Aesop's Fables by Aesop consists of about 600 tales, some well-loved and familiar, others less known but just as entertaining and educative and help us map the perimeters of our moral universe.
Fables have existed almost since the dawn of time. They hark back to a time when humans and animals lived in harmony and mutual respect. We humans could learn a great deal from the...
Narrated by Ariana Delawari. — Listening Library, 2015. A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights. Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when...
Narrated by Ariana Delawari. — Listening Library, 2015. A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights. Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when...
Narrated by Ariana Delawari. — Listening Library, 2015. A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights. Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when...
Read by the author. Unabridged. Approx. 3 hours.
This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his father - and she dies while he is gone. This haunts him for years. It unravels his own young...
Read by Erik Singer. — Hyperion Audiobooks, 2003. — 72 kbps. — Duration 05:12:37. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that...
Read by the author. An old man, a young man, and the life's greatest lesson. (The book to read RTF, FB2) Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older who understood you when you were young and searching, who helped you see the world as a more profound place, and gave you advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz,...
Аудиокнига на английском языке по роману Джеймса Олдриджа - Девочка из моря. Восемь файлов 8-10 минут, MP3, 64 kbps Обложка книги вышедшей из печати 1 сентября 2003 г. Beau, crippled and almost blinded by a terrible accident, is sent to recover in the South of France. Here, it is hoped, the clear blue sea and the influence of his indom-itable Aunt Mimi will heal his damaged...
Английский оригинальный текст без сокращений. Читает Сюзи Эйчинсон. Audio book, unabridged. (The book to read: PDF, htm, MOBI) Кэтрин Аллиотт - британская писательница, автор многих книг-бестселлеров, которые часто относят к жанру chick lit (для молодых женщин и о молодых женщинах), книги ее отличаются юмором, но в них всегда присутствует и "горькая правда жизни". May is the...
Другая женщина" - рассказ Шервуда Андерсона из сборника "Торжество яйца" (1921).Читает Джон Апдайк, известный американский писатель (1932 —2009). Английский оригинальный текст без сокращений. (The book to read). Шервуд Андерсон (1876—1941) — американский писатель. Новеллистика Андерсона (сборники «Уайнсбург, Огайо», 1919; «Торжество яйца», 1921; "Кони и люди, 1923, и др.)...
Read by Anton Lesser. — Duration 06:00:00. Abridged. An old lady is brutally murdered the night before 9/11 A New York banker receives a woman's left ear in the morning post A professional young woman steals a Van Gogh, but she isn't a thief A Japanese steel magnate gives 550 million to a woman he has only met once
Read by Anton Lesser. — Duration 06:00:00. Abridged. An old lady is brutally murdered the night before 9/11 A New York banker receives a woman's left ear in the morning post A professional young woman steals a Van Gogh, but she isn't a thief A Japanese steel magnate gives 550 million to a woman he has only met once
Ричард Бах "Чайка Джонатан Ливингстон", MP3 (64 Кб/сек),текст в формате DOC, удобно пользоваться электронным словарем. Аллегорическое повествование о духовном становлении ученика, который постиг свою подлинную природу, пребывающую за пределами мира форм. Книга начитана носительницей языка, многократной победительницей конкурсов художественного чтения - Лизой Рей Кэмбелл (Новая...
Simon & Schuster Audio, 2016. — ISBN: 978-1508223573.
A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove, now available on CD from Encore at a great price!
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also...
Read by William Boyd. — 128 kbps. — Duration 00:29:53. "My Dream of Flying to Wake Island" (first appeared in Ambit #60[4]) Melville was 'the first astronaut to suffer a mental breakdown in space', and whilst recovering becomes obsessed with flying to Wake Island in a B-17 Flying Fortress he has discovered buried in the sand.
Read by Christopher Eccleston. — BBC Radio, 2007. — 128 kbps. — Duration 00:15:02. John Kendrick Bangs' tale about a demon, a mysterious stranger and a magical manuscript.
Read by Peter Capaldi. — HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2002. — 128 kbps. — Duration 05:49:08. Abridged edition. A couple of ice cubes, first, then the apple that really started it all. A loft apartment in London’s East End; cool but doomed, demolition and redevelopment slated for the following week. Ken Nott, devoutly contrarian leftish shock-jock attending a mid-week wedding...
Read by Peter Capaldi. — HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2002. — 128 kbps. — Duration 05:49:08. Abridged edition. A couple of ice cubes, first, then the apple that really started it all. A loft apartment in London’s East End; cool but doomed, demolition and redevelopment slated for the following week. Ken Nott, devoutly contrarian leftish shock-jock attending a mid-week wedding...
The Rosary is a beautiful love story. Gareth Dalmain falls in love with the Honorable Jane Champion. She loves him back, but does not trust his love, as is known to be a great lover of beauty, and she – alas – is very plain. Just as she decides to trust him, she receives news that he has been blinded in a hunting accident. She wants to go visit him, but he will not receive her, as.
The Rosary is a beautiful love story. Gareth Dalmain falls in love with the Honorable Jane Champion. She loves him back, but does not trust his love, as is known to be a great lover of beauty, and she – alas – is very plain. Just as she decides to trust him, she receives news that he has been blinded in a hunting accident. She wants to go visit him, but he will not receive her,...
2h 43m; 32 kbps;
Master storyteller and bestselling novelist Clive Barker creates an enchanting tale for both children and adults to cherish and retell. The Thief of Always tells the haunting story of Harvey, a bright 10-year-old who is suffering from the winter doldrums, and of a creature who takes him to a place where every day is filled with fun, and Christmas comes every...
Рассказы Джулиана Барнса "Bark" (30 min, Кора) и Vigilance (33 min, Бдительность) из сборника "The Lemon Table" (Лимонный стол).
Audio Book, Langenscheidt. Английский оригинальный текст, рекомендуется для уровня B1 и выше (B1 = Threshold or intermediate).
Джулиан Патрик Барнс (англ. Julian Patrick Barnes, р. 1946) — известный английский писатель, эссеист, литературный критик....
A complete & unabridged reading by David Rintoul. Here:
One
- East Wind
- At Phil & Joanna's 1: 40/60
- Sleepng with John Updyke
- At Phil & Joanna's 2: Marmalade
- Gardeners' World
- At Phil & Joanna's 3: Look, No Hands
- Trespass
- At Phil & Joanna's 4: One in Five
The brilliant new collection of short stories from award-winning author Julian Barnes. The stories in...
A complete & unabridged reading by David Rintoul. Here
- Marriage Lines
TWO
- The Limner
- Complicity
- Harmony
- Carcassone
- Pulse
The brilliant new collection of short stories from award-winning author Julian Barnes. The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death,...
Read by Richard Morant. — AudioGO, 2011. — 40 kbps. — Duration 04:38:01. Winner for the Man Booker Prize 2011. The powerful, unsettling, and beautifully crafted new novel from one of England's greatest contemporary writers. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in...
Нина Боден (р. 1925) - популярная британская писательница. Princess Alice (1986). Английский оригинальный текст. An adopted daughter who sometimes feels she doesn't fit into her large untidy English family, reevaluates her position after a visit with her real father, an African prince.
This is the Arthurian legend of Tristan and Iseult. It is a tale of love, honour, intrigue, betrayal and jealousy, ending ultimately in tragedy. This story predates that of Lancelot and Guinevere, and is one of the most influential romances of the medieval period, inspiring many artists, from story-tellers to painters to composers.
Read by John Greenman. — Librivox.org, 2006. — 64 kbps. — Duration 18:06:33. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. Stowe was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist. The novel is believed to have had a profound effect on the North’s...
Read by John Greenman. — Librivox.org, 2006. — 64 kbps. — Duration 18:06:33. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. Stowe was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist. The novel is believed to have had a profound effect on the North’s...
Read by Michael Maloney. — England BBC Audiobooks, 1994. — 64 kbps. — Duration 17:35:00. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised,...
Read by Michael Maloney. — England BBC Audiobooks, 1994. — 64 kbps. — Duration 17:35:00. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised,...
Read by Michael Maloney. — England BBC Audiobooks, 1994. — 64 kbps. — Duration 17:35:00. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised,...
Рассказы Амброза Бирса. Английский оригинальный текст с незначительными сокращениями. Продолжительность 60 мин.
- A Tough Tussle.
- The Damned Thing.
- The Moonlight Road.
Амброз Гвиннет Бирс (1842 — 26 декабря 1913?) — американский писатель, журналист, автор юмористических и «страшных» рассказов.
В конце 1913 года немолодой писатель отправился на юг США, чтобы посетить места...
Read by Susan Lyons. — Random House, 2015. — 64 kbps. — Duration 16:35:00. "When I was a young girl, it was very far from my thoughts to go to Africa, nor did I dream then that an African farm should be the place in which I should be perfectly happy." After the failure of her coffee farm, Karen Blixen returned to Denmark, where she wrote this classic account of her experiences....
