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The Two Destinies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 640min
Most of Wilkie Collins' later work was disparaged by the critics for espousing causes. Swinburne commented, 'What brought good Wilkies genius nigh perdition? Some demon whispered - "Wilkie! Have a mission!".' Despite this, the 'novelist of sensation' continued to appeal to the public with the construction of ingenious and meticulous plots. He had been the first to write a full-length detective novel but also wrote love stories, and The Two Destinies is a fine example, the author adding a hint of the supernatural to tempt the Victorians' interest in mesmerism and the occult. Mary and George love each other in early childhood, but George's father tears them apart, not believing that Mary, a bailiff's daughter, will be a fit match for his son. The family travel to America to pursue the father's dream of wealth. During George's absence, Mary moves to Scotland and, in order to survive, is forced into a marriage of convenience. George returns after 10 years to search for his promised bride and becomes obsessed and infatuated with a Mrs Van Brandt. Is the pursuit beginning to affect his sanity? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Newcombe Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000105/bk_assm_000105_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Woodlanders , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 983min
This novel was described as one of Hardys' best and indeed one of the better novels of the latter part of the 19th century. With its publication the author entered into a period of controversy which was to follow him for the rest of his life. Grace Melbury, the timber merchant's daughter, comes back to Little Hintock after some years at finishing school. She was the childhood sweetheart of Giles Winterborne, a compassionate, caring man who works in the village. Melbury senior has promised himself that Grace and Giles will be married to recompense for him taking Giles' father's betrothed many years before. However, Grace is a different woman now, a sophisticated creature, and the suave, knowledgeable local doctor Fitzpiers takes an interest in her. Melbury goes back on his word.... But has Grace changed all that much? And is the doctor the honest professional man he pretends to be? The story is not without flashes of humour, with a rich background of detail and the humanity that characterised Hardy's work, which leads him to question the injustice of the marriage laws in this tale. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Newcombe Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000097/bk_assm_000097_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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John Halifax, Gentleman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1378min
The greatest romantic narrative novel of the early 19th century, John Halifax, Gentleman tells the story of an orphan boy whose first words in the story are, 'Sir, I want work; may I earn a penny?' By hard work, diligent study and an unshakeable faith in his God, John attains wealth and happiness, despite much hardship and heartbreak throughout his life. The story chronicles the class movement of the time and gives us a remarkable description of social, political and industrial change. Set in Gloucestershire in the heart of England and told by Phineas, his soul mate and lifelong friend, who observes John through all his glorious moments, self-doubt and resolution, the story is simple, uplifting and heroic. It is a detailed study of a man and his family that also presents the listener with a broad view of Britain during one of its most troubled times. A genuine classic, most entertaining and certainly a tale which lives up to the appellation, epic in its conception and delivery. John Halifax, Gentleman was first published in 1856. This is the first unabridged recording of Dinah Craik's masterpiece. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Newcombe Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000100/bk_assm_000100_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Judith Paris , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1417min
Newly born Judith is found in by eccentric Squire Gauntry in the chilled sombre ruin of a house on a bitter winter's night, her parents having died at her birth. With such a tenuous start, the child grows up to have an intense lust for life and curiosity for every new experience. She is the natural heir to both her parents' temperaments. With the wilfulness of her mother and the stubbornness of her father, she is redeemed by a compulsion to tell the truth and a willingness to help anyone she loves in time of trouble or distress. Judith is a generation apart from the Herries family at Uldale, but the world is changing dramatically for all branches of the family. 'Liberty is the right of every human creature.' That basic tenet of John Wesley's new creed was embraced by revolutionaries worldwide, and the storming of the Bastille in France has a profound impact. Once more the Herries clan lose a leading member, and Judith is thrown back on her own resources. Then, on the brink of womanhood, she meets a childhood friend again: the dark and dangerous Georges Paris. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Newcombe Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000119/bk_assm_000119_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Courts of the Morning , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1010min
Sir Richard Hannay introduces this last adventure involving his old friends. John Blenkiron discovers that a ruthless industrialist is plotting to destabilise America and cause global turmoil. Although Bavarian born, Castor plans to dominate the world from Olifa, a small country in Latin America. Hannay realises he is now too old for the job of thwarting these evil designs and enlists the aid of his old friend Sandy Arbuthnot, now Lord Clanroyden. Fortunately, Sir Archibald Roylance and his wife, Janet, are honeymooning in Olifa and are able to lend a hand. Sandy decides that revolution is the way forward, and Buchan draws on his experience of the tactics of the Boers in South Africa to describe the action of the campaign. Also, the villain is captured, and Janet is instrumental in effecting his ideological change but at great cost. The novel was published in 1929. It is unlikely to be a coincidence that in the same year, American financial markets collapsed, giving another Bavarian national, who had been abusing his people, the opportunity to consolidate his power in Germany and, ultimately, make his insane bid for world domination. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Newcombe Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000099/bk_assm_000099_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Beast in Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 947min
