:32) Chapter 04 (01:44:39) Chapter 05 (02:01:25) Chapter 06 (02:28:51) Chapter 07 (03:01:08) Chapter 08 (03:24:26) Chapter 09 (03:41:19) Chapter 10 (04:01:30) Chapter 11 (04:16:55) Chapter 12 (04:39:05) Chapter 13 (05:07:49) Chapter 14 (05:42:11) Chapter 15 (06:14:18) Chapter 16 (06:37:27) Chapter 17 (06:58:11) Chapter 18 (07:33:29) Chapter 19 (07:59:27) Chapter 20 (08:22:25) Chapter 21 (08:46:52) Chapter 22 (09:16:41) Chapter 23 (09:47:30) Chapter 24 (10:16:10) Chapter 25 (10:30:37) Chapter 26 (10:59:14) Chapter 27 (11:41:39) Chapter 28 (11:58:48) Chapter 29 (12:20:41) Chapter 30 (12:53:50) Chapter 31 (13:23:56) Chapter 32 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth audiobook. Genre: drama Published in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in 19th-century Britain. At that time, the management of many Irish estates suffered from the absenteeism of their Anglo-Irish landlords. We meet Lord and Lady Clonbrony. Lord Clonbrony struggles with debt, while Lady Clonbrony tries to shed her Irish connections and earn status in London’s high society (known as “the ton.”) Meanwhile, their son, Lord Colambre, is wary of the entanglements of that society and escapes to the family estate in Ireland, where he discovers the abuses that have arisen in the family’s absence. Maria Edgeworth was a pioneer of realism in fiction, and one of the most successful and popular novelists of her time. She offered satirical portraits of society manners and sympathetic treatment of regional life. Her work won admiration from authors such as Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott. “The Absentee” is named in the reference list “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.” For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:27:58) Chapter 02 (01:06:44) Chapter 03 (01:43:32) Chapter 04 (02:19:34) Chapter 05 (03:22:48) Chapter 06 (04:11:50) Chapter 07 (04:48:14) Chapter 08 (05:13:11) Chapter 09 (05:53:08) Chapter 10 (06:23:52) Chapter 11 (06:49:21) Chapter 12 (07:22:45) Chapter 13 (08:11:38) Chapter 14 (09:11:42) Chapter 15 (09:41:47) Chapter 16 (10:35:05) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warrior of Two Worlds by Manly Wade Wellman audiobook. Genre: scifi Snatched from Earth and dropped naked into a roaring dust storm, a bewildered stranger staggers into the underground stronghold of a world called Dondromogon - a planet where only two thin twilight bands are habitable, forever battered by wind between a burning day side and a frozen night side. Captured at the gates, he can offer only one impossible story: he cannot remember his own name. But the defenders see something else in him. Their mystic Sporr insists the newcomer matches an ancient prophecy of Yandro, a Conquering Stranger destined to save their people from the Newcomers, ruthless invaders entrenched on the far side of the planet. Soon the stranger is dressed, honored, and pushed toward command - with Doriza, a bold officer of the guard, as both his escort and his sharpest test of trust. As political leaders like Gederr and the charismatic Elonie shape the legend around him, the stranger must navigate a society built on hard survival choices, a war fought through tunnels and polar chokepoints, and the nagging fear that his missing memories hide the real reason he was brought here. In a world that worships destiny, he must decide what kind of warrior he will become. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:23) Chapter 02 (00:49:26) Chapter 03 (01:07:58) Chapter 04 (01:34:50) Chapter 05 (01:54:36) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Venus Enslaved by Manly Wade Wellman audiobook. Genre: scifi On the sweltering, perilous world of Venus, an Earthman named Planter finds his sentence turned into something far worse than prison: survival among alien jungles, strange predators, and rival powers that treat human life as a resource to be spent. Thrown together with two fellow convicts, the hard-edged Disbro and the unexpectedly formidable Max, Planter expects only heat, hunger, and a quick death. Instead, a sudden encounter with a deadly tentacled creature ends with an even stranger rescue - by Mara, a warrior of a fierce Amazon sisterhood whose weapons are as archaic as they are lethal. The Amazons have their own war to fight, and they see in Planter both a risk and an opportunity. Looming over everything are the Frogmasters of the Veiled Planet, a domineering force whose reach and cruelty threaten to enslave everyone caught in their shadow. Caught between cultures and armed with little more than nerve, improvisation, and uneasy alliances, Planter must decide what kind of man he will be on a planet where freedom is never given - it is taken. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:28:14) Chapter 02 (01:12:41) Chapter 03 (01:38:11) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mercenary by Mack Reynolds audiobook. Genre: scifi In a future America that has traded civic duty for comfort, society is locked into a rigid nine-level caste system - and almost no one ever climbs. Joseph Mauser, born Mid-Lower and determined to become something more, has chosen one of the last remaining ladders: Category Military. But war is no longer a clash of nations. Under a universal disarmament pact that bans modern weaponry, the truly powerful settle their disputes in carefully regulated corporate 'fracas' - limited battlefields fought with old-tech guns, strict rules, and wall-to-wall television coverage. When a new fight brews between rival giants like Vacuum Tube Transport and Continental Hovercraft, Mauser signs on as a professional mercenary, weighing not just tactics and survival, but budgets, reputations, and the stock-share promises that can buy a higher place in the system. As he trains recruits from the lower castes, navigates eccentric aristocratic commanders, and confronts the strange mix of spectacle and real bloodshed, Mauser discovers that in a world of TV and tranquilizers, violence can be both entertainment and policy - and the price of ambition may be higher than any pay bonus. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:54:46) Chapter 2 (01:43:20) Chapter 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adaptation by Mack Reynolds audiobook. Genre: scifi In 1960 when this was published, the Cold War was at its height. Communism and Free Enterprise (Democracy) were locked in a ferocious struggle to prove that their political ideology was the best form of government for human kind. No holds were barred in this fight; propaganda was poured forth by both sides in a constant push to be seen as better, more progressive, more productive. Nuclear war was a constant threat. I know, I lived through that time. Thankfully the world came through that stressful time without a hot war but the question was not really settled: which is the better system? This story explores that question. 'Hardly had man solved his basic problems on the planet of his origin than he began to fumble into space. Barely a century had elapsed in the exploration of the Solar System than he began to grope for the stars. And suddenly, with an all but religious zeal, mankind conceived its fantasy dream of populating the galaxy.' For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:01) Chapter 02 (00:27:50) Chapter 03 (00:52:16) Chapter 04 (01:14:35) Chapter 05 (01:31:31) Chapter 06 (01:46:20) Chapter 07 (01:54:47) Chapter 08 (02:10:54) Chapter 09 (02:20:19) Chapter 10 (02:30:10) Chapter 11 (02:40:46) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

