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First Love by Ivan Turgenev ~ Full Audiobook [romance]
Classic Audiobook Collection
04/10/23
•189m
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First Love by Ivan Turgenev audiobook.
Genre: romance
The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The 'boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her' story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise. First Love is given its originality and poignancy by Turgenev's mastery of the piercing turning-point (akin to Joyce's 'epiphanies') that transforms the character's whole being, making a tragic outcome inevitable. Even the nature symbolism is rescued from triteness by lovely poetic similes - e.g. 'but at that point my attention was arrested by the appearance of a speckled woodpecker who busily climbed up the slender stem of a birch-tree and peeped out uneasily from behind it, first to the right, then to the left, like a musician behind the bass-viol.'
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:38:16) Chapter 02
(01:23:06) Chapter 03
(01:52:59) Chapter 04
(02:26:39) Chapter 05
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird audiobook.
Genre: adventure
Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was travelling she was almost always healthy. Her first trip, in 1854, took her to America, visiting relatives. Her first book, The Englishwoman in America was published anonymously two years later.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is compiled of the letters she sent to her sister during her 7 months sojourn in Japan in 1878. Her travels there took her from Edo (now called Tokyo) through the interior - where she was often the first foreigner the locals had met - to Niigata, and from there to Aomori. There she crossed over to Yezo (Hokkaido), and her account on the life of the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, provides an interesting glimpse of days long past.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 00
(00:06:31) Chapter 01
(00:20:16) Chapter 02
(00:23:26) Chapter 03
(00:36:24) Chapter 04
(00:50:11) Chapter 05
(01:18:11) Chapter 06
(01:42:41) Chapter 07
(02:04:00) Chapter 08
(02:09:43) Chapter 09
(02:30:30) Chapter 10
(02:37:16) Chapter 11
(02:54:34) Chapter 12
(03:03:30) Chapter 13
(03:11:39) Chapter 14
(03:43:10) Chapter 15
(03:53:46) Chapter 16
(03:59:16) Chapter 17
(04:18:03) Chapter 18
(04:24:56) Chapter 19
(04:35:34) Chapter 20
(04:49:07) Chapter 21
(05:09:57) Chapter 22
(05:31:00) Chapter 23
(05:47:58) Chapter 24
(05:54:26) Chapter 25
(06:09:43) Chapter 26
(06:15:18) Chapter 27
(06:25:54) Chapter 28
(06:30:14) Chapter 29
(06:40:22) Chapter 30
(06:52:01) Chapter 31
(07:03:58) Chapter 32
(07:23:38) Chapter 33
(07:34:09) Chapter 34
(07:50:22) Chapter 35
(07:58:23) Chapter 36
(08:04:34) Chapter 37
(08:10:30) Chapter 38
(08:16:06) Chapter 39
(08:31:40) Chapter 40
(08:36:06) Chapter 41
(08:39:51) Chapter 42
(09:16:59) Chapter 43
(09:23:11) Chapter 44
(09:43:13) Chapter 45
(10:06:34) Chapter 46
(10:22:28) Chapter 47
(10:44:51) Chapter 48
(11:14:51) Chapter 49
(11:22:52) Chapter 50
(11:41:17) Chapter 51
(11:48:05) Chapter 52
(12:05:02) Chapter 53
(12:19:10) Chapter 54
(12:41:32) Chapter 55
(12:45:26) Chapter 56
(12:49:24) Chapter 57
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The Sea Wolf by Jack London ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]
April 12, 2023
•703m
The Sea Wolf by Jack London audiobook.
Genre: adventure
When literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden survives a ferry collision in San Francisco Bay, he expects rescue - not conscription. Hauled aboard the sealing schooner Ghost, he finds himself under the absolute rule of Captain Wolf Larsen, a brilliant, domineering commander whose philosophy is as merciless as the sea he sails. Thrust into a world of brutal labor and rigid hierarchy, Humphrey must adapt quickly, learning seamanship and hardening his body as he struggles to preserve his identity and conscience. The Ghost ranges the Pacific on a perilous hunt, where storms, injuries, and the constant threat of violence test every man aboard. As Humphrey is drawn into a tense, uneasy relationship with Larsen - part adversary, part teacher - he is forced to confront unsettling questions about strength, morality, and what makes a life meaningful. The stakes rise when another survivor, the sensitive poet Maud Brewster, is brought onto the ship, complicating the balance of power and turning survival into something more than endurance. At once a maritime adventure and a clash of worldviews, The Sea-Wolf explores freedom, authority, and the price of becoming strong enough to live.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:19:42) Chapter 02
(00:38:53) Chapter 03
(01:05:16) Chapter 04
(01:21:29) Chapter 05
(01:40:20) Chapter 06
(02:13:42) Chapter 07
(02:22:07) Chapter 08
(02:39:49) Chapter 09
(03:01:19) Chapter 10
(03:17:47) Chapter 11
(03:32:50) Chapter 12
(03:57:08) Chapter 13
(04:07:14) Chapter 14
(04:25:57) Chapter 15
(04:39:45) Chapter 16
(04:57:10) Chapter 17
(05:30:04) Chapter 18
(05:46:57) Chapter 19
(06:02:13) Chapter 20
(06:20:37) Chapter 21
(06:31:43) Chapter 22
(06:40:13) Chapter 23
(06:52:35) Chapter 24
(07:08:33) Chapter 25
(07:39:09) Chapter 26
(08:10:04) Chapter 27
(08:28:16) Chapter 28
(08:44:52) Chapter 29
(08:58:02) Chapter 30
(09:15:39) Chapter 31
(09:22:13) Chapter 32
(09:41:36) Chapter 33
(09:55:56) Chapter 34
(10:08:04) Chapter 35
(10:23:07) Chapter 36
(10:45:13) Chapter 37
(11:05:57) Chapter 38
(11:13:35) Chapter 39
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