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Bleak House
- By: Charles Dickens, Marty Ross
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton, Ambika Mod, Mackenzie Crook, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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London. A city drowning in fog. Amid that fog, a man with no name dies above a strange junkshop. Threads of mist and intrigue weave around a court case with no resolution, linking great country houses with the lowest slum in the city, mingling the high-born with a boy who sweeps the filthy streets, enshrouding devious plots and sudden murder, bringing together two extraordinary women – Lady Dedlock and Esther Summerson - who seem to have nothing whatsoever in common but who will find themselves inextricably linked.
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what a shame
- By Amanda Launchbury-Rainey on 29-09-24
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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The Greatest Female Crime Writers of All Time: Novels and Stories Featuring Hercule Poirot, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Alan Grant
- Hercule Poirot Books 1-6, The Complete Detective Alan Grant Novels, & Lord Peter Wimsey Books 1-5
- By: Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey
- Narrated by: Karen Cass, David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 123 hrs and 45 mins
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The Greatest Female Crime Writers of All Time is a collection of 17 classic detective novels and stories, read by three award-winning narrators. Included here are stories by some of the greatest female crime writers of the 20th century: Agatha Christie; Dorothy L. Sayers; and Josephine Tey.
By: Dorothy L. Sayers, and others
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Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey & Detective Alan Grant: The Complete Collection
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes Novels and Stories, The Complete Detective Alan Grant Novels, & Books 1-5 in the Lord Peter Wimsey Series
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Karen Cass
- Length: 144 hrs and 51 mins
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Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey, & Detective Alan Grant: The Complete Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 20 classic detective novels and stories from three of the greatest crime writers of the 20th century and their most iconic characters.
By: Arthur Conan Doyle, and others
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Albert Camus: The Plague, The Outsider & more
- A study in drama and documentary
- By: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield, John Shrapnel, Ronald Pickup, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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One of postwar France’s most influential writers, Albert Camus was fêted for his masterful exploration of the absurdity of the human condition. Included here are adaptations of his three iconic existential novels – The Plague, The Outsider and The Fall – alongside four bonus pieces shining a light on the man and his work.
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it's Camus!!
- By David Adams on 16-09-24
By: Albert Camus
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Eugene O’Neill: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- 9 Full-Cast Productions including Long Day’s Journey into the Night, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh & more
- By: Eugene O'Neill
- Narrated by: Dominic West, Shaun Dingwall, Anthony Jackson, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
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Eugene O'Neill’s revolutionary 20th century dramas changed the direction of American theatre, introducing European realism and experimental techniques to the US stage. He wrote more than 50 plays, portraying characters on the margins of society and tackling controversial issues, winning a Nobel Prize, and four Pulitzer Prizes.
By: Eugene O'Neill
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A Christmas Carol
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Jason Isaacs
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
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To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, alongside the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late.
By: Charles Dickens
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Bleak House
- By: Charles Dickens, Marty Ross
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton, Ambika Mod, Mackenzie Crook, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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London. A city drowning in fog. Amid that fog, a man with no name dies above a strange junkshop. Threads of mist and intrigue weave around a court case with no resolution, linking great country houses with the lowest slum in the city, mingling the high-born with a boy who sweeps the filthy streets, enshrouding devious plots and sudden murder, bringing together two extraordinary women – Lady Dedlock and Esther Summerson - who seem to have nothing whatsoever in common but who will find themselves inextricably linked.
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what a shame
- By Amanda Launchbury-Rainey on 29-09-24
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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The Greatest Female Crime Writers of All Time: Novels and Stories Featuring Hercule Poirot, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Alan Grant
- Hercule Poirot Books 1-6, The Complete Detective Alan Grant Novels, & Lord Peter Wimsey Books 1-5
- By: Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey
- Narrated by: Karen Cass, David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 123 hrs and 45 mins
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The Greatest Female Crime Writers of All Time is a collection of 17 classic detective novels and stories, read by three award-winning narrators. Included here are stories by some of the greatest female crime writers of the 20th century: Agatha Christie; Dorothy L. Sayers; and Josephine Tey.
By: Dorothy L. Sayers, and others
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Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey & Detective Alan Grant: The Complete Collection
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes Novels and Stories, The Complete Detective Alan Grant Novels, & Books 1-5 in the Lord Peter Wimsey Series
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Karen Cass
- Length: 144 hrs and 51 mins
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Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey, & Detective Alan Grant: The Complete Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 20 classic detective novels and stories from three of the greatest crime writers of the 20th century and their most iconic characters.
By: Arthur Conan Doyle, and others
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Albert Camus: The Plague, The Outsider & more
- A study in drama and documentary
- By: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield, John Shrapnel, Ronald Pickup, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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One of postwar France’s most influential writers, Albert Camus was fêted for his masterful exploration of the absurdity of the human condition. Included here are adaptations of his three iconic existential novels – The Plague, The Outsider and The Fall – alongside four bonus pieces shining a light on the man and his work.
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it's Camus!!
- By David Adams on 16-09-24
By: Albert Camus
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Eugene O’Neill: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- 9 Full-Cast Productions including Long Day’s Journey into the Night, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh & more
- By: Eugene O'Neill
- Narrated by: Dominic West, Shaun Dingwall, Anthony Jackson, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
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Eugene O'Neill’s revolutionary 20th century dramas changed the direction of American theatre, introducing European realism and experimental techniques to the US stage. He wrote more than 50 plays, portraying characters on the margins of society and tackling controversial issues, winning a Nobel Prize, and four Pulitzer Prizes.
By: Eugene O'Neill
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A Christmas Carol
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Jason Isaacs
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
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To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, alongside the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late.
By: Charles Dickens
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Nina Stibbe: Love, Nina, Man at the Helm & more
- A BBC Radio Collection
- By: Nina Stibbe
- Narrated by: Rebekah Staton, Amanda Hale, Amelia Bullmore, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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Nina Stibbe came to fame with Love, Nina, a memoir of her time working as a nanny in 1980s literary London. It won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2014 National Book Awards, and was adapted into a hit BBC TV series. She has since written six more books, four of them novels, and a sparkling selection of her work is included here, alongside two fascinating interviews with Nina herself.
By: Nina Stibbe
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Lark Rise to Candleford
- By: Flora Thompson
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
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In Flora Thompson's semi-autobiographical series Lark Rise to Candleford, she explores the Oxfordshire country life of her protagonist Laura in the 1880s and 1890s. This collection includes all three works in the trilogy, Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green.
By: Flora Thompson
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: David McCran
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine between October 1921 and April 1927. The first British edition and the first American edition of the collection were both published in June 1927. However, they had slightly different titles.
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Buddenbrooks. Verfall einer Familie
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: Gert Westphal
- Length: 27 hrs and 32 mins
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In seinem ersten Roman Buddenbrooks erzählt Thomas Mann nur wenig verschlüsselt die Geschichte seiner Familie und ihrer Stellung in der Vaterstadt Lübeck, soweit er sie nachvollziehen, in Einzelheiten überblicken konnte, ja sogar noch miterlebt hat. Verwandte, Honoratioren und markante Persönlichkeiten seiner Jugend werden integriert. Es ist die Geschichte des langsamen Niedergangs einer reichen Kaufmannsfamilie über vier Generationen hinweg. Auch mehr als hundert Jahren nach seinem ersten Erscheinen hat der Roman nichts an Charme und Aktualität eingebüßt.
By: Thomas Mann
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Cuentos completos [Collected Stories]
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Ariel Abadi, Gustavo Bonfigli, Mara Campanelli, and others
- Length: 46 hrs and 10 mins
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Por primera vez en un único volumen, esta edición definitiva de los Cuentos completos de Roald Dahl incluye algunos relatos inéditos en español. Brillante y con tintes fantásticos como un Grimm, realista como un O. Henry o despiadado como un Saki, sus historias fueron adaptadas por Alfred Hitchcock para la televisión, y han inspirado a creadores como Steven Spielberg o Quentin Tarantino.
By: Roald Dahl
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The Murder on the Links
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Graham Stuart
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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Hercule Poirot is at it again in this murder mystery set both in England and France. Hercule must travel back to France to solve the crime, and finds himself battling the French Police Force as much as the culprit!
By: Agatha Christie
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Great Expectations
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Arthur Lane
- Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
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Orphaned Pip lives with his sister and her blacksmith husband. One day, the boy helps a hiding fugitive. Years pass, and Pip works as an apprentice for his brother-in-law. He is unhappily in love with Estella, a beautiful girl raised by the wealthy, eccentric old Miss Havisham. The young people are separated by one of the most prosaic reasons—financial status.
