Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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07/29/22

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert audiobook.

Genre: drama

In provincial 19th-century France, Emma Bovary believes life should feel like the romances she devours: sweeping passions, refined luxury, and constant excitement. When she marries Charles Bovary, a well-meaning country doctor devoted to his new wife, Emma expects her dreams to finally begin. Instead she finds herself trapped by routine, small-town gossip, and the slow disappointments of a marriage built on affection rather than ardor. Restless and hungry for glamour, Emma reaches beyond her means and her station, chasing admiration and intensity wherever she thinks it can be found. As her desires collide with the rigid codes of her community, a web of temptation, secrecy, and escalating debts tightens around the Bovary household. Flaubert's landmark novel is both intimate and unsparing: a portrait of a woman at war with her own fantasies, and a sharp critique of the social pressures, consumer cravings, and moral hypocrisies that shape her choices. With psychological precision and vivid detail, Madame Bovary follows Emma's quest for a larger life as the consequences of her longing begin to close in.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:43) Chapter 02

(00:40:02) Chapter 03

(00:52:42) Chapter 04

(01:05:25) Chapter 05

(01:14:47) Chapter 06

(01:28:35) Chapter 07

(01:44:46) Chapter 08

(02:09:03) Chapter 09

(02:37:05) Chapter 10

(02:58:15) Chapter 11

(03:12:22) Chapter 12

(03:37:22) Chapter 13

(03:46:47) Chapter 14

(04:06:23) Chapter 15

(04:31:03) Chapter 16

(04:49:18) Chapter 17

(05:41:26) Chapter 18

(06:02:36) Chapter 19

(06:22:07) Chapter 20

(06:51:39) Chapter 21

(07:22:31) Chapter 22

(07:44:59) Chapter 23

(08:09:40) Chapter 24

(08:30:04) Chapter 25

(09:03:32) Chapter 26

(09:24:53) Chapter 27

(09:30:38) Chapter 28

(09:37:17) Chapter 29

(10:13:13) Chapter 30

(10:49:58) Chapter 31

(11:19:28) Chapter 32

(12:05:21) Chapter 33

(12:26:31) Chapter 34

(12:38:58) Chapter 35

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Lilith by George MacDonald ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy]

July 29, 2022

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644m

Lilith by George MacDonald audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

George MacDonald's Lilith follows Mr. Vane, a practical, solitary young man who inherits a mysterious house with an equally mysterious library. When a strange mirror-like door opens onto another world, Vane is drawn into a stark, dreamlike realm where night seems permanent and the laws of ordinary life feel suspended. Guided and challenged by an enigmatic figure known as Raven, Vane wanders through haunted landscapes and a silent city filled with sleepers who wait for a dawn that may or may not come. Along the way he encounters children living by their own fierce logic of play and survival, shadowy soldiers loyal to a beautiful and terrifying queen, and the queen herself: Lilith, whose will to rule collides with the possibility of surrender and change. Part visionary fantasy, part spiritual parable, Lilith turns an otherworldly journey into a searching exploration of freedom, pride, compassion, and what it means to awaken. Vane must decide what kind of person he will become as every meeting tests his motives and every path seems to lead deeper into the heart of darkness and toward an unseen morning.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:03:07) Chapter 01

(00:14:43) Chapter 02

(00:20:14) Chapter 03

(00:35:36) Chapter 04

(00:50:48) Chapter 05

(00:57:08) Chapter 06

(01:10:18) Chapter 07

(01:26:25) Chapter 08

(01:38:35) Chapter 09

(01:50:45) Chapter 10

(02:02:32) Chapter 11

(02:15:23) Chapter 12

(02:24:32) Chapter 13

(02:45:44) Chapter 14

(02:57:34) Chapter 15

(03:22:00) Chapter 16

(03:43:59) Chapter 17

(04:00:33) Chapter 18

(04:21:16) Chapter 19

(04:34:29) Chapter 20

(04:45:27) Chapter 21

(04:53:33) Chapter 22

(05:03:20) Chapter 23

(05:09:06) Chapter 24

(05:17:25) Chapter 25

(05:35:39) Chapter 26

(05:46:09) Chapter 27

(05:54:19) Chapter 28

(06:01:40) Chapter 29

(06:18:03) Chapter 30

(06:28:19) Chapter 31

(06:40:28) Chapter 32

(06:52:57) Chapter 33

(07:09:56) Chapter 34

(07:22:44) Chapter 35

(07:34:10) Chapter 36

(07:45:27) Chapter 37

(07:52:19) Chapter 38

(08:10:36) Chapter 39

(08:39:32) Chapter 40

(09:09:26) Chapter 41

(09:18:55) Chapter 42

(09:33:03) Chapter 43

(09:53:18) Chapter 44

(10:05:40) Chapter 45

(10:15:46) Chapter 46

(10:25:31) Chapter 47

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Reginald by Saki ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

July 29, 2022

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103m

Reginald by Saki audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Saki (December 18, 1870 - November 14, 1916) was the pen name of the British author Hector Hugh Munro. His witty, biting and occasionally odd short stories satirised Edwardian culture. Saki is considered a master of the short story and has been compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker as well as Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde (who clearly influenced Saki.) His first collection of short stories, Reginald, was published by Methuen Press in 1904 though these stories first appeared in the 'Westminster Gazette'. The stories in this collection are a foil for allowing the jaded and insider/outsider figure of Reginald to comment on some ridiculous or provincial attitude prevalent in upper class Edwardian society, although one can easily recognize these same attitudes in our society today. Long popular and well known, Saki's brilliant humour is as enjoyable now as it was almost a century ago.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:07:25) Chapter 02

(00:12:27) Chapter 03

(00:17:35) Chapter 04

(00:23:31) Chapter 05

(00:27:52) Chapter 06

(00:34:18) Chapter 07

(00:39:47) Chapter 08

(00:45:56) Chapter 09

(00:54:35) Chapter 10