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The Early History of the Airplane by Orville and Wilbur Wright ~ Full Audiobook [history]
Classic Audiobook Collection
06/23/23
•97m
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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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Quicksand by Nella Larsen ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
June 23, 2023
•314m
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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Not George Washington by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]
June 23, 2023
•316m
Not George Washington by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.
Genre: comedy
Before Jeeves, before Blandings, P. G. Wodehouse turned his comic eye on the making of a writer. Co-written with Herbert Westbrook, Not George Washington follows James Orlebar Cloyster, a mild-mannered young man with big literary ambitions and a talent for presenting himself as far more upright than his actions suggest. Through a brisk, multi-voiced narrative, we watch Cloyster navigate early jobs, journalistic hustle, and the temptations of quick success in London, while his romantic entanglement with Margaret Goodwin adds both warmth and complication to his plans. As friends, rivals, and would-be benefactors tell their sides of the story, the picture that emerges is less a heroic rise than a wry study of how reputation is manufactured - and how easily people bend the truth when applause, money, or simple gratification is at stake. Part lightly fictionalized memoir and part satire of literary posturing, this early Wodehouse novel sparkles with sharp social observation, playful shifts in perspective, and a central question: what does it really take to become somebody, if you are not exactly George Washington?
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:11:00) Chapter 02
(00:20:59) Chapter 03
(00:32:57) Chapter 04
(00:45:30) Chapter 05
(00:56:05) Chapter 06
(01:07:00) Chapter 07
(01:16:43) Chapter 08
(01:26:07) Chapter 09
(01:35:30) Chapter 10
(01:46:35) Chapter 11
(02:00:54) Chapter 12
(02:14:51) Chapter 13
(02:30:56) Chapter 14
(02:38:58) Chapter 15
(02:45:43) Chapter 16
(02:52:04) Chapter 17
(02:58:33) Chapter 18
(03:11:07) Chapter 19
(03:21:15) Chapter 20
(03:40:27) Chapter 21
(03:46:54) Chapter 22
(03:58:43) Chapter 23
(04:08:29) Chapter 24
(04:19:49) Chapter 25
(04:29:46) Chapter 26
(04:39:05) Chapter 27
(04:48:23) Chapter 28
(04:59:31) Chapter 29
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