Classic Audiobook Collection

Stoicism by George Stock audiobook. Genre: philosophyThis short book is part of the Philosophies Ancient and Modern series, which attempts to make Western philosophy more accessible to the general public.In this volume, George Stock provides a concise primer on Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that maintained that the universe is governed entirely by fate, and that humans can achieve happiness only by cultivating a calm acceptance of the vicissitudes of life. Among the Stoics of the Greek and Roman world were its founder, Zeno, the former slave Epictetus, and the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. George Stock discusses not only the Stoic ethics, but also less well-known aspects of Stoicism, such as its division of the branches of philosophy, its account of logic, and its natural philosophy.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:12:40) Chapter 02(00:18:28) Chapter 03(00:44:41) Chapter 04(01:34:32) Chapter 05(01:58:20) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

QRM-Interplanetary by George O. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifiFar from Earth, where the Sun can turn a simple transmission into silence, the Venus Equilateral Relay Station keeps three worlds talking. Built from an asteroid and parked sixty degrees ahead of Venus in its orbit, the spinning cylinder is a self-contained city of nearly three thousand people - engineers, technicians, and families whose daily work makes interplanetary civilization possible. Don Channing, one of the station's best electronics men, lives for the clean logic of beam circuits and relay schedules. Then the Interplanetary Communications Commission appoints a new Director: Francis Burbank, a cost-cutting administrator who treats a lifeline like a ledger. As Burbank clamps down on personal freedoms, dismantles long-standing procedures, and meddles with systems he does not understand, resentment simmers and the station's delicate balance begins to wobble. When routine maintenance and bureaucratic shortcuts collide, Channing and his colleagues - including beam-control expert Walt Franks and sharp-tongued Arden Westland - must keep communications stable while racing to prevent a life-support disaster that could turn Venus Equilateral into a drifting tomb. QRM-Interplanetary is classic, idea-driven science fiction about competence under pressure and the deadly interference of bad leadership.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:37:15) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Lifted Veil by George Eliot audiobook. Genre: horrorIn Victorian England, sensitive and solitary Latimer drifts through life with a mind he does not fully control. After a strange illness in his youth, he becomes cursed - or gifted - with sudden flashes of the future and an unnerving ability to hear the secret thoughts of those around him. What first seems like a way to understand people more deeply quickly turns into a relentless assault of petty motives, hidden cruelties, and banal desires, leaving Latimer increasingly detached from ordinary human warmth. When he meets the poised and enigmatic Bertha, he hopes love might anchor him to the living world and quiet the din inside his head. Instead, his visions and impressions intensify, tightening into a private dread that he cannot name and cannot escape. As marriage, family expectations, and medical ambition intersect with Latimer's frightening perceptions, George Eliot crafts a chilling, intimate study of isolation and the danger of seeing too much. The Lifted Veil is a darkly psychological tale about knowledge without comfort, intimacy without trust, and the thin barrier between rational life and the uncanny.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:32:01) Chapter 02(01:02:32) Chapter 03(01:33:42) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Silas Marner by George Eliot audiobook. Genre: dramaSilas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and accused of a crime he didn’t commit, awkward Silas Marner is expelled from his beloved religious community — the only community he has ever known. He exiles himself in the remote village of Raveloe. Friendless and without family, set apart from the villagers by their superstition and fear of him, he plies his weaving trade day after day, storing up gold which becomes his idol. When his gold is stolen, he is rescued from despair by the arrival on his lonely hearth of a beautiful little girl, whom he adopts, and through whom he and the other people of the village learn that loving relationships are more fulfilling than material wealth.