105 Results for : mocked
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The Player of Games: Culture Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 686min
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh: Jernau Morat Gurgeh, The Player of Games, master of every board, computer, and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life - and very possibly his death. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Kenny. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000342/bk_twuk_000342_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pride & Prejudice, Hörbuch, Digital, 132min
Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language. Language: English. Narrator: Joanna Lumley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/copy/000238/bk_copy_000238_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Bluest Eye
New York Times Bestseller Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing. "You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else - they're transcendent, all of them. You'll be glad you read them."--Barack Obama- Shop: buecher
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The Ugly Duckling: iDrawTales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 23min
Enjoy Hans Christian Andersen's enchanting classic fairy tale about The Ugly Duckling in this captivating audiobook with beautiful music and sound effects. Told in English by Noah Lazarus. A poor little hatchling, which is born into a duck flock, must endure a great deal of suffering. He gets bullied, yelled at, teased, and mocked, while at the same time he is dying, both from hunger and cold. He is close to being killed by a hunting dog and gets schooled by an arrogant cat who thinks it knows all about the world. But in the end, he discovers his proper place in life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Noah Lazarus. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hdoo/000009/bk_hdoo_000009_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Overcoat: A Nikolai Gogol Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min
Fyodor Dostoevsky, the author of Crime and Punishment, once said, “We all come out from Gogol's 'The Overcoat.'" The story centers on an impoverished clerk who is dedicated to his job as a routine copyist but not recognized for his hard work. Younger clerks mock him for his dedication. His threadbare overcoat is mocked as well. He saves up to buy a new one and wears it for one glorious evening, only to have it stolen that night. He dies soon after from his great loss. Thereafter, his ghost is reported to haunt that part of St. Petersburg where the coat was stolen. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deaver Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/smag/000100/bk_smag_000100_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Complete Poems
Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. Despite his tragically short life, John Keats, a self-confessed "rebel Angel", endures for many as a personification of the Romantic age. While contemporary critics mocked him as a "Cockney poet" and an uneducated lower-class "apothecary" who aspired to poetry, subsequent generations began to see and appreciate both the rich and impassioned sensuousness and the love of beauty and liberty that pervade his work. From Endymion and Hyperion to 'The Eve of St Agnes', 'La Belle Dame sans Merci' and the Odes, this collection, which presents Keats's oeuvre in chronological order, displays his rapid poetic growth, the development of his philosophical and spiritual beliefs and the voluptuous, silken nature of his verse.- Shop: buecher
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The Fall River Murders and The Trial of Lizzie Borden, Vol I , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 948min
For one 123 years the mystery of Lizzie Borden has captivated the public as perhaps one of the most celebrated cases in our American justice system. After her acquittal, Lizzie Borden was ostracized in her hometown of Fall River, Massachusetts. She was even mocked in the now-famous children's skip rope rhyme which went: "Lizzie Borden took an ax - Gave her mother 40 whacks - When she saw what she had done - Gave her father 41." Perhaps the truth lies in the key testimonies presented at the time of her trial. For the first time presented here in this easy to listen dialog format, is the full transcript of The Trial of Lizzie Borden. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: W.B. Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/163080/bk_acx0_163080_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bones Beneath the Pale : The Belle City Chronicles, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 244min
Michael Rutherford has always been different. An orphan who never knew his family, he was mocked as a child for his odd looks. But after Michael sees a wealthy philanthropist on television who has the same strange features he does, Michael volunteers at the man’s charity organization to get close to him.The volunteer job takes him to the deepest recesses of the Brazilian rainforest, where Michael makes a shocking discovery about a secret laboratory that may hold the truth of Michael’s mysterious past and his odd appearance.A story of body horror and centuries-old secrets in the vein of H.P. Lovecraft, Bones Beneath the Pale is the first volume in the Belle City Chronicles series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Campagna. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/179046/bk_acx0_179046_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A River Through Earth: The Merchant Cities, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 494min
From tundra to desert, from prairies to rainforests, the trade routes of Ganelerdos converge at Sparrenfor, Enelarmos, Larpektis, and Torg-ra-Honne - the Merchant Cities. Fair exchange offers prosperity to the creative and industrious, whether human or elemental, and unearned riches to the ambitious and greedy. Scorned by his father, mocked by his older brother, Woldirek Hansar rides with a caravan into a desolate wasteland. He emerges with a bold plan to make House Hansar the richest family in the Merchant Cities. A plan to transform the continent of Ganelerdos forever. Full of magical creatures, intrigue, battles, and true love, A River Through Earth brings listeners into a compelling new world of modern fantasy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nate Daniels. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/067015/bk_acx0_067015_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Bluest Eye, Hörbuch, Digital, 179min
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing. Toni Morrison was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature. Language: English. Narrator: Toni Morrison, Ruby Dee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001164/bk_rand_001164_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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