A Superfluous Woman by Emma Francis Brooke ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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07/10/23

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A Superfluous Woman by Emma Francis Brooke audiobook.

Genre: drama

Published anonymously in 1894 at the height of the New Woman debate, A Superfluous Woman follows Jessamine Halliday, a beautiful young aristocrat who seems to be wasting away in the velvet air of London society. Her family, fearing a breakdown, summons the unconventional Dr. Cornerstone, who offers a startling diagnosis: Jessamine is not truly ill - she is starving for purpose. Pushed to examine how wealth, idleness, and the marriage market have shaped her, Jessamine attempts a daring cure. She leaves the drawing rooms behind and escapes to the Scottish Highlands, determined to live plainly, work with her hands, and discover who she might become without servants, gossip, or an arranged future closing in. In the rugged landscape she encounters Colin Macgillvray, a crofter whose integrity and independence challenge everything she has been taught to value, and whose presence awakens both longing and defiance. But shedding a lifetime of privilege is not the same as escaping its power. As old expectations pursue her into new terrain, Jessamine must decide what freedom costs - and whether love, labor, and self-respect can survive the pressures of class, scandal, and a double standard that punishes women for the choices men are allowed to make.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:18:26) Chapter 02

(00:46:43) Chapter 03

(01:15:01) Chapter 04

(01:27:46) Chapter 05

(01:40:24) Chapter 06

(01:58:09) Chapter 07

(02:10:15) Chapter 08

(02:28:53) Chapter 09

(02:46:09) Chapter 10

(03:04:04) Chapter 11

(03:21:35) Chapter 12

(03:43:00) Chapter 13

(03:50:34) Chapter 14

(04:12:13) Chapter 15

(04:20:17) Chapter 16

(04:48:09) Chapter 17

(05:13:28) Chapter 18

(05:32:35) Chapter 19

(05:57:57) Chapter 20

(06:20:21) Chapter 21

(06:37:45) Chapter 22

(06:59:43) Chapter 23

(07:31:58) Chapter 24

(08:03:57) Chapter 25

(08:24:38) Chapter 26

(09:05:03) Chapter 27

(09:26:08) Chapter 28

(09:50:47) Chapter 29

(10:11:52) Chapter 30

(10:34:28) Chapter 31

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The Black Candle by Emily Murphy ~ Full Audiobook [history]

July 10, 2023

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825m

The Black Candle by Emily Murphy audiobook.

Genre: history

First published in 1922, The Black Candle is Emily F. Murphy's hard-hitting and highly influential exposé on narcotics in early 20th-century Canada. Writing from the vantage point of a public magistrate (and drawing on earlier journalism under her pen name, Janey Canuck), Murphy assembles courtroom anecdotes, police accounts, medical claims, and sensational reportage to argue that opium, cocaine, morphine and heroin, and the then-new specter of marijuana are not private vices but a national emergency. Moving from city streets and alleged opium dens to the machinery of trafficking and corruption, she portrays addiction as a force that can hollow out families, exploit the vulnerable, and undermine social order. The book's central conflict is not a single mystery to be solved, but a campaign: Murphy presses for stronger enforcement, harsher penalties, and broader public vigilance against dealers and users alike. At the same time, the narrative reveals the era's moral panic and the racialized assumptions that shaped public debate, making the work both a period artifact and a document with lasting consequences for drug policy and social attitudes.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:06:08) Chapter 01

