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Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave by Aphra Behn ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy]
Classic Audiobook Collection
06/09/23
•166m
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Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave by Aphra Behn audiobook.
Genre: tragedy
Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English to express sympathy for African slaves. Perhaps based partly on Behn's own experiences living in Surinam, the novel tells the tragic story of a noble slave, Oroonoko, and his love Imoinda. The work was an instant success and was adapted for the stage in 1695 (and more recently by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1999). Behn's work paved the way for women writers who came after her, as Virginia Woolf noted in a Room of One's Own (1928): 'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, ... for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.'
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:17:04) Chapter 02
(00:31:07) Chapter 03
(00:48:34) Chapter 04
(01:02:13) Chapter 05
(01:16:49) Chapter 06
(01:36:34) Chapter 07
(01:50:13) Chapter 08
(02:09:27) Chapter 09
(02:23:42) Chapter 10
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Lewis and Clark by William R. Lighton ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
June 9, 2023
•200m
Lewis and Clark by William R. Lighton audiobook.
Genre: biography
William R. Lighton's Lewis and Clark is a brisk, story-driven biography of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark that follows the planning and launch of the Corps of Discovery and the long push from the Missouri River toward the Pacific. Beginning with the two officers' backgrounds and President Thomas Jefferson's ambitious mission after the Louisiana Purchase, Lighton traces how a small, disciplined party is assembled, supplied, and sent into a continent most Americans of the era knew only through rumor and rough maps. As the expedition moves upriver and into the mountains, the narrative highlights the leaders' contrasting strengths, the daily demands of command, and the constant problem-solving required to keep men, boats, and supplies moving through rapids, storms, hunger, and injury. Along the way, the captains must negotiate fragile alliances and passage with Native nations, interpret unfamiliar landscapes, and record what they see with careful attention to geography, plants, animals, and routes that might reshape the young nation's future. Written in a clear early-1900s style, the book balances adventure with historical context, showing how exploration, diplomacy, and leadership collide on a journey where every decision carries lasting consequences.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:17:17) Chapter 02
(00:28:52) Chapter 03
(00:39:43) Chapter 04
(01:01:28) Chapter 05
(01:24:10) Chapter 06
(01:39:36) Chapter 07
(01:52:54) Chapter 08
(02:10:04) Chapter 09
(02:23:09) Chapter 10
(02:43:48) Chapter 11
(02:52:50) Chapter 12
(03:00:59) Chapter 13
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The Bab Ballads by William S. Gilbert ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]
June 10, 2023
•186m
The Bab Ballads by William S. Gilbert audiobook.
Genre: poetry
The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gilbert developed his unique 'topsy-turvy' style, where the humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd. The Ballads also reveal Gilbert's cynical and satirical approach to humour. They became famous on their own, as well as being a source for plot elements, characters and songs that Gilbert would recycle in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The Bab Ballads take their name from Gilbert's childhood nickname, and he later began to sign his illustrations 'Bab'
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:04:57) Chapter 02
(00:09:05) Chapter 03
(00:11:35) Chapter 04
(00:14:31) Chapter 05
(00:16:04) Chapter 06
(00:19:41) Chapter 07
(00:22:42) Chapter 08
(00:26:34) Chapter 09
(00:30:31) Chapter 10
(00:34:47) Chapter 11
(00:40:12) Chapter 12
(00:44:33) Chapter 13
(00:47:35) Chapter 14
(00:52:04) Chapter 15
(00:55:14) Chapter 16
(00:59:40) Chapter 17
(01:03:45) Chapter 18
(01:08:40) Chapter 19
(01:13:21) Chapter 20
(01:17:30) Chapter 21
(01:18:44) Chapter 22
(01:23:30) Chapter 23
(01:28:20) Chapter 24
(01:32:39) Chapter 25
(01:37:54) Chapter 26
(01:41:06) Chapter 27
(01:45:39) Chapter 28
(01:50:25) Chapter 29
(01:54:50) Chapter 30
(01:59:51) Chapter 31
(02:02:45) Chapter 32
(02:06:53) Chapter 33
(02:12:06) Chapter 34
(02:16:09) Chapter 35
(02:20:03) Chapter 36
(02:25:18) Chapter 37
(02:30:00) Chapter 38
(02:35:41) Chapter 39
(02:40:45) Chapter 40
(02:45:23) Chapter 41
(02:49:42) Chapter 42
(02:54:28) Chapter 43
(02:55:57) Chapter 44
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