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The Romance of an Old Fool by Roswell Field ~ Full Audiobook [romance]
Classic Audiobook Collection
04/27/23
•184m
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The Romance of an Old Fool by Roswell Field audiobook.
Genre: romance
John Stanhope is a comfortable, successful widower in middle life, content with his books, his country routines, and the dry-witted company of Bunsey, a would-be novelist who is forever observing (and judging) the romantic impulses of others. Yet when a chance trip draws John back to the small town of his boyhood, old streets and familiar names awaken a longing he did not know was still alive. Among renewed friendships and remembered places, he learns that Sylvia, the girl who once shaped his earliest idea of love, died soon after he left. In her absence, John finds himself captivated by Sylvia's daughter, Phyllis, whose youth, charm, and resemblance to the past blur the line between memory and desire. As John drifts from nostalgia into courtship, the town's quiet expectations, the warnings of practical friends, and his own uneasy self-knowledge force him to ask what, exactly, he is pursuing: a real future, or a beautifully preserved illusion. Wry, tender, and sharply observant, this novella explores aging, loneliness, and the strange ways the heart rewrites history.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 1
(00:37:12) Chapter 2
(00:54:52) Chapter 3
(01:11:38) Chapter 4
(01:35:52) Chapter 5
(02:01:42) Chapter 6
(02:20:37) Chapter 7
(02:44:00) Chapter 8
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Pierre and Luce by Romain Rolland ~ Full Audiobook [romance]
April 26, 2023
•177m
Pierre and Luce by Romain Rolland audiobook.
Genre: romance
Set in Paris during the final year of World War I, Pierre and Luce follows two teenagers who meet by chance in the shadow of air raid sirens and long range shelling. Pierre, a sensitive and thoughtful schoolboy, has been pushed into adulthood by the constant pressure of loss and uncertainty. Luce, younger but fiercely alive, carries her own private world of art, curiosity, and stubborn hope. Drawn together in a city where tomorrow is never guaranteed, they begin to share stolen hours in museums, on streets suddenly emptied by alarms, and in quiet conversations that feel like shelter. Yet their growing closeness is not a simple escape: it forces Pierre to confront fear, duty, and the expectations of family and nation, while Luce must defend the right to tenderness and imagination in a time that treats both as luxuries. Romain Rolland writes their awakening with lyric intimacy and a clear pacifist heartbeat, asking what love can mean when history insists on destruction. The result is a brief, luminous story of youth, compassion, and the fragile courage to live fully in the present.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 1
(00:24:46) Chapter 2
(00:48:38) Chapter 3
(01:03:08) Chapter 4
(01:17:55) Chapter 5
(01:39:11) Chapter 6
(01:57:51) Chapter 7
(02:16:56) Chapter 8
(02:36:25) Chapter 9
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Abaft The Funnel by Rudyard Kipling ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]
April 28, 2023
•421m
Abaft The Funnel by Rudyard Kipling audiobook.
Genre: adventure
Abaft the Funnel gathers Rudyard Kipling's sharp-eyed tales and sketches of men living where comfort ends and work begins: on ships running the China seas, in steamy ports, and in the cramped social worlds that travel with the British Empire. The opening pieces drop you aboard the Whanghoa, where a ship's routine is thrown delightfully off-balance by Erastasius, a cat with a gift for mischief and an instinct for finding trouble. citeturn1view0 From there, Kipling shifts tone and latitude: a smoky night in Manila, a hard lesson in responsibility, and portraits of officers, drifters, and professionals whose reputations can rise or collapse on a single choice. One narrator, in a late-hour dive, recognizes a ruined stranger by the coded fellowship of their shared schooling and listens as the man edges toward confession. citeturn0search3 Across the collection, Kipling writes with brisk humor and sudden seriousness, peering past the polished decks and parlor talk to the pressures below - pride, duty, appetite, fear, and the price of belonging. These stories are less about grand voyages than the human machinery that keeps them moving. citeturn1view0
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:11:53) Chapter 02
(00:21:06) Chapter 03
(00:27:33) Chapter 04
(00:35:06) Chapter 05
(00:43:20) Chapter 06
(00:52:45) Chapter 07
(01:03:33) Chapter 08
(01:11:58) Chapter 09
(01:24:15) Chapter 10
(01:32:59) Chapter 11
(01:40:03) Chapter 12
(01:49:01) Chapter 13
(02:00:34) Chapter 14
(02:14:16) Chapter 15
(02:35:31) Chapter 16
(02:59:05) Chapter 17
(03:22:35) Chapter 18
(03:51:19) Chapter 19
(04:01:24) Chapter 20
(04:04:55) Chapter 21
(04:45:22) Chapter 22
(04:52:56) Chapter 23
(05:00:15) Chapter 24
(05:09:35) Chapter 25
(05:20:38) Chapter 26
(05:31:04) Chapter 27
(05:47:15) Chapter 28
(05:55:42) Chapter 29
(06:06:16) Chapter 30
(06:16:17) Chapter 31
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