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Die 17-jährige Effi Briest heiratet auf Wunsch ihrer Eltern den lebenserfahrenen Baron von Innstetten. Ihrem Ehealltag und einer Welt voller Zwänge entkommt sie durch eine Affäre mit dem weltmännisch auftretenden Major Crampas. Viele Jahre später erfährt Innstetten durch Zufall vom Treuebruch seiner Gattin. Um sein gesellschaftliches Ansehen zu wahren, fordert er den Liebhaber seiner Frau zum Duell heraus Oliver Rohrbeck erweckt Fontanes Figuren zu neuem Leben: Keck die Effi , kultiviert der...
| Автор | Теодор Фонтане |
This chilling tale of a gruesome monster unleashed into the world by an unthinking scientist was first conceived in 1818 by nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley on a dark, rainy night on Lake Geneva. Lord Byron and Percy Shelley challenged their friends to see who could come up with the most horrifying story imaginable. Mary Shelley did, terrifying them all with her nightmare-inspired tale. Brilliantly narrated by British actor Clive Hayward, this 200th anniversary audio edition of Frankenstein is...
| Автор | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
When an American man discovers that he's the last descendant of the De la Poer family, he travels to England to take over their crumbling estate. Accompanied only by his cat, the man follows the incessant sound of rats to a dark place beneath the estate, unearthing horrible, dark, gruesome secrets about his ancestors and the type of activities they partook in. Taken by madness, the man falls into a dark pit of despair and commits unthinkable crimes. This jarring story from a renowned writer...
| Автор | H. P. Lovecraft |
Everybody knows A Christmas Carol, but the prolific Charles Dickens wrote several other holiday tales. Here, Dreamscape Media has compiled a collection of Dickens' classic Christmas stories. Disc one includes: A Christmas Tree; What Christmas is as We Grow Older. Disc two contains: What Christmas is as We Grow Older (continued); The Poor Relation's Story; The Child's Story; The Schoolboy's Story; Nobody's Story.
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
Following her recent adaptation of Great Expectations, bestselling novelist and award-winning audiobook narrator Alison Larkin changes the gender of Scrooge in this exciting new recording of A Christmas Carol. It's the same beloved Christmas story – only one thing has changed. In this version, Scrooge is a woman. Everything else, though, is pure Dickens. So, the characters around Scrooge behave as if it were quite normal for a woman to learn to read and write, fall in love with and reject...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
In the days when hunger could be cultivated and practiced as an art form, the individuals who practiced it were often put on show for all to see. One man who was so devout in his pursuit of hunger pushed against the boundaries set by the circus that housed him and strived to go longer than forty days without food. As interest in his art began to fade, he pushed the boundaries even further. In this short story about one man's plight to prove his worth, Franz Kafka illustrates the themes of...
| Автор | Franz Kafka |
Alison Larkin selects and introduces fairytales of strong, independent, brave, at times irreverent girls and women who take charge of their lives, go on their own adventures, rescue themselves and sometimes even save the men they love. These are not stories of helpless females shut up in high towers waiting around for a handsome man to rescue them while they sleep for years or from brushing their golden hair a lot. These heroines have far more to distinguish them than the fact that they...
| Автор | Ганс Андерсен |
Marley was dead, to begin with…' And yet, he manages to visit his old partner, the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, and send him on a transformative journey, led by three ghosts. First to his own past, where he sees again the love he spurned, then to the present, where he sees those around him going about their holiday preparations, and then into his own future, to see his just reward. A Christmas favorite, it will warm your heart with favorite memories, and remind you how the true Christmas spirit...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand "the Science of Things,? but he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thought is a crime and where science and technology have regressed to primitive levels. All expressions of individualism have been suppressed in his world: personal possessions are nonexistent, individual preferences are condemned as sinful, and romantic love is forbidden. Obedience to the collective is so deeply ingrained that the very word "I? has been...
| Автор | Айн Рэнд |
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 |
Abandoned at birth by her parents, Auli-Ambar is seen as a child blighted by a callous talon-stroke of fate. A worthless burden, she is blind, severely disfigured, and fit only for the most menial tasks. Then, a simple act of kindness changes her life. Flown to the Halls of the Dragons, the painfully shy girl becomes a cleaner of Dragon roosts and a helpless wanderer of the Dragon Library. Here, Auli is able to walk amidst the lore she is drawn to so profoundly. She can touch it and imagine...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Chills race up and down young solicitor Jonathan Harker's spine as he enters the eerie castle of a Transylvanian count. His host, Count Dracula, is a curious creature that becomes enamored with the photograph of Harker's fiancee, Mina. Dracula decides he must find the enchanting Mina and have her as his own. He boards a boat and makes the long journey to find Mina as the ship's crew mysteriously disappears one by one. Van Helsing, called to care for Mina's friend Lucy, senses...
| Автор | Bram Stoker |
Introduced by Edwin Morgan. A ‘gowk storm’ is an untimely fall of snow in early Spring – a fitting symbol for the anguished story that unfolds. Nearly a hundred years ago, three girls were born to a minister and his wife in a remote Highland manse; the rigid patriarchal structure of the times is set against their approaching womanhood and growing awareness of life beyond the safety of home. After the disposal by marriage of the eldest, the sisters’ lives reach a new level of intensity....
| Автор | Nancy Brysson Morrison |
Introduced by Allan Massie. Lt. Colonel Jock Sinclair is a rough talking, whisky drinking soldier’s soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Colonel Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in Japanese prison camps. But he has come to take command of the Battalion he has long admired, the one that Jock Sinclair has served in since he was a boy. In the claustrophobic world of Campbell barracks, a conflict is inevitable...
| Автор | James Kennaway |
In Little Green, Loretta Stinson’s stunning, redemptive first novel, tragedy leaves Janie Marek orphaned and in the care of her stepmother. The novel opens two years later, in 1976, when Janie, at fourteen, runs away. A ride she’s hitchhiked leaves her on the freeway outside a Northwestern town. A strip club called The Habit is the closest thing within walking distance, and Janie finds herself working there. Janie falls for Paul Jesse, a drug dealer, and moves in with him as...
| Автор | Loretta Stinson |
Andrew is a timid high school student in a small town named Tomliw. Like most freshman, he has quite a few things to be on edge about. However, unlike most freshman, Andrew is in fact one of the only gay students in his high school. His greatest fear is that he will become a social pariah if someone finds out his secret. But once he is confronted by an old bully from middle school, he comes face to face with every fear he's had since 6th grade: being noticed in a bad way. Luckily, he...
| Автор | Zack W. Van |
Tim is the youngest son of Irish American immigrants growing up in Chicago in the 1950's and 60's. Follow his memories of Chicago in short stories that recall the sights, sounds, vigor and tensions that were the Windy City.<br><br>Share in Tim's joys, sadness, successes and failures as he navigates through life in his Chicago neighborhood. Meet the varied, interesting, and intriguing people – both good and bad that he encounters as he grows...
| Автор | Thomas Walsh |
At a Caribbean resort built atop a former slave plantation, Myrna works as a maid by day; by night she trespasses on the resort’s overgrown inland property, secretly excavating the plantation ruins the locals refuse to acknowledge. Myrna's mother has stopped speaking and her friends are focused on surviving the present, but Myrna is drawn to Cruffey Island's violent past. With the arrival of Mrs. Manion, a wealthy African-American, also comes new information about the history of the...
| Автор | Rebecca Entel |
It's the summer of 1994 in suburban Chicago: Forrest Gump is still in theaters, teens are reeling from the recent death of Kurt Cobain, and you can enter a sweepstakes for a spaceship from Jupiter to land in your backyard. Welcome to Margaret Wappler's slightly altered 90s. Everything's pretty much the way you remember it, except for the aliens.When a flying saucer lands in the Allens' backyard, family patriarch and environmental activist Ernest is up in arms. According to...
| Автор | Margaret Wappler |
In a strange seaside city on the verge of revolution, a young man made of paper climbs out of a crashed bus and into his new life. He is called Michael, and since the procedure that transformed him from a regular boy into one made of paper, he has been living the isolated existence of a freak inside his family’s Inland home. Escape is Michael’s only hope, and the City offers art, adventure and possibility for everyone, even somebody as strange and different as Michael.Things...
| Автор | Gallagher Lawson |
When Jamie Paddock learns of his father's suicide, memories of his childhood in West Virginia come roaring back. One of the few people in his town to ever make it out, Jamie’s living in New York City now, developing marketing videos for YouTube, struggling to write and partying a lot — all while suppressing the accent that gives him away. Spurred by an artistic curiosity surrounding his silent and private father, Jamie goes home, staying with his disabled mother and...
| Автор | Joe Halstead |
When her life falls apart on the eve of her 40th birthday, Kate Parker finds herself volunteering at the Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies. There she meets 97-year-old Cecily Finn. Cecily's tongue is as sharp as her mind, but she's fed up with pretty much everything. Having no patience with Kate's choices, Cecily prescribes her a self-help book with a difference. Food for Thought, a charming 1950s cookbook high on enthusiasm, features menus for anything life can throw at the...
| Автор | Vicky Zimmerman |
Award winning writer whose writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Newcity, Salon.com, and broadcast on NPR. Lauded storytelling who has told stories around the world with his internationally acclaimed storytelling series the Windy City Story Slam. Authentic Chicago street legend as a feared street brawler, gang affiliate, drug dealer, convict, and Chicago Golden Glove Champion.Strong connections to Europe via mentor Irvine Welsh, who will take Hillmann on tour with him in 2014 as he does...
| Автор | Bill Hillmann |
The kid sells lemonade. Not a lot of people buy lemonade, especially now that it’s winter, but the kid makes good lemonade, even if his friend Mullen thinks it ought to be sweeter. They don’t talk much with the other ten-year-olds – most of the others are Dead Kids anyway. Except for Jenny Tierney, but she’s busy breaking kids’ faces with her math book. Besides, the Russians from the meat-packing plant are a lot cooler, and they always win at...
| Автор | Andrew Wedderburn |