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Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Classic Audiobook Collection
03/16/23
•387m
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Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor audiobook.
Genre: drama
Set in the rugged Scottish-Canadian community of Glengarry, Ralph Connor's Glengarry School Days follows the arrival of a young, idealistic schoolmaster determined to bring order, learning, and a larger sense of purpose to a one-room country school. He soon discovers that the classroom is only the beginning: rivalries between farm boys, family feuds, prideful clan loyalties, and the rough demands of frontier life spill into every lesson and every game. At the center are the students themselves - bright, stubborn, and fiercely independent - who test their teacher's patience while quietly needing his guidance. As the school year unfolds, friendships harden under pressure, a few spirited leaders emerge, and the community is forced to confront what it truly values: strength or character, tradition or growth, winning or fairness. Told with humor, warmth, and a strong moral backbone, Connor paints a vivid portrait of youth on the edge of adulthood, where courage is measured as much by kindness as by grit, and where a small schoolhouse can become the proving ground for an entire generation.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:13:23) Chapter 02
(00:36:37) Chapter 03
(01:19:09) Chapter 04
(02:02:23) Chapter 05
(02:15:37) Chapter 06
(02:39:39) Chapter 07
(02:55:35) Chapter 08
(03:25:23) Chapter 09
(04:08:37) Chapter 10
(04:43:05) Chapter 11
(04:57:35) Chapter 12
(05:12:12) Chapter 13
(05:21:28) Chapter 14
(06:06:32) Chapter 15
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Bacon by R. W. Church ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
March 16, 2023
•432m
Bacon by R. W. Church audiobook.
Genre: biography
In this concise, vivid volume from the English Men of Letters series, Victorian scholar and churchman R. W. Church traces the extraordinary contradictions of Francis Bacon (1561-1626): philosopher of a new science, master of English prose, and ambitious servant of power in the volatile world of Elizabethan and Jacobean politics. Church follows Bacon from a brilliant, restless youth and early legal promise into the rivalries of court, where patronage, strategy, and survival often clash with principle. Along the way, he makes Bacon's big intellectual wager feel urgent and human: that knowledge should be rebuilt from the ground up through disciplined observation and experiment, so that humanity might gain practical command of nature. With clear explanations of Bacon's major writings and aims, and a steady eye for the pressures that shaped his choices, Church examines how a mind devoted to public good and intellectual reform could also accept compromises that darken its legacy. The result is both an accessible introduction to Bacon's ideas and a probing character study of greatness tested by temptation, ambition, and the costs of living at the center of power.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 00
(00:02:27) Chapter 01
(00:33:37) Chapter 02
(00:53:22) Chapter 03
(01:21:14) Chapter 04
(01:52:24) Chapter 05
(02:10:23) Chapter 06
(02:36:34) Chapter 07
(02:54:27) Chapter 08
(03:13:22) Chapter 09
(03:30:57) Chapter 10
(03:56:49) Chapter 11
(04:22:09) Chapter 12
(04:53:25) Chapter 13
(05:06:52) Chapter 14
(05:29:32) Chapter 15
(05:56:21) Chapter 16
(06:25:35) Chapter 17
(06:38:39) Chapter 18
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The Man from Glengarry by Ralph Connor ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]
March 20, 2023
•778m
The Man from Glengarry by Ralph Connor audiobook.
Genre: adventure
With international book sales in the millions, Ralph Connor was the best-known Canadian novelist of the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. The Man from Glengarry was his most popular and accomplished work. Immediately after its publication in 1901, the novel spent several months in the top ranks of the New York Times 'Books in Demand' list.
We follow the story of Ranald Macdonald, who is shaped by family and community in rural eastern Ontario in the early decades after Canadian confederation. This is a book about the making of men, but also, ultimately, about the making of a nation, as the mature Ranald moves west to take a leadership role in the fledgling province of British Columbia.
The Man from Glengarry features adventure and romance, and is, above all, a work of serious moral purpose. 'Ralph Connor' was the pen-name of the Reverend Charles Gordon, a prominent Canadian minister, and his stories are woven through with his religious convictions. His is a two-fisted Christianity — or, as he said in his autobiography, a religion that can appeal to 'red-blooded' people who aren't afraid to engage in physical conflict for causes that they know are right.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 00
(00:02:31) Chapter 01
(00:33:56) Chapter 02
(00:54:14) Chapter 03
(01:08:04) Chapter 04
(01:17:51) Chapter 05
(01:43:44) Chapter 06
(02:11:32) Chapter 07
(02:29:18) Chapter 08
(02:54:31) Chapter 09
(03:48:44) Chapter 10
(04:17:39) Chapter 11
(04:49:34) Chapter 12
(05:08:43) Chapter 13
(05:50:55) Chapter 14
(06:20:01) Chapter 15
(06:59:35) Chapter 16
(07:24:02) Chapter 17
(08:13:49) Chapter 18
(08:39:55) Chapter 19
(09:04:31) Chapter 20
(09:35:11) Chapter 21
(10:10:15) Chapter 22
(10:57:27) Chapter 23
(11:37:57) Chapter 24
(12:05:58) Chapter 25
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