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  Charles Dickens: The Writers Series (Dramatised), Hörbuch, Digital, 59min

  There has never been another novelist like Dickens. In his novels and stories, loved throughout the world, he created a host of fictional characters, reflecting their eccentricities, their wit, their violence, and their pathos. They live today as vividly as ever. This engrossing dramatisation shows how his most famous creations were derived from his own experiences and from facets of his complex, almost demonic personality. Language: English. Narrator: John Ringham, Nigel Lambert, John Graham, Judy Bennett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/berg/000018/pf_berg_000018_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Mother Tongue , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 644min

  With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson - the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent - brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience, and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't) to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen McLaughlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004840/bk_harp_004840_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Shakespeare: The World as Stage

  Bill Bryson's bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship-updated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's deathWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. His Shakespeare is like no one else's-the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.

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  Midnight Voices , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 683min

  Caroline Evans, a recently widowed mother of two, thinks things have finally fallen into place when she meets the charismatic Anthony Fleming. They are quickly married, and she and her two children move into his luxury apartment in the legendary Rockwell on Central Park West. Despite her son's misgivings about the building and the people who dwell there, Caroline dismisses the oddities of their new neighbors as pleasant eccentricities - until things begin to change. Behind the luxury and beauty of The Rockwell lurks a secret that Caroline can't possibly imagine. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aasne Vigesaa. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/000354/bk_brll_000354_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  How to Be 'Normal'

  How to Be 'Normal' ab 1.99 € als epub eBook: Notes on the eccentricities of modern life. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Wissenschaften allgemein,

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  Quartet in Autumn

  With an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.In 1970s London Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem - loneliness. Lovingly and with delightful humour, Barbara Pym conducts us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements, and - perhaps most keenly felt - their worries about having somehow missed out on life as post-war Britain shifted around them.Deliciously, blackly funny and full of obstinate optimism, Quartet in Autumn shows Barbara Pym's sensitive artistry at its most sparkling. Its world is both extraordinary and familiar, revealing the eccentricities of everyday life.

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  The Green Toenails Gang , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 24min

  Olivia Sharp, cousin to super sleuth Nate the Great, is a detective too! Rather than solve mysteries like Nate, Olivia helps friends with their problems by detecting what's wrong beneath the surface. You'll be won over by Olivia's spunk, eccentricities, and can-do spirit.Olivia Sharp is one smart agent for secrets - which means she knows how to read between the lines. Olivia's best friend, Taffy Plimpton, has a problem. Taffy wants to join a secret club, but its members won't let her in. Why not? It's a secret that Olivia is determined to find out! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Eiden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/003040/bk_lili_003040_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  King and Queen , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 46min

  King and Queen deals with the lives of royalty in the olden days. They did not live in the modern world that we live in today. Yet there are similarities. We all have eccentricities and foibles. We very quickly get to love the king and queen and are transported into their world and how they go about their lives at and away from the palace. Politics and fashion are at the forefront during this particular phase of their lives. They are very entertaining characters who perhaps, despite being royalty, are no different than you and me. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Knower Peace. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bigh/000651/bk_bigh_000651_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Savannah Law , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 751min

  Savannah Law, a novel. A young law professor's obsession with a female student and a politically charged, media-frenzy criminal trial that pits the nation's most successful criminal trial lawyer against Savannah prosecutors, provide the backdrop for Savannah Law. The intense drama - both inside and outside the courtroom - builds to an unexpected climax in an unforgettable final chapter. Savannah Law is filled with colorful but believable characters, including a few cantankerous law professors, who demonstrate their vanity and eccentricities at the weekly faculty meetings. The novel will appeal to anyone who enjoys a legal thriller or Southern novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094858/bk_acx0_094858_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  White Christmas with a Wobbly Knee: The Belchester Chronicles, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 379min

  The second in the series featuring a madcap pair of amateur sleuths and a delightful outpouring of upper-class English eccentricities - with the odd murder thrown in. Lady Amanda Golightly, eccentric resident of the sprawling Belchester Towers, has a new venture: guided tours. To celebrate she invites a horde of old chums to a trial run at Christmas, complete with tasty nibbles. However, things don't go to plan - a dead guest is discovered slumped on the library table. Lady Amanda and her friend Hugo Cholmondley-Crichton Crump are off again, but can they beat the morose Inspector Moody to the unmasking of the culprit? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patricia Gallimore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/002595/bk_isis_002595_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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