England, My England by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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01/03/23

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499m

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England, My England by D. H. Lawrence audiobook.

Genre: drama

In England, My England, D. H. Lawrence turns a fierce, intimate gaze on an English countryside that is being hollowed out by modern life and the pressures of war. At the center is Egbert, a charming, high-born dreamer who drifts through his days as if real responsibilities belong to someone else. His wife, Winifred, practical and increasingly exasperated, tries to hold together a household and a future that Egbert seems determined to treat like a passing mood. As the world beyond their fields tightens with duty, money, and marching orders, their marriage becomes a battleground between freedom and obligation, tenderness and resentment, fantasy and the hard grain of reality. Lawrence follows the shifting power between husband and wife, the pull of class expectations, and the uneasy question of what it means to love a country that is changing faster than its people can admit. Stark, lyrical, and unsentimental, the story builds toward a reckoning that feels both personal and national, capturing a society on the edge of irrevocable change.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:40:38) Chapter 02

(01:13:17) Chapter 03

(01:36:30) Chapter 04

(02:11:57) Chapter 05

(02:38:44) Chapter 06

(03:07:59) Chapter 07

(03:45:59) Chapter 08

(04:27:58) Chapter 09

(04:47:56) Chapter 10

(05:16:10) Chapter 11

(05:34:30) Chapter 12

(05:58:54) Chapter 13

(06:17:50) Chapter 14

(06:38:27) Chapter 15

(06:58:31) Chapter 16

(07:26:21) Chapter 17

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Tor, A Street Boy of Jerusalem by Florence Morse Kingsley ~ Full Audiobook [history]

January 2, 2023

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179m

Tor, A Street Boy of Jerusalem by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook.

Genre: history

In Roman-occupied Jerusalem, Tor survives the way a hungry street boy must: by quick hands, quicker feet, and a hard heart that expects nothing from anyone. He drifts through dusty lanes and crowded marketplaces where beggars fight for scraps and soldiers enforce order with sudden brutality, learning early that kindness can be a trap. When Tor tangles with a blind beggar he once served and narrowly escapes punishment, an unexpected defender steps in, and Tor is pulled toward a circle of Galileans whose calm courage feels dangerously different from the citys usual despair. Soon the streets erupt with shouts of hope as Jesus enters Jerusalem, and Tor, who has never believed in promises, finds himself watching from the edge of the crowd. One encounter with Jesus leaves the boy shaken and curious, and as rumors spread, plots tighten, and powerful men maneuver to silence a threat, Tor must choose what kind of person he will become. Moving from theft and bitterness toward trust and compassion, this brief, vivid tale explores poverty, justice, and the cost of mercy through the eyes of a child who longs for a life larger than survival.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:10:55) Chapter 02

(00:21:10) Chapter 03

(00:38:56) Chapter 04

(00:49:42) Chapter 05

(01:07:34) Chapter 06

(01:23:09) Chapter 07

(01:38:47) Chapter 08

(01:53:28) Chapter 09

(02:08:53) Chapter 10

(02:22:21) Chapter 11

(02:37:12) Chapter 12

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Sea and Sardinia by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

January 3, 2023

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545m

Sea and Sardinia by D. H. Lawrence audiobook.

Genre: biography

In Sea and Sardinia, D. H. Lawrence turns a simple winter trip into a sharp, restless travel memoir full of landscape, conversation, and cultural friction. Leaving the chill and routines of mainland Italy, Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, set off by train and ship toward Sardinia, an island that feels both near and startlingly separate. As they navigate delays, cramped compartments, and the small dramas of fellow passengers, Lawrence watches everything with a poet's eye and a skeptic's impatience: the shifting sea, the hard outlines of coastal towns, the rhythms of local life, and the uneasy relationship between the island and the larger nation that claims it. In villages and cities alike, he tests his own assumptions about modernity, tradition, and the meaning of freedom, often finding beauty where he least expects it and irritation where others might see romance. By turns comic, lyrical, and biting, the book becomes less a guidebook than a portrait of travel as confrontation - with place, with politics, and with the traveler himself.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:29:10) Chapter 02

(00:54:16) Chapter 03

(01:37:42) Chapter 04

(02:21:29) Chapter 05

(03:05:03) Chapter 06

(03:46:12) Chapter 07

(04:31:16) Chapter 08

(05:13:05) Chapter 09

(05:50:27) Chapter 10