Read by the Author. An unabridged production. 2 hours 35 minutes. Living with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing. Whether Fudge is throwing a temper tantrum in a shoe store, smearing mashed potatoes on the walls at Hamburger Heaven, or scribbling all over Peter's homework, he's never far from trouble. He's a two-year-old terror who...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s first novel, Lady Audley’s Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 1862, it tells the story of the lovely Lucy Graham, who becomes Lady Audley at the beginning of the novel, and who conceals a scandalous secret from her new husband and his family. The plot, which includes madness, bigamy, attempted murder, and...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s first novel, Lady Audley’s Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 1862, it tells the story of the lovely Lucy Graham, who becomes Lady Audley at the beginning of the novel, and who conceals a scandalous secret from her new husband and his family. The plot, which includes madness, bigamy, attempted murder,...
Total running time (2 parts): 6 h. 27 min., Version: Unabridged, 96 kbps, read by Emilia Fox.
At age 19 Anne Brontë left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience as a governess. Brontë depicts the precarious position of a governess and how that can affect a young woman. Agnes was the daughter...
Total running time (2 parts): 6 h. 27 min., Version: Unabridged, 96 kbps, read by Emilia Fox.
At age 19 Anne Brontë left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience as a governess. Brontë depicts the precarious position of a governess and how that can affect a young woman. Agnes was the daughter...
Read by Brittany Pressley. — Brilliance Audio, 2016. — Duration 08:46:00. Unabridged Audiobook. After seven years of misery and abuse, it’s all over—Hannah O’Malley is officially divorced. Hallelujah. It’s like every Christmas in her life all rolled up into one glorious day. Not only does Hannah get to keep her grandmother’s spacious old house, but she has full custody of her...
Read by Brittany Pressley. — Brilliance Audio, 2016. — Duration 08:46:00. Unabridged Audiobook. After seven years of misery and abuse, it’s all over—Hannah O’Malley is officially divorced. Hallelujah. It’s like every Christmas in her life all rolled up into one glorious day. Not only does Hannah get to keep her grandmother’s spacious old house, but she has full custody of her...
Read by the author. — Smithsonian Folkways, 1995. — 192 kbps. Продолжительность: 00:52:04. Poet, critic, a legendary teacher, irreverent raconteur Sterling Brown reads 21 of his most memorable poems. The verses resonate with the music of the life he saw around him the blues sung to lost loves, chants of saints praying to be in the number, tragic-comic cries in the face of...
7 файлов MP3-формата, 64 kbps, моно, по 11-12 мин. В файле формата DOC - краткое содержание и обложка печатного издания. Billie just knows she's going to be teased to death about her boring, bald stepdad. But worse than that, with a posh new stepsister and a mum who hardly seems to notice her now, Billie doesn't feel she belongs in her own family any more. So she comes up with...
Read by Emma Fielding. Sequel to the bestselling Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman . Fiction (abridged). Running time: 7 hours. Mother to six-year-old twins, sidelined at family gatherings by Mathan's hostile family, ostracized by his friends, Minty is haunted by the shadow of the glowing, successful Rose - Nathan's first wife. "The trouble is," she concludes, "everything I do...
Read by Emma Fielding.
Sequel to the bestselling Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman . Fiction (abridged). Running time: 7 hours.
Mother to six-year-old twins, sidelined at family gatherings by Mathan's hostile family, ostracized by his friends, Minty is haunted by the shadow of the glowing, successful Rose - Nathan's first wife. "The trouble is," she concludes, "everything I do...
Audio Drama - BBC Radio 7. Duration: 89 min. 1s. Bit rate mode: constant. Bit rate: 128 Kbps. Channel(s): 2. Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz. Resolution: 16 bits. Cast: Jason Hughes. John McArdle. Jack Davenport. In Anthony Burgess's 1962 cult novel, teenage thug Alex is brainwashed out of his sadistic pursuits, but the cure sparks unfortunate side effects. Written from the perspective...
Audio Drama - BBC, 1 x 45 Minute Episodes - 128Kbps - MP3. The action of "A King's Speech" takes place on Coronation Day, 12th May 1937, and deals with King George VI's preparations for his evening BBC Radio broadcast to the Nation - a terrifying prospect for perhaps the most notable Briton to have suffered from a stammer. The Coronation Ceremony in Westminster Abbey completed,...
Антония Байетт "Рассказы о Матиссе". Но это рассказы не о Матиссе, а о женщинах, наших современницах, и рассказы связаны с картинами Матисса. Audio book, unabridged, read by Nadia May. In "Medusa's Ankles", a distinguished translator visits a hair salon hoping hint of her youthful looks. Hung on the wall before her is one of Matisse's icon. In "Art Works", the three inhabitants...
