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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R.James Vol.1| Full Audiobook with subtitles

Montague Rhodes James librivox was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.“Ghost Stories of an Antiquary” was written as two collections, presented here as two volumes in a single work. There is a short author’s preface before the first story in each volume. (Summary by Peter Yearsley) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary M. R. JAMES Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction Audio Book Audiobooks All Rights Reserved. This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer visit librivox.org.

Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

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Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac’s finest and most popular novel. It is set in Paris in 1819, after Napoleon’s defeat and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy. France was undergoing massive social upheaval, as the new bourgeoisie jockeyed for position alongside the old aristocracy. Against this backdrop, we follow the lives of Goriot, an old man who irrationally dotes on his daughters; Vautrin, a shadowy criminal mastermind; and Rastignac, a young man from the provinces who studies how to navigate the complexities and climb the ladder of Parisian society. Balzac’s masterful use of physical and psychological detail makes this book a landmark in the development of realism in western literature.Translated by Ellen Marriage.Chapter 1 – 00:00 Chapter 2 – 42:52 Chapter 3 – 1:15:26 Chapter 4 – 1:33:03 Chapter 5 – 1:57:46 Chapter 6 – 2:08:38 Chapter 7 – 2:37:57 Chapter 8 – 3:26:36 Chapter 9 – 3:52:46 Chapter 10 – 4:41:32 Chapter 11 – 5:27:43 Chapter 12 – 6:12:50 Chapter 13 – 6:56:00 Chapter 14 – 7:37:11 Chapter 15 – 8:18:33 Chapter 16 – 8:54:45 Chapter 17 – 9:36:51 Chapter 18 – 10:20:13 Chapter 19 – 10:50:39Translated by Ellen Marriage Read by Bruce Pirie (https://librivox.org/reader/3699)

The Heart of the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Support New Wellness Living and this ‘New Thought Series’:Via Paypal: paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=PQRGZ58MG9EDAElla Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was “The Way Of The World”, which contains the lines, “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone”. Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death.She started writing poetry at a very early age, and was well known as a poet in her own state by the time she graduated from high school. She married Robert Wilcox. Not long after their marriage, they both became interested in Theosophy, New Thought, and Spiritualism. She made efforts to teach occult things to the world.Her works, filled with positivism, were popular in the New Thought Movement and by 1915 her booklet, What I Know About New Thought had a distribution of 50,000 copies, according to its publisher, Elizabeth Towne.Source: GoodReads.com

Three Men and a Maid by P. G. Wodehouse

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“Three Men and a Maid” in the USA and “The Girl on the Boat” in the UK, is a typical P.G. Wodehouse romantic comedy, involving, at various times: a disastrous talent quest, a lawyer with a revolver, a bulldog with a mind of his own and a suit of armour!The maid, or marriageable young woman, is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina “Billie” Bennet. The three men are Bream Mortimer, a long-time friend and admirer of Billie, Eustace Hignett, a poet of sensitive disposition who is engaged to Billie at the opening of the tale, and Sam Marlowe, Eustace’s would-be-dashing cousin, who falls for Billie at first sight. All four find themselves on an ocean liner headed for England together, along with an elephant-gun-wielding young woman called Jane Hubbard who is smitten with Eustace the poet. Typically Wodehousian romantic shenanigans ensue.Chapter 1 – 00:00 Chapter 2 – 22:05 Chapter 3 – 1:03:32 Chapter 4 – 1:21:19 Chapter 5 – 1:50:26 Chapter 6 – 2:03:33 Chapter 7 – 2:13:04 Chapter 8 – 2:32:36 Chapter 9 – 2:43:07 Chapter 10 – 3:00:14 Chapter 11 – 3:05:34 Chapter 12 – 3:22:28 Chapter 13 – 3:35:40 Chapter 14 – 3:48:36 Chapter 15 – 4:09:08 Chapter 16 – 4:28:34Read by Tim Bulkeley (https://librivox.org/reader/753)

The History of Mr. Polly Audiobook by H. G. Wells | Audiobook with subtitles

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A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn –- and changes everything.H.G. Wells’ early life as the son of a semi-insolvent shopkeeper and as a draper’s apprentice fueled his novels of the lower middle class: The Wheels of Chance (1896), Kipps (1905), and The History of Mr. Polly (1910). These works evoke the desperation of apprentices, clerks, and small traders in their monotonous toil behind shop counters. And, like Mr. Polly, his protagonists make a break from their mundane lives with more or less success.H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific writer in history, general and science fiction, and politics. He was a lifelong socialist. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis) The History of Mr. Polly H. G. WELLSOur Custom URL : https://www.youtube.com/c/AudiobookAudiobooks Subscribe To Our Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AudiobookAudiobooks?sub_confirmation=1 —————————————————————————————————– Audio Book Audiobooks All Rights Reserved. This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer visit librivox.org.