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Im Paris des 19. Jahrhunderts geben sich vier junge Paare dem Leben und der Liebe hin. Sie verbringen ihre Zeit mit frivolen Spielen und neckischen Albernheiten. Die Oberflächlichkeit ihrer Zuneigungen offenbart sich, als die Liebe Konsequenzen zeigt. Victor Hugos berühmte Erzählung aus "Les Misérables" als Hörbuch.
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A respectable young widow and mother of two children, the Marquise of O- finds herself inexplicably pregnant after being rescued by a Russian officer from the attentions of his soldiers during the storming of her town's citadel. Convinced of her own innocence and wishing to vindicate her own integrity, the Marquise places an advert in the newspapers, appealing for the father to come forward and promising to marry him. But will this be enough to quench...
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Rose Macaulay was a fascinating and influential British writer, known for her wit and intellect. She wrote numerous novels, essays and biographies, and she was highly regarded for her versatility as a writer. Her works often explored themes of social change, women's rights and the complexities of human relationships. She had a unique ability to capture the essence of her characters and the world they inhabited, making her a much-admired figure in...
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The Provincial Lady in Wartime, though the last of the Provincial Lady series, is one of the finest.
No further 'Diaries' had appeared since The Provincial Lady in America (published in 1934) when, in 1939, Harold Macmillan, then chairman of Macmillan publishers and a fan, made a personal request to E. M. Delafield for a new book. The onset of the war with Germany was serious, but, he said, Britain, was in need of the entertaining but pertinent...
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Die jahrhundertealten Erzählungen der Scheherazade enthalten eine Fülle von wunderbaren Märchen und Geschichten, die den Zauber des Orients atmen und nichts von ihrer Kraft verloren haben. Eine Auswahl der schönsten Liebesgeschichten als Hörbuch: 1. Die Geschichte der Tochter des Veziers und des Prinzen Uns Alwudjud [1-10] 2. Das Liebespaar in der Schule [11] 3. Ein Bagdadenser und seine Sklavin [12-14]
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Ein Pfandleiher lässt sich dazu herab, ein junges Mädchen aus überaus ärmlichen Verhältnissen zu heiraten. Er erwartet Dankbarkeit und Unterordnung seiner Frau, begegnet ihr aber seinerseits nur mit Strenge und Schweigen. In seinem Stolz bemerkt er nicht, dass sie ihm immer mehr entgleitet.
49) Oscar Wilde - Das Gespenst von Canterville / Die schönsten Märchen / Meistererzählungen / Lord Ar
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Auf diesem Hörbuch: Das Gespenst von Canterville - Der glückliche Prinz - Der selbstsüchtige Riese - Die Nachtigall und die Rose - Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen und andere. Gelesen von Markus Hoffmann, Katharina Thalbach, Thomas Vogt und Gerd Wameling.
50) Cavafy's Love
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There is something Platonic in Cavafy's love, which wants him to be not the offspring of Aphrodite but of Pena, and as such, love in Cavafy's man is experienced as deprivation. In the face of this unfulfillment, the poet (re)shapes bodies as instruments of freedom in his otherwise heavy monasticism. While with memory, he takes refuge in the chamber of an ideal past that resists the ravages of time, ensuring the desire for the beautiful, the eternally...
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One of the best known stories - and for some the best - of H. F. Lovecraft confronts the reader with both the then unexplored Antarctic and the origins of many elements of the Cthulhu Mythology.
Professor Dyer, a prominent geologist, learns that a scientific expedition will soon depart for Antarctica following in the footsteps of the journey he himself had made a few years earlier. In the hope of thwarting the expedition, Dyer decides to give a full...
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2022
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For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms. Originally published as Castaneda’s master’s thesis in anthropology, Teachings documents Castaneda’s supposed apprenticeship with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer, don Juan Matus. Dividing the work into two sections, Castaneda begins by describing don Juan’s philosophies, then continues with his...
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Live Oak Media
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2021
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"The story is just as delightful in Spanish as it is in English. The rich, expressive voice of the male narrrator is clear and enthusiastic...This would make a good reading center for schools with a Spanish-speaking population." - School Library Journal
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2023
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"I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man," a nameless voice cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the painful self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn of a lonely individual who has become one of the greatest anti-heroes in all literature. Notes from Underground reveals Fyodor Dostoevsky on the threshold of genius, discovering the ideas that would later lead him to create his most...
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An old man sits in the corner of a London tea house. In comes a young lady reporter, and a conversation ensues.
'Mysteries!' he comments. 'There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation.' At first, the reporter wants to terminate the exchange, swiftly. But she cannot walk away when a notorious unsolved murder becomes the topic of their conversation and this slightly...
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Though it is for the sparkling epic, Aeneid, that the Roman poet Virgil is best known, it was these two poems, The Eclogues and Georgics, which first established his reputation. Cast in the tradition of pastoral poetry, The Eclogues were written between 41 BCE and 37 BCE when Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, to give him his full name) was in his thirties. The Eclogues (the word means 'Selections' in Greek) contain 10 poems, a combination of dialogues...
60) Rheinsberg
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Das junge Liebespaar Claire und Wolfgang verbringt ein romantisches Wochenende in Rheinsberg, um der Enge der Großstadt zu entfliehen. Unter falschem Namen geben die beiden sich als Ehepaar aus und genießen die so gewonnene Freiheit in vollen Zügen. Die ganz eigene Sprache der Verliebten, ihr mitreißender Humor und ihre unbeschwerte Ausgelassenheit verleihen Tucholskys berühmter Erzählung ihren unwiderstehlichen Charme.
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