A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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01/25/23

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201m

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A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen audiobook.

Genre: drama

In A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen draws listeners into the warm, carefully arranged home of Nora Helmer, a lively young wife devoted to her husband, Torvald, and proud of the comfortable life they are building. But beneath the cheerful routines and pet names, Nora carries a private burden: years earlier, she made a risky choice to protect her family, and the consequences of that decision return just as Torvald begins a new position at the bank. When the desperate clerk Nils Krogstad threatens to expose Nora's secret unless she intervenes on his behalf, her domestic world turns into a pressure cooker of fear, persuasion, and moral compromise. As old friends reappear, including the steady Kristine Linde and the ailing Dr. Rank, Nora is forced to examine the true foundations of her marriage and the roles society has written for her. With sharp dialogue and mounting tension, Ibsen explores love and power, appearances and reality, and what it costs to be seen as a person rather than a possession.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(01:15:32) Chapter 02

(02:16:00) Chapter 03

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The World I Live In by Helen Keller ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

January 25, 2023

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176m

The World I Live In by Helen Keller audiobook.

Genre: biography

The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams.

My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In large measure we travel the same highways, read the same books, speak the same language, yet our experiences are different. All my comings and goings turn on the hand as on a pivot. It is the hand that binds me to the world of men and women. The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter. With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life. Helen Keller, quoted from her essay, The Seeing Hand

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:25) Chapter 01

(00:14:30) Chapter 02

(00:24:17) Chapter 03

(00:33:09) Chapter 04

(00:45:46) Chapter 05

(00:56:07) Chapter 06

(01:07:57) Chapter 07

(01:13:18) Chapter 08

(01:20:48) Chapter 09

(01:29:57) Chapter 10

(01:38:08) Chapter 11

(01:45:56) Chapter 12

(01:56:35) Chapter 13

(02:15:55) Chapter 14

(02:24:34) Chapter 15

(02:39:15) Chapter 16

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

January 25, 2023

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70m

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Written in 1849 after Henry David Thoreau's brief imprisonment for refusing to pay a poll tax, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is a sharp, compact manifesto on what a person owes to conscience when the law supports injustice. Thoreau challenges the comforting belief that obeying the state is automatically virtuous, arguing that citizens become complicit when government wages an unjust war or upholds human bondage. Moving from personal experience to public principle, he asks whether a moral individual should wait for majorities, elections, or slow reforms, or instead withdraw cooperation from wrongdoing right now. With brisk logic and vivid conviction, he explores the tension between practical citizenship and ethical integrity: how much power a government should have, what it means to be free, and what sacrifice may be required to live honestly. This essay is both a call to inner responsibility and a blueprint for nonviolent resistance, offering ideas that later inspired movements for social change while remaining fiercely individual and urgently contemporary.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:34:16) Chapter 02

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