Classic Audiobook Collection

Peace by Aristophanes audiobook. Genre: comedy The 'Peace' was brought out four years after 'The Acharnians' (422 B.C.), when the War had already lasted ten years. The leading motive is the same as in the former play—the intense desire of the less excitable and more moderate-minded citizens for relief from the miseries of war. Trygaeus, a rustic patriot, finding no help in men, resolves to ascend to heaven to expostulate personally with Zeus for allowing this wretched state of things to continue. With this object he has fed and trained a gigantic dung-beetle, which he mounts, and is carried, like Bellerophon on Pegasus, on an aerial journey. Eventually he reaches Olympus, only to find that the gods have gone elsewhere, and that the heavenly abode is occupied solely by the demon of War, who is busy pounding up the Greek States in a huge mortar. However, his benevolent purpose is not in vain; for learning from Hermes that the goddess Peace has been cast into a pit, where she is kept a fast prisoner, he calls upon the different peoples of Hellas to make a united effort and rescue her, and with their help drags her out and brings her back in triumph to earth. The play concludes with the restoration of the goddess to her ancient honours, the festivities of the rustic population and the nuptials of Trygaeus with Opora (Harvest), handmaiden of Peace, represented as a pretty courtesan. Such references as there are to Cleon in this play are noteworthy. The great Demagogue was now dead, having fallen in the same action as the rival Spartan general, the renowned Brasidas, before Amphipolis, and whatever Aristophanes says here of his old enemy is conceived in the spirit of 'de mortuis nil nisi bonum.' In one scene Hermes is descanting on the evils which had nearly ruined Athens and declares that 'The Tanner' was the cause of them all. But Trygaeus interrupts him with the words: 'Hold-say not so, good master Hermes; Let the man rest in peace where now he lies. He is no longer of our world, but yours.' Here surely we have a trait of magnanimity on the author's part as admirable in its way as the wit and boldness of his former attacks had been in theirs. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:00) Chapter 02 (00:41:11) Chapter 03 (01:03:06) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lysistrata by Aristophanes audiobook. Genre: comedy In war-weary Athens, the sharp-witted Lysistrata is done waiting for the men to come to their senses. With the Peloponnesian War grinding on and families strained by endless campaigning, she proposes an audacious plan: unite the women of Greece - even longtime rivals from Sparta - and use the one leverage the men cannot ignore to force peace talks. As reluctant friends like Calonice are drawn into the scheme, and formidable allies like the Spartan Lampito arrive, the women seize control of the city's treasury and set strict terms for ending the conflict. Their uprising sparks chaos in the streets, scandal in the council chamber, and a battle of wills inside the home, where desire, pride, and patriotism collide. Aristophanes' classic comedy mixes bold farce with biting political satire, lampooning leaders and citizens alike while asking serious questions about power, civic duty, and the human cost of war. Funny, provocative, and unexpectedly tender, Lysistrata turns domestic life into a stage for public change - and dares its characters to imagine a different kind of victory. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:20:48) Chapter 02 (00:56:55) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: comedy This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barchester Towers' is very much a sequel to the first book ‘The Warden’, which is also available from Librivox. The old bishop dies, the archdeacon, Dr. Grantly fails to succeed him and a new bishop, Dr. Proudie is appointed. Dr. Grantly gains a worthy foe, not the new bishop but his wife, Mrs. Proudie, strict Sabbatarian and power behind the Episcopal throne together with the bishop’s chaplain, Mr. Slope. John Bold is also dead and Eleanor, now a wealthy young widow sets clerical hearts fluttering. The new bishop must deal with the wardenship of Hiram’s Hospital. Will it go to Mr. Harding? All is to play for. Then the old Dean dies and the stakes are raised. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:20:28) Chapter 2 (00:40:58) Chapter 3 (00:57:28) Chapter 4 (01:17:26) Chapter 5 (01:39:14) Chapter 6 (02:07:47) Chapter 7 (02:24:12) Chapter 8 (02:40:41) Chapter 9 (03:14:18) Chapter 10 (03:36:57) Chapter 11 (04:12:32) Chapter 12 (04:30:41) Chapter 13 (04:54:42) Chapter 14 (05:11:25) Chapter 15 (05:44:02) Chapter 16 (06:14:29) Chapter 17 (06:36:46) Chapter 18 (06:55:30) Chapter 19 (07:19:38) Chapter 20 (07:49:22) Chapter 21 (08:14:32) Chapter 22 (08:47:01) Chapter 23 (09:10:54) Chapter 24 (09:35:00) Chapter 25 (09:55:16) Chapter 26 (10:27:52) Chapter 27 (11:08:52) Chapter 28 (11:52:14) Chapter 29 (12:18:32) Chapter 30 (12:47:39) Chapter 31 (13:01:33) Chapter 32 (13:36:51) Chapter 33 (14:02:51) Chapter 34 (14:23:39) Chapter 35 (14:45:58) Chapter 36 (15:20:37) Chapter 37 (15:54:15) Chapter 38 (16:27:22) Chapter 39 (16:53:48) Chapter 40 (17:22:42) Chapter 41 (17:46:50) Chapter 42 (18:15:52) Chapter 43 (18:56:48) Chapter 44 (19:20:22) Chapter 45 (19:46:54) Chapter 46 (20:11:59) Chapter 47 (20:38:12) Chapter 48 (21:05:04) Chapter 49 (21:20:15) Chapter 50 (21:37:02) Chapter 51 (21:58:33) Chapter 52 (22:17:28) Chapter 53 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope audiobook. Genre: adventure When English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll arrives in the small European kingdom of Ruritania for a holiday, he makes a startling discovery: he is the near-perfect double of the soon-to-be-crowned King Rudolf V. What begins as an odd coincidence turns into a dangerous summons when the king is kidnapped on the eve of his coronation by his scheming half-brother, Duke Michael, who intends to seize the throne for himself. With the kingdom poised on the edge of chaos, Rassendyll is persuaded to impersonate the monarch long enough to preserve the crown and buy time for the king's loyal supporters to mount a rescue. Thrust into palace intrigue, swordplay, and secret plots, he must master royal etiquette while staying ahead of suspicious courtiers and ruthless enemies. Along the way, he forms a bond with the courageous Colonel Sapt and the sharp-witted Fritz von Tarlenheim, and he finds his resolve tested by loyalty, honor, and an unexpected romance that complicates every decision. A classic tale of adventure and sacrifice, The Prisoner of Zenda delivers high stakes, swift pacing, and old-world thrills. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:13:44) Chapter 2 (00:28:19) Chapter 3 (00:45:46) Chapter 4 (00:59:22) Chapter 5 (01:14:53) Chapter 6 (01:29:21) Chapter 7 (01:43:30) Chapter 8 (02:00:56) Chapter 9 (02:18:09) Chapter 10 (02:34:42) Chapter 11 (02:52:12) Chapter 12 (03:07:28) Chapter 13 (03:23:38) Chapter 14 (03:38:59) Chapter 15 (03:55:39) Chapter 16 (04:10:58) Chapter 17 (04:25:54) Chapter 18 (04:39:08) Chapter 19 (04:53:36) Chapter 20 (05:10:50) Chapter 21 (05:27:37) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Citizen’s Almanac by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: history This is a recording of a booklet given to new naturalized American citizens, it contains an explanation of fundamental documents, symbols and anthems of the United States. 'Today you are a citizen of the United States of America— becoming “a peer of kings” as President Calvin Coolidge once said. This occasion is a defining moment that should not soon be forgotten, for it marks the beginning of a new era in your lifetime as a U.S. citizen. Naturalized citizens are an important part of our great democracy, bringing a wealth of talent, ability, and character to this Nation. Your fellow citizens recognize the sacrifices you have made to reach this milestone and with open arms we welcome you. The United States offers an abundance of freedom and opportunity for all its citizens and we wish you all the best along the way.' For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:03:44) Chapter 01 (00:13:54) Chapter 02 (00:35:37) Chapter 03 (01:04:49) Chapter 04 (01:41:32) Chapter 05 (01:58:18) Chapter 06 (02:13:06) Chapter 07 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three Thousand Dollars by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In bustling New York, a tidy office routine shatters when three thousand dollars vanishes from the secure keeping of Mr. Stoughton, a man whose business depends on discretion and control. The disappearance is more than a missing sum - it is a message that someone understands the office's habits, its quiet vulnerabilities, and the private pressures of the people who work there. At the center is Grace Lee, Mr. Stoughton's capable young assistant, whose careful competence makes her indispensable and, dangerously, well-informed. When Beau Johnson, a practiced criminal with a talent for reading weaknesses, fixes his attention on Grace, a tense battle of nerve begins: manipulation posed as opportunity, courtesy edged with threat. Caught between loyalty to her employer, concern for her ailing father, and the expectations closing in on her future, Grace must decide what she will risk to protect both her name and the truth. Anna Katharine Green builds the suspense through close observation, moral uncertainty, and the unsettling feeling that the real crime may be the one still being arranged. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:15:14) Chapter 2 (00:34:29) Chapter 3 (00:51:01) Chapter 4 (01:12:02) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang audiobook. Genre: folklore Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's 'Coloured' Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them originally), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories. Many of them were illustrated by Henry J. Ford. Lancelot Speed also did some illustrations For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:48) Chapter 02 (00:33:45) Chapter 03 (00:49:09) Chapter 04 (01:03:06) Chapter 05 (01:26:04) Chapter 06 (01:36:29) Chapter 07 (01:46:17) Chapter 08 (02:05:45) Chapter 09 (02:31:03) Chapter 10 (02:37:02) Chapter 11 (02:54:42) Chapter 12 (03:08:15) Chapter 13 (03:28:32) Chapter 14 (03:45:53) Chapter 15 (04:04:18) Chapter 16 (04:21:26) Chapter 17 (04:27:08) Chapter 18 (04:42:35) Chapter 19 (05:02:31) Chapter 20 (05:31:41) Chapter 21 (05:41:33) Chapter 22 (06:09:12) Chapter 23 (06:20:57) Chapter 24 (06:37:25) Chapter 25 (07:06:22) Chapter 26 (07:30:44) Chapter 27 (08:01:09) Chapter 28 (08:19:43) Chapter 29 (08:36:53) Chapter 30 (08:53:53) Chapter 31 (09:01:00) Chapter 32 (09:10:03) Chapter 33 (09:22:22) Chapter 34 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton audiobook. Genre: scifi When interstellar trader Dane Thorson signs on with the Free Trader ship Solar Queen, he expects tight margins, rough ports, and the usual risks of space commerce - not a desperate mission to a forbidden world. The crew has a contract to retrieve a valuable cargo from Khatka, a planet quarantined by authorities and surrounded by rumors of madness, lethal wildlife, and inexplicable forces that no scan can explain. Once planetside, Dane joins a small landing team as they navigate swamps, ruins, and a landscape that seems to watch them in return. But the real danger is not only the planet's hazards - it is the unseen influence that erodes confidence, turns crewmates against each other, and threatens to trap them far from the Solar Queen. As the clock runs down and the quarantine tightens, Dane must decide what kind of man he is becoming in the cold economy of the stars, where loyalty is priceless and fear can be weaponized. Voodoo Planet blends fast-paced adventure with eerie atmosphere, exploring survival, camaraderie, and the thin line between rational caution and paralyzing dread. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:08) Chapter 02 (00:42:09) Chapter 03 (01:02:51) Chapter 04 (01:22:05) Chapter 05 (01:41:57) Chapter 06 (02:01:16) Chapter 07 (02:20:56) Chapter 08 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton audiobook. Genre: scifi The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and forth across the base with methodical accuracy. And a single cowering witness, flattened on a ledge in the heights above, knew that when the last of those yellow-red bolts fell, nothing human would be left alive down there. And so Shann Lantee, most menial of the Terrans attached to the camp on the planet Warlock, was left alone and weaponless in the strange, hostile world, the human prey of the aliens from space and the aliens on the ground alike. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:45) Chapter 02 (00:46:26) Chapter 03 (01:07:18) Chapter 04 (01:30:35) Chapter 05 (01:54:36) Chapter 06 (02:16:22) Chapter 07 (02:40:49) Chapter 08 (03:04:11) Chapter 09 (03:26:57) Chapter 10 (03:52:09) Chapter 11 (04:18:18) Chapter 12 (04:43:15) Chapter 13 (05:08:36) Chapter 14 (05:32:55) Chapter 15 (05:56:41) Chapter 16 (06:22:46) Chapter 17 (06:46:06) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France audiobook. Genre: philosophy Anatole France, in his satirical and allegorical fashion, weaves a tale of fantasy which finds a mischievous guardian angel stealing books from his earthly charge, who happens to be an archbishop in possession of a plethora of literature, mostly theological in nature. After voracious reading and then becoming a 'fallen' angel, he decides to search for and recruit other 'fallen' angels who devise a plan to attempt an overthrow of the rule which had set their fate, realizing that revolt is necessary and inevitable. What follows is preparation for a battle to revenge what has befallen them (and mankind itself). But surprises find their way into the plans, as well as the question that if they win the war, what will change? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:54) Chapter 02 (00:29:28) Chapter 03 (00:43:22) Chapter 04 (00:49:25) Chapter 05 (01:10:01) Chapter 06 (01:18:03) Chapter 07 (01:33:54) Chapter 08 (01:51:35) Chapter 09 (01:58:48) Chapter 10 (02:19:23) Chapter 11 (02:33:37) Chapter 12 (02:49:24) Chapter 13 (03:05:10) Chapter 14 (03:28:49) Chapter 15 (03:46:13) Chapter 16 (04:12:56) Chapter 17 (04:26:07) Chapter 18 (04:56:40) Chapter 19 (05:09:50) Chapter 20 (05:33:27) Chapter 21 (05:58:27) Chapter 22 (06:17:46) Chapter 23 (06:30:51) Chapter 24 (06:36:42) Chapter 25 (06:50:06) Chapter 26 (07:06:47) Chapter 27 (07:26:47) Chapter 28 (07:35:21) Chapter 29 (07:48:56) Chapter 30 (08:10:40) Chapter 31 (08:25:59) Chapter 32 (08:44:15) Chapter 33 (08:57:43) Chapter 34 (09:24:11) Chapter 35 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories by Amy Walton audiobook. Genre: family These are three stories that will delight your heart and soul. The little girl Ruth in the first story is very privileged young lady with everything she could wish for except,of course, for companionship. Her mother has passed away and her father is a very busy lawyer who barely notices she is there. But then Ruth finds a scruffy, skinny and mostly ugly cat; the cat who lives in the kitchen and cellars,hence The Kitchen Cat. Her attempts to befriend this stray despite insurmountable obstacles make this story a really heart warming tale. She does eventually find the best kind of companionship but I won't tell you with who or when. Sarah's Sunday Out is the tale of a pampered little dog who wants to see the world and finally The Toad in the Hole is the tale of a somewhat selfish little girl and her lesson in seeing things from another's point of view. All are bitter sweet and all are delightful. You will be glad you listened to them. I know I'm glad I read them. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:48:40) Chapter 02 (01:08:16) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter by Ambrose Bierce audiobook. Genre: tragedy In a rugged corner of the Alps in the spring of 1680, Brother Ambrosius, a young Franciscan monk, is sent with two companions from Passau to the remote monastery of Berchtesgaden - a place of cold forests, steep valleys, and a community ruled as much by fear and superstition as by the Church. On the road he encounters Benedicta, the beautiful and defiant daughter of the local hangman, marked from birth as an outcast and treated as unclean by the very people who rely on her father's grim work. Moved by pity, then drawn by a feeling he struggles to name, Ambrosius begins to seek her out in secret, defying both the monastery's discipline and the village's rage. As gossip hardens into accusation and old cruelties revive, the monk and the hangman's daughter are forced to navigate a world where compassion is punished, desire is weaponized, and faith is tested against the harsh demands of tradition. Told with the flavor of a dark folktale, the novel explores shame, redemption, and the perilous boundary between spiritual devotion and human longing. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:18:36) Chapter 02 (00:30:03) Chapter 03 (00:42:39) Chapter 04 (01:07:50) Chapter 05 (01:23:39) Chapter 06 (01:41:44) Chapter 07 (02:03:47) Chapter 08 (02:16:51) Chapter 09 (02:35:24) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can Such Things Be by Ambrose Bierce audiobook. Genre: horror Can Such Things Be gathers Ambrose Bierce's most unsettling tales into a single volume where reason keeps colliding with the impossible. Across a series of tightly wound stories, Bierce follows hunters and townsfolk, soldiers and scientists, skeptics and storytellers who each confront a phenomenon that refuses ordinary explanation: a presence that cannot be seen yet leaves proof behind, a corpse that does not behave as it should, a familiar landscape that turns hostile, a calm investigation that becomes a descent into dread. Bierce writes with a sharp, ironic clarity that makes the strange feel frighteningly plausible, and his narrators often cling to logic even as it fails them. The collection's central tension is not only between the natural and the supernatural, but between what people believe they perceive and what might be lurking just beyond the limits of human senses. By turns grim, slyly humorous, and genuinely chilling, these stories explore fear as a force that distorts judgment, isolates the mind, and makes the world itself feel untrustworthy. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:43:40) Chapter 02 (01:04:49) Chapter 03 (01:09:53) Chapter 04 (01:37:56) Chapter 05 (01:47:42) Chapter 06 (02:15:27) Chapter 07 (02:38:14) Chapter 08 (02:56:45) Chapter 09 (03:28:11) Chapter 10 (03:48:04) Chapter 11 (03:54:51) Chapter 12 (04:10:21) Chapter 13 (04:24:02) Chapter 14 (04:47:59) Chapter 15 (05:13:22) Chapter 16 (05:25:30) Chapter 17 (05:49:33) Chapter 18 (05:53:55) Chapter 19 (06:12:38) Chapter 20 (06:30:09) Chapter 21 (06:55:30) Chapter 22 (07:11:18) Chapter 23 (07:22:29) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter by Alice Turner Curtis audiobook. Genre: history Ten-year-old Sylvia Fulton has left Boston behind and is living with her parents in Charleston, South Carolina, in the tense months just before the Civil War begins. Curious, warm-hearted, and fiercely loyal, Sylvia tries to make a home in a city where her Northern roots mark her as an outsider. At school she finds kindness and fast friendship with girls like Grace Waite and Flora Hayes, but she also meets sharp prejudice from classmates who fling the word 'Yankee' like an insult. Beyond the classroom, Charleston Harbor and its looming forts become part of Sylvia's everyday world, and growing talk of secession turns familiar streets into a place of whispers, secret errands, and sudden danger. Through her bond with Estrella, an enslaved girl close to her own age, Sylvia begins to see the painful contradictions beneath the city's elegance and 'honor.' As friendships are tested and loyalties harden, Sylvia must decide what courage looks like when the world around her is choosing sides, and when a child's sense of right and wrong collides with the realities of history in motion. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:42) Chapter 02 (00:26:30) Chapter 03 (00:36:35) Chapter 04 (00:48:34) Chapter 05 (00:57:17) Chapter 06 (01:17:14) Chapter 07 (01:25:46) Chapter 08 (01:37:50) Chapter 09 (01:47:45) Chapter 10 (02:00:07) Chapter 11 (02:12:04) Chapter 12 (02:19:32) Chapter 13 (02:28:07) Chapter 14 (02:41:02) Chapter 15 (02:52:05) Chapter 16 (03:01:54) Chapter 17 (03:15:10) Chapter 18 (03:24:06) Chapter 19 (03:33:34) Chapter 20 (03:45:31) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood audiobook. Genre: horror A tale of horror in which a pleasant sojourn down the Danube tumbles terrifyingly awry as the veil between this world and an unfathomably weird dimension is inadvertently pierced by an innocent pair of vacationers, 'The Willows', arguably Algernon Blackwood's seminal contribution to supernatural literature, has had a lasting influence on the field. No less a personage than H. P. Lovecraft describing it as '...the greatest weird tale ever written.' A reading will reveal a clear influence to one familiar with Lovecraft's work. The masterful handling of mystery and suspense that build to a quite satisfyingly unnerving crescendo may be particularly noted by the discerning aficionado of the genre For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:41:20) Chapter 2 (01:15:46) Chapter 3 (01:51:14) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood audiobook. Genre: fantasy In this moody, metaphysical novel from master of the uncanny Algernon Blackwood, Dr. Edward Fillery, a psychologist with an unusual sensitivity to hidden currents in the human mind, is drawn into a case that defies ordinary diagnosis. At a discreet Spiritual Clinique he and his colleague Paul Devonham take in a young man with a baffling double life: at times he seems a simple, gentle country youth, and at others something vast and unaccountable shines through him - a presence Fillery names only by initials, as if language itself cannot hold it. As the doctors argue over what is illness and what might be evolution, fragments of the patient's past emerge: a remote upbringing, an eccentric mentor, and a devotion to natural forces that feels older than civilization. The closer Fillery comes to understanding the young man's divided consciousness, the more the surrounding world begins to tilt, as friends, patients, and skeptics alike are forced to confront the possibility that personality is not a closed room but a door. Part psychological inquiry, part occult romance, The Bright Messenger asks what humanity may become if the boundaries between the everyday self and the larger universe grow thin. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:16:15) Chapter 02 (00:31:03) Chapter 03 (00:40:20) Chapter 04 (01:03:53) Chapter 05 (01:38:13) Chapter 06 (02:29:56) Chapter 07 (02:58:49) Chapter 08 (03:04:27) Chapter 09 (03:58:46) Chapter 10 (04:32:07) Chapter 11 (04:58:35) Chapter 12 (06:03:17) Chapter 13 (06:31:52) Chapter 14 (07:08:02) Chapter 15 (07:30:42) Chapter 16 (07:51:49) Chapter 17 (08:25:22) Chapter 18 (08:47:25) Chapter 19 (09:15:52) Chapter 20 (09:55:41) Chapter 21 (10:41:30) Chapter 22 (11:14:06) Chapter 23 (12:10:09) Chapter 24 (12:49:19) Chapter 25 (13:30:48) Chapter 26 (14:22:13) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Push Of A Finger by Alfred Bester audiobook. Genre: scifi Science fiction from the 50s by one of the masters, Alfred Bester. Society has committed itself to complete stability. Nothing is allowed to upset this stability, nothing that is not planned and approved and accounted for in advance. Yes, this is hard to imagine but this has produced decades, nay, centuries of predictable prosperity and peace. Even the newspapers have very little to write about. One reporter however is curious about the 'Prog' building, where pronouncements are issued every day just as Moses issued the commandments. Everyone is locked out of course but he wants to know more, he wants in by any means and the results of that obsession are more far reaching than anyone can imagine. What would happen if just a tiny push with a finger to a critical element is made at the very beginning of a process? A little nudge that sends it in a completely different direction? Hmmm? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:27:05) Chapter 02 (00:52:45) Chapter 03 (01:19:13) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Alexander Jessup audiobook. Genre: comedy Edited and introduced by Alexander Jessup, The Best American Humorous Short Stories gathers a handpicked lineup of classic American tales that prove how many shapes laughter can take. Jessup's opening essay makes the mission clear: these are not merely jokes on the page, but fully crafted short stories where humor is inseparable from character, voice, and surprise. Across the collection, readers move from dry wit and social satire to tall tales and comic misadventure, meeting schemers, innocents, and eccentrics caught in the everyday absurdities of love, money, reputation, and pride. Familiar masters appear alongside lesser-known gems, with stories by writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others. From the slippery logic of 'The Angel of the Odd' to the deadpan exaggerations of 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,' the anthology showcases regional flavors and shifting American manners, while keeping the focus on storytelling momentum and sharp comedic timing. The result is a varied, lively listening experience: a tour through American humor at its most inventive, readable, and enduring. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:38) Chapter 02 (00:41:58) Chapter 03 (01:22:33) Chapter 04 (02:05:55) Chapter 05 (03:08:30) Chapter 06 (03:57:18) Chapter 07 (04:14:41) Chapter 08 (04:30:51) Chapter 09 (05:15:53) Chapter 10 (05:46:12) Chapter 11 (06:08:37) Chapter 12 (06:52:10) Chapter 13 (07:29:43) Chapter 14 (08:07:26) Chapter 15 (08:41:51) Chapter 16 (09:36:37) Chapter 17 (10:10:46) Chapter 18 (10:28:45) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley audiobook. Genre: comedy Crome Yellow, published in 1921 was Aldous Huxley’s first novel. In it he satirizes the fads and fashions of the time. It is the witty story of a house party at ‘Crome’ where there is a gathering of bright young things. We hear some of the history of the house from Henry Wimbush, its owner and self appointed historian; Apocalypse is prophesied, virginity is lost, and inspirational aphorisms are gained in a trance. Our hero, Denis, tries to capture it all in poetry and is disappointed in love. The author, Aldous Huxley, was born in 1894 and began writing poetry and short stories in his early twenties; this was his first novel and established his literary reputation. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:07:03) Chapter 2 (00:20:06) Chapter 3 (00:32:10) Chapter 4 (00:44:31) Chapter 5 (00:54:08) Chapter 6 (01:10:59) Chapter 7 (01:20:58) Chapter 8 (01:25:37) Chapter 9 (01:45:05) Chapter 10 (01:51:36) Chapter 11 (02:03:55) Chapter 12 (02:15:16) Chapter 13 (02:47:44) Chapter 14 (02:55:24) Chapter 15 (03:02:43) Chapter 16 (03:08:58) Chapter 17 (03:27:52) Chapter 18 (03:36:10) Chapter 19 (04:08:26) Chapter 20 (04:18:53) Chapter 21 (04:25:46) Chapter 22 (04:43:00) Chapter 23 (04:48:45) Chapter 24 (05:01:07) Chapter 25 (05:12:20) Chapter 26 (05:18:26) Chapter 27 (05:37:33) Chapter 28 (05:47:28) Chapter 29 (05:58:01) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune audiobook. Genre: family Albert Payson Terhune, perhaps best known for his book Lad, a Dog (later turned into a popular movie), was also a breeder of collies and a journalist. Some of his collie lines survive to this day. His Dog is a story about Link Ferris who finds an injured dog on his way home one evening. Knowing nothing about dogs, Link nurses the dog back to health and the two form a bond such as only can be formed between human and canine. Unable to locate the collie's owner, Link christens his dog 'Chum' who becomes invaluable in tending to the daily needs of his meager farm. Unknown to Ferris however, Chum's original owners have been looking for their lost collie, and the story finds Link torn between that which he knows is morally right and his love for what he believes has become his dog. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:49:37) Chapter 2 (01:36:32) Chapter 3 (02:27:15) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Lucky Piece - A Story of the North Woods by Albert Bigelow Paine audiobook. Genre: adventure While riding a stage back to the city late in the summer, a youngster had no money to spend, and so gives his lucky piece as payment to a young girl selling berries by the roadside. As time passes, in the Adirondack mountains of northern New York state, a tale unfolds involving two young women, two young men, and a bevy of characters the likes of which lend to a series of events which make up a fascinating story. Constance was one not to be controlled, she was a free spirit, as in fairy tales, wont to follow the moment rather than ideas presented to her by others. Frank came from a well to do family who expected nothing but success from their offspring. Robin appeared of suspicious origin, but was noble in nature, while Edith Morrison was quite well known at the Lodge in the mountains where the tale takes place. There are love stories, mushrooms, close and distant relationships, and life in the Adirondacks in this story which revolves around the lucky piece which once served as payment for a hatful of berries. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:25) Chapter 02 (00:47:43) Chapter 03 (01:08:12) Chapter 04 (01:33:44) Chapter 05 (01:53:54) Chapter 06 (02:20:30) Chapter 07 (02:44:25) Chapter 08 (03:13:10) Chapter 09 (03:34:53) Chapter 10 (04:02:27) Chapter 11 (04:27:50) Chapter 12 (04:41:10) Chapter 13 (05:02:42) Chapter 14 (05:18:36) Chapter 15 (05:38:17) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt audiobook. Genre: fantasy When a renowned scientist vanishes under impossible circumstances, Dr. David South and a small circle of friends are drawn into a mystery that seems to defy every rational explanation. Their search leads from hushed academic rooms to a remote Pacific island, where a forbidden crater-like abyss known as the Moon Pool is whispered about with dread and fascination. At its edge, strange lights pulse with a hypnotic intelligence, and the air itself seems charged with an alien presence. As the expedition pushes deeper, they uncover traces of an ancient, hidden world - a place of glittering wonders and lethal beauty, where forces older than humanity still move with purpose. Caught between scientific curiosity and primal fear, South must navigate treacherous terrain, uncanny phenomena, and the seductive pull of the unknown, while trying to rescue the man who first crossed the threshold. Dreamlike, ominous, and relentlessly imaginative, Abraham Merritt's classic blends lost-world adventure with eerie cosmic enchantment, asking what happens when the human mind confronts a mystery it may not be built to survive. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:06) Chapter 02 (00:31:35) Chapter 03 (00:50:45) Chapter 04 (01:03:00) Chapter 05 (01:25:59) Chapter 06 (01:50:57) Chapter 07 (02:02:02) Chapter 08 (02:18:02) Chapter 09 (02:33:36) Chapter 10 (03:03:21) Chapter 11 (03:31:57) Chapter 12 (03:41:04) Chapter 13 (03:56:16) Chapter 14 (04:18:27) Chapter 15 (04:39:06) Chapter 16 (05:12:43) Chapter 17 (05:27:01) Chapter 18 (05:44:32) Chapter 19 (06:20:28) Chapter 20 (06:55:44) Chapter 21 (07:20:23) Chapter 22 (07:42:59) Chapter 23 (08:08:42) Chapter 24 (08:26:15) Chapter 25 (08:40:53) Chapter 26 (09:10:57) Chapter 27 (09:34:31) Chapter 28 (09:57:48) Chapter 29 (10:19:09) Chapter 30 (10:36:56) Chapter 31 (10:50:11) Chapter 32 (11:06:38) Chapter 33 (11:24:03) Chapter 34 (11:44:32) Chapter 35 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Secret Battle by A. P. Herbert audiobook. Genre: tragedy Like many soldiers at the beginning of their military careers, Harry Penrose has romantic ideas of climbing the ranks and attaining hero status. However, while stationed at Gallipoli, the realities of war begin to take their toll on Penrose, not only physically, but also mentally where the war has become a 'battle of the mind.' This is his story as related by a fellow soldier, as well as the story of the campaign at Gallipoli which is vividly portrayed from the author's own personal experiences. During his tenure as an officer, Penrose slowly asserts himself; the war takes a toll on his personality, but he begins to live up to his early dreams of heroism. However, his creeping self-doubt grows by degrees; following Gallipoli, he is reassigned from his post as scouting officer once on the Somme, knowing he cannot face another night patrol, and earns the wrath of his commanding officer - an irascible Regular colonel - over a trivial incident. The colonel piles difficult, risky work on him - remarking to the narrator that 'Master Penrose can go on with [leading ration parties] until he learns to do them properly' - and Penrose submits, working doggedly to try and keep from cracking. After a long period of this treatment, by the winter of 1916, Penrose's spirit is worn down. What follows his downward spiral may surprise and even shock today's readers, but was common and controversial at the time. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:32:21) Chapter 02 (01:06:55) Chapter 03 (01:37:13) Chapter 04 (02:02:43) Chapter 05 (02:40:16) Chapter 06 (03:05:21) Chapter 07 (03:37:44) Chapter 08 (04:09:39) Chapter 09 (04:31:44) Chapter 10 (04:58:11) Chapter 11 (05:20:24) Chapter 12 (05:40:30) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne audiobook. Genre: family In the Hundred Acre Wood, where every day feels like it has room for one more small adventure, Winnie-the-Pooh is always thinking about one important thing: honey. Guided by his gentle, slightly muddled logic and a very big heart, Pooh drifts from one situation to the next, drawing his friends into schemes that are as earnest as they are unpredictable. There is Piglet, timid but loyal; Eeyore, resigned and wry; Tigger, bursting with confidence and bounce; Rabbit, practical to the point of fussiness; Owl, proud of his own advice; Kanga and Roo, steady and kind; and Christopher Robin, the boy whose calm presence keeps the world feeling safe even when plans go sideways. Whether they are tracking a mysterious creature, organizing a rescue, holding a party, or trying to solve everyday problems with extraordinary seriousness, the friends must learn how to care for one another, forgive misunderstandings, and find courage in small moments. Told with warmth and playful narration, this classic celebrates friendship, imagination, and the quiet heroism of being there for the people you love. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:03:47) Chapter 01 (00:20:29) Chapter 02 (00:31:57) Chapter 03 (00:41:03) Chapter 04 (00:52:59) Chapter 05 (01:12:33) Chapter 06 (01:35:14) Chapter 07 (01:57:28) Chapter 08 (02:21:20) Chapter 09 (02:39:50) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey audiobook. Genre: adventure The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon polygamy, but in The Rainbow Trail this theme is treated more explicitly. The plots of both books revolve around the victimization of women in the Mormon culture: events in Riders of the Purple Sage are centered on the struggle of a Mormon woman who sacrifices her wealth and social status to avoid becoming a junior wife of the head of a local church, while The Rainbow Trail contrasts the older Mormons with the rising generation of Mormon women who will not tolerate polygamy and Mormon men who do not seek it. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:31:18) Chapter 02 (01:05:13) Chapter 03 (01:33:36) Chapter 04 (01:54:17) Chapter 05 (02:10:57) Chapter 06 (02:42:29) Chapter 07 (03:14:43) Chapter 08 (03:37:38) Chapter 09 (03:59:00) Chapter 10 (04:15:20) Chapter 11 (04:36:47) Chapter 12 (04:43:32) Chapter 13 (05:02:44) Chapter 14 (05:23:45) Chapter 15 (05:45:23) Chapter 16 (05:59:49) Chapter 17 (06:21:11) Chapter 18 (06:41:00) Chapter 19 (07:00:21) Chapter 20 (07:28:01) Chapter 21 (07:44:19) Chapter 22 (08:12:19) Chapter 23 (08:36:47) Chapter 24 (09:08:59) Chapter 25 (09:34:33) Chapter 26 (10:03:31) Chapter 27 (10:20:38) Chapter 28 (10:42:52) Chapter 29 (11:00:58) Chapter 30 (11:08:08) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James audiobook. Genre: philosophy William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophies of pragmatism and Radical Empiricism. Essays in Radical Empiricism is a collection edited and published posthumously by his colleague and biographer Ralph Barton Perry in 1912. It was assembled from a collection of reprinted journal articles published from 1904–1905 which James had deposited in August, 1906, at the Harvard University for supplemental use by his students. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:12:56) Chapter 01 (01:03:26) Chapter 02 (02:09:17) Chapter 03 (02:47:07) Chapter 04 (03:03:32) Chapter 05 (03:27:13) Chapter 06 (04:07:10) Chapter 07 (04:24:22) Chapter 08 (04:54:24) Chapter 09 (05:04:59) Chapter 10 (05:08:41) Chapter 11 (05:35:15) Chapter 12 (05:53:32) Chapter 13 (06:18:12) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fidelity by Susan Glaspell audiobook. Genre: drama In the small Midwestern town of Freeport, Iowa, people still whisper about Ruth Holland, the young woman who shocked everyone by running away to Colorado with a married man. More than a decade later, Ruth returns home at a moment she cannot avoid: her father is dying, and the life she left behind is waiting to judge her. As she steps back into familiar streets and strained family rooms, Ruth finds that time has not softened the town's certainty about right and wrong, or repaired the quiet damage her choice set in motion. Old friends weigh their affection against their reputations, relatives measure loyalty by obedience, and Ruth must decide what she truly owes to her family, her community, and herself. Moving between past and present and told through shifting perspectives, Susan Glaspell's Fidelity explores how easily love becomes a public trial, and how a single act can ripple through an entire town. At its heart is one fierce question: what does it mean to be faithful, and to whom? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:40) Chapter 02 (00:18:09) Chapter 03 (00:31:40) Chapter 04 (00:41:34) Chapter 05 (00:58:06) Chapter 06 (01:04:26) Chapter 07 (01:13:32) Chapter 08 (01:27:00) Chapter 09 (01:44:17) Chapter 10 (01:56:00) Chapter 11 (02:12:11) Chapter 12 (02:40:54) Chapter 13 (02:56:06) Chapter 14 (03:13:30) Chapter 15 (03:32:09) Chapter 16 (03:53:06) Chapter 17 (04:13:16) Chapter 18 (04:33:40) Chapter 19 (04:55:55) Chapter 20 (05:12:48) Chapter 21 (05:26:24) Chapter 22 (05:36:31) Chapter 23 (05:47:52) Chapter 24 (06:03:16) Chapter 25 (06:17:40) Chapter 26 (06:34:21) Chapter 27 (06:49:32) Chapter 28 (07:20:03) Chapter 29 (07:33:02) Chapter 30 (08:11:02) Chapter 31 (08:27:29) Chapter 32 (08:39:13) Chapter 33 (08:53:43) Chapter 34 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by Stephen Leacock audiobook. Genre: history Stephen Leacock's The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada (often referenced by its subtitle, A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada) opens Canada's story long before the familiar era of colonies and Confederation. Written as part of the Chronicles of Canada series, Leacock begins with the land itself - ancient rock, ice, rivers, and the immense timescale that shaped the continent - and then turns to the first human presence in North America. With a brisk, storyteller's pace, he surveys the origins that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers debated, then introduces the diverse Indigenous peoples encountered by later newcomers, outlining major cultural groupings and lifeways across forests, plains, and the far north. From there the narrative follows the earliest European shadows on the Atlantic edge: the Norse sagas and their uncertain geography, the seafaring rumors that tempted later adventurers, and the Bristol voyages associated with John Cabot. The book builds toward the threshold moment just before sustained French exploration, showing how myth, commerce, and misunderstanding prepared the way for contact that would reshape the continent forever. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:25) Chapter 02 (00:30:32) Chapter 03 (00:55:27) Chapter 04 (01:21:08) Chapter 05 (01:51:02) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Life of St. Teresa by St. Teresa of Jesus audiobook. Genre: religion Written in the voice of one of Christianity's most influential mystics, The Life of St. Teresa is St. Teresa of Jesus' own account of how a restless, imaginative girl in 16th-century Spain became a Carmelite nun and a fearless reformer. Teresa recounts her early love of stories and honor, the tug of worldly comforts, and the slow, demanding turn toward a life shaped by prayer, discipline, and obedience. As illness, doubt, and scrutiny press in, she describes an interior battle between distraction and devotion, and the hard-won practices that helped her persevere: honest self-knowledge, humility, spiritual friendship, and steady attention to God. Teresa also speaks plainly about extraordinary moments of contemplation and the challenges of discerning them, offering a candid look at how spiritual experience can bring both consolation and controversy. Part memoir, part confession, and part guide for the soul, this classic invites listeners into a deeply personal journey where courage is measured not only by public deeds, but by the daily choice to begin again. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:49) Chapter 02 (00:19:48) Chapter 03 (00:27:03) Chapter 04 (00:42:26) Chapter 05 (00:59:20) Chapter 06 (01:14:09) Chapter 07 (01:45:58) Chapter 08 (02:02:27) Chapter 09 (02:13:28) Chapter 10 (02:28:07) Chapter 11 (02:50:59) Chapter 12 (03:01:03) Chapter 13 (03:28:51) Chapter 14 (03:44:18) Chapter 15 (04:06:58) Chapter 16 (04:18:32) Chapter 17 (04:31:32) Chapter 18 (04:50:19) Chapter 19 (05:14:00) Chapter 20 (05:48:14) Chapter 21 (06:04:22) Chapter 22 (06:30:56) Chapter 23 (06:52:53) Chapter 24 (07:02:55) Chapter 25 (07:31:47) Chapter 26 (07:41:14) Chapter 27 (08:07:52) Chapter 28 (08:32:15) Chapter 29 (08:50:50) Chapter 30 (09:19:28) Chapter 31 (09:50:00) Chapter 32 (10:11:31) Chapter 33 (10:33:01) Chapter 34 (10:58:09) Chapter 35 (11:15:10) Chapter 36 (11:48:18) Chapter 37 (12:05:46) Chapter 38 (12:38:16) Chapter 39 (13:08:34) Chapter 40 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Loving God by St. Bernard of Clairvaux audiobook. Genre: religion In On Loving God, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the great 12th-century Cistercian abbot and preacher, offers a clear, searching guide to the most essential question of the spiritual life: why and how a human being comes to love God. Written as a brief treatise for fellow Christians seeking deeper prayer and truer freedom, the work begins with the realities of ordinary life - need, weakness, and self-interest - and turns them into the starting point for grace. Bernard traces the slow transformation of the heart through recognizable stages, from loving oneself for one's own sake, to loving God for what God gives, to learning to love God for God's own goodness. Along the way he confronts the tensions that keep love divided: pride, distraction, fear, and the desire to control. With warm pastoral candor and disciplined monastic wisdom, Bernard argues that genuine love is not a mood but a reorientation of desire, shaped by humility and sustained by contemplation. The result is both a spiritual map and an invitation: to let love mature until it becomes steadier, purer, and more like the love that first sought us. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:04:56) Chapter 02 (00:13:36) Chapter 03 (00:20:55) Chapter 04 (00:28:32) Chapter 05 (00:34:03) Chapter 06 (00:36:33) Chapter 07 (00:48:40) Chapter 08 (00:54:07) Chapter 09 (00:57:36) Chapter 10 (01:03:49) Chapter 11 (01:12:26) Chapter 12 (01:17:38) Chapter 13 (01:20:57) Chapter 14 (01:24:37) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott audiobook. Genre: history In medieval England, the long-absent King Richard is rumored to be returning, but the country is tense with rival loyalties, private vendettas, and the lingering divide between Norman rulers and Saxon subjects. Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a disinherited Saxon knight, comes home from crusade determined to restore his honor and win the hand of the high-born Lady Rowena, even as his estranged father Cedric pursues a different future for their people. When a grand tournament draws nobles, outlaws, and opportunists into the open, Ivanhoe is pulled into a web of feuds and kidnappings that tests his courage and his code of chivalry. Alongside him stand unlikely allies: the enigmatic pilgrim who seems to know more than he should, the bold yeoman Locksley and his forest band, and Rebecca, a brilliant healer whose compassion places her in grave danger in a world ruled by prejudice and power. With clashes of swords and clashes of conscience, Ivanhoe explores loyalty, justice, faith, and the price of belonging. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:54) Chapter 02 (00:58:12) Chapter 03 (01:19:06) Chapter 04 (01:40:17) Chapter 05 (02:04:33) Chapter 06 (02:40:21) Chapter 07 (03:13:42) Chapter 08 (03:44:05) Chapter 09 (04:08:26) Chapter 10 (04:35:11) Chapter 11 (04:54:45) Chapter 12 (05:25:55) Chapter 13 (05:49:40) Chapter 14 (06:13:48) Chapter 15 (06:28:07) Chapter 16 (06:59:03) Chapter 17 (07:12:14) Chapter 18 (07:34:18) Chapter 19 (07:53:38) Chapter 20 (08:10:46) Chapter 21 (08:32:38) Chapter 22 (08:57:21) Chapter 23 (09:18:21) Chapter 24 (09:49:18) Chapter 25 (10:12:20) Chapter 26 (10:31:47) Chapter 27 (11:19:09) Chapter 28 (11:52:44) Chapter 29 (12:20:54) Chapter 30 (12:46:47) Chapter 31 (13:23:17) Chapter 32 (13:54:19) Chapter 33 (14:23:07) Chapter 34 (14:42:13) Chapter 35 (15:14:10) Chapter 36 (15:35:53) Chapter 37 (16:11:48) Chapter 38 (16:33:26) Chapter 39 (17:04:26) Chapter 40 (17:45:04) Chapter 41 (18:05:35) Chapter 42 (18:35:15) Chapter 43 (19:01:49) Chapter 44 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud audiobook. Genre: philosophy Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert—it is still Freud's argument—that our contemporary civilisation favours this sort of hypocrisy and that there are more civilised hypocrites than truly cultured persons, and it is even a question whether a certain amount of hypocrisy is not indispensable to maintain civilisation. When this travesty of civilisation, this infallible state that has regimented and dragooned its citizens into obedience, goes to war, Freud is pained but not surprised that it makes free use of every injustice, of every act of violence that would dishonour the individual, that it employs not only permissible cunning but conscious lies and intentional deception against the enemy, that it absolves itself from guarantees and treaties by which it was bound to other states and makes unabashed confession of its greed and aspiration to power. For conscience, the idea of right and wrong, in the Freudian sense, is not the inexorable judge that teachers of ethics say it is: it has its origin in nothing but 'social fear,' and whereas in times of peace the state forbids the individual to do wrong, not because it wishes to do away with wrongdoing but because it wishes to monopolise it, like salt or tobacco, it suspends its reproach in times of war. The suppression of evil desires also ceases, and men, finding the moral ties loosened between large human units, commit acts of cruelty, treachery, deception and brutality the very possibility of which would have been considered incompatible with their degree of culture. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:40:52) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch audiobook. Genre: scifi Robert Bloch (1917 – 1994) was a prolific writer in many genres. As a young man he was encouraged by his mentor H. P. Lovecraft, and was a close friend of Stanley G. Weinbaum. Besides hundreds of short stories and novels he wrote a number of television and film scripts including several for the original Star Trek. In 1959 Bloch wrote the novel Psycho which Alfred Hitchcock adapted to film a year later. He received the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and he is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America. Published in Amazing Stories in 1958, This Crowded Earth is a thriller set on an overpopulated Earth of the future. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:29:26) Chapter 02 (01:09:47) Chapter 03 (01:17:04) Chapter 04 (01:23:39) Chapter 05 (01:31:43) Chapter 06 (02:00:10) Chapter 07 (02:11:06) Chapter 08 (02:32:48) Chapter 09 (02:49:36) Chapter 10 (03:05:31) Chapter 11 (03:11:23) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stamped Caution by Raymond Z. Gallun audiobook. Genre: scifi When a strange spacecraft slams into a Missouri hillside, the Army moves in fast, sealing the site behind barbed wire and unanswered questions. Colonel Miller and a small team of investigators and scientists pick through scorched metal, radioactive fuel residue, and baffling machinery that looks unsettlingly familiar in places and utterly alien in others. Then they find the most troubling piece of evidence of all: a living Martian infant, sealed in a protective capsule, too fragile to send back and too unprecedented to ignore.Nicknamed Etl, the creature becomes the focus of a long, secret experiment in care, observation, and communication. As Etl grows from a helpless oddity into a curious, thinking being, the team faces escalating pressures from military protocol, scientific ambition, and the fear of what first contact might cost. Is Etl a guest, a specimen, or the opening move in an interplanetary encounter? And if humanity cannot even agree on what he is, how can they hope to meet his people on honest terms?Stamped Caution is a tense, humane classic of first contact science fiction, asking who the real monsters are when the unknown arrives. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:40:48) Chapter 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy P. G. Wodehouse's Love Among the Chickens is a bright, fast-talking comedy of friendship, optimism, and spectacularly bad planning. The story is related by steady, long-suffering Jeremy Garnet, a struggling writer who is persuaded to join his irrepressible school friend, Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, in a bold new venture: chicken farming. Ukridge has the confidence of a born entrepreneur and the attention span of a man chasing the next great idea, and he is certain their farm will make them rich in no time. What Jeremy gets instead is a rural crash course in unpaid bills, improvised business strategy, and the daily chaos of keeping both poultry and creditors at bay. Complicating matters is Jeremy's growing attachment to a sensible young woman whose good opinion is hard to maintain when your closest companion treats common sense as an optional extra. As the farm wobbles from one misadventure to another, Jeremy must decide how far loyalty should stretch, what it costs to keep the peace, and whether any scheme can survive on charm alone. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:07:36) Chapter 2 (00:24:07) Chapter 3 (00:38:00) Chapter 4 (00:53:23) Chapter 5 (01:07:09) Chapter 6 (01:20:43) Chapter 7 (01:36:17) Chapter 8 (01:53:43) Chapter 9 (02:05:24) Chapter 10 (02:25:33) Chapter 11 (02:39:52) Chapter 12 (02:56:03) Chapter 13 (03:11:13) Chapter 14 (03:29:56) Chapter 15 (03:47:36) Chapter 16 (04:03:04) Chapter 17 (04:13:33) Chapter 18 (04:34:37) Chapter 19 (04:50:02) Chapter 20 (05:10:13) Chapter 21 (05:21:31) Chapter 22 (05:42:18) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley audiobook. Genre: scifi When Lionel Verney looks back on the vanished world that raised him, he remembers an England poised between old hierarchies and revolutionary hopes. Orphaned and proud, Lionel grows up on the margins until fate draws him into the orbit of Adrian, the idealistic son of a deposed ruler, and Raymond, a dazzling leader whose ambition and charisma can ignite a nation. Friendships deepen into rivalries as love, duty, and political vision collide, and the fate of Britain seems to hinge on the choices of a few extraordinary individuals. But beyond parliament and passion, an ominous threat begins to spread across borders - a mysterious plague that ignores class, talent, and power. As society strains under fear and scarcity, Lionel must decide what it means to remain human when institutions fail and familiar certainties dissolve. Sweeping, intimate, and eerily prophetic, Mary Shelley's The Last Man blends political drama, romance, and apocalyptic dread into a meditation on companionship, loss, and the fragile story civilization tells itself to survive. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:11:53) Chapter 01 (00:43:00) Chapter 02 (01:18:18) Chapter 03 (01:43:14) Chapter 04 (02:23:14) Chapter 05 (03:03:25) Chapter 06 (03:32:25) Chapter 07 (04:09:31) Chapter 08 (04:44:38) Chapter 09 (05:34:23) Chapter 10 (06:20:25) Chapter 11 (06:48:33) Chapter 12 (07:27:42) Chapter 13 (08:10:05) Chapter 14 (08:39:41) Chapter 15 (09:07:28) Chapter 16 (09:36:07) Chapter 17 (10:07:20) Chapter 18 (10:31:27) Chapter 19 (11:34:31) Chapter 20 (12:20:22) Chapter 21 (12:46:52) Chapter 22 (13:18:26) Chapter 23 (14:03:19) Chapter 24 (14:51:59) Chapter 25 (15:19:23) Chapter 26 (15:50:08) Chapter 27 (16:23:35) Chapter 28 (16:55:12) Chapter 29 (17:26:33) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Child’s Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson audiobook. Genre: biography The Child's Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson introduces young listeners to the lives that helped shape the United States, told in clear, story-forward portraits designed to spark curiosity rather than overwhelm with dates. Moving from the earliest days of the nation into later generations, the book gathers a gallery of Americans - leaders and lawmakers, explorers and inventors, writers, reformers, and builders of communities - and shows what each person cared about, what obstacles stood in the way, and what choices set them apart. Stimpson writes with an educator's eye for what children want most: human moments, vivid scenes, and the moral questions behind public achievements. Each chapter stands on its own as a short, readable life story, yet together they form a wider picture of a growing country and the ideals, arguments, and experiments that defined it. Whether heard in the classroom, on family trips, or at bedtime, these biographies invite listeners to consider how courage, persistence, and imagination can ripple outward into history - and how ordinary beginnings can lead to lasting influence. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:30) Chapter 02 (00:18:08) Chapter 03 (00:29:35) Chapter 04 (00:39:19) Chapter 05 (00:50:23) Chapter 06 (00:59:40) Chapter 07 (01:08:59) Chapter 08 (01:23:20) Chapter 09 (01:30:14) Chapter 10 (01:41:42) Chapter 11 (01:49:29) Chapter 12 (01:58:23) Chapter 13 (02:09:07) Chapter 14 (02:18:26) Chapter 15 (02:27:09) Chapter 16 (02:37:26) Chapter 17 (02:46:47) Chapter 18 (02:53:34) Chapter 19 (03:04:11) Chapter 20 (03:14:34) Chapter 21 (03:23:19) Chapter 22 (03:31:28) Chapter 23 (03:41:10) Chapter 24 (03:49:10) Chapter 25 (04:01:06) Chapter 26 (04:08:56) Chapter 27 (04:17:11) Chapter 28 (04:25:03) Chapter 29 (04:32:23) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook. Genre: scifi At one time Race Cargill had been the best Terran Intelligence agent on the complex and mysterious planet of Wolf. He had repeatedly imperiled his life amongst the half-human and non-human creatures of the sullen world. And he had repeatedly accomplished the fantastic missions until his name was emblazoned with glory. But that had all seemingly ended. For six long years he'd sat behind a boring desk inside the fenced-in Terran Headquarters, cut off there ever since he and a rival had scarred and ripped each other in blood-feud. But when THE DOOR THROUGH SPACE swung suddenly open, the feud was on again—and with it a plot designed to check and destroy the Terran Empire. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:52) Chapter 01 (00:10:03) Chapter 02 (00:25:23) Chapter 03 (00:45:19) Chapter 04 (00:59:11) Chapter 05 (01:17:52) Chapter 06 (01:27:45) Chapter 07 (01:49:06) Chapter 08 (02:03:36) Chapter 09 (02:15:51) Chapter 10 (02:22:35) Chapter 11 (02:39:39) Chapter 12 (02:50:45) Chapter 13 (03:17:56) Chapter 14 (03:29:08) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany audiobook. Genre: fantasy First published in 1912, The Book of Wonder gathers Lord Dunsany's luminous, dreamlike short tales into a single volume of mythic imagination. Each story opens a different door: a traveler strays into uncanny streets where ordinary rules dissolve; a king bargains with forces older than his throne; a hunter follows signs that seem to come from the edge of the world; and distant gods, monsters, and marvels drift through scenes that feel both ancient and newly invented. Dunsany's prose is rich, musical, and deceptively simple, conjuring enchanted cities, impossible beasts, and fateful choices with the calm certainty of a legend being remembered rather than invented. Beneath the jeweled surfaces lies a steady pulse of longing - for beauty, for escape, for answers that remain just out of reach - and a recurring reminder that wonder can humble as easily as it can delight. Ideal for listeners who love poetic fantasy and folklore-like storytelling, this collection invites you to surrender to atmosphere, mystery, and the strange logic of dreams, where every path may lead to awe and every wish carries its own shadow. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:06) Chapter 02 (00:21:42) Chapter 03 (00:28:29) Chapter 04 (00:38:19) Chapter 05 (00:47:27) Chapter 06 (00:58:18) Chapter 07 (01:05:53) Chapter 08 (01:18:53) Chapter 09 (01:29:22) Chapter 10 (01:41:23) Chapter 11 (01:53:24) Chapter 12 (02:05:06) Chapter 13 (02:15:48) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Men Live By and Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: religion Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experience went on to inform his writing and his lifestyle in profound ways. His views transcended the specifics of religion, as known in his day - so much so he came to be a helpful guide both to Mohandas Gandhi and to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The four stories in this collection ask profound questions and gently supply helpful, non-dogmatic hints to their answerings: What is the most important thing to do? Who is the most important person? When is the most important time? What is worth owning? What is the most profound religion? What rules should men live by? How much land does a man need? Who is God? What should we bother to discuss? How should we act towards one another? How should we respond to cruelty and violence? And many more. Wonderful stories written in a relaxed style. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:58:35) Chapter 2 (01:09:44) Chapter 3 (01:30:19) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Insurgent Mexico by John Reed audiobook. Genre: history In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pancho Villa's army for four months, present with Villa's Constitutional Army when it defeated Federal forces at Torreón, opening the way for its advance on Mexico City. Reed's time with the Villistas resulted in a series of outstanding magazine articles that brought Jack a national reputation as a war correspondent. Reed deeply sympathized with the plight of the peons and vehemently opposed American intervention, which came shortly after he left. Jack adored Villa, while Carranza left him cold. Jack's Mexican reports were later republished in book form as Insurgent Mexico, which appeared in 1914. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:15:01) Chapter 01 (00:29:11) Chapter 02 (00:40:29) Chapter 03 (00:50:33) Chapter 04 (01:09:52) Chapter 05 (01:21:41) Chapter 06 (01:31:47) Chapter 07 (01:41:33) Chapter 08 (01:55:04) Chapter 09 (02:04:48) Chapter 10 (02:16:45) Chapter 11 (02:42:32) Chapter 12 (03:01:14) Chapter 13 (03:07:19) Chapter 14 (03:16:00) Chapter 15 (03:29:21) Chapter 16 (03:35:00) Chapter 17 (03:40:32) Chapter 18 (03:44:32) Chapter 19 (03:52:42) Chapter 20 (03:54:57) Chapter 21 (04:02:56) Chapter 22 (04:16:05) Chapter 23 (04:21:23) Chapter 24 (04:34:18) Chapter 25 (04:42:11) Chapter 26 (04:55:17) Chapter 27 (05:02:23) Chapter 28 (05:16:37) Chapter 29 (05:24:01) Chapter 30 (05:32:28) Chapter 31 (05:45:17) Chapter 32 (05:53:42) Chapter 33 (06:08:03) Chapter 34 (06:22:03) Chapter 35 (06:33:42) Chapter 36 (06:41:09) Chapter 37 (06:53:02) Chapter 38 (07:04:50) Chapter 39 (07:31:22) Chapter 40 (07:44:29) Chapter 41 (08:15:35) Chapter 42 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome audiobook. Genre: comedy Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history of places along the route, but the humorous elements eventually took over, to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages now seem like an unnecessary distraction to the essentially comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers. The jokes seem fresh and witty even today. The three men were based on Jerome himself and two real-life friends, George, and Harris. The dog, Montmorency, however, was entirely fictional, but, as Jerome had remarked, 'had much of me in it.' For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:30) Chapter 01 (00:23:25) Chapter 02 (00:36:11) Chapter 03 (00:55:28) Chapter 04 (01:22:28) Chapter 05 (01:39:05) Chapter 06 (02:03:58) Chapter 07 (02:23:09) Chapter 08 (02:47:13) Chapter 09 (03:07:39) Chapter 10 (03:29:24) Chapter 11 (03:50:26) Chapter 12 (04:14:10) Chapter 13 (04:38:09) Chapter 14 (05:00:10) Chapter 15 (05:27:55) Chapter 16 (05:35:08) Chapter 17 (05:50:26) Chapter 18 (06:04:31) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dear Enemy by Jean Webster audiobook. Genre: romance In this witty, warm epistolary novel, Sallie McBride takes on a challenge most people would run from: becoming superintendent of the John Grier Home, a bleak, old-fashioned orphanage with a tight budget, stubborn traditions, and a board of trustees more interested in appearances than children. Sallie writes a lively stream of letters to her best friend Judy Abbott (now comfortably married), to Judy's husband Jervis, and to a handful of others who can help her survive the job - including the one correspondent she least expects to rely on: the sharp-tongued young doctor, Robin MacRae, whom she dubs her 'dear enemy.' As Sallie tries to replace rigid rules with humane care, she must navigate staff rivalries, skeptical benefactors, and the daily realities of raising dozens of lively, wounded, hopeful kids. Full of humor and heart, Dear Enemy blends social conscience with sparkling banter, tracing how small reforms, patient attention, and unexpected alliances can change an institution - and how a clash of opinions can slowly turn into something far more personal. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:14:43) Chapter 2 (00:32:43) Chapter 3 (00:48:46) Chapter 4 (01:04:17) Chapter 5 (01:19:31) Chapter 6 (01:33:44) Chapter 7 (01:52:15) Chapter 8 (02:07:47) Chapter 9 (02:32:11) Chapter 10 (02:47:43) Chapter 11 (03:03:22) Chapter 12 (03:19:49) Chapter 13 (03:34:58) Chapter 14 (03:54:19) Chapter 15 (04:14:30) Chapter 16 (04:27:15) Chapter 17 (04:43:16) Chapter 18 (05:01:28) Chapter 19 (05:17:22) Chapter 20 (05:34:08) Chapter 21 (05:47:41) Chapter 22 (06:01:19) Chapter 23 (06:19:13) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure In the raw, ice-bright reaches of early-1900s Alaska, Mary Standish boards a northbound steamer with little more than a battered suitcase and a fierce need to outrun her past. Watching over her is Captain Rifle, a weathered old seaman who knows every treacherous channel and every kind of human desperation that rides the Alaskan coast. Waiting beyond the docks is Alan Holt, a hard-riding frontier landholder determined to defend his vast holdings and the people who depend on them from speculators and corrupt powerbrokers hungry for timber, gold, and influence. When a sudden tragedy on the voyage pulls Mary into the center of a widening struggle, her flight becomes a test of courage, trust, and survival. As Mary and Alan are drawn together, they are forced to navigate a wilderness where the law is far away, violence is close at hand, and the stakes include not only fortunes but the fate of the land itself. Sweeping, romantic, and fiercely grounded in the frontier spirit, The Alaskan pits love and conscience against greed in a country that demands everything from those who dare to claim it. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:31) Chapter 02 (00:36:41) Chapter 03 (00:58:49) Chapter 04 (01:20:22) Chapter 05 (01:45:07) Chapter 06 (01:59:30) Chapter 07 (02:12:17) Chapter 08 (02:30:13) Chapter 09 (02:57:37) Chapter 10 (03:19:55) Chapter 11 (03:31:57) Chapter 12 (04:08:42) Chapter 13 (04:26:20) Chapter 14 (04:48:51) Chapter 15 (05:09:19) Chapter 16 (05:22:21) Chapter 17 (05:42:49) Chapter 18 (06:03:37) Chapter 19 (06:32:31) Chapter 20 (06:50:26) Chapter 21 (07:06:18) Chapter 22 (07:19:44) Chapter 23 (07:38:11) Chapter 24 (08:03:52) Chapter 25 (08:22:40) Chapter 26 (08:47:55) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boys Book of Famous Soldiers by J. Walker McSpadden audiobook. Genre: history In Boys Book of Famous Soldiers, J. Walker McSpadden gathers a gallery of military lives into a brisk, story-driven introduction to the men who shaped famous campaigns and the eras around them. Written for young readers but engaging for anyone who likes clear, dramatic history, the book moves from one portrait to the next, sketching childhood influences, early ambitions, decisive moments of leadership, and the hard choices demanded by war. Each chapter sets its subject against a vivid backdrop of shifting nations, rival commanders, and battles where discipline, timing, and nerve matter as much as strength. McSpadden is less interested in dry timelines than in the human qualities behind reputation: courage under pressure, loyalty to comrades, the burdens of command, and the way victory can carry a cost. Along the way, the book invites listeners to weigh honor and ambition against the realities of conflict, asking what makes a soldier memorable after the smoke clears. The result is a lively, accessible tour through military history, told through the lives that defined it. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:56) Chapter 01 (00:16:22) Chapter 02 (00:32:21) Chapter 03 (00:52:17) Chapter 04 (01:11:33) Chapter 05 (01:32:08) Chapter 06 (01:50:25) Chapter 07 (02:05:54) Chapter 08 (02:20:07) Chapter 09 (02:35:09) Chapter 10 (02:52:51) Chapter 11 (03:10:39) Chapter 12 (03:28:27) Chapter 13 (03:40:20) Chapter 14 (03:53:27) Chapter 15 (04:09:31) Chapter 16 (04:27:53) Chapter 17 (04:38:15) Chapter 18 (04:50:08) Chapter 19 (05:01:36) Chapter 20 (05:13:27) Chapter 21 (05:24:00) Chapter 22 (05:36:32) Chapter 23 (05:50:09) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Atlantis - The Antediluvian World by Ignatius Loyola Donnelly audiobook. Genre: history First published in 1882, Ignatius Loyola Donnelly's Atlantis - The Antediluvian World is a bold investigation into one of history's most enduring mysteries: was Plato's Atlantis a real place, and could it have been the lost cradle of civilization? Donnelly, a politician turned restless scholar, builds a sweeping case that an advanced island continent once existed in the Atlantic Ocean and that its destruction by a prehistoric catastrophe scattered survivors across the globe. Drawing on classical texts, early archaeology, comparative mythology, linguistics, and 19th-century geology, he links ancient Egypt, the Americas, and Europe through shared symbols, flood legends, and technological echoes that, he argues, point back to a single source. As Donnelly challenges the mainstream view of independent cultural development, readers are invited into a spirited debate over evidence, interpretation, and the human desire to connect the fragments of the distant past. Part detective story, part manifesto, and part tour of the world's oldest stories, this influential work remains a landmark of alternative history and a vivid portrait of Victorian-era curiosity about humanity's origins. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:59) Chapter 02 (00:37:31) Chapter 03 (01:07:45) Chapter 04 (01:30:18) Chapter 05 (01:54:28) Chapter 06 (02:04:29) Chapter 07 (02:22:38) Chapter 08 (02:31:35) Chapter 09 (02:52:14) Chapter 10 (03:23:24) Chapter 11 (03:49:03) Chapter 12 (04:14:02) Chapter 13 (04:40:45) Chapter 14 (05:02:26) Chapter 15 (05:18:18) Chapter 16 (05:44:10) Chapter 17 (06:16:32) Chapter 18 (06:27:03) Chapter 19 (06:52:39) Chapter 20 (07:18:23) Chapter 21 (07:58:14) Chapter 22 (08:21:21) Chapter 23 (09:09:58) Chapter 24 (09:48:48) Chapter 25 (09:58:35) Chapter 26 (10:12:03) Chapter 27 (10:34:37) Chapter 28 (10:57:41) Chapter 29 (11:07:22) Chapter 30 (11:15:34) Chapter 31 (11:46:18) Chapter 32 (12:14:12) Chapter 33 (12:27:13) Chapter 34 (12:40:43) Chapter 35 (13:05:03) Chapter 36 (13:26:26) Chapter 37 (13:33:08) Chapter 38 (14:00:01) Chapter 39 (14:09:59) Chapter 40 (14:37:40) Chapter 41 (15:23:15) Chapter 42 (16:02:58) Chapter 43 (16:36:41) Chapter 44 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Histories Vol. 1 by Herodotus of Halicarnassus audiobook. Genre: history Herodotus of Halicarnassus opens his great inquiry into how peoples remember, explain, and wage war with one another. In Histories Vol. 1, he traces the rising power of Persia and the long chain of rivalries that will culminate in the great clashes between East and West. The narrative begins with stories of famous abductions and reprisals that ancient audiences treated as the roots of conflict, then turns to the formidable kings of Lydia, especially Croesus, whose wealth and ambition draw him into confrontation with a new imperial force. Along the way, Herodotus blends political history with vivid travel writing: customs, religions, marvels, and whispered anecdotes gathered from priests, soldiers, and local guides. His method is as much about questioning sources as it is about telling a gripping story, weighing competing accounts and pausing to reflect on fate, pride, and the dangers of overconfidence. By weaving together court intrigue, diplomacy, battlefield decisions, and cultural portraiture, this first volume establishes a sweeping world of interconnected kingdoms and sets the stage for a larger struggle that will reshape the ancient Mediterranean. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:47) Chapter 02 (00:41:46) Chapter 03 (01:10:41) Chapter 04 (01:35:20) Chapter 05 (02:00:30) Chapter 06 (02:22:52) Chapter 07 (02:51:58) Chapter 08 (03:15:53) Chapter 09 (03:41:43) Chapter 10 (04:21:41) Chapter 11 (04:42:22) Chapter 12 (05:02:31) Chapter 13 (05:32:40) Chapter 14 (05:57:34) Chapter 15 (06:21:52) Chapter 16 (06:46:58) Chapter 17 (07:09:00) Chapter 18 (07:40:25) Chapter 19 (08:00:53) Chapter 20 (08:21:59) Chapter 21 (08:43:03) Chapter 22 (09:05:49) Chapter 23 (09:24:38) Chapter 24 (09:44:59) Chapter 25 (10:02:19) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago by Hannah Trager audiobook. Genre: history In Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago, Hannah Trager invites listeners into a series of vivid, intimate scenes that recreate everyday Jewish life as it was remembered and recorded half a century earlier. Framed through family conversation and letters read aloud in a modest London home, the book follows the Jacobs family as they prepare for Shabbat and wrestle with the pressures of fitting in while remaining faithful to tradition. The children, especially Benjamin, become a bridge between worlds: the crowded streets and schools of immigrant London, and the longing, idealized pull of Jerusalem. As letters from the Holy City are shared, daily routines open outward into a larger portrait of Jewish home practice, education, charity, and community life in Palestine: spring cleaning before Passover under conditions of scarcity, Sabbath meals and household arrangements, and the textures of neighborhood support and disagreement. Warmly observant and rich with cultural detail, Trager's sketches explore identity, environment, and the quiet heroism of keeping a way of life alive across distances and generations. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:43) Chapter 02 (00:22:47) Chapter 03 (00:32:25) Chapter 04 (00:42:05) Chapter 05 (00:55:00) Chapter 06 (01:04:54) Chapter 07 (01:09:18) Chapter 08 (01:17:11) Chapter 09 (01:24:27) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Genre: scifi On a windswept, long-dead Mars, an Earth expedition uncovers a buried city that could rewrite humanity's understanding of alien intelligence. But the most valuable find is not a monument or a machine - it is writing: inscriptions, labels, and fragments of text scattered through the ruins. For the scientists on the team, the discovery is exhilarating and terrifying, because deciphering an unknown language without a living speaker can be a puzzle with no solution. At the center of the effort is Martha Dane, a brilliant linguist whose training, intuition, and stubborn patience may be the difference between a priceless breakthrough and a permanent mystery. As personalities clash, priorities diverge, and time and resources tighten, the team must decide what evidence matters, what assumptions are dangerous, and how much of their own culture they are smuggling into every translation attempt. Omnilingual is a tense, idea-driven tale about the limits of knowledge, the fragile bridge between symbols and meaning, and the thrilling moment when the past becomes readable again. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:42:00) Chapter 2 (01:11:11) Chapter 3 (01:27:12) Chapter 4 (01:39:10) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Geronimo by Geronimo audiobook. Genre: biography Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.S. prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Geronimo’s story found audience and publication through the efforts of S. M. Barrett--Lawton, Oklahoma, Superintendent of Education, who wrote in his preface that “the initial idea of the compilation of this work was . . . to extend to Geronimo as a prisoner of war the courtesy due any captive, i.e. the right to state the causes which impelled him in his opposition to our civilization and laws.” Barrett, with the assistance of Asa Deklugie, son of Nedni chief Whoa as Apache translator, wrote down the story as Geronimo told it --beginning with an Apache creation myth. Geronimo recounted bloody battles with Mexican troopers, against whom he had vowed vengeance in 1858 after they murdered his mother, his wife, and his three small children. He told of treaties made between Apaches and the U.S. Army--and treaties broken. There were periods of confinement on the reservations, and escapes. And there were his final days on the run, when the U.S. Army put 5000 men in the field against his small band of 39 Apache. Geronimo had been a prisoner of war for 19 years when he told his story. Born in 1829, he was by then an old man, no longer a warrior, and he had come to an accommodation with many things “white,” including an appreciation of money. U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs personnel took him to the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, where he roped cows in the “wild west show” and signed his name for “ten, fifteen, or twenty five cents.” By then he was perhaps the United States’ most “famous” Indian. In 1905 he was even invited to ride horseback in President Theodore Roosevelt’s inaugural parade (though still a prisoner of war!). Geronimo dedicated his book to Roosevelt with the plea that he and his people be allowed to return to their ancestral land in Arizona. “It is my land, my home, my father’s land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace.” Geronimo died at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1909, still a prisoner of war. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 0 (00:20:45) Chapter 1 (00:43:15) Chapter 2 (01:11:02) Chapter 3 (01:31:06) Chapter 4 (01:56:14) Chapter 5 (02:14:50) Chapter 6 (02:37:02) Chapter 7 (03:11:45) Chapter 8 (03:29:15) Chapter 9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices