Dere Mable by Edward Streeter ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

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07/26/22

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66m

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Dere Mable by Edward Streeter audiobook.

Genre: comedy

In Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie, Edward Streeter turns World War I army life into a bright, side-splitting chain of letters from a brand-new private, Bill Smith, to his sweetheart back home, Mable. Writing in proudly mangled spelling and plainspoken slang, Bill reports on everything the Army throws at him: baffling rules, hard-nosed sergeants, endless drills, awkward inspections, lousy weather, and the strange new language of camp where everyday things suddenly have different names. Between complaints and boasts, he sketches a whole barracks full of characters and captures the uneasy mix of boredom, confusion, and sudden responsibility that comes with becoming a soldier. But the letters are not only jokes about military red tape. They are also a running portrait of a young man trying to hold onto home, pride, and romance while distance and rumor test what he thinks he knows about Mable and about himself. With lively illustrations (in many editions) and quick episodes that build like a serialized comedy, Streeter delivers a classic wartime satire that still feels human and sharp.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:09:16) Chapter 2

(00:18:38) Chapter 3

(00:28:41) Chapter 4

(00:41:05) Chapter 5

(00:54:29) Chapter 6

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The Coming Race by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

July 26, 2022

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429m

The Coming Race by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as 'the great unwashed', 'pursuit of the almighty dollar', 'the pen is mightier than the sword', and the infamous incipit 'It was a dark and stormy night.' .

The Coming Race drew heavily on his interest in the occult and contributed to the birth of the science fiction genre. Unquestionably, its story of a subterranean race of men waiting to reclaim the surface is one of the first science fiction novels. The novel centres on a young, independently wealthy traveler (the narrator), who accidentally finds his way into a subterranean world occupied by beings who seem to resemble angels, who call themselves Vril-ya. The hero soon discovers that they are descendants of an antediluvian civilisation who live in networks of subterranean caverns linked by tunnels. The narrator suggests that in time, the Vril-ya will run out of habitable spaces underground and will start claiming the surface of the earth, destroying mankind in the process, if necessary.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:21) Chapter 02

(00:21:20) Chapter 03

(00:48:13) Chapter 04

(01:08:32) Chapter 05

(01:35:52) Chapter 06

(01:54:11) Chapter 07

(02:15:46) Chapter 08

(02:30:04) Chapter 09

(02:57:11) Chapter 10

(03:27:14) Chapter 11

(03:59:29) Chapter 12

(04:22:20) Chapter 13

(04:36:33) Chapter 14

(04:46:57) Chapter 15

(05:03:44) Chapter 16

(05:32:05) Chapter 17

(05:54:40) Chapter 18

(06:14:37) Chapter 19

(06:32:59) Chapter 20

(06:46:54) Chapter 21

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Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

July 26, 2022

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223m

Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah audiobook.

Genre: mystery

In Four Max Carrados Detective Stories, Ernest Bramah introduces a sleuth unlike any other in Edwardian England: Max Carrados, a gentleman investigator who is blind, yet uncannily alert to the details most people overlook. Narrated by his friend and occasional collaborator Louis Carlyle, these four cases open doors into London drawing rooms, private clubs, and shadowy back streets, where a missing object, an ingenious fraud, or a seemingly simple crime quickly reveals deeper layers of motive and method. Carrados does not rely on sight, but on a disciplined command of sound, touch, timing, and human behavior, turning social assumptions about disability into a quiet advantage. As Carlyle struggles to keep pace, the reader is invited to watch ordinary clues become extraordinary through Carrados' calm reasoning and understated wit. Each story blends clever puzzles with character-driven tension, exploring how appearances mislead, how greed and pride unravel, and how true detection depends on noticing what others dismiss. Elegant, sharp, and quietly suspenseful, this collection showcases Bramah's distinctive voice and one of classic detective fiction's most memorable minds.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:34:14) Chapter 2

(01:34:17) Chapter 3

(02:24:01) Chapter 4

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