Classic Audiobook Collection

The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac audiobook. Genre: drama In Restoration Paris, where wealth and reputation can be traded as easily as gossip, the worldly dandy Henri de Marsay lives for conquest and control. But a single glimpse of a young woman with striking, golden eyes jolts him out of his practiced indifference. Determined to learn her name and claim her attention, de Marsay follows the faint trail of clues into a shadowed corner of the city, a place of barred windows, whispered appointments, and servants who seem trained to reveal nothing. The woman, Paquita Valdes, is kept behind layers of secrecy, and every step closer to her draws de Marsay deeper into a private world ruled by jealousy and fear. As desire turns into fixation, he must navigate coded messages, clandestine meetings, and the unsettling sense that he is not the only one watching. Balzac builds a feverish portrait of obsession, erotic power, and social theater, exposing how privilege can disguise cruelty and how longing can become a trap, for pursuer and pursued alike. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (01:00:32) Chapter 02 (01:30:18) Chapter 03 (01:48:08) Chapter 04 (02:10:14) Chapter 05 (02:29:54) Chapter 06 (03:00:17) Chapter 07 (03:21:57) Chapter 08 (03:39:22) Chapter 09 (03:58:39) Chapter 10 (04:14:58) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Farewell by Honore de Balzac audiobook. Genre: tragedy In Farewell, Honore de Balzac delivers a stark, intimate tale of love tested by history and the limits of the human mind. Years after the Napoleonic wars, the aristocratic Philippe de Sucy stumbles upon a mystery in the French countryside: a young woman living in near-silence, her thoughts fractured, her past seemingly erased. She is Stephanie de Vandières, once the center of a passionate attachment, now trapped in a childlike state after a catastrophe tied to the retreat from Russia. Philippe cannot accept that the woman he loved has vanished behind an unresponsive gaze. Driven by devotion and guilt, he throws himself into an all-consuming effort to bring her back, consulting doctors, courting powerful allies, and clinging to the idea that a single key - a word, a memory, a scene - might unlock what trauma has sealed away. Balzac blends psychological realism with the lingering violence of war, asking how much of a person can survive disaster, and what love becomes when it turns into a mission. The result is tense, haunting, and relentless in its emotional stakes. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:17:05) Chapter 2 (00:37:43) Chapter 3 (00:58:23) Chapter 4 (01:18:52) Chapter 5 (01:38:26) Chapter 6 (01:57:58) Chapter 7 (02:11:35) Chapter 8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tales of a Wayside Inn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow audiobook. Genre: poetry Set in the warm glow of a New England hearth, Tales of a Wayside Inn gathers a circle of travelers at the old Sudbury inn where stories are as essential as food and fire. As snow settles outside, a diverse company - including the thoughtful Student, a wandering Sicilian, a sober Theologian, a quick-witted Poet, and other passing guests - agrees to pass the evening in friendly contest, each telling a tale to entertain, provoke, and illuminate. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow frames their storytelling like a medieval story-cycle, then opens into a rich procession of narrative poems drawn from legend, history, and rumor: saints and sinners, kings and commoners, acts of courage and folly, moments of justice, mercy, and eerie wonder. With each new voice, the inn becomes a crossroads of cultures and centuries, where the past feels close enough to touch and every tale carries a quiet question about what people owe to one another. Lyrical, conversational, and often suspenseful, this book invites listeners to settle in, listen closely, and discover how a night of stories can change the way a life is understood. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:22:57) Chapter 2 (00:45:44) Chapter 3 (00:59:30) Chapter 4 (01:18:33) Chapter 5 (01:35:53) Chapter 6 (01:50:11) Chapter 7 (02:04:33) Chapter 8 (02:19:04) Chapter 9 (02:33:48) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow audiobook. Genre: poetry In this landmark narrative poem of 19th-century America, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow retells a cycle of tales inspired by Indigenous traditions of the Great Lakes region, shaping them into the life story of Hiawatha, a young man called to bring order and meaning to his people. Guided by powerful spiritual forces and the counsel of elders, Hiawatha grows from restless youth into a figure of leadership, learning to listen to the forest, the river, and the voices that move beneath the visible world. Along the way he faces trials of strength and faith, encounters rival powers, and seeks the wisdom needed to heal division. The poem also follows his love for Minnehaha, whose warmth and courage offer a tender counterpoint to the harshness of war and wilderness. Told in a driving, chant-like rhythm that echoes oral storytelling, The Song of Hiawatha blends adventure, romance, and mythic wonder, exploring themes of duty, community, the natural world, and the costs of change. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:07:32) Chapter 01 (00:14:33) Chapter 02 (00:27:25) Chapter 03 (00:37:57) Chapter 04 (00:50:29) Chapter 05 (01:03:15) Chapter 06 (01:11:15) Chapter 07 (01:17:41) Chapter 08 (01:27:13) Chapter 09 (01:40:04) Chapter 10 (01:52:20) Chapter 11 (02:02:26) Chapter 12 (02:18:59) Chapter 13 (02:29:35) Chapter 14 (02:37:38) Chapter 15 (02:47:09) Chapter 16 (02:57:56) Chapter 17 (03:12:55) Chapter 18 (03:18:16) Chapter 19 (03:27:34) Chapter 20 (03:35:40) Chapter 21 (03:45:29) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Making a Rock Garden by Henry Sherman Adams audiobook. Genre: self help Making a Rock Garden by Henry Sherman Adams (published as H. S. Adams) is a practical, early 20th century guide for home gardeners who want the drama of stone, slope, and alpine flowers without creating a stiff, artificial pile of rocks. Adams argues that a true rock garden should look as if nature made it, and he shows how to study natural outcrops and translate their shapes, layers, and plant communities into a convincing design for suburban or country grounds. Step by step, he walks the listener through choosing a site, planning the layout, and building with an eye to stability, drainage, and believable irregularity. Along the way, he explains soil preparation for alpines, the challenges of sun and shade exposures, and the ongoing culture and management that keep delicate plants thriving in tough, rocky conditions. The book also broadens beyond the classic rockery to related features such as miniature rock gardens, rock-studded banks, dry wall or wall gardens, and the special appeal of incorporating water. Clear, opinionated, and encouraging, it is both a design philosophy and a hands-on manual for turning awkward terrain and scattered stone into a living landscape. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Arizona Callahan by Henry James OBrien Bedford-Jones audiobook. Genre: adventure In a gale off the Beaver Islands in Lake Michigan, Nelly Callahan watches a battered canoe fight for shore - and the bloodied stranger inside vanish around the point. When he walks into her fathers fishing camp soon after, grinning through his bruises, he brings more than a shipwreck story. He calls himself Hardrock Callahan, nicknamed for two years spent in Arizona, and he claims he has legally bought the very timber and shoreline the island men treat as their own. On these isolated islands, where family loyalty matters more than papers and old grudges simmer alongside moonshine, an outsider can spark a feud with a single sentence. Hardrock quickly finds himself facing Hughie Dunlevy, the powerful local man her father expects Nelly to marry, and Nelly is forced to choose how far she will go to resist a life decided for her. As storms roll in and tempers flare, Hardrock tries to stand his ground, win allies, and prove he is more than a reckless drifter - while Nelly weighs freedom, loyalty, and the dangerous cost of defying the islands unwritten law. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:14) Chapter 02 (00:29:58) Chapter 03 (00:45:14) Chapter 04 (00:59:52) Chapter 05 (01:14:05) Chapter 06 (01:32:38) Chapter 07 (01:49:09) Chapter 08 (02:03:40) Chapter 09 (02:22:00) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fairhaven; a Story of Pilgrim Land by Henry Grattan Donnelly audiobook. Genre: drama In Fairhaven: a Story of Pilgrim Land, Henry Grattan Donnelly (writing under the byline Justis Henry G. D.) turns back to coastal New England in the first, uncertain generation after the Mayflower. In a settlement where every harvest is a gamble and every quarrel can become a crisis, a young newcomer to the colony is forced to choose what kind of life he will build: a quiet existence shaped by strict faith and communal duty, or a bolder path driven by private hopes, ambition, and love. Around him, the little town that calls itself Fairhaven struggles to hold together as sickness, scarcity, and old-world rivalries test its resolve. Friends become opponents in disputes over leadership and conscience, families fracture under the pressure of survival, and a single personal decision can ripple outward into the fate of the whole community. Rich with period detail and a sense of place, Donnelly's novel explores the cost of belonging, the pull between principle and desire, and the fragile courage it takes to turn a harsh shoreline into a home. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:02) Chapter 02 (00:17:59) Chapter 03 (00:30:36) Chapter 04 (00:41:55) Chapter 05 (00:54:24) Chapter 06 (01:10:25) Chapter 07 (01:26:52) Chapter 08 (01:38:06) Chapter 09 (01:55:58) Chapter 10 (02:10:11) Chapter 11 (02:24:28) Chapter 12 (02:41:01) Chapter 13 (02:56:32) Chapter 14 (03:09:59) Chapter 15 (03:25:13) Chapter 16 (03:37:28) Chapter 17 (03:53:22) Chapter 18 (04:08:49) Chapter 19 (04:29:12) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pleasure Cycling by Henry Clyde audiobook. Genre: self help First published in 1895, Pleasure Cycling is Henry Clyde's warm, practical invitation into the new, exhilarating world of the safety bicycle - written for beginners who are just learning what it means to travel under their own power. Looking back on his own early missteps, Clyde speaks directly to the would-be 'wheelman' with clear, confidence-building guidance: how to choose a dependable machine, how to get comfortable in the saddle, and how to develop the balance, control, and road sense that turn wobbling practice into smooth, steady riding. Along the way, he covers the everyday realities that make cycling truly pleasurable, from simple maintenance and care to sensible dress and equipment, so riders can spend more time on the road and less time wrestling with preventable problems. More than a manual, the book is also a love letter to cycling as innocent enjoyment and healthy living, praising its physical benefits and its power to refresh the mind. Clyde's pages capture an idyllic pre-automobile moment when the open road felt newly accessible, and every ride promised freedom, fitness, and discovery. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:03:10) Chapter 01 (00:23:36) Chapter 02 (00:58:42) Chapter 03 (01:23:56) Chapter 04 (01:47:49) Chapter 05 (02:10:49) Chapter 06 (02:30:27) Chapter 07 (02:57:39) Chapter 08 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Study of British Genius by Havelock Ellis audiobook. Genre: science In A Study of British Genius, pioneering psychologist and social commentator Havelock Ellis turns a cool, inquisitive eye on one of the most slippery questions of all: why do certain people, in certain places and periods, rise to extraordinary achievement? Drawing on biographical records and historical data rather than inspirational anecdotes, Ellis surveys the men and women Britain has celebrated as writers, artists, scientists, inventors, and public leaders, then asks what patterns sit beneath their reputations. What does 'genius' mean in practical terms, and how does it differ from talent, diligence, or luck? Ellis weighs heredity against environment, probing family background, education, geography, class, health, and the pressures of modern life. Along the way, he challenges comforting myths about greatness and highlights the social conditions that can nurture - or waste - exceptional ability. Part cultural history and part early social science, this concise work captures the Edwardian era's fascination with measurement, progress, and human potential, while still speaking to modern debates about merit, opportunity, and the making of eminence. