Classic Audiobook Collection

Dymer by C. S. Lewis audiobook. Genre: poetry Dymer is C. S. Lewis's early narrative poem, written in rich, mythic language and shaped like a modern fable. It follows Dymer, a restless young man raised in a gray, rule-bound city where imagination and desire are treated as threats. When he breaks away from the safety of conformity, Dymer sets out into a strange landscape of shifting kingdoms, seductive promises, and uncanny rites, driven by a hunger for freedom and a longing he cannot fully name. Along the way he encounters figures who offer order, pleasure, authority, and transcendence, each demanding a different kind of surrender. As Dymer's choices ripple outward, his private rebellion becomes entangled with public forces, and his search for selfhood turns into a perilous confrontation with the consequences of pride, power, and half-understood worship. By turns dreamlike, satirical, and solemn, Dymer explores themes Lewis would later revisit in his fiction and essays: the lure of false gods, the cost of isolation, and the complicated path from appetite to meaning. This is a lyrical journey through temptation and transformation, told with the intensity of a dark fairy tale. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:38) Chapter 02 (00:27:11) Chapter 03 (00:40:33) Chapter 04 (00:55:22) Chapter 05 (01:08:38) Chapter 06 (01:23:20) Chapter 07 (01:37:16) Chapter 08 (01:48:14) Chapter 09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Clematis by Bertha B. Cobb audiobook. Genre: family On a warm spring day in a crowded New York street, a quiet little girl in shabby clothes sits alone with a kitten hidden inside her coat. She can only give one name - Clematis - and she insists the kitten, Deborah, is her own. Kind policeman Jim Cunneen cannot leave her there, and soon Clematis is carried from the hard edge of the sidewalk into the strict routines of a Children's Home, where beds are lined in rows, meals come by rule, and every child is expected to work, obey, and fit in. Clematis is brave, but she is also stubborn, bewildered, and fiercely protective of the one comfort she trusts: her cat. As days pass, she begins to learn the small skills that make a life feel steady - friendships, chores, and the courage to speak up - yet questions about who she is and where she came from will not stay quiet. When an unexpected visitor appears and whispers of a hidden past, Clematis is drawn into a tender mystery that reaches beyond the city and into the open promise of the countryside. With gentle humor, warmth, and a love of animals and growing things, this classic children's story follows one lost child as she searches for belonging, safety, and a place to finally bloom. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:44) Chapter 02 (00:15:43) Chapter 03 (00:22:42) Chapter 04 (00:28:41) Chapter 05 (00:33:51) Chapter 06 (00:40:27) Chapter 07 (00:48:18) Chapter 08 (00:54:32) Chapter 09 (01:01:17) Chapter 10 (01:07:59) Chapter 11 (01:14:59) Chapter 12 (01:21:06) Chapter 13 (01:29:22) Chapter 14 (01:36:03) Chapter 15 (01:43:22) Chapter 16 (01:51:08) Chapter 17 (01:59:12) Chapter 18 (02:07:01) Chapter 19 (02:10:38) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Brief History of Forestry by Bernhard Eduard Fernow audiobook. Genre: history Originally developed from a series of lectures delivered to students at the Yale Forest School, Bernhard E. Fernow's A Brief History of Forestry offers a brisk, wide-ranging survey of how societies learned, often the hard way, to manage forests as more than an endless frontier. Writing as a leading early forester and educator, Fernow begins with the forest world of the ancients and then traces the slow emergence of laws, institutions, and practical methods meant to curb waste and secure future timber supplies. He devotes special attention to Germany, following changes in ownership, forest use rights, administration, and the rise of silviculture, mensuration, and professional training. From there, the narrative widens across Europe and beyond, comparing national approaches in Austria-Hungary, Switzerland, France, Russia and Finland, the Scandinavian states, and the Mediterranean region, then moving to Great Britain and its colonies, including India and Canada, as well as Japan and Korea. The closing sections turn to the United States, examining early conditions, the pressures of settlement and industry, and the first steps toward public forest policy and forestry education. Throughout, Fernow emphasizes long time horizons, cause and effect, and the recurring patterns that shape conservation debates. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:05:16) Chapter 01 (00:18:15) Chapter 02 (00:43:58) Chapter 03 (01:24:18) Chapter 04 (02:11:33) Chapter 05 (02:56:11) Chapter 06 (03:51:14) Chapter 07 (04:46:54) Chapter 08 (05:35:56) Chapter 09 (05:47:01) Chapter 10 (06:19:39) Chapter 11 (07:12:22) Chapter 12 (07:45:39) Chapter 13 (08:29:49) Chapter 14 (08:44:36) Chapter 15 (09:22:32) Chapter 16 (09:37:03) Chapter 17 (09:45:59) Chapter 18 (09:58:55) Chapter 19 (10:10:38) Chapter 20 (10:35:03) Chapter 21 (10:53:11) Chapter 22 (10:59:53) Chapter 23 (11:26:09) Chapter 24 (12:18:47) Chapter 25 (13:11:59) Chapter 26 (13:21:15) Chapter 27 (13:46:31) Chapter 28 (13:48:44) Chapter 29 (14:08:12) Chapter 30 (14:33:19) Chapter 31 (15:11:32) Chapter 32 (15:23:27) Chapter 33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. Reeve audiobook. Genre: mystery When a baffling killing strikes New York society, the evidence points everywhere and nowhere at once: a victim collapses with scarcely a sound, the scene offers no clear weapon, and the witnesses can only agree on one thing - something unseen delivered death with chilling precision. Into the confusion steps Professor Craig Kennedy, a brilliant criminologist whose laboratory methods make him as much scientist as sleuth. Alongside his friend and chronicler, the journalist Walter Jameson, Kennedy follows a trail that winds from drawing rooms and shadowed corridors to backstreet intrigue and modern technology. As rumors spread and suspects multiply, Kennedy races to identify the mechanism behind the crime and the mastermind who understands that fear itself can be a weapon. Blending turn-of-the-century suspense with ingenious forensic experimentation, The Silent Bullet explores the dangers of unchecked invention, the limits of conventional policing, and the thrill of reason applied to the seemingly impossible. Each clue pushes Kennedy toward a confrontation where one misstep could make the next victim anyone. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:03:38) Chapter 01 (00:42:44) Chapter 02 (01:26:12) Chapter 03 (02:07:58) Chapter 04 (02:47:29) Chapter 05 (03:37:21) Chapter 06 (04:20:46) Chapter 07 (05:05:15) Chapter 08 (05:50:23) Chapter 09 (06:32:42) Chapter 10 (07:16:35) Chapter 11 (08:06:55) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Spy Company, a Story of the Mexican War by Archibald Clavering Gunter audiobook. Genre: adventure In the uneasy years just before the Mexican War flares into open conflict, a young woman who has been polished by New York society learns that her roots lie far from ballrooms and parlors. Raised to be a debutante, she is jolted by loss and driven by a single, urgent question: who is the father she has never met, and what kind of life waits for her on his vast Texas ranch? Her journey west becomes a gauntlet of riverboat passage and frontier roads, where steamboat gamblers, smooth-talking swindlers, and desperate outlaws circle like vultures. With the borderlands turning volatile, she is forced to rely on the hard protection of Texas Rangers and U.S. soldiers, including the formidable Captain Sharpe Hampton, whose courage is matched by his wariness of secrets. As rumors of spies and coded loyalties thicken, the road carries her toward Matamoros and its dangerous allure, where a dancing girl named Carmelita and other shadowy figures hint that the war is being fought not only with rifles, but with deception. By the time the ranch is finally in sight, she must decide whom to trust, and whether the truth she has chased is worth the price of learning it. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:40:16) Chapter 02 (01:03:03) Chapter 03 (01:36:47) Chapter 04 (02:07:16) Chapter 05 (02:33:35) Chapter 06 (03:01:16) Chapter 07 (03:30:25) Chapter 08 (04:08:10) Chapter 09 (04:44:24) Chapter 10 (05:13:23) Chapter 11 (05:49:12) Chapter 12 (06:11:39) Chapter 13 (06:48:26) Chapter 14 (07:25:45) Chapter 15 (07:54:50) Chapter 16 (08:34:20) Chapter 17 (09:09:12) Chapter 18 (09:37:58) Chapter 19 (10:12:36) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wonderful London by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: history Wonderful London: Its Lights and Shadows of Humour and Sadness is a lively, sharp-eyed portrait of Victorian London, told through a sequence of short, scene-driven essays by an anonymous middle-class observer. Moving from foggy streets and late-night corners to drawing-room dinners and cramped lodging houses, the narrator listens, watches, and records the city as it really feels: crowded, talkative, contradictory, and always in motion. Each chapter opens a new door onto London life, introducing readers to curious performers, cabstand conversations, the foreign settlement in Soho, office-window sketches of daily bustle, and the precarious worlds of servants seeking positions, working girls, and those pushed to society's edges. Humor surfaces in the quirks of fashion, manners, and slang, but it is never far from the sadness of poverty, exploitation, and the thin line between respectability and ruin. More than a guidebook, this is a social panorama, rich with atmosphere and overheard dialogue, that asks what a modern city does to the people who build it, serve it, and struggle within it. Step by step, it maps the brilliant lights and the long shadows of a metropolis that refuses to be simplified. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:25:21) Chapter 02 (00:53:21) Chapter 03 (01:22:01) Chapter 04 (01:51:13) Chapter 05 (02:19:31) Chapter 06 (02:50:20) Chapter 07 (03:18:08) Chapter 08 (03:39:24) Chapter 09 (03:57:25) Chapter 10 (04:19:13) Chapter 11 (05:08:45) Chapter 12 (05:26:52) Chapter 13 (05:44:31) Chapter 14 (06:29:13) Chapter 15 (06:41:15) Chapter 16 (06:54:59) Chapter 17 (07:20:49) Chapter 18 (08:05:23) Chapter 19 (08:19:19) Chapter 20 (08:39:39) Chapter 21 (09:02:03) Chapter 22 (09:47:41) Chapter 23 (09:59:59) Chapter 24 (10:16:53) Chapter 25 (10:31:26) Chapter 26 (10:44:11) Chapter 27 (10:56:55) Chapter 28 (11:10:16) Chapter 29 (11:24:00) Chapter 30 (11:37:53) Chapter 31 (11:49:52) Chapter 32 (12:03:13) Chapter 33 (12:16:50) Chapter 34 (12:39:19) Chapter 35 (12:52:48) Chapter 36 (13:07:44) Chapter 37 (13:21:45) Chapter 38 (13:34:48) Chapter 39 (13:49:09) Chapter 40 (13:56:33) Chapter 41 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

