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Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1243min
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Biography, 2013 Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a national hero, beloved for his fierce protest against English exploitation of his native Ireland. What is really known today about the enigmatic man behind these accomplishments? Can the facts of his life be separated from the fictions? In this deeply researched biography, Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past 30 years to tell the story of Swift’s life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift’s parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift’s public version of his life - the one accepted until recently - was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed aspects of himself and his relationships, and other people in his life helped to keep his secrets. Assembling suggestive clues, Damrosch re-narrates the events of Swift’s life while making vivid the sights, sounds, and smells of his English and Irish surroundings. Through his own words and those of a wide circle of friends, a complex Swift emerges: a restless, combative, empathetic figure, a man of biting wit and powerful mind, and a major figure in the history of world letters. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Stifel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016927/bk_adbl_016927_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Homeward Bound: Pine Cove, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 595min
After Micha Perkins finds himself wrongly implicated in a crime, the last person he wants coming to his rescue is his secret crush, Swift, his older brother’s best friend. But when Micha returns to the town that never felt like home, he discovers Swift’s young daughter is in trouble as well. If Micha can help them both in any way, he knows he will.Self-defense coach Swift Coal never realized he was a father until he gets custody of five-year-old Imogen and her cranky cat. His neat and tidy life is about to come crashing down, but to his surprise, Micha Perkins is there to save the day. He’s so damn good with kids, and just as cute as Swift remembers. When Micha moves in to help look after Imogen, Swift struggles to repress the feelings he’s kept hidden.Micha’s always been a misfit, and Swift’s life was always orderly. Micha may have taken the fall to protect those more vulnerable than him, but who will save him when his past comes back to haunt him? Was Swift a fool to risk the safety of his daughter around a bad element like Micha? When their chaotic worlds collide, perhaps love and family are the middle ground they both need to become stronger together.Book three in Pine Cove. Homeward Bound is a steamy stand-alone MM romance novel with a guaranteed HEA and absolutely no cliffhanger. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick J. Russo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/170134/bk_acx0_170134_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Gulliver's Travels (Adapted for Young Listeners) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 130min
Travelers visit many strange places. They see very many wonderful things. When they return home, they tell wonderful stories about what they have seen. Thus begins Jonathan Swift’s immortal Lemuel Gulliver in his witty masterpiece, Gulliver’s Travels. Retold for the modern young reader while retaining all of the tongue-in-cheek charm and political satire of the original classic, the adventures of the keenly observant Gulliver in Lilliput and Brobdingnag are certain to enchant a whole new generation of listeners. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Vance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/000600/bk_hove_000600_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Gulliver's Travels , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 657min
Lemuel Gulliver, a slightly staid ship’s doctor, relates the tales of his astonishing travels. He encounters the tiny, warring Lilliputians; the giant, sceptical Brobdingnagians; the ludicrously intellectual Laputans; and the idealistic - if rather stolid - Houyhnhnms and their bestial servants, the Yahoos. An immediate best seller when it was first published in 1726, Gulliver’s Travels has remained a favourite ever since. It was an attack on the politics and society of Swift’s day, but it is also a polemical, inventive, surreal, vitriolic, and wonderfully imaginative masterpiece, whose powerful satire continues to strike home.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jasper Britton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000596/bk_naxo_000596_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Conversations with Good Men: Poems , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 27min
Conversations with Good Men beautifully ponders themes of love, loneliness, heartbreak and hope. Fans of poets ranging from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, to E.E. Cummings, to Rupi Kaur and Charly Cox will appreciate Bethel Swift’s brevity, wit, transparency, and heart in this collection.Through real and imagined (spoken and internal) dialogue between feminine and masculine characters, the poet invites listeners to join her on a three-act journey exploring the concept of “goodness”, as well as the spiritual and practical complexity of awakening as a feminist while being in relationship with one’s faith, family, friends, lovers, and self.Swift’s book compassionately tackles the struggle to better understand upbringing and belief, self-esteem and desire, betrayal and healing, all while learning to love, lose, and become open to loving again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bethel Swift. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/199064/bk_acx0_199064_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Malvern Mystery: Celtic Druidism and Murder in 19th Century England , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 496min
Shrouded in secrecy, murder befalls the cozy town of Malvern - but are supernatural forces to blame, or someone with motives more sinister? When schoolteacher Lorna Buchanan witnesses a strange ceremony on the grounds of St. Anne’s College, she is sacked by the tyrannical headmistress - and becomes entangled in a web of mysticism and murder. Set in a cozy 19th-century English spa town, The Malvern Mystery follows Lorna as she investigates a deadly crime clouded by deception, greed, and ancient rituals. With class troublemaker Margaret and staunch Police Sergeant Caswell as her allies, cryptic clues, including a mysterious woman in white and a peculiar coin, leave her searching for answers. Will she solve the mystery and find the culprit - before more lives are lost?Unravel Helen Susan Swift’s The Malvern Mystery to find out - get your copy today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melanie Crawley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/165555/bk_acx0_165555_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Gulliver's Travels: Retold for Younger Listeners, Hörbuch, Digital, 138min
Lemuel Gulliver sets out on a series of travels, but each time he finds himself shipwrecked in new and unfamiliar lands. And how unfamiliar! In Lilliput, everyone is tiny, and it takes thousands of them to capture him; in Brobdingnag, they’re huge and treat him as a sort of living toy; in Laputa, they live on a floating island inventing impossibly mad projects; and the Houyhnhnms are horses! But through all his adventures, Gulliver learns to see humans in a different way, too. One of the world’s great works of fiction, Gulliver’s Travels keeps all its humour and satire in this new retelling, which uses Swift’s words in the main, simplifying and clarifying them where necessary. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Benjamin Soames. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000769/bk_naxo_000769_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Gulliver's Travels: A Signature Performance by David Hyde Pierce , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 592min
Four-time Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce is famous for playing the lovably self-important Dr. Niles Crane in the hit TV series Frasier. Now, he brings the same wit and charming arrogance to his Signature Classics performance of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. More than just a mock travel book and fabulous adventure, Gulliver’s Travels is a character study and social satire that skewers politics, science, religion, philosophy, and pretentiousness with a bite and resonance that remains as fresh today as the day it was published. Maybe that’s why it hasn’t been out of print in nearly 300 years. Set sail with David Hyde Pierce for a smart, fun, new Gulliver’s Travels experience that’s unlike any other. And stay tuned for more one-of-a-kind performances from actors Leelee Sobiesky, Casey Affleck, Tim Curry, and more, only from Audible Signature Classics. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Hyde Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002575/bk_adbl_002575_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Adventure Collection: Treasure Island, The Jungle Book, Gulliver's Travels, White Fang, The Merry Adventures of Robin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2421min
This set includes five tales of extraordinary heroism, marvelous intrigue, and exceptional courage that have inspired and amazed people for generations. Gulliver’s Travels is Jonathan Swift’s comic tale of an Englishman who journeys to four fantastical and exotic lands filled with unforgettable characters, from the pint-size Lilliputians to the giant Brobdingnagians. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood takes us to Sherwood Forest, where the brigand and his band of “merry men” rob from the rich to give to the poor — to the consternation of the Sheriff of Nottingham. The Jungle Book transports readers into a wondrous world where danger lurks behind every drooping vine and the law of the jungle is the key to survival. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island follows young Jim Hawkins as he learns the ways of the buccaneer from a group of seafaring miscreants, including the nefarious peg leg, Long John Silver. White Fang by Jack London recreates the forbidding world of the Yukon Gold Rush, where a wild dog must endure violence, hardship, and bitter cold on his journey from savagery to civilization. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Vance, Michael Page, Buck Schirner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/005422/bk_brll_005422_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Auto Biography: A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 724min
A brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift’s wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an outlaw-genius auto mechanic as he painstakingly attempts to restores a classic 1957 Chevy to its former glory - all while the FBI and local law enforcement close in. To Tommy Arney, the old cars at Moyock Muscle are archeological artifacts, twentieth-century fossils that represent a place and a people utterly devoted to the automobile and transformed by it. But to his rural North Carolina town, they’re not history; they’re junk. When Tommy acquires a rusted out wreck of an old Chevy and promises to return it to a shiny, chromed work of American art, he sees one last chance to salvage his respect, keep himself out of jail, and save his business. But for this folk hero who is often on the wrong side of the law, the odds of success are long, especially when the FBI, local authorities, and the bank are closing in. Written for motor heads and automotive novices alike, Auto Biography interweaves this improbable hero’s journey with the story of one iconic car to chart the rise, fall, and rebirth of the American Dream. Told in words and eight pages of photos, this wise, charming, and heartbreaking true story is an indelible portrait of a man, a machine, and a nation on the road from a glorious past into an unknown future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Greg Itzin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003940/bk_harp_003940_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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