Lesley Castle by Jane Austen ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

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07/26/23

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Lesley Castle by Jane Austen audiobook.

Genre: comedy

In Lesley Castle, a young Jane Austen turns the fashionable epistolary novel inside out, using a chain of sharp, intimate letters to expose the vanity, jealousy, and performative sensibility of polite society. The correspondence begins between Margaret Lesley, secluded with her sister Matilda at their family's old estate, and her longtime friend Charlotte Lutterell, who writes from a whirl of social obligations and family drama. As weddings are planned and disrupted, new alliances form, and reputations wobble on the edge of scandal, each letter becomes both confession and competition: the writers insist on their own virtue and feeling even as their words betray self-interest, hunger for attention, and a comic lack of self-knowledge. The arrival of a new Lady Lesley at the castle shifts the household's balance, while Charlotte's circle in Bristol and London adds fresh fuel for gossip, matchmaking, and moral posturing. By letting multiple voices contradict and expose one another, Austen builds a witty portrait of people who narrate themselves as heroes of a grand romance, when they are often the authors of their own absurdity. The work is unfinished, but its satirical spark is unmistakable.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:07:34) Chapter 02

(00:16:53) Chapter 03

(00:24:44) Chapter 04

(00:33:14) Chapter 05

(00:36:08) Chapter 06

(00:46:34) Chapter 07

(00:56:31) Chapter 08

(01:00:38) Chapter 09

(01:05:03) Chapter 10

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The Mystery of Pain by James Hinton audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

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(00:14:22) Chapter 02

(00:26:05) Chapter 03

(00:34:57) Chapter 04

(00:50:36) Chapter 05

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David Hume and his Influence on Philosophy and Theology by James Orr ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

July 26, 2023

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440m

David Hume and his Influence on Philosophy and Theology by James Orr audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

David Hume justly takes rank as the most distinguished member of that brilliant circle of literary men whose names gave such a lustre to the second half of the eighteenth century in Scotland. His speculations were the most profound, and, with the possible exception of Adam Smith in a particular department, his influence was the widest and most deeply felt, of any. But even his warmest friends could scarcely have predicted the influence he was destined to exercise, or the important results that were to spring from his thoughts. It required time to clear away the mists that had gathered round his name, and to place him in his true light in the eyes of posterity. At a century and a half’s distance, we are in a better position to take an impartial survey of his work and its effects. The result must be, that, however we may judge of Hume in particular respects, we cannot deny to him a right to the title of a great and independent thinker. It is indicated in the text that the point of view from which Hume’s philosophy is mainly regarded is that of an experiment to explain knowledge, and generally the intellectual and moral outfit of man, without the assumption of a rational nature in man.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:19:21) Chapter 02

(00:57:31) Chapter 03

(01:37:05) Chapter 04

(02:32:29) Chapter 05

(03:02:45) Chapter 06

(03:29:52) Chapter 07

(04:16:43) Chapter 08

(04:52:27) Chapter 09

(05:45:11) Chapter 10