(00:24:09) Chapter 02

(00:41:00) Chapter 03

(00:57:06) Chapter 04

(01:14:39) Chapter 05

(01:29:18) Chapter 06

(01:43:27) Chapter 07

(01:56:59) Chapter 08

(02:28:00) Chapter 09

(02:50:01) Chapter 10

(03:08:52) Chapter 11

(03:30:58) Chapter 12

(03:49:18) Chapter 13

(04:16:55) Chapter 14

(04:38:50) Chapter 15

(04:55:22) Chapter 16

(05:17:06) Chapter 17

(05:43:37) Chapter 18

(06:09:06) Chapter 19

(06:30:38) Chapter 20

(06:47:59) Chapter 21

(07:12:13) Chapter 22

(07:40:41) Chapter 23

(07:55:27) Chapter 24

(08:17:32) Chapter 25

(08:39:35) Chapter 26

(09:00:18) Chapter 27

(09:25:53) Chapter 28

(09:38:51) Chapter 29

(09:59:20) Chapter 30

(10:22:31) Chapter 31

(10:44:04) Chapter 32

(11:10:32) Chapter 33

(11:26:03) Chapter 34

(11:44:34) Chapter 35

(12:03:09) Chapter 36

(12:14:56) Chapter 37

(12:37:28) Chapter 38

(12:53:55) Chapter 39

(13:13:43) Chapter 40

(13:27:51) Chapter 41

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Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None by Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

July 10, 2023

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949m

Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None by Friedrich Nietzsche audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism.

Thus Spake Zarathustra (Also sprach Zarathustra), is a work composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the 'eternal recurrence of the same', the parable on the 'death of God', and the 'prophecy' of the Overman, which were first introduced in The Gay Science. Described by Nietzsche himself as 'the deepest ever written', the book is a dense and esoteric treatise on philosophy and morality, featuring as protagonist a fictionalized Zarathustra. A central irony of the text is that the style of the Bible is used by Nietzsche to present ideas of his which fundamentally oppose Judaeo-Christian morality and tradition.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:49:30) Chapter 01

(01:29:03) Chapter 02

(01:36:09) Chapter 03

(01:44:09) Chapter 04

(01:52:39) Chapter 05

(01:58:29) Chapter 06

(02:03:14) Chapter 07

(02:09:18) Chapter 08

(02:14:03) Chapter 09

(02:21:16) Chapter 10

(02:26:16) Chapter 11

(02:31:11) Chapter 12

(02:38:26) Chapter 13

(02:47:34) Chapter 14

(02:51:01) Chapter 15

(02:56:36) Chapter 16

(03:03:43) Chapter 17

(03:08:15) Chapter 18

(03:16:15) Chapter 19

(03:25:50) Chapter 20

(03:30:39) Chapter 21

(03:36:19) Chapter 22

(03:44:14) Chapter 23

(03:58:34) Chapter 24

(04:07:37) Chapter 25

(04:16:02) Chapter 26

(04:23:47) Chapter 27

(04:30:57) Chapter 28

(04:39:42) Chapter 29

(04:47:21) Chapter 30

(04:57:46) Chapter 31

(05:06:11) Chapter 32

(05:12:01) Chapter 33

(05:18:44) Chapter 34

(05:28:16) Chapter 35

(05:38:40) Chapter 36

(05:46:40) Chapter 37

(05:55:03) Chapter 38

(06:04:14) Chapter 39

(06:10:24) Chapter 40

(06:19:22) Chapter 41

(06:30:17) Chapter 42

(06:40:16) Chapter 43

(06:55:40) Chapter 44

(07:05:05) Chapter 45

(07:15:12) Chapter 46

(07:24:47) Chapter 47

(07:42:37) Chapter 48

(07:51:57) Chapter 49

(08:01:22) Chapter 50

(08:20:02) Chapter 51

(08:28:43) Chapter 52

(08:39:28) Chapter 53

(08:52:13) Chapter 54

(09:06:07) Chapter 55

(09:23:57) Chapter 56

(09:37:42) Chapter 57

(10:19:37) Chapter 58

(10:39:58) Chapter 59

(11:05:24) Chapter 60

(11:13:20) Chapter 61

(11:21:55) Chapter 62

(11:31:00) Chapter 63

(11:47:30) Chapter 64

(11:59:50) Chapter 65

(12:12:00) Chapter 66

(12:23:00) Chapter 67

(12:44:40) Chapter 68

(12:59:55) Chapter 69

(13:19:15) Chapter 70

(13:33:30) Chapter 71

(13:47:40) Chapter 72

(13:58:25) Chapter 73

(14:16:20) Chapter 74

(14:22:25) Chapter 75

(14:53:45) Chapter 76

(15:04:30) Chapter 77

(15:14:25) Chapter 78

(15:28:34) Chapter 79

(15:40:44) Chapter 80

(15:51:54) Chapter 81

(16:13:49) Chapter 82

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