This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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07/26/22

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550m

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This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.

Genre: drama

F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel follows Amory Blaine, a sharp, restless Midwesterner who grows up believing his life will be extraordinary. From a privileged childhood through elite schools and the glittering social world of the early 20th century, Amory chases admiration, romance, and a sense of identity that always seems just out of reach. As he moves among ambitious classmates, magnetic friends, and women who challenge and attract him, his confidence is tested by shifting loyalties, money troubles, and the moral confusion of a generation coming of age in the shadow of war. Told with a mix of traditional storytelling and experimental touches, the book captures the excitement and emptiness of status, the ache of first love, and the slow realization that talent and charm do not guarantee purpose. Amory's central struggle is to decide what kind of man he will become when the promises he inherited begin to collapse, and when the world around him no longer rewards certainty. This Side of Paradise is a portrait of youth, ambition, and disillusionment at the dawn of the Jazz Age.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:29:05) Chapter 02

(00:53:47) Chapter 03

(01:12:55) Chapter 04

(01:42:48) Chapter 05

(02:17:32) Chapter 06

(02:56:17) Chapter 07

(03:12:13) Chapter 08

(03:33:42) Chapter 09

(03:55:13) Chapter 10

(04:21:01) Chapter 11

(04:48:36) Chapter 12

(05:16:04) Chapter 13

(05:47:35) Chapter 14

(05:56:28) Chapter 15

(06:09:01) Chapter 16

(06:29:54) Chapter 17

(06:55:23) Chapter 18

(07:22:41) Chapter 19

(07:41:59) Chapter 20

(08:01:13) Chapter 21

(08:27:13) Chapter 22

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Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

July 26, 2022

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223m

Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah audiobook.

Genre: mystery

In Four Max Carrados Detective Stories, Ernest Bramah introduces a sleuth unlike any other in Edwardian England: Max Carrados, a gentleman investigator who is blind, yet uncannily alert to the details most people overlook. Narrated by his friend and occasional collaborator Louis Carlyle, these four cases open doors into London drawing rooms, private clubs, and shadowy back streets, where a missing object, an ingenious fraud, or a seemingly simple crime quickly reveals deeper layers of motive and method. Carrados does not rely on sight, but on a disciplined command of sound, touch, timing, and human behavior, turning social assumptions about disability into a quiet advantage. As Carlyle struggles to keep pace, the reader is invited to watch ordinary clues become extraordinary through Carrados' calm reasoning and understated wit. Each story blends clever puzzles with character-driven tension, exploring how appearances mislead, how greed and pride unravel, and how true detection depends on noticing what others dismiss. Elegant, sharp, and quietly suspenseful, this collection showcases Bramah's distinctive voice and one of classic detective fiction's most memorable minds.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:34:14) Chapter 2

(01:34:17) Chapter 3

(02:24:01) Chapter 4

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The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay ~ Full Audiobook [romance]

July 26, 2022

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679m

The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay audiobook.

Genre: romance

At Overdene, the country estate of the formidable and delightfully unpredictable Duchess of Meldrum, her niece Jane Champion has settled into a life of capable independence. Jane is thirty, practical, and quietly gifted, yet she has spent years watching others take the place she secretly longs for: to be chosen first, without reservation. When Garth Dalmain, a celebrated artist with a passionate devotion to beauty, suddenly singles Jane out and asks her to marry him, her world tilts. She cares for him more than she will admit, but she cannot believe a man who lives by appearances could remain faithful to a woman the world calls plain. Jane's refusal sets off a chain of consequences that neither of them can control. After a devastating accident leaves Garth blinded, the meaning of love, companionship, and true perception is tested in painful, intimate ways. As friends, doctors, and an unusual household orbit their struggle, Barclay threads the story with the image of a rosary: hours counted like pearls, prayers shaped out of endurance, and devotion proved in the dark. The Rosary is a tender, emotionally charged romance about self-worth, sacrifice, and learning what it really means to see.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:09:17) Chapter 2

(00:18:30) Chapter 3

(00:29:12) Chapter 4

(00:50:30) Chapter 5

(01:21:25) Chapter 6

(01:34:04) Chapter 7

(01:49:58) Chapter 8

(01:59:51) Chapter 9

(02:35:24) Chapter 10

(03:18:04) Chapter 11

(03:34:13) Chapter 12

(04:01:29) Chapter 13

(04:13:08) Chapter 14

(04:25:00) Chapter 15

(05:16:42) Chapter 16

(05:24:40) Chapter 17

(05:34:06) Chapter 18

(05:49:18) Chapter 19

(06:13:20) Chapter 20

(06:28:21) Chapter 21

(06:42:42) Chapter 22

(07:03:10) Chapter 23

(07:22:08) Chapter 24

(07:49:38) Chapter 25

(08:11:21) Chapter 26

(08:32:50) Chapter 27

(08:47:32) Chapter 28

(08:52:33) Chapter 29

(09:06:02) Chapter 30

(09:13:47) Chapter 31

(09:24:44) Chapter 32

(09:29:39) Chapter 33

(09:49:57) Chapter 34

(10:08:34) Chapter 35

(10:25:02) Chapter 36

(10:35:23) Chapter 37

(10:49:41) Chapter 38

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