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Explore over a thousand great books by authors from the ancient world through to the twentieth century. From Jane Austen to Herman Melville to Sun Tzu, from the ancient Greeks to American modernists: If a book changed the world, it's here. Share these full-length audiobooks with friends and start an audiobook club! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription You can now filter by genre, by searching our titles by the following keywords: adventure biography business comedy cooking drama family fantasy folklore history horror mystery philosophy poetry religion romance science scifi self help speeches thriller tragedy

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    What She Said and What She Meant, and People Who Havent Time and Cant Afford It by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

    What She Said and What She Meant, and People Who Havent Time and Cant Afford It by Pansy audiobook. Genre: drama This compact volume brings together two sharp, character-driven stories by Pansy that examine how ordinary choices can wound, mislead, or quietly transform the lives around us. In What She Said and What She Meant, Mrs. Marks tries to keep herself clear of outright scandal, yet her half-spoken comments and careless social habits allow gossip to spread in ways she never intended. As reputations begin to suffer, the story probes the dangerous gap between what people say, what they mean, and what others choose to hear. In People Who Haven't Time and Can't Afford It, Mrs. Leymon is forced to look more closely at the poverty and need surrounding her. Moved by what she sees, she begins to question the polite excuses that shield comfortable people from responsibility and must decide whether sympathy alone is enough. Together, these stories offer a vivid portrait of domestic life, social pressure, and moral accountability, showing how speech, money, time, and influence can all become tests of character. Warm but unsparing, the book blends everyday realism with a strong ethical focus, inviting listeners to consider the hidden consequences of small decisions. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:52) Chapter 02 (00:34:23) Chapter 03 (00:51:51) Chapter 04 (01:10:14) Chapter 05 (01:32:24) Chapter 06 (01:52:21) Chapter 07 (02:07:05) Chapter 08 (02:20:54) Chapter 09 (02:34:42) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    2 h 58 min
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    Wanted by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]

    Wanted by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion In Wanted, Pansy follows twenty-seven-year-old Rebecca Meredith, a woman burdened by grief, disappointment, and the aching belief that she is no longer needed anywhere. After losing much of her family and watching the man she expected to marry choose someone else, Rebecca feels even more displaced when her father remarries and his gentle new wife cannot seem to reach her. Determined to make her own way, she leaves home and accepts a position in the household of the wealthy McKenzies as nurse to their baby daughter, a child who stirs memories of Rebecca's beloved little sister. In her new surroundings, Rebecca quickly forms strong opinions about the troubled family around her, especially the stern Mr. McKenzie and his frail, suffering wife. But as she becomes more deeply involved in their lives, Rebecca is forced to confront how little she understands about sorrow, duty, love, and the hidden struggles people carry. Blending domestic drama with spiritual reflection, the novel explores loneliness, wounded pride, family misunderstanding, and the longing to belong, as Rebecca's search for work becomes a deeper search for truth, faith, and a place to call home. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:20:59) Chapter 02 (00:40:57) Chapter 03 (00:59:23) Chapter 04 (01:17:28) Chapter 05 (01:35:03) Chapter 06 (01:53:41) Chapter 07 (02:11:09) Chapter 08 (02:30:45) Chapter 09 (02:49:42) Chapter 10 (03:08:01) Chapter 11 (03:28:00) Chapter 12 (03:46:23) Chapter 13 (04:04:14) Chapter 14 (04:23:09) Chapter 15 (04:42:04) Chapter 16 (05:00:38) Chapter 17 (05:19:47) Chapter 18 (05:38:54) Chapter 19 (05:59:38) Chapter 20 (06:19:09) Chapter 21 (06:40:15) Chapter 22 (07:00:16) Chapter 23 (07:19:18) Chapter 24 (07:39:13) Chapter 25 (08:01:07) Chapter 26 (08:22:22) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    Twenty Minutes Late by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [family]

    Twenty Minutes Late by Pansy audiobook. Genre: family In this sequel to Miss Dee Dunmore Bryant, Caroline Bryant discovers how much can change in a single afternoon. After being just twenty minutes late, she is swept into a chain of mistakes and missed connections that carries her far from her struggling home and into Philadelphia, a city full of strangers, noise, and possibilities. While her widowed mother, brother Ben, and little Daisy wait anxiously for news, Caroline must rely on her courage, good sense, and faith as she finds temporary shelter with the kindly Dr. Forsythe, his daughter Dorothy, and the warmhearted housekeeper Mrs. Packard. Away from home, Caroline is confronted by the sharp contrast between comfort and poverty, the demands placed on working families, and the quiet ways kindness can transform a life. As she tries to find her way back to the people she loves, she also begins to understand more deeply what responsibility, perseverance, and trust really mean. Tender, earnest, and rich with late 19th century detail, Twenty Minutes Late is a coming-of-age family story about hardship, providence, and the unexpected detours that shape a young girl's heart. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:16:12) Chapter 02 (00:27:44) Chapter 03 (00:42:34) Chapter 04 (00:58:16) Chapter 05 (01:17:30) Chapter 06 (01:39:02) Chapter 07 (02:00:45) Chapter 08 (02:22:00) Chapter 09 (02:37:18) Chapter 10 (02:57:01) Chapter 11 (03:16:05) Chapter 12 (03:40:15) Chapter 13 (03:59:55) Chapter 14 (04:20:45) Chapter 15 (04:38:35) Chapter 16 (04:57:19) Chapter 17 (05:17:09) Chapter 18 (05:35:32) Chapter 19 (05:54:32) Chapter 20 (06:17:05) Chapter 21 (06:38:24) Chapter 22 (07:02:54) Chapter 23 (07:22:03) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    Tip Lewis and His Lamp by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]

    Tip Lewis and His Lamp by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion Tip Lewis and His Lamp is a warm, earnest nineteenth-century story about Edward 'Tip' Lewis, a mischievous village boy growing up in poverty, disorder, and neglect. Known for laziness, lies, and troublemaking, Tip seems like the last child anyone would expect to change. But after a timid young teacher, Miss Perry, agrees to take the rough mission class at Sunday school, and the compassionate Mr. Holbrook begins to guide him, Tip is drawn toward a different way of living. Given a Bible that becomes his 'lamp,' he starts trying to measure his choices by what he reads there. That simple decision throws him into a real struggle. At home he faces a weary mother, a troubled father, and the needs of his sister Kitty. At school and in town he must endure suspicion, ridicule, old habits, and fresh temptations that threaten to pull him back. The heart of the book is not just whether Tip can behave better, but whether inner change can survive in a hard world that expects him to fail. Pansy tells a sincere story of conscience, faith, patience, and the quiet power of kindness to reshape a life. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:10:34) Chapter 02 (00:20:13) Chapter 03 (00:30:49) Chapter 04 (00:40:11) Chapter 05 (00:48:05) Chapter 06 (00:55:46) Chapter 07 (01:12:57) Chapter 08 (01:28:19) Chapter 09 (01:41:35) Chapter 10 (01:54:28) Chapter 11 (02:01:57) Chapter 12 (02:13:21) Chapter 13 (02:21:40) Chapter 14 (02:35:20) Chapter 15 (02:46:33) Chapter 16 (02:55:12) Chapter 17 (03:08:31) Chapter 18 (03:19:38) Chapter 19 (03:28:34) Chapter 20 (03:49:52) Chapter 21 (03:59:28) Chapter 22 (04:08:51) Chapter 23 (04:18:01) Chapter 24 (04:27:21) Chapter 25 (04:40:50) Chapter 26 (04:51:41) Chapter 27 (05:02:32) Chapter 28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    5 h 21 min
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    Three People by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]

    Three People by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion Set in 19th-century America, Three People begins with three boys born on the same day but into strikingly different worlds. Pliny Hastings is the adored son of a wealthy liquor merchant, Bennie Phillips is raised in a comfortable middle-class home, and Tode Mall grows up in crushing poverty with a drunken father and a mother whose desperate final prayer is that her son will never touch rum. As the boys grow, their lives unfold along very different paths, yet each remains bound to the same dangerous force: a culture that excuses, profits from, and is quietly damaged by drink. The novel follows Tode in particular as he struggles against ignorance, hunger, and social contempt, trying to build an honest future and a new identity for himself. Around him move ministers, merchants, friends, and family members whose choices reveal how temptation reaches into every class of society. Part coming-of-age story and part moral drama, the book explores how upbringing shapes character, how faith and persistence can challenge a bleak beginning, and how one generation's habits can threaten the next. The central question is whether these three boys can escape the legacies handed to them before those legacies claim their futures. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:00) Chapter 02 (00:29:08) Chapter 03 (00:43:48) Chapter 04 (01:01:03) Chapter 05 (01:12:27) Chapter 06 (01:25:36) Chapter 07 (01:39:05) Chapter 08 (01:56:56) Chapter 09 (02:13:45) Chapter 10 (02:31:49) Chapter 11 (02:52:57) Chapter 12 (03:15:46) Chapter 13 (03:38:53) Chapter 14 (04:01:11) Chapter 15 (04:25:24) Chapter 16 (04:47:34) Chapter 17 (05:04:45) Chapter 18 (05:32:14) Chapter 19 (05:51:08) Chapter 20 (06:11:23) Chapter 21 (06:38:25) Chapter 22 (07:00:42) Chapter 23 (07:24:41) Chapter 24 (07:45:10) Chapter 25 (08:04:02) Chapter 26 (08:25:01) Chapter 27 (08:51:48) Chapter 28 (09:13:19) Chapter 29 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    Stories and Pictures from the Life of Jesus by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]

    Stories and Pictures from the Life of Jesus by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion In Stories and Pictures from the Life of Jesus, Pansy presents the Gospel story in a warm, accessible form designed especially for young listeners and family reading. Moving through the major moments of Jesus' early life and public ministry, the book introduces scenes such as his birth, his kindness toward ordinary people, his teaching in stories and parables, and the wonders that drew crowds to hear him. Pansy writes with a clear devotional purpose, inviting children not only to follow the events but also to reflect on what they reveal about love, mercy, obedience, and faith. The narrative brings together memorable biblical episodes, simple moral lessons, and vivid illustrations that help make familiar sacred history feel immediate and personal. Along the way, listeners meet disciples, families, skeptics, and those in need, all responding in different ways to Jesus' words and actions. The central tension grows from the contrast between Jesus' message of compassion and truth and the misunderstanding, doubt, and resistance he faces from the world around him. Gentle in tone but earnest in purpose, this book offers a reverent introduction to the life and character of Jesus. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:01:57) Chapter 02 (00:04:06) Chapter 03 (00:06:01) Chapter 04 (00:08:34) Chapter 05 (00:10:33) Chapter 06 (00:12:42) Chapter 07 (00:14:22) Chapter 08 (00:16:45) Chapter 09 (00:18:31) Chapter 10 (00:20:27) Chapter 11 (00:22:22) Chapter 12 (00:24:26) Chapter 13 (00:26:26) Chapter 14 (00:28:25) Chapter 15 (00:30:44) Chapter 16 (00:33:16) Chapter 17 (00:34:59) Chapter 18 (00:36:58) Chapter 19 (00:38:31) Chapter 20 (00:40:32) Chapter 21 (00:42:34) Chapter 22 (00:45:02) Chapter 23 (00:47:34) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    53 min
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    Stephen Mitchells Journey by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]

    Stephen Mitchells Journey by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion Set on a worn, unpromising farm, this late-19th-century novel follows Stephen Mitchell, a shy, undereducated young man who feels trapped by hard labor, poverty, and his own painful awkwardness. He has little hope for the future until a chance visit to a Chautauqua gathering awakens his curiosity and gives him the first glimpse of a larger world. Determined to change, Stephen begins an uphill effort at self-education, helped by his practical sister Sarah Jane and guided by the thoughtful minister Max Ransom and his refined sister Helen. As Stephen struggles to improve both his mind and his family's prospects, new friendships, social expectations, and questions of faith press in on every side. His growth is not smooth: pride, discouragement, class differences, and the pull of merely outward success keep threatening to turn him aside. More than a simple coming-of-age tale, the book is a story of inward awakening, moral direction, and the difficult work of becoming a different kind of man. Pansy blends domestic detail, spiritual reflection, and quiet character drama into a warm, earnest portrait of transformation. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:50) Chapter 02 (00:39:52) Chapter 03 (00:59:17) Chapter 04 (01:18:11) Chapter 05 (01:35:24) Chapter 06 (01:53:35) Chapter 07 (02:10:30) Chapter 08 (02:30:50) Chapter 09 (02:46:13) Chapter 10 (03:04:55) Chapter 11 (03:22:45) Chapter 12 (03:41:16) Chapter 13 (03:59:35) Chapter 14 (04:17:01) Chapter 15 (04:36:23) Chapter 16 (04:56:43) Chapter 17 (05:18:02) Chapter 18 (05:40:00) Chapter 19 (06:01:57) Chapter 20 (06:23:35) Chapter 21 (06:43:32) Chapter 22 (07:04:24) Chapter 23 (07:26:16) Chapter 24 (07:44:17) Chapter 25 (08:07:05) Chapter 26 (08:24:52) Chapter 27 (08:41:41) Chapter 28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    Spun from Fact by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]

    Spun from Fact by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion Spun from Fact follows Jeanie Barrett, a bright, thoughtful young woman who has grown up in comfort yet quietly doubts the shallow, fashionable religion she sees around her. When a deeply personal spiritual awakening changes her heart, Jeanie resolves to live a faith that is real, active, and costly - not merely respectable. But almost at once, life turns against her. Her family's fortunes collapse, hardship reshapes their home, and a sudden illness leaves Jeanie facing long months of pain, weakness, and helpless dependence. As years of suffering stretch before her, the book traces how her beliefs are tested by disappointment, poverty, unanswered questions, and the reactions of those around her, including her skeptical cousin Bert and other friends whose loyalties and convictions do not always match her own. Part domestic drama, part spiritual testimony, the novel centers on whether Jeanie can continue to trust God when nearly every worldly hope is stripped away. Drawn from real events and written with strong religious purpose, the story explores endurance, prayer, service, and the difficult difference between professed belief and lived faith. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:18:36) Chapter 02 (00:37:36) Chapter 03 (00:55:23) Chapter 04 (01:13:38) Chapter 05 (01:31:59) Chapter 06 (01:49:19) Chapter 07 (02:09:15) Chapter 08 (02:29:18) Chapter 09 (02:50:56) Chapter 10 (03:13:27) Chapter 11 (03:33:20) Chapter 12 (03:52:54) Chapter 13 (04:11:43) Chapter 14 (04:31:21) Chapter 15 (04:52:33) Chapter 16 (05:12:53) Chapter 17 (05:32:53) Chapter 18 (05:53:44) Chapter 19 (06:14:30) Chapter 20 (06:35:34) Chapter 21 (06:57:45) Chapter 22 (07:19:51) Chapter 23 (07:43:22) Chapter 24 (08:03:41) Chapter 25 (08:24:43) Chapter 26 (08:41:56) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Explore over a thousand great books by authors from the ancient world through to the twentieth century. From Jane Austen to Herman Melville to Sun Tzu, from the ancient Greeks to American modernists: If a book changed the world, it's here. Share these full-length audiobooks with friends and start an audiobook club! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription You can now filter by genre, by searching our titles by the following keywords: adventure biography business comedy cooking drama family fantasy folklore history horror mystery philosophy poetry religion romance science scifi self help speeches thriller tragedy

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