The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]

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07/19/22

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The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll audiobook.

Genre: poetry

Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark is a fast-moving, gleefully illogical narrative poem that follows an unlikely crew setting out to sea in search of a creature no one can properly define. Commanded by the resolute Bellman, the expedition gathers a catalogue of eccentric characters - including a Beaver, a Baker, and a Barrister - each armed with the wrong tools, the wrong expertise, and complete confidence. Their journey unfolds through absurd rules of navigation, baffling conversations, and comically solemn lectures on what to fear, what to pack, and what not to ask. As the crew closes in on the elusive Snark, the story tightens into a blend of playful nonsense and creeping unease, raising questions about obsession, certainty, and the human need to impose meaning on the unknowable. Musical in its rhythms and packed with memorable lines, Carroll's masterpiece rewards both first-time listeners and returning fans, offering a surreal voyage where language itself becomes the landscape - and where the hunt matters as much as whatever might be found.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

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Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy]

July 19, 2022

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454m

Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

In Sylvie and Bruno, Lewis Carroll steps beyond Wonderland into a stranger, more intricate dream: a Victorian narrator who drifts between everyday England and a shimmering Fairyland, sometimes in the space of a single conversation. In the enchanted realm, the gentle child Sylvie and her irrepressible companion Bruno discover that their country is in peril - not from dragons, but from the small, sharp evils of vanity, bureaucracy, and ambition. As rumors and rivalries gather around the throne, the two friends are drawn into a struggle that tests courage, kindness, and what it really means to do the right thing when rules and justice no longer align. Meanwhile, in the narrator's waking life, polite society and modern ideas collide in drawing rooms and on country walks: questions of faith, science, charity, and love are argued with wit and wonder. Blending fairy tale adventure, social satire, and Carroll's taste for paradox and playful logic, this book invites you to listen for the thin seam where imagination and reality meet - and to decide which world is the truer one.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:22:45) Chapter 01

(00:40:26) Chapter 02

(00:55:59) Chapter 03

(01:12:28) Chapter 04

(01:27:10) Chapter 05

(01:46:09) Chapter 06

(02:01:24) Chapter 07

(02:14:41) Chapter 08

(02:27:46) Chapter 09

(02:43:58) Chapter 10

(02:58:32) Chapter 11

(03:08:51) Chapter 12

(03:24:30) Chapter 13

(03:42:27) Chapter 14

(04:06:30) Chapter 15

(04:23:20) Chapter 16

(04:37:09) Chapter 17

(04:58:57) Chapter 18

(05:17:29) Chapter 19

(05:35:12) Chapter 20

(05:53:51) Chapter 21

(06:17:08) Chapter 22

(06:41:16) Chapter 23

(07:00:41) Chapter 24

(07:25:45) Chapter 25

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Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy]

July 19, 2022

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210m

Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

When Alice steps through the mirror above her parlor mantel, she enters a world that runs on riddles, reversals, and the peculiar logic of a chessboard come to life. In this Looking-glass country, every path seems to double back, every conversation tilts sideways, and familiar things become strange in an instant. Determined to make sense of the rules, Alice sets out as a small chess piece with an ambitious goal: to cross the board, meet the odd inhabitants of each square, and earn her place in a game where words can be weapons and nonsense can hide sharp truths. Along the way she encounters quarrelsome twins who speak in contradictions, formidable queens who demand impossible obedience, and unforgettable characters whose songs, poems, and puzzles test Alice's patience and courage. As the squares change and the challenges grow more bewildering, Alice must rely on her curiosity and stubborn common sense to keep moving forward in a land that insists reality is always up for debate. Playful, surreal, and slyly satirical, this classic tale explores identity, language, and growing up through a cascade of dreamlike adventures.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:21:26) Chapter 2

(00:41:24) Chapter 3

(01:01:35) Chapter 4

(01:21:53) Chapter 5

(01:43:11) Chapter 6

(02:04:39) Chapter 7

(02:24:04) Chapter 8

(02:51:15) Chapter 9

(03:18:55) Chapter 10