Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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12/27/22

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Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.

Genre: drama

In this sharp, witty story of youth and status, Bernice, a shy girl from the East, arrives for a summer visit with her dazzling cousin Marjorie at a small-town country club in Minnesota. Surrounded by dances, tennis, porch gossip, and a social scene ruled by quick tongues and quicker judgments, Bernice feels invisible next to Marjorie's effortless charm. Marjorie offers to remake her - coaching her on conversation, confidence, and the careful performance that passes for popularity. The lessons work, but success comes with a price: attention turns into scrutiny, friendships become competitions, and Marjorie and Bernice slip from allies into rivals as the town decides who deserves to shine. When a dare about a drastic new look becomes a public test of nerve, Bernice is forced to choose between staying safe and taking control of her own image. Fitzgerald captures the thrill of belonging, the cruelty of fashionable crowds, and the uneasy question beneath every compliment: is the admired version of you actually you at all?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:32:18) Chapter 02

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Man Overboard! by F. Marion Crawford ~ Full Audiobook [horror]

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Man Overboard! by F. Marion Crawford audiobook.

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A storm howls across the sea as the schooner Helen B. Jackson fights to stay afloat, and in the chaos a cry rings out: man overboard. When the crew counts heads after the gale, one of the Benton twins is missing - Jim or Jack, so alike that even shipmates hesitate to swear which brother was swept away. The loss should be the end of it, another hard truth of life before the mast, yet strange details begin to accumulate: an extra place setting that appears to have been used, footsteps where no one is walking, a sense of company in the tight quarters of the ship. The narrator, a practical seaman with no taste for superstition, tries to explain away what he sees and hears, but the uncanny follows the surviving twin back to shore as well. With a young woman named Mamie waiting in his new life, the survivor should be able to begin again - if grief, guilt, and whatever came back from the storm will let him. Crawford blends nautical realism with a slow, chilling ghostly doubt about identity and the boundaries between the living and the dead.

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(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:29:32) Chapter 2

(00:59:19) Chapter 3

(01:27:36) Chapter 4

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Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

December 27, 2022

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419m

Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.

Genre: drama

Step into the bright, restless world of the early 1920s with Flappers and Philosophers, F. Scott Fitzgerald's sparkling first story collection. Across eight tales of youth, money, and sudden desire, Fitzgerald follows dreamers and social climbers as they chase romance, status, and the newest thrills of the Jazz Age. In the title story, a young man tries to map love with logic only to discover that emotions refuse to obey tidy rules. In other stories, ambitious outsiders test their luck in drawing rooms and on city streets, while young women with a new sense of freedom weigh what they want against what society expects. From glittering parties to quiet moments of self-reckoning, each narrative captures the push and pull between idealism and reality, between the performance of sophistication and the private cost of wanting more. Witty, bittersweet, and sharply observed, these stories reveal how quickly fortunes can shift and how easily a single choice can define a life, offering a vivid portrait of an era intoxicated with possibility - and shadowed by consequence.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(01:11:47) Chapter 02

(02:12:15) Chapter 03

(03:05:53) Chapter 04

(03:55:03) Chapter 05

(04:55:05) Chapter 06

(05:32:34) Chapter 07

(06:12:29) Chapter 08

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