Pandora’s Box by Frank Wedekind ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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06/30/22

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Pandora’s Box by Frank Wedekind audiobook.

Genre: drama

Pandora's Box (1904) (Die Büchse der Pandora) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the first is Earth Spirit [1895]), both of which depict a society 'riven by the demands of lust and greed'. G. W. Pabst directed a silent film version (Pandora's Box), which was loosely based on the play, in 1929. Both plays together also formed the basis for the opera Lulu by Alban Berg in 1935 (premiered posthumously in 1937). In the original manuscript, dating from 1894, the 'Lulu' drama was in five acts and subtitled 'A Monster Tragedy'. Wedekind subsequently divided the work into two plays: Earth Spirit (German: Erdgeist, first printed in 1895) and Pandora's Box (German: Die Büchse der Pandora). It is now customary in theatre performances to run the two plays together, in abridged form, under the title Lulu. Wedekind is known to have taken his inspiration from at least two sources: the pantomime Lulu by Félicien Champsaur, which he saw in Paris in the early 1890s, and the sex murders of Jack the Ripper in London in 1888. The premiere of Pandora's Box, a restricted performance due to difficulties with the censor, took place in Nuremberg on 1 February 1904. The 1905 Viennese premiere, again restricted, was instigated by the satirist Karl Kraus. In Vienna Lulu was played by Tilly Newes, later to become Wedekind's wife, with the part of Jack the Ripper played by Wedekind himself.

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(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:40:21) Chapter 02

(01:30:59) Chapter 03

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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett audiobook.

Genre: family

When spoiled, lonely Mary Lennox is sent from colonial India to live with her stern uncle at the sprawling, wind-swept Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire moors, she expects only gray corridors, strict rules, and endless isolation. Instead, Mary discovers a house full of mysteries - including whispered rumors of a hidden garden locked away for years. With the help of a warmhearted housemaid, the fiercely curious young Dickon Sowerby, and Marys sickly cousin Colin, she begins to unravel the secrets of the estate and of her own hardened heart. As the children search for the gardens lost key and learn to coax life from neglected soil, they also face the weight of grief, fear, and the adults silences that surround them. Set against a vivid landscape of heather, wind, and birdsong, The Secret Garden is a classic story of friendship, resilience, and the quiet power of nature to heal. Each new discovery draws Mary and her companions closer to hope - but the manor will not easily release what it has tried to bury.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:12:26) Chapter 02

(00:27:26) Chapter 03

(00:35:41) Chapter 04

(01:06:13) Chapter 05

(01:18:46) Chapter 06

(01:30:55) Chapter 07

(01:42:33) Chapter 08

(01:57:17) Chapter 09

(02:13:54) Chapter 10

(02:34:50) Chapter 11

(02:48:20) Chapter 12

(03:03:23) Chapter 13

(03:26:36) Chapter 14

(03:46:59) Chapter 15

(04:07:26) Chapter 16

(04:20:10) Chapter 17

(04:33:19) Chapter 18

(04:45:31) Chapter 19

(05:04:41) Chapter 20

(05:20:12) Chapter 21

(05:40:01) Chapter 22

(05:50:37) Chapter 23

(06:14:57) Chapter 24

(06:35:54) Chapter 25

(06:48:53) Chapter 26

(07:06:37) Chapter 27

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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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227m

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In late Victorian England, an eccentric inventor known only as the Time Traveller invites a small circle of skeptical friends to witness an impossible achievement: a machine designed to move through time itself. When his demonstration leaves unanswered questions, he soon commits to a far bolder experiment, vanishing into the future to see what becomes of humanity. He arrives in an age of strange beauty and unsettling calm, where the childlike Eloi drift through sunlit ruins, seemingly free from work, struggle, or ambition. Yet as the Time Traveller explores this distant world, he senses a darker logic beneath its surface and discovers that comfort may conceal a brutal history. Driven by curiosity and the urgent need to recover what has been taken from him, he ventures into shadowed places and deeper spans of time, confronting the consequences of social division, evolution, and human complacency. Part scientific romance, part philosophical warning, The Time Machine is a tense, imaginative journey that asks what progress truly means - and what price a civilization may pay for it.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:42) Chapter 02

(00:35:30) Chapter 03

(00:49:42) Chapter 04

(01:16:04) Chapter 05

(01:59:52) Chapter 06

(02:13:57) Chapter 07

(02:30:31) Chapter 08

(02:47:14) Chapter 09

(03:04:04) Chapter 10