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    A Queer Night in Paris , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 20min
    M. Savalle, a small-town notary and amateur operatic singer with pretensions, travels to Paris to visit the opera and takes the opportunity to rub shoulders with famous artists in the cafés of Montmartre. He is unexpectedly invited to a housewarming party by a notable painter...but things do not go at all as he expected. His host vanishes unexpectedly and M. Savalle is left in charge of the occasion. When the guests arrive, they mistake him for the waiter...and from there things only get worse. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000230/bk_redd_000230_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Disparities Are Just Deserts: 1844 Couplets in Contention , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 293min
    Disparities are just deserts, between the good and bad in competition seen. 1844 maxims of rhythmic justice and assertive rhyme, carried forward in the cause of human dissimilarity upon competitive pretensions for rewards, merciless poetry manifest. Successful emulation in enterprise these unemasculated couplets may inspire. Book One enlarges on justice, maintaining that disparities justly may flourish where no monopolistic state or centralized monotony prevents them. In Book Two, the undigested individual is regarded as the likeliest exemplar of fulfilled attainments. At large egalitarian larceny Leaves Shakespeare no distinguished property. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Nolan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014200/bk_acx0_014200_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Modern Atheism
    Modern Atheism ab 24.99 € als Taschenbuch: Or The Pretensions Of Secularism Examined. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    Tales of the Unexpected , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 169min
    Master storyteller, H.H. Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, is famous for his witty, mischievous, and macabre stories of suspense. He specialized in impudent practical jokes, devilish trickery, and incredible yarns and his writing became popular in the early 1900s for its witty and satirical look at the pretensions and ignorance of bourgeois English society. From the eerie yet humorous Gabriel Ernest to the downright chilling The Interlopers, this brilliant collection of tales read by Tony Award-winning British actor, Sir Derek Jacobi, will succeed in bringing both chills and laughs to listeners of all ages. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sir Derek Jacobi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000742/bk_pnix_000742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 23min
    The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated is the most famous poem by the scholar and lexicographer Samuel Johnson. Many eminent critics, including Walter Scott and T. S. Eliot, consider it to be Johnson's crowning achievement as a poet. The subject and argument of the poem are clear from the title. However, unlike Juvenal, Johnson espoused the view that Christian values are an essential aspect of a life well lived. While Johnson passes harsh judgement on the foolishness of greed and social pretensions, his scorn is much tempered by that natural compassion that has made him one of the most lovable figures in English literature. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Denis Daly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001325/bk_mike_001325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Disney Fetish , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 593min
    Long considered a figurehead of family values and wholesome adolescence, the Disney franchise has faced increasing criticism over its gendered representations of children in film, its stereotypical representations of race and non-white cultures, and its emphasis on the heterosexual couple. Against a historical backdrop of studio history, audience reception, and the industrial-organizational apparatus of Disney media, Seán Harrington examines the Disney classics through a psychoanalytical framework to explore the spirit of devotion, fandom, and frenzy that is instilled in consumers of Disney products and that underlie the fantasy of the Magic Kingdom. This compelling study demystifies the unsettling cleanliness and pretensions to innocence that the Disney brand claims to hold. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emil Nicholas Gallina. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/049779/bk_acx0_049779_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mislaid , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
    Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know. (Jonathan Franzen) Virginia, 1966. The motionless deeps of the lake outside Stillwater College are being ruffled. Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, is determinedly fondling Peggy, an ingénue freshman with literary pretensions, in his canoe. So begins a long affair, but the two are mismatched from the start. The story that follows rocks the boat in every sense. Nell Zink's hugely entertaining, totally unique Mislaid explodes the nuclear family and topples every foundation of identity - black and white, gay and straight, "normal" and very very strange.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Bouvard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002094/bk_hcuk_002094_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Poor Matza: Selected stories of Avrom Reisen translated from the Yiddish by Harvey Fink , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 351min
    Avrom Reisen (1876-1953) was an acclaimed and prolific Yiddish poet and short story writer for the American Yiddish dailies. This is a superb translation by Harvey Fink of some of Reisen's best short stories. At the time of Reisen's death, the Jewish Spectator wrote: "There are many Yiddish writers who owe their success to Reisen's encouragement. For years he published and edited, under great sacrifices, Yiddish journals with the primary aim of providing a platform for young, struggling writers.... He had no arrogance, no pretensions and no personal vanity." This is the third of Harvey Fink's works of translation. He has also translated From Man to Man and That Is How It Is - works of Moishe Nadir and will soon be available in audio from Post Hypnotic Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Skulski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bigh/000487/bk_bigh_000487_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tradition Unveiled
    Tradition Unveiled ab 38.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Or An Exposition Of The Pretensions And Tendency Of Authoritative Teaching In The Church (1839). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,
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    The Troll Garden: Short Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min
    This collection of Willa Cather stories - her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career - is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of the art world, artists, pseudo-artists, aficionados, and dilettantes - all are amply represented here in the midst of their foibles, grand affairs, and failures, drawn with great style and subtlety by a writer gathering her formidable powers. With the psychological precision of her early master Henry James and the practical wisdom and wit of her contemporary Edith Wharton, Cather shows us innocents seduced, sophisticates undone, marriages sundered, idealism compromised, and the rare soul uplifted by art. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jessica Fargen Walsh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/184605/bk_acx0_184605_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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