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    Plays by H. J. Byron
    Plays by H. J. Byron ab 41.49 € als Taschenbuch: The Babes in the Wood the Lancashire Lass Our Boys the Gaiety Gulliver. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    The Ubiquitous Blond, Vol. 1: Second Edition with Bonus Material: Life Is Gay, Even If You're Not , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 120min
    Now with added bonus material!In his first collection of condensed stories, James uses his quick wit and bizarre sense of humor to provoke laughter and gaiety. From the awkward moment that ensues after his boss mistakenly discovers a pornographic image on his cellphone, to the struggles of toilet training three cats in a one-bedroom apartment, James always has a way of finding the silver lining."Life is gay, even if you’re not." Nothing’s further from the truth, if you think about it. In life, we all seek our own happiness, and throughout its mysterious journey, there comes a point where we must allow ourselves to let go and be gay, in spite of all the crap. Grab a beer, a straw, or, better yet, a gin martini, and start listening to this little book filled with laughs. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Evan Burroughs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/225973/bk_acx0_225973_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Deception , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 241min
    With the lover everyday life recedes," Roth writes - and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in Deception the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction. At the center of Deception are two adulterers in their hiding place. He is a middle-aged American writer named Philip, living in London, and she is an articulate, intelligent, well-educated Englishwoman compromised by a humiliating marriage to which, in her 30s, she is already nervously half-resigned. The book's action consists of conversation - mainly the lovers talking to each other before and after making love. That dialogue - sharp, rich, playful, inquiring, "moving", as Hermione Lee writes, "on a scale of pain from furious bafflement to stoic gaiety" - is nearly all there is to this audiobook, and all there needs to be. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Colacci, Susan Ericksen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001869/bk_brll_001869_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    St. Peter’s Fair: The Fourth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 472min
    In the summer of 1139, there is a pause in the civil war racking the country, and St. Peter’s Fair promises to bring some much-needed gaiety to Shrewsbury—that is, until the dead body of a wealthy merchant is found in the river Severn. Was Thomas of Bristol the victim of murderous thieves? If so, why were his valuables abandoned nearby? Brother Cadfael, that shrewd but kindly monk, offers to help the merchant’s lovely niece, Emma. But as he searches for the killer, Thomas of Bristol’s wares are ransacked and two more men are murdered. Emma almost certainly knows more than she is telling, and others will soon discover this, too. Cadfael desperately races to save the young girl, knowing that in a country at war with itself, betrayal can come from any direction—and even good intentions can kill. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Johanna Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003889/bk_blak_003889_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Into the Mystic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 250min
    There is no imagination about Arcanes in this story. No more than an artist could paint the sun at noon could I imagine so great beings. But as a painter may suggest the light on hill or wood, so is in this fantasy. Try to imagine the spiritual excitement created by two people who pass dimly through the narrative, spoken of by others but not speaking themselves. I have delayed fear too long, for as I grow old, the moon of fantasy begins to set confusedly within me. The Arcanes has not the spiritual gaiety I desire. The friends with whom I once spoke of such things are dead and gone far from me. Now I share with you, the dreamer. If they were with me, out of dream, vision and intuition, I might have made the narrative a glow. As it is, I have only been able to light my way with my own flickering lantern into the mystic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lynn Benson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/015087/bk_acx0_015087_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Common Reader Volume 1: 26 Essays on Jane Austen, George Eliot, Conrad, Montaigne and Others , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 521min
    This is Virginia Woolf’s first collection of essays, published in 1925. In them, she attempts to see literature from the point of view of the ‘common reader’ - someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She read, and wrote, as an outsider: a woman set to school in her father’s library, denied the educational privileges of her male siblings - and with no fixed view of what constitutes ‘English literature’. What she produced is an eccentric and unofficial literary and social history from the 14th to the 20th centuries, with an excursion to ancient Greece thrown in. She investigates medieval England (The Paston Letters and Chaucer), tsarist Russia (The Russian Point of View), Elizabethan Playwrights, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, Modern Fiction and the Modern Essay. When she published this book Woolf’s fame as a novelist was already established: now she was hailed as a brilliant interpretative critic. Here, she addresses ‘the common reader’ in the remarkable prose and with all the imagination and gaiety that are the stamps of her genius.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joan Walker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dhrm/000257/bk_dhrm_000257_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    St. Peter's Fair: The Fourth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Hörbuch, Digital, 162min
    It is Summer in the Year of Our Lord 1139 when the grand festive event, St. Peter's Fair, is held in the town of Shrewsbury. The event brings pause to the ongoing civil war, as tradesman from across England and beyond arrive in the town for some much needed gaiety. That is, until the body of a wealthy trader is found in the River Severn. Was Thomas of Bristol the victim of murderous thieves? And if so, why were his valuables abandoned nearby? Brother Cadfael offers to help the merchant's lovely niece Emma. But while he is seaching for the killer, the man's wares are ransacked and two more men are murdered. Emma almost certainly knows more that she is telling, as others will soon realise. Cadfael desperately races to save the young girl, knowing that in a country at war with itself, betrayal can come from any direction, an even good intentions can kill. Performed by Tony Award-winning actor Derek Jacobi, this fourth chronicle of Brother Cadfael weaves history and intrigue into an intricate web of adventure. Language: English. Narrator: Sir Derek Jacobi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dove/000402/bk_dove_000402_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Robin, Hörbuch, Digital, 657min
    Robin (1921) is a historical novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.Excerpt from the book: "In the years when Victorian standards and ideals began to dance an increasingly rapid jig, there lived in Mayfair, in a slice of a house, Robert Gareth-Lawless and his lovely young wife. So light and airy was she to earthly vision and so diaphanous the texture of her mentality that she was known as 'Feather.' The slice of a house between two comparatively stately mansions in the 'right street' was a rash venture of the honeymoon. Robert - well born, irresponsible, without resources - evolved a carefully detailed method of living upon nothing whatever, of keeping out of the way of duns, and telling lies with aptness and outward gaiety. But a year of giving smart little dinners and going to smart big dinners ended in a condition somewhat akin to the feat of balancing oneself on the edge of a sword. Then Robin was born. She was an intruder and a calamity, of course." Language: English. Narrator: Helen Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/009865/bk_edel_009865_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 650min
    Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book. Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman - who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking - he runs his own woodshop - Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman's childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois - "I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield" - to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees. A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even handcraft (and paddle) their own canoes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Offerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002218/bk_peng_002218_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dracula Cha Cha Cha: Anno Dracula Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 573min
    Rome 1959. Along the Via Veneto, the living and the dead enjoy la dolce vita, as the vampires, intellectuals, conspirators, jet-setters and swindlers of Europe gather in an endless round of indulgence and gaiety, dancing giddily to the music of the Dracula Cha Cha Cha. The Vampire King, in Italian exile, is to be married to a Moldavian princess, and rumours circulate that his wedding will be the first move in a campaign to return him to his position as Lord of the Undead and a power in the world. In the eternal city, three corpses in the Fontana di Trevi lead three vampire women towards the destinies of their hearts. A flamboyant murderer stalks the elder vampires of the city, perhaps intent on wrecking the Royal Marriage; an undead British secret agent with a license to kill is swept up in a titanic conflict with the supernatural agents of Smersh; a living American opportunist sees a way of surviving as a parasite upon the dead; and a creature older even than Count Dracula is awakened to decide the fates of lovers and monsters. From the author of Anno Dracula and The Bloody Red Baron comes this novel of horror and mystery, romance and intrigue. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Gaminara. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005799/bk_adbl_005799_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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