Bacon by R. W. Church ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

Classic Audiobook Collection

03/16/23

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432m

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Bacon by R. W. Church audiobook.

Genre: biography

In this concise, vivid volume from the English Men of Letters series, Victorian scholar and churchman R. W. Church traces the extraordinary contradictions of Francis Bacon (1561-1626): philosopher of a new science, master of English prose, and ambitious servant of power in the volatile world of Elizabethan and Jacobean politics. Church follows Bacon from a brilliant, restless youth and early legal promise into the rivalries of court, where patronage, strategy, and survival often clash with principle. Along the way, he makes Bacon's big intellectual wager feel urgent and human: that knowledge should be rebuilt from the ground up through disciplined observation and experiment, so that humanity might gain practical command of nature. With clear explanations of Bacon's major writings and aims, and a steady eye for the pressures that shaped his choices, Church examines how a mind devoted to public good and intellectual reform could also accept compromises that darken its legacy. The result is both an accessible introduction to Bacon's ideas and a probing character study of greatness tested by temptation, ambition, and the costs of living at the center of power.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:27) Chapter 01

(00:33:37) Chapter 02

(00:53:22) Chapter 03

(01:21:14) Chapter 04

(01:52:24) Chapter 05

(02:10:23) Chapter 06

(02:36:34) Chapter 07

(02:54:27) Chapter 08

(03:13:22) Chapter 09

(03:30:57) Chapter 10

(03:56:49) Chapter 11

(04:22:09) Chapter 12

(04:53:25) Chapter 13

(05:06:52) Chapter 14

(05:29:32) Chapter 15

(05:56:21) Chapter 16

(06:25:35) Chapter 17

(06:38:39) Chapter 18

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Fast in the Ice by R. M. Ballantyne ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

March 16, 2023

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180m

Fast in the Ice by R. M. Ballantyne audiobook.

Genre: adventure

In Fast in the Ice, R. M. Ballantyne throws listeners aboard the brig Hope as she sails from England into the blank white spaces of the Arctic in pursuit of a bold idea: that beyond the pack lies an open polar sea waiting to be reached. Captain Harvey is a driven, capable commander, but he is also a man who knows what his ambition costs the people he leaves behind. At his side is his nephew, Tom Gregory, a young ship's surgeon eager to trade classroom learning for real danger and discovery. As Greenland and Baffin's Bay close around them, the Hope is battered by storms, then gripped by the ice, turning a voyage of exploration into a long fight for endurance. The crew must improvise shelter and food, contend with sickness and scarcity, and venture out across a frozen wilderness where polar bears, darkness, and crushing cold are as threatening as any enemy. Along the way, Ballantyne mixes tense sea adventure with detailed, lived-in glimpses of Arctic travel, dog sledging, and hard-won lessons learned from the region's native people, testing what leadership and comradeship mean when the world itself will not let you go.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:06:58) Chapter 02

(00:17:15) Chapter 03

(00:33:20) Chapter 04

(00:49:26) Chapter 05

(01:06:31) Chapter 06

(01:24:46) Chapter 07

(01:51:25) Chapter 08

(02:05:39) Chapter 09

(02:20:27) Chapter 10

(02:33:25) Chapter 11

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Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

March 16, 2023

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387m

Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in the rugged Scottish-Canadian community of Glengarry, Ralph Connor's Glengarry School Days follows the arrival of a young, idealistic schoolmaster determined to bring order, learning, and a larger sense of purpose to a one-room country school. He soon discovers that the classroom is only the beginning: rivalries between farm boys, family feuds, prideful clan loyalties, and the rough demands of frontier life spill into every lesson and every game. At the center are the students themselves - bright, stubborn, and fiercely independent - who test their teacher's patience while quietly needing his guidance. As the school year unfolds, friendships harden under pressure, a few spirited leaders emerge, and the community is forced to confront what it truly values: strength or character, tradition or growth, winning or fairness. Told with humor, warmth, and a strong moral backbone, Connor paints a vivid portrait of youth on the edge of adulthood, where courage is measured as much by kindness as by grit, and where a small schoolhouse can become the proving ground for an entire generation.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:23) Chapter 02

(00:36:37) Chapter 03

(01:19:09) Chapter 04

(02:02:23) Chapter 05

(02:15:37) Chapter 06

(02:39:39) Chapter 07

(02:55:35) Chapter 08

(03:25:23) Chapter 09

(04:08:37) Chapter 10