Аудио файл (чтец декламирует стихотворение) и текст стихотворения Байрона "Roll On" для фонетического интонационного анализа. Филологический факультет СПбГУ, 2 курс.
Read by Kenneth Branagh. - Bath, Chivers Audio, 2004. - MP3, 96 kbps, 44 kHz, stereo. - 02:54:48. Set in Camus' native Algeria, this story centres around Meursault. The young French-Algerian leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life until his involvment in a violent incident calls into question the fundamental values of society. Meursault will not pretend. After the death...
Read by Guy Sorel . - Translated by Stuart Gilbert. - Unabridged. - NLS, 1976. - MP3, 96 kbps, 44 kHz, mono. - 08:24:00 . The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in...
Read by Guy Sorel . - Translated by Stuart Gilbert. - Unabridged. - NLS, 1976. - MP3, 96 kbps, 44 kHz, mono. - 08:24:00 . The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in...
Read by Phil Regensdorf. - MP3, 64 kbps, 22 kHz, mono. - 03:50:04. Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd". First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward. The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the...
Read by Kerry Shale. Total running time: approx. 6 hours. A mouthwatering romantic comedy.
"A delicious book - funny, foodie and romantic" (Richard Curtis).
Laura Patterson, a twenty-four-year-old student, is spending a year studying art history in Rome. She's decided that from now on she'll only go out with a man who can cook. Tommaso Massi, handsome and silver tongued, tells...
Read by Kerry Shale. Total running time: approx. 6 hours. A mouthwatering romantic comedy.
"A delicious book - funny, foodie and romantic" (Richard Curtis).
Laura Patterson, a twenty-four-year-old student, is spending a year studying art history in Rome. She's decided that from now on she'll only go out with a man who can cook. Tommaso Massi, handsome and silver tongued, tells...
Read by Harry Roan. — 40 kbit/s 2 ch stereo. — Duration ~ 4 hours. The Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (1958) brought together the title novella and three shorter tales: "House of Flowers, " "A Diamond Guitar" and "A Christmas Memory. " The heroine of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Holly Golightly, became one of Capote's best known creations, and the book's...
Оригинальный английский текст без сокращений. В книгу вошел самый значительный роман выдающегося американского писателя Трумена Капоте «Хладнокровное убийство» (1966), основанный на истории реального преступления, совершенного в 1959 г. в Канзасе, и раскрывающий природу насилия как сложного социального и психологического феномена. Книга Капоте, мгновенно ставшая бестселлером,...
Оригинальный английский текст без сокращений. В книгу вошел самый значительный роман выдающегося американского писателя Трумена Капоте «Хладнокровное убийство» (1966), основанный на истории реального преступления, совершенного в 1959 г. в Канзасе, и раскрывающий природу насилия как сложного социального и психологического феномена. Книга Капоте, мгновенно ставшая бестселлером,...
Unabridged. Read by Simon Vange. Total running time approx. 9 hours. (The book to read: PDF, RTF, FB2) From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author and recipient of the Commonwealth Prize comes this new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and a work of highly charged, fiendishly funny literary fiction....
Unabridged. Read by Simon Vange. Total running time approx. 9 hours. (The book to read: PDF, RTF, FB2) From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author and recipient of the Commonwealth Prize comes this new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and a work of highly charged, fiendishly funny literary fiction....
Unabridged. Read by Simon Vange. Total running time approx. 9 hours. (The book to read: PDF, RTF, FB2) From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author and recipient of the Commonwealth Prize comes this new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and a work of highly charged, fiendishly funny literary fiction....
Written By: George Carlin Narrated By George Carpin Duration: 2 hours 29 minutes In Brain Droppings, Carlin brings to audio his singular brand of comedic satire that has made him a favorite of stage, screen and cable audiences. Witty word play, spirited commentary, sarcasm, monologues and in-your-face insights about everyday values appear randomly, literally droppings from his...
Read by David Colacci. — Tantor Media, 2016. — 64 kbps CBR, 44.100 Hz, stereo. — Duration 19:35:38. — ISBN: 978-1515979562. Unabridged. Part 2 Part 3 Louis-Ferdinand Céline's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language,...
Read by David Colacci. — Tantor Media, 2016. — 64 kbps CBR, 44.100 Hz, stereo. — Duration 19:35:38. — ISBN: 978-1515979562. Unabridged. Part 1 Part 3 Louis-Ferdinand Céline's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language,...
Read by David Colacci. — Tantor Media, 2016. — 64 kbps CBR, 44.100 Hz, stereo. — Duration 19:35:38. — ISBN: 978-1515979562. Unabridged. Part 1 Part 2 Louis-Ferdinand Céline's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language,...
Read by Michael Prichard. — Harper, 2012. — 64 kbps. — Duration 18:19:00. Henri Charriere, called "Papillon" for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet...
Read by James Langston. — Penguin, 2019. — 48 kbps. — Duration 09:36:00. International Bestseller: The famed travel writer and author of In Patagonia traverses Australia, exploring Aboriginal culture and song - and humanity's origins. Long ago, the creators wandered Australia and sang the landscape into being, naming every rock, tree, and watering hole in the great desert. Those...
Total time 3:21:33.
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at...
Chaucer’s masterpiece depicting life in fourteenth-century England. Chaucerr's world in words and music.
Read by Margaret Howard, Bernard Palmer, David Bellam, and Martin Souter.
‘In April when the sweet showers fall, then people want to go on pilgrimages.’ A group of pilgrims travelling from London to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury decide that each traveller...
Unabridged. Read by Johnny Heller. - 128kbps. - 44kHz. Language: English. MP3.
This is the story of what it’s like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his...
Unabridged. Read by Johnny Heller. - 128kbps. - 44kHz. Language: English. MP3.
This is the story of what it’s like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his...
Read by Ulf Bjorklund. — Christian Audio, 2011. — 64 kbps. — Duration 11:28:00. Here is the book that converted C. S. Lewis from atheism to Christianity. This history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity is to some extent a conscious rebuttal of H. G. Wells' Outline of History, which embraced both the evolutionary origins of humanity and the mortal humanity of Jesus. Whereas...
Read by Ulf Bjorklund. — Christian Audio, 2011. — 64 kbps. — Duration 11:28:00. Here is the book that converted C. S. Lewis from atheism to Christianity. This history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity is to some extent a conscious rebuttal of H. G. Wells' Outline of History, which embraced both the evolutionary origins of humanity and the mortal humanity of Jesus. Whereas...
Gallery Books, 2013. — 98,4 MB — ISBN: 978-1476741222. Grace Sheridan is back. Ten years after discovering that looks and talent are a dime a dozen in Los Angeles, she’s wriggling into a pair of badass jeans and ready to show the film industry that there’s way more to her than just a head of gorgeous red curls. And Hollywood’s newest Brit super-hunk Jack Hamilton certainly sees...
Gallery Books, 2013. — 98,4 MB — ISBN: 978-1476741222. Grace Sheridan is back. Ten years after discovering that looks and talent are a dime a dozen in Los Angeles, she’s wriggling into a pair of badass jeans and ready to show the film industry that there’s way more to her than just a head of gorgeous red curls. And Hollywood’s newest Brit super-hunk Jack Hamilton certainly sees...
7 файлов MP3-формата, 64 kbps, моно, по 11-12 мин. В файле формата DOC - краткое содержание и обложка печатного издания. Book Review. This book is the sequel to Raiders of the Sands, in which the child Abraham leaves his home in the Ethiopian Highlands with a message for the French king, only to be sold into slavery in Arabia. This second book, the Battle for the Throne, opens...
Toronto; Montreal: McClelland & Stewart, 2006. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 006112558X; ISBN13: 978-0061125584. Book of Longing is the first new poetry book by Leonard Cohen since 1984's Book of Mercy. First published in 2006 by McClelland and Stewart, Book of Longing contains 167 previously unpublished poems and drawings, mostly written at a Zen monastery on Mount Baldy in California,...
Аудиокнига на английском языке. Unabridged audiobook, 2010. Teen and young adult. Rachel Cohn and David Levithan have written a love story that will have readers perusing bookstore shelves, looking and longing for a love (and a red notebook) of their own.
Аудиокнига на англ.языке.
Naomi and Ely are best friends. Naomi loves and is in love with Ely, and Ely loves Naomi, but prefers to be in love with boys. So they create their "No Kiss List" of people neither of them is allowed to kiss. And this works fine - until Bruce. Bruce is Naomi's boyfriend, so there's no reason to put him on the List. But Ely kissed Bruce even though he is...
BBC Audio Books, Chivers, 2009
Duration: 12h 25m
Reader: Kate Jarman
Quality: 66 kbps
Language: British English
Destitute after World War 2, Magda Janek hoped to build a new life for herself & her baby daughter, Helena. 20 years later, Helena has grown to have beauty, confidence & a good education - she couldn't be happier. Until tragedy strikes.