Sex, betrayal, murder and corruption form the basis of this sensational novel by one of the leading French authors of the 19th century. Jacques Lantier is a man with a hereditary homicidal lust. When he sees Roubaud and his wife Severine slit the throat of a wealthy nobleman, it is the catalyst for a string of murders in a convoluted plot full of horror and suspense. Severine starts an affair with Jacques to keep him from informing the authorities, but the couple soon realise that Roubaud has become an obstacle to their happiness. The malevolent Flore, feeling spurned and betrayed, takes her revenge in catastrophic fashion. If Jacques could cure his illness with just one murder all might be well - but who will be his victim? And can he stop there? Zola constantly reminds us that underneath the veneer of education and an accepted moral code, the savage beast will always remain. Characteristically, the writer doesn't shy away from the raw sexual element and baser human impulses, confronting us with a truth that, while not always palatable, is always enthralling. It is a brutal study of individuals derailed by primal forces beyond their control which, at the close, leaves us questioning our belief in ourselves as civilised creatures. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Newcombe Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000110/bk_assm_000110_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Lost World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min
Edward Malone, an enthusiastic and ambitious columnist for the Daily Gazette, is urged by the woman he loves to undertake a heroic deed so that he may earn her love in return. In a few weeks, he is bound for the shores of South America in the company of the irascible academic Summerlee and debonair adventurer Lord John Roxton on an expedition to prove the claims of bombastic genius Professor Challenger. The professor has allegedly discovered an isolated prehistoric land on top of a huge mountain in the tropical rain forests of the Amazonian jungle, and after many trials and tribulations they are at last on the mysterious summit of these craggy cliffs - without any obvious means of returning. The explorers need to draw on all their reserves of courage and strength as they are plunged into a nightmare world of prehistoric monsters, aggressive apemen and the Accala Indians, a tribe of bloodthirsty cave dwellers - not to mention betrayal by their own servants and the scepticism and disdain of the international scientific community. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle demonstrates the full range of his skills in this masterful story of mystery, suspense and adventure: the original scary tale of dinosaurs that still thrills and entertains. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Newcombe Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000112/bk_assm_000112_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pegged for Punishment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 48min, (USK 18)
A female mercenary is paid to kidnap a powerful public figure. She succeeds, and now has him at her mercy. Slowly revealing her medieval torture devices, she takes her victim on a brutal night of sexual torture. The poor victim feels her wrath as he suffers a agonizing ride of pegging, facesitting and ballbusting Sexy expert mercenary Sapphire is ecstatic that she has successfully completed her last mission and is finally able to retire, settle down and start a family. But her boss Angelo Delos makes her a lucrative offer that she cannot refuse when he asks her to kidnap and torment powerful politician Michael Burns for his own personal reasons. Sapphire reluctantly accepts the job when she sees how handsome Michael is and actually starts looking forward to all the erotic, taboo torture tactics that she has in store for him. But during the mission, Sapphire realizes that the sick, twisted pleasure she is getting from all the sexual pain she's inflicting upon Michael isn't just about this mission, and wonders if she is actually developing feelings for him. In the end, Sapphire must decide whether she will complete this mission as assigned, or hold onto Michael as her own personal malesub slave. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bibi Newcombe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/042451/bk_acx0_042451_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Vicar of Bullhampton , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1358min
This comprehensive novel consists of three subplots which interlink to form the whole and supply a trio of targets at which Trollope aims his proselytising pen. The first treats on the courtship of a woman by a man whom she does not love and with whom she is not compatible. Mary Lowther will not accept such a marriage of dishonesty. The second deals with the plight of a young woman who has fallen prey to the wiles of an evil seducer and subsequently adopts a life of prostitution. Trollope's argument was that the punishment for fornication was much harsher for women than men, although in most cases the latter were more to blame, and their victims were given no opportunity of returning to decent lives no matter how repentant they may have been. The third subject to receive the benefit of the author's moral outrage is the hypocrisy and narrow vision of the landed gentry in the person of the Marquis of Trowbridge, who treats his tenants as serfs and whose social code appears to be 'might is right'. The common sense of the pragmatic protagonist, Frank Fenwick, apparently very like Trollope himself, is a joy to hear. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Newcombe Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000098/bk_assm_000098_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Red and the Black, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 626min
Julian Sorel is a handsome, naïve but not wholly innocent young man, born of peasant stock. He is, however, very ambitious and determined to succeed in life and make a career for himself. If this involves lying, guile and hypocrisy - so be it. Not so long ago, two professions would have been open to him - the army or the church - but in the wake of Waterloo and the defeat of Napoleon, it would be preferable to take Holy Orders. Fortunately Mr de Renal, Mayor of Verrieres, is in need of a status symbol to impress his peers, and he engages the young man as tutor to his children. Mr de Renal has a very pretty younger wife and the decision is postponed while Julian indulges in a deceitful affair and learns another skill. Eventually the time comes when he must leave the town and attend his theological studies at Besancon. Unfortunately, his devious practices and underhand schemes don't work at the seminary - they are more corrupt than he is. Setting his story in the unstable period of the Bourbon restoration, when several factions were cynically vying for their own self-interest, Stendhal exposes the morally bankrupt local government and the grasping materialism of the church with a deftness which earned him Zola's acclamation: 'the Father of us all'. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Newcombe Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000114/bk_assm_000114_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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