War-Lords of the Moon by Linton Davies audiobook. Genre: scifi On a routine Earth-Moon run, Flight-Commander Bruce Ross asks his navigator, Harrell Moore, a simple question about their star readings and gets a look of pure horror in return. Something is wrong in the heavens, and the answer points straight to the Moon. Summoned into a secretive lunar underworld of provinces, courts, and armed patrols, Ross finds a society in upheaval: a king dead, factions mobilizing, and whispers of a new war that could spill from the Moon to Earth itself. At the center of the chaos stands Lord Horta, a calculating visionary whose faith in omens masks a ruthless plan, and whose experiments promise weapons no fleet is prepared to face. Caught between rival leaders and uneasy allies, including the enigmatic Princess Illeria and the formidable Queen Boada, Ross must navigate lunar politics as carefully as vacuum and gravity. With rocket ships on alert, ray weapons flaring, and loyalty shifting by the hour, the mission becomes a race to expose a hidden arsenal and stop an interplanetary conflict before it ignites. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:41:46) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Hemlock Avenue Mystery by Lily A. Long audiobook. Genre: mystery In a quiet early-1900s neighborhood, a bitter public feud between two prominent attorneys suddenly turns deadly. After a heated clash in full view of witnesses, Warren Fullerton is found murdered, and suspicion falls fast on his courtroom rival, Arthur Lawrence. Percy Lyon, a young newspaper reporter assigned to cover the case, cannot shake the feeling that the obvious answer is the wrong one. Part admirer, part investigator, Percy begins chasing scraps of testimony, odd timings, and half-hidden connections that the police and the town gossips dismiss. Then he encounters a woman fleeing into the night and realizes the crime may involve more than professional jealousy. As rumors multiply, several women become entangled in the case, each linked to Fullerton and Lawrence in ways that complicate every simple theory. With few clear clues and reputations on the line, Percy must learn where his loyalty ends and the facts begin, pushing past social bias, misdirection, and his own assumptions to find the truth behind Hemlock Avenue's most unsettling secret. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:05:27) Chapter 02 (00:17:42) Chapter 03 (00:38:24) Chapter 04 (01:02:49) Chapter 05 (01:21:29) Chapter 06 (01:37:09) Chapter 07 (01:48:52) Chapter 08 (02:13:55) Chapter 09 (02:35:24) Chapter 10 (02:56:55) Chapter 11 (03:22:49) Chapter 12 (03:33:57) Chapter 13 (03:53:40) Chapter 14 (04:05:40) Chapter 15 (04:16:32) Chapter 16 (04:37:56) Chapter 17 (04:55:58) Chapter 18 (05:12:13) Chapter 19 (05:26:26) Chapter 20 (05:45:26) Chapter 21 (05:58:56) Chapter 22 (06:24:47) Chapter 23 (06:46:00) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alice’s Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll audiobook. Genre: fantasy This is the handwritten book that Carroll wrote for private use before being urged to develop it later into Alice in Wonderland. It was generously illustrated by Carrol and meant to entertain his family and friends. When a sick child in a hospital enjoyed it so much, the mother wrote him saying it had distracted her for a bit from her pain and led eventually to Carroll expanding the story. The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell, (the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church) : Lorina Charlotte Liddell (aged 13, born 1849); Alice Pleasance Liddell (aged 10, born 1852); Edith Mary Liddell (aged 8, born 1853). The journey began at Folly Bridge near Oxford and ended five miles away in the village of Godstow. During the trip the Reverend Dodgson told the girls a story that featured a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The girls loved it, and Alice Liddell asked Dodgson to write it down for her. He began writing the manuscript of the story the next day, although that earliest version no longer exists. The girls and Dodgson took another boat trip a month later when he elaborated the plot to the story of Alice, and in November he began working on the manuscript in earnest. To add the finishing touches he researched natural history for the animals presented in the book, and then had the book examined by other children—particularly the MacDonald children. He added his own illustrations but approached John Tenniel to illustrate the book for publication, telling him that the story had been well liked by children. On 26 November 1864 he gave Alice the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, with illustrations by Dodgson himself, dedicating it as 'A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer's Day'. Some, including Martin Gardner, speculate there was an earlier version that was destroyed later by Dodgson when he printed a more elaborate copy by hand. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:24:22) Chapter 2 (00:43:55) Chapter 3 (00:59:38) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Victory by Lester del Rey audiobook. Genre: scifi The earth is undefended. A ripe, juicy, rich plum just innocently waiting for one of the many new and warlike civilizations in the nearby universe to reach down and pluck to plunder and rape. Well... undefended can mean many things. In this case, humans have colonized many worlds and found many surprisingly human like races among the stars. But when these human colonies are threatened and even viciously attacked by really alien civilizations, earth does nothing to help them. Earth, fat, rich earth sits back and lets her own colonies be practically wiped out, claiming a neutrality that seems a thin veil for cowardice and deceit. How this happens and the story behind the story is what this exciting story is all about. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:48:52) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let em Breathe Space by Lester del Rey audiobook. Genre: scifi On the way to Saturn, the space freighter Wahoo is packed far beyond anything it was built to carry. Dr. Pietro's expedition has crammed nineteen people into a ship designed for a handful, and five months of recycled air, bad food, and constant proximity have turned ordinary irritations into open hostility. Narrated by Paul Tremaine, the journey quickly becomes more than a test of engineering and endurance when small mishaps start to look like sabotage. A poisoned atmosphere and failing hydroponics threaten the crew's most basic lifelines, and a sudden death makes it clear that the danger is not only mechanical. Trapped in a sealed world where every breath is accounted for, Tremaine must cut through rivalries, paranoia, and the crew's fraying nerves to figure out who is turning the mission into a nightmare. Let 'Em Breathe Space! blends classic space adventure with a tightly wound, closed-room mystery, asking how quickly civility collapses when survival depends on the people you can no longer trust. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:23:16) Chapter 02 (00:48:48) Chapter 03 (01:16:02) Chapter 04 (01:41:25) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: religion 'The inner working of my soul, which I wish to speak of here, was not the result of a methodical investigation of doctrinal theology, or of the actual texts of the gospel; it was a sudden removal of all that hid the true meaning of the Christian doctrine – a momentary flash of light, which made everything clear to me. It was something like that which might happen to a man who, after vainly attempting, by a false plan, to build up a statue out of a confused heap of small pieces of marble, suddenly guesses at the figure they are intended to form by the shape of the largest piece; and then, on beginning to set up the statue, finds his guess confirmed by the harmonious joining in of the various pieces. