42 Results for : pawnbroker
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Crime and Punishment (Recorded Books Edition) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1501min
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is universally regarded as one of literature's finest achievements, as the great Russian novelist explores the inner workings of a troubled intellectual. Raskolnikov, a nihilistic young man in the midst of a spiritual crisis, makes the fateful decision to murder a cruel pawnbroker, justifying his actions by relying on science and reason, and creating his own morality system. Dehumanized yet sympathetic, exhausted yet hopeful, Raskolnikov represents the best and worst elements of modern intellectualism. The aftermath of his crime and Petrovich's murder investigation result in an utterly compelling, truly unforgettable cat-and-mouse game. This stunning dramatization of Dostoevsky's magnum opus brings the slums of St. Petersburg and the demons of Raskolnikov's tortured mind vividly to life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Guidall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/000177/bk_reco_000177_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fresh Air, Quincy Jones, Hörbuch, Digital, 50min
Musician, producer, arranger, composer Quincy Jones on this 70th birthday rebroadcast edition of Fresh Air. In his fifty year career he's worked with just about anyone who is anybody in the music business. As a teenager he played backup for Billie Holiday, along with his 16 year old friend, Ray Charles. At 18 he began playing the trumpet in Lionel Hampton's band beside Clifford Brown. He went on to work with Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Lesley Gore and many others. He wrote the theme songs for the TV shows Sanford & Sons, and Ironside, and music for the films In Cold Blood, For the Love of Ivy, and The Pawnbroker. His biggest commercial success was producing and arranging Michael Jackson's 1982 hit album Thriller. (Original Broadcast Date: November 5, 2001) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/030314/rt_whyy_030314_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dement , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 80min
The day Mark Bliss learned the ways of being a sleazy pawnbroker was the day his fate was sealed. For years, he's cheated countless people out of their possessions, but all of that changes when an elderly woman named Maggie Bliss walks into the store and brings an army of living dead with her. But is it all real? Mark finds himself struggling to decipher what's a dream and what's reality as the world around him dies. Dement is a story that truly lives up to its title. Join Mark as he slowly goes insane on the roof of a pawnshop, while the bodies of the dead linger below. But in the end, is he really going mad or has he found his destiny? You decide. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Butcher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/036317/bk_acx0_036317_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fresh Air, Quincy Jones, Hörbuch, Digital, 46min
Musician, producer, arranger, composer Quincy Jones on this edition of Fresh Air. He has a new autobiography, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones, and a 4-CD boxset collecting his work, Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones. In his fifty year career he's worked with just about anyone who is anybody in the music business. As a teenager he played backup for Billie Holiday, along with his 16 year old friend, Ray Charles. At 18 he began playing the trumpet in Lionel Hampton's band beside Clifford Brown. He went on to work with Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Lesley Gore and many others. He wrote the theme songs for the TV shows Sanford & Sons, and Ironside, and music for the films In Cold Blood, For the Love of Ivy, and The Pawnbroker. His biggest commercial success was producing and arranging Michael Jackson's 1982 hit album Thriller. Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/011105/rt_whyy_011105_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Crime and Punishment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1424min
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime - the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old woman no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime - to transgress moral law - if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious, and social commentary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness, and terror. Crime and Punishment takes the listener on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil - a man who cannot escape his own conscience. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dick Hill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/001529/bk_tant_001529_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Red-Headed League: A Sherlock Holmes Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 55min
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was the leading detective writer of the late nineteenth century. A physician by profession, he soon found writing to be more profitable that medical practice and rapidly gained fame with his tales of the master sleuth, Sherlock Holmes. In The Red-Headed League, Holmes is faced with a bizarre puzzle. His client, a red haired pawnbroker, had answered an odd advertisement from an organisation designed to promote the interests of red haired men. He is offered a highly paid job, which involves sitting in an office in fleet street between the hours of ten and two every day, copying out texts from the Encyclopaedia Britannica. One morning he arrives at the office to find a notice on the door announcing that the Red Headed League has been dissolved. His own enquiries lead to nothing, so he takes his case to the famous Sherlock Holmes. Holmes immediately realises that a grave crime is about to be committed... and together with his trusty companion, Dr. Watson, he sets out to foil the plot. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000520/bk_redd_000520_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Crime and Punishment (AmazonClassics Edition) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1243min
Earphones Award Winner and nominee for the 2019 Audie Award for Best Literary Fiction & Classics AudiobookFeatured title on PBS’s The Great American Read in 2018Living in a squalid room in St. Petersburg, the indigent but proud Rodion Raskolnikov believes he is above society. Obsessed with the idea of breaking the law, Raskolnikov resolves to kill an old pawnbroker for her cash.Although the murder and robbery are bungled, Raskolnikov manages to escape without being seen. And with nothing to prove his guilt and a mendacious confessor in police custody, Raskolnikov seems to have committed the perfect crime. But in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s world of moral transgressions, with its reason and its consequences, Raskolnikov’s plan has a devastating hitch: the feverish delirium of his own conscience.AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to hear a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature’s most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds.Revised edition: Previously published as Crime and Punishment, this edition of Crime and Punishment (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Anderson Foster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010674/bk_brll_010674_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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An Urchin of Means: The Baker Street Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 337min
Ringo Devereux knows far too much for a man of his times. There's no simple explanation for it that doesn't involve improbable conversations about the future, and Ringo's advanced understanding of three-phase generators and the secret histories of his city are not things he can discuss with the Victorian Londoners around him. Even his origins as an orphaned street thief are far too dangerous for a young gentleman of means to reveal. An encounter with a 10-year-old pickpocket, and a luncheon with Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle draw Ringo back into the shadows of his criminal past. A stolen gemstone, a suspicious pawnbroker, and a damning bundle of letters are mysteries that require Ringo's thief's instincts, his obscure facts, and the help of a little girl with the skills of deduction like his. But are these crimes as random as they first appear? What do a covert affair and a blue carbuncle have in common? Ringo knows too much, but someone knows more, and the identity of a mysterious red-haired woman is perhaps the most diabolically complicated plot of them all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Will M. Watt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/110992/bk_acx0_110992_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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One Quiet Woman: Ellindale Saga, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 661min
From the beloved and best-selling Anna Jacobs comes a new Lancashire-based saga. Lancashire, 1930: Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry, and since her mother died years ago it falls to her to become sole provider for her little sister. But women's wages are half those of men, and pawning the few belongings she has left will keep their vicious rent collector at bay for only a few weeks, so even if she finds a job, they'll lose their home. Out of the blue, Charlie Willcox, the local pawnbroker, offers her a deal. His brother Jonah, an invalid since being gassed in the Great War, needs a wife. Charlie thinks Leah would be perfect for the job. The idea of a marriage of convenience doesn't please Leah, but she finds Jonah agreeable enough, and moving with him to the pretty hamlet of Ellindale may be the only chance of a better life for her sister. But other people have plans for the remote Pennine valley, and the two sisters find themselves facing danger in their new life with Jonah. Can the three of them ever look to a brighter future? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Dover. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/001166/bk_hodd_001166_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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1960s novel Introduction (Book Guide)
1960s novel Introduction (Book Guide) ab 26.49 € als Taschenbuch: The Last Temptation of Christ Flambards Restoree Destination: Void The Fixer The Pawnbroker The Palace of Love Desolation Angels The Penultimate Truth Tenda dos Milagres The Millstone The Lolly-Madonna War. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,- Shop: hugendubel
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