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:25:24) Chapter 2(00:44:11) Chapter 3(01:09:46) Chapter 4(01:26:06) Chapter 5(01:37:52) Chapter 6(01:59:50) Chapter 7(02:11:38) Chapter 8(02:30:16) Chapter 9(02:45:08) Chapter 10(03:18:32) Chapter 11(04:01:43) Chapter 12(04:16:22) Chapter 13(04:33:27) Chapter 14(05:01:39) Chapter 15(05:04:43) Chapter 16(05:37:15) Chapter 17(05:59:58) Chapter 18(06:07:55) Chapter 19(06:28:44) Chapter 20(06:33:48) Chapter 21(06:41:23) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Middlemarch by George Eliot audiobook. Genre: dramaSet in the English Midlands in the years just before the Reform Act of 1832, Middlemarch follows the intertwined lives of the residents of a provincial town where ambition, idealism, and gossip travel quickly through drawing rooms, churches, and counting houses. At its center is Dorothea Brooke, a young woman determined to live for something larger than comfort, whose choices pull her into a marriage and a social world she only partly understands. Around her move the newly arrived doctor Tertius Lydgate, hungry to modernize medicine and build a meaningful career, and the earnest banker Fred Vincy and practical Mary Garth, whose relationship is tested by debt, duty, and pride. As elections stir local politics and old families reckon with new money, private longings collide with public expectations. George Eliot renders love and marriage, vocation and compromise, faith and skepticism, and the quiet heroism of everyday endurance with psychological depth and sharp humor. In Middlemarch, the smallest decisions can reshape a whole life, and a town's moral climate can be as decisive as any fate.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:26:30) Chapter 2(00:47:11) Chapter 3(01:18:13) Chapter 4(01:37:47) Chapter 5(02:01:21) Chapter 6(02:30:10) Chapter 7(02:41:27) Chapter 8(02:55:28) Chapter 9(03:21:44) Chapter 10(03:51:13) Chapter 11(04:15:53) Chapter 12(05:00:00) Chapter 13(05:24:17) Chapter 14(05:46:07) Chapter 15(06:23:26) Chapter 16(06:59:10) Chapter 17(07:23:30) Chapter 18(07:54:13) Chapter 19(08:04:47) Chapter 20(08:36:49) Chapter 21(08:58:12) Chapter 22(09:35:22) Chapter 23(10:07:32) Chapter 24(10:37:53) Chapter 25(10:54:38) Chapter 26(11:07:25) Chapter 27(11:30:14) Chapter 28(11:43:09) Chapter 29(12:03:47) Chapter 30(12:20:52) Chapter 31(12:46:31) Chapter 32(13:17:45) Chapter 33(13:31:58) Chapter 34(13:51:20) Chapter 35(14:20:36) Chapter 36(15:00:08) Chapter 37(15:54:38) Chapter 38(16:14:37) Chapter 39(16:43:31) Chapter 40(17:16:41) Chapter 41(17:30:04) Chapter 42(18:01:56) Chapter 43(18:19:28) Chapter 44(18:27:05) Chapter 45(19:12:11) Chapter 46(19:34:40) Chapter 47(19:49:23) Chapter 48(20:12:21) Chapter 49(20:22:12) Chapter 50(20:49:10) Chapter 51(21:21:05) Chapter 52(21:43:49) Chapter 53(22:17:27) Chapter 54(22:46:49) Chapter 55(22:58:11) Chapter 56(23:46:00) Chapter 57(24:10:11) Chapter 58(24:57:40) Chapter 59(25:05:28) Chapter 60(25:32:57) Chapter 61(26:09:37) Chapter 62(26:38:12) Chapter 63(26:57:12) Chapter 64(27:40:11) Chapter 65(27:53:24) Chapter 66(28:17:57) Chapter 67(28:38:19) Chapter 68(28:59:11) Chapter 69(29:24:51) Chapter 70(29:57:20) Chapter 71(30:39:45) Chapter 72(30:50:05) Chapter 73(31:01:27) Chapter 74(31:28:38) Chapter 75(31:48:00) Chapter 76(32:12:42) Chapter 77(32:31:30) Chapter 78(32:42:35) Chapter 79(33:04:39) Chapter 80(33:29:51) Chapter 81(33:40:12) Chapter 82(34:00:20) Chapter 83(34:23:39) Chapter 84 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Man of Honor by George Eggleston audiobook. Genre: dramaIn the uneasy calm after the Civil War, Robert Pagebrook, a young New Yorker with a proud streak and a wounded heart, finds himself unmoored. A professional setback and a romantic disappointment have left him restless and self-critical, so when an invitation arrives from Virginia kin he barely knows, he takes it as a chance to begin again. At Shirley, an old family place shaped by memory, custom, and Reconstruction-era change, Pagebrook is welcomed into a world where lineage still matters, manners conceal sharp judgments, and every neighbor seems to have a theory about what a man owes to his name. As Robert navigates cousins, country characters, and the quiet pressures of Southern society, he discovers that hospitality can come with expectations, and affection can test pride. Then an abrupt financial shock from home leaves him stranded and indebted, forcing him to choose between easy evasions and the harder work of living up to the standard he admires most: honor. With keen observation and moral tension, Eggleston turns a visit into a trial of character, where love, loyalty, and self-respect all hang in the balance.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:16:57) Chapter 02(00:24:41) Chapter 03(00:42:02) Chapter 04(00:55:29) Chapter 05(01:07:12) Chapter 06(01:17:56) Chapter 07(01:27:03) Chapter 08(01:34:36) Chapter 09(01:42:49) Chapter 10(01:55:52) Chapter 11(02:04:52) Chapter 12(02:21:57) Chapter 13(02:30:08) Chapter 14(02:42:54) Chapter 15(02:55:06) Chapter 16(03:04:24) Chapter 17(03:12:15) Chapter 18(03:23:45) Chapter 19(03:30:22) Chapter 20(03:38:31) Chapter 21(03:51:49) Chapter 22(04:03:05) Chapter 23(04:11:55) Chapter 24(04:18:03) Chapter 25(04:34:44) Chapter 26(04:45:08) Chapter 27(04:57:46) Chapter 28(05:12:35) Chapter 29(05:23:00) Chapter 30(05:29:57) Chapter 31(05:45:54) Chapter 32 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw audiobook. Genre: dramaPygmalion (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw based on the Greek myth of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (based on phonetician Henry Sweet), who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. In the process, Higgins and Doolittle grow close, but she ultimately rejects his domineering ways and declares she will marry Freddy Eynsford-Hill – a young, poor, gentleman. - The play was later the basis for the successful movie adaptation 'My Fair Lady' with Audrey Hepburn as Eliza and Rex Harrison as Prof. Higgins.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:10:18) Chapter 2(00:25:23) Chapter 3(01:09:20) Chapter 4(01:32:34) Chapter 5(01:46:36) Chapter 6(02:24:48) Chapter 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw audiobook. Genre: dramaIn Mrs. Warren's Profession, George Bernard Shaw turns a drawing-room visit into a razor-sharp confrontation with the economics of respectability. Vivie Warren is young, brilliant, and determined to build an independent life through hard work and clear thinking. But when she finally spends time with her mother, Kitty Warren, the polished story of success that has always hovered at the edge of their relationship begins to crack. A few well-placed acquaintances gather around them - including the charming, unreliable Frank Gardner; his prudent father, the Reverend Samuel Gardner; and the wealthy, predatory Sir George Crofts - and each brings a different version of what society calls virtue, ambition, and survival. As secrets are forced into the open, Vivie must decide what kind of adult she will be, and what she owes to family, money, and a world built on double standards. Bold, witty, and unsettling, Shaw's play examines how poverty, power, and hypocrisy can shape lives, especially for women, and asks whether moral judgment is ever separable from the conditions that make certain choices seem inevitable.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:40:11) Chapter 02(01:31:02) Chapter 03(02:07:05) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Arms and The Man by George Bernard Shaw audiobook. Genre: comedyArms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw that takes place in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Raina Petkoff is engaged to the gallant Sergius Saranoff, hero of the recent Bulgarian victory over the Serbs. But she is distracted by the abrupt arrival of Captain Bluntschli, a Swiss mercenary who fought for the Serbian army. He takes refuge in her bedroom after the battle and although he is initially threatening, reveals that he carries chocolate creams instead of bullets. Will Raina marry the posturing Sergius or the chocolate cream soldier? Extra intrigue is provided by saucy servant girl Louka, her dour fiance Nicola, and Raina's hand-wringing parents.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:47:31) Chapter 02(01:41:52) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Columbus of Space by Garrett P. Serviss audiobook. Genre: scifiEdmund Stonewall is a quiet, brilliant eccentric whose true obsession is not wealth or fame, but the outer limits of human possibility. When he finally invites a few friends from his New York club circle - including the bold, joking Jack Ashton and the sharper-edged Henry Darton - into his private workshop, he unveils an astonishing vehicle: a compact air-and-space car driven by controlled inter-atomic power. What begins as a demonstration turns into an irrevocable voyage beyond Earth, as Stonewall and his companions are carried toward Venus with no clear map, no rescue, and only Stonewall's nerve and ingenuity to keep them alive. On Venus they find a world divided between burning sunlight and permanent night, with strange landscapes, brutal hazards, and societies shaped by extremes of climate and time. Misunderstandings, rivalries, and the problem of communicating across species and culture quickly become as dangerous as any creature in the shadows. As the travelers struggle to repair their fragile advantage and choose whom to trust, the dream of discovery becomes a test of character: what does it mean to be a 'Columbus of space' when the new world is already inhabited?For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:23:28) Chapter 2(00:46:13) Chapter 3(01:07:56) Chapter 4(01:39:12) Chapter 5(02:01:43) Chapter 6(02:25:25) Chapter 7(02:45:23) Chapter 8(03:09:03) Chapter 9(03:28:37) Chapter 10(03:52:19) Chapter 11(04:11:57) Chapter 12(04:33:23) Chapter 13(04:50:41) Chapter 14(05:08:35) Chapter 15(05:30:44) Chapter 16(05:49:12) Chapter 17(06:12:58) Chapter 18(06:30:52) Chapter 19(06:49:28) Chapter 20(07:08:42) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices