Thou Art The Man by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery Mary Elizabeth Braddon's late-Victorian mystery opens on a tragedy that shatters a young love story. At the Scottish estate of Ellerslie, Brandon Mountford, a sensitive gentleman burdened by epilepsy and frightening gaps in memory, is discovered near a brutal death and quickly becomes the obvious suspect. Forced to flee rather than face a trial that seems decided in advance, Brandon vanishes, and the woman who loved him, heires...
Nov 20, 2023•17 hr 20 min
The Day Will Come by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery In the quiet Dorset village of Cheriton, wedding bells welcome Juanita Dalbrook home as a bride. She is the only child of James Dalbrook, now Lord Cheriton, a brilliant barrister turned self-made peer whose ambition has bought him an ancient estate and a place among the county families. Juanita's marriage to Sir Godfrey Carmichael seems to seal that rise at last, joining new money to old blood and turning Cheriton Chase into t...
Nov 20, 2023•16 hr 33 min
Taken at the Flood by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: thriller In Victorian England, Sylvia Carew has been raised in modest circumstances by a parish schoolmaster whose carefully guarded history has left her with more questions than security. Clever, beautiful, and fiercely determined to escape poverty, Sylvia finds herself torn between the steady devotion of Edmund Standen, a respectable young banker, and the glittering promise of rank, money, and a great house. When an unexpected path...
Nov 18, 2023•18 hr 13 min
One Life, One Love by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: romance Clara and Robert Hatrell lead an ideal life with their young daughter Daisy in a beautiful old fashioned cottage on the banks of the Thames. When his son Cyril goes away to school their friend and neighbor Ambrose Arden who is a notable scholar offers to tutor Daisy. Some time later Robert carrying a large amount in banknotes is found stabbed to death in a London rooming house supposedly lured there by the mention of someone ...
Nov 17, 2023•13 hr 49 min
Mount Royal Volume III by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery In Mount Royal Volume III, Mary Elizabeth Braddon drives her Victorian sensation tale toward its most dangerous reckonings. At the isolated estate of Mount Royal, Christabel Tregonell lives under the weight of a marriage soured by jealousy and a past love that refuses to stay buried. As winter closes in, the house turns quiet and watchful, and every polite visit or whispered message feels like a threat. Christabel's circl...
Nov 17, 2023•5 hr 37 min
Mount Royal Volume II by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: romance Mount Royal Volume II deepens Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Victorian tale of passion tested by conscience and circumstance. Angus Hamleigh, shaken by a dangerous illness and the shadow of his own past, receives a letter from his beloved Christabel Courtenay that asks for sacrifice instead of vows: she cannot marry him unless he makes amends for a wrong that society will never forget. As Angus weighs love against duty, Christab...
Nov 16, 2023•5 hr 5 min
Mount Royal Volume I by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery At Mount Royal, an old manor perched above the Cornish coast near Boscastle, Christabel Courtenay has grown up sheltered, clever, and restlessly romantic under the watchful care of her aunt, Mrs. Tregonell. The household runs on memories: Mrs. Tregonell still cherishes the story of Captain Hamleigh, the widower she loved and lost, and she clings just as fiercely to her absent son Leonard, a charismatic heir whose wild youth...
Nov 16, 2023•5 hr 25 min
Dead Love Has Chains by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery We see another facet of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's amazing talent in Dead Love Has Chains, written in her seventies. Focusing on character and human psychology rather than detection and crime, this is one of her most interesting novels. Pregnant and unmarried Irene Thelliston is sent home from India to live with her Aunt in Ireland. On her sea voyage she reveals her secret to Lady Mary Harling who swears to keep her confidenc...
Nov 15, 2023•4 hr 54 min
A Strange World by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery In Victorian England, seventeen-year-old Justina Elgood has grown up under the footlights, touring with her worn-down actor-father, Matthew, and dreaming of a life that feels more real than painted scenery and nightly applause. When a chance meeting in the countryside introduces her to two very different young gentlemen, the earnest James and the thoughtful Maurice Clissold, Justina glimpses a world of comfort, education, and ch...
Nov 15, 2023•15 hr 57 min
Elsie's New Relations by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's New Relations, Martha Finley returns to the warm, principled world of Ion, where Elsie Travilla has stepped into a new season of life as the steady heart of an expanding family. As summer at the seaside ends and the households settle back at Ion, the story shifts to the next generation and the challenges that come with blending families, raising children, and living out faith in everyday trials. Violet Raymond is learning...
