Vagabond Adventures by Ralph Keeler ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

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09/27/22

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Vagabond Adventures by Ralph Keeler audiobook.

Genre: biography

First published in 1870, Vagabond Adventures is Ralph Keeler's fast-moving memoir of how an orphaned, restless American boy turns himself into a wanderer long before he is old enough to understand the price of freedom. At eleven, Keeler flees an unhappy life in Buffalo and plunges into the rough schooling of docks, cabins, and lake steamers, where quick wits matter as much as hard work and luck. Just as he begins to find his footing, he is swept into the bright, precarious world of traveling entertainment, spending formative years on the road with minstrel companies and learning how performers survive backstage rivalries, bad management, and unpredictable audiences. In early manhood, the roaming continues with a shoestring journey through Europe, where Keeler adopts local disguises and habits to stretch a tiny budget, trading comfort for experience and discovery. By turns humorous, candid, and sharply observant, Keeler chronicles the constant tug between hunger and hope, belonging and independence, and the question that follows every escape: what kind of life is he actually running toward?

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:03:49) Chapter 02

(00:15:59) Chapter 03

(00:29:19) Chapter 04

(00:45:27) Chapter 05

(00:53:11) Chapter 06

(01:03:20) Chapter 07

(01:14:16) Chapter 08

(01:25:19) Chapter 09

(01:36:57) Chapter 10

(01:48:23) Chapter 11

(01:57:20) Chapter 12

(02:07:34) Chapter 13

(02:23:13) Chapter 14

(02:42:26) Chapter 15

(02:55:54) Chapter 16

(03:17:59) Chapter 17

(03:35:36) Chapter 18

(03:57:34) Chapter 19

(04:08:47) Chapter 20

(04:17:28) Chapter 21

(04:26:11) Chapter 22

(04:40:42) Chapter 23

(04:55:59) Chapter 24

(05:09:47) Chapter 25

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Phaedo by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

September 27, 2022

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189m

Phaedo by Plato audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail the philosopher's final days (the first six being Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, and Crito).

In the dialogue, Socrates discusses the nature of the afterlife on his last day before being executed by drinking hemlock. Socrates has been imprisoned and sentenced to death by an Athenian jury for not believing in the gods of the state and for corrupting the youth of the city. The dialogue is told from the perspective of one of Socrates' students, Phaedo of Elis. Having been present at Socrates' death bed, Phaedo relates the dialogue from that day to Echecrates, a fellow philosopher. By engaging in dialectic with a group of Socrates' friends, including the Thebans Cebes and Simmias, Socrates explores various arguments for the soul's immortality in order to show that there is an afterlife in which the soul will dwell following death. Phaedo tells the story that following the discussion, he and the others were there to witness the death of Socrates.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:17:37) Chapter 02

(00:37:25) Chapter 03

(01:01:50) Chapter 04

(01:23:37) Chapter 05

(01:56:51) Chapter 06

(02:14:53) Chapter 07

(02:36:32) Chapter 08

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Amusement Only by Richard Marsh ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

September 27, 2022

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515m

Amusement Only by Richard Marsh audiobook.

Genre: mystery

Amusement Only is a spirited Edwardian collection of twelve tales by Richard Marsh, each built to entertain while keeping a faint edge of danger just out of sight. In The Lost Duchess, London society is jolted when the Duke of Datchet learns his wife has seemingly vanished from a sealed carriage, and a brazen ransom demand turns a glittering dinner engagement into a race against time. In The Strange Occurrences in Canterstone Jail, a routine morning becomes a crisis when an entire prison finds its cell doors mysteriously refusing to open, testing order, authority, and nerves. Twins! spins a brisk comedy of confusion as lookalike brothers become entangled in other people's grudges and debts, while A Vision of the Night drifts into uncanny territory when an artist paints a face from a dream and is confronted by the living woman behind it. Between the shocks and puzzles, Marsh threads sly social satire: patent-medicine schemes, domestic misadventures, and romances that feel like traps. By turns witty, suspenseful, and eerie, these stories ask how easily identity, reputation, and reality can be swapped for sheer amusement.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:18:16) Chapter 02

(00:36:05) Chapter 03

(00:56:28) Chapter 04

(01:23:11) Chapter 05

(01:49:29) Chapter 06

(02:14:29) Chapter 07

(02:30:59) Chapter 08

(02:36:15) Chapter 09

(02:51:51) Chapter 10

(03:01:56) Chapter 11

(03:09:00) Chapter 12

(03:14:46) Chapter 13

(03:40:37) Chapter 14

(03:59:36) Chapter 15

(04:21:08) Chapter 16

(04:34:19) Chapter 17

(04:55:30) Chapter 18

(05:02:00) Chapter 19

(05:09:47) Chapter 20

(05:22:42) Chapter 21

(05:45:22) Chapter 22

(06:07:00) Chapter 23

(06:18:57) Chapter 24

(06:40:08) Chapter 25

(06:48:37) Chapter 26

(06:56:42) Chapter 27

(07:12:17) Chapter 28

(07:18:52) Chapter 29

(07:33:47) Chapter 30

(07:39:00) Chapter 31

(08:10:36) Chapter 32

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