The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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06/29/22

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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton audiobook.

Genre: drama

In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic 'old revolutionary stock' families that rule New York's social life. Under the rules of this society, 'being things' is better than 'doing things' and reputation and outward appearances come at the exclusion of everything else. In this Gilded Age, when America’s expansion and increased industrialism produce a group of newly wealthy robber barons and financiers, the patient, time-honored values of the old ruling class, and century, are giving way to the expediencies of the new. Caught at this cusp, a triangle of lovers, who must choose between the expectations of family and society, and the deepest yearnings of the heart.

Newly engaged couple, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, and May Welland, a society debutante, are part of the old world, where the 'right people' follow the 'correct rules' and marry into 'acceptable families.' The arrival from Europe of May’s cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska, complicates their union, as Ellen’s mysterious past threatens to cast a shadow of scandal over the newly betrothed couple. Newland Archer, at first critical of Ellen's bohemian lifestyle, and her seemingly wilful ignorance of the rules and customs of his Old New York, is soon captivated by Ellen's warmth, spirit, and her generous and loving heart. Will he cast off the life for which he's been groomed, or sacrifice happiness for duty and the greater good of the social order?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:19:53) Chapter 02

(00:33:50) Chapter 03

(00:49:05) Chapter 04

(01:00:50) Chapter 05

(01:20:11) Chapter 06

(01:38:05) Chapter 07

(01:51:58) Chapter 08

(02:08:15) Chapter 09

(02:34:42) Chapter 10

(02:54:42) Chapter 11

(03:12:32) Chapter 12

(03:36:21) Chapter 13

(03:52:44) Chapter 14

(04:08:18) Chapter 15

(04:27:48) Chapter 16

(04:47:25) Chapter 17

(05:07:35) Chapter 18

(05:30:31) Chapter 19

(05:52:30) Chapter 20

(06:17:30) Chapter 21

(06:46:18) Chapter 22

(07:04:10) Chapter 23

(07:24:29) Chapter 24

(07:36:14) Chapter 25

(07:56:02) Chapter 26

(08:19:59) Chapter 27

(08:34:51) Chapter 28

(08:49:14) Chapter 29

(09:03:56) Chapter 30

(09:24:07) Chapter 31

(09:49:32) Chapter 32

(10:08:49) Chapter 33

(10:41:27) Chapter 34

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The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

June 29, 2022

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373m

The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook.

Genre: adventure

On a remote island in the East Indies, brilliant but obsessive scientist Professor Maxon pursues a forbidden experiment: manufacturing life in a secret laboratory far from any law but his own. When shipwreck survivor Virginia Maxon - his sheltered, determined daughter - crosses paths with the outsider who could expose everything, the island's uneasy balance begins to crack. The true wild cards, however, are Maxon's creations: a series of imperfect, increasingly human 'Monster Men' grown for strength and obedience, then loosed into the jungle where instinct, loyalty, and rage collide. As fear spreads from the laboratory to the coastal village and beyond, Virginia must decide what she owes to her father, to the innocent people threatened by his ambition, and to the beings who were never asked to be born. Part adventure tale and part moral fable, The Monster Men pits scientific hubris against conscience and survival, building toward a tense struggle for freedom, identity, and control in a place where civilization is only a thin veneer.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:25:47) Chapter 02

(00:47:26) Chapter 03

(01:09:02) Chapter 04

(01:28:13) Chapter 05

(01:51:45) Chapter 06

(02:11:29) Chapter 07

(02:40:15) Chapter 08

(03:09:16) Chapter 09

(03:31:25) Chapter 10

(03:49:48) Chapter 11

(04:12:53) Chapter 12

(04:31:12) Chapter 13

(04:49:50) Chapter 14

(05:09:25) Chapter 15

(05:28:45) Chapter 16

(05:51:02) Chapter 17

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The Constant Couple by George Farquhar ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

June 29, 2022

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147m

The Constant Couple by George Farquhar audiobook.

Genre: comedy

George Farquhar, the author of this comedy, was the son of a clergyman in the north of Ireland. He was born in the year 1678, discovered an early taste for literature, and wrote poetic stanzas at ten years of age. In 1694 he was sent to Trinity College, Dublin, and there made such progress in his studies as to acquire considerable reputation. But he was volatile and poor—the first misfortune led him to expense; the second, to devise means how to support his extravagance.

In the year 1700 he brought out this comedy of 'The Constant Couple; or, A Trip to the Jubilee.' It was then the Jubilee year at Rome, and the author took advantage of that occurrence to render the title of his drama popular; for which cause alone it must be supposed he made any thing in his play refer to that festival, as no one material point is in any shape connected with it

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:31:24) Chapter 02

(01:03:14) Chapter 03

(01:31:26) Chapter 04

(01:50:39) Chapter 05

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