Nov 14, 2023•6 hr 40 min
Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Grandmother Elsie, Martha Finley returns to the devout and closely knit Dinsmore-Ion circle at a turning point in Elsie Dinsmore's life. As the Ion family comes home from a summer on the New Jersey coast, the household is shadowed by sickness and worry, and Elsie must keep her calm faith while caring for those she loves and leaning on the steady support of her father, Horace Dinsmore. But the most dramatic changes are not only in the...
Nov 14, 2023•6 hr 35 min
Elsie's Widowhood by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's Widowhood, Martha Finley carries the long-running Elsie Dinsmore saga into a season of sudden loss and steady courage. Elsie Travilla, devoted wife and mother, is forced to reimagine her home after the unexpected death of her husband, Edward Travilla Jr. With her children watching her every step, Elsie must balance private sorrow with the daily work of guiding a large, affectionate family whose needs do not pause for grief. A...
Nov 13, 2023•7 hr 8 min
Elsie's Children by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's Children, Martha Finley returns to the warm, orderly world of Viamede, where Elsie Travilla's greatest work is not managing an estate but shaping the hearts of the lively young people who call her 'mamma.' The household is stirred by the arrival of a new baby, a joy that brings laughter to the nursery even as it tests Elsie's strength and patience. As days unfold, the Travilla home becomes a refuge for others in need - includi...
Nov 13, 2023•7 hr 7 min
Elsie's Motherhood by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's Motherhood, Martha Finley returns to the Travilla home in the years after the Civil War, when Elsie Dinsmore Travilla is no longer the beleaguered girl readers first met, but a devoted wife and a steady, affectionate mother. The story opens on a happy family milestone and quickly settles into the daily rhythms of a bustling household: children full of questions and high spirits, relatives who drift in and out with their own ...
Nov 11, 2023•8 hr 41 min
Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's Womanhood, Martha Finley follows Elsie Dinsmore as she steps out of girlhood and into the weightier choices of adulthood on her Southern home, the Oaks. Now a young woman of deep conviction and tender conscience, Elsie faces the joys and anxieties of an engagement to Edward Travilla, her father's longtime friend - a match that promises protection and companionship, yet forces Elsie to reckon with what it means to leave her ch...
Nov 10, 2023•9 hr
Elsie's Girlhood by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In Elsie's Girlhood, Martha Finley continues the story of Elsie Dinsmore as she moves from a sensitive, bookish childhood into the sharper tests of growing up in a proud Southern household. Elsie is bright and affectionate, but her deepest wish is painfully simple: to be truly loved and understood by her stern father, Horace Dinsmore, whose strict sense of authority and quick temper often leave her walking on eggshells. As Elsie learns t...
Nov 10, 2023•9 hr 15 min
Holidays at Roselands by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: religion In Holidays at Roselands, Martha Finley returns to young Elsie Dinsmore just as she is beginning to heal from the trials of the first story. At Roselands, the outward calm of family visits, gentle outings, and familiar friends masks a deeper struggle: Elsie's fierce desire to please her beloved father, Horace Dinsmore, collides with a conscience shaped by her Christian faith. When Horace makes a demand that Elsie believes would be...
Nov 09, 2023•9 hr 6 min
Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley audiobook. Genre: family In post-Civil War America, gentle, intensely principled Elsie Dinsmore grows up surrounded by comfort yet starved for affection. Raised on her wealthy grandfather's plantation, Elsie is an unusually devout child who clings to her Bible and a keen sense of right and wrong. That steadfast faith becomes her refuge, but it also makes her a target. Jealous cousins, impatient aunts, and a household that prizes pride and appearances test her at e...
Nov 09, 2023•7 hr 35 min
Black Magic - a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist by Marjorie Bowen audiobook. Genre: horror Set in medieval Europe, Black Magic follows a talented but restless woodcarver in a northern French town who begins his days gilding a figure of the Devil and ends them studying forbidden arts. Drawn to secret texts, whispered rituals, and the promise of knowledge without limits, he makes a deliberate step into the occult - and discovers that power, once touched, demands to be pursued. His rise...
Nov 08, 2023•10 hr 51 min
Ardath by Marie Corelli audiobook. Genre: fantasy In late-Victorian London, Theos Alwyn is a gifted but struggling young writer who has begun to doubt the value of art, faith, and even his own moral compass. When an enigmatic Eastern mystic offers him a strange, fateful gift, Theos is drawn into an experience that feels like a dream and a judgment at once: a sweeping vision of a vanished world called Ardath, a radiant civilization that seems to promise everything his modern life denies him - bea...
