Classic Audiobook Collection

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook. Genre: drama 'The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief.' Hawthorne's moral for 'The House of the Seven Gables,' taken from the Preface, accurately presages his story. The full weight of the gloomy mansion of the title seems to sit on the fortunes of the Pyncheon family. An ancestor took advantage of the Salem witch trials to wrest away the land whereon the house would be raised... but the land's owner, about to be executed as a wizard, cursed the Pyncheon family until such time as they should make restitution. Now, almost two centuries later, the family is in real distress. Hepzibah, an old maid and resident of the house, is forced by advanced poverty to open a shop in a part of the house. Her brother Clifford has just been released from prison after serving a thirty-year sentence for murder, and his mind struggles to maintain any kind of hold on reality. Cousin Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is making himself odious by threatening to have Clifford committed to an institution. And after all these years, the deed to a vast tract of land, that would settle great wealth on the family, is still missing. One bright ray of sunshine enters the house when cousin Phoebe arrives for an extended stay to allow unhappy matters in her end of the family to sort themselves out. While she lightens the lives of Hepzibah and Clifford, she also attracts the attention of a mysterious lodger named Holgrave, who has placed himself near the Pyncheon family for reasons that only come clear at the end of the story. The real crisis arrives when the Judge, who strongly resembles the Colonel Pyncheon who built the house so many years ago, steps up his demands on Hepzibah and Clifford and unwittingly triggers the curse. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:18:26) Chapter 01 (01:17:52) Chapter 02 (01:46:55) Chapter 03 (02:18:33) Chapter 04 (02:51:48) Chapter 05 (03:27:26) Chapter 06 (03:51:51) Chapter 07 (04:30:37) Chapter 08 (05:10:07) Chapter 09 (05:38:25) Chapter 10 (06:09:18) Chapter 11 (06:41:12) Chapter 12 (07:14:12) Chapter 13 (08:08:43) Chapter 14 (08:35:49) Chapter 15 (09:16:31) Chapter 16 (09:46:22) Chapter 17 (10:21:03) Chapter 18 (11:00:45) Chapter 19 (11:36:55) Chapter 20 (11:57:32) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This World is Taboo by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi Calhoun, a field man for the Interstellar Medical Service, expects routine inspections: land, check public health conditions, and leave a world safer than he found it. But when his small Med Ship reaches Weald Three, he finds a prosperous grain planet locked in fear. Nearby Dara, once ravaged by a plague, is under strict quarantine, and its people carry the visible legacy of that sickness - the hated 'blueskins.' On Weald, politicians and security forces treat any contact with Dara as contamination, and paranoia is turning into something far more dangerous. Calhoun, accompanied by his sharp-eyed tormal companion Murgatroyd, quickly realizes that the health problem is inseparable from prejudice, trade, and the threat of interplanetary violence. To do his job, he may have to break the very quarantine everyone insists will keep them safe, and step onto the world that has been declared untouchable. Part medical mystery, part political thriller, Leinster's classic space adventure digs into how fear spreads faster than disease, and how one stubborn professional can challenge a system built on scapegoats. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:32:48) Chapter 02 (01:01:22) Chapter 03 (01:29:28) Chapter 04 (01:59:48) Chapter 05 (02:34:49) Chapter 06 (03:06:45) Chapter 07 (03:37:29) Chapter 08 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conquest Over Time by Michael Shaara audiobook. Genre: scifi Pat Travis has made a career out of being first. As a veteran Contact Man for a powerful Earth company, he races rival operators to newly opened worlds, gambling on speed, nerve, and a reputation for impossible luck. But when Travis reaches the planet the locals call Mert, his winning streak turns instantly sour: according to the planet's rigid astrological code, he has arrived on the worst possible day. Doors close, streets empty, officials turn hostile, and every attempt at diplomacy collides with a culture that believes the stars have already decided the outcome.Stranded in a city that looks like it was built for carriages and candlelight, Travis is pushed off the polite surface and into the dangerous underworld below, where outcasts survive in tunnels and sewers the respectable citizens pretend do not exist. There he meets two unlikely allies, including a startlingly brilliant young schemer who sees angles Travis has missed. Together they try to outthink superstition, corporate pressure, and a ticking calendar of unlucky hours, while Travis fights to prove that success is more than fate. Conquest Over Time blends tense negotiation, sly humor, and a sharp clash of belief systems into a fast, classic tale of science-fiction intrigue. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:20:01) Chapter 2 (00:38:36) Chapter 3 (01:03:49) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge audiobook. Genre: family Mary Mapes Dodge created an instant bestseller with 'Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates.' She wanted the book to be partly a book of travels and partly a domestic story. It is a tale written for children that adults also find interesting and uplifting. Dodge writes as if she is sending a series of letters from Holland to children in America, and her you-are-there perspective is aided by a nice attention to detail and vivid imagery. The Brinkers are a poor but stoic family under a dark cloud - Raff, the man of the house, fell from the dikes while reinforcing them during a bad storm, and for ten years he has been in a vegetative state. With no steady income, the family's lot is grinding poverty. Despite their unfortunate circumstances, Hans and Gretel are cheerful children, yet always attentive to the needs of their mother and their present-but-not-really-there father. Their social standing is very low, but they both attract firm friends, even among the gentry, for their honesty, industry, and good-heartedness. Then a glorious skating race is proposed for the town of Broek, with the prize a pair of silver skates for both the winning boy and girl. In the weeks leading up to the race, we follow the adventures of five of the local boys who are showing a visiting relative from England the sights of the Netherlands. Hans improbably meets the one man who might be able to heal his father, and somehow Hans finds a way to afford some skates so that he and Gretel can enter the race. This all leads up to a dramatic, moving, and entirely satisfactory conclusion. 'Hans Brinker' hits a series of high notes and encourages children to cultivate and display their finer qualities. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:07:38) Chapter 2 (00:16:54) Chapter 3 (00:36:03) Chapter 4 (00:46:48) Chapter 5 (01:00:34) Chapter 6 (01:15:11) Chapter 7 (01:24:19) Chapter 8 (01:32:26) Chapter 9 (01:44:18) Chapter 10 (02:02:32) Chapter 11 (02:21:56) Chapter 12 (02:38:27) Chapter 13 (02:45:57) Chapter 14 (02:53:21) Chapter 15 (03:04:31) Chapter 16 (03:19:10) Chapter 17 (03:31:21) Chapter 18 (03:41:38) Chapter 19 (03:56:18) Chapter 20 (04:09:16) Chapter 21 (04:23:31) Chapter 22 (04:29:29) Chapter 23 (04:52:56) Chapter 24 (04:59:42) Chapter 25 (05:11:34) Chapter 26 (05:23:34) Chapter 27 (05:29:45) Chapter 28 (05:55:14) Chapter 29 (06:10:03) Chapter 30 (06:23:05) Chapter 31 (06:34:17) Chapter 32 (06:47:32) Chapter 33 (07:00:51) Chapter 34 (07:07:35) Chapter 35 (07:14:28) Chapter 36 (07:23:41) Chapter 37 (07:32:58) Chapter 38 (07:43:14) Chapter 39 (07:50:49) Chapter 40 (08:00:58) Chapter 41 (08:12:00) Chapter 42 (08:28:38) Chapter 43 (08:45:25) Chapter 44 (09:18:42) Chapter 45 (09:34:36) Chapter 46 (09:40:15) Chapter 47 (09:50:52) Chapter 48 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Treaty With China by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: history First published in the New York Tribune on August 28, 1868, The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained is Mark Twain at his most sharp-eyed and plainspoken, turning a dense diplomatic document into a lively, provocative listening experience. With the newly concluded U.S.-China treaty (often associated with diplomat Anson Burlingame) as his framework, Twain walks the listener article by article through what the agreement actually says, why each clause exists, and who stands to gain or lose. He translates legal phrasing into everyday language, then widens the lens to the realities of foreign power in China, the pressures of trade and extraterritorial privilege, and the long history of mistrust created by meddling outsiders. Back in the United States, he aims his wit at the politics of immigration and the cruelty and hypocrisy faced by Chinese residents, especially on the Pacific coast, while also addressing issues like religious liberty, consular protection, and the fight against coerced labor. Part civics lesson, part moral argument, Twain's commentary asks what a fair international relationship should look like when prejudice and profit are both on the table. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:23:59) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: adventure When Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer stumble onto a mysterious balloon, they find themselves swept into a journey far beyond the Mississippi River. Narrated in Huck's plainspoken, observant voice, the story launches the boys - along with their loyal friend Jim - into an accidental voyage over the Atlantic and into the deserts and ancient wonders of North Africa and the Middle East. Tom, brimming with confidence and book-learned ideas about science, geography, and adventure tales, insists he can steer their fate with clever plans and big speeches. Huck, more practical and skeptical, watches events unfold with a mix of awe, worry, and sharp humor, while Jim tries to keep the group grounded as danger and uncertainty mount. As they drift over unfamiliar landscapes, face natural threats, and encounter people and places that challenge their assumptions, the trio must rely on courage, wit, and each other to survive. Both travel yarn and satire, this classic Twain sequel pokes fun at romantic adventure stories while delivering a fast-moving tale of friendship, mischief, and the perils of overconfidence. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:18:43) Chapter 02 (00:32:34) Chapter 03 (00:48:00) Chapter 04 (00:55:35) Chapter 05 (01:09:36) Chapter 06 (01:20:02) Chapter 07 (01:33:18) Chapter 08 (01:50:19) Chapter 09 (02:01:59) Chapter 10 (02:15:14) Chapter 11 (02:33:34) Chapter 12 (02:51:45) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: drama The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age, commonly given to the era, comes from the title of this book. Twain and Warner got the name from Shakespeare's King John (1595): 'To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess.' Gilding a lily, which is already beautiful and not in need of further adornment, is excessive and wasteful, characteristics of the age Twain and Warner wrote about in their novel. Another interpretation of the title, of course, is the contrast between an ideal 'Golden Age,' and a less worthy 'Gilded Age,' as gilding is only a thin layer of gold over baser metal, so the title now takes on a pejorative meaning as to the novel's time, events and people. Although not one of Twain's more well-known works, it has appeared in more than 100 editions since its original publication in 1873. Twain and Warner originally had planned to issue the novel with illustrations by Thomas Nast. The book is remarkable for two reasons–-it is the only novel Twain wrote with a collaborator, and its title very quickly became synonymous with graft, materialism, and corruption in public life. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:03:10) Chapter 01 (00:24:08) Chapter 02 (00:32:00) Chapter 03 (00:41:15) Chapter 04 (01:02:16) Chapter 05 (01:20:04) Chapter 06 (01:42:16) Chapter 07 (01:57:35) Chapter 08 (02:16:10) Chapter 09 (02:28:50) Chapter 10 (02:45:44) Chapter 11 (02:57:45) Chapter 12 (03:13:44) Chapter 13 (03:31:20) Chapter 14 (03:43:53) Chapter 15 (04:01:35) Chapter 16 (04:18:50) Chapter 17 (04:33:09) Chapter 18 (04:49:50) Chapter 19 (05:06:32) Chapter 20 (05:21:06) Chapter 21 (05:35:46) Chapter 22 (05:53:43) Chapter 23 (05:59:35) Chapter 24 (06:17:48) Chapter 25 (06:29:03) Chapter 26 (06:45:44) Chapter 27 (06:57:04) Chapter 28 (07:18:29) Chapter 29 (07:34:45) Chapter 30 (07:41:11) Chapter 31 (07:59:16) Chapter 32 (08:11:31) Chapter 33 (08:46:56) Chapter 34 (08:57:41) Chapter 35 (09:10:52) Chapter 36 (09:21:28) Chapter 37 (09:29:13) Chapter 38 (09:43:28) Chapter 39 (09:53:33) Chapter 40 (10:06:28) Chapter 41 (10:22:24) Chapter 42 (10:52:45) Chapter 43 (11:03:24) Chapter 44 (11:17:33) Chapter 45 (11:39:07) Chapter 46 (11:56:27) Chapter 47 (12:10:44) Chapter 48 (12:24:52) Chapter 49 (12:40:06) Chapter 50 (12:57:39) Chapter 51 (13:11:47) Chapter 52 (13:15:55) Chapter 53 (13:30:50) Chapter 54 (13:46:49) Chapter 55 (14:06:06) Chapter 56 (14:24:43) Chapter 57 (14:37:40) Chapter 58 (14:53:04) Chapter 59 (15:15:46) Chapter 60 (15:31:30) Chapter 61 (15:44:27) Chapter 62 (15:55:19) Chapter 63 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: comedy When a sacred white elephant arrives in America as a diplomatic gift, it is supposed to be the ultimate symbol of goodwill and grandeur. Instead, it becomes the center of a wildly escalating fiasco. Mark Twain frames the tale as an official report, following a conscientious but increasingly bewildered investigator tasked with recovering the missing animal after it vanishes from its secure stable. As newspapers erupt with theories and sightings, the search balloons into a full-scale public spectacle: detectives multiply, clues contradict each other, and every confident announcement seems to deepen the confusion. Twain delights in piling up earnest paperwork, solemn testimony, and breathless sensationalism until the machinery of law and the machinery of publicity start to look like the same absurd engine. Beneath the farce is a sharp satire of institutional competence, media frenzy, and the human need to turn uncertainty into a story that feels satisfying. Brisk, mischievous, and packed with deadpan wit, The Stolen White Elephant is a comic chase through bureaucracy, rumor, and the strange ways a single missing creature can expose a whole society's appetite for certainty. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:18:12) Chapter 02 (00:35:33) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: comedy Sketches New and Old is a lively collection that shows Mark Twain at his most sharp-eyed and mischievous, gathering together short pieces that range from tall tales and travel anecdotes to satire, memoir, and moments of surprising tenderness. With his trademark plainspoken voice and perfect sense of timing, Twain turns everyday situations into comedy - a stubborn watch that refuses to behave, a public lecture that veers toward disaster, a courtroom or newspaper report that reveals more absurdity than truth, and the small vanities people defend as if their lives depend on it. The 'new' sketches catch the bustle of modern America as Twain saw it, while the 'old' ones look back on earlier experiences and stories, tracing how a frontier wit became a national commentator. Beneath the laughter are themes Twain returns to again and again: the slippery nature of facts, the performance of respectability, and the gap between what people say and what they do. Each piece stands alone, making this an ideal listen in bite-sized chapters - funny, skeptical, and unmistakably Twain. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:08) Chapter 02 (00:22:57) Chapter 03 (01:06:05) Chapter 04 (01:20:24) Chapter 05 (01:28:17) Chapter 06 (01:38:54) Chapter 07 (01:40:44) Chapter 08 (01:56:52) Chapter 09 (02:18:41) Chapter 10 (02:24:58) Chapter 11 (02:39:22) Chapter 12 (02:44:52) Chapter 13 (02:48:38) Chapter 14 (02:53:35) Chapter 15 (02:55:22) Chapter 16 (03:10:29) Chapter 17 (03:28:35) Chapter 18 (03:37:25) Chapter 19 (03:40:56) Chapter 20 (03:45:40) Chapter 21 (04:10:03) Chapter 22 (04:25:44) Chapter 23 (04:36:14) Chapter 24 (04:48:12) Chapter 25 (04:50:12) Chapter 26 (04:58:55) Chapter 27 (05:00:24) Chapter 28 (05:06:38) Chapter 29 (05:14:05) Chapter 30 (05:21:59) Chapter 31 (05:40:15) Chapter 32 (05:42:26) Chapter 33 (05:48:37) Chapter 34 (05:59:20) Chapter 35 (06:09:42) Chapter 36 (06:32:58) Chapter 37 (06:45:13) Chapter 38 (06:54:46) Chapter 39 (07:02:48) Chapter 40 (07:18:38) Chapter 41 (07:30:55) Chapter 42 (07:34:55) Chapter 43 (07:38:35) Chapter 44 (07:51:56) Chapter 45 (07:59:06) Chapter 46 (08:05:50) Chapter 47 (08:11:23) Chapter 48 (08:16:14) Chapter 49 (08:23:19) Chapter 50 (08:25:45) Chapter 51 (08:35:07) Chapter 52 (08:37:47) Chapter 53 (08:53:46) Chapter 54 (08:56:27) Chapter 55 (08:59:29) Chapter 56 (09:07:24) Chapter 57 (09:28:51) Chapter 58 (09:40:37) Chapter 59 (09:42:54) Chapter 60 (09:48:57) Chapter 61 (09:59:28) Chapter 62 (10:10:17) Chapter 63 (10:22:20) Chapter 64 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: comedy In Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, Mark Twain turns a short vacation into a comic field report on the art of doing as little as possible. Leaving wintry New York behind, Twain boards a ship bound for Bermuda with a traveling companion known simply as the Reverend, and immediately discovers that even an escape from work comes with its own trials: cramped quarters, talkative fellow passengers, and the stubborn realities of the sea. As the voyage settles into days of salt air and shipboard gossip, Twain listens in on sailors, captains, and amateur philosophers, recording their arguments, tall tales, and peculiar logic with his trademark deadpan delight. Reaching Bermuda, he wanders through narrow lanes and along bright, shallow waters, admiring the island's calm beauty while skewering the tourist notion of must-see sights. With sharp observations on local customs, island politics, and the universal human talent for taking things far too seriously, Twain builds a lively portrait of travel as both refreshment and ridiculous performance. The result is a breezy, witty journey that celebrates loafing, curiosity, and the comedy hiding in ordinary conversations. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:06) Chapter 02 (00:49:02) Chapter 03 (01:14:14) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: adventure The Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. The book, set in 1547, tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court, London, and Prince Edward son of Henry VIII of England. Due to a series of circumstances, the boys accidentally replace each other, and much of the humor in the book originates in the two boys' inability to function in the world that is so familiar to the other (although Tom soon displays considerable wisdom in his decisions). In many ways, the book is a social satire, particularly compelling in its condemnation of the inequality that existed between the classes in Tudor England. In that sense, Twain abandoned the wry Midwestern style for which he was best known and adopts a style reminiscent of Charles Dickens. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:27:35) Chapter 2 (00:51:32) Chapter 06 (01:07:15) Chapter 3 (01:20:54) Chapter 4 (01:43:41) Chapter 11 (01:54:31) Chapter 12 (02:18:00) Chapter 13 (02:26:39) Chapter 14 (02:49:23) Chapter 15 (03:12:04) Chapter 5 (03:39:28) Chapter 6 (04:06:41) Chapter 7 (04:30:31) Chapter 8 (04:48:39) Chapter 9 (05:08:26) Chapter 10 (05:36:19) Chapter 11 (05:53:06) Chapter 31 (06:05:28) Chapter 32 (06:30:25) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old Times on the Mississippi by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: history In Old Times on the Mississippi, Mark Twain returns to the great river that shaped his imagination and his youth, recounting the years when he learned the demanding craft of steamboat piloting. With a newcomer's awe and a veteran's hard-won confidence, Twain takes listeners into the bustling world of river landings, shifting sandbars, fogbound channels, and the strict apprenticeship that could mean the difference between glory and disaster. Along the way, he sketches a living panorama of the Mississippi Valley: rough-and-ready deckhands, sharp-eyed captains, boastful travelers, and the eccentric towns that cling to the riverbanks. Twain's humor is everywhere, but so is his respect for the river as a force that rewards attention and punishes carelessness. More than a personal reminiscence, the narrative becomes a portrait of an era on the brink of change, capturing the rhythms of commerce and the folklore of the frontier before modern life begins to reshape the river's culture. Wry, vivid, and deeply observant, this is Twain at his best: turning memory into a story as wide and restless as the Mississippi itself. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:36) Chapter 02 (00:48:49) Chapter 03 (01:17:15) Chapter 04 (01:44:07) Chapter 05 (02:15:35) Chapter 06 (02:56:27) Chapter 07 (03:25:24) Chapter 08 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: history In Mark Twains Letters from Hawaii, the young journalist Samuel Clemens - not yet the world famous Mark Twain - turns a brief assignment in the Pacific into a vivid, funny, and sharply observed portrait of the Hawaiian Islands in the 1860s. Writing as a roaming correspondent, Twain moves from bustling Honolulu to rural districts, recording what he sees with an outsiders curiosity and a satirists eye: volcanic landscapes, sudden storms, crowded wharves, local politics, missionaries and merchants, royal pageantry, and the everyday work and celebrations of island life. Along the way he tests his own limits, chasing sights that feel impossible to describe and meeting people who challenge his assumptions about culture, class, and modernity. The central tension is not a single plot twist, but the push and pull between romantic expectations of paradise and the complex realities of a changing kingdom under growing foreign influence. By mixing reportorial detail with comic exaggeration and bursts of lyrical awe, these letters capture a moment in time while showcasing the early formation of Twains unmistakable voice - skeptical, compassionate, and endlessly entertaining. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:05) Chapter 02 (00:23:22) Chapter 03 (00:36:58) Chapter 04 (00:54:36) Chapter 05 (01:09:03) Chapter 06 (01:31:37) Chapter 07 (01:47:00) Chapter 08 (02:06:33) Chapter 09 (02:25:02) Chapter 10 (02:41:20) Chapter 11 (02:57:14) Chapter 12 (03:12:13) Chapter 13 (03:27:58) Chapter 14 (03:52:39) Chapter 15 (04:34:35) Chapter 16 (05:02:51) Chapter 17 (05:31:15) Chapter 18 (05:56:14) Chapter 19 (06:20:10) Chapter 20 (06:35:35) Chapter 21 (06:57:04) Chapter 22 (07:21:45) Chapter 23 (07:56:58) Chapter 24 (08:22:34) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Horse’s Tale by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: adventure Told in the proud, observant voice of Soldier Boy, Buffalo Bill's favorite mount, A Horse's Tale carries Mark Twain's wit into a frontier cavalry post where bravery is measured, reputations are made, and animals are expected to serve without complaint. Soldier Boy knows the trails, the bugle calls, and the vanity of the two-legged world, and he watches it all with a mix of humor, loyalty, and hard-won wisdom. Into this rugged routine comes Cathy Alison, a spirited young girl living under the stern protection of her uncle, General Alison. Cathy is drawn to Buffalo Bill's glamour and to Soldier Boy's intelligence and steadiness, and the bond that forms among girl, horse, and scout begins to reshape life at the post.But Twain does not let the story remain a simple yarn of drills and daring. As Soldier Boy is passed from hand to hand and asked to perform under different kinds of authority, the tale presses a sharper question: what does human pride cost the creatures that cannot speak for themselves? By turns comic and tender, the novel becomes a pointed meditation on empathy, cruelty, and the uneasy gap between public heroism and private responsibility. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:17) Chapter 01 (00:11:25) Chapter 02 (00:16:29) Chapter 03 (00:21:44) Chapter 04 (00:27:43) Chapter 05 (00:44:43) Chapter 06 (01:04:32) Chapter 07 (01:08:20) Chapter 08 (01:09:25) Chapter 09 (01:16:41) Chapter 10 (01:27:48) Chapter 11 (01:38:02) Chapter 12 (01:39:31) Chapter 13 (01:47:08) Chapter 14 (01:50:12) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Defense of Harriet Shelley by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: biography In Defense of Harriet Shelley is Mark Twain's sharp, meticulously argued case for a woman history has often treated as a footnote - and a villain. Taking aim at popular biographies of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Twain reopens the story of Shelley's first marriage to Harriet Westbrook Shelley and challenges the comfortable legends that excuse the famous poet while condemning the young wife he left behind. With a satirist's bite and a lawyer's patience, Twain sifts through quoted passages, assumptions, and secondhand gossip, exposing how reputations are built, how moral blame gets assigned, and how easily a biographical narrative can harden into 'truth.' At the center is Harriet herself: a real person caught between public mythmaking and private suffering, judged by standards that seem designed to protect genius at any cost. As Twain presses his cross-examination, the listener is drawn into a larger conflict about fairness, gendered double standards, and the ethics of storytelling - who gets defended, who gets dismissed, and what we owe the dead when we write their lives. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:31:33) Chapter 2 (01:03:13) Chapter 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Goldsmith’s Friend Abroad Again by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: comedy In Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again, Mark Twain delivers a sharp, darkly funny epistolary satire in the form of letters from Ah Song Hi, a Chinese traveler who sets his sights on America, the celebrated land of liberty and equal rights. Writing home with careful politeness and mounting disbelief, Ah Song Hi describes the long journey across the ocean and his arrival in San Francisco, where the grand promises of opportunity collide with everyday cruelty. As he tries to work, move freely, and simply be treated as a person, he is met by petty officials, hostile crowds, and a legal system that seems eager to punish him for existing in the wrong body and speaking with the wrong accent. Twain uses the narrator's earnest tone and precise observations to expose hypocrisy: the gap between patriotic slogans and the lived reality of an immigrant marked as unwelcome. By turning prejudice into a series of absurd, escalating encounters, the story becomes both a comedy of manners and a fierce moral indictment of anti-Chinese sentiment in 19th-century America. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:05:32) Chapter 02 (00:13:55) Chapter 03 (00:19:48) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Following the Equator by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: adventure Following the Equator (American English title) or More Tramps Abroad (English title) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a 'revolutionary' typesetting machine. In an attempt to extricate himself from debt of $100,000 (equivalent of about $2 million in 2005) he undertook a tour of the British Empire in 1895, a route chosen to provide numerous opportunities for lectures in the English language. In Following the Equator, an account of that travel published in 1897, the author unmasks and criticizes racism, imperialism and missionary zeal in observations woven into the narrative with classical Twain wit. Of particular interest, historically, are Twain's references to Cecil Rhodes in Australia and South Africa, the in-depth description of 'Thugs' and 'Thuggee' in India and the Boer War period and diamonds in South Africa. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:44) Chapter 02 (00:45:20) Chapter 03 (01:13:23) Chapter 04 (01:31:59) Chapter 05 (01:44:42) Chapter 06 (02:02:21) Chapter 07 (02:16:58) Chapter 08 (02:34:17) Chapter 09 (02:54:13) Chapter 10 (03:03:44) Chapter 11 (03:15:47) Chapter 12 (03:26:06) Chapter 13 (03:45:27) Chapter 14 (03:55:34) Chapter 15 (04:06:13) Chapter 16 (04:19:59) Chapter 17 (04:30:37) Chapter 18 (04:47:46) Chapter 19 (05:03:05) Chapter 20 (05:15:19) Chapter 21 (05:33:12) Chapter 22 (05:52:12) Chapter 23 (06:06:20) Chapter 24 (06:21:47) Chapter 25 (06:41:29) Chapter 26 (06:53:41) Chapter 27 (07:15:02) Chapter 28 (07:30:19) Chapter 29 (07:44:25) Chapter 30 (07:54:23) Chapter 31 (08:05:46) Chapter 32 (08:20:12) Chapter 33 (08:33:30) Chapter 34 (08:41:03) Chapter 35 (08:52:29) Chapter 36 (09:06:03) Chapter 37 (09:26:14) Chapter 38 (09:44:48) Chapter 39 (10:08:48) Chapter 40 (10:24:53) Chapter 41 (10:39:44) Chapter 42 (10:52:56) Chapter 43 (11:15:12) Chapter 44 (11:30:02) Chapter 45 (11:51:07) Chapter 46 (12:14:32) Chapter 47 (12:37:17) Chapter 48 (12:56:26) Chapter 49 (13:24:37) Chapter 50 (13:43:36) Chapter 51 (14:00:45) Chapter 52 (14:21:13) Chapter 53 (14:40:23) Chapter 54 (14:57:26) Chapter 55 (15:16:20) Chapter 56 (15:29:17) Chapter 57 (15:41:00) Chapter 58 (16:13:03) Chapter 59 (16:42:12) Chapter 60 (17:03:27) Chapter 61 (17:26:51) Chapter 62 (17:50:35) Chapter 63 (18:05:12) Chapter 64 (18:24:55) Chapter 65 (18:39:57) Chapter 66 (18:57:10) Chapter 67 (19:25:15) Chapter 68 (19:47:20) Chapter 69 (20:08:53) Chapter 70 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: comedy In Those Extraordinary Twins, Mark Twain spins a sharp, mischievous tale set in the small river town of Dawson's Landing, Missouri, where reputation is everything and gossip travels faster than the current. The town is shaken up by the arrival of Luigi and Angelo Capello, two Italian brothers who are conjoined twins - distinct in temperament and desires, yet forced to navigate American life as a single public spectacle. As locals alternately patronize, fear, and exploit them, the twins try to claim ordinary dignity in an extraordinary circumstance. Their presence soon collides with the town's fragile social order, drawing in judges, lawyers, and citizens eager to turn novelty into profit, pity into power, and curiosity into condemnation. When a tangled chain of misunderstandings and accusations pushes the twins into the machinery of the legal system, Twain uses courtroom theater and small-town prejudice to expose how easily For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:09:23) Chapter 01 (00:24:51) Chapter 02 (00:40:33) Chapter 03 (00:48:04) Chapter 04 (01:03:40) Chapter 05 (01:33:53) Chapter 06 (01:45:21) Chapter 07 (01:58:44) Chapter 08 (02:05:11) Chapter 09 (02:10:00) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Europe and Elsewhere by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: comedy In Europe and Elsewhere, Mark Twain turns his sharp eye and sharper wit on the rituals, pretensions, and everyday oddities he encounters abroad and at home. Drawn from his travel pieces and occasional writings, this collection follows Twain as he sizes up grand monuments and small inconveniences alike, comparing Old World traditions to American habits with a comic sense of proportion that never lets pomposity go unpunished. Whether he is describing the theater of polite society, the chaos of tourism, or the strange logic of official rules, Twain writes as a companionable guide who is always ready to puncture a solemn mood with a perfectly timed aside. The 'elsewhere' expands beyond geography into reflections on politics, culture, and human nature, revealing how quickly people invent stories to defend their customs and how stubbornly they cling to them. Beneath the laughter runs a consistent tension: the narrator wants to admire what is noble and beautiful, but cannot ignore the absurdity that tags along. The result is a spirited, bite-sized tour through Twain's classic voice - skeptical, observant, and irresistibly funny. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:52:15) Chapter 01 (01:21:13) Chapter 02 (01:44:50) Chapter 03 (02:02:44) Chapter 04 (03:04:45) Chapter 05 (04:09:53) Chapter 06 (04:24:14) Chapter 07 (05:09:45) Chapter 08 (05:47:23) Chapter 09 (06:35:39) Chapter 10 (07:20:11) Chapter 11 (07:33:45) Chapter 12 (08:00:50) Chapter 13 (08:17:53) Chapter 14 (09:00:47) Chapter 15 (09:25:07) Chapter 16 (09:34:30) Chapter 17 (09:53:56) Chapter 18 (10:06:31) Chapter 19 (10:35:35) Chapter 20 (11:23:55) Chapter 21 (12:10:48) Chapter 22 (12:15:29) Chapter 23 (12:18:19) Chapter 24 (12:25:03) Chapter 25 (12:38:40) Chapter 26 (12:46:47) Chapter 27 (13:02:26) Chapter 28 (13:31:22) Chapter 29 (13:44:54) Chapter 30 (13:52:20) Chapter 31 (14:01:25) Chapter 32 (14:06:41) Chapter 33 (14:52:04) Chapter 34 (15:08:41) Chapter 35 (15:24:33) Chapter 36 (15:34:00) Chapter 37 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Double Barrelled Detetive Story by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: comedy In A Double Barrelled Detective Story, Mark Twain loads his satire with two interlocking barrels: one aimed at revenge, the other at the smug certainties of detective fiction. The tale begins with a wealthy young woman whose marriage to the resentful Jacob Fuller turns vicious, leaving her humiliated, abandoned, and determined to reclaim her dignity. Years later, she places her hopes in her son, Archy Stillman, a quiet, driven young man gifted with an uncanny sense of smell - so keen it rivals a bloodhound's. Trained to track down the man who shattered their lives, Archy heads west with purpose burning hotter than any frontier sun.Just as his pursuit gathers force, Twain swings the story into a rough California mining camp where a shocking crime erupts, and the celebrated Sherlock Holmes arrives to demonstrate his famous logic on American soil. Holmes' confident deductions collide with local chaos, colorful witnesses, and Archy's almost supernatural instincts, turning the investigation into a sharp comedy of methods, pride, and misdirection. By blending melodrama, courtroom spectacle, and parody, Twain invites you to ask whether truth is found by reasoning, instinct, or sheer human messiness - and he has plenty of fun keeping you guessing. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:05:14) Chapter 02 (00:16:58) Chapter 03 (00:36:02) Chapter 04 (00:48:51) Chapter 05 (01:01:34) Chapter 06 (01:11:53) Chapter 07 (01:21:03) Chapter 08 (01:43:50) Chapter 09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Death Disk by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: drama Mark Twain's 'Death Disk' was inspired by the historical account of the execution of Colonel John Poyer of Pembroke, Wales on April 21, 1649. A small child was given the responsibility of selecting which of three rebel leaders of a civil uprising would receive a death penalty. The unfortunate fate was given to Poyer who was shot in front of a large crowd at Covent Garden. In 1883 Twain read about the child's role in the execution in a copy of Carlyle's Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, (Wiley & Putnam, 1845, pp. 344-345). In his personal notebook, Twain's imagination led him to remark, 'By dramatic accident, it could have been his own child' (Notebook #22, reprinted in Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III, 1883-1891, p. 14). In December 1883, Twain wrote his friend William Dean Howells, 'Now let's write a tragedy' (Mark Twain-Howells Letters, Volume II, p. 455). In his letter to Howells, he included the manuscript of the closing scene where a young girl unknowingly gives her own father a death sentence. Twain's original version ended in the father's execution. Twain's plan to complete the tragedy went nowhere for over a decade. In December 1899 he wrote from London to Katharine Harrison that he had recently completed 'The Death Disk.' Twain had revised the story and it now included a miraculous ending well-suited for the Christmas season. It was published in the 1901 Christmas issue of Harper's Magazine. On February 8, 1902, the story was staged as a one-act play at the Children's Theatre at Carnegie Hall. According to an announcement in The New York Times, February 7, 1902, child actress Beatrice Abbey (stage name of Mrs. Ethel Foster Hollearn) would star in the lead role in the play titled 'Little Lady and Lord Cromwell.' In Twain's autobiographical dictation on August 30, 1906, he recalled the struggles he had with the story. By that time he also recalled the title incorrectly: 'In the course of twelve years, I made six attempts to tell a simple little story which I knew would tell itself in four hours if I could ever find the right starting point. I scored six failures; then one day in London I offered the text of the story to Robert McClure and proposed that he publish that text in the magazine and offer a prize to the person who should tell it best. I became greatly interested and went on talking upon the text for half an hour; then he said, 'You have told the story yourself. You have nothing to do but put it on paper just as you have told it.' I recognized that this was true. At the end of four hours, it was finished, and quite to my satisfaction. So it took twelve years and four hours to produce that little bit of a story, which I have called 'The Death Wafer'' (Mark Twain in Eruption, pp. 199-200). For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:35) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fennimore Cooper’s Literary Offences by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: comedy In Fennimore Coopers Literary Offences, Mark Twain turns his sharp wit on one of America's early bestselling novelists, James Fenimore Cooper, and invites listeners into a gleefully rigorous takedown of what Twain sees as careless storytelling. Framed as a mock-serious piece of criticism, the essay begins with Twain's bafflement at Cooper's popularity and quickly becomes a tour of the alleged sins of romantic adventure fiction: improbable action, muddled geography, convenient coincidences, and prose that stumbles over clarity and common sense. Along the way, Twain lays out his famous set of rules for writing fiction and then, point by point, argues that Cooper violates nearly all of them, using examples from the Leatherstocking novels and their heroic frontier icon, Natty Bumppo. The result is part comedy, part craft lecture, and part cultural argument about what readers should demand from stories. Whether you love classic frontier tales or enjoy watching a master satirist sharpen his knives, this short work is a lively listen about taste, technique, and the pleasures of saying the quiet part out loud. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christian Science by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: religion Christian Science is a 1907 collection of essays Mark Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. Although Twain was interested in mental healing and the ideas behind Christian Science, he was hostile towards its founder, Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910). He called her, according to American writer Caroline Fraser, '[g]rasping, sordid, penurious, famishing for everything she sees—money, power, glory—vain, untruthful, jealous, despotic, arrogant, insolent, pitiless where thinkers and hypnotists are concerned, illiterate, shallow, incapable of reasoning outside of commercial lines, immeasurably selfish.' For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:06:05) Chapter 02 (00:30:53) Chapter 03 (00:43:09) Chapter 04 (00:50:33) Chapter 05 (01:01:03) Chapter 06 (01:29:47) Chapter 07 (01:56:54) Chapter 08 (02:01:21) Chapter 09 (02:14:32) Chapter 10 (02:29:32) Chapter 11 (02:50:47) Chapter 12 (03:01:14) Chapter 13 (03:14:49) Chapter 14 (03:20:48) Chapter 15 (03:34:37) Chapter 16 (04:33:03) Chapter 17 (05:01:57) Chapter 18 (05:42:05) Chapter 19 (05:43:59) Chapter 20 (05:58:48) Chapter 21 (05:59:39) Chapter 22 (06:05:16) Chapter 23 (06:07:58) Chapter 24 (06:09:32) Chapter 25 (06:25:53) Chapter 26 (06:37:18) Chapter 27 (06:40:25) Chapter 28 (06:41:50) Chapter 29 (07:05:50) Chapter 30 (07:14:13) Chapter 31 (07:18:32) Chapter 32 (07:36:37) Chapter 33 (07:38:25) Chapter 34 (07:55:05) Chapter 35 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alonzo Fitz & Other Stories by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: comedy Alonzo Fitz & Other Stories gathers a handful of Mark Twain's sharpest late-career short pieces - brisk, mischievous, and built to be read aloud. Across these compact tales and sketches, Twain turns everyday American confidence into comedy: earnest people chase grand plans, argue over respectable opinions, and stumble into consequences they never imagined. In the title story, a seemingly ordinary situation swells into a comic tangle of assumptions and reactions, showing how quickly pride and certainty can outrun common sense. Elsewhere, Twain plays with exaggeration, improbable coincidences, and mock-serious logic to poke at fashion, public judgment, and the self-important tone of modern progress. Each story is short on patience for pretension and long on wit - the kind that lands as a joke, then lingers as a critique. Whether he is describing a community in uproar or a single character making a spectacularly human mistake, Twain keeps the pace quick, the language clean and punchy, and the target unmistakable: the ways people fool themselves, especially when they are trying hardest to look wise. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:43:35) Chapter 02 (00:59:33) Chapter 03 (01:15:03) Chapter 04 (01:28:18) Chapter 05 (01:56:44) Chapter 06 (02:12:30) Chapter 07 (02:22:02) Chapter 08 (02:28:41) Chapter 09 (02:43:43) Chapter 10 (02:51:28) Chapter 11 (02:59:27) Chapter 12 (03:08:13) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ultima Thule by Mack Reynolds audiobook. Genre: scifi Ronny Bronston has spent his whole life dreaming of an off-world posting with United Planets, the sprawling interstellar authority that promises peace, progress, and a place for ambitious young men to prove themselves. When he finally lands a provisional slot in the Bureau of Investigation, Section G, he expects glamorous diplomacy and clear-cut heroics. Instead, he is dropped into a maze of interviews, procedures, and quiet political pressures where every promotion has a price and every official slogan hides an inconvenient reality. His first case is the kind that can make a career or end it: track down Tommy Paine, a long-rumored agitator whose name is linked to uprisings and ideological contagion on world after world. Chasing a man who may be terrorist, prophet, or manufactured myth forces Ronny to confront how empires maintain order, how revolutions spread, and how easily truth can be packaged as policy. As the hunt pulls him farther from the safety of headquarters and deeper into contested cultures at the edge of human space, Ronny must decide what loyalty actually means when the system itself may be the most dangerous mystery of all. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:09:20) Chapter 2 (00:20:33) Chapter 3 (00:31:38) Chapter 4 (00:40:43) Chapter 5 (00:49:01) Chapter 6 (00:58:27) Chapter 7 (01:08:12) Chapter 8 (01:21:12) Chapter 9 (01:37:58) Chapter 10 (01:51:12) Chapter 11 (02:02:01) Chapter 12 (02:13:39) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott audiobook. Genre: family In Good Wives, Louisa May Alcott returns to the March family as the four sisters step beyond girlhood and into the complicated, exhilarating work of becoming adults. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy each face choices that test their ideals and reshape their bonds: love that asks for sacrifice, ambition that demands courage, and duty that can both steady and constrain. As they navigate new homes, new responsibilities, and the shifting expectations placed on women, the sisters discover that growing up is not a single leap but a series of everyday decisions - some joyful, some painful, all defining. With their mother Marmee as a steady moral compass and their neighbor Laurie never far from their lives, the March sisters learn that family is not only a comfort but also a challenge: a place where dreams collide, tempers flare, and forgiveness must be earned. Tender, witty, and honest about the costs of maturity, Good Wives explores what it means to build a life without losing yourself, and how love in all its forms can change the course of a household forever. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:23:48) Chapter 02 (00:38:50) Chapter 03 (01:02:19) Chapter 04 (01:19:35) Chapter 05 (01:54:35) Chapter 06 (02:21:54) Chapter 07 (02:49:17) Chapter 08 (03:13:35) Chapter 09 (03:40:53) Chapter 10 (04:05:51) Chapter 11 (04:36:18) Chapter 12 (04:57:03) Chapter 13 (05:09:54) Chapter 14 (05:38:15) Chapter 15 (06:03:08) Chapter 16 (06:27:47) Chapter 17 (06:40:34) Chapter 18 (07:06:38) Chapter 19 (07:26:20) Chapter 20 (07:57:42) Chapter 21 (08:09:19) Chapter 22 (08:21:54) Chapter 23 (08:52:26) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy Who is stealing all the magic in Oz? Dorothy and her friends set out to comb all of Oz, not only for magic stolen from Glinda and the Wizard, but also for the kidnapped princess, Ozma. Along the way, they explore regions never seen in other Oz books, meeting strange and interesting people and animals, and falling into peril more than once. It’s a desperate mission – for if the thefts are all linked, then it means that some magician unknown to them has acquired powers beyond any available to them now. How will they find him? And how will they conquer him? Not one of them knows – but with continuing faith that goodness will triumph, they march forth to try. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:02:27) Chapter 2 (00:13:12) Chapter 3 (00:20:08) Chapter 4 (00:41:20) Chapter 5 (00:48:59) Chapter 6 (01:02:23) Chapter 7 (01:18:37) Chapter 8 (01:35:39) Chapter 9 (01:52:22) Chapter 10 (02:12:58) Chapter 11 (02:24:48) Chapter 12 (02:38:47) Chapter 13 (02:57:55) Chapter 14 (03:09:30) Chapter 15 (03:19:56) Chapter 16 (03:28:11) Chapter 17 (03:42:25) Chapter 18 (03:56:01) Chapter 19 (04:04:48) Chapter 20 (04:13:10) Chapter 21 (04:24:59) Chapter 22 (04:35:13) Chapter 23 (04:50:56) Chapter 24 (05:00:16) Chapter 25 (05:06:03) Chapter 26 (05:14:44) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greylorn by Keith Laumer audiobook. Genre: scifi Commander Greylorn has a problem. No, actually he has two of them. It's not enough that the remaining residents of Earth have pinned their last hope of salvation on him and his mission. He has to find a colony that presumedly was established at an unknown star two centuries before and beg their help. But first, he has the small matter of a mutiny on board his starship, and people are trying to kill him! Written in an era when radios used vacuum tubes, the scientific component of the story is quaint and dated. But Laumer makes the centerpiece of his tale the retelling of how, four years out on the voyage, his crew decides it wants to give up and go home when it meets an alien race... that apparently breeds humans in captivity as food animals! Beating the aliens, shanghaiing the crew, finding the colony and saving Mother Earth - just the ingredients for a rattling good yarn! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:42) Chapter 02 (00:42:01) Chapter 03 (01:00:35) Chapter 04 (01:27:51) Chapter 05 (01:49:05) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran audiobook. Genre: philosophy The prophet Al Mustafa, before leaving the city where he has been living twelve years, stops to address the people. They call out for his words of wisdom on many sides of the human condition, and he addresses them in terms of love and care. He has much to offer from his observations of the people, and he illustrates with images they can relate to. The author, Gibran, was influenced by the Maronites, the Sufis, and the Baha’i. His philosophy, though deist, is primarily aimed at the good within ourselves, and the common-sense ways in which we can unlock it. An illustration from his chapter on Friendship: “And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.” The prophet’s gentle words have inspired their translation into over 108 languages. Listen to them with an open mind. You may find some burdens and frustrations hidden within you eased For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:11:04) Chapter 02 (00:24:06) Chapter 03 (00:38:13) Chapter 04 (00:50:48) Chapter 05 (01:01:53) Chapter 06 (01:13:52) Chapter 07 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Master of the World by Jules Verne audiobook. Genre: scifi Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volcanic Blue Ridge Mountains, Strock is posted to determine the danger. When an automobile race in Wisconsin is interrupted by the unexpected appearance of a vehicle traveling at multiples of the top speed of the entrants, Strock is consulted. When an odd-shaped boat is sighted moving at impossible speeds off the New England coast, Stock and his boss begin to wonder if the incidents are related. And when Strock gets a hand-lettered note warning him to abandon his investigation, on pain of death, he is intrigued rather than deterred. Set in a period when gasoline engines were in their infancy and automobiles were rare, and when even Chief Inspectors had to engage a carriage and horses to move about, the appearance of a vehicle that can move at astounding speeds on land, on water - and as later revealed, underwater and through the air - marks a technological advance far beyond the reach of nations. It is technology invented by and for the sole benefit of a man who styles himself (with some justification) 'The Master of the World.' This book is a sequel to an earlier Verne novel, 'Robur the Conqueror', but enough detail is given to fully appreciate this story without having first read the other. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:15:42) Chapter 2 (00:32:13) Chapter 3 (00:55:21) Chapter 4 (01:12:26) Chapter 5 (01:29:36) Chapter 6 (01:40:51) Chapter 7 (01:58:29) Chapter 8 (02:18:04) Chapter 9 (02:20:24) Chapter 10 (02:34:56) Chapter 11 (02:53:29) Chapter 12 (03:11:31) Chapter 13 (03:29:32) Chapter 14 (03:53:29) Chapter 15 (04:11:40) Chapter 16 (04:23:08) Chapter 17 (04:48:37) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne audiobook. Genre: adventure Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade, determines to build his own fast ship and run guns to the Confederates in exchange for the cotton piling up unsold on their wharves. His simple plan becomes complicated by two passengers who board his new ship under false pretenses in order to carry out a rescue mission, one which Capt. Playfair adopts as his own cause. This is going make the Rebels in Charleston rather unhappy with him. Sure, his new ship is fast - but can it escape the cannonballs of both North and South? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:25) Chapter 02 (00:24:54) Chapter 03 (00:38:41) Chapter 04 (00:53:53) Chapter 05 (01:07:02) Chapter 06 (01:18:02) Chapter 07 (01:28:31) Chapter 08 (01:45:31) Chapter 09 (01:59:49) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Point of Honor by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: drama Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. At the beginning, Feraud is the one who jealously guards his honor and repeatedly demands satisfaction anew when a duelling encounter ends inconclusively; he aggressively pursues every opportunity to locate and duel his foe. As the story progresses, D'Hubert also finds himself caught up in the contest, unable to back down or walk away. This Conrad short story evidently has its genesis in the real duels that two French Hussar officers fought in the Napoleonic era. Their names were Dupont and Fournier, which Conrad disguised slightly, changing Dupont into D'Hubert and Fournier into Feraud. In 1977, it was turned into a movie, 'The Duellists', starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:49:04) Chapter 2 (01:34:09) Chapter 3 (02:22:33) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Discoveries at Jamestown by John L. Cotter audiobook. Genre: history Chances are, you are reading this because you are aware that Jamestown, Virginia, celebrated its 400th birthday in 2007. It was the first 'successful' English settlement in America. Although the colonists eventually moved upriver to be quit of the hard luck and difficult conditions on the small island, they left behind a trove of possessions - used, worn out, or forgotten. Did you ever stop to consider just how many different items you have, need, or use, to live, work, and amuse yourself? Chances are that you would seriously underestimate! But once you put such a list together, another person could tell quite a story about the life you lead. The puzzle of archeology is how to tell that story, just from the discovery of the traces you leave behind. Literally hundreds of thousands of artifacts have been recovered from this pioneering community during three major efforts (1903, the 1950's, and 1994-present) to reconstruct how Europeans of the early 17th century managed to transplant themselves to a wild and hostile land. The authors, writing for the National Park Service in 1956, relate a fascinating tale of the colonists' resources, their possessions, and their manufactures. They relate documentary evidence from England, Virginia, and elsewhere, and then match it up with items found on the site. Think about packing for a trip to a new world, where you will spend the rest of your life. There are no shops, no regular supply deliveries. You will build your own home. Food is strictly grown or caught on your own. The local folks (Indians) may be (and were, at some times!) hostile to your presence. You will depend on only a few dozen other people to help you with the things you don't know how to do, and they will depend on you. How do you prepare? What do you take? This is that story. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:04:07) Chapter 2 (00:31:37) Chapter 3 (01:12:25) Chapter 4 (01:27:20) Chapter 5 (01:34:39) Chapter 6 (01:49:15) Chapter 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris audiobook. Genre: folklore That the little boy loved Uncle Remus and his stories was so obvious that the tale-spinning sessions began drawing additional listeners. Daddy Jack, an old 'Africa man' visiting from down-state; Sis Tempy, the strong chief of the mansion's servants; and Tildy, a young and pretty servant-girl - all found their way to Uncle Remus' rude cabin when their duties or interests permitted, to sit around the hearth and hear the wonderful tales of the animals, and foremost among them, Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox. It turned out that some of the tales had different ways of telling, and the visitors took their turns at being the story-teller. Always one or more clever animals humbled or hornswoggled others among their community with flattery, wide-eyed mystery, or outright fraud. After the success of Harris' 'Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings' , he went on to write eight more books compiling the tales he himself had heard on the plantation in his young days. This is the first of those sequels. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:43) Chapter 02 (00:19:48) Chapter 03 (00:28:47) Chapter 04 (00:37:36) Chapter 05 (00:47:36) Chapter 06 (00:59:55) Chapter 07 (01:11:05) Chapter 08 (01:22:10) Chapter 09 (01:35:58) Chapter 10 (01:47:31) Chapter 11 (01:56:58) Chapter 12 (02:09:46) Chapter 13 (02:20:02) Chapter 14 (02:28:04) Chapter 15 (02:36:19) Chapter 16 (02:50:42) Chapter 17 (02:59:47) Chapter 18 (03:11:21) Chapter 19 (03:25:35) Chapter 20 (03:35:20) Chapter 21 (03:43:34) Chapter 22 (03:54:25) Chapter 23 (04:02:30) Chapter 24 (04:10:59) Chapter 25 (04:27:14) Chapter 26 (04:37:31) Chapter 27 (04:51:22) Chapter 28 (05:04:09) Chapter 29 (05:15:01) Chapter 30 (05:36:01) Chapter 31 (05:49:49) Chapter 32 (06:05:14) Chapter 33 (06:15:36) Chapter 34 (06:24:14) Chapter 35 (06:34:00) Chapter 36 (06:44:34) Chapter 37 (06:58:56) Chapter 38 (07:12:20) Chapter 39 (07:24:00) Chapter 40 (07:33:45) Chapter 41 (07:46:52) Chapter 42 (07:58:30) Chapter 43 (08:09:39) Chapter 44 (08:25:07) Chapter 45 (08:34:46) Chapter 46 (08:45:52) Chapter 47 (08:57:26) Chapter 48 (09:07:53) Chapter 49 (09:17:49) Chapter 50 (09:28:01) Chapter 51 (09:35:37) Chapter 52 (09:43:45) Chapter 53 (09:49:21) Chapter 54 (09:58:54) Chapter 55 (10:10:41) Chapter 56 (10:19:21) Chapter 57 (10:27:26) Chapter 58 (10:37:27) Chapter 59 (10:46:14) Chapter 60 (10:56:10) Chapter 61 (11:04:14) Chapter 62 (11:11:43) Chapter 63 (11:21:00) Chapter 64 (11:27:53) Chapter 65 (11:36:06) Chapter 66 (11:41:42) Chapter 67 (11:49:37) Chapter 68 (11:56:09) Chapter 69 (12:06:47) Chapter 70 (12:25:43) Chapter 71 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Diary of a Country Parson by James Woodforde audiobook. Genre: biography The Revd. James Woodforde was an English clergyman, best known for his vivid account of parish life in the 18th century. His diary, edited by John Beresford, remained unpublished until the 20th century. The diary provides a wonderfully full account of the small community in which the diarist lived — of the births and deaths, comings and goings, illnesses, and annual celebrations, along with many other details of daily life. As a churchman, Woodforde himself was conscientious by the standards of his time, charitable and pious without being sanctimonious and again typical of his day, deeply suspicious of enthusiasm. The value of the diary to the historian lies in the wealth of primary source material it provides, while the general reader can bring from it the authentic flavor of 18th-century English country life For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:29:00) Chapter 01 (00:35:13) Chapter 02 (00:39:08) Chapter 03 (00:47:13) Chapter 04 (00:56:15) Chapter 05 (01:18:47) Chapter 06 (01:35:36) Chapter 07 (01:57:52) Chapter 08 (02:14:22) Chapter 09 (02:28:29) Chapter 10 (02:57:55) Chapter 11 (03:21:58) Chapter 12 (03:37:03) Chapter 13 (03:56:32) Chapter 14 (04:04:39) Chapter 15 (04:15:57) Chapter 16 (04:56:42) Chapter 17 (05:56:12) Chapter 18 (06:10:42) Chapter 19 (06:41:39) Chapter 20 (07:23:06) Chapter 21 (08:18:49) Chapter 22 (09:18:16) Chapter 23 (10:16:19) Chapter 24 (10:50:59) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper audiobook. Genre: adventure Natty Bumppo goes by many names: La Longue Carabine, Hawk Eye, Leatherstocking, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and when put to it, soldier, he also fills a lot of roles in pre-Revolution upstate New York. An old friend, Sergeant Dunham of the 55th Regiment of Foot, asks him to guide his daughter through the wilderness to the fort at Oswego where Dunham serves. With the French engaging native Indian allies against the British and the Yankee colonists, such a journey is far from safe. Dunham has a plan in mind - to see his daughter Mable married off to the most redoubtable frontiersman and marksman in the territory, who is Pathfinder himself. But as an attractive and marriageable young lady, she draws other suitors. Then a military expedition contrives to put Sgt. Dunham, Mable, Pathfinder, and two other wooers into an isolated and dangerous garrison. Here treachery raises the stakes, and with the soldiers of the detachment shot down or captured, all of them must show mettle for any of them to escape with their scalps. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:35:10) Chapter 02 (01:09:22) Chapter 03 (01:39:17) Chapter 04 (02:12:12) Chapter 05 (02:49:49) Chapter 06 (03:19:29) Chapter 07 (03:57:42) Chapter 08 (04:39:52) Chapter 09 (05:12:27) Chapter 10 (05:49:20) Chapter 11 (06:36:52) Chapter 12 (07:05:24) Chapter 13 (07:53:53) Chapter 14 (08:29:09) Chapter 15 (09:07:38) Chapter 16 (09:38:27) Chapter 17 (10:10:09) Chapter 18 (11:00:05) Chapter 19 (12:14:50) Chapter 20 (13:05:43) Chapter 21 (13:31:49) Chapter 22 (14:16:46) Chapter 23 (15:11:03) Chapter 24 (15:56:10) Chapter 25 (16:24:30) Chapter 26 (16:49:18) Chapter 27 (17:22:52) Chapter 28 (17:55:56) Chapter 29 (18:26:20) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Call of the Wild by Jack London audiobook. Genre: adventure When Buck, a powerful and pampered dog living an easy life in California, is stolen and sold into the brutal world of the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, everything he knows is stripped away. Thrown onto the frozen trails as a sled dog, Buck must quickly learn the law of club and fang - a ruthless code ruled by violence, hierarchy, and survival. Passed from one owner to the next, he encounters cruelty and kindness in equal measure, from hard men driven by gold to exhausted dreamers unprepared for the North. As Buck grows tougher, stronger, and more cunning, he begins to feel an older pull rising inside him: an instinctive connection to the wild that challenges the leash of domestication. Haunted by the wilderness beyond the firelight and driven by the need to endure, Buck's journey becomes a test of loyalty, identity, and what it means to answer a deeper nature. Jack London's classic adventure delivers vivid landscapes, relentless danger, and a primal transformation that asks whether civilization can ever fully silence the call of the wild. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:03) Chapter 02 (00:45:17) Chapter 03 (01:18:27) Chapter 04 (01:38:56) Chapter 05 (02:14:02) Chapter 06 (02:44:39) Chapter 07 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: adventure A collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published in May 1856. Except for the newly written title story, 'The Piazza,' all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', 'Benito Cereno', and 'The Encantadas', his sketches of the Galápagos Islands. (Billy Budd, arguably his greatest piece of short fiction, would remain unpublished in his lifetime.) One should note that the era's prevalent racism occasionally surfaces, as in describing blacks as 'indisputable inferiors', to be found in 'Benito Cereno'. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:41:25) Chapter 02 (01:39:16) Chapter 03 (02:24:18) Chapter 04 (03:26:06) Chapter 05 (04:31:31) Chapter 06 (05:24:44) Chapter 07 (06:08:50) Chapter 08 (06:28:07) Chapter 09 (06:42:44) Chapter 10 (06:53:30) Chapter 11 (07:07:01) Chapter 12 (07:25:16) Chapter 13 (07:29:36) Chapter 14 (07:37:51) Chapter 15 (07:51:27) Chapter 16 (08:28:31) Chapter 17 (08:53:44) Chapter 18 (09:04:08) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the cramped offices of Wall Street, Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener follows a cautious, self-satisfied lawyer who prides himself on running an orderly business with minimal disturbance. To keep up with an increasing workload, he hires a new copyist, Bartleby, a pale, quiet man whose diligence at the desk initially seems like a blessing. But when asked to perform even the smallest task beyond copying, Bartleby answers with a baffling refrain: 'I would prefer not to.' As his refusals spread from one request to the next, the lawyer finds his authority, patience, and sense of moral responsibility tested in ways he never anticipated. Caught between sympathy and self-preservation, he struggles to understand Bartleby's motives, the limits of charity, and what society owes to those who will not-or cannot-fit its expectations. With dark humor and mounting unease, the story turns a simple workplace dispute into a haunting meditation on isolation, conformity, and the quiet forms of resistance that can unravel a life and a city built on routine. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:35:27) Chapter 02 (01:09:12) Chapter 03 (01:34:41) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: scifi Britain won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his 'giant leap for mankind' two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating. Mr. Bedford, who narrates the tale, tells of how he fell in with eccentric inventor Mr. Cavor, grew to believe in his researches, helped him build a sphere for traveling in space, and then partnered with him in an expedition to the Moon. What they found was fantastic! There was not only air and water, but the Moon was honeycombed with caverns and tunnels in which lived an advanced civilization of insect-like beings. While Bedford is frightened by them and bolts home, Cavor stays and is treated with great respect. So why didn't Armstrong and later astronauts find the evidence of all this? Well, according to broadcasts by Cavor over the newly-discovered radio technology, he told the Selenites too much about mankind, and apparently, they removed the welcome mat! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:36:54) Chapter 2 (00:54:17) Chapter 3 (01:12:20) Chapter 4 (01:21:25) Chapter 5 (01:34:46) Chapter 6 (01:44:23) Chapter 7 (01:55:47) Chapter 8 (02:05:11) Chapter 9 (02:25:07) Chapter 10 (02:37:15) Chapter 11 (03:00:51) Chapter 12 (03:11:05) Chapter 13 (03:27:28) Chapter 14 (03:39:43) Chapter 15 (04:03:08) Chapter 16 (04:20:26) Chapter 17 (04:42:47) Chapter 18 (05:02:10) Chapter 19 (05:26:45) Chapter 20 (05:43:46) Chapter 21 (06:15:45) Chapter 22 (06:24:43) Chapter 23 (06:42:40) Chapter 24 (07:22:50) Chapter 25 (07:58:25) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Little Wars by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: family A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books. With an Appendix on Kriegspiel Miniature wargaming got its start with the publication in 1913 of this thoroughly entertaining little account of how H.G. Wells, with certain of his friends, took their childhood toys and turned play into acceptable middle-aged sport by subjecting the exercise to the civilizing influence of actual rules. While wargaming progressed far past these beginnings, Wells observes how 'little wars' with even his elementary rules can suggest the wholesale crudity of the real thing. 'You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realise just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but--the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realisation conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.' Wells leaves almost hanging the tantalizing concept that we might someday simulate war, as an instrument of international decision-making, rather than practice actual combat. But most of this book is just the fun of evicting the boys from the playroom and spending happy days there, away from the 'skirt-swishers', developing the framework under which two gentlemen might meet and accumulate boastable victories! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:29:11) Chapter 2 (00:50:11) Chapter 3 (01:11:47) Chapter 4 (01:22:51) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Floor Games by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: family H.G. Wells had so much fun playing with his children on the floor of their playroom, he decided to write a jovial little book to inspire other parents in their pursuit of quality time with the kids. While the raw materials available from hobby stores of his day were woefully short of the variety and quality of what can be bought easily now, he and his sons created their own worlds to rule. This short work describes two games of imagination played out upon the floor of his home - an archipelago of islands, and a thoroughly integrated city, conveniently organized with two mayoral positions for his sons “G.P.W.” and “F.R.W.” While the toy people appearing in their worlds were often of martial nature, Wells decided to leave description of military games to a later book: “Little Wars.” 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

The Perfect Wagnerite by George Bernard Shaw audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring (originally published London, 1898) is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, by the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw. Shaw offered it to those enthusiastic admirers of Wagner who 'were unable to follow his ideas, and do not in the least understand the dilemma of Wotan.' He interprets the Ring in Marxian terms as an allegory of the collapse of capitalism from its internal contradictions. Musicologically, his interpretation is noteworthy for its perception of the change in aesthetic direction beginning with the final scene of Siegfried, in which he claimed that the cycle turns from Musikdrama back towards opera. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:24:24) Chapter 01 (01:06:00) Chapter 02 (01:20:34) Chapter 03 (01:42:17) Chapter 04 (02:09:23) Chapter 05 (02:44:18) Chapter 06 (03:11:46) Chapter 07 (03:35:58) Chapter 08 (03:53:15) Chapter 09 (04:32:51) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wulf the Saxon by George Alfred Henty audiobook. Genre: adventure Wulf the Saxon is a classic George Henty tale of nobility, loyalty and courage set in 11th century Britain. It relates the adventures of Wulf, a young, but extremely capable Saxon Thane. Wulf with his friends and servitors devote their lives to the service of Harold Godwinson, both before and after he becomes king of England. They are directly involved in capturing castles, rescuing shipwreck survivors, foiling assassination attempts and entering the terrible battles at Stamford Bridge and Senlac field by Hastings. The background of the novel is set in the stormy period prior to the Norman conquest of Britain and the story centers around real people and events, even offering a historically correct and lucid insight to the intrigues surrounding the religious and political alliances which led to the events of 1066; an absolute turning point in England's history. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:57) Chapter 01 (00:38:02) Chapter 02 (01:11:35) Chapter 03 (01:47:26) Chapter 04 (02:19:59) Chapter 05 (02:53:21) Chapter 06 (03:26:00) Chapter 07 (04:01:37) Chapter 08 (04:37:02) Chapter 09 (05:09:41) Chapter 10 (05:42:40) Chapter 11 (06:17:22) Chapter 12 (06:49:58) Chapter 13 (07:24:59) Chapter 14 (08:00:03) Chapter 15 (08:27:19) Chapter 16 (08:58:03) Chapter 17 (09:29:00) Chapter 18 (10:00:36) Chapter 19 (10:33:09) Chapter 20 (11:04:24) Chapter 21 (11:37:21) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Big Time by Fritz Leiber audiobook. Genre: scifi In The Big Time, Fritz Leiber drops you into a war that cannot be mapped on any battlefield: the Change War, fought across centuries by two shadowy factions known as the Snakes and the Spiders. Far outside ordinary time sits a cramped, worn, strangely cozy way station called the Place - part barracks, part backstage, part refuge - where wounded agents are patched up, debriefed, and sent back into history. Greta, the station's sharp-tongued, big-hearted hostess, keeps the fragile peace among a small, tense cast of soldiers, misfits, and drifters pulled from different eras. When a new arrival is dragged in from 20th-century America, he expects heroics and clear causes, but the Place runs on secrets, cover stories, and rules no one fully explains. Then something goes wrong: an unseen presence slips past safeguards that are supposed to be absolute, paranoia spikes, and the station's inhabitants must decide who to trust when even time itself is a weapon. Fast, witty, and claustrophobically intense, Leiber's classic explores identity, loyalty, and what a never-ending war does to the people trapped between its battles. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:40) Chapter 02 (00:42:19) Chapter 03 (00:54:34) Chapter 04 (01:04:35) Chapter 05 (01:11:37) Chapter 06 (01:21:24) Chapter 07 (01:37:39) Chapter 08 (01:59:42) Chapter 09 (02:12:53) Chapter 10 (02:24:09) Chapter 11 (02:36:06) Chapter 12 (02:54:09) Chapter 13 (03:04:07) Chapter 14 (03:14:23) Chapter 15 (03:27:41) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Socialism - Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Socialism - Utopian and Scientific, Friedrich Engels offers a brisk, combative guide to how modern socialism emerged, what it claims to explain, and why it insists it is more than a moral wish list. Writing for readers who may know the slogans but not the underlying arguments, Engels contrasts early, 'utopian' reformers who imagined ideal communities with a later 'scientific' approach grounded in a materialist account of history. He walks through the rise of industrial capitalism, the sharpening conflicts between social classes, and the way economic systems transform politics, culture, and everyday life. Along the way, Engels sketches the philosophical roots of his method, explains why social change is driven by contradictions within society itself, and argues that socialism is tied to the development of modern industry and the working-class movement rather than to pure good intentions. Part primer, part polemic, the book invites the listener to examine how ideas about progress, property, and power connect to the concrete realities of production and labor, and why Engels believed a new social order could be understood as a historical process rather than a dream. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:57:37) Chapter 01 (01:31:42) Chapter 02 (01:54:14) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey audiobook. Genre: adventure Buck Duane, son of a famous gunfighter, falls prey to the old problem - called out by a cowboy who wants to make trouble, Duane kills him and then must ride off to the lawless country near the Neuces River to escape being arrested and perhaps, hanged. His brief encounter with deadly gun-play has ignited a deep urging to repeat the adrenaline rush but is tempered by ghosts that haunt his sleep. He only dares to release his inner demon when he is taking down an outlaw who is particularly known for his brutality. He develops a reputation for killing the most notorious Texas outlaws, which draws an unexpected interest: a captain of the Texas Rangers offers him a pardon and a ranger's badge if he will infiltrate the gang of the shadowy figure known as 'Cheseldine' who wields vast power in West Texas, and make it possible for the Rangers to break the gang's hold on the region's towns. Duane accepts, never guessing in his wildest nightmares that he would sniff out this Cheseldine, his hideouts, his lieutenants... and fall in love with his daughter! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:02:32) Chapter 2 (00:21:36) Chapter 3 (00:48:50) Chapter 4 (01:07:32) Chapter 5 (01:20:20) Chapter 6 (01:51:03) Chapter 7 (02:18:04) Chapter 8 (02:43:37) Chapter 9 (03:07:37) Chapter 10 (03:59:11) Chapter 11 (04:16:06) Chapter 12 (04:49:01) Chapter 13 (05:22:58) Chapter 14 (05:48:09) Chapter 15 (06:14:48) Chapter 16 (07:14:36) Chapter 17 (07:40:48) Chapter 18 (08:07:36) Chapter 19 (08:24:52) Chapter 20 (08:45:33) Chapter 21 (08:55:55) Chapter 22 (09:15:08) Chapter 23 (10:04:29) Chapter 24 (10:22:42) Chapter 25 (10:56:12) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski audiobook. Genre: adventure “Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.” The difference is: it’s all true. Ferdinand Ossendowski was a Pole who found himself in Siberia and on the losing side during the Bolshevik Revolution. To escape being rounded up and shot, he set out with a friend to reach the Pacific, there to take ship back to Europe. During his journey he fell in with dozens of other military men who shared the same objective… but nearly every one of them perished on the way. It’s up to you to decide whether Ossendowski was threatened most by the beasts, by the men, or by the gods, or indeed, by the severe and uncompromising landscapes of Siberia, Mongolia, and China. That he survived at all seems improbable. The mystical mysteries and magics of Buddhism, “The Yellow Faith”, were woven about and through his sojourn and had no little part in his survival. Time after time he was put in the delicate position of being the bargainer between warring groups, and ultimately, only incredible luck and his friendship with the Hutuktu of Narabanchi Monastery saw him through. When published in the United States, this book caused a sensation and became a best-seller. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:07:23) Chapter 01 (00:18:55) Chapter 02 (00:29:50) Chapter 03 (00:39:08) Chapter 04 (00:47:58) Chapter 05 (00:56:13) Chapter 06 (01:10:34) Chapter 07 (01:25:09) Chapter 08 (01:40:08) Chapter 09 (01:47:41) Chapter 10 (02:02:38) Chapter 11 (02:15:56) Chapter 12 (02:26:51) Chapter 13 (02:35:52) Chapter 14 (02:50:02) Chapter 15 (03:12:41) Chapter 16 (03:28:38) Chapter 17 (03:52:48) Chapter 18 (04:11:04) Chapter 19 (04:25:55) Chapter 20 (04:34:08) Chapter 21 (04:58:38) Chapter 22 (05:13:39) Chapter 23 (05:27:57) Chapter 24 (05:55:54) Chapter 25 (06:12:54) Chapter 26 (06:29:12) Chapter 27 (06:49:30) Chapter 28 (07:11:35) Chapter 29 (07:20:52) Chapter 30 (07:41:08) Chapter 31 (08:03:42) Chapter 32 (08:17:05) Chapter 33 (08:29:33) Chapter 34 (08:49:12) Chapter 35 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Twain and the Happy Island by Elizabeth Wallace audiobook. Genre: biography This Mark Twain Memoir by Elizabeth Wallace paints an idyllic portrait of his time in Bermuda, not long before his death in 1910. Wallace and Twain met in Bermuda in 1908, became fast friends, and shared time together on the island and regular correspondence until 6 weeks before Twain's death. According to one academician, 'Wallace’s deep affection for Twain is evident in her writings, so she also may have wished to burnish his legacy. As a result, Happy Island is a popular treatment in a breezy, occasionally sentimental style. It portrays Twain as a fun and caring friend but only hints at weightier matters.' For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:10:20) Chapter 02 (00:19:07) Chapter 03 (00:28:44) Chapter 04 (00:43:07) Chapter 05 (00:53:48) Chapter 06 (01:02:34) Chapter 07 (01:11:57) Chapter 08 (01:20:15) Chapter 09 (01:27:59) Chapter 10 (01:38:17) Chapter 11 (01:48:47) Chapter 12 (01:59:01) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse audiobook. Genre: science 'Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.' The character, sensibilities, and intellectual faculties of animals have always been a favourite study, and they are, perhaps, more strongly developed in the dog than in any other quadruped, from the circumstance of his being the constant companion of man. I am aware how much has been written on this subject, but having accumulated many original and interesting anecdotes of this faithful animal, I have attempted to enlarge the general stock of information respecting it. It is a pleasing task, arising from the conviction that the more the character of the dog is known, the better his treatment is likely to be, and the stronger the sympathy excited in his behalf. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:29) Chapter 01 (00:27:02) Chapter 02 (01:03:44) Chapter 03 (01:30:51) Chapter 04 (02:09:42) Chapter 05 (02:53:13) Chapter 06 (03:30:38) Chapter 07 (04:07:03) Chapter 08 (04:37:50) Chapter 09 (05:02:29) Chapter 10 (05:37:04) Chapter 11 (05:59:28) Chapter 12 (06:22:09) Chapter 13 (06:36:51) Chapter 14 (06:58:36) Chapter 15 (07:38:21) Chapter 16 (08:06:15) Chapter 17 (08:40:21) Chapter 18 (09:03:07) Chapter 19 (09:38:54) Chapter 20 (09:51:08) Chapter 21 (10:01:24) Chapter 22 (10:28:23) Chapter 23 (10:54:44) Chapter 24 (11:14:51) Chapter 25 (11:22:59) Chapter 26 (11:28:04) Chapter 27 (11:55:09) Chapter 28 (11:57:20) Chapter 29 (12:21:49) Chapter 30 (12:28:22) Chapter 31 (12:35:26) Chapter 32 (12:41:05) Chapter 33 (12:56:32) Chapter 34 (13:05:00) Chapter 35 (13:08:08) Chapter 36 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices