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    The Proof of Love , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 565min
    During the long hot summer of 1976, a brilliant young Cambridge mathematician arrives in a remote village in the Lake District and takes on a job as a farm labourer. Painfully awkward and shy, Spencer Little is viewed with suspicion by the community and his only real friendship is with scruffy, clever 10-year-old Alice. When he saves Alice from a wild-fire, the locals at last begin to accept him, but as he is drawn deeper into their lives, he also becomes aware of their secrets - and of the difficulty of keeping his own. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gordon Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000320/bk_oakh_000320_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 479min
    1944. Emily Dean is sent to stay with relatives in rural Victoria. With grandmother determined to keep up standards despite the effects of the war, Della, the Bible-quoting cook, and her young and fearless aunt Lydia, who refuses to befriend her, Emily just wants to go home. But things start looking up when she encounters Claudio, the Italian prisoner of war employed as a farm labourer. And then Lydia’s brother, William, unexpectedly returns from the war. Wounded and bitter, he’s rude, traumatised and mostly drunk, yet a passion for literature soon draws them together. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Zoe Carides. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/004282/bk_howe_004282_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Emelian and the Empty Drum , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 15min
    This is the story of the labourer Emelian, who got married to a beautiful woman. When the king of the land saw Emelian’s wife, he fell in love with her. The king and his advisers thought up various schemes to get rid of Emelian, but they all backfired, so the couple lived happily ever after.  Museum Audiobooks strives to present audiobook versions of authentic, unabridged historical texts from prior eras which contain a variety of points of view. The texts do not represent the views or opinions of Museum Audiobooks, and in certain cases may contain perspectives or language that is objectionable to the modern listener. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Richards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/000612/bk_yurt_000612_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Stationmaster's Daughter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 762min
    Living in the Stationmaster's cottage at Partick, Carrie Burgess leads a charmed life, cushioned from the world of poverty surrounding it. Her only real problem is her mother, who thinks Ewen Livingstone, the railway labourer Carrie's in love with, a poor catch; Matt Campbell, a clerk, seems a much better prospect.Carrie's father dies suddenly and his wife and daughter are forced to move out of their home. Money is tight. Carrie ignores her true feelings and marries Matt, only to find that his devoted front conceals a man of violence. When the Second World War starts, everything changes, but Carrie remains sure of one thing: that her heart will always belong to Ewen. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lesley Mackie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/002247/bk_isis_002247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To Gain What's Lost , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 614min
    Yorkshire, 1864. The daughter of a wealthy Yorkshire landowner, Anna Thornton leads a privileged life. But she is not content. She longs to be accepted for the free-thinking, independent woman she is. When she meets dashing adventurer Matt Cowan, she thinks she has met her soul mate. However, he’s not the man she thinks he is. After he sets sail for South America, Anna discovers she’s pregnant. Heartbroken, she flees her family home, determined to keep her child’s illegitimacy a secret. Just when she starts to settle into her new life, strong-minded Brenton O’Mara - who has turned his back on his father’s wealth - seeks work as a labourer at Anna’s new home....  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Dover. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/004148/bk_isis_004148_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Source of Irritation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 32min
    Nobel Prize winner (and Forsyte Saga author) John Galsworthy described Stacy Aumonier as ‘one of the best short-story writers of all time’ and predicted that, through the best of his stories, he would ‘outlive all the writers of his day’. A Source of Irritation is one such story. Sam Gates, an elderly and somewhat irritable agricultural labourer, is thinning a field of turnips in Norfolk one morning during the Great War. Suddenly he sees an ‘airyplane’ behaving oddly in the sky. The plane, an enemy fighter, lands on the neighbouring field, and the next moment, owing to his odd similarity to an active German spy, Sam finds himself captured and abducted away to the trenches in Northern France. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000235/bk_redd_000235_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Parish of Hilby , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 657min
    When Mr James Massey moves to the Parish of Hilby and becomes the new tenant of Wood Farm he is soon the centre of attention. Invited to events within the small Norfolk Village, Massey finds himself attending village concerts, high tea at the grange and even dinner at the vicarage. As the residents warm to him so too do the hearts of two women, Helen Smythe and Pollie Freeman. When Pollie mistakes his affections for a proposal James realises it is Helen he favours. But Pollie has informed her parents of the engagement, will James have a choice? Few punches are pulled in portraying the rigid class system of the time, from the squire to the most impoverished labourer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Thorne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/000960/bk_isis_000960_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Gamekeeper (eBook, ePUB)
    George Purse is an ex-steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a ducal country estate. He gathers, hand-rears and treasures the birds to be shot at by his wealthy employers. He must ensure that the Duke and his guests have good hunts when the shooting season comes round on the Glorious Twelfth; he must ensure that the poachers who sneak onto the land in search of food do not.Season by season, over the course of a year, George makes his rounds. He is not a romantic hero. He is a labourer, who knows the natural world well and sees it without sentimentality.Rightly acclaimed as a masterpiece of nature writing as well as a radical statement on work and class, The Gamekeeper was also, like Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave (Kes), adapted by Hines and filmed by Ken Loach, and it too stands as a haunting classic of twentieth-century fiction.
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    Social Evils
    Social Evils ab 23.49 € als Taschenbuch: And Their Remedy Vol. II: The Pastor of Dronfells; The Labourer and His Wife. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,
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    Empire's Children , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 482min
    As the daughter of the Tea-maker, Shiro’s life is bound by the expectations of others. But Shiro has no interest in convention.Her holidays are spent with best friend Lakshmi, a coolie labourer, and she dreams of becoming a doctor, unhampered by her gender, her race, or her social standing.Privilege is something Anthony and William Ashley Cooper take for granted. On the Sri Lankan tea fields in particular, the English are masters.When Anthony takes over management of the plantation, he discovers the truth about his family’s dealings with the locals. He desperately wants to make a difference - to be a different kind of man - but William’s reckless lust and their father’s never-ending greed stand in his way.Tragedy, grief, and separation threaten Shiro and shackle Lakshmi in the bondage of class distinction. Can Anthony’s love of justice set right the wrongs of the past?Wombat Books acknowledges the support of the Australian Council for the Arts in the recording and production of this audiobook. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gabrielle Herd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/233181/bk_acx0_233181_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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