An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde audiobook. Genre: comedy In the glittering drawing rooms of late-Victorian London, Sir Robert Chiltern seems to have everything: a brilliant political career, a spotless public reputation, and the devoted love of his wife, Lady Chiltern, who believes in honor without compromise. But their carefully composed world begins to tremble when Mrs. Cheveley, a clever and dangerous society woman with a talent for leverage, arrives with information that could ruin Sir Rober...
Apr 17, 2023•3 hr 21 min•Ep. 960
He Can Who Thinks He Can by Orison Swett Marden audiobook. Genre: self help In He Can Who Thinks He Can, motivational pioneer Orison Swett Marden makes a brisk, conviction-filled case that the turning point in any life is often a decision of belief. Drawing on vivid anecdotes, practical observations, and the optimistic spirit of early twentieth-century self-improvement, Marden argues that confidence, clear purpose, and persistent effort are not optional extras but the inner tools that shape oppo...
Apr 17, 2023•4 hr 56 min•Ep. 959
The Four Million by O. Henry audiobook. Genre: comedy Step into turn-of-the-century New York City through the sharp, affectionate eyes of O. Henry in The Four Million, a landmark collection of short stories that finds drama and wonder in ordinary lives. Across bustling streets, cramped flats, quiet boardinghouses, and glittering storefronts, clerks, shopgirls, artists, policemen, swindlers, dreamers, and lonely souls chase small fortunes and bigger hopes. With wit that can turn tender in a heart...
Apr 14, 2023•5 hr 43 min•Ep. 958
The Hollow Needle - Further Adventures of Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc audiobook. Genre: mystery A daring burglary at the chateau of Ambrumesy leaves more behind than missing jewels: it sparks a riddle that seems to reach back through centuries of French history. As the brilliant and elusive gentleman-thief Arsene Lupin circles the case with charm, audacity, and a knack for vanishing at the worst possible moment, an unexpected rival steps onto the stage - Isidore Beautrelet, a young detective...
Apr 14, 2023•7 hr 9 min•Ep. 957
The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart audiobook. Genre: mystery Mary Roberts Rinehart -- 'America's Agatha Christie,' as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful doctor, who in the course of events becomes engaged to Elizabeth Wheeler. But there is a mystery about his past, and he thinks himself honor-bound to unravel it before giving himself to her in marriage. In particular, ...
Apr 14, 2023•11 hr 42 min•Ep. 956
The People's Idea of God by Mary Baker Eddy audiobook. Genre: religion In The People's Idea of God: Its Effect on Health and Christianity, Mary Baker Eddy presents a compact, provocative sermon that asks a practical question: what happens to human life when our concept of God is shaped by fear, materialism, and limitation? Speaking to an audience wrestling with traditional theology and modern medicine, Eddy argues that a society's view of Deity quietly governs its morals, its worship, and even i...
Apr 14, 2023•31 min•Ep. 955
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill audiobook. Genre: philosophy First published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty is a foundational work of political philosophy that asks a deceptively simple question: when, if ever, is it right for society or the state to limit an individual's freedom? Mill argues that liberty is not only a personal good but a public necessity, essential to progress, truth-seeking, and human flourishing. Moving from principles to practical tests, he introduces his famous harm ...
Apr 13, 2023•5 hr 28 min•Ep. 950
Love and Freindship by Jane Austen audiobook. Genre: comedy Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear even from the subtitle, 'Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love,' which neatly undercuts the title. Written in epistolary form, it resembles a fairy tale as much as anything else, featurin...
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 949
Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John H. Haaren audiobook. Genre: history Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John H. Haaren (with A. B. Poland) introduces the medieval world through brisk, story-driven biographies meant to make history feel personal and vivid. Beginning with the legends and beliefs that shaped early European peoples, the book quickly moves into the stormy centuries after Rome's power broke, when Goths, Vandals, Huns, Franks, and Vikings fought for kingdoms and identity. Across a s...
Apr 13, 2023•4 hr 49 min•Ep. 948
The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper audiobook. Genre: history Set in the tense borderlands of the American Revolution, The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground follows the dangerous uncertainty of Westchester County, New York, where farms and villages sit between British-occupied New York City and the American lines. When the well-born Henry Wharton is captured under suspicious circumstances, his fate becomes entangled with a shadowy local peddler named Harvey Birch, a man widely branded as a traitor ...
Apr 12, 2023•16 hr 24 min•Ep. 947
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper audiobook. Genre: adventure Set against the brutal frontier wars of 1757, The Last of the Mohicans follows a small band of unlikely allies as they fight to survive in the wilderness between British forts and contested Native homelands. When the daughters of a British colonel - the steadfast Cora and the gentler Alice Munro - are sent under escort to Fort William Henry, their journey becomes a perilous chase through forests, rivers, and hidden tra...
Apr 12, 2023•15 hr 37 min•Ep. 946
The Sea Wolf by Jack London audiobook. Genre: adventure When literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden survives a ferry collision in San Francisco Bay, he expects rescue - not conscription. Hauled aboard the sealing schooner Ghost, he finds himself under the absolute rule of Captain Wolf Larsen, a brilliant, domineering commander whose philosophy is as merciless as the sea he sails. Thrust into a world of brutal labor and rigid hierarchy, Humphrey must adapt quickly, learning seamanship and hardening ...
Apr 12, 2023•11 hr 43 min•Ep. 945
First Love by Ivan Turgenev audiobook. Genre: romance The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The 'boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her' story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise. First Love is given its originality and poignancy by Turgenev's mastery of the piercing turning-point (akin to Joyce's 'epiphanies') that transforms the character's whole being, making a tragic outcome inevitable...
Apr 10, 2023•3 hr 9 min•Ep. 944
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird audiobook. Genre: adventure Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was travelling she was almost always healthy. Her first trip, in 1854, took her to America, visiting relatives. Her first book, The Englishwoman in America was published anonymously two years later. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is compiled of the letters she sent to her sister during her 7 months so...
Apr 07, 2023•13 hr 11 min•Ep. 943
The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson audiobook. Genre: drama Set in late 19th-century Australia, The Getting of Wisdom follows Laura Rambotham, a bright, imaginative country girl sent away from home to attend a strict Melbourne ladies' college. Thrown into an unfamiliar world of rules, gossip, and social hierarchies, Laura is determined to shine - academically, socially, and in the eyes of her teachers. But her quick mind and fierce independence collide with the school's expectations...
Apr 07, 2023•8 hr 1 min•Ep. 942
She by H. Rider Haggard audiobook. Genre: adventure When Cambridge scholar Horace Holly becomes guardian to a newborn boy, Leo Vincey, he also inherits a locked iron box and an ominous instruction: on Leo's twenty-fifth birthday, open it and follow where it leads. Inside lies a mysterious shard of ancient pottery and a letter pointing toward a lost African kingdom and an extraordinary woman who may be tied to Leo's bloodline across millennia. Years later, Holly, the grown Leo, and their steadfas...
Apr 07, 2023•11 hr 47 min•Ep. 941
Anticipations by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: science Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine. His goal was to get people to think and act in new ways. The book starts with a look at how humans get along socially and how they carry out their business ventures. It then discusses how these elements influence others, such as politics, the world of work, and education. H. G. tried to make clear how t...
Apr 07, 2023•8 hr 46 min•Ep. 940
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio audiobook. Genre: history In plague-stricken Florence, a group of ten young nobles-seven women and three men-flee the city for the countryside, hoping to outlast the terror and grief consuming their world. To keep fear and boredom at bay, they agree on a daily ritual: each person will tell a story, and each day will follow a guiding theme chosen by the day's leader. Over ten days, their hundred tales range from bawdy farce to tender romance, from moral fables ...
Apr 06, 2023•32 hr 45 min•Ep. 939
The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck audiobook. Genre: horror In early-20th-century New York and its salons of artists, critics, and social climbers, aspiring writer Ernest Fielding is hungry for recognition and a place among the brilliant and the powerful. When he is welcomed into the circle of the refined and unnervingly charismatic Reginald Clarke, Ernest believes he has found a patron with unmatched taste and influence. Clarke offers introductions, encouragement, and an intox...
Apr 06, 2023•2 hr 55 min•Ep. 938
The Light Princess by George MacDonald audiobook. Genre: fantasy In a whimsical kingdom where magic and mischief mingle with real consequence, a newborn princess is cursed by a spiteful aunt so that she has no gravity - not only in body, but in spirit. She floats, drifts, and laughs at everything, unable to take life seriously or feel its ordinary weight. Courtiers invent elaborate contraptions to keep her from bobbing into the rafters, physicians offer solemn nonsense, and the king and queen gr...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 937
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith audiobook. Genre: comedy Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:00:51) Chapter 2 (00:08:14) Chapter 3 (00:21:21) Chapter 4 (00:34:10) Chapter 5 (00:46:04) Chapter 6 (01:02:33) Chapter 7 (01:12:58) Chapter 8 (01:24:13) Chapter 9 (01:36:05) Chapter 10 (01:43:33) Chapter 11 (01:50:41) Chapter 12 (02:05:59) Chapter 13 (02:14:10) Chapter 14 (02:27:01) Chapter 15 (02:42:20) Chapter 16 (02:50:29) Chapter 17 (02:57:19) Chapter 18 (03:02:54) Chapter 19 (...
Apr 06, 2023•4 hr 31 min•Ep. 936
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter audiobook. Genre: drama Set in rural Indiana at the edge of the mysterious Limberlost swamp, A Girl of the Limberlost follows Elnora Comstock, a bright, determined teenager aching for an education and a life larger than the hard poverty and silence of her home. Her widowed mother, Katharine, is sharp with grief and refuses to spend money on schooling, forcing Elnora to find her own way. With the help of kind neighbors and a growing knowledge of th...
Apr 06, 2023•11 hr 37 min•Ep. 935
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky audiobook. Genre: philosophy The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society. The teeming St Petersburg community he enters is far from receptive to an innocent like himself, despite some early successes and relentless pursuit by grotesque fortune-hunters. His naive gaucheries give rise to extreme re...
Apr 05, 2023•27 hr 30 min•Ep. 934
The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: mystery Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:33:59) Chapter 2 (01:15:18) Chapter 3 (01:51:01) Chapter 4 (02:31:04) Chapter 5 (03:07:24) Chapter 6 (03:45:07) Chapter 7 (04:17:49) Chapter 8 (05:03:01) Chapter 9 (05:37:54) Chapter 10 (06:09:41) Chapter 11 (06:46:27) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Apr 04, 2023•7 hr 30 min•Ep. 933
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: mystery In The Innocence of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton introduces an unlikely detective: Father Brown, a quiet Catholic priest with a shabby umbrella, a round face, and a disarming manner that makes criminals underestimate him. Moving through English villages, country houses, and city streets, Father Brown is repeatedly drawn into baffling crimes - stolen jewels, sudden disappearances, impossible murders, and deceptions stag...
Apr 04, 2023•10 hr 36 min•Ep. 932
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche launches a provocative investigation into the hidden motives behind moral beliefs and the cultural assumptions people treat as timeless truths. Written as a series of sharp, energetic sections rather than a single linear argument, the book challenges readers to question ideas such as objective morality, absolute truth, and the comforting stories societies tell themselves about vi...
Apr 04, 2023•8 hr 7 min•Ep. 931
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer audiobook. Genre: biography A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, 'It is designed in these pages to bring the reader face to face with Edison; to glance at an interesting childhood and a youthful period marked by a capacity for doing things, and by an insatiable thirst for knowledge; then ...
Apr 04, 2023•29 hr 57 min•Ep. 930
The Grell Mystery by Frank Froest audiobook. Genre: mystery On a rain-swept London night, American millionaire-adventurer Robert Grell leaves the comfort of his club for a secret appointment, just days before his society wedding to Lady Eileen Meredith. By morning, Grell is at the center of a scandalous puzzle: a man has been found murdered in the study of Grell's home, yet the dead man is not who the household insists he is. As whispers spread from drawing rooms to back alleys, Scotland Yard is...
Apr 03, 2023•8 hr 2 min•Ep. 929
Cathay by Ezra Pound audiobook. Genre: poetry The Cathay poems appeared in a slim volume in 1915. They are, in effect, Ezra Pound’s English translations/interpretations from notebooks written by the Japanese scholar Ernest Fenollosa. Pound, not knowing any Chinese or Japanese at all, promptly created a new and somewhat complex style of translation, as he had done with words from several other languages. The Cathay poems are primarily written by the Chinese poet Li Po, referred to throughout thes...
Apr 03, 2023•48 min•Ep. 928
Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott audiobook. Genre: scifi In the perfectly ordered world of Flatland, everything and everyone is a geometric shape, and your place in society is literally defined by the number of sides you have. A Square, a respectable middle-class professional, lives a predictable life governed by rigid rules, sharp prejudices, and an unquestioned faith in the dimensions he can see. But on the eve of the centennial celebration, his routine is interru...
Apr 03, 2023•4 hr 21 min•Ep. 927
