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Classic Audiobook Collection - A Man of Honor by George Eggleston ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
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A Man of Honor by George Eggleston ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

Classic Audiobook Collection

01/17/23

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A Man of Honor by George Eggleston audiobook.

Genre: drama

In the uneasy calm after the Civil War, Robert Pagebrook, a young New Yorker with a proud streak and a wounded heart, finds himself unmoored. A professional setback and a romantic disappointment have left him restless and self-critical, so when an invitation arrives from Virginia kin he barely knows, he takes it as a chance to begin again. At Shirley, an old family place shaped by memory, custom, and Reconstruction-era change, Pagebrook is welcomed into a world where lineage still matters, manners conceal sharp judgments, and every neighbor seems to have a theory about what a man owes to his name. As Robert navigates cousins, country characters, and the quiet pressures of Southern society, he discovers that hospitality can come with expectations, and affection can test pride. Then an abrupt financial shock from home leaves him stranded and indebted, forcing him to choose between easy evasions and the harder work of living up to the standard he admires most: honor. With keen observation and moral tension, Eggleston turns a visit into a trial of character, where love, loyalty, and self-respect all hang in the balance.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:16:57) Chapter 02

(00:24:41) Chapter 03

(00:42:02) Chapter 04

(00:55:29) Chapter 05

(01:07:12) Chapter 06

(01:17:56) Chapter 07

(01:27:03) Chapter 08

(01:34:36) Chapter 09

(01:42:49) Chapter 10

(01:55:52) Chapter 11

(02:04:52) Chapter 12

(02:21:57) Chapter 13

(02:30:08) Chapter 14

(02:42:54) Chapter 15

(02:55:06) Chapter 16

(03:04:24) Chapter 17

(03:12:15) Chapter 18

(03:23:45) Chapter 19

(03:30:22) Chapter 20

(03:38:31) Chapter 21

(03:51:49) Chapter 22

(04:03:05) Chapter 23

(04:11:55) Chapter 24

(04:18:03) Chapter 25

(04:34:44) Chapter 26

(04:45:08) Chapter 27

(04:57:46) Chapter 28

(05:12:35) Chapter 29

(05:23:00) Chapter 30

(05:29:57) Chapter 31

(05:45:54) Chapter 32

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Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw audiobook.

Genre: drama

Pygmalion (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw based on the Greek myth of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (based on phonetician Henry Sweet), who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. In the process, Higgins and Doolittle grow close, but she ultimately rejects his domineering ways and declares she will marry Freddy Eynsford-Hill – a young, poor, gentleman. - The play was later the basis for the successful movie adaptation 'My Fair Lady' with Audrey Hepburn as Eliza and Rex Harrison as Prof. Higgins.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:10:18) Chapter 2

(00:25:23) Chapter 3

(01:09:20) Chapter 4

(01:32:34) Chapter 5

(01:46:36) Chapter 6

(02:24:48) Chapter 7

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Middlemarch by George Eliot audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in the English Midlands in the years just before the Reform Act of 1832, Middlemarch follows the intertwined lives of the residents of a provincial town where ambition, idealism, and gossip travel quickly through drawing rooms, churches, and counting houses. At its center is Dorothea Brooke, a young woman determined to live for something larger than comfort, whose choices pull her into a marriage and a social world she only partly understands. Around her move the newly arrived doctor Tertius Lydgate, hungry to modernize medicine and build a meaningful career, and the earnest banker Fred Vincy and practical Mary Garth, whose relationship is tested by debt, duty, and pride. As elections stir local politics and old families reckon with new money, private longings collide with public expectations. George Eliot renders love and marriage, vocation and compromise, faith and skepticism, and the quiet heroism of everyday endurance with psychological depth and sharp humor. In Middlemarch, the smallest decisions can reshape a whole life, and a town's moral climate can be as decisive as any fate.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:26:30) Chapter 2

(00:47:11) Chapter 3

(01:18:13) Chapter 4

(01:37:47) Chapter 5

(02:01:21) Chapter 6

(02:30:10) Chapter 7

(02:41:27) Chapter 8

(02:55:28) Chapter 9

(03:21:44) Chapter 10

(03:51:13) Chapter 11

(04:15:53) Chapter 12

(05:00:00) Chapter 13

(05:24:17) Chapter 14

(05:46:07) Chapter 15

(06:23:26) Chapter 16

(06:59:10) Chapter 17

(07:23:30) Chapter 18

(07:54:13) Chapter 19

(08:04:47) Chapter 20

(08:36:49) Chapter 21

(08:58:12) Chapter 22

(09:35:22) Chapter 23

(10:07:32) Chapter 24

(10:37:53) Chapter 25

(10:54:38) Chapter 26

(11:07:25) Chapter 27

(11:30:14) Chapter 28

(11:43:09) Chapter 29

(12:03:47) Chapter 30

(12:20:52) Chapter 31

(12:46:31) Chapter 32

(13:17:45) Chapter 33

(13:31:58) Chapter 34

(13:51:20) Chapter 35

(14:20:36) Chapter 36

(15:00:08) Chapter 37

(15:54:38) Chapter 38

(16:14:37) Chapter 39

(16:43:31) Chapter 40

(17:16:41) Chapter 41

(17:30:04) Chapter 42

(18:01:56) Chapter 43

(18:19:28) Chapter 44

(18:27:05) Chapter 45

(19:12:11) Chapter 46

(19:34:40) Chapter 47

(19:49:23) Chapter 48

(20:12:21) Chapter 49

(20:22:12) Chapter 50

(20:49:10) Chapter 51

(21:21:05) Chapter 52

(21:43:49) Chapter 53

(22:17:27) Chapter 54

(22:46:49) Chapter 55

(22:58:11) Chapter 56

(23:46:00) Chapter 57

(24:10:11) Chapter 58

(24:57:40) Chapter 59

(25:05:28) Chapter 60

(25:32:57) Chapter 61

(26:09:37) Chapter 62

(26:38:12) Chapter 63

(26:57:12) Chapter 64

(27:40:11) Chapter 65

(27:53:24) Chapter 66

(28:17:57) Chapter 67

(28:38:19) Chapter 68

(28:59:11) Chapter 69

(29:24:51) Chapter 70

(29:57:20) Chapter 71

(30:39:45) Chapter 72

(30:50:05) Chapter 73

(31:01:27) Chapter 74

(31:28:38) Chapter 75

(31:48:00) Chapter 76

(32:12:42) Chapter 77

(32:31:30) Chapter 78

(32:42:35) Chapter 79

(33:04:39) Chapter 80

(33:29:51) Chapter 81

(33:40:12) Chapter 82

(34:00:20) Chapter 83

(34:23:39) Chapter 84

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