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An English scientist, known only as the Time Traveler, constructs a machine that allows him to move back and forth through different periods of time. Testing this machine, the man travels forward to AD 802,701. Here he discovers a lazy, non disciplined group of people who do not seem interested in anything. Thinking he has seen all he needs for his research, he decides to travel back home. Upon returning to where he left his time machine, he discovers an intelligent, violent group of people...
| Автор | H. G. Wells |
"A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore are as different as England and America themselves and yet almost two centuries later these two iconic tales remain the most popular Christmas stories ever told. Now they are brought together for the first time in this very special holiday recording with additional commentary from Alison Larkin. Derek Perkins is the Audie and AudioFile Earphones award winning narrator of over 200 audiobooks and an...
| Автор | Клемент Кларк Мур |
"I told you so, you damned fools." H G Wells The father of Science Fiction predicted the events of the next century with almost 100% accuracy. In The Time Machine he depicted a dying world destroyed by humanity long before anyone realized climate change was becoming an urgent issue, making the famous story even more chillingly relevant today. Inventing the now-familiar concept of time travel, Wells sends his English scientist 802,701 years into the future where he encounters our own...
| Автор | H.G. Wells |
In "The Locket?, a confederate soldier declines his fellow soldiers' request to reveal the contents of the locket around his neck. The locket, which holds pictures of his fiancée's parents and the date of their wedding is found on the battlefield after a battle. Later, the soldier's fiancée visits the battlefield with the soldier's father, both shaken with grief. The soldier's father asks his son's fiancée to remove her veil, as it contrasts too sharply with the...
| Автор | Kate Chopin |
In Ma'ame Pelagie, two women inhabit the ruins of their coastal Louisiana plantation, hoarding their pennies so they can restore it to its pre-Civil war glory. Ma'am Pelagie and her younger sister, Pauline sip coffee on the veranda and share stories about the house's glorious past and their own narrow escape from danger during the war. When their niece arrives from the city for a visit, the sisters are compelled to make a hard choice about the once proud Valmet estate.
| Автор | Kate Chopin |
In der Novelle von Theodor Stom, die auf einer Sage basiert, steht der fiktive Deichgraf Hauke Haien im Zentrum. Dieser ist ein Mann des Fortschritts und sein Ziel ist es den alten Deich am Dorf zu modernisieren. Doch die abergläubischen Dorfbewohner stehen diesem Projekt sehr skeptisch gegenüber, wittern sie doch großes Unglück hinter dem neuen Damm. Schon bald verkörpert Hauke Haien und sein weißen Pferd für sie das Dämonische, welches in Form eines gespenstischen Schimmelreiters Unglück über...
| Автор | Theodor Storm |
Dorian Gray, ein wohlhabender englischer Gentleman, ist nur von einem einzigen Gedanken besessen: die ewige Jugend zu erlangen! Von seiner eigenen Schönheit bezaubert, verkauft er seine Seele, um seinen Wunschtraum wahr werden zu lassen. Hemmungslos gibt er sich seinem Hang zu maßloser Verschwendung, Verbrechen und Grausamkeit hin, denn er altert nicht mehr und sein zügelloser Lebensstil hinterlässt an seinem Körper keine Spuren. Doch auf seinem gemalten Porträt verbirgt sich die grauenvolle...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Satori in Paris and Pic, two of Jack Kerouac's last novels, showcase the remarkable range and versatility of his mature talent. Satori in Paris is a rollicking autobiographical account of Kerouac's search for his heritage in France, and lands the author in his familiar milieu of seedy bars and all-night conversations. Pic is Kerouac's final novel and one of his most unusual. Narrated by ten-year-old Pictorial Review Jackson in a North Carolina vernacular, the novel charts the...
| Автор | Jack Kerouac |
Written as an introductory story to The Piazza Tales, the protagonist of The Piazza, idealizes a radiant spot on the mountain he looks upon from his piazza. Traveling to the spot he realizes it is a house, occupied by the unhappy girl Marianna, who longs to see the lucky individual who lives in the white house she looks upon from her window. The narrator realizes he has been the object of a fantasy alike to his own, and leaves thinking how all idealism is an illusion.
| Автор | Herman Melville |
This glorious new audio production of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women; Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (the first of four books) gives us the March sisters in one evanescent year, from Christmas to Christmas, as they dance back and forth on the delicate, tender line between childhood and adulthood. By turns as achingly beautiful as it is humorous and wise, as you listen you will fall in love with rough-and-tumble Jo, graceful Meg, gentle, gifted Beth, and willful Amy as they struggle,...
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in Colliers Magazine on May 27th, 1922. The story follows Benjamin's life from his birth in 1860. However he is no ordinary child, as he has the appearance of a 70 year old man, already capable of speech. His family soon realizes that Benjamin is aging in reverse, becoming younger as the years go by. The fascinating story looks at his triumphs and struggles as he slowly gains his youth. Adding...
| Автор | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature's greatest detective team, the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson, as they investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. Originally published in 1892, this is the first and best collection of stories about the legendary sleuth. The collection includes one of the author's personal favorites: A Scandal in Bohemia, in which a king is blackmailed by a former lover and Holmes matches wits with the only...
| Автор | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
Englishman Edward Prendick finds himself shipwrecked on the open ocean. When a passing ship takes him aboard and revives him, things are starting to look less gloomy for the young scientist. Yet little does he know things about to get much worse. He is taken to an abandoned island occupied only by Dr. Moreau, a disgraced English scientist for his unethical treatment of live creatures. Prendick finds that the Doctor has been up to old habits, using the island's animals to create animal-human...
| Автор | H. G. Wells |
In the mid 1800s, Pyncheon is still a revered namesake in Salem, with the gloomy Pyncheon mansion serving as a stark reminder of the family's upper class history. However, the house – unique for its seven gables – has a dark and deadly past. Its current occupant, the older and unmarried Hepzibah Pyncheon, is all but destitute and unwilling to accept any assistance from her wealthy but unrelenting cousin, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon. To support her brother Clifford, who is about to leave prison...
| Автор | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Als die Eltern von Jon und Fleur erfahren, reißt das auf beiden Seiten alte Wunden auf. Sowohl Soames als auch Jolyon und Irene verbieten ihren Kindern den Umgang miteinander. Noch komplizierte wird es, als Michael Mont, ein Mann von hohem Adel, auf der Bildfläche erscheint und beginnt Fleur zu umwerben. Dies würde einen Aufstieg der Forsytes aus dem Bürgertum hinauf in die wahre Aristokratie bedeuten. Soames wähnt sich nahe an einem großen Ziel.
| Автор | John Galsworthy |
Buzz Windrip, für seine Gegner ein «ungebildeter Lügner mit idiotischer Weltanschauung» und ein gefährlicher Populist, will Präsidentschaftskandidat werden. Er gibt vor, sich für die kleinen Leute einzusetzen, und verspricht, «aus Amerika wieder ein stolzes Land zu machen». Trotz völlig unglaubwürdiger Versprechen laufen ihm die Wähler zu, und er zieht ins Weiße Haus ein. Sogleich regiert er wie ein absolutistischer Herrscher, beschneidet die Freiheiten der Minderheiten, legt sich mit Mexiko an...
| Автор | Sinclair Lewis |
Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer and the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, she is forbidden from working, but encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency, a diagnosis common to women in that period. She hides her...
| Автор | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
Der Text wurde vor mehr als 600 Jahren von dem böhmischen Autoren Johannes von Saaz verfasst. Darin wird ein Streitgespräch zwischen dem Tod und einem Ackermann widergegeben, dessen Frau im Kindbett gestorben ist. Beide ringen um das Recht auf Glück und das unausweichliche Schicksal eines jeden Menschen. Schließlich treten die Kontrahenten vor Gott; er soll Recht sprechen. Johannes von Saaz war der größte deutschsprachige Dichter seiner Zeit; sein Text ist das erste bedeutende Werk der...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Mit ihrer einzigartigen, skurrilen Phantasie und ihren absurd-witzigen Sprachspielen gehören die Abenteuer der kleinen Alice mit zu dem Schönsten, was die englische Kinderliteratur hervorgebracht hat. Immer noch begeistern sie Groß und Klein und entführen in eine Welt, in der manches auf dem Kopf steht und seinen eigenen Regeln folgt… Neuübersetzung von Sonja Hartl, die für tacheles! auch schon Pinocchio von Carlo Collodi und Tom Sawyer von Mark Twain übersetzt und bearbeitet hat. Mit...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
What would you do if you had discovered that the planet was about to be engulfed in a belt of poisonous 'ether' from outer space? Professor Challenger invites a hand-picked crew of adventurers and scientists to his home outside London, which has been fortified with several hours' worth of oxygen. Challenger & Co. assemble in front of a picture window to witness the end of all life on the planet. As birds plummet from the sky, trains crash, and men and women topple over before...
| Автор | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
Der Traum von der Erfüllung aller Wünsche – für den armen Schneidersohn Aladin wird er wahr, als ihn ein Zauberer zu einer Wunderlampe führt. Die preisgekrönte Sprecherin Katharina Thalbach steigt in die Rolle der Scheherazade und erzählt die Geschichte vom Aufstieg eines Gassenjungen. Dabei lässt sie eine faszinierende Welt voller Magie entstehen. Dass dies gelingt, liegt auch an der klassischen und einzigartigen Übersetzung des Orientalisten Gustav Weil. Dank eines mehrjährigen Aufenthalts im...
| Автор | traditional |
E. F. Benson's (1867-1940) ghost and supernatural stories are marvellous jewels, that combine elegant writing with moments of blood-curdling horror. This collection comprises thirteen of his finest stories:The Man Who Went Too Far, The Horror Horn, The Other Bed, Gavon's Eve, The Room in the Tower, Ali Abdul's Grave, How Fear departed from the Long Gallery, The Shootings of Achnaleish, The Dust-Cloud, The Confession of Charles Linkworth, Caterpillars, At the Farmhouse, The...
| Автор | E. F. Benson |
"Gerichtsdiener, die einem erst einmal das Frühstück wegessen, Richter, von denen die untersten unerreichbar und die obersten völlig unbekannt sind, eine Anklage, deren Inhalt keiner weiß, eine Verhaftung, nach der der Verhaftete frei herumlaufen darf, ein Gericht, das seine Kanzleien und Vernehmungszimmer auf den Dachböden der Vorstädte unterhält, ein bettlägeriger Verteidiger, der an Eingaben arbeitet, die nie fertig werden und niemals fertig werden können, Frauen, die die Angeklagten um...
| Автор | Franz Kafka |
Introduced by Douglas Gifford. This hilarious novel charts the rise and fall (and perhaps the rise again) of Magnus Merriman—would-be lover, writer, politician, idealist and crofter—moved by dreams of greatness and a talent for farcical defeat. Convinced that ‘small nations are safer to live in than big ones’, Magnus becomes a Nationalist candidate for the parliamentary seat of ‘Kinluce’. With details based on Linklater’s own experiences in an East Fife by-election in 1933, the way is...
| Автор | Eric Linklater |