BBC Audio Books, Chivers, 2009
Duration: 12h 25m
Reader: Kate Jarman
Quality: 66 kbps
Language: British English
Destitute after World War 2, Magda Janek hoped to build a new life for herself & her baby daughter, Helena. 20 years later, Helena has grown to have beauty, confidence & a good education - she couldn't be happier. Until tragedy strikes.
Her name was Hannah Boyle, but to the people of the village she ould always be "The Girl"-Matthew Thornton's bastard.
Savagely treated by Matthew's wife Anne, she fled for protection to the devil-may-care horse-dealer, Ned Ridley, who had earlier befriended her. But, as the waif grew to beautiful womanhood, she became an object of desire to the local young men, even to her...
Read by Frank Muller with an introduction read by the author. Unabridged. Total running time: 5 hours 38 minutes. (Book to read) Jerry Renault ponders the question on the poster in his locker: Do I dare disturb the universe? Refusing to sell chocolates in the annual Trinity school fund-raiser may not seem like a radical thing to do. But his defiant act turns into an all-tour...
Read by Frank Muller with an introduction read by the author. Unabridged. Total running time: 5 hours 38 minutes. (Book to read) Jerry Renault ponders the question on the poster in his locker: Do I dare disturb the universe? Refusing to sell chocolates in the annual Trinity school fund-raiser may not seem like a radical thing to do. But his defiant act turns into an all-tour...
Read by Corso Gregory, Orlovsky Peter, Ginsberg Allen. — London: BBE, 2001. — 320 kbps. — Duration 00:59:00. Gregory Corso. Male Female Part 1. Gregory Corso. Male Female Part 2. Gregory Corso. Dream. Gregory Corso. I'd Love To Shove A Rose. Peter Orlovsky. Signature Change. Peter Orlovsky. 4-D Man. Peter Orlovsky. Jerked Off. Peter Orlovsky. Cat Haiku. Peter Orlovsky. I Got A...
Радиоспектакль ВВС.
Modern-day fable by Ryan Craig, set against the backdrop of war-torn Afghanistan. Two British soldiers embark on a perilous quest to retrieve a love letter.
Качество 128 кбит/с, 44 кГц. Продолжительность 44 мин.
Уровень advanced.
Рассказ Стивена Крейна, увлекательный и психологически точный. Английский оригинальный текст без сокращений. Читает Брус Манн.
Стивен Крейн (1871—1900) — американский поэт, прозаик и журналист, представитель импрессионизма, основоположник верлибра в американской поэзии. Оказал большое влияние на англоязычную культуру.
Вторым после Уолта Уитмена Крейн использует технику...
Unabridged. Running time 1 hour. Read by Scott Wolf.
Newbery Medal Winner Sharon Creech's remarkable novel about how words can change your life.
With a fresh and deceptively simple style, acclaimed author Sharon Creech tells a story with enormous heart. Written as a series of free-verse poems from a young student's point of view, Love That Dog shows how one boy finds his own...
Read by Patricia Hodge. Unabridged. Total running time approx. 6 1/2 hours. The Hours is both an homage to Virginia Woolf and very much its own creature. Even as Michael Cunningham brings his literary idol back to life, he intertwines her story with those of two more contemporary women. One gray suburban London morning in 1923, Woolf awakens from a dream that will soon lead to...
Read by Patricia Hodge. Unabridged. Total running time approx. 6 1/2 hours.
The Hours is both an homage to Virginia Woolf and very much its own creature. Even as Michael Cunningham brings his literary idol back to life, he intertwines her story with those of two more contemporary women. One gray suburban London morning in 1923, Woolf awakens from a dream that will soon lead to...
Blackadder employs a young man called "Bob" (who is actually a woman in disguise who ran away to get a legitimate job after her father suggested she become a prostitute) whom he finds himself attracted to, much to his dismay. Once he discovers that "Bob" is actually Kate, he plans to marry her, only to have her elope with his friend and best man, Lord Flashheart.
Ноттинг Хилл" - аудиоиздание известной книги Ричарда Кертиса и еще более известного фильма, получившего немало наград и признание зрителей по всему миру. Данная книга рассчитана на уровень владения языком на уровне Preintermidiate (возможно сильный Elementary). Анна Скотт (в фильме - Джулия Робертс) — самая популярная мировая кинозвезда. Эпизоды из кинофильма, в котором она...
Arrival
- Easter Special
- Songs of Praise
- The Christmas Lunch Incident
BBC Radio Collection. Comedy. Running time 2 hours 15 minutes. Dawn French stars in four classic episodes from the original BBC TV series.
Welcome to Dibley, a perfect village somewhere in rural England. It's full of perfect peculiar people.
Read by Geoffrey Palmer.
