Kentucky’s Famous Feuds and Tragedies by Charles G. Mutzenberg ~ Full Audiobook [history]

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11/04/22

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Kentucky’s Famous Feuds and Tragedies by Charles G. Mutzenberg audiobook.

Genre: history

In Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies, Charles G. Mutzenberg assembles a hard-edged tour through the violent vendettas and public calamities that helped shape Kentucky's reputation in the late 1800s. Beginning with the infamous Hatfield-McCoy conflict, Mutzenberg traces how ordinary disputes over property, politics, and personal honor could harden into years of retaliation, ambushes, and courtroom drama. From there, he turns to other, less widely remembered wars between neighbors and kin - including the French-Eversole feud and other regional clashes that drew newspapers, officials, and outsiders into communities already divided by loyalty and fear. Told as a sequence of tightly focused episodes, the book places listeners close to the people living inside these storms: family patriarchs trying to hold a side together, hotheaded young men eager to prove themselves, and local authorities struggling to enforce law where allegiance often mattered more than statutes. At once social history and cautionary tale, Mutzenberg's account examines how pride, rumor, and grievance can ignite a cycle of violence that outlives its original cause.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:23:44) Chapter 02

(00:38:56) Chapter 03

(00:54:18) Chapter 04

(01:12:02) Chapter 05

(01:32:35) Chapter 06

(01:59:17) Chapter 07

(02:18:22) Chapter 08

(02:32:56) Chapter 09

(02:46:34) Chapter 10

(03:01:34) Chapter 11

(03:17:46) Chapter 12

(03:35:34) Chapter 13

(03:49:43) Chapter 14

(04:07:17) Chapter 15

(04:29:23) Chapter 16

(04:44:02) Chapter 17

(04:54:55) Chapter 18

(05:13:03) Chapter 19

(05:31:05) Chapter 20

(05:43:27) Chapter 21

(05:56:48) Chapter 22

(06:15:10) Chapter 23

(06:46:46) Chapter 24

(07:07:18) Chapter 25

(07:27:48) Chapter 26

(07:46:23) Chapter 27

(07:59:29) Chapter 28

(08:14:53) Chapter 29

(08:24:50) Chapter 30

(08:45:05) Chapter 31

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The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

November 4, 2022

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1463m

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens audiobook.

Genre: drama

The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of curiosities. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but she lives a lonely existence without friends of her own age. Her only friend is Kit, an honest young lad who works at the shop, and whom she is teaching to write. Unbeknownst to Nell, her grandfather is obsessed with their precarious financial position and is attempting to make Nell a good inheritance by winning at cards. He keeps these nocturnal activities a secret, but borrows heavily from the evil Quilp, a dwarf, in order to raise new capital. In the end, he gambles away what little money they own, and Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of the shop and make Nell's and her grandfather's lives a misery. Indeed, her grandfather suffers a breakdown, which leaves him bereft of his wits. Courageously, Nell decides to escape Quilp, and she and her grandfather run away to the country to live as beggars, travelling into the Midlands of England.

There, then, follow the multifarious adventures of Nell and her grandfather, Quilp and his sly minions and accomplices, who would be Nell's vehement pursuers throughout the entire story, the noble schoolmaster, and many, many other personages as bright and memorable as Dickens' heroes always are. But... let us hear the story itself, shan't we?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:04:39) Chapter 01

(00:42:31) Chapter 02

(01:00:54) Chapter 03

(01:21:55) Chapter 04

(01:42:58) Chapter 05

(01:58:55) Chapter 06

(02:23:06) Chapter 07

(02:39:15) Chapter 08

(03:03:40) Chapter 09

(03:30:34) Chapter 10

(03:44:19) Chapter 11

(04:05:30) Chapter 12

(04:23:49) Chapter 13

(04:45:42) Chapter 14

(05:01:42) Chapter 15

(05:24:30) Chapter 16

(05:38:14) Chapter 17

(05:57:30) Chapter 18

(06:15:56) Chapter 19

(06:40:51) Chapter 20

(06:52:36) Chapter 21

(07:15:43) Chapter 22

(07:28:15) Chapter 23

(07:51:26) Chapter 24

(08:06:09) Chapter 25

(08:26:02) Chapter 26

(08:42:48) Chapter 27

(09:05:23) Chapter 28

(09:20:23) Chapter 29

(09:43:16) Chapter 30

(09:56:18) Chapter 31

(10:20:46) Chapter 32

(10:33:56) Chapter 33

(10:57:29) Chapter 34

(11:10:24) Chapter 35

(11:34:58) Chapter 36

(11:48:09) Chapter 37

(12:05:55) Chapter 38

(12:28:00) Chapter 39

(12:42:50) Chapter 40

(13:01:17) Chapter 41

(13:17:52) Chapter 42

(13:40:00) Chapter 43

(13:55:18) Chapter 44

(14:18:04) Chapter 45

(14:34:11) Chapter 46

(14:57:34) Chapter 47

(15:11:04) Chapter 48

(15:33:20) Chapter 49

(15:49:06) Chapter 50

(16:11:54) Chapter 51

(16:27:55) Chapter 52

(16:51:26) Chapter 53

(17:07:20) Chapter 54

(17:33:09) Chapter 55

(17:47:47) Chapter 56

(18:11:16) Chapter 57

(18:25:03) Chapter 58

(18:48:31) Chapter 59

(19:04:43) Chapter 60

(19:29:09) Chapter 61

(19:43:31) Chapter 62

(20:08:04) Chapter 63

(20:23:49) Chapter 64

(20:49:13) Chapter 65

(21:02:31) Chapter 66

(21:42:57) Chapter 67

(22:07:32) Chapter 68

(22:24:45) Chapter 69

(22:49:58) Chapter 70

(23:05:49) Chapter 71

(23:27:53) Chapter 72

(23:47:16) Chapter 73

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The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley ~ Full Audiobook [folklore]

November 4, 2022

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334m

The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley audiobook.

Genre: folklore

In The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children, Charles Kingsley invites young listeners into the bright, perilous world of ancient Greece through a warm, fireside style that treats mythology as a treasury of moral adventure. Framed as stories told for children, the book retells classic legends with clear, vigorous prose and a storyteller's sense of wonder. You will meet Perseus, a determined youth set against monsters and dark magic; Jason, drawn into a daring voyage in search of glory; and Theseus, who must prove himself amid treachery, strange roads, and an enemy hidden at the heart of a maze. Kingsley keeps the gods, heroes, and creatures vivid, but he is just as interested in courage, self-control, loyalty, and the cost of pride. Across sea-journeys, riddling prophecies, and encounters with fearsome beasts, each tale asks what it means to be brave for the right reasons, and how a person can hold to honor when the world is full of temptations and terror. It is both an accessible introduction to Greek myth and a spirited meditation on character.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:14:23) Chapter 01

(00:22:44) Chapter 02

(00:41:36) Chapter 03

(01:02:53) Chapter 04

(01:29:51) Chapter 05

(01:38:50) Chapter 06

(01:53:41) Chapter 07

(02:12:20) Chapter 08

(02:20:32) Chapter 09