13 Results for : gammond
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Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs: & Other Stories: Granna's Well Loved Tales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 27min
Granna is ex-primary school teacher and grandmother Anna Gammond, who has been telling stories to countless numbers of children in her own warm distinctive style for more than 40 years. Here she brings her personal touch to Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs as well as two other classic stories, Little Match Girl and The Elves & The Shoemaker. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Gammond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gten/000013/bk_gten_000013_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The New Revelation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 139min
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was one of Britain's most celebrated writers with his invention of the ultimate detective, Sherlock Holmes, completely altering the crime-fiction genre of the late 19th century. As well as this, he was a pioneering sportsman, a doctor of medicine, and champion of the underdog, helping to free two men who were unjustly imprisoned. Of most importance to the man himself, however, was his belief in life after death and the spreading of the 'vital message'. He received his degree in medicine from the University of Edinburgh Medical School in 1881 and by this time had already began investigating Spiritualism and had began attending séances, a fact that rebuffs the more common idea that he found Spiritualism after his son, Kingsley, died in 1918. In fact, by that time, not only had he studied Spiritualism for almost 30 years, he had even declared the fact and spoken publicly about his beliefs. His first book on the afterlife, The New Revelation, was published in March 1918, some months before Kingsley's death, so it is fair to say that Arthur's belief in Spiritualism was not a knee-jerk reaction to his son's death. That said, by now World War One was raging and peoples thoughts were on the dead and dying, and Doyle himself is quoted as saying; "I might have drifted on my whole life as a psychical researcher...but the War came, and it brought earnestness into all our souls and made us look more closely at our own beliefs and reassess our values."One year after publishing The New Revelation, Doyle followed it up with The Vital Message, in which he shares his thoughts on skepticism, religion, psychic phenomena, and Jesus. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Gammond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/wcrw/000009/bk_wcrw_000009_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Orthodoxy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 396min
Standing six foot, four inches tall, and weighing 21 stone, GK Chesterton was a man of striking appearance, and all the more so for his chosen uniform of cape, large hat, swordstick, and cigar. A prolific writer, he regarded himself primarily as a journalist, but he also wrote poetry, philosophy, biography, detective fiction, Christian apologetics - and fantasy. For as he once said: 'Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.' Fascinated by the occult in his youth, Christianity played an increasingly important part in his life, and he wrote the biography of St Francis of Assisi in 1922, shortly after converting to Roman Catholicism. His choice of clothes revealed a man who liked attention; but he also displayed great reserves of will power, which he directed towards his chosen goals. Using paradox and laughter as weapons - he was called the 'Prince of Paradox' by Time magazine - his writing was a constant assault on complacent acceptance of conventional views. He rallied against the dark side of English imperialism; and with his friend Hilaire Belloc, he promoted the social system of 'distributism', which called for a greater sharing of wealth. When The Times newspaper asked various leading figures of the day to say what was wrong with the world, Chesterton simply replied: 'Dear Sirs, I am. Sincerely yours, GK Chesterton.' Orthodoxy, first published 1908, is Chesterton's spiritual autobiography. Subtitled, 'The romance of faith', Chesterton declares that people need a life of 'practical romance; the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.' ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Gammond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/wcrw/000005/bk_wcrw_000005_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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