Quicksand by Nella Larsen ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

Classic Audiobook Collection

06/23/23

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314m

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Quicksand by Nella Larsen audiobook.

Genre: drama

In 1920s America and Europe, Helga Crane moves through elegant parlors, classrooms, and crowded streets with a restless sense that she never quite belongs. The daughter of a Black father and a white mother, Helga is sharp-eyed, proud, and hungry for a life that feels truthful - yet every community she enters demands she trim herself to fit. When she leaves a restrictive Southern school, her search for independence carries her north to Harlem's glittering social world, then onward to spaces where race, class, faith, and desire tighten into new kinds of rules. Helga's intelligence and beauty open doors, but they also invite scrutiny, projection, and loneliness, forcing her to confront how quickly admiration can turn into control. As she reaches for love, security, and self-definition, she must decide what she is willing to sacrifice - and what she cannot. Taut, psychologically incisive, and quietly devastating, Quicksand traces one woman's struggle against the shifting expectations placed on her body, her ambitions, and her identity, capturing the seductive promises and hidden costs of belonging.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:22:03) Chapter 02

(00:34:48) Chapter 03

(00:48:57) Chapter 04

(00:59:34) Chapter 05

(01:07:55) Chapter 06

(01:21:27) Chapter 07

(01:34:00) Chapter 08

(01:43:15) Chapter 09

(01:56:59) Chapter 10

(02:06:51) Chapter 11

(02:18:21) Chapter 12

(02:28:01) Chapter 13

(02:42:10) Chapter 14

(03:01:45) Chapter 15

(03:23:47) Chapter 16

(03:32:33) Chapter 17

(03:39:52) Chapter 18

(03:55:07) Chapter 19

(04:03:26) Chapter 20

(04:16:20) Chapter 21

(04:23:05) Chapter 22

(04:33:55) Chapter 23

(04:43:02) Chapter 24

(04:57:13) Chapter 25

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Passing by Nella Larsen ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

June 22, 2023

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216m

Passing by Nella Larsen audiobook.

Genre: drama

In 1920s New York, Irene Redfield has built a careful life: a respected place in Harlem society, a comfortable home, and a firm commitment to the world she has chosen. Everything shifts when a chance encounter brings back Clare Kendry, a dazzling childhood acquaintance who has been living on the other side of the color line. Clare's decision to pass as white has given her access to wealth and safety, but it has also trapped her in a marriage and a social world where the truth could be catastrophic. Drawn to Irene's community and hungry for connection, Clare pushes her way back into Irene's orbit, unsettling friendships, marriages, and Irene's sense of control. As the two women circle each other, Larsen builds a tense, intimate portrait of desire, envy, fear, and the costs of performance, showing how race, class, and gender shape what a person can risk and what they must hide. Passing is a sharp Harlem Renaissance classic that turns a single reunion into a haunting study of identity and the fragile boundaries that hold a life together.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:07:25) Chapter 02

(00:48:40) Chapter 03

(01:17:41) Chapter 04

(01:21:12) Chapter 05

(01:43:37) Chapter 06

(02:08:44) Chapter 07

(02:18:09) Chapter 08

(02:24:21) Chapter 09

(02:48:41) Chapter 10

(02:55:36) Chapter 11

(03:02:27) Chapter 12

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The Early History of the Airplane by Orville and Wilbur Wright ~ Full Audiobook [history]

June 23, 2023

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97m

The Early History of the Airplane by Orville and Wilbur Wright audiobook.

Genre: history

The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They were not the first to build and fly aircraft, but they invented the controls that were necessary for a pilot to steer the aircraft, which made fixed wing powered flight possible. The Early History of the Airplane consists of three short essays about the beginnings of human flight. The second essay retells the first flight: This flight lasted only 12 seconds, but it was nevertheless the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed and had finally landed at a point as high as that from which it started.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:33:07) Chapter 2

(00:59:19) Chapter 3

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