English as She is Wrote by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: comedy English as She is Wrote is a famously odd little volume that turns language learning into unintended comedy. Presented as a practical guide to English, this anonymous phrasebook (compiled from Portuguese sources) offers translations that are technically recognizable but wildly mischosen, producing a parade of malapropisms, tangled idioms, and baffling literal renderings. Each entry reads like a sincere attempt to be helpful - how to greet someone, describe your day, travel, bargain, or write a polite note - yet the results veer into nonsense, as if the book is constantly one step away from making sense. The central tension is simple and irresistible: the author's earnest desire to teach clashes with the slippery, rule-breaking nature of real English, exposing how easily meaning collapses when words are swapped without context. As the pages pile up, the humor becomes a kind of linguistic detective story, inviting listeners to decode what the writer probably meant and to appreciate how culture, idiom, and nuance shape speech. Part satire, part accidental masterpiece, it remains a classic celebration of language gone gloriously wrong. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:13:53) Chapter 2 (00:32:40) Chapter 3 (01:01:32) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Woman Proposes by Anne Warner audiobook. Genre: romance In Anne Warner's When Woman Proposes, a daring young heiress named Nathalie decides that waiting to be chosen is a waste of time. At a glittering social event she spots Captain Mowbray, a disciplined officer whose charm is matched by an immovable conviction: he will not marry, especially on a soldier's pay. Nathalie, however, believes in love at first sight and in the right to shape her own future. Rich, fearless, and stubbornly practical, she sets out to overturn the one obstacle he will not compromise on - the economic rules that keep duty and desire at odds. What begins as an unconventional courtship quickly swells into a public battle of will and principle as Nathalie uses her position and ingenuity to pressure a rigid society into change. Set against drawing rooms, barracks, and the machinery of government, the story blends brisk wit with escalating stakes, asking how far someone should go for love, and whether personal happiness can be separated from fairness for everyone. Boldly romantic and surprisingly political, it is a tale of agency, conscience, and a woman determined to propose on her own terms. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:22) Chapter 01 (00:17:41) Chapter 02 (00:34:34) Chapter 03 (00:51:23) Chapter 04 (01:03:07) Chapter 05 (01:40:31) Chapter 06 (02:02:37) Chapter 07 (02:21:24) Chapter 08 (02:35:44) Chapter 09 (02:54:06) Chapter 10 (02:59:49) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary by Anne Warner audiobook. Genre: comedy In early 20th-century New York, Aunt Mary Watkins is a formidable presence: wealthy, sharp-tongued, and so deaf that every conversation becomes a small battle of wills. She has poured her pride (and her money) into her favorite grand-nephew, Jack, a charming scapegrace whose talent for trouble keeps testing the limits of her patience. When word arrives that Jack is once again on the edge of scandal at college, Aunt Mary summons her trusted lawyer, Mr. Stebbins, and braces for yet another costly mess, while her long-suffering maid, Lucinda, watches the drama with dry practicality. But Jack's latest misadventures are not just expensive - they threaten reputations, relationships, and Aunt Mary's sense of what loyalty should demand. Determined to set things right, Aunt Mary is pulled from her rigid routines into a faster, younger world of social excitement, temptation, and unexpected companionship. As she tries to steer Jack toward decency without surrendering her own authority, Aunt Mary discovers that discipline, affection, and second chances can arrive in surprising forms - and that it may not be Jack alone who needs a fresh start. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:20:12) Chapter 02 (00:35:15) Chapter 03 (00:51:37) Chapter 04 (01:05:27) Chapter 05 (01:22:04) Chapter 06 (01:36:49) Chapter 07 (01:48:09) Chapter 08 (02:05:42) Chapter 09 (02:23:23) Chapter 10 (02:48:19) Chapter 11 (03:08:32) Chapter 12 (03:22:55) Chapter 13 (03:53:33) Chapter 14 (04:38:47) Chapter 15 (05:04:46) Chapter 16 (05:31:36) Chapter 17 (05:43:21) Chapter 18 (05:59:46) Chapter 19 (06:28:07) Chapter 20 (06:49:21) Chapter 21 (07:06:46) Chapter 22 (07:45:35) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang audiobook. Genre: folklore First published in 1897, The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang gathers a dazzling assortment of traditional tales from around the world into one inviting treasury. In these pages you will meet brave youngest sons and clever daughters, wandering princes and enchanted princesses, talking animals, witches, giants, and mysterious strangers who arrive just when fate turns. Some stories unfold in candlelit castles and deep forests, others in distant kingdoms shaped by different customs and wonders, but all carry the spellbinding logic of folklore: a single promise can change a life, kindness can be its own magic, and courage often looks like patience, persistence, or a quick mind under pressure. Lang retells each story with a storyteller's pace and a gentle, witty touch, balancing peril with playfulness and wonder with clear-eyed moral stakes. Whether you are discovering these tales for the first time or returning to them as familiar old friends, The Pink Fairy Book offers an atmospheric listening journey through transformations, tests, and triumphs - a classic collection designed to be shared, remembered, and loved. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:03:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:08) Chapter 02 (00:17:03) Chapter 03 (00:24:45) Chapter 04 (00:33:34) Chapter 05 (00:43:20) Chapter 06 (00:52:04) Chapter 07 (01:00:54) Chapter 08 (01:11:26) Chapter 09 (01:16:57) Chapter 10 (01:41:00) Chapter 11 (01:45:13) Chapter 12 (02:20:46) Chapter 13 (02:38:51) Chapter 14 (03:03:25) Chapter 15 (03:13:37) Chapter 16 (03:31:22) Chapter 17 (03:39:45) Chapter 18 (03:47:49) Chapter 19 (04:03:06) Chapter 20 (04:09:51) Chapter 21 (04:21:27) Chapter 22 (04:37:54) Chapter 23 (04:50:48) Chapter 24 (05:02:50) Chapter 25 (05:15:38) Chapter 26 (05:33:50) Chapter 27 (05:39:05) Chapter 28 (05:48:18) Chapter 29 (06:00:38) Chapter 30 (06:13:58) Chapter 31 (06:32:25) Chapter 32 (06:57:02) Chapter 33 (07:21:21) Chapter 34 (07:33:02) Chapter 35 (07:40:02) Chapter 36 (08:03:02) Chapter 37 (08:12:44) Chapter 38 (08:35:01) Chapter 39 (08:44:21) Chapter 40 (09:15:18) Chapter 41 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Parenticide Club by Ambrose Bierce audiobook. Genre: comedy In The Parenticide Club, Ambrose Bierce invites you into a gentlemen's society with a single, unspeakable qualification: every member claims to have killed a parent. Framed as a series of club proceedings and confessions, the book unfolds through sharply drawn testimonies in which each speaker tries to justify the unforgivable, arguing motives that range from cold practicality to wounded pride to twisted ideas of mercy. As the narrator listens, Bierce turns the meeting room into a courtroom without a judge, where charm, logic, and self-serving storytelling compete to reshape guilt into righteousness. With his trademark wit and surgical prose, Bierce exposes how easily language can varnish violence and how respectability can coexist with depravity. The central tension is not a whodunit so much as a why-believe-it: each account dares you to decide what is true, what is performance, and what moral line can be talked away. Dark, brisk, and relentlessly ironic, these tales use their shocking premise to satirize hypocrisy, rationalization, and the stories people tell to live with themselves. 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

Secret Chambers and Hiding Places by Allan Fea audiobook. Genre: history In Secret Chambers and Hiding Places, antiquary and storyteller Allan Fea invites listeners into the shadowed architecture of Britain where walls conceal more than timber and stone. Moving through manor houses, castles, and old religious buildings, Fea traces the real historical pressures that produced secret rooms, false floors, sliding panels, disguised trapdoors, and hidden staircases, especially during eras when pursuivants searched for outlawed Catholic priests and other fugitives. With an eye for both mechanism and human stakes, he recounts how families prepared their homes for sudden raids, how 'priest holes' were engineered to defeat hammer tests and probing rods, and how a concealed space could mean days of silence, hunger, and terror for the person sealed inside. Fea also follows these hiding places into later upheavals, including civil conflict and Jacobite intrigue, showing how the same cunning designs served new causes and new runaways. Blending architectural detective work with vivid anecdotes, the book turns each secret chamber into a doorway to the anxieties, loyalties, and ingenuity of the past. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:15:28) Chapter 2 (00:27:52) Chapter 3 (00:40:45) Chapter 4 (00:51:25) Chapter 5 (01:04:09) Chapter 6 (01:21:35) Chapter 7 (01:37:42) Chapter 8 (02:00:42) Chapter 9 (02:13:36) Chapter 10 (02:24:09) Chapter 11 (02:39:30) Chapter 12 (02:54:15) Chapter 13 (03:06:34) Chapter 14 (03:12:21) Chapter 15 (03:25:52) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Wolf-Leader by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: horror In a rural corner of France where old superstitions still cling to the woods, Thibault is a poor, embittered gamekeeper who feels mocked by fate and crushed by the privileges of the nobles. When a chance encounter in the forest places him face to face with a mysterious stranger who seems to know his deepest resentments, Thibault is tempted by a bargain that promises power, wealth, and the ability to take what life has always denied him. Soon, strange changes ripple through the countryside: wolves gather with unnatural purpose, fear spreads from cottage to manor, and Thibault finds himself drawn into a dangerous new identity that both thrills and terrifies him. As his wishes begin to take shape, so do the consequences, tightening around the people he envies, the woman he longs for, and his own conscience. Alexandre Dumas blends dark folklore with sharp social tension in this atmospheric tale of desire and downfall, where a single choice in the moonlit trees can turn hunger into haunting. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:50:18) Chapter 01 (01:09:49) Chapter 02 (01:34:45) Chapter 03 (01:55:44) Chapter 04 (02:15:21) Chapter 05 (02:34:57) Chapter 06 (02:53:08) Chapter 07 (03:11:37) Chapter 08 (03:27:29) Chapter 09 (03:45:10) Chapter 10 (04:03:00) Chapter 11 (04:25:23) Chapter 12 (04:54:29) Chapter 13 (05:18:49) Chapter 14 (05:35:56) Chapter 15 (05:49:44) Chapter 16 (06:07:31) Chapter 17 (06:23:43) Chapter 18 (06:36:33) Chapter 19 (06:52:34) Chapter 20 (07:12:16) Chapter 21 (07:39:35) Chapter 22 (07:51:24) Chapter 23 (08:06:24) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce audiobook. Genre: horror In Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories, Ambrose Bierce turns the everyday world of 19th-century America into a place where death never fully lets go. Soldiers, travelers, skeptics, and ordinary townspeople find themselves confronted by disturbances that cannot be explained away: a strange execution witnessed too closely, a quiet room that refuses to stay empty, a familiar face that should not be able to return, and a single uncanny moment that fractures a lifetime of certainty. Bierce's narrators speak with crisp confidence, yet their steady voices only sharpen the dread as the border between the rational and the supernatural thins. Each tale moves quickly toward its central unease, favoring precision over melodrama, and leaving the listener to question how much of what is seen and heard can be trusted. With dark wit and a veteran's eye for fear under pressure, Bierce explores guilt, obsession, and the stubborn afterlife of violence, crafting a collection of haunting encounters that linger long after the final sentence. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:21:19) Chapter 2 (00:47:09) Chapter 3 (01:13:24) Chapter 4 (01:45:26) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tarzan Triumphant by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Deep in the African interior, danger comes from two directions at once. When Lady Barbara Collis, an English aviatrix, is forced down over the forbidding Ghenzi Mountains, she stumbles into a hidden volcanic valley called Midian - a lost, isolated people split into rival factions and ruled by prophets who enforce a warped, violent echo of an ancient faith. Barbara's survival depends on quick wits, uneasy alliances, and the loyalty of a courageous young woman who knows the valley's cruel rules. Beyond Midian, the wider jungle is no safer: raiders and political killers prowl the borders of Tarzan's domain, and a Soviet agent is dispatched to settle old scores by removing the Lord of the Jungle. As strangers blunder into Tarzan's country and tribal leaders beg for protection, Tarzan rallies Chief Muviro and the Waziri, tracking enemies through river, forest, and mountain to reach captives before ritual and revenge close in. With peril escalating on every front, Tarzan must fight not only for territory, but for lives caught between fanaticism and foreign intrigue. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:03:27) Chapter 01 (00:15:16) Chapter 02 (00:50:39) Chapter 03 (01:06:29) Chapter 04 (01:20:00) Chapter 05 (01:42:06) Chapter 06 (02:03:23) Chapter 07 (02:27:13) Chapter 08 (02:40:35) Chapter 09 (03:01:38) Chapter 10 (03:19:00) Chapter 11 (03:42:23) Chapter 12 (04:00:30) Chapter 13 (04:17:19) Chapter 14 (04:37:32) Chapter 15 (05:00:14) Chapter 16 (05:27:54) Chapter 17 (05:43:59) Chapter 18 (06:06:23) Chapter 19 (06:34:07) Chapter 20 (06:50:28) Chapter 21 (06:59:53) Chapter 22 (07:13:05) Chapter 23 (07:28:13) Chapter 24 (07:48:02) Chapter 25 (07:58:58) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tarzan Twins by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure When fourteen-year-old cousins Dick and Doc discover that one of them is distantly related to the legendary Lord Greystoke, they earn a new nickname at school: the Tarzan Twins. Now they have the chance of a lifetime - a holiday on Tarzan's African estate. But before they can even reach their hero, disaster strikes. A rail mishap and a wrong turn plunge the boys into the vast, unforgiving jungle, where every mile is a lesson and every shadow could mean danger. Separated from safety and armed with little more than grit and quick thinking, the Twins must survive hostile terrain, wild beasts, and a deadly human threat when they fall into the hands of a brutal tribe. Their ordeal becomes more than a test of endurance: it is a chance to prove they can live up to the name they have claimed. As the boys fight to escape and find their way back, the jungle draws them into a larger mystery tied to ancient ruins, strange foes, and an innocent captive whose fate may depend on two determined boys - and the sudden appearance of the ape-man himself. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:05:34) Chapter 01 (00:17:00) Chapter 02 (00:28:32) Chapter 03 (00:37:59) Chapter 04 (00:46:50) Chapter 05 (00:55:02) Chapter 06 (01:05:13) Chapter 07 (01:17:26) Chapter 08 (01:28:12) Chapter 09 (01:30:26) Chapter 10 (01:38:41) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: history In turbulent 16th-century France, the royal court of the Valois is a glittering trap: a place where weddings are arranged like treaties, faith is weaponized, and a careless word can cost a life. At the center stands Marguerite de Valois - clever, observant, and determined to shape her own fate even as her family uses her as a pawn. Her political marriage to the Protestant Henry of Navarre is meant to calm a kingdom split by religious war, but it instead pulls both of them into a tightening web of plots spun by Queen Mother Catherine de Medici and rival noble factions hungry for power. As Paris turns volatile and the palace corridors fill with secret messages, sudden arrests, and shifting alliances, Marguerite must decide whom to trust: her dangerous brothers, her husband whose survival depends on silence and strategy, or the passionate young men drawn into her orbit, including La Mole and the swaggering Coconnas. Alexandre Dumas blends romance, satire, and suspense into a vivid portrait of a court where love is never merely personal and survival demands both courage and cunning. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:28:29) Chapter 02 (00:52:41) Chapter 03 (01:17:39) Chapter 04 (01:34:26) Chapter 05 (01:53:18) Chapter 06 (02:15:20) Chapter 07 (02:45:35) Chapter 08 (03:07:55) Chapter 09 (03:35:56) Chapter 10 (04:03:47) Chapter 11 (04:26:47) Chapter 12 (04:42:54) Chapter 13 (05:04:43) Chapter 14 (05:23:19) Chapter 15 (05:55:03) Chapter 16 (06:20:42) Chapter 17 (06:36:30) Chapter 18 (06:56:32) Chapter 19 (07:22:30) Chapter 20 (07:37:02) Chapter 21 (07:56:42) Chapter 22 (08:08:45) Chapter 23 (08:35:56) Chapter 24 (09:00:31) Chapter 25 (09:21:16) Chapter 26 (09:37:07) Chapter 27 (09:49:09) Chapter 28 (10:02:21) Chapter 29 (10:14:38) Chapter 30 (10:24:18) Chapter 31 (10:41:55) Chapter 32 (10:58:05) Chapter 33 (11:12:08) Chapter 34 (11:33:58) Chapter 35 (11:49:46) Chapter 36 (12:02:01) Chapter 37 (12:24:29) Chapter 38 (12:43:25) Chapter 39 (13:11:42) Chapter 40 (13:34:57) Chapter 41 (13:50:43) Chapter 42 (14:12:37) Chapter 43 (14:26:34) Chapter 44 (14:44:53) Chapter 45 (15:07:47) Chapter 46 (15:25:27) Chapter 47 (15:39:17) Chapter 48 (16:03:26) Chapter 49 (16:18:10) Chapter 50 (16:36:34) Chapter 51 (16:53:00) Chapter 52 (17:12:56) Chapter 53 (17:27:02) Chapter 54 (17:40:50) Chapter 55 (18:04:35) Chapter 56 (18:18:31) Chapter 57 (18:38:26) Chapter 58 (18:56:29) Chapter 59 (19:06:15) Chapter 60 (19:17:07) Chapter 61 (19:35:46) Chapter 62 (19:46:02) Chapter 63 (19:55:50) Chapter 64 (20:05:29) Chapter 65 (20:17:18) Chapter 66 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Forty-Five Guardsmen, Alexandre Dumas plunges listeners into the perilous politics of late 16th-century France, where the throne is weak, factions sharpen their knives, and loyalty is bought at a terrible price. King Henry III, besieged by rivals and public unrest, forms an elite corps of forty-five Gascon gentlemen - hard-bitten soldiers hired to serve as his personal shield and secret instrument. Into this volatile court steps a young nobleman drawn into a web of intrigue that stretches from the Louvre's corridors to shadowed streets and provincial strongholds. As conspiracies multiply, Dumas follows messengers, spies, and swordsmen as they navigate shifting alliances between royal favorites, the powerful Catholic League, and those who would reshape the kingdom by force. Duels, coded letters, midnight arrests, and narrow escapes build toward a struggle where honor clashes with ambition and where private passions can ignite public catastrophe. Rich with period detail and Dumas' trademark momentum, the novel explores power, faith, betrayal, and the cost of serving a king when the nation is tearing itself apart. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:19) Chapter 02 (00:20:48) Chapter 03 (00:26:46) Chapter 04 (00:36:16) Chapter 05 (00:48:04) Chapter 06 (01:07:41) Chapter 07 (01:15:47) Chapter 08 (01:23:38) Chapter 09 (01:31:20) Chapter 10 (01:41:05) Chapter 11 (01:49:13) Chapter 12 (01:57:29) Chapter 13 (02:04:57) Chapter 14 (02:20:28) Chapter 15 (02:32:42) Chapter 16 (02:41:51) Chapter 17 (02:46:23) Chapter 18 (02:52:45) Chapter 19 (03:01:01) Chapter 20 (03:05:51) Chapter 21 (03:13:05) Chapter 22 (03:21:02) Chapter 23 (03:26:41) Chapter 24 (03:35:59) Chapter 25 (03:41:25) Chapter 26 (03:47:11) Chapter 27 (03:54:50) Chapter 28 (04:00:19) Chapter 29 (04:07:59) Chapter 30 (04:18:11) Chapter 31 (04:27:54) Chapter 32 (04:34:02) Chapter 33 (04:39:32) Chapter 34 (04:45:34) Chapter 35 (04:54:11) Chapter 36 (05:00:48) Chapter 37 (05:10:35) Chapter 38 (05:21:14) Chapter 39 (05:30:41) Chapter 40 (05:45:03) Chapter 41 (05:54:52) Chapter 42 (06:06:33) Chapter 43 (06:17:40) Chapter 44 (06:26:46) Chapter 45 (06:32:32) Chapter 46 (06:38:43) Chapter 47 (06:49:48) Chapter 48 (06:59:03) Chapter 49 (07:12:32) Chapter 50 (07:22:22) Chapter 51 (07:37:20) Chapter 52 (07:48:41) Chapter 53 (08:00:10) Chapter 54 (08:14:34) Chapter 55 (08:23:47) Chapter 56 (08:32:55) Chapter 57 (08:50:47) Chapter 58 (09:00:48) Chapter 59 (09:11:59) Chapter 60 (09:18:52) Chapter 61 (09:28:35) Chapter 62 (09:42:33) Chapter 63 (09:48:27) Chapter 64 (09:58:16) Chapter 65 (10:13:01) Chapter 66 (10:21:57) Chapter 67 (10:32:07) Chapter 68 (10:42:24) Chapter 69 (10:56:07) Chapter 70 (11:04:12) Chapter 71 (11:15:42) Chapter 72 (11:24:55) Chapter 73 (11:36:28) Chapter 74 (11:54:45) Chapter 75 (12:09:18) Chapter 76 (12:17:13) Chapter 77 (12:33:48) Chapter 78 (12:47:05) Chapter 79 (12:53:46) Chapter 80 (12:58:47) Chapter 81 (13:26:43) Chapter 82 (13:44:36) Chapter 83 (13:59:51) Chapter 84 (14:21:58) Chapter 85 (14:32:06) Chapter 86 (14:48:17) Chapter 87 (15:05:22) Chapter 88 (15:19:27) Chapter 89 (15:38:07) Chapter 90 (15:44:37) Chapter 91 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope audiobook. Genre: philosophy Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man is a philosophical poem that wrestles with one of humanity's oldest questions: how can a world filled with suffering, limitation, and contradiction still make moral and spiritual sense? Written in a series of tightly argued, brilliantly crafted epistles, the work guides the listener through a grand survey of the human condition - our place in the universe, the boundaries of our knowledge, the pulls of passion and reason, and the social forces that shape our lives. Pope speaks to the restless mind that wants certainty, reminding us that perspective is partial and that pride can masquerade as wisdom. With vivid imagery and memorable lines, he examines the chain of being that links all creatures, the temptations of ambition and self-love, and the fragile balance between individual desire and the common good. At once devotional and skeptical, elegant and confrontational, An Essay on Man invites you to consider what it means to be human, why humility matters, and how acceptance, responsibility, and compassion might coexist in an imperfect world. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:05:00) Chapter 01 (00:28:05) Chapter 02 (00:50:59) Chapter 03 (01:16:42) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus by Lady Mary Wroth audiobook. Genre: poetry Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is Lady Mary Wroth's groundbreaking early modern sonnet sequence, spoken in the voice of Pamphilia, a woman caught between her vow of constancy and the painful knowledge that her beloved, Amphilanthus, is changeable. Through tightly wrought sonnets and interwoven songs, Pamphilia turns the conventions of courtly love inside out: instead of a silent lady adored from afar, she becomes the thinking, desiring, self-questioning center of the story. The poems trace her private battle as she tries to govern passion with reason, protect her dignity in a world of rumor and political display, and make meaning out of longing that refuses to end. Along the way, Wroth explores how love can be both a source of identity and a kind of captivity, especially for a woman whose choices are constrained by court, reputation, and expectation. Intimate, intellectually sharp, and emotionally relentless, this sequence offers a rare, sustained portrait of female interiority, where devotion, jealousy, hope, and endurance collide in language as precise as it is aching. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:29:17) Chapter 02 (00:55:44) Chapter 03 (01:03:56) Chapter 04 (01:17:38) Chapter 05 (01:30:24) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Moving the Mountain by Charlotte Perkins Gilman audiobook. Genre: scifi When John Robertson returns to the United States after three decades away, he expects to find familiar streets, old habits, and the same social battles he once knew. Instead, he steps into a nation quietly transformed by a sweeping, practical reorganization of everyday life. Taken in by relatives and new acquaintances, John becomes a curious outsider in his own homeland, touring workplaces, homes, schools, and public spaces that run with striking efficiency and unexpected warmth. As he struggles to make sense of what has changed, he meets people who embody the new order: women and men reshaping family life, labor, health, and civic responsibility around cooperation rather than competition. But John's amazement soon turns to unease as he realizes that progress has a price, and that not everyone welcomes a society built on shared standards, public planning, and a redefined idea of freedom. Moving the Mountain is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's visionary utopian novel, mixing satire and earnest social critique to ask what a modern nation might become if it treated care, work, and equality as core infrastructure. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:23:25) Chapter 02 (00:46:43) Chapter 03 (01:08:39) Chapter 04 (01:35:18) Chapter 05 (02:04:09) Chapter 06 (02:25:45) Chapter 07 (02:49:32) Chapter 08 (03:14:46) Chapter 09 (03:49:17) Chapter 10 (04:04:14) Chapter 11 (04:36:02) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maude by Christina Rossetti audiobook. Genre: drama Written as a 'tale for girls' and threaded with early poems, Christina Rossetti's Maude follows fifteen-year-old Maude Foster, a pale, clever, quietly intense London girl whose private writing-book is part diary, part sketchbook, and part confession. Praised for her verses yet unsettled by the attention they draw, Maude is pulled between the warmth and bustle of social life and an inward discipline shaped by religious devotion and relentless self-examination. When her mother brings her into the country to visit relatives for a birthday gathering, Maude steps into a world of lively cousins, youthful games, polite compliments, and the unspoken pressures of what a young woman should be: modest, domestic, agreeable. But Maude cannot stop measuring every thought and impulse, questioning whether her talents are vanity, whether her friendships are sincere, and whether she is truly worthy of the spiritual ideals she longs to live by. As days of pleasant activity give way to sharper moments of conscience, Maude must decide what kind of person she will become - and whether faith and feeling, duty and desire, can be held together without breaking her. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:28:07) Chapter 2 (00:55:00) Chapter 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Victory by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: tragedy Set in the Dutch East Indies at the edge of empire, Joseph Conrad's Victory follows Axel Heyst, a wealthy, disillusioned European who retreats from the world to a remote island, convinced that detachment is the only safe philosophy. His self-imposed solitude is disrupted when he intervenes to help Lena, a young musician trapped in a seedy touring troupe. Bringing her to his island refuge, Heyst discovers that withdrawal does not cancel responsibility - or desire - and that intimacy can be both a sanctuary and a vulnerability. Meanwhile, the island becomes a magnet for danger: a failing business venture, old resentments, and a trio of predatory outsiders converge, sensing opportunity in Heyst's isolation and in the couple's precarious position. As pressure mounts, the novel tests the limits of Heyst's ideals against the demands of love, loyalty, and action. Victory is a tense, atmospheric study of moral paralysis and sudden courage, where Conrad's seascape of heat and shadow frames a clash between conscience and cruelty. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:03:01) Chapter 02 (00:20:58) Chapter 03 (00:33:18) Chapter 04 (00:52:43) Chapter 05 (01:05:10) Chapter 06 (01:17:54) Chapter 07 (01:46:25) Chapter 08 (01:56:22) Chapter 09 (02:05:25) Chapter 10 (02:26:44) Chapter 11 (02:53:16) Chapter 12 (03:05:20) Chapter 13 (03:16:52) Chapter 14 (03:39:52) Chapter 15 (04:08:45) Chapter 16 (04:39:59) Chapter 17 (05:08:35) Chapter 18 (05:25:30) Chapter 19 (05:30:30) Chapter 20 (05:58:12) Chapter 21 (06:24:50) Chapter 22 (06:39:42) Chapter 23 (06:54:16) Chapter 24 (07:14:33) Chapter 25 (07:22:23) Chapter 26 (07:38:30) Chapter 27 (08:10:36) Chapter 28 (08:26:08) Chapter 29 (08:41:44) Chapter 30 (08:52:50) Chapter 31 (09:06:49) Chapter 32 (09:36:39) Chapter 33 (09:46:56) Chapter 34 (09:55:27) Chapter 35 (10:19:16) Chapter 36 (10:40:03) Chapter 37 (10:52:47) Chapter 38 (11:25:25) Chapter 39 (11:40:48) Chapter 40 (11:48:55) Chapter 41 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Stolen Brain by Nicholas Carter audiobook. Genre: mystery In a quiet stretch of the Bronx, not far from the New York Zoological Park, a feared surgeon has turned his rambling home into a private hospital - and whispers say the screams are not only animal. Dr. Hiram A. Grantley is brilliant, ruthless, and obsessed with pushing surgery beyond accepted limits. When antivivisectionist John D. Wallace brings alarming suspicions to famed detective Nick Carter, Carter decides the only way to learn the truth is to move in next door under an assumed name. Disguised as an ordinary family, Carter, his quick-witted assistant Patsy Garvan, and Patsy's intuitive wife Adelina begin a round-the-clock watch on Grantley's visitors: poor East Side patients who cannot pay, young doctors arriving after dark, and furtive movements that suggest something is being carried out at night.As the stake grows from rumor to imminent danger, Carter must balance stealth with urgency, risking exposure to catch Grantley in the act. With an allied surgeon ready to testify and a desperate plan to force an opening into the guarded house, the investigation drives toward a confrontation where medical ambition, human morality, and cold-blooded crime collide. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:56) Chapter 02 (00:21:15) Chapter 03 (00:28:48) Chapter 04 (00:35:27) Chapter 05 (00:42:48) Chapter 06 (00:48:49) Chapter 07 (00:57:01) Chapter 08 (01:04:51) Chapter 09 (01:14:18) Chapter 10 (01:25:02) Chapter 11 (01:35:18) Chapter 12 (01:41:27) Chapter 13 (01:49:55) Chapter 14 (01:58:10) Chapter 15 (02:06:28) Chapter 16 (02:13:15) Chapter 17 (02:21:34) Chapter 18 (02:29:16) Chapter 19 (02:36:47) Chapter 20 (02:44:43) Chapter 21 (02:52:37) Chapter 22 (02:59:50) Chapter 23 (03:12:05) Chapter 24 (03:20:03) Chapter 25 (03:28:48) Chapter 26 (03:38:51) Chapter 27 (03:47:33) Chapter 28 (03:56:42) Chapter 29 (04:04:31) Chapter 30 (04:13:05) Chapter 31 (04:23:29) Chapter 32 (04:31:12) Chapter 33 (04:38:50) Chapter 34 (04:46:25) Chapter 35 (04:55:06) Chapter 36 (05:01:11) Chapter 37 (05:08:50) Chapter 38 (05:15:20) Chapter 39 (05:18:53) Chapter 40 (05:23:35) Chapter 41 (05:28:59) Chapter 42 (05:35:48) Chapter 43 (05:40:35) Chapter 44 (05:46:35) Chapter 45 (05:50:13) Chapter 46 (05:58:15) Chapter 47 (06:05:41) Chapter 48 (06:08:16) Chapter 49 (06:11:08) Chapter 50 (06:14:39) Chapter 51 (06:19:30) Chapter 52 (06:24:25) Chapter 53 (06:30:05) Chapter 54 (06:37:13) Chapter 55 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sinister House by Leland Hall audiobook. Genre: horror In an ordinary American suburb, Pierre and his practical wife, Annette, try to welcome new neighbors, Eric and Julia Grier, into the community. But the Griers' home is anything but ordinary: an aging, unfashionable house that seems to drink in light and warmth, leaving behind a chill that Pierre cannot explain. Julia insists the place comforts her, yet bruises and strange injuries begin to appear on her body, and Eric starts to change in ways that unsettle everyone who meets him. When a stormy night forces Pierre's family to seek shelter under the Griers' roof, a child's terror and a series of small, impossible incidents push neighborly concern into outright dread. Annette's cousin Giles, a determined skeptic, digs into the house's earlier owners and the pious reputation that may hide something far darker, while Pierre struggles to protect his family from an influence that feels both intimate and inhuman. As whispers of a locked, forbidden room grow louder, Sinister House builds a slow, psychological haunt in which comfort curdles into suspicion, and the safest place in town becomes the one doorway you should never enter. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:51) Chapter 02 (00:22:53) Chapter 03 (00:33:50) Chapter 04 (00:56:51) Chapter 05 (01:19:44) Chapter 06 (01:44:17) Chapter 07 (02:10:18) Chapter 08 (02:41:20) Chapter 09 (03:08:02) Chapter 10 (03:32:41) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: religion In Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton sets out to explain how he came to embrace historic Christian belief - not as a dry system of doctrines, but as a living vision of reality that makes sense of wonder, morality, and human experience. Writing with wit and paradox, Chesterton retraces an intellectual journey that begins with a desire to defend the ordinary joys of life and ends in a challenge to the fashionable ideas of his age: skepticism, relativism, and the notion that modern thought is necessarily more liberated than older faith. Along the way he examines the strange balance he finds at the heart of Christianity - a creed that is both demanding and joyful, both mystical and practical, both humble and heroic. Through vivid analogies and sharp social observation, he argues that the deepest truths are often the ones hiding in plain sight, and that sanity itself may depend on accepting limits as well as freedom. Part memoir, part cultural critique, and part spiritual argument, Orthodoxy invites listeners to reconsider what they assume about belief, doubt, and the meaning of being fully alive. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:52) Chapter 02 (00:36:15) Chapter 03 (01:01:20) Chapter 04 (01:24:54) Chapter 05 (01:46:51) Chapter 06 (02:10:23) Chapter 07 (02:47:43) Chapter 08 (03:07:21) Chapter 09 (03:33:56) Chapter 10 (04:11:03) Chapter 11 (04:36:21) Chapter 12 (05:12:12) Chapter 13 (05:42:06) Chapter 14 (06:08:29) Chapter 15 (06:29:08) Chapter 16 (06:44:50) Chapter 17 (07:09:35) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Night Fears and Other Stories by L. P. Hartley audiobook. Genre: horror First published in May 1924, Night Fears and Other Stories gathers 17 early tales from L. P. Hartley that turn ordinary settings into stages for unease - where a polite conversation can feel like a trap, and a quiet room can seem to listen back. citeturn0search0 Across pieces such as 'Night Fears,' 'The Island,' 'The Telephone Call,' and 'St. George and the Dragon,' Hartley moves between subtle supernatural suggestion and razor-sharp social observation, tracing how dread can rise from the dark as easily as it can from manners, class, and the fear of misstep. citeturn0search13turn0search4 His characters - night wanderers, anxious callers, guests in unfamiliar houses, and people bracing for the ordinary indignities of modern life - find themselves confronted by sensations they cannot neatly explain, forced to decide what to dismiss, what to confess, and what to endure. citeturn0search4 Witty, poised, and quietly merciless, these stories invite you to listen for the moment a harmless detail turns ominous, and to discover how Hartley can make a single flicker of apprehension bloom into a lingering, sleepless afterthought. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:34:55) Chapter 02 (00:40:57) Chapter 03 (00:54:05) Chapter 04 (01:04:34) Chapter 05 (01:31:17) Chapter 06 (01:36:57) Chapter 07 (01:53:56) Chapter 08 (02:01:16) Chapter 09 (02:18:16) Chapter 10 (02:24:57) Chapter 11 (02:35:39) Chapter 12 (02:50:25) Chapter 13 (03:03:44) Chapter 14 (03:18:09) Chapter 15 (03:52:26) Chapter 16 (03:59:13) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Moment of Time by Richard Hughes audiobook. Genre: horror A Moment of Time is Richard Hughes's early collection of short fiction, where everyday life in coastal towns, rural lanes, and cramped lodging houses can tilt, in an instant, into the uncanny. Moving between wry observation and gothic unease, Hughes follows ordinary people as they stumble into moments that refuse to stay ordinary: a journey that turns unsettling, a quiet night made strange by a presence that cannot be explained away, a memory that sharpens into obsession, or a casual encounter that suddenly carries the weight of fate. Across stories such as 'Locomotive' and 'A Night at a Cottage,' the prose is crisp, musical, and edged with humor, but it is the atmosphere that lingers most - the sense that beneath familiar speech and local custom lies something older, darker, and watchful. Some tales lean toward romance or tragedy, others toward outright supernatural chill, yet all are linked by Hughes's fascination with how a single choice, glance, or coincidence can alter a life. This is a book about thresholds: between safety and danger, skepticism and belief, and the brief, irreversible instant when time seems to hold its breath. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (01:08:10) Chapter 02 (01:23:50) Chapter 03 (01:32:07) Chapter 04 (01:42:06) Chapter 05 (02:17:55) Chapter 06 (02:25:48) Chapter 07 (02:28:56) Chapter 08 (02:36:07) Chapter 09 (02:41:50) Chapter 10 (02:46:06) Chapter 11 (02:58:40) Chapter 12 (03:06:11) Chapter 13 (03:13:07) Chapter 14 (03:24:43) Chapter 15 (03:35:59) Chapter 16 (03:43:02) Chapter 17 (04:18:24) Chapter 18 (04:25:57) Chapter 19 (04:33:15) Chapter 20 (04:39:44) Chapter 21 (04:44:22) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lost On Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi Carson Napier never meant to go to Venus. Trying to pilot an experimental craft to Mars, he crashes instead on Amtor, a cloud-wrapped world of steaming jungles, impossible beasts, and city-states locked in ruthless rivalries. In Lost on Venus, the second adventure in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Venus series, Carson begins in a nightmare trap: the Room of the Seven Doors, where choice itself is a weapon and most paths mean certain death. Escaping is only the first trial. Duare, the princess he loves and the fragile hope of her people, has been taken by the Thorists - enemies who would rather break a kingdom than bargain with it. With no allies he can fully trust and no safe route through hostile territory, Carson pushes onward through labyrinthine ruins, eerie necropolises, and courts where politics can be as lethal as any claw or blade. Part romance, part pulp survival tale, and part swashbuckling quest, this is a relentless journey across an alien world where courage is never enough - and every victory risks becoming the next trap. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:03:01) Chapter 01 (00:30:47) Chapter 02 (00:47:27) Chapter 03 (01:03:23) Chapter 04 (01:14:40) Chapter 05 (01:38:59) Chapter 06 (02:00:13) Chapter 07 (02:11:24) Chapter 08 (02:34:57) Chapter 09 (03:01:44) Chapter 10 (03:22:19) Chapter 11 (03:43:13) Chapter 12 (04:04:59) Chapter 13 (04:24:58) Chapter 14 (04:43:13) Chapter 15 (05:03:32) Chapter 16 (05:18:56) Chapter 17 (05:39:09) Chapter 18 (05:55:53) Chapter 19 (06:21:07) Chapter 20 (06:42:01) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Life of Christ by Frederic Farrar audiobook. Genre: religion Frederic W. Farrar's The Life of Christ is a sweeping, reverent portrait of Jesus of Nazareth, told with the pace of a vivid narrative and the care of a scholar-pastor. Drawing on the Gospel accounts and the geography, customs, and politics of first-century Judea and Galilee, Farrar follows Jesus from the quiet beginnings of his ministry to the widening circle of disciples, the crowds who gather for healing and teaching, and the mounting controversies that surround his message. Along the way, familiar scenes are rendered with fresh color: parables that cut to the heart, sermons that challenge comfortable religion, and encounters that reveal compassion for the outcast and a fierce demand for inner integrity. As Jesus' influence spreads, so does resistance from religious leaders and political powers, placing his followers under pressure and forcing hard questions about faith, authority, sacrifice, and the meaning of the Kingdom of God. Both devotional and analytical, this classic work invites listeners to consider not only what Jesus did and said, but why it mattered, and why it still does. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:39:20) Chapter 01 (01:02:20) Chapter 02 (01:14:06) Chapter 03 (01:33:23) Chapter 04 (01:52:49) Chapter 05 (02:19:48) Chapter 06 (02:44:26) Chapter 07 (03:29:40) Chapter 08 (03:49:42) Chapter 09 (04:21:46) Chapter 10 (04:47:38) Chapter 11 (05:06:48) Chapter 12 (05:22:23) Chapter 13 (05:41:21) Chapter 14 (05:54:13) Chapter 15 (06:08:08) Chapter 16 (06:24:54) Chapter 17 (06:49:55) Chapter 18 (07:17:19) Chapter 19 (07:30:01) Chapter 20 (07:47:55) Chapter 21 (08:02:51) Chapter 22 (08:22:37) Chapter 23 (08:53:19) Chapter 24 (09:05:26) Chapter 25 (09:16:12) Chapter 26 (09:30:51) Chapter 27 (09:51:31) Chapter 28 (10:11:48) Chapter 29 (10:27:13) Chapter 30 (10:43:56) Chapter 31 (11:23:21) Chapter 32 (11:45:11) Chapter 33 (11:59:50) Chapter 34 (12:11:27) Chapter 35 (12:46:34) Chapter 36 (12:57:28) Chapter 37 (13:10:28) Chapter 38 (13:18:55) Chapter 39 (13:39:38) Chapter 40 (14:05:32) Chapter 41 (14:17:34) Chapter 42 (14:42:26) Chapter 43 (14:54:00) Chapter 44 (15:35:36) Chapter 45 (15:51:46) Chapter 46 (16:15:31) Chapter 47 (16:33:24) Chapter 48 (16:59:58) Chapter 49 (17:22:32) Chapter 50 (17:45:28) Chapter 51 (18:03:56) Chapter 52 (18:23:42) Chapter 53 (18:47:29) Chapter 54 (19:03:08) Chapter 55 (19:31:41) Chapter 56 (19:52:30) Chapter 57 (20:26:41) Chapter 58 (20:53:34) Chapter 59 (21:17:54) Chapter 60 (22:08:17) Chapter 61 (22:56:29) Chapter 62 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The House Without A Key by Earl Derr Biggers audiobook. Genre: mystery When a respected Honolulu judge is found murdered in his own beachside home, the case threatens to ignite more than local scandal - it risks inflaming tensions within the islands' tight-knit social circles and the visiting mainland elite. Into the uneasy mix steps Charlie Chan, a quiet, methodical Chinese-Hawaiian detective whose sharp mind and patient manners are routinely underestimated by those around him. Pressured by influential families, distracted by gossip and superstition, and confronted by suspects with carefully guarded secrets, Chan must sift rumor from evidence while navigating racial prejudice and political maneuvering in 1920s Hawaii. As clues point toward jealousies, hidden relationships, and motives buried beneath polite conversation, the investigation becomes a test of Chan's resolve: to deliver justice without being pulled into the agendas of the powerful. With atmosphere-rich settings, crisp dialogue, and a puzzle that tightens with every interview and discovery, The House Without a Key introduces a detective who solves crimes not with brute force, but with observation, empathy, and relentless logic. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:42:02) Chapter 02 (00:58:41) Chapter 03 (01:40:49) Chapter 04 (02:11:33) Chapter 05 (02:43:26) Chapter 06 (03:09:10) Chapter 07 (03:57:34) Chapter 08 (04:35:06) Chapter 09 (05:14:30) Chapter 10 (05:51:12) Chapter 11 (06:40:15) Chapter 12 (07:13:08) Chapter 13 (07:45:47) Chapter 14 (08:19:08) Chapter 15 (09:05:54) Chapter 16 (09:43:44) Chapter 17 (10:10:38) Chapter 18 (10:47:26) Chapter 19 (11:36:07) Chapter 20 (12:09:34) Chapter 21 (12:45:19) Chapter 22 (13:26:52) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Door with Seven Locks by Edgar Wallace audiobook. Genre: mystery On the day he expects to leave Scotland Yard for good, Inspector Dick Martin is handed one last, odd assignment: track down a stolen library book. The small case draws him to the quick-witted librarian Sybil Lansdown, and then to a darker circle of rumors involving Gallows Cottage, a missing young heir, and a long-sealed family tomb said to be protected by a door with seven separate locks. When a nervous lock-picker hints that someone recently tried to force entry into a dead man's resting place and is murdered before he can explain, Martin realizes the book, the heir, and the tomb are strands of the same knot. As more deaths follow, the investigation points toward Doctor Stalletti, a respected physician with a sinister reputation and whispers of unethical experiments. With seven keys scattered among dubious hands and a fortune waiting behind stone and steel, Martin must untangle greed, disguise, and old family secrets before the next key changes owners and the wrong person reaches the door first. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:11:38) Chapter 02 (00:20:35) Chapter 03 (00:30:19) Chapter 04 (00:47:53) Chapter 05 (00:51:16) Chapter 06 (01:09:54) Chapter 07 (01:16:43) Chapter 08 (01:24:49) Chapter 09 (01:37:08) Chapter 10 (01:45:44) Chapter 11 (01:51:45) Chapter 12 (02:05:26) Chapter 13 (02:15:58) Chapter 14 (02:30:22) Chapter 15 (02:42:55) Chapter 16 (02:50:36) Chapter 17 (03:04:02) Chapter 18 (03:13:12) Chapter 19 (03:27:52) Chapter 20 (03:41:48) Chapter 21 (03:49:29) Chapter 22 (03:54:22) Chapter 23 (04:00:32) Chapter 24 (04:10:43) Chapter 25 (04:21:36) Chapter 26 (04:35:14) Chapter 27 (04:46:43) Chapter 28 (05:02:55) Chapter 29 (05:12:15) Chapter 30 (05:18:38) Chapter 31 (05:21:31) Chapter 32 (05:31:27) Chapter 33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deirdre by James Stephens audiobook. Genre: folklore James Stephens' Deirdre retells one of the most haunting legends of Ireland's heroic age with a storyteller's wit and a poet's ear. In the court of Ulster, King Conachur mac Nessa hears a prophecy that a newborn girl will grow into such beauty that she will draw rivalries, betrayals, and blood-feuds in her wake. Determined to master fate, Conachur has the child, Deirdre, raised in strict seclusion under the watch of Lavarcham, shaping her into a future queen and keeping her far from the world that might claim her. But Deirdre's imagination is larger than any locked door, and when she encounters Naoise, a young warrior of the sons of Uisneac, desire and defiance blaze through the careful plans of kings. Their choice to love becomes a political crisis: oaths, hospitality, and honor collide with jealousy, power, and the court's appetite for control. Moving between intimate conversations and high-stakes intrigue, Stephens explores what it costs to resist destiny, and what happens when private longing challenges a kingdom's order. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:16:03) Chapter 02 (00:28:37) Chapter 03 (00:46:59) Chapter 04 (01:07:12) Chapter 05 (01:27:09) Chapter 06 (01:44:06) Chapter 07 (02:00:04) Chapter 08 (02:16:10) Chapter 09 (02:32:57) Chapter 10 (02:47:53) Chapter 11 (03:05:41) Chapter 12 (03:29:22) Chapter 13 (03:43:31) Chapter 14 (03:59:14) Chapter 15 (04:13:37) Chapter 16 (04:28:01) Chapter 17 (04:39:17) Chapter 18 (04:52:07) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Crimson Patch by Augusta Huiell Seaman audiobook. Genre: mystery Seventeen-year-old Patricia Meade expects a quiet summer in a grand city hotel while her father, Captain Meade, completes a confidential government assignment linked to the recent war. But the hotel proves to be anything but restful. Patricia is lonely, her mother is away recovering her health, and her father warns her that in a place full of strangers, even a careless conversation can be dangerous. Then Patricia befriends Virginie de Vos, a guarded foreign girl staying just across the hall under the watchful eye of the elegant Madame Vanderpoel. When a harmless-looking sketch from Captain Meade's portfolio vanishes, Patricia realizes she may have opened the door to something far bigger than a parlor-room misunderstanding. With time running short and suspicion falling on everyone from hotel staff to well-dressed guests, Patricia must learn whom to trust, what to keep secret, and how far she is willing to go to protect both her father and her new friend. A fast-moving blend of friendship, coded clues, and wartime espionage, The Crimson Patch turns an ordinary hotel corridor into a maze of hidden motives and perilous choices. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:11:32) Chapter 02 (00:26:42) Chapter 03 (00:46:20) Chapter 04 (01:04:16) Chapter 05 (01:12:37) Chapter 06 (01:27:46) Chapter 07 (01:37:09) Chapter 08 (01:45:38) Chapter 09 (01:59:52) Chapter 10 (02:07:01) Chapter 11 (02:18:30) Chapter 12 (02:42:11) Chapter 13 (02:55:12) Chapter 14 (03:05:39) Chapter 15 (03:16:58) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brattons Idea by Manly Wade Wellman audiobook. Genre: scifi In a bustling Hollywood film studio, Old Bratton is just another overlooked janitor - until night falls and he retreats to a hidden workshop where he pursues his true calling: creating life with wires, motors, and crackling electricity. His experiments have produced only disappointing failures, but a sudden opportunity arrives when a temperamental ventriloquist, Ben Gascon, casts off his stage partner, a wooden dummy named Tom-Tom, in the wake of a humiliating personal fiasco. To Bratton, the discarded puppet is not a prop but a perfect vessel, and he throws himself into one last, secret attempt to spark genuine animation. The result is not the obedient marvel he imagined. As rumors and violence ripple through Los Angeles, the boundary between show-business illusion and real-world menace begins to dissolve, pulling Gascon into a frantic search for answers and forcing him to confront what Bratton may have unleashed. Blending mad-science invention, noir-tinged crime, and uncanny terror, Bratton's Idea explores ambition, responsibility, and the chilling price of giving a manufactured thing a will of its own. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:27) Chapter 02 (00:24:09) Chapter 03 (00:39:18) Chapter 04 (00:53:02) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Baled Hay - A Drier Book than Walt Whitmans Leaves o Grass by Bill Nye audiobook. Genre: comedy In Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's Leaves o' Grass, 19th-century American humorist Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye) sets out to do the unthinkable: publish a book of lofty, poetic sayings while insisting he has carefully removed anything that might accidentally resemble real poetry. The result is a brisk, mischievous collection of comic sketches, mock-serious reflections, and satirical observations that lampoon literary pretension, public figures, and everyday American life. Moving from frontier-flavored anecdotes to sly social commentary, Nye adopts the voice of a straight-faced lecturer who cannot resist puncturing his own authority with self-deprecating asides and playful word twists. Characters drift in and out like the cast of a tall tale: artists and journalists, would-be intellectuals, hard-luck workers, and assorted busybodies who take themselves far too seriously. Whether he is parodying high culture or turning ordinary experiences into absurd set pieces, Nye keeps the pace lively and the tone irreverent. Beneath the jokes lies a sharp eye for how people perform respectability, chase status, and mistake pomposity for wisdom. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:59) Chapter 02 (00:26:49) Chapter 03 (00:41:06) Chapter 04 (00:56:40) Chapter 05 (01:08:19) Chapter 06 (01:22:25) Chapter 07 (01:34:38) Chapter 08 (01:47:59) Chapter 09 (01:58:42) Chapter 10 (02:13:09) Chapter 11 (02:26:40) Chapter 12 (02:40:37) Chapter 13 (02:53:03) Chapter 14 (03:07:01) Chapter 15 (03:19:08) Chapter 16 (03:29:32) Chapter 17 (03:46:20) Chapter 18 (04:04:59) Chapter 19 (04:15:33) Chapter 20 (04:25:23) Chapter 21 (04:37:32) Chapter 22 (04:48:57) Chapter 23 (05:03:34) Chapter 24 (05:16:32) Chapter 25 (05:33:21) Chapter 26 (05:44:36) Chapter 27 (05:59:02) Chapter 28 (06:11:33) Chapter 29 (06:23:20) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Whispering Eye, A Black Hood Novel by G. T. Fleming-Roberts audiobook. Genre: thriller In a city where headlines travel faster than truth, the masked crime fighter known as the Black Hood suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of the law. A shadowy underworld mastermind called the Eye engineers a ruthless scheme that leaves the Black Hood framed for robbery and murder, with the police closing in and the criminal world eager to collect its prize. Worse, Barbara Sutton, the woman whose faith matters most, turns against him, convinced the evidence proves his guilt. Now the Black Hood must slip through a tightening dragnet, trace the Eye's chain of corruption, and outthink a foe who seems to see everything while remaining unseen. Moving from smoky back rooms to violent street ambushes, the hunt becomes a test of nerve, identity, and loyalty: can a vigilante clear his name without becoming the monster the city already believes he is? Packed with pulp-era momentum, hard-edged danger, and a noir-tinged romance, The Whispering Eye throws its hero into a relentless race to expose the mastermind before the Eye's whispers become a death sentence. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:08) Chapter 02 (00:32:41) Chapter 03 (00:42:21) Chapter 04 (01:01:39) Chapter 05 (01:15:05) Chapter 06 (01:25:52) Chapter 07 (01:37:24) Chapter 08 (01:48:52) Chapter 09 (01:59:17) Chapter 10 (02:07:16) Chapter 11 (02:17:39) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cartels Jungle by Irving E. Cox, Jr. audiobook. Genre: scifi In a future where Earth has been reshaped by catastrophe and power has consolidated into a few ruthless cartels, Captain Max Hunter comes home from the space service with one simple plan: marry Ann Saymer and help her open a clinic. Ann is brilliant, idealistic, and on the verge of unveiling her greatest achievement - a revolutionary psychiatric device known as the Exorciser, a machine that can reach into the mind and change what people feel and fear. But before Max can trade uniforms for a quiet life, Ann vanishes, and whispers spread that her invention has drawn the attention of rival dynasties and their enforcers, who run society through a brittle mix of corporate rule, propaganda, and manufactured peace. Driven by love and a stubborn moral code, Max plunges into the glittering resorts, guarded precincts, and forbidden zones where the cartel elite live above everyone else. Each step toward Ann pulls him deeper into a maze of deception, factional politics, and psychological warfare, where the promise of a better world may be nothing more than a new kind of cage. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:29:12) Chapter 02 (01:03:46) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol audiobook. Genre: adventure Set on the sweeping steppes of Eastern Europe, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol's Taras Bulba follows a fierce old Cossack warrior who lives for the hard freedoms of the Zaporozhian Host and the holy fire of battle. When his two sons return from school, Taras wastes no time pulling them into the rough brotherhood of the Sich, where loyalty is sworn with steel, song, and shared danger. As conflict flares with the Polish forces who threaten Cossack lands and faith, father and sons are tested in raids, sieges, and brutal marches that demand absolute devotion to comrades and cause. But the greater struggle is not only on the battlefield: desire, conscience, and competing ideas of honor begin to tug the family apart, forcing each man to decide what he owes to his people, his beliefs, and his blood. By turns wild, grim, and darkly humorous, this classic tale explores patriotism, belonging, and the terrible price of uncompromising pride. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:29:26) Chapter 02 (00:52:28) Chapter 03 (01:09:53) Chapter 04 (01:29:56) Chapter 05 (01:56:04) Chapter 06 (02:22:44) Chapter 07 (02:54:03) Chapter 08 (03:16:24) Chapter 09 (03:51:20) Chapter 10 (04:05:33) Chapter 11 (04:31:13) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford audiobook. Genre: comedy Shorty McCabe used to earn his living with his fists. Now the ex-prizefighter is trying to keep steady work as a trainer in New York, only to learn that trouble finds him faster than any challenger ever could. Told in Shorty's fast-talking, streetwise voice, this classic romp begins when a bad horse tip and an empty bankroll introduce him to Leonidas Macklin Dodge, a silk-hatted schemer with a gift for talking his way into (and out of) any room in town. One good deed for a timid, chronically ill millionaire turns into a chain of unlikely jobs, odd alliances, and sudden invitations into high-society apartments where Shorty most definitely does not belong. Before long, Shorty is attached to a wealthy young gentleman he calls the Boss, whose money attracts parasites, whose romantic impulses attract danger, and whose past abroad refuses to stay buried. Whether he is playing bodyguard, boxing instructor, or reluctant confidant, Shorty must rely on blunt honesty, quick instincts, and a willingness to stand in a friend's corner when the stakes turn serious. Shorty McCabe is a whirlwind of hustles, misunderstandings, and loyalty tested under pressure, with New York swagger and old-world complications colliding at every turn. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:33:27) Chapter 02 (01:12:31) Chapter 03 (01:46:22) Chapter 04 (02:21:53) Chapter 05 (02:53:47) Chapter 06 (03:22:23) Chapter 07 (03:47:46) Chapter 08 (04:11:20) Chapter 09 (04:34:20) Chapter 10 (04:57:36) Chapter 11 (05:19:32) Chapter 12 (05:40:02) Chapter 13 (06:02:17) Chapter 14 (06:26:51) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Incubator Baby by Ellis Parker Butler audiobook. Genre: comedy Born at barely more than a pound, Marjorie Fielding begins life as a public marvel, sealed behind glass in a nickel-plated incubator while curious strangers peer in and experts adjust dials and temperatures. When she finally comes home, her mother, Mrs. Fielding, is determined to raise a perfect modern child by the newest rules of scientific motherhood: charts for every function, strict schedules, hygienic clothing, and a vigilant nurse, Chiswick, ready with a thermometer and a teaspoon. But Marjorie, telling her story with sharp, funny innocence, wants what babies have always wanted: warmth, attention, play, and the comforting arms of someone who understands her cries better than any statistic. As Marjorie grows from fragile exhibit to determined toddler, her spirited demands collide with a household ruled by committees, advice, and the fear of doing things the old-fashioned way. Ellis Parker Butler turns a simple nursery into a satirical battleground, asking how much system a child can bear, and what gets lost when parenting becomes an experiment. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:20:51) Chapter 02 (00:48:11) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

White Mountain Trails by Winthrop Packard audiobook. Genre: adventure In White Mountain Trails, naturalist and journalist Winthrop Packard invites you onto the footpaths of New Hampshire's White Hills in a vivid, early-20th-century journey of climbing, watching, and wondering. Moving from the spring freshness of Chocorua and its lake to the high, stony world of Mount Washington, Packard follows well-known routes and lesser rambles alike: Carter Notch, Tuckerman's Ravine, Crawford Notch, Boott's Spur, Mount Jackson, Mount Lafayette, and more. Along the way, the mountains become a living field guide. Warblers and bobolinks flash through meadow edges, butterflies swarm the alpine air, and firs and birches change character with every rise in elevation. But this is not only a celebration of scenery. Packard weighs the mood of rain and fog against the hard clarity of summit mornings, and he notices the human marks on the landscape: mountain camps, small hamlets, farms clinging to steep shoulders, and the relentless work of logging roads pushing toward the last stands of spruce. Part travelogue, part nature essay, this book captures the White Mountains as both challenge and refuge, and asks what it means to truly know a wild place by walking it. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:18:48) Chapter 02 (00:35:31) Chapter 03 (00:52:56) Chapter 04 (01:10:14) Chapter 05 (01:27:25) Chapter 06 (01:45:54) Chapter 07 (02:03:47) Chapter 08 (02:21:21) Chapter 09 (02:40:00) Chapter 10 (02:57:17) Chapter 11 (03:13:54) Chapter 12 (03:31:53) Chapter 13 (03:49:10) Chapter 14 (04:07:53) Chapter 15 (04:26:16) Chapter 16 (04:42:25) Chapter 17 (05:00:27) Chapter 18 (05:17:56) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

History of the Johnstown Flood by Willis Fletcher Johnson audiobook. Genre: history Willis Fletcher Johnson's History of the Johnstown Flood is a gripping narrative of one of the deadliest disasters in nineteenth-century America: the catastrophic inundation that struck Johnstown, Pennsylvania, after days of relentless rain and the failure of an earthen dam above the Conemaugh Valley. Johnson reconstructs the setting and the stakes by introducing the river town and its surrounding communities, then widening the lens to the reservoir and the club that maintained it, along with the engineers, workers, and ordinary families whose lives would be abruptly entangled. Moving between eyewitness accounts, reported testimony, and careful description of geography and infrastructure, the book traces how warnings spread, how people tried to prepare, and how confusion and rumor complicated the response. Beyond the immediate calamity, Johnson follows the urgent struggle to search for the missing, aid the injured, organize relief, and confront hard questions about responsibility, human error, and the limits of industrial-era safety. Vivid, sobering, and investigative in tone, this is both a memorial to the victims and an early case study in how communities reckon with preventable tragedy. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:21) Chapter 01 (00:17:44) Chapter 02 (00:27:09) Chapter 03 (00:37:01) Chapter 04 (00:51:33) Chapter 05 (01:07:02) Chapter 06 (01:22:54) Chapter 07 (01:32:24) Chapter 08 (01:45:08) Chapter 09 (02:00:18) Chapter 10 (02:11:16) Chapter 11 (02:18:59) Chapter 12 (02:26:41) Chapter 13 (02:36:01) Chapter 14 (02:45:03) Chapter 15 (02:52:38) Chapter 16 (03:04:33) Chapter 17 (03:12:10) Chapter 18 (03:22:18) Chapter 19 (03:33:02) Chapter 20 (03:42:10) Chapter 21 (03:54:48) Chapter 22 (04:10:22) Chapter 23 (04:27:38) Chapter 24 (04:40:45) Chapter 25 (04:54:13) Chapter 26 (05:03:17) Chapter 27 (05:30:11) Chapter 28 (05:39:13) Chapter 29 (05:50:23) Chapter 30 (05:56:05) Chapter 31 (06:07:35) Chapter 32 (06:16:17) Chapter 33 (06:24:04) Chapter 34 (06:29:04) Chapter 35 (06:35:39) Chapter 36 (06:46:37) Chapter 37 (06:56:38) Chapter 38 (07:11:12) Chapter 39 (07:20:28) Chapter 40 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902 by William Morris Davis audiobook. Genre: biography Written by Harvard geographer William Morris Davis, Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902 presents a brisk, first-hand portrait of one of the defining scientific frontiersmen of the United States. Powell emerges not only as the one-armed Civil War veteran who dared the Colorado River and the canyons of the West, but as a relentless organizer who pushed exploration into public service. Through tightly focused sections, Davis follows Powell from field hardship and improvisation to the work of building institutions: shaping federal survey work in the West, helping establish what became the U.S. Geological Survey, and guiding the Bureau of Ethnology at a time when the nations and cultures of Native America were too often misunderstood or ignored. The memoir highlights Powell's lifelong insistence that science should inform policy, especially in the arid West where water, land, and settlement could not be managed by wishful thinking. As Davis traces Powell's leadership, rivalries, and vision for responsible development, listeners are drawn into a larger question that still feels modern: how do you map a continent, share its resources, and do justice to the people who already live there? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:05:39) Chapter 02 (00:10:42) Chapter 03 (00:15:10) Chapter 04 (00:24:28) Chapter 05 (00:35:38) Chapter 06 (00:46:48) Chapter 07 (00:53:08) Chapter 08 (01:01:24) Chapter 09 (01:09:22) Chapter 10 (01:14:42) Chapter 11 (01:22:05) Chapter 12 (01:43:08) Chapter 13 (01:54:27) Chapter 14 (01:59:53) Chapter 15 (02:04:03) Chapter 16 (02:06:02) Chapter 17 (02:13:23) Chapter 18 (02:20:45) Chapter 19 (02:24:14) Chapter 20 (02:31:36) Chapter 21 (02:34:57) Chapter 22 (02:41:57) Chapter 23 (02:45:24) Chapter 24 (02:55:06) Chapter 25 (02:58:18) Chapter 26 (03:05:16) Chapter 27 (03:17:05) Chapter 28 (03:18:45) Chapter 29 (03:23:30) Chapter 30 (03:29:53) Chapter 31 (03:32:32) Chapter 32 (03:37:16) Chapter 33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Apartment Next Door by William Johnston audiobook. Genre: mystery During World War I, Jane Strong is restless with the safe routines of her New York life and hungry to do something that matters. One night, she glimpses a tense chase outside her building, hears a shot, and watches a familiar figure return - the tenant in the apartment next door. By morning, the papers insist the man who was pursued died by suicide, but Jane knows what she saw does not add up. When a government agent approaches her, Jane is drawn into a shadowy assignment: keep watch, keep quiet, and help the U.S. Secret Service untangle a threat that may be hiding in plain sight. As Jane begins to observe coded meetings, suspicious visitors, and the unsettling rhythms of her neighbors' lives, her curiosity becomes a dangerous liability - and her courage becomes her only advantage. With espionage tightening around her building and trust growing harder to place, Jane must decide how far she will go for country and conscience, even as unexpected romance complicates every judgment she makes. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:18:48) Chapter 02 (00:42:32) Chapter 03 (01:04:11) Chapter 04 (01:26:19) Chapter 05 (01:48:46) Chapter 06 (02:10:18) Chapter 07 (02:31:08) Chapter 08 (02:49:35) Chapter 09 (03:09:17) Chapter 10 (03:26:49) Chapter 11 (03:49:15) Chapter 12 (04:05:49) Chapter 13 (04:23:16) Chapter 14 (04:40:42) Chapter 15 (04:57:32) Chapter 16 (05:13:05) Chapter 17 (05:28:38) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Troubled Man's Medicine by William Hugh audiobook. Genre: religion Written in the midst of England's Reformation and shaped by pastoral urgency, The Troubled Man's Medicine is William Hugh's practical guide for anyone facing sickness, loss, fear, or hard fortune. Framed as counsel originally composed for an ailing friend, the book sets out to give troubled readers a steadying remedy: not a physical cure, but a disciplined way to endure adversity with patience, gratitude, and faith. Across two parts, Hugh gathers Scripture, moral reasoning, and vivid examples to challenge the comforts of wealth, confront the realities of poverty and affliction, and press the reader toward prayer and trust when circumstances feel unbearable. The second part turns even more directly to the most daunting trial of all, teaching the listener how to approach death without panic, to examine the heart honestly, and to seek consolation that does not collapse when the body weakens. Clear, exhortative, and intimate in tone, Hugh's work aims to transform suffering into spiritual steadiness, offering a companionable voice for dark hours and a roadmap for courage when the end feels near. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:34:14) Chapter 02 (00:51:02) Chapter 03 (01:24:37) Chapter 04 (01:27:14) Chapter 05 (02:31:32) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil by William Henry Smith audiobook. Genre: philosophy Set in and around the English countryside village the author calls Gravenhurst, this reflective Victorian work follows an observant country gentleman as he records a chain of walks, visits, and drawing-room conversations that keep circling back to one stubborn question: if the world contains so much beauty, why does it also contain so much pain? As his friends debate what they have seen in their own lives, the book ranges widely across everyday experience and big ideas alike: bodily suffering and painful emotion, the sense that there is simply 'too much' evil, and the tangled problem of moral evil - the harms people choose to do. From there, the discussions turn to whether some evils can be remedied through education, social progress, and wiser institutions, and what might be beyond human power to fix. Along the way, Smith considers inequality of happiness, crime and punishment, and the strange way struggle seems bound up with human development. Written in a calm, accessible style, Gravenhurst blends moral psychology, social observation, and Christian-minded theodicy, inviting listeners to test their own convictions about responsibility, compassion, and the grounds for hope. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:45) Chapter 02 (00:42:46) Chapter 03 (01:03:25) Chapter 04 (01:13:59) Chapter 05 (01:29:37) Chapter 06 (01:47:00) Chapter 07 (02:02:59) Chapter 08 (02:17:38) Chapter 09 (02:44:57) Chapter 10 (03:05:40) Chapter 11 (03:37:48) Chapter 12 (04:02:34) Chapter 13 (04:31:53) Chapter 14 (04:54:46) Chapter 15 (05:24:26) Chapter 16 (05:48:06) Chapter 17 (06:12:26) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mosquitoes by William Faulkner audiobook. Genre: comedy Set in the languid heat of New Orleans in the early 1920s, William Faulkner's Mosquitoes follows a mixed group of artists, writers, socialites, and dreamers who escape the city on a weekend yachting trip across Lake Pontchartrain. The voyage promises leisure and inspiration, but the close quarters quickly turn the boat into a floating stage for vanity, flirtation, rivalry, and relentless talk. At the center is a young writer watching the others with equal parts fascination and impatience, while the charismatic painter Gordon and the self-important intellectual Dawson Fairchild spar over art, ego, and what it means to create something true. As the party drifts from witty banter to cutting satire, the trip exposes how desire and ambition can distort friendship, romance, and artistic purpose. By turns sharp, comic, and melancholy, Mosquitoes is a portrait of a scene where everyone hungers to be admired, yet few can bear honest attention, and where the smallest irritations - like the insects of the title - can drive people toward revealing choices. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:34) Chapter 01 (00:12:39) Chapter 02 (00:31:49) Chapter 03 (00:52:22) Chapter 04 (00:56:50) Chapter 05 (01:06:05) Chapter 06 (01:15:56) Chapter 07 (01:17:19) Chapter 08 (01:21:35) Chapter 09 (01:33:39) Chapter 10 (01:41:39) Chapter 11 (01:45:17) Chapter 12 (01:56:38) Chapter 13 (02:19:55) Chapter 14 (02:31:32) Chapter 15 (02:40:39) Chapter 16 (02:46:34) Chapter 17 (02:55:54) Chapter 18 (03:01:26) Chapter 19 (03:09:31) Chapter 20 (03:19:55) Chapter 21 (03:26:11) Chapter 22 (03:29:00) Chapter 23 (03:42:44) Chapter 24 (04:01:52) Chapter 25 (04:16:16) Chapter 26 (04:53:50) Chapter 27 (04:57:19) Chapter 28 (05:13:57) Chapter 29 (05:26:31) Chapter 30 (05:30:59) Chapter 31 (05:35:10) Chapter 32 (05:40:30) Chapter 33 (05:47:53) Chapter 34 (05:53:04) Chapter 35 (06:08:31) Chapter 36 (06:14:56) Chapter 37 (06:40:08) Chapter 38 (06:54:58) Chapter 39 (06:59:33) Chapter 40 (07:08:02) Chapter 41 (07:21:13) Chapter 42 (07:42:39) Chapter 43 (07:44:41) Chapter 44 (07:46:18) Chapter 45 (07:50:54) Chapter 46 (08:00:04) Chapter 47 (08:03:02) Chapter 48 (08:17:50) Chapter 49 (08:26:56) Chapter 50 (08:42:32) Chapter 51 (08:48:37) Chapter 52 (08:59:03) Chapter 53 (09:14:42) Chapter 54 (09:21:53) Chapter 55 (09:32:40) Chapter 56 (09:37:31) Chapter 57 (09:41:39) Chapter 58 (09:55:30) Chapter 59 (10:00:44) Chapter 60 (10:21:41) Chapter 61 (10:30:44) Chapter 62 (10:59:00) Chapter 63 (11:11:36) Chapter 64 (11:26:43) Chapter 65 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sour Grapes by William Carlos Williams audiobook. Genre: poetry Sour Grapes is an early, punchy collection of poems by William Carlos Williams that helps define an American modernist voice: local, plainspoken, and startlingly alive to the physical world. Moving from quick, image-driven lyrics to more expansive reflections, Williams trains his attention on everyday scenes - a street corner, a room, a body at work, a sudden change of weather - and turns them into moments of sharp perception. The poems favor clean lines, fresh metaphors, and the belief that meaning is not imported from distant ideals but discovered in the immediate present, in the grit and beauty of common life. Across the collection, you can hear a restless intelligence testing what poetry can do with ordinary language, while also feeling the undercurrent of desire, irritation, tenderness, and longing that gives the book its title bite. Sour Grapes invites listeners into a world where small things matter, where seeing clearly is a moral act, and where the music of speech becomes a new kind of lyric truth. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:29:40) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Smoky The Cowhorse by Will James audiobook. Genre: adventure In the high country of the American West, a wild, steel-gray mustang is born with speed, intelligence, and a fierce love of open space. The cowboys who spot him call him Smoky, and before long he is caught, sold, and thrown into a human world he does not understand. Fate brings Smoky to a quiet, capable young cowboy named Clint, who takes the time to gentle him with patience rather than force. Under Clint's care, Smoky becomes more than a working horse - he becomes a trusted partner, learning the rhythms of ranch life, the dangers of cattle drives, and the unspoken language between rider and mount. But the West is wide, and it is not kind to anything that cannot protect itself. When Smoky is separated from the one person who truly understands him, he is pushed through hard hands and harsh trails, tested by fear, pain, and the stubborn will to survive. Will James' classic tale blends vivid cowboy detail with deep empathy for an animal's heart, asking what loyalty costs, how trust is earned, and whether a broken bond can ever be mended. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:03:47) Chapter 01 (00:37:06) Chapter 02 (01:06:57) Chapter 03 (01:39:45) Chapter 04 (02:14:52) Chapter 05 (02:50:33) Chapter 06 (03:24:54) Chapter 07 (03:53:45) Chapter 08 (04:31:22) Chapter 09 (05:09:43) Chapter 10 (05:45:49) Chapter 11 (06:22:17) Chapter 12 (07:00:05) Chapter 13 (07:35:08) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices