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The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Classic Audiobook Collection
06/26/23
•172m
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The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West audiobook.
Genre: drama
In the shadow of World War I, life at Baldry Court seems settled: Captain Chris Baldry is away at the front, his elegant wife Kitty maintains the routines of privilege, and Chris' cousin Jenny narrates from the quiet center of the household. Then Chris returns home - not as the man they remember, but as a soldier shaken by shell shock and missing years of his life. His memory has slipped back to an earlier time, erasing his marriage and the careful identity the family has built around him. The shock of his condition cracks open long-buried tensions: Kitty's polished control gives way to desperation, Jenny confronts her own unspoken devotion to Chris, and an unexpected figure from Chris' past arrives with a claim that cannot be ignored. As doctors, loved ones, and social expectations press for a cure, the women of Baldry Court must decide what 'recovery' really means - and what it may cost. Rebecca West's poignant, psychologically sharp novel explores the collisions between love and duty, class and authenticity, and the wounds war inflicts far beyond the battlefield.
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(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:27:57) Chapter 02
(00:57:47) Chapter 03
(01:12:45) Chapter 04
(01:46:46) Chapter 05
(02:11:50) Chapter 06
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Genre: drama
In a smoky industrial town where the furnaces never seem to cool, Life in the Iron Mills follows Hugh Wolfe, a weary mill hand whose days are measured in heat, soot, and exhaustion. Gifted with a sculptor's eye but trapped by poverty, Hugh works alongside his cousin Deborah, a quiet, fiercely devoted woman who endures long hours and constant hardship simply to stay near him. When a group of wealthy visitors tours the mill, their casual curiosity collides with the workers' relentless reality, and Hugh is briefly pulled into a world that can admire his talent without offering him a way out. As the gulf between classes becomes impossible to ignore, Hugh and Deborah face a tightening web of hunger, ambition, shame, and desperation. Told through a sharp, compassionate narrator who asks the listener to look closely at lives society prefers to overlook, this landmark realist novella confronts the human cost of industrial progress and the question of what becomes of genius when it is born in chains.
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Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson ~ Full Audiobook [horror]
June 26, 2023
•104m
Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook.
Genre: horror
In the rugged hills of northern Spain during the Peninsular War, a wounded British officer is sent to recuperate in a remote country house far from his regiment. What begins as a welcome refuge - quiet rooms, thick stone walls, and a physician's watchful care - soon turns unsettling as the household's secrets press in from every shadowed corridor. The officer encounters the family's stern caretaker and a noblewoman whose beauty and sorrow seem inseparable: Olalla. Drawn to her intelligence and strange reserve, he tries to understand the forces that keep her apart from ordinary life, even as the behavior of her relatives grows increasingly alarming. As his strength returns, so do his doubts, and he finds himself caught between compassion and self-preservation, between romantic yearning and a dawning fear that something in this lineage is profoundly wrong. Stevenson blends Gothic atmosphere with psychological tension, exploring themes of heredity, temptation, and the thin line between civilization and savagery. The result is a tightly wound tale of desire and dread, where one man's convalescence becomes a perilous awakening.
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(00:00:00) Chapter 1
(00:23:27) Chapter 2
(00:50:21) Chapter 3
(01:13:25) Chapter 4
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