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:07:21) Chapter 01 (00:26:42) Chapter 02 (00:40:59) Chapter 03 (01:15:13) Chapter 04 (01:38:26) Chapter 05 (02:16:46) Chapter 06 (03:03:55) Chapter 07 (03:39:32) Chapter 08 (04:18:01) Chapter 09 (05:12:04) Chapter 10 (05:39:07) Chapter 11 (06:37:11) Chapter 12 (07:30:22) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sevastopol by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: history Sevastopol Sketches are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1855 to record his experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) in the Crimean War (1853-1856). The name originates from Sevastopol, a city in Crimea. The book has also been released under the anglicized title The Sebastopol Sketches and is sometimes titled Sevastopol Stories. These brief 'sketches' formed the basis of many of the episodes in Tolstoy's magnum opus, War and Peace. Sevastopol in December: In Sevastopol in December, Tolstoy uses second person narrative (with the pronoun 'you') in an introductory tour of life in Sevastopol. The detailed tour is arguably similar to one Tolstoy may have been given upon arrival in Sevastopol in November, 1854…. Tolstoy also uses Sevastopol in December to introduce the reader to the settings, mannerisms, and background he uses in Sevastopol in May and Sevastopol in August. For example, when referring to the enemy, either the British or the French, but only the French are featured in the Sketches; they are referred to as ' 'him', as both soldiers and sailors say'. Sevastopol in May In Sevastopol in May, Tolstoy examines the senselessness and vanity of war. The story examines many aspects of the psychology of war, heroism, and the misleading presence of humanism in truces (misleading because countries continuously go to war with one another, despite past truces). Tolstoy concludes by declaring that the only hero of his story is truth. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:40:55) Chapter 02 (00:49:40) Chapter 03 (01:07:07) Chapter 04 (01:21:14) Chapter 05 (01:29:12) Chapter 06 (01:45:11) Chapter 07 (01:58:31) Chapter 08 (02:07:01) Chapter 09 (02:21:44) Chapter 10 (02:33:17) Chapter 11 (02:44:07) Chapter 12 (02:54:22) Chapter 13 (03:08:45) Chapter 14 (03:21:59) Chapter 15 (03:33:48) Chapter 16 (03:43:39) Chapter 17 (03:53:22) Chapter 18 (04:05:34) Chapter 19 (04:18:54) Chapter 20 (04:32:17) Chapter 21 (04:42:43) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Confession by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: philosophy 'My Confession' is a brief autobiographical story of Leo Tolstoy's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis of melancholia. It describes his search for answers to the profound questions 'What will come of my life?' and 'What is the meaning of life?', without answers to which life, for him, had become 'impossible.' Tolstoy reflects on the arc of his philosophical life until then: his childhood abandonment of his Russian orthodox faith; his mastery of strength, will, power, and reason; and how, after he had achieved tremendous financial success and social status, life to him seemed meaningless. After despairing of his attempts to find answers in science, philosophy, eastern wisdom, and his fellow men of letters, he describes his turn to the wisdom of the common people and his attempts to reconcile their instinctive faith with the dictates of his reason. The main body of the text ends with the author reaching a compromise: faith, he realizes, is a necessity, but it must be constrained by reason. However, an epilogue that describes a dream he had some time after completing the body of the text suggests that he has undergone a radical personal and spiritual transformation. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:28) Chapter 02 (00:19:17) Chapter 03 (00:29:52) Chapter 04 (00:41:04) Chapter 05 (00:54:49) Chapter 06 (01:11:46) Chapter 07 (01:23:59) Chapter 08 (01:30:33) Chapter 09 (01:42:12) Chapter 10 (01:50:51) Chapter 11 (01:57:32) Chapter 12 (02:08:15) Chapter 13 (02:16:43) Chapter 14 (02:23:13) Chapter 15 (02:32:28) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: drama A land owner, Vasili Andreevich, takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to another town. He wishes to get to the town quickly 'for business'. They find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but the master in his avarice wishes to press on. They eventually get lost off the road and they try to camp. The master's peasant soon finds himself about to die from hypothermia. The master leaves him on the horse to stubbornly try to find the road. When he returns, he attains a spiritual/moral revelation, and Tolstoy once again repeats one of his famous themes: that the only true happiness in life is found by living for others. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:26) Chapter 02 (00:34:21) Chapter 03 (00:50:31) Chapter 04 (01:05:59) Chapter 05 (01:21:30) Chapter 06 (01:46:19) Chapter 07 (01:52:55) Chapter 08 (02:03:35) Chapter 09 (02:16:45) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: drama In Family Happiness, Leo Tolstoy tells the intimate coming-of-age story of Masha, a motherless young woman growing up on a quiet Russian estate under the kindly guidance of her guardian, the reserved landowner Sergei Mikhailovich. When affection deepens into a sudden, life-altering proposal, Masha enters marriage with bright, romantic expectations and the hope that love will be enough to shape a complete, lasting happiness. But as the couple moves between the calm rhythms of country life and the glittering social whirl of the city, Masha confronts new temptations, shifting desires, and the unsettling realization that devotion can be tested not only by betrayal, but by boredom, pride, and miscommunication. Tolstoy follows the subtle changes in feeling that occur when passion settles into routine, when youth longs for admiration, and when two people discover that they may not be seeking the same kind of joy. Written with psychological precision and quiet emotional force, this novella explores marriage as both refuge and challenge, asking what it truly means to build a shared life when love must grow up alongside the lovers. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:13:31) Chapter 2 (00:32:19) Chapter 3 (00:53:34) Chapter 4 (01:10:21) Chapter 5 (01:28:31) Chapter 6 (01:53:28) Chapter 7 (02:14:45) Chapter 8 (02:36:51) Chapter 9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boyhood by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: drama Leo Tolstoy's Boyhood continues the intimate, semi-autobiographical story of Nikolai Irtenyev as he leaves the relative shelter of childhood and steps into the restless, self-conscious world of early adolescence. Now moving between the routines of study, the expectations of adults, and the sharp hierarchies of aristocratic society, Nikolai begins to measure himself against friends, rivals, and the ideals he longs to embody. Small social missteps feel catastrophic, private feelings take on new intensity, and every glance or comment seems to carry hidden judgment. At home, shifting family dynamics and the presence of tutors, relatives, and visitors expose him to competing models of masculinity, honor, and faith. In school and in drawing rooms alike, he faces the central conflict of growing up: how to be sincere and good when pride, envy, and the desire to belong keep tugging him off course. With psychological precision and quiet emotional power, Tolstoy captures the awkwardness, wonder, and moral searching of boyhood as Nikolai tries to understand who he is becoming. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:33:52) Chapter 02 (00:59:44) Chapter 03 (01:26:25) Chapter 04 (01:53:54) Chapter 05 (02:22:12) Chapter 06 (02:37:29) Chapter 07 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Childhood by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: drama In Childhood, Leo Tolstoy introduces Nikolai Irtenyev, a sensitive Russian boy growing up on a country estate where love, pride, and fear mingle in the ordinary rhythms of family life. Surrounded by affectionate sisters, stern adults, and the quietly powerful presence of his mother, Nikolai begins to notice how quickly feelings shift: a warm moment can turn to shame, jealousy, or sudden loneliness. As tutors and servants shape his days, he watches the complex hierarchies of household and class, learning that kindness can carry hidden cruelty and that admiration can be tangled with resentment. When Nikolai is drawn into new social settings beyond the estate, he struggles to understand who he is and who he wants to become, measuring himself against friends and rivals while longing for moral clarity. Told with intimate honesty and sharp psychological detail, Tolstoy captures the fragile intensity of early memory, the formation of conscience, and the first painful steps toward adulthood. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:33) Chapter 02 (00:17:59) Chapter 03 (00:26:44) Chapter 04 (00:33:47) Chapter 05 (00:42:50) Chapter 06 (00:48:06) Chapter 07 (00:58:00) Chapter 08 (01:02:26) Chapter 09 (01:05:20) Chapter 10 (01:10:33) Chapter 11 (01:18:22) Chapter 12 (01:24:47) Chapter 13 (01:32:51) Chapter 14 (01:43:10) Chapter 15 (01:49:34) Chapter 16 (02:01:30) Chapter 17 (02:09:09) Chapter 18 (02:17:52) Chapter 19 (02:32:11) Chapter 20 (02:41:04) Chapter 21 (02:49:17) Chapter 22 (02:54:29) Chapter 23 (03:01:52) Chapter 24 (03:05:46) Chapter 25 (03:17:53) Chapter 26 (03:24:17) Chapter 27 (03:35:09) Chapter 28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bethink Yourselves by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: religion As Russia goes to war against Japan, Tolstoy urges those at all levels of society, from the Tsar down to the common soldier, to consider their actions in the light of Christ's teaching. 'However strange this may appear, the most effective and certain deliverance of men from all the calamities which they inflict upon themselves and from the most dreadful of all—war—is attainable, not by any external general measures, but merely by that simple appeal to the consciousness of each separate man which, nineteen hundred years ago, was proposed by Jesus—that every man bethink himself, and ask himself, who is he, why he lives, and what he should and should not do.' For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:06:32) Chapter 02 (00:14:03) Chapter 03 (00:20:24) Chapter 04 (00:26:29) Chapter 05 (00:33:06) Chapter 06 (00:40:39) Chapter 07 (00:45:32) Chapter 08 (00:52:03) Chapter 09 (00:59:31) Chapter 10 (01:06:30) Chapter 11 (01:17:49) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Confession by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: philosophy Leo Tolstoy's 'A Confession,' written in 1882 shortly after a life-altering spiritual crisis, is a brutally sincere reflection on life, morality, and the nature of faith. Tolstoy describes in great detail the process by which he lost his faith in established Christian churches, the meaninglessness of wealth and fame, the agony of acute depression, and how he overcame misery and dread through personal study of the teachings of Jesus Christ. Along the way, he contrasts the artificial faith and arrogance of educated people with the genuine faith and humility of the Russian peasant. This work, and others of its ilk, were aggressively censored by the Tsarist regime and directly led to Tolstoy being excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:06:58) Chapter 02 (00:14:31) Chapter 03 (00:23:24) Chapter 04 (00:32:58) Chapter 05 (00:45:02) Chapter 06 (00:58:42) Chapter 07 (01:07:57) Chapter 08 (01:12:56) Chapter 09 (01:22:12) Chapter 10 (01:28:44) Chapter 11 (01:33:59) Chapter 12 (01:42:21) Chapter 13 (01:48:41) Chapter 14 (01:53:32) Chapter 15 (02:00:54) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thralls of the Endless Night by Leigh Douglass Brackett audiobook. Genre: scifi This is a classic story from the early days of science fiction pulp magazines. Leigh Brackett, a female author who stood with the best of them during the period, always has a quirky way of examining human behavior whether on earth or a distant planet. A 'tribe' composed of Hans, Officers and a Captain have been marooned on a strange place, out of touch with other humans for many generations. They have to eke out a living with great difficulties in a difficult and hostile environment. Does this sound sort of familiar? There are also really neat 'Piruts' in the story who always try to get the supposed benefit of living close to the Ship. I liked it and the ending is cool too. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:23:44) Chapter 02 (00:45:42) Chapter 03 (01:10:59) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Jewel of Bas by Leigh Douglass Brackett audiobook. Genre: scifi On a harsh, half-forgotten world where legends walk as close as hunger, Ciaran the wandering minstrel and Mouse his sharp-eyed, sharp-fingered wife live by wit, song, and whatever can be stolen back from those who hoard. One evening on the edge of the Forbidden Plains, a campfire tale turns real: the Kalds, savage servants of the sleeping boy-god Bas, drag the pair toward Ben Beatha, the Mountain of Life, where Bas lies dreaming beside the Jewel of Bas, a relic said to hold a destiny for all mankind. Inside the mountain, Ciaran and Mouse find not holy mystery but a ruthless system of chains and labor, ruled by cold intelligences that wear the shape of men. As captives vanish and a vast machine rises in the depths, the couple must gamble everything on escape, on unlikely allies, and on the dangerous question at the heart of every myth: what happens when the god you fear is real, and might not care if mortals live or die? Blending romance, grit, and uncanny science, Brackett spins a swift planetary adventure about love, survival, and the price of immortality. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:20:35) Chapter 02 (00:42:43) Chapter 03 (01:03:10) Chapter 04 (01:23:16) Chapter 05 (01:50:35) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dragon Queen of Jupiter by Leigh Douglass Brackett audiobook. Genre: scifi On the steaming, storm-shrouded fringes of Jupiter, Fort Washington is little more than a rusting island of Earth Empire metal in a sea of poisonous swamp. Corporal Tex and his ragged detachment of Space Foreign Legionnaires are supposed to be the spearhead of expansion, holding the line until a relief column arrives and the planet can be opened for settlement and farmland for overcrowded Earth and Mars. Instead, they are trapped in a slow, merciless siege. The Jovian swamp-dwellers strike from the darkness with grotesque living weapons: venomous green snakes, hideous red beetles, and a creeping parasite that makes even water a danger. As supplies dwindle and nerves fray, Tex leans on the hard-won instincts of his fellow soldiers, including Breska, a tough Martian comrade who knows what it means to be far from home and surrounded. Over it all looms the force behind the attacks, the Dragon-Queen herself, a winged, almost hypnotic commander with white legions at her call. To survive, Tex must face not only an alien enemy, but the brutal costs of conquest and the thin, shifting line between fear and fascination. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:07) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Terror Out of Space by Leigh Douglass Brackett audiobook. Genre: scifi On a rain-choked, half-mapped Venus, something has come down from the emptiness between worlds and left a trail of madness behind it. Men abandon duty, turn violent, or walk willingly into death, all chasing the same impossible vision. Tri-World Police pilot Lundy and his partner, Smith, manage to capture the source - a small, baffling object the reports call only 'IT' - and begin the dangerous run back to the scientists who might explain it. But the nearer Lundy gets to safety, the more the prisoner seems to reach into human minds, twisting desire into obedience and turning comrades into threats. When disaster hurls Lundy into the black Venusian sea, survival becomes a lonely march across an alien ocean floor of drowned roads, ruined cities, and hungry life-forms that should not exist. Pursued by obsession and surrounded by telepathic whispers, Lundy must pit his will against a presence that has no face, no name, and no mercy - and learn whether any human can fight a terror that wins simply by being seen. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:20) Chapter 02 (00:37:33) Chapter 03 (00:55:05) Chapter 04 (01:10:23) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Enchantress Of Venus by Leigh Douglass Brackett audiobook. Genre: scifi On the steaming, mist-shrouded world of Venus, hard-bitten adventurer Eric John Stark follows a single lead into the Inner Sea: the trail of his missing friend, Helvi. His search brings him to Shuruun, a remote port town perched above a blood-red, breathable ocean of swirling gas, where superstition clings to the streets and strangers vanish behind locked doors. Betrayed on arrival by the freighter captain Malthor and marked as an outsider the moment he staggers ashore, Stark is swept into a brutal economy of chains and silence. Beneath Shuruun rule the Lhari, pale, decadent masters who call themselves the Cloud People and work their captives in the depths of the Red Sea, digging at the ruins of an ancient temple for a power they barely understand. With the help of Zareth, Malthor's fearful daughter, and the dangerous, enigmatic Varra of the Lhari, Stark must navigate shifting loyalties, forgotten gods, and the thin line between rescue and revolution. As the Lost Ones whisper in the fog and the rulers' obsession turns darker, Stark faces a choice: survive as a lone wolf, or gamble everything on freeing the enslaved and stopping whatever stirs below the crimson tides. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:25:25) Chapter 02 (00:51:55) Chapter 03 (01:19:53) Chapter 04 (01:50:34) Chapter 05 (02:28:58) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shannach - The Last by Leigh Douglass Brackett audiobook. Genre: scifi On the Twilight Belt of Mercury, hard-bitten prospector Trevor has one obsession: sun-stones, the rare crystals that can buy a lifetime of freedom. When an earthquake buries his ship and leaves him to die in suffocating darkness, he gambles on the planet's ancient tunnels - and is swept into a hidden valley where water runs clean, crops grow green, and a stone city rises from the mist. But this pocket of paradise is ruled by terror. Winged lizard-things circle like trained hawks, hunters ride out at a booming signal, and men with sun-stones set into their foreheads serve a brutal order. Trevor's first act of mercy - stepping between a hunted girl and her pursuers - marks him as an enemy, a prize, and possibly a tool. As he learns what the sun-stones can do, and who (or what) listens through them, Trevor is pulled into a conflict that is bigger than profit and more dangerous than any cave-in: the struggle to break a silent, ancient tyranny without becoming its next mask. In Leigh Brackett's shadowy planetary romance, survival is only the beginning - the real fight is for the right to think and choose. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:30:18) Chapter 02 (00:58:14) Chapter 03 (01:24:36) Chapter 04 (01:59:29) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Brackett audiobook. Genre: scifi Carrying out the last wishes of a comrade, mercenary Eric John Stark takes on the task of returning a stolen talisman to a walled city near the Martian pole; a city that guards the mysterious Gates of Death. Now all he has to do is get past the brutal clans of Mekh and the shadowy Lord Ciaran to get to Kushat where they’ll probably attempt to kill him. All while he tries to hold on to a talisman that imprints ancient memories of the Gates in his mind. That’s not easy for a human raised by Mercurian aborigines. - Black Amazon of Mars is the third story to feature Brackett’s hero Eric John Stark, and was later expanded into the novel People of the Talisman. It was first published in Planet Stories magazine in March of 1951. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:16:48) Chapter 2 (00:34:31) Chapter 3 (00:51:05) Chapter 4 (01:12:49) Chapter 5 (01:29:44) Chapter 6 (01:51:17) Chapter 7 (02:09:40) Chapter 8 (02:34:50) Chapter 9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Venus Boy by Lee Sutton audiobook. Genre: romance If you ever make a trip to the green planet of Venus, the first thing you'll see will be the fifty-foot high statue of Venus' greatest hero. It stands on the very top of towering New Plymouth Rock at the edge of the old colony of New Plymouth. Even from the rocket cradle, anyone can tell that the statue is of a twelve-year-old boy smiling up at the Venusian jewel bear perched on his shoulder. Cut into the huge rock below the statue are the words, 'Virgil Dare (Johnny) Watson And the Marva, Baba. May their Friendship Endure!' Virgil Dare Watson, called Johnny by his friends, was the first human being born on Venus. He was named after Virginia Dare, the first pioneer child born in North America, and for a long time he was the only child on all Venus. And that would have been a lonely thing to be if it had not been for Baba. Baba, the bear, was not only Johnny's pet, but his best friend, too, and the only one who knew about his three secrets. Because of these secrets, Johnny got himself, his jewel bear, Baba, and the whole colony of New Plymouth into desperate trouble. And because of these secrets, he also became a hero worthy of a statue—Venus' greatest hero. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:03) Chapter 02 (00:26:52) Chapter 03 (00:38:13) Chapter 04 (00:51:58) Chapter 05 (01:09:53) Chapter 06 (01:21:13) Chapter 07 (01:37:42) Chapter 08 (01:44:18) Chapter 09 (01:59:22) Chapter 10 (02:23:44) Chapter 11 (02:37:39) Chapter 12 (02:50:29) Chapter 13 (03:08:58) Chapter 14 (03:24:55) Chapter 15 (03:46:39) Chapter 16 (04:11:18) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bobby in Search of a Birthday by Lebbeus Mitchell audiobook. Genre: family Bobby North is five years old, an orphan with a big question in his heart. After seeing another child celebrated with cake, gifts, and attention, Bobby realizes there is something he has never had: a birthday. But if you have grown up without one, where do birthdays come from, and how do you find yours? Taking the idea very literally, Bobby sets out on a strange, earnest quest to search for his lost birthdays, stepping carefully along roads and through new places as if the answer might be lying on the ground, waiting to be discovered. His adventure carries him from the routines of the Home into the countryside, where a lively puppy becomes his first real companion and where he meets two unforgettable grown-ups: a warmhearted man with a pocketful of quarters and a gentle woman who seems to understand exactly what a lonely child needs. As Bobby tries to make sense of the rules of families, celebrations, and belonging, his simple search becomes something larger - a test of trust, kindness, and whether a child can claim joy that feels meant for someone else. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:05:38) Chapter 02 (00:16:40) Chapter 03 (00:27:24) Chapter 04 (00:38:59) Chapter 05 (00:46:33) Chapter 06 (00:55:12) Chapter 07 (01:04:21) Chapter 08 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Golden Goose Book by L. Leslie Brooke audiobook. Genre: folklore The Golden Goose Book by L. Leslie Brooke is a classic collection of four fairy tales, retold with a storyteller's bounce and a sharp eye for comic trouble. In The Golden Goose, a much-mocked youngest son sets out with almost nothing, but a small act of kindness opens the door to strange luck and a feather-bright prize that causes chaos everywhere he goes. The Story of the Three Bears follows a curious little girl who wanders into a quiet cottage in the woods and cannot resist testing what does not belong to her, until the owners come home. In The Story of the Three Little Pigs, three siblings build three very different homes, and a hungry wolf turns their choices into a fast, breathless contest of wits and willpower. And in Tom Thumb, a boy no bigger than a thumb faces a world built for giants, relying on quick thinking to survive one scrape after another. Warm, mischievous, and moral without being preachy, this book celebrates kindness, cleverness, and the consequences of impulse. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:12:08) Chapter 2 (00:20:33) Chapter 3 (00:27:44) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy In this really exciting and well written story of Oz, the Shaggy Man is on a quest to find his long lost brother. But all does not go smoothly. Oh no. Because his brother is being held prisoner deep underground by the evil, grumpy and not very nice King of the Gnomes, Along the way to find him, he is joined by Polychrome, a Daughter of the Rainbow (a fairy), Betsy Bobbin (a human girl), Hank (a small mule and Betsy's faithful protector), Tik-Tok (the famous wind up mechanical man), the Rose Princess (an ex fairy who is now a mortal), Ann (the Queen of the Oogaboos on her way to conquer the world), her army (17 officers and one private, File), a tunnel through the earth, the famous and all powerful Jin-Jin and last but definitely not least, Quox (a young dragon who talks funny and was great fun to read). The scrapes and adventures this motley crew get into are enough to fill a book. And this is the book. Listen and enjoy!! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:03:19) Chapter 2 (00:19:14) Chapter 3 (00:22:57) Chapter 4 (00:40:43) Chapter 5 (00:45:10) Chapter 6 (00:52:32) Chapter 7 (01:12:42) Chapter 8 (01:33:02) Chapter 9 (01:51:37) Chapter 10 (02:11:56) Chapter 11 (02:28:57) Chapter 12 (02:40:25) Chapter 13 (02:50:49) Chapter 14 (03:11:02) Chapter 15 (03:24:03) Chapter 16 (03:35:06) Chapter 17 (03:47:54) Chapter 18 (04:07:12) Chapter 19 (04:20:55) Chapter 20 (04:33:28) Chapter 21 (04:44:27) Chapter 22 (05:00:46) Chapter 23 (05:17:24) Chapter 24 (05:24:00) Chapter 25 (05:40:05) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter. The Tin Woodman, whose real name is Nick Chopper, seeks to find the Munchkin Girl he had courted before he became a tin man. Sadly, she has a new love and no longer cares for him. As he attempts to regain her affection, Nick discovers a fellow tin man, Captain Fyter, as well as a Frankenstein monster-like creature, Chopfyt, made from their combined parts by the tinsmith, Ku-Klip. Many exciting adventures happen to everyone involved and the Land of Oz contributes much magic and happiness to the outcome. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:33) Chapter 02 (00:25:38) Chapter 03 (00:37:21) Chapter 04 (00:57:58) Chapter 05 (01:15:59) Chapter 06 (01:37:22) Chapter 07 (01:45:38) Chapter 08 (02:03:25) Chapter 09 (02:14:49) Chapter 10 (02:29:15) Chapter 11 (02:41:59) Chapter 12 (02:53:46) Chapter 13 (03:09:29) Chapter 14 (03:15:52) Chapter 15 (03:29:13) Chapter 16 (03:37:31) Chapter 17 (03:44:18) Chapter 18 (04:05:13) Chapter 19 (04:31:40) Chapter 20 (04:40:59) Chapter 21 (04:53:32) Chapter 22 (05:04:33) Chapter 23 (05:10:53) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy 'I dare say, there are several questions you would like to ask at the very beginning of this history. First: Who is the Monarch of Mo? And why is he called the Magical Monarch? And where is Mo, anyhow? And why have you never heard of it before? And can it be reached by a railroad or a trolley-car, or must one walk all the way? These questions I realize should be answered before we (that 'we' means you and the book) can settle down for a comfortable reading of all the wonders and astonishing adventures I shall endeavor faithfully to relate. In the first place, the Monarch of Mo is a very pleasant personage holding the rank of King. He is not very tall, nor is he very short; he is midway between fat and lean; he is delightfully jolly when he is not sad, and seldom sad if he can possibly be jolly. How old he may be I have never dared to inquire; but when we realize that he is destined to live as long as the Valley of Mo exists we may reasonably suppose the Monarch of Mo is exactly as old as his native land. And no one in Mo has ever reckoned up the years to see how many they have been. So we will just say that the Monarch of Mo and the Valley of Mo are each a part of the other, and can not be separated.' And so starts this fun series of 'surprises' as Baum calls the chapters, each a delightful present to unwrap carefully and enjoy fully. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:06:14) Chapter 02 (00:22:00) Chapter 03 (00:32:29) Chapter 04 (00:43:14) Chapter 05 (00:58:05) Chapter 06 (01:07:06) Chapter 07 (01:35:27) Chapter 08 (01:47:39) Chapter 09 (02:07:37) Chapter 10 (02:21:05) Chapter 11 (02:47:32) Chapter 12 (03:05:27) Chapter 13 (03:27:18) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Story of the Magic Cloak by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy In Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak, L. Frank Baum opens in the enchanted Forest of Burzee, where Queen Lulea and her band of fairies grow restless with endless moonlit dancing and decide to create a new amusement: a magic cloak. Woven with delicate spells, the cloak can grant its wearer a single wish, but only if it is received honestly and not taken by theft. Sent to find a worthy mortal, the fairy messenger crosses paths with Margaret, nicknamed Fluff, a newly fatherless girl trudging toward the city of Nole under the sharp rule of her Aunt Rivette, alongside her brother, Bud. In a twist of fortune, Bud is suddenly raised to the throne of Noland, and Fluff finds herself at the heart of courtly schemes, anxious duties, and unexpected wonders. As the cloak passes from hand to hand, each wish reveals something about courage, greed, and the true cost of getting exactly what you want. And when Queen Zixi of neighboring Ix sets her sights on the cloak, the fates of two kingdoms hinge on a single, perilous desire. