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    100 quotes to understand men, Hörbuch, Digital, 27min
    Guides to understanding women for men are all very well known, but men are not the simplest of animals and also strive to be understood behind their appearance of machist bravado. These 100 quotes, often humorous, always striking, aim at disbanding the male masquerade, help you understand at last this enigmatic bunch, and sprinkle your conversation with witticism, once you have decided what you would like to do of them. Language: English. Narrator: Katie Haigh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cids/001532/bk_cids_001532_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    100 quotes by Benjamin Franklin, Hörbuch, Digital, 19min
    One of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin was also a genius who managed to excel in an astounding variety of domains. He was a scientist, an inventor, a humorist, and a leading political figure; one could argue that the span of his curiosity and knowledge made him a complete human being.  These 100 quotes have been carefully selected to introduce you to his vision of life, sometimes humorous, always wise; they will provide you with solid advice and sharp witticism, in a convenient and efficient format. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Spera. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cids/001529/bk_cids_001529_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    100 quotes by Albert Einstein, Hörbuch, Digital, 25min
    Albert Einstein is widely considered as one of the greatest minds that ever lived. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics alongside quantum mechanics, and penned the world's most famous equation, E=mc². He was an immense scientist and thinker, and his work is also renowned for its influence on the philosophy of science. As an authentic genius, he was also full of humor; these 100 quotes have been carefully selected to introduce you to his character and witticism in a convenient and efficient format. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Spera. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cids/001526/bk_cids_001526_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    An Ideal Husband , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 99min
    A tender love story, a serpentine villainess, a glittering setting in London society, and a showering of Wildean witticism are only a few of the reasons why this play has enjoyed hugely successful revivals in London, in New York, and on the silver screen. This 1895 drama is eerily prescient, as it examines the plight of a promising politician, desperate to hide a secret in his past. With empathy and wit, Oscar Wilde explores the pitfalls of holding public figures to higher standards than the rest of us. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rosalind Ayres, Jacqueline Bisset, Paul Gutrecht, Martin Jarvis, Robert Machray, Miriam Margolyes, Alfred Molina, Jim Norton, Yeardley Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/latw/000060/pf_latw_000060_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Yellow Kids: Foreign Correspondents in the Heyday of Yellow Journalism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 824min
    The amazing story behind the greatest newspaper men to ever live, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, lies primarily hidden with their reporters who were in the field. They risked their lives in Cuba as the country grappled for independence simply to “get the story” and write what was not always the most accurate story, but definitely the best. Anything to sell papers. Reporters like Harry Scovel, Stephen Crane, Cora Taylor, Richard Harding Davis, and James Creelman, among others, put themselves in danger every day just for the news. The Yellow Kids is an adventure story packed with engaging characters, witticism, humor and adversity, to reveal that the “yellow” found in journalism was often an extra ingredient applied by editors and publishers in New York. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012861/bk_adbl_012861_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Welcome to the Greenhouse: New Science Fiction on Climate Change , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 739min
    Forty years ago, Walt Kelly's comic strip character Pogo famously intoned: "We have met the enemy, and he is us." Now, as the evidence for climate change becomes overwhelming, we learn the hard reality behind that witticism. The possible destruction, and certain transformation, of the ecosphere has been brought about by our own activities. What will our new world look like? How will we - can we - adapt? The clash of a rapidly changing environment with earth's self-styled ruling species, humans, provides ample creative fodder for this riveting anthology of original science fiction. In Welcome to the Greenhouse, award-winning editor Gordon Van Gelder has brought together sixteen speculative stories by some of the most imaginative writers of our time. Terrorists, godlike terra formers, and humans both manipulative and hapless populate these pages. The variety of stories reflects the possibilities of our future: grim, hopeful, fantastic and absurd. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Dunsworth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013703/bk_adbl_013703_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    100 Quotes by Oscar Wilde, Hörbuch, Digital, 20min
    Oscar Wilde is remembered as one of the wittiest minds ever, thanks to his provocative style and humor. In the 1890s, he was one of London's most popular playwrights; his masterpieces are The Importance of Being Earnest and the dark and fantastical Picture of Dorian Gray. His writings entwine themes of beauty, decadence and duplicity, which made him a more than colorful agent provocateur in the Victorian society. This would eventually lead to a very public trial after he was accused of sodomy. His defense, punctuated with witticism, often left the court roaring with laughter, but the evidence was against him, and he was eventually sent to prison. We have selected for you 100 of his funniest and most provocative quotes, for you to relent in his humor and spice up your conversation with surprises and puns. Language: English. Narrator: Katie Haigh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cids/000572/bk_cids_000572_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Maggie Smith: A Biography , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 849min
    This perfect gift audiobook for fans of Downton Abbey will take them behind the scenes of the Grand Dame who brings the Dowager Countess to life.No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm, or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney's biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer, one whose stage and screen career spans six decades.From her days as a West End star of comedy and revue, Dame Maggie's path would cross with those of the greatest actors, playwrights, and directors of the era. Whether stealing scenes from Richard Burton, answering back to Laurence Olivier, or playing opposite Judi Dench in Breath of Life, her career can be seen as a "Who's Who" of British theatre. Her film and television career has been just as starry. From the title character in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and the meddling chaperone in A Room With a View to the Harry Potter films in which she played Minerva McGonagall (as she put it "Miss Jean Brodie in a wizard's hat") and the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel films in which she played the wise Muriel Donnelly, Smith has thrilled, engaged, and made audiences laugh. As Violet Crawley, the formidable Dowager Countess of Downton Abbey, she conquered millions more. Paradoxically she remains an enigmatic figure, rarely appearing in public.Michael Coveney's absorbing biography, written with the actress' blessing and drawing on personal archives, as well as interviews with immediate family and close friends, is a portrait of one of the greatest actors of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sian Thomas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002066/bk_aren_002066_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 252min
    Number-one San Francisco Chronicle best sellerNamed one of the best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune“A picaresque, swashbuckling adventure.” (The Washington Post Book World)They’re an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa a.d. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can - as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. But when they are dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire, they soon find themselves the half-willing generals in a full-scale revolution - on a road paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of.Praise for Gentlemen of the Road“Within a few pages I was happily tangled in [Chabon’s] net of finely filigreed language, seduced by an old-school-style swashbuckling quest.... laced with surprises and humor.” (San Francisco Chronicle)“[Chabon] is probably the premiere prose stylist - the Updike - of his generation.” (Time)“The action is intricate and exuberant.... It’s hard to resist its gathering momentum, not to mention the sheer headlong pleasure of Chabon’s language.” (The New York Times Book Review)“[A] wild, wild adventure... abounds with lush language... This book roars to be read aloud.” (Chicago Sun-Times) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andre Braugher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001282/bk_rand_001282_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Maggie Smith , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 850min
    No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's best-loved actors. This new biography shines the stage lights on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer, one whose stage and screen career spans six decades. From her days as a West End star of comedy and revue, Dame Maggie's path would cross with those of the greatest actors, playwrights and directors of the era. Whether stealing scenes from Richard Burton (by his own admission), answering back to Laurence Olivier, or impressing Ingmar Bergman, her career can be seen as a 'Who's Who' of British theatre in the 20th century. This book also covers the little-known period in Canada, a prolific five-season run of leading roles that took place during the height of her success in Hollywood, soon after she won her first Oscar for her signature film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Recently Dame Maggie has been prominent on our screens as ever, with high-profile roles as Violet Crawley, the formidable Dowager Countess of Grantham, in the phenomenally successful television series Downton Abbey, and as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film franchise: what she herself describes as 'Miss Jean Brodie in a wizard's hat'. Yet paradoxically she remains an enigmatic figure, rarely appearing in public and carefully guarding her considerable talent. Michael Coveney's absorbing biography, written with the actress' blessing and drawing on personal archives as well as interviews with immediate family and close friends, is therefore as close as it gets to seeing the real Maggie Smith. Read by Sian Thomas. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sian Thomas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000883/bk_orio_000883_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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