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:04:50) Chapter 01 (00:28:35) Chapter 02 (01:35:20) Chapter 03 (01:56:07) Chapter 04 (02:48:08) Chapter 05 (03:12:00) Chapter 06 (03:35:50) Chapter 07 (03:42:48) Chapter 08 (04:18:20) Chapter 09 (04:24:40) Chapter 10 (04:33:32) Chapter 11 (04:42:38) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: scifi H. G. Wells gathers a bracing selection of early science fiction and darkly imaginative tales in The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories. Moving from lonely mountains and strange hidden valleys to bustling cities where the future presses uncomfortably close, these stories introduce ordinary men and women confronted by extraordinary ideas: a traveler who stumbles upon an isolated society with its own unsettling logic, scientists and dreamers whose experiments slip beyond control, and observers who realize too late that human perception is both a gift and a trap. Wells writes with crisp wit and a reporter's eye for detail, grounding fantastic premises in everyday behavior and social tension. Across the collection, wonder and dread sit side by side as curiosity becomes obsession, progress threatens to erase compassion, and certainty crumbles under the weight of new evidence. At once eerie, satirical, and prophetic, these stories explore what happens when the world changes faster than the mind can adapt - and when the strangest discoveries turn out to be reflections of our own limits. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:14:23) Chapter 01 (00:31:41) Chapter 02 (01:01:08) Chapter 03 (01:18:17) Chapter 04 (01:38:19) Chapter 05 (01:55:59) Chapter 06 (02:24:54) Chapter 07 (02:50:25) Chapter 08 (03:15:15) Chapter 09 (03:43:48) Chapter 10 (04:03:57) Chapter 11 (04:51:05) Chapter 12 (05:31:07) Chapter 13 (05:57:10) Chapter 14 (06:19:52) Chapter 15 (07:14:46) Chapter 16 (07:38:41) Chapter 17 (08:08:47) Chapter 18 (08:57:52) Chapter 19 (09:45:35) Chapter 20 (10:17:15) Chapter 21 (11:00:53) Chapter 22 (11:09:24) Chapter 23 (11:38:37) Chapter 24 (12:26:25) Chapter 25 (13:30:05) Chapter 26 (13:56:23) Chapter 27 (14:31:54) Chapter 28 (14:55:17) Chapter 29 (15:21:22) Chapter 30 (15:59:09) Chapter 31 (16:46:06) Chapter 32 (17:50:05) Chapter 33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Phoebe Deane by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook. Genre: romance Orphaned young and gifted with a quiet love of books, beauty, and refinement, Phoebe Deane has grown up in a hard New York farmhouse where she is treated less like family and more like hired help. Her gentle half-brother, Albert, means well but is easily led, leaving Phoebe at the mercy of his sharp-tongued, jealous wife, Emmeline, and a household that expects Phoebe to give up her own hopes without complaint. Trouble sharpens when a crude, domineering widower, Hiram Greene, decides Phoebe will be his next wife and begins applying pressure through deception, neighborhood opinion, and the kind of gossip that can ruin a woman long before she has a chance to speak for herself. As Phoebe struggles to keep her dignity and her freedom, unexpected allies appear: the practical, fiercely loyal Miranda Griscomb, and a principled young lawyer, Nathaniel Graham, whose chance meeting with Phoebe pulls him into the town's tangled judgments. In a community where appearances can feel like law, Phoebe must decide what courage, faith, and love look like when everyone else is deciding her future for her. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:23:40) Chapter 02 (00:49:33) Chapter 03 (01:09:42) Chapter 04 (01:34:15) Chapter 05 (02:02:13) Chapter 06 (02:25:32) Chapter 07 (02:49:41) Chapter 08 (03:05:24) Chapter 09 (03:24:18) Chapter 10 (03:44:38) Chapter 11 (04:04:25) Chapter 12 (04:24:06) Chapter 13 (04:45:32) Chapter 14 (05:04:01) Chapter 15 (05:28:37) Chapter 16 (05:53:48) Chapter 17 (06:16:05) Chapter 18 (06:37:36) Chapter 19 (06:55:16) Chapter 20 (07:17:04) Chapter 21 (07:41:49) Chapter 22 (08:00:41) Chapter 23 (08:21:30) Chapter 24 (08:41:21) Chapter 25 (09:05:45) Chapter 26 (09:20:48) Chapter 27 (09:46:04) Chapter 28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Miranda by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook. Genre: romance Miranda Griscom has never been the sort of young woman a quiet town knows what to do with. Plainspoken, freckle-faced, and fiercely capable, she has earned a place in the Spafford household through sheer grit and unwavering loyalty. So when one of the wealthiest men around begins pressing for her hand, the neighbors can only gossip and wonder why Miranda keeps turning him away. Miranda cannot explain the truth: her heart has long belonged to another man, one whose name has been dragged through scandal and whose life hangs under the shadow of a murder charge he insists he did not commit. When news surfaces that her secret love is still at large, Miranda is drawn into a dangerous tangle of pursuit, suspicion, and sacrifice. To protect the innocent, clear a stained reputation, and stay true to the promise she has carried in silence, she must risk comfort and safety for hardship and uncertainty, even if it leads her far from home and into the unforgiving Oregon wilderness. With faith threaded through every trial, Grace Livingston Hill weaves a classic tale of steadfast love, moral courage, and the cost of doing what is right. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:20:48) Chapter 02 (00:51:47) Chapter 03 (01:07:49) Chapter 04 (01:20:00) Chapter 05 (01:37:02) Chapter 06 (01:58:30) Chapter 07 (02:24:11) Chapter 08 (02:45:13) Chapter 09 (03:13:06) Chapter 10 (03:32:17) Chapter 11 (03:46:37) Chapter 12 (03:53:10) Chapter 13 (04:16:38) Chapter 14 (04:34:34) Chapter 15 (04:49:34) Chapter 16 (05:03:08) Chapter 17 (05:20:57) Chapter 18 (05:53:55) Chapter 19 (06:09:32) Chapter 20 (06:27:02) Chapter 21 (06:41:21) Chapter 22 (07:03:53) Chapter 23 (07:29:53) Chapter 24 (07:49:56) Chapter 25 (08:06:48) Chapter 26 (08:29:56) Chapter 27 (08:44:31) Chapter 28 (08:58:28) Chapter 29 (09:10:13) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marcia Schuyler by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook. Genre: romance Set in early 19th century upstate New York, Marcia Schuyler begins on the brink of a society wedding that is meant to secure the Schuyler family's standing. When Marcia's beautiful, willful sister Kate vanishes the night before the ceremony, leaving behind scandal and a shattered groom, the family's desperate solution falls to the quiet, dutiful younger sister. Marcia steps into Kate's place and marries David Spafford, the man she has secretly admired from afar, knowing his heart is still fixed on the bride who betrayed him. In a new home where every neighbor watches, Marcia tries to live in the shadow of another woman's trousseau, reputation, and expectations while fending off cold judgments, meddling relatives, and the dangerous attention of those who sense her vulnerability. Her one steady ally is Miranda Griscomb, a blunt, freckled neighbor girl whose fierce loyalty becomes both shield and surprise friendship. As old wounds reopen and Kate's choices echo back into the Spaffords' lives, Marcia must decide what love, honor, and self-respect will require of her. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:32) Chapter 02 (00:50:33) Chapter 03 (01:10:39) Chapter 04 (01:37:37) Chapter 05 (01:57:38) Chapter 06 (02:24:49) Chapter 07 (02:46:02) Chapter 08 (03:01:34) Chapter 09 (03:19:09) Chapter 10 (03:47:25) Chapter 11 (04:11:06) Chapter 12 (04:43:17) Chapter 13 (05:08:21) Chapter 14 (05:41:06) Chapter 15 (06:12:18) Chapter 16 (06:35:26) Chapter 17 (07:01:33) Chapter 18 (07:23:24) Chapter 19 (07:46:56) Chapter 20 (08:02:49) Chapter 21 (08:31:03) Chapter 22 (09:00:32) Chapter 23 (09:34:57) Chapter 24 (09:57:32) Chapter 25 (10:24:38) Chapter 26 (10:50:51) Chapter 27 (11:17:23) Chapter 28 (11:42:25) Chapter 29 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Finding of Jasper Holt by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook. Genre: romance When Jean Grayson boards a westbound train to visit her sister, she expects a quiet journey and a warm family welcome. Instead, a strange encounter leaves her carrying a wallet tied to a man she has never met, and a midnight disaster throws her into a terrifying fight for survival. The one person who pulls her from danger is Jasper Holt, a capable, guarded stranger whose name sparks whispers everywhere it is spoken. In the small community Jean is headed toward, Jasper's reputation has already been tried and condemned, and the people closest to Jean have their own reasons to keep him shut out of decent society. Yet Jean cannot forget the man who saved her life, nor ignore the unsettling sense that she has been drawn into a larger conflict involving stolen papers, fierce business rivalry, and a scheme that could ruin Jasper for good. As Jasper struggles to reclaim what was taken from him and prove the truth of his character, Jean must decide whether to trust the town's judgment or the quiet evidence of courage, sacrifice, and changing hearts. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:25:44) Chapter 02 (00:39:28) Chapter 03 (00:56:49) Chapter 04 (01:15:10) Chapter 05 (01:33:40) Chapter 06 (01:48:01) Chapter 07 (02:09:40) Chapter 08 (02:30:03) Chapter 09 (02:48:04) Chapter 10 (03:11:01) Chapter 11 (03:29:02) Chapter 12 (03:48:34) Chapter 13 (04:08:05) Chapter 14 (04:29:00) Chapter 15 (04:44:01) Chapter 16 (05:02:24) Chapter 17 (05:15:42) Chapter 18 (05:31:08) Chapter 19 (05:43:31) Chapter 20 (05:54:37) Chapter 21 (06:08:28) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Daily Rate by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook. Genre: romance Celia Murray is a lonely young woman trying to make an honest life for herself in Philadelphia, earning a modest wage and renting a room in a bleak boardinghouse where the food is poor and the atmosphere is worse. Separated from Aunt Hannah - the loving, steady presence who once made her childhood feel like home - Celia clings to her faith while wondering whether anything in the city can ever feel warm or safe. Then an unexpected inheritance drops into her lap, and Celia dares to imagine a different future. Instead of chasing comfort for herself alone, she sends for Aunt Hannah and pours her new resources into a bold experiment: transforming the shabby boardinghouse into a true home, one clean room, nourishing meal, and quiet act of kindness at a time. As the house begins to change, so do the lives inside it, and Celia discovers that ministry is often made of ordinary days and imperfect people. But new hope brings new risks - jealousy, misunderstanding, and the ache of wanting more than she feels she deserves. When Horace Stafford, a compassionate mission-chapel minister, steps into their orbit, Celia must confront the secret longing she has tried to bury and decide what trust really costs. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:57) Chapter 02 (00:35:13) Chapter 03 (00:52:04) Chapter 04 (01:09:28) Chapter 05 (01:27:00) Chapter 06 (01:44:49) Chapter 07 (02:02:56) Chapter 08 (02:24:44) Chapter 09 (02:42:57) Chapter 10 (03:02:31) Chapter 11 (03:19:52) Chapter 12 (03:37:45) Chapter 13 (03:56:49) Chapter 14 (04:16:46) Chapter 15 (04:33:26) Chapter 16 (04:52:12) Chapter 17 (05:07:54) Chapter 18 (05:24:26) Chapter 19 (05:40:11) Chapter 20 (06:01:20) Chapter 21 (06:24:45) Chapter 22 (06:37:47) Chapter 23 (06:57:08) Chapter 24 (07:14:49) Chapter 25 (07:27:51) Chapter 26 (07:41:08) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Greek View of Life by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson audiobook. Genre: philosophy In The Greek View of Life, classicist Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson offers a lucid, wide-ranging portrait of how the ancient Greeks understood the world and their place within it. Rather than a chronicle of battles and rulers, this book asks a deeper question: what kind of life did Greek culture imagine was worth living? Dickinson guides listeners through the Greeks' attitudes toward nature and the divine, the demands of the city-state, the meaning of freedom and citizenship, and the competing claims of pleasure, duty, and self-control. Along the way, he draws on Greek literature, philosophy, and art to reveal a civilization that prized clarity of thought, balance, and measure, yet never ignored the shadow of suffering and limitation. Written with an eye for comparison, the book invites modern readers to test their own assumptions against a society that helped shape Western ideas of reason, beauty, politics, and education. The result is both an introduction to Greek ideals and a reflective meditation on what culture can teach us about character, community, and the art of living. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:04:33) Chapter 02 (00:20:15) Chapter 03 (00:24:26) Chapter 04 (00:32:59) Chapter 05 (00:47:59) Chapter 06 (00:55:44) Chapter 07 (01:02:49) Chapter 08 (01:10:41) Chapter 09 (01:20:07) Chapter 10 (01:33:08) Chapter 11 (01:52:45) Chapter 12 (02:06:07) Chapter 13 (02:19:19) Chapter 14 (02:28:04) Chapter 15 (02:43:07) Chapter 16 (02:52:57) Chapter 17 (03:03:25) Chapter 18 (03:07:51) Chapter 19 (03:17:17) Chapter 20 (03:22:41) Chapter 21 (03:38:50) Chapter 22 (03:47:14) Chapter 23 (03:51:51) Chapter 24 (04:05:43) Chapter 25 (04:28:23) Chapter 26 (04:49:51) Chapter 27 (05:27:35) Chapter 28 (05:42:16) Chapter 29 (05:52:35) Chapter 30 (05:57:53) Chapter 31 (06:04:11) Chapter 32 (06:08:48) Chapter 33 (06:17:04) Chapter 34 (06:38:54) Chapter 35 (06:45:20) Chapter 36 (07:12:07) Chapter 37 (07:39:12) Chapter 38 (07:47:38) Chapter 39 (08:01:45) Chapter 40 (08:16:57) Chapter 41 (08:33:47) Chapter 42 (08:42:42) Chapter 43 (08:51:57) Chapter 44 (09:03:32) Chapter 45 (09:16:16) Chapter 46 (09:36:15) Chapter 47 (09:45:42) Chapter 48 (10:03:54) Chapter 49 (10:27:26) Chapter 50 (10:33:47) Chapter 51 (10:36:49) Chapter 52 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Criminal man - according to the classification of Cesare Lombroso by Gina Lombroso audiobook. Genre: science In this influential work of early criminology, Gina Lombroso presents and organizes Cesare Lombroso's provocative attempt to explain crime through classification. Drawing on medical observation, anthropology, and statistics, the book argues that criminal behavior is not a single phenomenon but a spectrum of distinct types, from the so-called born criminal and the habitual offender to the criminal by passion and the mentally ill delinquent. Lombroso's method is concrete and case-driven: he compares bodies, faces, and habits; catalogs physical and psychological 'stigmata'; and links crime to heredity, epilepsy, insanity, alcoholism, and social environment. Along the way, the reader is taken into courtrooms, prisons, and asylums through examples meant to show how different offenders think, act, and relapse. Whether approached as a serious scientific proposal, a historical artifact, or a cautionary tale about bias in measurement, the book raises enduring questions about free will, responsibility, and prevention: if crime has causes that can be studied, can society replace pure punishment with diagnosis, treatment, and reform? Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:13:59) Chapter 01 (01:18:13) Chapter 02 (01:47:12) Chapter 03 (02:21:30) Chapter 04 (02:50:42) Chapter 05 (03:30:07) Chapter 06 (03:58:12) Chapter 07 (04:52:47) Chapter 08 (05:39:23) Chapter 09 (06:07:57) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White audiobook. Genre: history In The Natural History of Selborne, parson-naturalist Gilbert White invites listeners into the quiet English village he called home, and turns everyday observations into an extraordinary portrait of the living world. Written as a series of letters to fellow scholars and friends, the book follows White through the fields, hedgerows, ponds, and churchyard of Selborne as he watches swallows arrive and depart, notes the habits of owls and mice, records the songs of birds, and studies the shifting seasons with patient curiosity. White is not chasing exotic specimens or grand theories so much as trying to understand how animals, plants, weather, and human life fit together in one small place. Along the way, his careful attention challenges easy assumptions, highlights the value of repeated observation, and shows how wonder can be grounded in detail. Part scientific record, part rural chronicle, and part meditation on nature's rhythms, this classic work offers a vivid sense of place and a gentle, inquisitive voice that helped shape modern field naturalism. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:58) Chapter 02 (00:53:52) Chapter 03 (01:35:19) Chapter 04 (02:17:49) Chapter 05 (02:55:05) Chapter 06 (03:44:09) Chapter 07 (04:15:07) Chapter 08 (04:59:37) Chapter 09 (05:40:32) Chapter 10 (06:23:03) Chapter 11 (07:07:17) Chapter 12 (07:53:34) Chapter 13 (08:34:44) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel by Guy de Maupassant audiobook. Genre: drama In late 19th-century Paris, Georges Duroy is a broke former soldier with a sharp smile, a quick appetite, and no intention of staying poor. When a chance encounter brings him into the orbit of a major newspaper, Georges discovers a world where fortunes rise on politics, scandal, and the right signature at the bottom of an article. Lacking education but rich in nerve, he learns to turn charm into currency, trading on introductions, favors, and the intimate confidences of those who know how the city truly works. As he reinvents himself as 'Bel Ami,' his ambitions accelerate, and so do the consequences. Every salon invitation and newsroom whisper becomes a step on a ladder he is willing to climb at any cost, while the women who guide him, challenge him, or underestimate him each reveal a different face of power in a society obsessed with appearance. Guy de Maupassant's classic novel is a razor-edged portrait of greed, desire, and social performance, where success is measured not by virtue, but by audacity. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:28:00) Chapter 02 (00:53:21) Chapter 03 (01:13:24) Chapter 04 (01:30:42) Chapter 05 (01:47:01) Chapter 06 (02:03:08) Chapter 07 (02:17:38) Chapter 08 (02:33:43) Chapter 09 (02:55:06) Chapter 10 (03:20:41) Chapter 11 (03:57:16) Chapter 12 (04:15:04) Chapter 13 (04:34:29) Chapter 14 (04:48:41) Chapter 15 (05:03:33) Chapter 16 (05:20:27) Chapter 17 (05:42:04) Chapter 18 (06:04:19) Chapter 19 (06:17:51) Chapter 20 (06:41:25) Chapter 21 (06:59:31) Chapter 22 (07:17:21) Chapter 23 (07:35:52) Chapter 24 (07:55:32) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ghosts of Piccadilly by George Slythe Street audiobook. Genre: history In The Ghosts of Piccadilly, British critic and satirist G. S. Street turns one of London's most famous thoroughfares into a after-hours promenade through memory. The 'ghosts' here are not supernatural apparitions, but the lingering presence of the men and women who once lived, argued, flirted, schemed, and celebrated behind Piccadilly's townhouse facades and club doors - along with the vanished buildings that shaped the street's character. Street guides the listener from address to address, pausing at quiet doorways to spin anecdotes drawn from letters, gossip, and biographical fragments. His tour is deliberately personal rather than encyclopedic: he follows his own tastes, lingering on figures who amuse or move him, and gliding past others with dry wit. Along the way, Piccadilly becomes a miniature history of fashionable London, where reputations are made in drawing rooms, fortunes are wagered, and public lives leave private traces. By blending social history with sharply observed commentary, Street invites you to see a familiar street as a crowded stage, and to listen for the echoes still embedded in its stones. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:03) Chapter 02 (00:53:36) Chapter 03 (01:14:22) Chapter 04 (01:35:26) Chapter 05 (01:54:34) Chapter 06 (02:15:39) Chapter 07 (02:38:28) Chapter 08 (02:56:52) Chapter 09 (03:17:26) Chapter 10 (03:40:47) Chapter 11 (03:59:42) Chapter 12 (04:15:54) Chapter 13 (04:36:21) Chapter 14 (04:57:32) Chapter 15 (05:17:58) Chapter 16 (05:37:00) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices