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    Mapp and Lucia, Hörbuch, Digital, 217min
    Mapp and Lucia is the centrepiece of E. F. Benson's series of Lucia novels - bringing together for the first time the eponymous middle-aged doyennes of polite 1930s society Miss Elizabeth Mapp and Emmeline Luca (Lucia to her friends). Lucia, recently widowed, is the newcomer to the village of Tilling and eager to wrest the reins of social supremacy from the incumbant Miss Mapp and install herself as its benevolent dictator. In their polite acts of sabotage and ruthless jockeying for the position of cultural arbiter Mapp and Lucia tear up the conventions of drawing-room bridge evenings as their deadly weapons. Things finally come to a head with Miss Mapp's audacious attempt to steal her rival's celebrated Lobster a la Riseholme. E.F. Benson's charming satrical bent turns the pretensions and snobberies of English village life into a vicious comedy. Language: English. Narrator: Miriam Margolyes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000290/bk_twuk_000290_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Snow Falling , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 47min
    Our wounds were self-inflicted. We created them without foresight. We erased ourselves and made pretensions reality. Now Snow falls. This short story explores social drift created by technological advances and the personal and social implications of an individual presenting different personas to the digital and physical worlds. Kate Enrite lives in the near future where a person's influence score determines what society offers. These influence scores have pervaded social structures to the point that privacy has been outlawed as a hindrance to measurement. With nothing to gain from her true identity, Kate fights to secure what she perceives as a better life. In the process, she will discover how long a person can pretend to be someone they are not - until becoming the pretense. Content Warning: Snow Falling contains scenes of drug abuse and violence not suitable for some audiences. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Harken. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/009855/bk_acx0_009855_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dodsworth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 801min
    Meet Sam Dodsworth, an amiable 50-year-old millionaire and "American Captain of Industry, believing in the Republican Party, high tariffs, and, so long as they did not annoy him personally, in Prohibition and the Episcopal Church". Dodsworth runs an auto manufacturing firm, but his beautiful wife, Fran, obsessed with the notion that she is growing old, persuades him to sell his interest in the company and take her to Europe. He agrees for the sake of their marriage, but before long, the pretensions of the cosmopolitan scene prove more enticing to Fran than her husband. Both a devastating, surprisingly contemporary portrait of a marriage falling apart and a grand tour of the Europe of a bygone era, Dodsworth is stamped with Sinclair Lewis' signature satire, which is wickedly observant of America's foibles - and great fun. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grover Gardner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/002492/bk_blak_002492_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Hamlet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 891min
    The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, a small town built on the ruins of a once-stately plantation. Flem Snopes – wily, energetic, a man of shady origins – quickly comes to dominate the town and its people with his cunning and guile. As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of William Faulkner's book, you'll also receive an exclusive Jim Atlas interview. This interview – where James Atlas interviews James Lee Burke about the life and work of William Faulkner – begins as soon as the audiobook ends. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001399/bk_adbl_001399_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Beethoven: A Character Study , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 378min
    God acts upon earth only by means of superior chosen men. Up to Beethoven's time, musicians in general (Bach is always an exception) performed their work without the aid of an intellect for the most part; they worked by intuition.In everything outside their art, they were like children. Beethoven was the first one having the independence to think for himself and the first to have ideas on subjects unconnected with his art. It was he who established the dignity of the artist over that of the simply well-born. His entire life was a protest against the pretensions of birth over mind.His predecessors, to a great extent subjugated by their social superiors, sought only to please. Nothing further was expected of them. This mental attitude is apparent in their work. The language of the courtier is usually polished, but will never have the virility that characterizes the speech of the free man. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David K. Aycock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/204940/bk_acx0_204940_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Kipps , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 847min
    This wonderful comedy about orphan and innocent Arthur Kipps was the means by which Wells satirized what he saw as a gross stupidity and blight upon English society: the pretensions of and obsession with class. Humble drapers' assistant Arthur unexpectedly inherits his grandfather's fortune and is instantly propelled into a higher social stratum with the subsequent problems of attaining the required behaviour of a 'gentleman'. Wells gets much comic mileage from Arthur's desperate attempts to win the approval of his 'betters' and the hand of his goddess, the ambitious, would-be London bohemian Helen, but there is pathos in his inevitable fall from grace and reunion with Ann, his childhood sweetheart. Wells, the revolutionary, makes some serious political comment and with great foresight predicts the world's citizens as 'one body', in the words of the jaundiced socialist Masterman. A joyous, thought-provoking tale with an ingenious twist in the final moments. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000078/bk_assm_000078_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tradition Unveiled
    Tradition Unveiled ab 17.49 € als Taschenbuch: Or An Exposition Of The Pretensions And Tendency Of Authoritative Teaching In The Church (1839). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Romane & Erzählungen,
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    Joseph Smith The Great American Impostor
    Joseph Smith The Great American Impostor ab 36.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Or Mormonism Proved To Be False By A Fair Examination Of Its History And Pretensions (1852). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Jura,
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    The Holy Roman Empire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 753min
    Contents Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter 2: The Roman Empire Before the Invasion of the Barbarians Chapter 3: The Barbarian Invasions Chapter 4: Restoration of the Empire in the West Chapter 5: Empire and Policy of Charles Chapter 6: Carolingian and Italian Emperors Chapter 7: Theory of the Medæval Empire Chapter 8: The Roman Empire and the German Kingdom Chapter 9: Saxon and Franconian Emperors Chapter 10: Struggle of the Empire and the Papacy Chapter 11: The Emperors in Italy: Frederick Barbarossa Chapter 12: Imperial Titles and Pretensions Chapter 13: Fall of the Hohenstaufen Chapter 14: The Germanic Constitution - the Seven Electors Chapter 15: The Empire as an International Power Chapter 16: The City of Rome in the Middle Ages Chapter 17: The Renaissance: Change in the Character of the Empire Chapter 18: The Reformation and Its Effects upon the Empire Chapter 19: The Peace of Westphalia: Last Stage in the Decline of the Empire Chapter 20: Fall of the Empire Chapter 21: Conclusion and General Summary ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000213/bk_acon_000213_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Joseph Smith The Great American Impostor
    Joseph Smith The Great American Impostor ab 17.49 € als Taschenbuch: Or Mormonism Proved To Be False By A Fair Examination Of Its History And Pretensions (1852). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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