The Secret City by Hugh Walpole ~ Full Audiobook [history]

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07/21/23

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The Secret City by Hugh Walpole audiobook.

Genre: history

In The Secret City, Hugh Walpole drops an idealistic young Englishman into Petrograd on the eve of revolution and lets the city itself become the story's most dangerous character. Henry Bohun arrives in Russia in 1916 with romantic expectations and a hunger to belong, but he is quickly confronted by shortages, rumors, surveillance, and the uneasy sense that every conversation carries a hidden meaning. Taking lodgings with the Petrovitch household, Bohun is drawn into the intimate tensions of Nicolas and Vera Petrovitch and Vera's younger sister, Nina, whose restlessness mirrors a society straining against its old restraints. Through Bohun's friendship with John Durward and his growing entanglement with the family's shifting loyalties, Walpole traces how private desires collide with public upheaval. As winter closes in and the streets harden into suspicion and fear, the arrival of the unsettling uncle Semyonov signals that trouble is no longer distant news but something that can walk through the front door. Both a vivid portrait of Petrograd in crisis and a psychological study of belonging, faith, and self-deception, the novel asks what each person is really worshipping in the 'secret city' of the heart.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:04:18) Chapter 02

(00:10:55) Chapter 03

(00:19:30) Chapter 04

(00:26:50) Chapter 05

(00:34:13) Chapter 06

(00:45:08) Chapter 07

(01:04:51) Chapter 08

(01:25:21) Chapter 09

(01:54:32) Chapter 10

(02:11:15) Chapter 11

(02:19:00) Chapter 12

(02:40:37) Chapter 13

(02:49:22) Chapter 14

(03:03:38) Chapter 15

(03:15:05) Chapter 16

(03:32:39) Chapter 17

(03:41:59) Chapter 18

(04:03:31) Chapter 19

(04:15:56) Chapter 20

(04:27:13) Chapter 21

(04:43:50) Chapter 22

(04:59:16) Chapter 23

(05:12:29) Chapter 24

(05:27:47) Chapter 25

(05:37:10) Chapter 26

(05:50:52) Chapter 27

(06:06:40) Chapter 28

(06:27:32) Chapter 29

(06:47:34) Chapter 30

(07:09:12) Chapter 31

(07:32:15) Chapter 32

(07:36:05) Chapter 33

(08:14:56) Chapter 34

(08:47:40) Chapter 35

(09:12:25) Chapter 36

(09:35:28) Chapter 37

(09:40:38) Chapter 38

(09:46:09) Chapter 39

(09:58:28) Chapter 40

(10:02:23) Chapter 41

(10:29:20) Chapter 42

(10:50:08) Chapter 43

(11:04:54) Chapter 44

(11:15:38) Chapter 45

(11:24:47) Chapter 46

(11:49:19) Chapter 47

(11:59:08) Chapter 48

(12:13:05) Chapter 49

(12:30:08) Chapter 50

(12:43:07) Chapter 51

(13:12:51) Chapter 52

(13:28:03) Chapter 53

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Joseph Conrad by Hugh Walpole ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

July 21, 2023

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142m

Joseph Conrad by Hugh Walpole audiobook.

Genre: biography

This is a literary biography of Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) who is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent), he was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit.

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (1884 – 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the authors Henry James and Arnold Bennett. His skill at scene-setting, vivid plots, and high profile as a lecturer brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s, but has been largely neglected since his death.... Joseph Conrad said of him, 'We see Mr. Walpole grappling with the truth of things spiritual and material with his characteristic earnestness, and we can discern the characteristics of this acute and sympathetic explorer of human nature.'

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(00:36:22) Chapter 2

(01:19:06) Chapter 3

(02:00:03) Chapter 4

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On the Witness Stand - Essays on Psychology and Crime by Hugo Munsterberg ~ Full Audiobook [history]

July 22, 2023

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369m

On the Witness Stand - Essays on Psychology and Crime by Hugo Munsterberg audiobook.

Genre: history

In On the Witness Stand, Harvard psychologist Hugo Munsterberg steps into the courtroom to argue that the justice system cannot afford to ignore the workings of the mind. Written as a series of sharp, accessible essays, the book follows Munsterberg as he translates the new science of psychology into practical questions for police, lawyers, judges, and jurors. How reliable is an eyewitness who is certain? How do attention, stress, and expectation reshape what a person thinks they saw? Why can suggestion, leading questions, or repeated interviews quietly manufacture details that feel true? Munsterberg explores the psychology behind testimony, identification, confession, and the interpretation of motive, insisting that honest people can be mistaken and that confident memories can be constructed. Along the way, he challenges the habits of cross-examination, the culture of the jury box, and the courtroom's faith in common sense, proposing that experiments and careful observation should guide legal decision-making. Part manifesto and part case-driven inquiry, this classic work captures a turning point where modern psychology collides with the demands of criminal law.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:11:26) Chapter 01

(00:28:08) Chapter 02

(00:46:21) Chapter 03

(01:01:21) Chapter 04

(01:16:05) Chapter 05

(01:29:07) Chapter 06

(01:46:25) Chapter 07

(02:01:59) Chapter 08

(02:22:33) Chapter 09