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Classic Audiobook Collection - The Mind The Paint Girl by Louis Tracy ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]
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The Mind The Paint Girl by Louis Tracy ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

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08/02/23

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The Mind The Paint Girl by Louis Tracy audiobook.

Genre: comedy

In The 'Mind the Paint' Girl, Louis Tracy adapts Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's hit stage comedy into a glittering, behind-the-curtain tale of sudden fame and the price it demands. When Lily Upjohn escapes the London slums and lands a hard-won place in the chorus at the Pandora Theatre, she expects long rehearsals, small pay, and smaller respect. One mishap during practice - a splash of paint from a scene painter's scaffold - sparks a moment the show's composer turns into a catchy number, and Lily becomes the unexpected voice of a song that London cannot stop humming. Overnight, she is promoted from anonymous chorus girl to celebrated star, and the theater world that once ignored her now feeds on her every gesture. With success come dangerous admirers and conflicting promises: earnest Nicholas Jeyes offers devotion at any cost, while the polished Lord Francombe dangles wealth, status, and a place in society that Lily has only ever watched from afar. As managers, friends, and rivals pull at her loyalties, Lily must decide what she truly wants - and how much of herself she is willing to trade for applause.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:24:47) Chapter 02

(00:49:59) Chapter 03

(01:15:44) Chapter 04

(01:40:38) Chapter 05

(02:04:14) Chapter 06

(02:35:41) Chapter 07

(02:58:06) Chapter 08

(03:27:40) Chapter 09

(04:00:32) Chapter 10

(04:25:12) Chapter 11

(04:48:18) Chapter 12

(05:12:27) Chapter 13

(05:39:52) Chapter 14

(06:08:51) Chapter 15

(06:34:07) Chapter 16

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The Bartlett Mystery by Louis Tracy audiobook.

Genre: mystery

This is a fast-paced mystery, set in New York City, has two or three really interesting ('round') characters, a solid plot, no cheap plot-twists, two full-fledged sub/urban battles and some real surprises.

Winifred Bartlett, a beautiful and poor orphan, suddenly finds herself homeless and out of a job. Prince Charming (nee Rex Carshaw) comes on to her by accident and begins to take an interest. As strange, apparently unconnected disasters continue to batter poor Winnie, Rex and two police detectives (the most interesting characters in the book) probe the causes and forces threatening the dear girl's well-being and, ultimately, her very life and liberty. It turns out that it is Winifred's close resemblance to her mother, who died long ago in Vermont, that threatens certain powerful interests in contemporary (1913) New York.

An unusually large cast of bad guys - each with a different motive for getting rid of Winifred - includes a US Senator, and unsuccessful book binding supervisor, an influential NY society belle, and gun-slinging Western gangster 'Mick the Wolf.” The mystery becomes increasingly complex with every new assault on the girl's well-being, and the efforts of the NY police and the ever-faithful Rex.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:16:07) Chapter 02

(00:33:15) Chapter 03

(00:54:35) Chapter 04

(01:15:40) Chapter 05

(01:35:58) Chapter 06

(01:58:30) Chapter 07

(02:15:35) Chapter 08

(02:32:12) Chapter 09

(02:53:13) Chapter 10

(03:13:51) Chapter 11

(03:32:03) Chapter 12

(03:48:40) Chapter 13

(04:07:43) Chapter 14

(04:23:42) Chapter 15

(04:36:12) Chapter 16

(04:51:56) Chapter 17

(05:08:41) Chapter 18

(05:28:56) Chapter 19

(05:46:34) Chapter 20

(06:03:03) Chapter 21

(06:18:32) Chapter 22

(06:36:19) Chapter 23

(06:55:57) Chapter 24

(07:12:47) Chapter 25

(07:33:41) Chapter 26

(07:50:57) Chapter 27

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England and Yesterday by Louise Imogen Guiney audiobook.

Genre: poetry

England and Yesterday is a compact, finely wrought poetry collection by American poet Louise Imogen Guiney, shaped by her deep love of English place, history, and literary tradition. The book opens with a London sequence of sonnets (written in 1889) that moves through iconic spaces and moods: Westminster Abbey and the Tower, city fog and river stairs, museum reading rooms and dockside labor, where splendor and hardship stand side by side. A second sonnet sequence turns to Oxford (written between 1890 and 1895), tracing tow-paths, college gardens, old dials, and church stones, as the speaker listens for the undertones of faith, scholarship, and time itself. Beyond these travel-grounded poems, Guiney broadens into lyrics and brief occasional pieces that invoke ballad and song, meditate on saints and poets, and linger over ruins, landscapes, and memorials. Throughout, the central tension is between the living present and the weight of what came before: how a city or a countryside can feel crowded with centuries, and how a modern observer can love a place without ignoring its sorrows. The result is a luminous portrait of England seen through memory, conscience, and music.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:01:07) Chapter 02

(00:02:16) Chapter 03

(00:03:32) Chapter 04

(00:04:52) Chapter 05

(00:06:03) Chapter 06

(00:07:14) Chapter 07

(00:08:24) Chapter 08

(00:09:34) Chapter 09

(00:10:45) Chapter 10

(00:12:07) Chapter 11

(00:13:19) Chapter 12

(00:14:25) Chapter 13

(00:15:38) Chapter 14

(00:16:52) Chapter 15

(00:18:11) Chapter 16

(00:19:29) Chapter 17

(00:20:46) Chapter 18

(00:22:05) Chapter 19

(00:23:36) Chapter 20

(00:24:46) Chapter 21

(00:25:54) Chapter 22

(00:27:19) Chapter 23

(00:28:27) Chapter 24

(00:29:52) Chapter 25

(00:32:28) Chapter 26

(00:36:18) Chapter 27

(00:37:28) Chapter 28

(00:38:41) Chapter 29

(00:39:45) Chapter 30

(00:41:01) Chapter 31

(00:42:33) Chapter 32

(00:43:54) Chapter 33

(00:45:16) Chapter 34

(00:47:13) Chapter 35

(00:48:43) Chapter 36

(00:49:38) Chapter 37

(00:50:32) Chapter 38

(00:51:41) Chapter 39

(00:52:53) Chapter 40

(00:53:43) Chapter 41

(00:55:24) Chapter 42

(00:57:07) Chapter 43

(00:59:20) Chapter 44

(01:00:35) Chapter 45

(01:02:21) Chapter 46

(01:04:09) Chapter 47

(01:06:23) Chapter 48

(01:07:18) Chapter 49

(01:08:04) Chapter 50

(01:09:19) Chapter 51

(01:10:07) Chapter 52

(01:11:07) Chapter 53

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