31 Results for : moneylender
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The Gombeen Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 35min
The Gombeen Man is an evil moneylender who several peasants owe money to. When the peasants find themselves unable to repay the wicked man on time, he is quick with his desire to take their land from them, refusing to take the payment from them in the future if they should be able to come up with it. The poor peasants are then forced to come up with a plan to keep their land from the evil Gombeen Man. This short story is actually a chapter from Stoker’s novel The Snake’s Pass, about a romance between an English tourist and an Irish peasant. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Langton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000771/bk_gdan_000771_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Summary and Analysis of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 38min
The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice must default on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender. It is believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is most remembered for its dramatic scenes, and it is best known for Shylock and the famous "Hath not a Jew eyes?" speech on humanity. Also notable is Portia's speech about "the quality of mercy". Critic Harold Bloom listed it among Shakespeare's great comedies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Theis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/113951/bk_acx0_113951_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Merchant of Venice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 144min
One of William Shakespeare's greatest plays, The Merchant of Venice is also his most controversial. A tale of the triumph of true love, it is packed with witty dialogue, philosophizing, and lyrical flourishes. But the comedy is often overshadowed by concerns about anti-Semitism swirling around the character of the Jewish moneylender, Shylock. Listen as this production by the Shakespeare Recording Society brings the play to life, warts and all, and demonstrates that an exploration of religious intolerance makes this work even more vital and compelling than ever. This full-cast recording features Hugh Griffith as Shylock, Dorothy Tutin as Portia, Harry Andrews as Antonio, and many others. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hugh Griffith, Dorothy Tutin, Harry Andrews, full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/harp/000037/pf_harp_000037_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard: Life Among the Stowaways , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 523min
Beneath the Nelson Mandela Boulevard flyover on Cape Town's foreshore lives a community of stowaways, young Tanzanian men from the slums of Dar es Salaam. When journalist Sean Christie meets Adam Bashili, he comes to know the extraordinary world of the Beachboys, a multi-port, fourth-generation subculture that lives to stow away and stows away to survive. But as Sean starts to accompany the beachboys on trips around their everyday Cape Town, he becomes more than a casual observer, serving as sometime moneylender, driver, confidant and scribe, and eventually joining Adam on an unprecedented tour of Dar es Salaam's underworld and a reckless run down Africa's east coast. Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard remaps both city and continent, introducing us to the places and people we so frequently overlook. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anton Engelen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052786/bk_adbl_052786_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Merchant of Venice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 149min
Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, agrees to lend Antonio, a Venetian merchant, three thousand ducats so that his friend Bassanio can afford to court his love, Portia. However, Shylock has one condition: Should the loan go unpaid, he will be entitled to a pound of Antonio's own flesh. Meanwhile in Belmont, according to the terms of her father's will, Portia's many suitors must choose correctly from three caskets. Bassanio arrives at Portia's estate and they declare their love for one another before he picks the correct casket. Antonio falls into bad fortune and finds he cannot repay Shylock: A dramatic trial ensues to decide his fate. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Antony Sher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000461/bk_naxo_000461_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Anonymous Shake-Speare: The Man Behind , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 537min
William Shakespeare had nothing to do with the actor and moneylender William Shaksper from Stratford-upon-Avon. The man behind the nom de plume "William Shakespeare" was, in fact, a very well-educated aristocrat who often frequented the court of Elizabeth and whose real name was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. The dramas of Shakespeare were not written for the Globe Theatre but for the Queen's court. The dramatist Ben Jonson published the Shakespearian works and saw to it that a monument, with a bust of the "marionette dramatist” William Shaksper was erected in the church of Stratford-upon-Avon. These astonishing theories are not the theme of a fictional work. They are based on a diligently researched academic biography of the author, albeit a biography that could have provided stories for a dozen novels. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Boyett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/003668/bk_brll_003668_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Merchant Of Venice
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'The quality of mercy is not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven'Bassiano, a noble Venetian, hopes to woo the beautiful heiress Portia. However, he requires financial assistance from his friend Antonio. Antonio agrees, but he, in turn, must borrow from the Jewish moneylender Shylock. As recourse for past ills, Shylock stipulates that the forfeit on the loan must be a pound of Antonio's flesh. In the most renowned onstage law scene of all time, Portia proves herself one of Shakespeare's most cunning heroines, disguising herself as a lawyer and vanquishing Shylock's claims; meanwhile, Shylock triumphs on a humanitarian level with his plea for tolerance: 'Hath not a Jew eyes?'Viewed paradoxically as anti-Semitic, while at the same time powerfully liberal for its time, The Merchant of Venice is at its core a bittersweet drama, exploring the noble themes of prejudice, justice and honour.- Shop: buecher
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Sons , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 838min
The second installment in Pearl S. Buck's acclaimed Good Earth trilogy: the powerful story of three brothers whose greed will bring their family to the brink of ruin. Sons begins where The Good Earth ended: revolution is sweeping through China. Wang Lung is on his deathbed in the house of his fathers, and his three sons stand ready to inherit his hard-won estate. One son has taken the family's wealth for granted and become a landlord; another is a thriving merchant and moneylender; and the youngest, an ambitious general, is destined to be a leader in the country. Through all his life's changes, Wang did not anticipate that each son would hunger to sell his beloved land for maximum profit. At once a tribute to early Chinese fiction, a saga of family dissension, and a depiction of the clashes between old and new, Sons is a vivid and compelling masterwork of fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Verner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009645/bk_blak_009645_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Best of the Realms, Book II: The Stories of Ed Greenwood: A Forgotten Realms Anthology , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 732min
This anthology presents thirteen of your favorite Ed Greenwood stories taken from over fifteen years of Forgotten Realms novels. In addition, this anthology contains three brand new stories by Ed Greenwood! Adventure across the myriad faces of Faerûn with warriors like Mirt the Moneylender and Alusair the Steel Regent, and with wizards like Elminster the Sage of Shadowdale and his three charges, Dove, Storm, and Laeral, as they roam the Realms, protecting the innocent from villainy, the ignorant from deception, and the insane from themselves. Contents "Not the Most Successful of Feasts", "Dark Talons Forbear Thee", "The Whispering Crown", "So High a Price", "One Comes, Unheralded, to Zirta", "A Dance in Storm's Garden", "A Slow Day in Skullport", "Bloodbound", "How Wisdom Came to the Maimed Wizard", "The Eye of the Dragon", "Nothing but Trouble", "The Grinning Ghost of Taverton Hall", "The Place Where Guards Snore at their Posts", "Living Forever", "The Long Road Home" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katharine Gibson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/006636/bk_adbl_006636_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Merchant of Venice (eBook, ePUB)
The Merchant of Venice is an intriguing drama of love, greed, and revenge. At its heart, the play contrasts the characters of the maddened and vengeful Shylock, a Venetian moneylender, with the gracious, level-headed Portia, a wealthy young woman besieged by suitors. At the play's climax, Shylock insists on the enforcement of a binding contract that will cost the life of the merchant Antonio — inciting Portia to mount a memorable defense. In this richly plotted drama, Shylock, whom Shakespeare endowed with all of the depth and vitality of his greatest characters, is not alone in his villainy. In scene after scene, a large cast of ambitious and scheming characters demonstrates that honesty is a quality often strained where matters of love and money are concerned. The gravity and suspense of the play's central plot, together with its romance, have made The Merchant of Venice a favorite of audiences, and one of the most studied and performed of Shakespeare's plays. It is reprinted here from an authoritative text, complete with explanatory footnotes.- Shop: buecher
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