By: Charles Dickens
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Der Zauberberg
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: Gert Westphal
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
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Ein kurzer Besuch in einem Davoser Sanatorium wird für den jungen Ingenieur Hans Castorp zu einem siebenjährigen Aufenthalt, der Kurort wird zur Bühne für die europäische Befindlichkeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Fern von der erdrückenden Realität drehen sich die Gespräche unter den Patienten um Politik, Philosophie, Liebe, Krankheit und Tod. Im Juli 1913 begonnen, während des Krieges durch essayistische Arbeiten unterbrochen, konnte der Roman 1924 abgeschlossen und veröffentlicht werden.
By: Thomas Mann
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Phantasmagoria
- By: Lewis Carroll
- Narrated by: Chris Coxon
- Length: 31 mins
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Phantasmagoria, Lewis Carroll's longest poem, was first published by Macmillan and Co., London, in 1869. Written in seven cantos, it tells the tale, in quintains, of a gentleman called Tibbets and his experience conversing with a phantom. This amusing “epic” takes us through their initial fear of each other, a fierce debate over the goings-on of the supernatural world, and finally, to a touching mutual admiration.
By: Lewis Carroll
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The Musgrave Ritual
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 41 mins
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The Musgrave Ritual is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The story was originally published in Strand Magazine in 1919, and was collected later in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Unlike the majority of Holmes stories, the main narrator is not Doctor Watson, but Sherlock Holmes himself. With Watson providing an introduction, the story within a story is a classic example of a frame tale. It is one of the earliest recorded cases investigated by Holmes, and establishes his problem solving skills.
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The Stockbroker's Clerk
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 39 mins
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The Stockbroker's Clerk is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the fourth of the twelve collected in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in most British editions of the canon, and third of eleven in most American ones (owing to the omission of the "scandalous" "Adventure of the Cardboard Box"). The story was first published in Strand Magazine in March 1893 and featured seven illustrations by Sidney Paget. A young clerk, Hall Pycroft, consults Holmes with his suspicions concerning a company that has offered him a very well-paid job.
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The Adventure of the Yellow Face
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 42 mins
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The Yellow Face, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine in 1893 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget. Sherlock Holmes, suffering from boredom due to a want of cases, returns home from a walk with Dr. Watson early in spring to find he has missed a visitor but that the caller has left his pipe behind.
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L’Étrange cas du Dr Jekyll et de M. Hyde [The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]
- By: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrated by: Clarisse Brisset
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
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Dans les ruelles brumeuses du Londres victorien, le brillant mais tourmenté Dr Henry Jekyll mène une expérience audacieuse pour explorer les profondeurs de la nature humaine. En créant une potion mystérieuse, il libère son alter ego maléfique, le redoutable Mr. Edward Hyde, une incarnation des pulsions les plus sombres. Tandis que Hyde sème le chaos et la terreur, Jekyll se trouve de plus en plus piégé dans ce jeu dangereux, incapable de contrôler la bête qu’il a réveillée. Mais la vérité derrière cette double identité est plus terrifiante que tout ce que ses amis pouvaient imaginer.
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Le Portrait de Dorian Gray [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
- contient la biographie de l'auteur [Contains Author Biography]
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Iliana Chiali
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Le Portrait de Dorian Gray est un roman gothique qui plonge le lecteur dans un univers sombre et fascinant. Au cœur de l'intrigue, nous retrouvons Dorian Gray, un jeune homme d'une beauté saisissante, qui fait l'objet d'une admiration sans borne. Lors d'une soirée, un peintre, Basil Hallward, réalise son portrait, une œuvre d'art qui capture toute la jeunesse et l'innocence de Dorian.
By: Oscar Wilde
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The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 45 mins
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Lord Robert St. Simon's new American bride, Hatty Doran, has disappeared almost immediately after the wedding. The servants had prevented an old love interest of his from forcing her way into the wedding breakfast, Hatty had been seen in whispered conversation with her maid, and Inspector Lestrade arrives with the news that Hatty's wedding dress and ring have been found floating in the Serpentine. Holmes quickly solves the mystery, locating Hatty at a hotel with a mysterious, "common-looking" man who had picked up her dropped bouquet after the ceremony.
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Schwestern
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 20 mins
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Die Hauptfigur dieser Geschichte ist ein Dubliner Junge, dessen tristes Dasein im monotonen Alltag durch die lose Freundschaft mit einem Priester etwas aufgelockert wird. Durch diesen Gottesdiener bekommt er Bruchstücke religiös-kirchlicher Standard-Vorgänge vermittelt, mit denen er eigentlich weder etwas anzufangen noch nützlich einzuordnen weiß. Als dieser Priester stirbt, nimmt der als Ich-Erzähler auftretende Junge ebenfalls an dem Gedächtnistreffen für den Verstorbenen teil, bei dem die Begräbniskosten geklärt und Gedenkworte ausgetauscht werden.
By: James Joyce
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Doktor Faustus
- Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: Gert Westphal
- Length: 28 hrs and 8 mins
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In der Lebensgeschichte Adrian Leverkühns – der fiktiven Romanbiographie eines Komponisten, der sich dem Teufel verschreibt – fasst Thomas Mann alle Entwicklungsstufen der alten Faust-Sage zusammen und verknüpft sie mit den politischen Ereignissen seiner Zeit. Der zeitliche Rahmen umgrenzt die Jahre von 1884 bis 1945, seine eigene Epoche. Er selbst nannte den "Doktor Faustus" "ein Lebensbuch von fast sträflicher Schonungslosigkeit, eine sonderbare Art von übertragener Autobiographie, ein Werk, das mich mehr gekostet und tiefer an mir gezehrt hat, als jedes frühere".
By: Thomas Mann
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 44 mins
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An engineer, Victor Hatherley, attends Dr Watson's surgery after his thumb is chopped off, and recounts his tale to Watson and Holmes. Hatherley had been hired for 50 guineas to repair a machine he was told compressed Fuller's earth into bricks. Hatherley was told to keep the job confidential, and was transported to the job in a carriage with frosted glass, to keep the location secret. He was shown the press, but on closer inspection discovered a "crust of metallic deposit" on the press, and he suspected it was not being used for compressing earth.
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Ligeia
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Marcos Ballate
- Length: 45 mins
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Ligeia es una obra del escritor Allan Poe publicada en 1838, donde narra el amor de un hombre por su bellísima esposa, Ligeia. Descubre esta fascinante historia de amor, agonía, muerte y belleza del famoso autor.
By: Edgar Allan Poe
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Manuscrito hallado en una botella
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Muriel Niebla
- Length: 33 mins
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Este es el relato de un marino occidental, que embarca en un navío mercante indio, como le era acostumbrado debido a su ocupación. He aquí que tras abandonar la infinita calma que reinaba en la costa, una terrible tormenta les aborda y el barco está a punto de irse a pique
By: Edgar Allan Poe
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Un médico rural
- Pequeños relatos
- By: Franz Kafka, Luis Fernando Moreno Claros - traductor
- Narrated by: Arturo López
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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Estos catorce relatos que Kafka publicó en 1920 reúnen narraciones visionarias cuyos protagonistas—el médico que acude al lecho de un paciente una noche de tormenta, el artesano cuya ciudad ha sido invadida por una temible tribu nómada, el mensajero imperial que jamás llegará a su destino—son hijos de una época en que la vida ha quedado entregada a una lógica impenetrable y la comprensión del mundo resulta inconcebible.
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Kafka,,
- By Chizu on 20-09-24
By: Franz Kafka, and others
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La métamorphose [The Metamorphosis]
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Aude Quenehen
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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Avec La Métamorphose, Kafka signe l'une des œuvres les plus marquantes de la littérature du XXème siècle. À travers une écriture précise et épurée, il nous plonge dans l'univers angoissant de Gregor Samsa. Le récit est construit comme un lent déclin, où la réalité se délite progressivement, laissant place à l'absurde et au cauchemar. Kafka maîtrise à la perfection les ressorts de la narration, créant une atmosphère oppressante et pesante qui ne lâche pas le lecteur.
By: Franz Kafka
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La aventura de la cocinera - Cuentos cortos de Agatha Christie
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: David Alejandro Alvarez Fortul
- Length: 33 mins
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Hércules Poirot es contratado para investigar la desaparición de Elisa Dunn, la excelente cocinera de los Todd. Al principio, el detective cree que se trata de un asunto doméstico y poco interesante, pero al avanzar descubrirá que no hay caso pequeño por insignificante que parezca al principio.
By: Agatha Christie
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- By: Washington Irving
- Narrated by: Myron Hieronymous Thomas
- Length: 58 mins
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"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is an 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Irving wrote the story while living in Birmingham, England. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle.