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    A Bit of Brontës, a Dollop of Dickinson, an Offering of Austen: A Dab of Dickens, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 375min
    They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most listeners, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown - until now. In this utterly captivating audiobook, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed members of literature's elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, Engel provides fascinating anecdotes. You'll never look at these literary giants the same way again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007190/bk_blak_007190_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Moby Dick (Dramatized), Hörbuch, Digital, 115min
    A splash of the sea and the salt in the ocean air signals the beginning of the greatest whaling adventure of all time. This is literature's great voyage. The challenge of a man against the wonders of nature's ocean, of a man against his own weakness and strengths, and of a man against a demon, or perhaps his God, as he searches for his nemesis, the great white whale. This exciting full-cast presentation is like nothing you've ever heard before! Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/auth/000016/bk_auth_000016_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    I Am Legend: And Other Stories
    A special pocket-sized hardcover edition of the New York Times bestselling classic tale of the last man on Earth, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson--one of genre literature's most honored storytellers . Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn. How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?
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    Lost Horizon (eBook, ePUB)
    The gripping adventure that invented the mystery of Shangri-La. Flying out of India, a light aircraft is hi-jacked and flown into the high Tibetan Himalayas. The few passengers on board anxiously await their fate, among them Conway, a talented British consul. But on landing they are unexpectedly conducted to a remote valley, a legendary paradise of peace and beauty, known as Shangri-La. Have they been kidnapped? Can they escape? And do they even want to? From the author of Goodbye Mr Chips, this is the epic adventure story of literature's most entrancing utopia and one of our most enduring literary mysteries.
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    My Year of Rest and Relaxation
    'When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.' This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. Yet she longs to lose herself completely. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a savagely funny novel of a woman looking out from the abyss. Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.
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    The Companion of His Future Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 522min
    One of the great what-ifs among Pride & Prejudice aficionados is: If Mr. Collins married Mary Bennet instead of Charlotte Lucas, how would that influence Mr. Darcy's dogged pursuit of the elusive Elizabeth? In this breezy and hilarious re-telling of Jane Austin's classic novel, the author explores what would have changed - and what would have not - had two of literature's most self-righteous characters found their way together. Elizabeth Bennet goes to Kent with her sister Jane, and the fur flies! A wonderful, mad-cap romp! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jo Ashe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/164173/bk_acx0_164173_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Cynthia Ozick at the 92nd Street Y, Hörbuch, Digital, 83min
    In 2008, Cynthia Ozick published a new collection of stories, Dictation, and won both the PEN/Malumud Award and PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement. Also a novelist and critic, Ms. Ozick "embodies literature's finest potential: the strength and rigor of formality combined with the flexibility and vigor (the sap) of creativity," wrote the Los Angeles Times. This program is one of a series of afternoon talks, hosted by Roger Rosenblatt, which features intimate discussions with writers about their work, their passions and the books on their night tables. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Rosenblatt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/nsty/000104/sp_nsty_000104_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter, Hörbuch, Digital, 391min
    The subtitle of this wonderful memoir declares its contents: this is 'my life with Harold Pinter', not Lady Antonia Fraser's complete life, and certainly not his. In essence, this is a love story and, as with many love stories, the beginning and the end, the first light and the twilight, are dealt with more fully than the high noon in between.The result is a marvellously insightful testimony to modern literature's most celebrated marriage, between the greatest playwright of the age and a beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer. Language: English. Narrator: Lindsay Duncan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000329/bk_orio_000329_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Seasons Edition--Spring)
    A fine exclusive edition of one of literature's most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, all titles in this series will be first editions. No more than 10,000 copies will be printed, and each will be individually numbered from 1 to 10,000. It was a perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this sinister quest upon which we were engaged. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his iconic detective. 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, featured tales include several 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 woman to attract his open admiration - plus "The Speckled Band," "The Red-Headed League," and "The Five Orange Pips." Additional mysteries include "The Blue Carbuncle," "The Engineer's Thumb," "The Beryl Coronet," "The Copper Beeches," and others.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Seasons Edition--Spring) is one of four titles available in March 2021. The spring season also will include Emma, The Secret Garden, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Distracted Thane , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 141min
    So we rode again into Scotland, Sherlock Holmes and I; only this time we came at the head of an army.' A beautiful woman comes out of a storm to tell her macabre tale. And thus the legendary detective is confronted with his strangest case: the murder of King Duncan of Scotland, and the ascent to the throne of the haunted Macbeth. Dr Watson's narrative reveals the untold story behind Shakespeare's play: a kingdom in chaos, a man possessed, and bloody murder. At last, literature's greatest detective gives his explanation for its most infamous crime. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Wilton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150202/bk_acx0_150202_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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