The Girl on the Boat by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

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04/17/23

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446m

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The Girl on the Boat by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.

Genre: comedy

On a transatlantic crossing aboard the White Star liner Atlantic, spirited redhead Wilhelmina 'Billie' Bennett finds that a ship is the perfect place for romance to collide with pride, poetry, and plain bad timing. Billie has high standards, a soft spot for dogs, and an awkward secret: she is quietly engaged to Eustace Hignett, a shy would-be poet who is far more frightened of his formidable mother than he is of the open sea. Enter Sam Marlowe, Eustace's confident cousin, who takes one look at Billie and decides that fate has spoken. Unfortunately for everyone, Bream Mortimer, a long-suffering admirer with persistence to spare, is also on board and refuses to be waved off. As the Atlantic plows toward England, alliances shift and misunderstandings multiply, complicated further by the capable, adventurous Jane Hubbard, who has her own feelings about Eustace and little patience for genteel nonsense. With Wodehouse's trademark sparkle, the voyage becomes a floating pressure cooker of mistaken assumptions, impulsive heroics, and social maneuvering, where keeping one's dignity afloat is harder than keeping the ship on course.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:23:24) Chapter 02

(00:44:30) Chapter 03

(01:07:41) Chapter 04

(01:26:46) Chapter 05

(01:46:25) Chapter 06

(02:02:03) Chapter 07

(02:13:56) Chapter 08

(02:23:53) Chapter 09

(02:44:53) Chapter 10

(03:09:57) Chapter 11

(03:32:04) Chapter 12

(04:00:51) Chapter 13

(04:19:26) Chapter 14

(04:38:31) Chapter 15

(04:51:55) Chapter 16

(05:05:28) Chapter 17

(05:27:58) Chapter 18

(05:49:21) Chapter 19

(06:14:09) Chapter 20

(06:36:58) Chapter 21

(06:54:31) Chapter 22

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An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

April 17, 2023

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200m

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde audiobook.

Genre: comedy

In the glittering drawing rooms of late-Victorian London, Sir Robert Chiltern seems to have everything: a brilliant political career, a spotless public reputation, and the devoted love of his wife, Lady Chiltern, who believes in honor without compromise. But their carefully composed world begins to tremble when Mrs. Cheveley, a clever and dangerous society woman with a talent for leverage, arrives with information that could ruin Sir Robert overnight. As whispers spread and alliances shift, Sir Robert must choose between protecting his position and telling the truth to the person whose opinion matters most. Caught in the middle is Lord Goring, a witty bachelor and close friend to the Chilterns, whose charm and apparent frivolity conceal a sharper sense of loyalty and strategy. With epigrams as sharp as daggers and manners that mask motives, Wilde turns social comedy into a biting examination of hypocrisy, ambition, and the price of moral perfection. As pressure mounts and secrets threaten to surface, the characters must confront what an 'ideal' person really is - and what it costs to maintain that illusion.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:57:44) Chapter 2

(01:53:15) Chapter 3

(02:38:58) Chapter 4

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Afloat on the Ohio by Reuben Gold Thwaites ~ Full Audiobook [history]

April 17, 2023

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453m

Afloat on the Ohio by Reuben Gold Thwaites audiobook.

Genre: history

In Afloat on the Ohio, historian Reuben Gold Thwaites turns a six-week family outing into a moving, mile-by-mile portrait of Americas great border river. Setting off from Redstone in western Pennsylvania in a small skiff christened the Pilgrim, Thwaites travels with his wife, their ten-year-old son, and a physician friend, choosing the rivers level view and nightly camps to better imagine what explorers, flatboatmen, and pioneers once saw. As the current carries them past wooded slopes, islands, and wide bottoms, the journey becomes a living notebook: birds and wildflowers, shifting weather, tricky riffles, and the practical routines of life ashore and afloat mingle with sharp observations of river towns, dialects, and the industrial smoke beginning to transform the valley. Along the way, Thwaites repeatedly peels back the present to stage the past, recalling mound builders, Native nations, French and British rivalries, frontier surveyors, and the westward surge of settlers who made the Ohio a highway of history. Part travel log, part historical meditation, the book asks what is gained and lost as a landscape of memory becomes a modern working river.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:05:24) Chapter 01

(00:38:35) Chapter 02

(00:46:30) Chapter 03

(00:59:10) Chapter 04

(01:13:21) Chapter 05

(01:31:21) Chapter 06

(01:47:12) Chapter 07

(02:01:56) Chapter 08

(02:17:01) Chapter 09

(02:30:32) Chapter 10

(02:54:21) Chapter 11

(03:18:44) Chapter 12

(03:36:38) Chapter 13

(04:01:24) Chapter 14

(04:25:19) Chapter 15

(04:52:42) Chapter 16

(05:16:37) Chapter 17

(05:34:22) Chapter 18

(05:53:24) Chapter 19

(06:16:01) Chapter 20

(06:30:01) Chapter 21

(06:50:39) Chapter 22

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