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74 public recordings on books, stories and audiobooks, newest first. Each page has a summary, chapters, short quotes with timestamps and the original.

  1. A Scandal in BohemiaIrene Adler outwits Sherlock Holmes and keeps the photograph that could ruin the King of Bohemia.1 h 05 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  2. Bread and SaltMercédès tests Monte Cristo's friendship with fruit and questions, but he refuses to eat under her roof.9 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  3. Count of Monte Cristo: Arrival and PurchaseMonte Cristo buys an Auteuil house sight unseen, and the address visibly terrifies his steward Bertuccio.9 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  4. Roommate Nightmare FuelA listener's share-house story escalates from a flirtatious, divisive housemate to a hidden bag of maggot-infested mince.29 min · Podcast episode
  5. The Good, The Bad, and The UglyThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly emerged from chaotic deals, risky shoots and disputed credit, yet endures.1 h 32 min · Podcast episode
  6. Ideology of PowerVillefort calls on Monte Cristo and meets a man who claims to be Providence's agent.30 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  7. Adventure of the Noble BachelorLord St. Simon's bride vanished at her wedding breakfast because her first husband, presumed dead, reappeared in church.45 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  8. An Honor to Be NominatedAn overlooked indie terraformer hijacks a rigged awards show, turning humiliation into a case for weird art.38 min · Podcast episode
  9. Count of Monte Cristo InquiryVillefort's envoy questions Abbe Bussoni and Lord Wilmore about Monte Cristo and hears two opposite accounts.22 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  10. Graduated JusticeA Mars detective uncovers a mother's faked death staged to fund her son's law degree, and lets her go.33 min · Podcast episode
  11. Judy Blume and Her LegacyJudy Blume's frank books about real adolescence made her beloved, endlessly banned, and a genuine trailblazer.48 min · Podcast episode
  12. Solitude and Self-RelianceThoreau argues each man should follow his own calling rather than professional philanthropy, which he judges overrated.23 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  13. The Adventure of the Blue CarbuncleHolmes traces the Countess's stolen blue carbuncle from a lost Christmas goose to hotel attendant James Ryder.42 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  14. The Dappled GreysMonte Cristo buys the Danglars' dappled greys, returns them with diamonds, then stages a rescue to charm Paris.32 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  15. Vendetta in NîmesBertuccio tells Monte Cristo how a refused justice in Nimes became a vendetta, a killing and a rescued child.54 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  16. A Case of IdentityHolmes proves that Mary Sutherland's vanished fiancé Hosmer Angel was her stepfather in disguise.45 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  17. Archivist of the Human HeartPoet Nikita Gill turns rejection, a viral pile-on and misdiagnosed pain into her life's work.58 min · Podcast episode
  18. Haiti's Boudoir VisitMonte Cristo tells Haiti she is free in France, and she refuses to leave him.14 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  19. Jonathan Harker's Journey to TransylvaniaJonathan Harker travels east to Count Dracula's castle as every local warning grows more frightening.37 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  20. The Beggar's RevelationA ragged ex-convict, Caderousset, corners Andrea Cavalcanti and buys silence at two hundred francs a month.24 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  21. We Who Live in the Heart Part 1Escape Pod 1035 serialises Kelly Robson's story of eight people living inside a floating creature.40 min · Podcast episode
  22. Automatic Grocery StoreA lonely automated grocery store finds purpose by adopting a stray dog and becoming her home.43 min · Podcast episode
  23. Chase Hughes: The 3 "Dark Psychology" Tricks To Read Anyone's Mind!Influence works by stacking micro-compliance, then shifting perception, context and permission until the behaviour feels automatic.1 h 56 min · Video
  24. Cordis: Green Green Album InterviewA year after debut, Cordis accept an iHeartRadio award and explain their second album, Green Green.22 min · Video
  25. Count of Monte Cristo: Breakfast ConversationThe Count of Monte Cristo arrives in Paris at Albert's breakfast and astonishes his sceptical friends.48 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  26. Count of Monte Cristo: Robert le DiableAt the opera Monte Cristo dazzles Paris, and Heidi recognises Morserf as her father's betrayer.36 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  27. Escape Pod: We Who Live in the Heart Part 2Escape Pod 1036: a loner who lives inside a sky whale must finally share what he knows.40 min · Podcast episode
  28. Lorena's Reality UnravelsThree true, unsolved stories of people whose identities and reality quietly rewrote themselves around them.45 min · Podcast episode
  29. Meet the MetsA trans ballpark vendor in 1964 finds the Mets mascot is an alien who simply loves baseball.45 min · Podcast episode
  30. ReadingReading the ancient classics in their original languages is the noblest exercise, and Concord neglects it.36 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  31. The DinnerMonte Cristo stages a lavish dinner to force Villefort and Madame d'Anglaire toward their buried crime.22 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  32. Thinking, Fast & Slow" Audiobook by Daniel Kahneman Psychology, Cognitive Biases & Decision-MakingTwo systems govern the mind: fast intuition usually serves us well, but its biases predictably mislead.9 h 58 min · Video
  33. Unlimited CreditMonte Cristo uses an unlimited letter of credit to humiliate and dominate the banker Danglars.33 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  34. What Any Dead Thing WantsEscape Pod 1026 opens Amy Ogden's tale: an exorcist crew clearing alien ghosts meets a dead human.38 min · Podcast episode
  35. Where I Lived and What I Lived ForOwning land in imagination beats owning it in fact; the real work is staying awake.27 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  36. Chop Wood Carry WaterA flourishing life is never discovered in one breakthrough; it is built by repeated daily practice.26 min · Podcast episode
  37. Count of Monte Cristo Chapter 57Valentine and Maximilian meet secretly at the gate, weighing her fortune, her feared marriage, and Monte Cristo's influence.27 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  38. Count of Monte Cristo: ToxocologyMonte Cristo teaches Madame de Villefort how poison kills untraceably, and she listens with dangerous eagerness.36 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  39. Count's Garden StrategyMonte Cristo buys a telegraph clerk's honesty for 25,000 francs and ruins Danglars with a false signal.22 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  40. First Westerner to Enter ShrineYogananda's South India tour shows temples, kings and yogis whose inner mastery outranks worldly conquest.33 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  41. House at O'Toy MysteryMonte Cristo lures Bertuccio to the Auteuil house where the steward once took his vengeance on Villefort.19 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  42. Major Cavalcante's VisitMonte Cristo coaches a hired Italian major to play the long-lost father of Andrea Cavalcanti.21 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  43. More TomorrowA stranded time-traveling paleontologist keeps a survival journal, insisting on more tomorrow even when everything fails.37 min · Podcast episode
  44. Solitude at WaldenSolitude in nature is the most companionable society; loneliness is measured by minds, not miles.32 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  45. Sounds of NatureAt Walden the speaker listens instead of reading: railroad clamour and wild sounds both teach attention.50 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  46. Summer Breeze PodcastThree hosts trade holiday stories: Cannes boat jousting, a finca that fattens, Singapore's bans, hollowed-out tourist towns.1 h 34 min · Podcast episode
  47. The Berrell Coronet MysteryHolmes proves the banker's son innocent: the niece and Sir George Burnwell stole the coronet's gems.1 h 00 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  48. The Third Man PhenomenonAcross a century of ordeals, a calm unseen presence guides survivors to safety — science can't explain it.38 min · Podcast episode
  49. What Any Dead Thing WantsHob exorcises the last haunt, leaks the terraforming footage, gets fired, and builds a preserve with Jaara.39 min · Podcast episode
  50. André Cavalcanti's ReunionMonte Cristo stages a fake father-and-son reunion, paying two impostors to play Cavalcanti nobility in Paris.25 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  51. Cabin ConfessionEscape Pod's 20th-anniversary flashback airs Laura Perlman's alien Dear John letter, then argues masking keeps fandom lonely.29 min · Podcast episode
  52. Count of Monte Cristo BallAt the Morcerf ball the Count of Monte Cristo dazzles Paris yet pointedly refuses all food under that roof.22 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  53. Exhumed: The Mercy Brown StoryAaron Manke's book Exhumed argues the New England vampire panic was fear and logic, not barbarism.1 h 41 min · Podcast episode
  54. House at HautevilleMonte Cristo buys the Hauteville house where Bertuccio's vengeance was done, forcing the terrified steward to confess.16 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  55. Kiwi Yarns Live TourBrodie Kane's live Kiwi Yarns in Invercargill: her mother Jo Cain, Tangaroa Walker, Nadia Lim and Sam Cullen.1 h 37 min · Podcast episode
  56. Roos's Web of LiesFake help-seekers like Roos drain Dutch helplines, and experts call it Munchausen by internet.1 h 00 min · Podcast episode
  57. Summer Ball and SecretsAlbert begs off marrying Eugenie Danglars and invites the unreadable Count Monte Cristo to his mother's summer ball.17 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  58. The Anatomy of MiraclesA lonely alien miracle worker and a homesick teenager answer each other's longing and both go home.54 min · Podcast episode
  59. The Engineer's ThumbA hydraulic engineer's fifty-guinea job at a lonely Berkshire house was a coiners' trap that cost his thumb.42 min · Audiobook (public domain)
  60. The Many Rebirths of Karina MoritaA post-scarcity immortal keeps her memories through reincarnation and learns to master every harder world.33 min · Podcast episode

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