Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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09/10/22

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120m

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Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in the cramped offices of Wall Street, Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener follows a cautious, self-satisfied lawyer who prides himself on running an orderly business with minimal disturbance. To keep up with an increasing workload, he hires a new copyist, Bartleby, a pale, quiet man whose diligence at the desk initially seems like a blessing. But when asked to perform even the smallest task beyond copying, Bartleby answers with a baffling refrain: 'I would prefer not to.' As his refusals spread from one request to the next, the lawyer finds his authority, patience, and sense of moral responsibility tested in ways he never anticipated. Caught between sympathy and self-preservation, he struggles to understand Bartleby's motives, the limits of charity, and what society owes to those who will not-or cannot-fit its expectations. With dark humor and mounting unease, the story turns a simple workplace dispute into a haunting meditation on isolation, conformity, and the quiet forms of resistance that can unravel a life and a city built on routine.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:35:27) Chapter 02

(01:09:12) Chapter 03

(01:34:41) Chapter 04

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The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

September 10, 2022

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496m

The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Britain won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his 'giant leap for mankind' two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating.

Mr. Bedford, who narrates the tale, tells of how he fell in with eccentric inventor Mr. Cavor, grew to believe in his researches, helped him build a sphere for traveling in space, and then partnered with him in an expedition to the Moon.

What they found was fantastic! There was not only air and water, but the Moon was honeycombed with caverns and tunnels in which lived an advanced civilization of insect-like beings. While Bedford is frightened by them and bolts home, Cavor stays and is treated with great respect.

So why didn't Armstrong and later astronauts find the evidence of all this? Well, according to broadcasts by Cavor over the newly-discovered radio technology, he told the Selenites too much about mankind, and apparently, they removed the welcome mat!

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:36:54) Chapter 2

(00:54:17) Chapter 3

(01:12:20) Chapter 4

(01:21:25) Chapter 5

(01:34:46) Chapter 6

(01:44:23) Chapter 7

(01:55:47) Chapter 8

(02:05:11) Chapter 9

(02:25:07) Chapter 10

(02:37:15) Chapter 11

(03:00:51) Chapter 12

(03:11:05) Chapter 13

(03:27:28) Chapter 14

(03:39:43) Chapter 15

(04:03:08) Chapter 16

(04:20:26) Chapter 17

(04:42:47) Chapter 18

(05:02:10) Chapter 19

(05:26:45) Chapter 20

(05:43:46) Chapter 21

(06:15:45) Chapter 22

(06:24:43) Chapter 23

(06:42:40) Chapter 24

(07:22:50) Chapter 25

(07:58:25) Chapter 26

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The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

September 10, 2022

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599m

The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville audiobook.

Genre: adventure

A collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published in May 1856. Except for the newly written title story, 'The Piazza,' all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', 'Benito Cereno', and 'The Encantadas', his sketches of the Galápagos Islands. (Billy Budd, arguably his greatest piece of short fiction, would remain unpublished in his lifetime.) One should note that the era's prevalent racism occasionally surfaces, as in describing blacks as 'indisputable inferiors', to be found in 'Benito Cereno'.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:41:25) Chapter 02

(01:39:16) Chapter 03

(02:24:18) Chapter 04

(03:26:06) Chapter 05

(04:31:31) Chapter 06

(05:24:44) Chapter 07

(06:08:50) Chapter 08

(06:28:07) Chapter 09

(06:42:44) Chapter 10