Black Beauty by Anna Sewell ~ Full Audiobook [family]

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07/07/22

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356m

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Black Beauty by Anna Sewell audiobook.

Genre: family

Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page of the first edition states that it was 'Translated from the Original Equine by Anna Sewell.' It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was confined to her house as an invalid. After its publication in 1877, Sewell lived just long enough to see her first and only novel become an immediate bestseller, as well as it encouraging the better treatment of many cruelly-treated animals.

Although initially intended for people who work with horses, it soon became a children's classic. While outwardly teaching animal welfare, it also contains allegorical lessons about how to treat people with kindness, sympathy and respect. The story is narrated in the first person and each short chapter relates an incident in Black Beauty's life, with Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behaviour lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:05:04) Chapter 02

(00:11:38) Chapter 03

(00:20:08) Chapter 04

(00:26:02) Chapter 05

(00:33:08) Chapter 06

(00:36:27) Chapter 07

(00:45:07) Chapter 08

(00:52:06) Chapter 09

(00:57:22) Chapter 10

(01:08:23) Chapter 11

(01:14:23) Chapter 12

(01:20:58) Chapter 13

(01:26:23) Chapter 14

(01:31:53) Chapter 15

(01:37:33) Chapter 16

(01:45:35) Chapter 17

(01:52:36) Chapter 18

(02:00:10) Chapter 19

(02:04:37) Chapter 20

(02:10:06) Chapter 21

(02:15:33) Chapter 22

(02:22:59) Chapter 23

(02:29:26) Chapter 24

(02:41:16) Chapter 25

(02:48:15) Chapter 26

(02:53:39) Chapter 27

(02:58:58) Chapter 28

(03:05:35) Chapter 29

(03:17:32) Chapter 30

(03:22:32) Chapter 31

(03:28:10) Chapter 32

(03:35:24) Chapter 33

(03:43:12) Chapter 34

(03:53:18) Chapter 35

(04:04:12) Chapter 36

(04:12:41) Chapter 37

(04:19:10) Chapter 38

(04:26:54) Chapter 39

(04:33:36) Chapter 40

(04:38:08) Chapter 41

(04:43:43) Chapter 42

(04:47:08) Chapter 43

(04:54:54) Chapter 44

(05:02:59) Chapter 45

(05:13:53) Chapter 46

(05:20:52) Chapter 47

(05:29:10) Chapter 48

(05:36:29) Chapter 49

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The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

July 7, 2022

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324m

The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been described as the single most important and influential work in the West in medieval and early Renaissance Christianity, and is also the last great work that can be called Classical.

Consolation of Philosophy was written during Boethius' one year imprisonment while awaiting trial, and eventual horrific execution, for the crime of treason by Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great. Boethius was at the very heights of power in Rome and was brought down by treachery. It was from this experience he was inspired to write a philosophical book from prison reflecting on how a lord's favor could change so quickly and why friends would turn against him. It has been described as “by far the most interesting example of prison literature the world has ever seen.”

The Consolation of Philosophy stands, by its note of fatalism and its affinities with the Christian doctrine of humility, midway between the heathen philosophy of Seneca the Younger and the later Christian philosophy of consolation represented by Thomas Aquinas.

The book is heavily influenced by Plato and his dialogues (as was Boethius himself)

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:07:22) Chapter 02

(00:12:21) Chapter 03

(00:15:15) Chapter 04

(00:19:24) Chapter 05

(00:35:48) Chapter 06

(00:42:15) Chapter 07

(00:48:09) Chapter 08

(00:49:33) Chapter 09

(00:55:52) Chapter 10

(01:01:08) Chapter 11

(01:06:50) Chapter 12

(01:15:16) Chapter 13

(01:26:52) Chapter 14

(01:33:44) Chapter 15

(01:40:54) Chapter 16

(01:44:35) Chapter 17

(01:47:19) Chapter 18

(01:56:40) Chapter 19

(02:02:02) Chapter 20

(02:06:31) Chapter 21

(02:10:19) Chapter 22

(02:13:35) Chapter 23

(02:16:03) Chapter 24

(02:21:09) Chapter 25

(02:33:18) Chapter 26

(02:47:03) Chapter 27

(02:57:01) Chapter 28

(03:09:40) Chapter 29

(03:15:34) Chapter 30

(03:26:25) Chapter 31

(03:34:56) Chapter 32

(03:49:00) Chapter 33

(03:53:06) Chapter 34

(04:14:11) Chapter 35

(04:19:33) Chapter 36

(04:26:56) Chapter 37

(04:30:09) Chapter 38

(04:41:15) Chapter 39

(04:52:05) Chapter 40

(04:58:26) Chapter 41

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The Amazons - A Farcical Romance by Arthur W Pinero ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

July 7, 2022

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158m

The Amazons - A Farcical Romance by Arthur W Pinero audiobook.

Genre: comedy

In Arthur Wing Pinero's sparkling stage farce, the tranquil estate of the Marchioness of Castlejordan becomes a social minefield when her three daughters - Noeline (Noel), Wilhelmina (Willis), and Thomasin (Tommie) - reach the age when the outside world expects them to behave like proper young ladies. Their mother, having long insisted on sons, has raised them as her heirs: confident, athletic, and more comfortable with masculine freedoms than with drawing-room manners. Now, with gossip swirling and society calling, the sisters must perform a dizzying double life, switching from bold, boyish habits at home to ladylike decorum in public. Trouble arrives in the form of three determined gentlemen, each intent on courtship, and each more confused than the last by the sisters' unusual upbringing. As secret visits, overheard conversations, disguises, and well-meaning interventions pile up, the Castlejordan household becomes a whirl of misunderstandings, romantic sparks, and comic reversals. Beneath the laughter, Pinero playfully skewers rigid expectations about gender, class, and marriage - and asks whether growing up means choosing who you are, or who society demands you be.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 0

(00:03:49) Chapter 1

(00:05:59) Chapter 2

(00:58:44) Chapter 3

(01:59:31) Chapter 4

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