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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Annotated) : With a Historical Introduction, a Study of Themes, an Overview and Famous Quotes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 524min

Unique to this title are: A historical introductionAn overview of FrankensteinA study of the themes present in FrankensteinA list of famous quotes from Frankenstein You may, of course, skip all of it and go straight to the main title if you do not want any spoilers and come back later to the beginning. Mary Shelley was an English novelist who was best known as the author of the famous Gothic novel, Frankenstein. She was born in 1797, and her parents were the political philosopher, William Godwin, and the philosopher and feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft.The story of Frankenstein begins with the explorer, Robert Walton, looking for a new passage from Russia to the Pacific Ocean via the Arctic Ocean. One day, they spot an emaciated man - Victor Frankenstein - floating on an ice sheet. In a series of letters to his sister in England, Walton retells Frankenstein's tragic story. Enjoy this timeless classic! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223907/bk_acx0_223907_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Bram Stoker’s Classic: Dracula (Annotated): With a Historical Introduction, an Overview, a Study of Themes, and Famous Quotes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 785min

Unique to this title is: A historical introductionAn overview of DraculaA study of the themes present in DraculaA list of famous quotes from DraculaYou may, of course, skip all of it and go straight to the main title if you do not want any spoilers and come back later to the beginning. Abraham “Bram” Stoker was born in 1847 in Dublin as the third of seven children. Stoker was bedridden with an unknown illness until the age of seven, when he made a complete recovery. He even grew up to become a successful athlete.Stoker is best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula but during his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.The novel Dracula begins when an English lawyer, Jonathan Harker, travels to Eastern Europe to meet Count Dracula, who is a client of his. The reason for the meeting is the finalization of a property transaction. When he arrives in Transylvania, he immediately notices that locals are shocked to learn where he is heading. Enjoy this timeless classic! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Drew Kallen-Keck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/185083/bk_acx0_185083_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan : With a Historical Introduction, a Study of Themes and Famous Quotes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 319min

Unique to this title is: A historical introductionAn overview of Peter PanA study of the themes present in Peter PanA list of famous quotes from Peter PanYou may of course skip all of it and go straight to the main title if you do not want any spoilers and come back later to the beginning. James Barrie grew up in a family where the mother was the dominant figure. When he was 6 years old, his elder brother died in an accident, a trauma from which his mother never recovered. As his mother played a dominant role in his life, her pain and suffering affected Barrie deeply and changed his life forever. Peter Pan is a story about a free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and who never grows up. His never-ending childhood is filled with adventures. He lives on the mythical island of Neverland where he is the leader of the Lost Boys gang. They live side by side with fairies, pirates, mermaids, Native Americans, and only occasionally interact with ordinary children from outside the Neverland. Enjoy this timeless classic! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223801/bk_acx0_223801_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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E.V Odle's Classic: The Clockwork Man: (Annotated) With a Historical Introduction, an Overview and an Analysis of the Main Characters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 272min

Unique to this title is:A Historical IntroductionAn OverviewAn Analysis of The Main CharactersYou may of course skip all of it and go straight to the main title if you do not want any spoilers and come back later to the beginning.Edwin Vincent Odle was born in 1890. Not much is known about his life except that he was a playwright, critic, and short-story author. During the 1910s, Odle lived in Bloomsbury, London. From 1925 - 1935 Odle was an editor of the British short-story magazine The Argosy. His brother, Alan, was a well-known illustrator.The story of The Clockwork Man takes place in 1920 when a strange man appears during a village cricket match. As one of the teams is a player short, the captain of the team recruits the stranger as a substitute for the missing man. The man looks very unusual. “His arms revolved like sails of a windmill. His legs shot out in all directions. He wore a very unusual red wig, over which he wore a brown bowler hat. His face was crimson and flabby. His ears flapped.”Where the clockwork man comes from, every single person has a clock installed in his brain. The clock keeps people going on forever, so there is no need for children and relationships.Enjoy this timeless classic! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brianna Fernandez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171112/bk_acx0_171112_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Charlotte Perkins Classic: The Yellow Wallpaper (Annotated) with a Historical Introduction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 69min

Unique to this title is:A historical introductionAn overview of "The Yellow Wallpaper"A study of the themes present in "The Yellow Wallpaper"A list of famous quotes from "The Yellow Wallpaper"You may of course skip all of it and go straight to the main title if you do not want any spoilers and come back later to the beginning."The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman.Gilman was born in 1860 in Connecticut. When she was a child, her father abandoned his wife and children, and she spent the rest of her childhood in poverty. Since her mother was not able to support the family, her aunts played a big part in her upbringing.Her schooling was erratic, and she attended seven different schools in just four years, finishing when she was 15. To prevent her children from getting hurt as she had been, her mother forbade them to make strong friendships or read fiction.Despite that, Gilman spent a lot of time in the local library studying ancient civilizations on her own.In her best-known work, "The Yellow Wallpaper", Gilman writes about different kinds of oppression that women were exposed to at the time. Women were patronized and treated as mentally weak and fragile. They were believed to be prone to many "nervous conditions" and particularly hysteria.Enjoy this timeless classic! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jessica Renfro. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171884/bk_acx0_171884_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Franz Kafka’s Classic: Metamorphosis (Annotated): With a Historical Introduction, a Study of Themes, an Overview and Famous Quotes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 112min

Unique to this title are: A historical introductionAn overview of MetamorphosisA study of the themes present in MetamorphosisA list of famous quotes from MetamorphosisYou may of course skip all of it and go straight to the main title if you do not want any spoilers and come back later to the beginning.Franz Kafka was born in1883, the first of six children of a middle-class Ashkenazi Jewish family. He was born in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and today the capital of the Czech Republic. He trained to be a lawyer, and while he worked in an insurance company, he was only able to write part-time.In Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up in his bed one morning and realizes that he has turned into a large insect. He doesn't understand how this is possible and decides to go back to sleep and forget about what has happened. When he tries to roll over in bed, he realizes that because his body is now the shape of an insect, he can't do this. He realizes he has many new legs and feels disgusted with himself. He wonders how he is going to continue working as a traveling salesman if he looks like this. Enjoy this timeless classic! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Drew Kallen-Keck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223800/bk_acx0_223800_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Jack London Classic: The Call of the Wild: (Annotated) : With a Historical Introduction, an Overview, a Study of Themes and Famous Quotes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 186min

Unique to this title: A historical introductionAn overview of The Call of the WildA study of the themes present in The Call of the WildA list of famous quotes from The Call of the WildYou may of course skip all of it and go straight to the main title if you do not want any spoilers and come back later to the beginning. Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876, as John Griffith Chaney. He was an illegitimate child of Flora Wellman and William Chaney. When Chaney refused to marry Flora Wellman, she tried to kill herself. She survived, but refused to take care of the baby. So, London was raised by an African-American woman and a former slave. His mother later married a man named John London, and that is probably how his surname changed to London. In The Call of the Wild, Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life gets turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon in the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail-delivery dog sled team, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime as he ultimately finds his true place in the world. Enjoy this timeless classic! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Drew Kallen-Keck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/227888/bk_acx0_227888_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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An Anonymous Anglo-Saxon Poet's Classic: Beowulf (Annotated): With a Historical Introduction, an Overview, and a Study of Themes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 184min

Unique to this title is:A historical introductionAn overview of BeowulfA study of the themes present in BeowulfYou may of course skip all of it and go straight to the main title if you do not want any spoilers and come back later to the beginning.The Epic of Beowulf dates back to CE 1000 and is considered the oldest surviving piece of work in English literature. Although written in Britain, the story of Beowulf is set in Scandinavia.The epic poem is composed in Old English and consists of 3,182 lines. It is written in the alliterative verse style, which is common for Old English poetry.The poem is about the legendary hero, Beowulf, a nobleman of the Geats. They were a North Germanic people inhabiting modern-day Gotaland in Southern Sweden.Beowulf begins with a description of the life of Scyld Scefing, the legendary home of the Danish royal family. We learn of several descendants of Scyld before being introduced to Hrothgar, who is the current king of Danes. His "court" is the hall of Heorot. It is believed that Heorot may refer to a sixth-century hall excavated near Lejre in 2004.King Hrothgar of Denmark, a descendant of the great king Shield Sheafson, enjoys a long and successful reign. He reigns from the mead-hall, called Heorot, where his warriors gather to drink, talk, receive gifts from the king, and listen to stories sung by the bards.Enjoy this timeless classic! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Carbuccia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/176580/bk_acx0_176580_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Shakespeare's Classic: Hamlet : (Annotated) with a Historical Introduction, an Overview, a Study of Themes and Famous Quotes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 182min

William Shakespeare, the 16th century English poet, playwright, and actor is generally regarded as the best writer in the English language and the world's best dramatist. He was a very prolific writer and his work consists of 39 plays, 154 sonnets, a few poems, and two long narrative poems. His plays have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in England. He married young, at the age of 18. His wife was 26 and already three months pregnant. They had three children, one of whom died at the age of 11. The child that died, Hamnet, was Shakespeare's only son, and it is speculated that he named Hamlet after the boy. In Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark has recently lost his father, but his mother is in a hurry to marry her late husband's brother. Hamlet is overwhelmed with grief for his father's death but also outraged because of the hurried marriage. Most people don't realize that there are three versions of Hamlet, printed at different times. There is a considerable difference between the texts of these versions, so to have a "complete" version of this play, editors had to make some adjustments. The three texts are simply different versions of the play.You may of course skip all of it and go straight to the main title if you do not want any spoilers and come back later to the beginning.Unique to this title are the following chapters:A Historical IntroductionAn Overview of HamletA Study of the Themes Present in HamletA List of Famous Quotes from HamletEnjoy this timeless classic! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Drew Kallen-Keck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/177643/bk_acx0_177643_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Herman Melville's Classic: Moby Dick : With a Historical Introduction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1203min

Unique to this title is:A Historical IntroductionAn Overview of Moby DickA Study of The Themes Present in Moby DickA List of Famous Quotes from Moby DickYou may, of course, skip all of it and go straight to the main title if you do not want any spoilers and come back later to the beginning.Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. He was also a teacher, sailor, lecturer, and customs inspector.Melville was born in New York City in 1819 as the third child of a successful merchant. He started his education at the age of five, but when he was seven, he contracted scarlet fever which affected his eyesight permanently.Although his father described him as "very backwards in speech and somewhat slow in comprehension", over time, Melvill's development improved considerably.The book revolves around the hunt for the giant white sperm whale called Moby Dick. During the previous hunt, captain Ahab had his leg bitten off at the knee. He is determined to catch Moby Dick this time. The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest for Moby Dick.The novel begins with a famous line: “Call me Ishmael.” Ishmael, the narrator of Moby Dick, wants to get away from New York City and decides to find a job on a whaling ship. He had worked as a sailor before, but not as a whaler. He travels to Massachusetts and stays in a whalers' inn.Since the inn is full, he is forced to share a bed with a harpooner from the South Pacific called Queequeg. Enjoy this timeless classic! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brianna Fernandez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173440/bk_acx0_173440_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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