Ornaments in Jade by Arthur Machen audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

Step into Arthur Machen’s Ornaments in Jade and let a master of the uncanny guide you through a collection of luminous essays, sketches and short meditations where beauty and mystery meet. Machen’s prose is ornate yet intimate—here are vignettes of memory and art, glimpses of the ancient and the otherworldly woven into reflections on everyday life, nature and the small objects that hold vast meanings. As an audiobook, these pieces come alive: the cadence of his sentences becomes a spell, the quiet reveal of the strange unfolding like a landscape seen at dusk. Listeners will find themselves transported from London parlors to misted Welsh lanes, pausing to savor Machen’s fascination with the past, the folkloric, and the subtle shudder of the supernatural. Whether you crave evocative literary atmosphere, meditative philosophy of beauty, or gentle brushstrokes of the weird, Ornaments in Jade offers a richly textured listening experience—an invitation to linger on language and to discover the unexpected wonders hiding in ordinary things.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:07:48) Chapter 02

(00:18:11) Chapter 03

(00:31:16) Chapter 04

(00:39:51) Chapter 05

(00:49:39) Chapter 06

(00:59:09) Chapter 07

(01:09:41) Chapter 08

(01:20:25) Chapter 09

(01:29:51) Chapter 10

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