The Lifted Veil by George Eliot ~ Full Audiobook [horror]

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01/17/23

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123m

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The Lifted Veil by George Eliot audiobook.

Genre: horror

In Victorian England, sensitive and solitary Latimer drifts through life with a mind he does not fully control. After a strange illness in his youth, he becomes cursed - or gifted - with sudden flashes of the future and an unnerving ability to hear the secret thoughts of those around him. What first seems like a way to understand people more deeply quickly turns into a relentless assault of petty motives, hidden cruelties, and banal desires, leaving Latimer increasingly detached from ordinary human warmth. When he meets the poised and enigmatic Bertha, he hopes love might anchor him to the living world and quiet the din inside his head. Instead, his visions and impressions intensify, tightening into a private dread that he cannot name and cannot escape. As marriage, family expectations, and medical ambition intersect with Latimer's frightening perceptions, George Eliot crafts a chilling, intimate study of isolation and the danger of seeing too much. The Lifted Veil is a darkly psychological tale about knowledge without comfort, intimacy without trust, and the thin barrier between rational life and the uncanny.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:32:01) Chapter 02

(01:02:32) Chapter 03

(01:33:42) Chapter 04

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Silas Marner by George Eliot ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

January 17, 2023

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418m

Silas Marner by George Eliot audiobook.

Genre: drama

Silas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and accused of a crime he didn’t commit, awkward Silas Marner is expelled from his beloved religious community — the only community he has ever known. He exiles himself in the remote village of Raveloe. Friendless and without family, set apart from the villagers by their superstition and fear of him, he plies his weaving trade day after day, storing up gold which becomes his idol. When his gold is stolen, he is rescued from despair by the arrival on his lonely hearth of a beautiful little girl, whom he adopts, and through whom he and the other people of the village learn that loving relationships are more fulfilling than material wealth.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:25:24) Chapter 2

(00:44:11) Chapter 3

(01:09:46) Chapter 4

(01:26:06) Chapter 5

(01:37:52) Chapter 6

(01:59:50) Chapter 7

(02:11:38) Chapter 8

(02:30:16) Chapter 9

(02:45:08) Chapter 10

(03:18:32) Chapter 11

(04:01:43) Chapter 12

(04:16:22) Chapter 13

(04:33:27) Chapter 14

(05:01:39) Chapter 15

(05:04:43) Chapter 16

(05:37:15) Chapter 17

(05:59:58) Chapter 18

(06:07:55) Chapter 19

(06:28:44) Chapter 20

(06:33:48) Chapter 21

(06:41:23) Chapter 22

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QRM-Interplanetary by George O. Smith ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

January 17, 2023

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89m

QRM-Interplanetary by George O. Smith audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Far from Earth, where the Sun can turn a simple transmission into silence, the Venus Equilateral Relay Station keeps three worlds talking. Built from an asteroid and parked sixty degrees ahead of Venus in its orbit, the spinning cylinder is a self-contained city of nearly three thousand people - engineers, technicians, and families whose daily work makes interplanetary civilization possible. Don Channing, one of the station's best electronics men, lives for the clean logic of beam circuits and relay schedules. Then the Interplanetary Communications Commission appoints a new Director: Francis Burbank, a cost-cutting administrator who treats a lifeline like a ledger. As Burbank clamps down on personal freedoms, dismantles long-standing procedures, and meddles with systems he does not understand, resentment simmers and the station's delicate balance begins to wobble. When routine maintenance and bureaucratic shortcuts collide, Channing and his colleagues - including beam-control expert Walt Franks and sharp-tongued Arden Westland - must keep communications stable while racing to prevent a life-support disaster that could turn Venus Equilateral into a drifting tomb. QRM-Interplanetary is classic, idea-driven science fiction about competence under pressure and the deadly interference of bad leadership.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:37:15) Chapter 02

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