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:24) Chapter 02 (00:24:42) Chapter 03 (00:36:13) Chapter 04 (00:45:02) Chapter 05 (00:56:42) Chapter 06 (01:09:05) Chapter 07 (01:17:53) Chapter 08 (01:29:57) Chapter 09 (01:40:13) Chapter 10 (01:56:45) Chapter 11 (02:07:21) Chapter 12 (02:16:17) Chapter 13 (02:29:55) Chapter 14 (02:35:19) Chapter 15 (02:50:44) Chapter 16 (02:57:28) Chapter 17 (03:05:32) Chapter 18 (03:17:35) Chapter 19 (03:26:41) Chapter 20 (03:35:43) Chapter 21 (03:53:48) Chapter 22 (04:02:10) Chapter 23 (04:10:11) Chapter 24 (04:19:27) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy In this whimsical installment of the Oz series, L. Frank Baum sends listeners back to a land where enchantment and mischief hide around every bend. When Trot, a spirited girl with a fearless streak, and her clever sailor friend Cap'n Bill find themselves swept into a strange adventure, they arrive in Oz at a troubling moment. A mysterious menace threatens travelers and puts an entire kingdom on edge, and the usual rules of the road do not apply when magic is involved. Along the way, Trot and Cap'n Bill meet unforgettable companions, including a kind-hearted but unusual Scarecrow who is determined to help set things right. Their journey leads them through curious countries, odd creatures, and dazzling landscapes, where courage and kindness matter as much as cleverness. As the danger grows and the stakes become clearer, the friends must rely on loyalty, quick thinking, and the hope that Oz still has room for justice and wonder. Full of playful humor, inventive magic, and warmhearted friendship, this tale explores what it means to stand up for others even when the path forward is unpredictable. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:11:14) Chapter 02 (00:24:47) Chapter 03 (00:49:15) Chapter 04 (01:00:13) Chapter 05 (01:26:18) Chapter 06 (01:34:59) Chapter 07 (01:47:26) Chapter 08 (02:08:08) Chapter 09 (02:22:52) Chapter 10 (02:31:42) Chapter 11 (02:46:22) Chapter 12 (03:04:20) Chapter 13 (03:15:11) Chapter 14 (03:34:36) Chapter 15 (03:45:03) Chapter 16 (03:54:02) Chapter 17 (04:02:02) Chapter 18 (04:12:51) Chapter 19 (04:24:50) Chapter 20 (04:41:41) Chapter 21 (04:51:24) Chapter 22 (05:01:21) Chapter 23 (05:07:07) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy Yes, this is another wonderful OZ book with all the old familiar characters and some new delightful ones. The Patchwork Girl, a free spirit if ever there was one, is brought to life in this story and then sets out into the wonderful world of OZ to help her friend Ojo find the ingredients for a magic potion to save his Uncle. The five things they need are strange and the places and people they meet along their journey are sometimes dangerous and sometimes funny but the Patchwork Girl always finds humor and fun in all of them. They are accompanied by the Glass Cat who is stuck up and arrogant because of her good looks and 'pink brains'. Another fun book well written by Baum and worth listening to by fans of OZ from 7 to 107. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:03:57) Chapter 01 (00:09:47) Chapter 02 (00:25:26) Chapter 03 (00:40:02) Chapter 04 (00:50:41) Chapter 05 (01:08:57) Chapter 06 (01:29:57) Chapter 07 (01:42:02) Chapter 08 (01:50:12) Chapter 09 (02:11:27) Chapter 10 (02:25:10) Chapter 11 (02:49:39) Chapter 12 (03:05:36) Chapter 13 (03:28:52) Chapter 14 (03:43:16) Chapter 15 (03:58:13) Chapter 16 (04:12:39) Chapter 17 (04:22:02) Chapter 18 (04:38:14) Chapter 19 (04:57:13) Chapter 20 (05:10:32) Chapter 21 (05:22:40) Chapter 22 (05:37:19) Chapter 23 (05:51:45) Chapter 24 (05:55:47) Chapter 25 (06:07:11) Chapter 26 (06:21:15) Chapter 27 (06:35:18) Chapter 28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy In The Marvelous Land of Oz, L. Frank Baum returns to the glittering world beyond the desert with a fresh hero and a new kind of trouble. A boy named Tip lives under the strict eye of the mysterious old woman Mombi, dreaming of escape and a life where he can choose his own path. When Tip's homemade pumpkin-headed figure, Jack Pumpkinhead, unexpectedly becomes a companion on the run, the pair set off across a country where enchantments are everyday tools and dangers can be as silly as they are serious. Along the way they meet an odd collection of allies, including a loyal wooden Sawhorse, and stumble into the growing unrest aimed at the Emerald City. As rumors of rebellion spread and the throne is threatened, Tip and his friends must navigate shifting loyalties, hidden magic, and the question of what makes someone fit to rule. Filled with playful wit, inventive creatures, and a steady undercurrent of courage and kindness, this sequel explores identity, friendship, and the responsibilities that come with power. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:44) Chapter 02 (00:23:16) Chapter 03 (00:33:08) Chapter 04 (00:40:04) Chapter 05 (00:51:44) Chapter 06 (01:06:00) Chapter 07 (01:17:34) Chapter 08 (01:30:02) Chapter 09 (01:41:43) Chapter 10 (01:52:42) Chapter 11 (02:06:47) Chapter 12 (02:21:28) Chapter 13 (02:36:28) Chapter 14 (02:48:33) Chapter 15 (03:00:53) Chapter 16 (03:11:50) Chapter 17 (03:22:25) Chapter 18 (03:43:46) Chapter 19 (03:58:19) Chapter 20 (04:16:56) Chapter 21 (04:28:28) Chapter 22 (04:36:44) Chapter 23 (04:50:56) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy This is the second to last book in the OZ series that Baum actually wrote himself before he passed away. 'A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap'n Bill, in their successful search for a Magical and Beautiful Birthday Present for Princess Ozma of Oz.' - Summary by Baum. Almost all the marvelous creatures of OZ are involved in this far reaching adventure story with tons of danger, evil magic, dastardly plots and heroic last minute acts of bravery to finally save the day. The Lonesome Duck makes her first and last appearance in this book which, by itself, makes it a 'must listen to' in my opinion. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:42) Chapter 02 (00:19:19) Chapter 03 (00:35:39) Chapter 04 (00:40:10) Chapter 05 (00:53:05) Chapter 06 (01:09:48) Chapter 07 (01:17:45) Chapter 08 (01:31:12) Chapter 09 (01:44:41) Chapter 10 (01:55:26) Chapter 11 (02:05:27) Chapter 12 (02:18:29) Chapter 13 (02:34:28) Chapter 14 (02:49:29) Chapter 15 (03:05:39) Chapter 16 (03:20:10) Chapter 17 (03:33:25) Chapter 18 (03:40:58) Chapter 19 (03:50:30) Chapter 20 (04:01:23) Chapter 21 (04:07:21) Chapter 22 (04:23:03) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy Rinkitink in Oz is the tenth book in the Oz series written by L. Frank Baum, first published in 1916. It was originally written in 1905 as a stand alone fantasy work and subsequently rewritten as an Oz book. Therefore, most of the action takes place outside of Oz in neighboring fairy countries. It tells the story of Prince Inga's quest to rescue his parents from captivity after his island home is ravaged by enemies. With the help of three magical pearls and the more dubious assistance of the excessively jolly King Rinkitink and his surly goat, Bilbil, his travels lead him to the underground caverns of the Nome King where he is united with some people from Oz who help him to free his parents and restore his island kingdom. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:18) Chapter 02 (00:33:15) Chapter 03 (00:46:07) Chapter 04 (01:03:41) Chapter 05 (01:30:31) Chapter 06 (01:52:19) Chapter 07 (02:12:34) Chapter 08 (02:30:50) Chapter 09 (02:43:57) Chapter 10 (02:59:52) Chapter 11 (03:07:02) Chapter 12 (03:12:30) Chapter 13 (03:27:22) Chapter 14 (03:47:21) Chapter 15 (03:52:35) Chapter 16 (04:02:38) Chapter 17 (04:16:38) Chapter 18 (04:50:41) Chapter 19 (05:03:22) Chapter 20 (05:09:23) Chapter 21 (05:20:24) Chapter 22 (05:30:18) Chapter 23 (05:37:20) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy Ozma of Oz was the third title in the Oz series by L. Frank Baum. In this book Dorothy is shipwrecked and lands on the shores of a fairy country that adjoins Oz, the land of Ev. There she meets Tiktok, a wind up mechanical man, a talking chicken, Billina, and Ozma, the girl ruler of Oz who is leading a quest to rescue the royal family of Ev from their captivity by the Nome King. Dorothy is also reunited with her old friends, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. Together the adventurers travel to the Nome King's underground kingdom and have many exciting adventures before returning to Oz, and for Dorothy, eventual return to her family in the 'civilized' world. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:10:51) Chapter 02 (00:23:47) Chapter 03 (00:35:21) Chapter 04 (00:49:13) Chapter 05 (01:02:18) Chapter 06 (01:27:03) Chapter 07 (01:41:57) Chapter 08 (01:52:17) Chapter 09 (02:05:47) Chapter 10 (02:20:06) Chapter 11 (02:39:26) Chapter 12 (02:46:30) Chapter 13 (02:55:41) Chapter 14 (03:08:39) Chapter 15 (03:17:34) Chapter 16 (03:28:02) Chapter 17 (03:38:44) Chapter 18 (03:49:07) Chapter 19 (03:56:23) Chapter 20 (04:05:05) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary Louise in the Country by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: family The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym, then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote the first four books in the series, possibly with help from his son, Harry Neal Baum, on the third. The books are concerned with adolescent girl detectives— a concept Baum had experimented with earlier, in The Daring Twins (1911) and Phoebe Daring (1912). The Bluebird series began with Mary Louise, originally written as a tribute to Baum's favorite sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster. Baum's publisher, Reilly & Britton, rejected that manuscript, apparently judging the heroine too independent. Baum wrote a new version of the book; the original manuscript is lost. The title character is Mary Louise Burrows.In this volume, Mary Louise and Gran'pa Jim take a house for the summer in a quiet place called Cragg's Crossing. There, they meet with any number of peculiar people - and one very peculiar mystery!! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:02) Chapter 02 (00:20:25) Chapter 03 (00:32:45) Chapter 04 (00:43:54) Chapter 05 (00:49:34) Chapter 06 (01:04:25) Chapter 07 (01:16:35) Chapter 08 (01:31:16) Chapter 09 (01:40:43) Chapter 10 (01:51:08) Chapter 11 (01:58:35) Chapter 12 (02:07:46) Chapter 13 (02:16:46) Chapter 14 (02:28:12) Chapter 15 (02:36:25) Chapter 16 (02:42:24) Chapter 17 (02:55:12) Chapter 18 (03:06:19) Chapter 19 (03:16:20) Chapter 20 (03:29:02) Chapter 21 (03:36:50) Chapter 22 (03:46:39) Chapter 23 (04:00:02) Chapter 24 (04:07:35) Chapter 25 (04:17:22) Chapter 26 (04:22:49) Chapter 27 (04:29:53) Chapter 28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Little Wizard Stories of Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy The 'Little Wizard Stories of Oz' are six short stories written by L. Frank Baum in 1913. By all accounts, Baum intended to finish the Oz series with 'The Emerald City of Oz,' published in 1910. Following that, he attempted to write non-Oz books, publishing 'The Sea Fairies' in 1911 and 'Sky Island' in 1912. But, (as Baum himself laments in the prefaces of many of his Oz books,) his 'little tyrants' were only interested in hearing more Oz stories. So in 1913, he returned to writing about Oz, putting out both The 'Little Wizard Stories' and 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' that year. The Little Wizard Stories were geared toward younger children and were originally published separately, 'similar in style to today's Little Golden Books.' The next year, they were published together as one volume. Each Little Wizard Story revolves around the adventures of two famous Oz characters, and their humorous adventures in and around the land of Oz. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:04) Chapter 02 (00:24:09) Chapter 03 (00:36:05) Chapter 04 (00:47:50) Chapter 05 (00:59:16) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sermon On The Mount (King James Version) audiobook. Genre: religion The Sermon On The Mount is one of the teachings in the ministry of Jesus Christ. In The Sermon On The Mount is found many sayings and important precepts held by Christian churches, sayings such as The Beatitudes, The Lord's Prayer, and other teachings about forgiveness, giving, and the 'Golden Rule' about doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. Men such as Tolstoy and Gandhi found special meaning in The Sermon On The Mount, and Christians have read and listened to this important portion of scripture for centuries. The Bible version used for this reading is the King James Version. This traditional Bible has been praised for its poetic beauty, and imagery For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It Could Be Anything by Keith Laumer audiobook. Genre: scifi A science fiction story by the great Keith Laumer - what more needs to be said? - But I will say more nevertheless. A young man sets out from his rural town to see the world for himself. What is really over the next hill? What does a big city look like? Is there really an ocean? After all, we only have the testimony of others that tell us about these things. Full confidence and belief in himself, he boards the local train, falls asleep and then ..... finds himself alone, the three cars abandoned .... the engine is gone and the tracks; well, the tracks just end in the middle of a grain field. What is going on? What kind of reality is this? Or is what we 'know' just illusions and in fact, It Could Be Anything!!! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:25:14) Chapter 02 (00:52:21) Chapter 03 (01:16:52) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gambler’s World & The Yillian Way by Keith Laumer audiobook. Genre: scifi In Gamblers World & The Yillian Way, Keith Laumer drops you into the sly, hard-hitting universe of Jame Retief, a working diplomat for Terra's sprawling Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne who has little patience for ceremony when lives are on the line. In Gambler's World, Retief arrives on Petreac alongside puffed-up superiors and fragile treaty obligations, only to find a society where status, power, and even politics are settled like wagers. As unrest builds and rival factions circle, Retief must read the room faster than any professional cardsharp, spotting who is bluffing, who is cornered, and who is ready to turn a diplomatic reception into a massacre. In The Yillian Way, a mission to the Yills becomes a minefield of protocol: every greeting, gift, and meal is a test, and every mistake could be fatal. While the official delegation clings to rules and titles, Retief relies on nerve, humor, and a keen understanding of how insults function in alien culture. Part political farce, part adventure, these two tales skewer bureaucracy while celebrating competence under pressure. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:18:29) Chapter 2 (00:31:49) Chapter 3 (00:55:06) Chapter 4 (01:15:25) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices