Classic Audiobook Collection

Judge Burnhams Daughters by Pansy audiobook.
Genre: religion
In Judge Burnham's Daughters, Isabella Alden (writing as Pansy) returns to Ruth Erskine, now Ruth Burnham, as she steps into a life that looks enviable from the outside. Married to a respected judge, living in comfort, and raising a bright young son, Ruth should have everything she once hoped for. Yet her happiest convictions become the very thing that isolates her. Judge Burnham prides himself on status and good order, but he has little patience for Ruth's earnest Christianity, quietly pressuring her to soften what he calls her strict ideas. Worse, Ruth is suddenly responsible for two grown stepdaughters who resist her influence and chase society's pleasures with an independence that threatens both family unity and their spiritual future. Caught between a husband who wants peace at any price and daughters who test every boundary, Ruth must decide what it means to lead with gentleness without surrendering her faith. As misunderstandings multiply and the costs of compromise become clearer, Ruth searches for the courage to let God work through her in a divided household.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:17:40) Chapter 02
(00:35:00) Chapter 03
(00:54:29) Chapter 04
(01:11:46) Chapter 05
(01:28:54) Chapter 06
(01:47:50) Chapter 07
(02:04:51) Chapter 08
(02:22:13) Chapter 09
(02:39:14) Chapter 10
(02:58:09) Chapter 11
(03:15:38) Chapter 12
(03:33:30) Chapter 13
(03:52:01) Chapter 14
(04:10:27) Chapter 15
(04:27:57) Chapter 16
(04:46:29) Chapter 17
(05:03:40) Chapter 18
(05:22:32) Chapter 19
(05:40:19) Chapter 20
(05:59:07) Chapter 21
(06:17:45) Chapter 22
(06:36:24) Chapter 23
(06:54:17) Chapter 24
(07:11:45) Chapter 25
(07:29:19) Chapter 26
(07:47:59) Chapter 27
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Interrupted by Pansy audiobook.
Genre: religion
In this late-19th-century Christian novel, Claire Benedict is the person everyone relies on: steady, capable, and endlessly willing to take on one more task for her church, her friends, and her family. In the Benedict home, Claire's younger sister Dora watches with mixed admiration and worry as Claire's days fill with committees, calls, and carefully laid plans for a useful, orderly future. Then everything is abruptly interrupted. When Mr. Benedict dies without warning, grief is only the beginning - his death leaves the household shaken and nearly penniless, and the dependable life Claire has built is suddenly replaced by urgent questions of work, debt, and what it truly means to trust God when tomorrow is no longer predictable. As Claire steps out into a wider world than she has ever needed to face, she must balance duty with exhaustion, compassion with hard choices, and public expectations with private sorrow. With a cast of neighbors, church members, and would-be advisers, Interrupted traces the costly, everyday courage it takes to keep faith, protect a family, and find purpose when a life of service is tested by loss.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:16:00) Chapter 02
(00:31:23) Chapter 03
(00:47:38) Chapter 04
(01:03:21) Chapter 05
(01:19:25) Chapter 06
(01:35:26) Chapter 07
(01:51:02) Chapter 08
(02:07:08) Chapter 09
(02:23:34) Chapter 10
(02:41:00) Chapter 11
(02:57:10) Chapter 12
(03:13:00) Chapter 13
(03:31:32) Chapter 14
(03:52:05) Chapter 15
(04:10:42) Chapter 16
(04:30:51) Chapter 17
(04:49:19) Chapter 18
(05:07:35) Chapter 19
(05:25:51) Chapter 20
(05:41:48) Chapter 21
(05:57:47) Chapter 22
(06:14:33) Chapter 23
(06:30:42) Chapter 24
(06:45:42) Chapter 25
(07:02:42) Chapter 26
(07:21:17) Chapter 27
(07:38:11) Chapter 28
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Household Puzzles by Pansy audiobook.
Genre: drama
In Household Puzzles, Pansy (Isabella M. Alden) invites you into the Randolph home, where everyday choices become moral tests with real consequences. After the family's fortunes tighten and a season of loss leaves the household shaken, four sisters and their brother must keep up appearances in a world that judges respectability by clothes, callers, and carefully kept rooms. Helen Randolph, the eldest, is determined to claim the life she thinks society promises, even when pride and purchases on credit threaten to pull everyone under. Her practical sister Maria fights back with work, ingenuity, and a fierce desire to care for their ailing father, turning domestic skill into hard-earned income. Meanwhile, Tom Randolph faces pressures of his own as employment and companionship tug him toward places where temptation is close at hand. As courtship, churchgoing, debts, and daily meals collide, the Randolphs discover that the hardest puzzles are not in balancing a budget, but in deciding what matters most: comfort or character, reputation or integrity, talk about faith or faith lived at home.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:13:50) Chapter 02
(00:28:06) Chapter 03
(00:42:48) Chapter 04
(00:59:49) Chapter 05
(01:13:33) Chapter 06
(01:31:51) Chapter 07
(01:48:31) Chapter 08
(02:03:33) Chapter 09
(02:19:40) Chapter 10
(02:36:58) Chapter 11
(02:53:27) Chapter 12
(03:10:57) Chapter 13
(03:29:21) Chapter 14
(03:47:00) Chapter 15
(04:05:28) Chapter 16
(04:24:43) Chapter 17
(04:43:38) Chapter 18
(05:02:58) Chapter 19
(05:19:14) Chapter 20
(05:38:16) Chapter 21
(05:56:19) Chapter 22
(06:13:11) Chapter 23
(06:30:13) Chapter 24
(06:48:06) Chapter 25
(07:07:18) Chapter 26
(07:24:42) Chapter 27
(07:40:48) Chapter 28
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Her Associate Members by Pansy audiobook.
Genre: religion
In Her Associate Members, Pansy (Isabella Macdonald Alden) returns to the spirited Christian worker once known as Chrissy Hollister. Now married to the gentle, principled Stuart Holmes, Chrissy has followed doctors' orders south to Florida, where Stuart can recover from a severe illness in warm air and quiet surroundings. But while she pours herself into nursing him, Chrissy wrestles with a new kind of discouragement: away from her familiar Christian Endeavor circle, what work can she possibly do for God - and should she even try after a recent, humiliating failure to help a group of young people? Then, in an ordinary boarding house and along sunlit streets, Chrissy begins to notice the people she had resolved to ignore: a neglected servant girl called Happy, a coarse and troubled young man named Liph Stetson, a worn landlady, and a grim woman whose marriage hides a painful secret. Chrissy's answer is both daring and simple. If she is an active member, why not treat these hurting souls as her associate members - and seek them one by one through practical kindness, courageous conversation, and everyday faithfulness?
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:21:36) Chapter 02
(00:41:32) Chapter 03
(01:01:12) Chapter 04
(01:21:25) Chapter 05
(01:39:33) Chapter 06
(01:57:36) Chapter 07
(02:16:14) Chapter 08
(02:34:59) Chapter 09
(02:54:06) Chapter 10
(03:13:30) Chapter 11
(03:33:17) Chapter 12
(03:50:29) Chapter 13
(04:09:53) Chapter 14
(04:28:29) Chapter 15
(04:46:18) Chapter 16
(05:04:22) Chapter 17
(05:23:07) Chapter 18
(05:40:08) Chapter 19
(06:00:04) Chapter 20
(06:20:00) Chapter 21
(06:39:39) Chapter 22
(06:57:21) Chapter 23
(07:16:43) Chapter 24
(07:36:25) Chapter 25
(07:54:21) Chapter 26
(08:12:45) Chapter 27
(08:34:45) Chapter 28
(08:59:05) Chapter 29
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A Hedge Fence by Pansy audiobook.
Genre: religion
In A Hedge Fence, Pansy (Isabella Alden) offers a warm, month-by-month collection of twelve connected stories that show how a single Bible verse, remembered at the right moment, can steady a young heart. Most of the book unfolds through lively letters from Frank Hudson, a boy who means well but keeps tumbling into trouble, to his cousin Renie. When an older friend challenges Frank to learn one verse each month, Frank begins to picture those words as a kind of hedge fence around his choices: not a prison, but a boundary that makes wrongdoing harder to slip into unnoticed and makes the right path easier to recognize. As school, friendships, and everyday temptations test him, Frank learns that real courage can look like stopping, thinking, and choosing differently than he first wants. In the final chapters, the focus shifts to two more young people, Annie and David, as they face their own small-but-important crossroads and discover how Scripture can speak into ordinary life. Gentle, practical, and deeply character-centered, this book explores conscience, self-control, and the slow work of growing wiser.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:08:47) Chapter 02
(00:17:41) Chapter 03
(00:26:10) Chapter 04
(00:33:55) Chapter 05
(00:40:54) Chapter 06
(00:47:40) Chapter 07
(00:57:22) Chapter 08
(01:03:14) Chapter 09
(01:11:00) Chapter 10
(01:21:18) Chapter 11
(01:31:35) Chapter 12
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