Nov 08, 2023•22 hr 7 min
The Daredevil by Maria Thompson Daviess audiobook. Genre: romance In the shadow of the Great War, Roberta Carruthers - the bold, quick-witted daughter of an American soldier and a French marquise - sails into New York carrying grief, responsibility, and one urgent hope: help for her frail younger brother, Pierre. But a clerical mistake and an iron-willed, woman-hating uncle in Tennessee turn her homecoming into a high-wire act. Mistaken for the long-awaited nephew, Roberta makes a reckless, lovi...
Nov 07, 2023•6 hr 25 min
The Castle of Twilight by Margaret Horton Potter audiobook. Genre: fantasy Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:30:23) Chapter 02 (01:13:36) Chapter 03 (01:53:25) Chapter 04 (02:27:11) Chapter 05 (03:09:14) Chapter 06 (03:36:56) Chapter 07 (04:11:45) Chapter 08 (04:41:23) Chapter 09 (05:13:23) Chapter 10 (05:53:08) Chapter 11 (06:24:06) Chapter 12 (06:59:24) Chapter 13 (07:37:28) Chapter 14 (08:14:09) Chapter 15 (08:36:53) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....
Nov 07, 2023•9 hr
An American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant by Marcus Eli Ravage audiobook. Genre: biography Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:08:41) Chapter 01 (00:33:30) Chapter 02 (00:58:03) Chapter 03 (01:11:46) Chapter 04 (01:34:35) Chapter 05 (01:55:07) Chapter 06 (02:15:19) Chapter 07 (02:32:49) Chapter 08 (02:59:48) Chapter 09 (03:39:33) Chapter 10 (04:05:36) Chapter 11 (04:28:09) Chapter 12 (04:56:41) Chapter 13 (05:14:47) Chapter 14 (05:40:00) Chapter 15 (06:07:36) Chapter...
Nov 06, 2023•8 hr 55 min
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust audiobook. Genre: drama Swann's Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust's monumental In Search of Lost Time, invites listeners into a richly detailed world where memory, desire, and social performance shape a life as surely as events do. From the quiet rituals of childhood in the provincial village of Combray, a sensitive narrator learns how longing can attach itself to places, habits, and especially to the approval of others. Years later, in Paris, the narrator moves...
Nov 06, 2023•24 hr 31 min
Emily of New Moon by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: family Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely -- until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious classmates by holding her head high and using her quick wit. Things begin to change when she makes friends: with Teddy, who does marvelous drawings;...
Nov 04, 2023•13 hr 9 min
Emily Climbs by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: family Emily Byrd Starr longs to attend Queen's Academy to earn her teaching license, but her tradition-bound relatives at New Moon refuse. She is instead offered the chance to go to Shrewsbury High School with her friends, on two conditions. The first is that she board with her disliked Aunt Ruth, but it is the second that causes Emily difficulties. Emily must not write a word during her high-school education. From the author of Anne of Gre...
Nov 03, 2023•11 hr 31 min
Tales of War by Lord Dunsany audiobook. Genre: history In Tales of War, Lord Dunsany turns his lyrical imagination toward the mud, wire, and sudden terror of the First World War, shaping a sequence of short sketches that feel like dispatches, parables, and haunted memories all at once. From the men of the small village of Daleswood, who carry thoughts of home into the trenches, to solitary sentries listening to the dark beyond the parapet, these pieces follow soldiers as they endure boredom, fea...
Nov 02, 2023•2 hr 45 min
Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo da Vinci audiobook. Genre: philosophy Thoughts on Art and Life gathers Leonardo da Vinci's own words into a vivid portrait of a mind that refused to separate beauty from truth. Drawn from his notebooks, these short observations, reflections, and practical notes move between the studio and the wider world: how a painter should study light and shadow, why perspective matters, what careful drawing teaches the eye, and how nature's patterns can guide an artist's ...
Nov 02, 2023•5 hr 28 min
The Impossibles by Laurence M. Janifer audiobook. Genre: scifi In this classic, tongue-in-cheek science-fiction mystery co-written by Laurence M. Janifer (with Randall Garrett), FBI agent Kenneth Malone is assigned a case that sounds like a bad joke and quickly turns into a national-security headache. A wave of thefts targets one oddly specific prize: flashy red Cadillacs. Witnesses cannot agree on what they saw, suspects seem to vanish at the worst possible moments, and the evidence points towa...
Nov 01, 2023•6 hr 17 min
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods by Laura Lee Hope audiobook. Genre: adventure Bunny Brown and his little sister, Sue, have been having adventures and fun, and getting into scrapes, since the early 1900s. From Chapter One: 'Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were at Camp Rest-a-While with their father and their mother. They had come from their home in Bellemere to live for a while in the forest, on the shore of Lake Wanda, where they were all enjoying the life in the open air. They ha...
Nov 01, 2023•4 hr 23 min
