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The Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]
Classic Audiobook Collection
09/28/23
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The Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe audiobook.
Genre: poetry
Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven and The Philosophy of Composition pairs one of the most famous narrative poems in American literature with the provocative essay in which Poe claims to explain how he built it. In The Raven, a sleepless narrator, raw with grief and memory, tries to read away the night when an unexpected visitor arrives: a raven that perches above his door and answers every question with the same unnerving refrain. As the hours tighten, the speaker's curiosity turns to obsession, and the bird's calm presence becomes a mirror for longing, dread, and the mind's talent for self-torment. The companion piece, The Philosophy of Composition, shifts from candlelit Gothic atmosphere to cool analysis as Poe walks listeners through his stated method: choosing a single emotional effect, selecting sound and rhythm to reinforce it, and arranging images and repetition to escalate intensity. Together, poem and essay form a compact masterclass on how mood is engineered, how meaning can be driven by music, and how art can feel both inevitable and hauntingly personal.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 00
(00:02:08) Chapter 01
(00:33:51) Chapter 02
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A Thief in the Night by E. W. Hornung ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]
September 27, 2023
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A Thief in the Night by E. W. Hornung audiobook.
Genre: mystery
In Edward W. Hornung's A Thief in the Night, London's most charming criminal steps out of the gentlemen's clubs and onto moonlit streets where reputation is a mask and burglary is an art. A. J. Raffles is a celebrated sportsman by day, a master thief by night, and he never works alone for long: his devoted friend and reluctant accomplice Bunny Manders tells the tale with equal parts admiration and dread. Together they navigate drawing rooms, hotel corridors, and quiet suburban houses, hunting not only for jewels and cash but for the perfect escape from suspicion. Each new scheme tests their nerve and their friendship, as close calls multiply and the law closes in through wary detectives and inconvenient witnesses. Yet the deeper conflict is not simply man versus police, but conscience versus desire: Bunny is pulled between loyalty and fear, while Raffles treats danger like a game with rules only he understands. Witty, tense, and steeped in late-Victorian and Edwardian atmosphere, this is a classic portrait of crime told from the criminal's side.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:41:31) Chapter 02
(01:16:03) Chapter 03
(01:55:47) Chapter 04
(02:39:44) Chapter 05
(03:24:15) Chapter 06
(03:59:31) Chapter 07
(04:41:31) Chapter 08
(05:20:15) Chapter 09
(05:59:16) Chapter 10
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The Girl From Hollywood by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]
September 28, 2023
•484m
The Girl From Hollywood by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook.
Genre: mystery
Edgar Rice Burroughs steps away from jungle adventure into a hard-edged tale of America in the 1920s, where wide-open ranch country collides with the glitter and rot of the movie business. On a remote California spread, the Penningtons pride themselves on decency and hard work, but their son Custer is tested when his longtime friend Grace Evans dreams of leaving home to become an actress. In Hollywood, another young woman, Shannon Burke (billed on screen as Gaza de Lure), learns how easily ambition can be twisted by predators, and how quickly a life can be pulled into addiction and crime. As Prohibition bootlegging and a hidden drug traffic begin to thread through both the ranch and the studio world, the Penningtons find their family bonds strained by secrecy, temptation, and threats from men who profit off ruin. With a ruthless actor-director pulling strings, a smugglers network tightening its grip, and two very different women fighting for dignity in a system built to use them, Custer must decide what loyalty and love are worth when innocence is no longer protected by distance.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:12:56) Chapter 02
(00:23:41) Chapter 03
(00:30:48) Chapter 04
(00:46:41) Chapter 05
(01:10:20) Chapter 06
(01:22:13) Chapter 07
(01:27:26) Chapter 08
(01:35:13) Chapter 09
(01:46:14) Chapter 10
(02:00:11) Chapter 11
(02:12:57) Chapter 12
(02:24:13) Chapter 13
(02:34:01) Chapter 14
(02:52:28) Chapter 15
(03:14:41) Chapter 16
(03:39:13) Chapter 17
(03:48:45) Chapter 18
(04:08:50) Chapter 19
(04:15:24) Chapter 20
(04:32:18) Chapter 21
(04:46:17) Chapter 22
(04:55:46) Chapter 23
(05:09:37) Chapter 24
(05:19:34) Chapter 25
(05:29:42) Chapter 26
(05:42:23) Chapter 27
(05:56:55) Chapter 28
(06:08:30) Chapter 29
(06:16:19) Chapter 30
(06:23:48) Chapter 31
(06:39:33) Chapter 32
(06:55:37) Chapter 33
(07:07:03) Chapter 34
(07:21:01) Chapter 35
(07:37:20) Chapter 36
(07:43:24) Chapter 37
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