The Landlady by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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10/12/23

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261m

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The Landlady by Fyodor Dostoyevsky audiobook.

Genre: drama

In The Landlady, Fyodor Dostoyevsky draws listeners into the foggy courtyards and cramped rooms of St Petersburg, where a lonely young intellectual, Vasily Ordynov, searches for cheap lodging and a quiet place to work. He finds it in the home of a strange pair: Katerina, a beautiful and frightened young woman, and Murin, an aging, enigmatic man who seems to hold her in a grip that is part guardian, part jailer, and part something darker. As Ordynov moves into their apartment, his curiosity turns to fixation, and he begins to imagine himself as Katerina's rescuer, even as he struggles to understand what binds her to Murin. Dreams, feverish impressions, and half-revealed memories blur the line between compassion and obsession, faith and manipulation, freedom and dependence. With mounting psychological pressure and a constant sense of unseen danger, Ordynov is pulled into a battle he barely understands, where the cost of hope may be as frightening as captivity itself.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:35:43) Chapter 02

(01:16:02) Chapter 03

(01:49:09) Chapter 04

(02:53:20) Chapter 05

(03:34:36) Chapter 06

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Some American Storytellers by Frederic Taber Cooper ~ Full Audiobook [history]

October 12, 2023

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483m

Some American Storytellers by Frederic Taber Cooper audiobook.

Genre: history

In Some American Storytellers, editor and critic Frederic Taber Cooper offers a guided tour of American fiction at the turn of the twentieth century, introducing listeners to a vivid lineup of popular writers and the distinct narrative gifts that made them household names. Part literary portrait, part close reading, these essays trace how each author wins attention and trust - through voice, character, atmosphere, humor, suspense, and the careful shaping of plot. Cooper moves from the polished cosmopolitan worlds of Edith Wharton to the frontier mythmaking of Owen Wister, from O. Henry's swift twists of irony to Ambrose Bierce's sharp-edged wit, and onward through figures such as Francis Marion Crawford, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Winston Churchill, Robert W. Chambers, Ellen Glasgow, David Graham Phillips, Robert Herrick, Booth Tarkington, Gertrude Atherton, and Frank Norris. As he compares styles and ambitions, Cooper keeps returning to a central question: what makes a writer a true storyteller, kin to the oldest traditions of spoken tale and fireside legend, yet unmistakably American in rhythm and sensibility. The result is an accessible, opinionated, and often illuminating snapshot of a formative literary moment.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:03:33) Chapter 01

(00:38:06) Chapter 02

(01:06:05) Chapter 03

(01:32:46) Chapter 04

(02:01:48) Chapter 05

(02:30:44) Chapter 06

(03:08:08) Chapter 07

(03:46:35) Chapter 08

(04:24:43) Chapter 09

(05:03:35) Chapter 10

(05:30:48) Chapter 11

(05:56:44) Chapter 12

(06:37:08) Chapter 13

(07:18:20) Chapter 14

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Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays by Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

October 13, 2023

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412m

Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays by Friedrich Nietzsche audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

In Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays, Friedrich Nietzsche turns to the origins of Western thought, reading the earliest Greek thinkers not as dusty names in a timeline but as daring psychological types and cultural forces. Moving from the pre-Socratics through the atmosphere that produced Socrates and Plato, Nietzsche reconstructs a world where philosophy, poetry, religion, and politics were still entangled, and where a single bold idea could reshape a citys sense of fate and value. Alongside the studies of early Greek philosophy, the collection gathers additional essays that showcase Nietzsches distinctive method: aphoristic flashes, sharp historical portraits, and relentless questions about what human beings seek when they call something true. The central tension running through these pieces is Nietzsches suspicion that rational explanation can both illuminate and impoverish life, and that cultures rise and fall by the stories they tell themselves about knowledge, suffering, and greatness. Clear-eyed, provocative, and often surprising, these essays invite listeners to meet the Greeks and Nietzsche himself at the moment philosophy first became a battleground for the meaning of existence.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:12:40) Chapter 01

(00:52:57) Chapter 02

(01:06:27) Chapter 03

(01:50:17) Chapter 04

(02:18:07) Chapter 05

(02:30:52) Chapter 06

(03:28:42) Chapter 07

(04:22:32) Chapter 08

(05:21:52) Chapter 09