Mr. Hoppy is a shy old man who lives alone in an apartment building. For many years, he has been secretly in love with Mrs. Silver, a woman who lives below him.
Read by LibriVox Volunteers. — LibriVox, 2015. — 128 kbps. — Duration 13:04:17. The Divine Comedy (in Italian, Divina Commedia, or just La commedia or Comedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri in the first decades of the 14th Century, during his exile from his native Florence. Considered the most important work of Italian literature, the poem has also has enormous...
Read by LibriVox Volunteers. — LibriVox, 2015. — 128 kbps. — Duration 13:04:17. The Divine Comedy (in Italian, Divina Commedia, or just La commedia or Comedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri in the first decades of the 14th Century, during his exile from his native Florence. Considered the most important work of Italian literature, the poem has also has enormous...
Read by LibriVox Volunteers. — LibriVox, 2015. — 128 kbps. — Duration 13:04:17. The Divine Comedy (in Italian, Divina Commedia, or just La commedia or Comedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri in the first decades of the 14th Century, during his exile from his native Florence. Considered the most important work of Italian literature, the poem has also has enormous...
Read by LibriVox Volunteers. — LibriVox, 2015. — 128 kbps. — Duration 13:04:17. The Divine Comedy (in Italian, Divina Commedia, or just La commedia or Comedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri in the first decades of the 14th Century, during his exile from his native Florence. Considered the most important work of Italian literature, the poem has also has enormous...
Год выпуска: 2014
Автор: Tessa Dare
Исполнитель: Eva Kaminsky
Жанр: Romance\Любовный роман
Время звучания: 10 hrs and 48 mins
Описание: What’s a duke to do, when the girl who’s perfectly wrong becomes the woman he can’t live without?
Griffin York, the Duke of Halford, has no desire to wed this season - or any season - but his diabolical mother abducts him to Spinster...
Fast and furious satire on contemporary decadence.
Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical enquiries, the abstractions he indulges, and how these relate to a life lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be...
Fast and furious satire on contemporary decadence.
Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical enquiries, the abstractions he indulges, and how these relate to a life lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be...
Fast and furious satire on contemporary decadence.
Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical enquiries, the abstractions he indulges, and how these relate to a life lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be...
Fast and furious satire on contemporary decadence.
Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical enquiries, the abstractions he indulges, and how these relate to a life lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be...
Read by Stephen Rea. Complete & unabridged. Total running time approx. 7 hours 30 mins. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. A New York Times Notable Book. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize. Winner of the Irish Times Fiction Award and International Award. "A swift and masterful transformation of family griefs and political violence into something at once rhapsodic and...
Read by Stephen Rea. Complete & unabridged. Total running time approx. 7 hours 30 mins.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
A New York Times Notable Book.
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize.
Winner of the Irish Times Fiction Award and International Award.
"A swift and masterful transformation of family griefs and political violence into something at once rhapsodic and...
Read by Stephen Rea. Complete & unabridged. Total running time approx. 7 hours 30 mins.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
A New York Times Notable Book.
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize.
Winner of the Irish Times Fiction Award and International Award.
"A swift and masterful transformation of family griefs and political violence into something at once rhapsodic and...
Аудиокнига об удивительных приключения Робинзона Крузо (Robinson Crusoe), моряка из Йорка, прожившего двадцать восемь лет в полном одиночестве на необитаемом острове у берегов Америки близ устьев реки Ориноко, куда он был выброшен кораблекрушением. Прилагается параллельный текст произведения. Английский оригинальный текст.
Audio Drama - BBC7 via DVB-T, 2 x 60 Minute Episodes - 128Kbps - MP3. Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1719, and is sometimes considered to be the first novel in English. The book, although based on the true story a Scotsman, Alexander Selkirk, is a fictional autobiography of the title character, a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote...
Audio Drama - BBC7 via DVB-T, 2 x 60 Minute Episodes - 128Kbps - MP3. Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1719, and is sometimes considered to be the first novel in English. The book, although based on the true story a Scotsman, Alexander Selkirk, is a fictional autobiography of the title character, a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote...
A novel. Read by Campbell Scott. Unabridged. Английский оригинальный текст без сокращений. Don DeLillo has been "weirdly prophetic about twenty-first-century America (The New York Times Book Review). In his earlier novels, he has written about conspiracy theory, the Cold War and global terrorism. Now, in Point Omega, he looks into the mind and heart of a "defence intellectual",...
Read by Melissa Leo. After an unscrupulous reporter falsely accuses Boston lounge singer Lily Blake of having an affair with a newly appointed Cardinal, she's hounded by the press, fired from her job, and robbed of all her public freedom. The humiliation and violation of privacy leaves her no choice but to retreat to her rural hometown of Lake Henry, New Hampshire. In search of...
Audio book
Language: English
Read by: Stephanie Beacham, Glenda Jackson, Sharon Stone and Meryl Streep
Emily Dickinson today is gaining her deserved place alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two greatest American poets of the nineteenth century. Beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems encompass life and death, love and longing, joyfulness and...
Read by the Author. The book to read FB2, TXT, EPUB, DOC, PDF This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been an inadvertent agent of disaster. Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew...
Read by Duchovny David, Leoni Tea. — Macmillan Audio, 2018. — 64 kbps, mono. — Duration 06:45:00. Unabridged. Emer is just a woman living in New York City who takes the subway, buys ice cream from the bodega on the corner, has writerly aspirations, and lives with her boyfriend, Con. But is this life she lives the only path she’s on? Taking inspiration from the myth of Emer and...
11 файлов MP3-формата, 64 kbps, моно, по 6-12 мин. В файле формата DOC - краткое содержание и обложка печатного издания. About The Book This book is a selection of short stories written from the point of view of a 6-7 year old girl about her younger sister. The stories are about simple every-day events - a birthday party, a visit to school, the lady who lives next door etc....
Gelesen von Maria Becker. Spielzeit: 1 Stunde 39 Min. Das Marmorbild ist eine Novelle von Joseph von Eichendorff aus dem Jahre 1818. Ein junger Mann namens Florio ist im Zwiespalt seiner Gefühle: Auf der einen Seite stehen Fortunato, ein bekannter und fröhlicher Sänger, und die reine und unschuldige Bianka, die ihn liebt. Auf der anderen Seite stehen das zu Fleisch gewordene...
Gelesen von Ingo Hülsmann. Spielzeit: 1 Stunde 31 Min. Das Marmorbild ist eine Novelle von Joseph von Eichendorff aus dem Jahre 1818. Ein junger Mann namens Florio ist im Zwiespalt seiner Gefühle: Auf der einen Seite stehen Fortunato, ein bekannter und fröhlicher Sänger, und die reine und unschuldige Bianka, die ihn liebt. Auf der anderen Seite stehen das zu Fleisch gewordene...
Genre: poem.
Reader: Michael Scott.
This poem marks the beginning of T.S. Eliot's career as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets. As it shows only surface thought and images, it is considered difficult to interpret exactly what is going on in the poem,
Genre: poem
Reader: Michael Scott
Language: English
The Waste Land is a highly influential and controversial 433-line modernist poem written by T. S. Eliot. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of the 20th century, detailing the journey of the human soul searching for redemption, the decline of civilization and the impossibility of recovering meaning...
The Mill on the Floss, published in 1860, is based partially on Eliot's own experiences with her family and her brother Isaac, who was three years older than Eliot. Eliot's father, like Mr. Tulliver in the novel, was a businessman who had married a woman from a higher social class, whose sisters were rich, ultra-respectable, and self-satisfied; these maternal aunts provided the...
From BBC Radio 4 Extra. Written by George Eliot; Full-cast dramatisation starring Terry Molloy, Tina Grey, Richard Pierce, Hilary Martin, Sylvestra LeTouzel and Michael Fitzgerald; Dramatised by Michelene Wandor.
Episode 1: Boy and Girl
Young, impulsive Maggie Tulliver causes ructions in the family.
Episode 2: Home and School
Maggie Tulliver has run away - but will a...
From BBC Radio 4 Extra. Written by George Eliot; Full-cast dramatisation starring Terry Molloy, Tina Grey, Richard Pierce, Hilary Martin, Sylvestra LeTouzel and Michael Fitzgerald; Dramatised by Michelene Wandor. Episode 1: Boy and Girl Young, impulsive Maggie Tulliver causes ructions in the family. Episode 2: Home and School Maggie Tulliver has run away - but will a passion...
A truck skids on a snowy country road just as a girl on horseback rides into its path. In seconds, a family's peaceful life is shattered and a mother's quest begins - to save her wounded daughter and a horse driven mad with pain. For Annie Graves, it is heartwrenching journey that leads to the Horse Whisperer. He is the stuff of legeneds - a man with the ancient, mystical power...
A truck skids on a snowy country road just as a girl on horseback rides into its path. In seconds, a family's peaceful life is shattered and a mother's quest begins - to save her wounded daughter and a horse driven mad with pain. For Annie Graves, it is heartwrenching journey that leads to the Horse Whisperer. He is the stuff of legeneds - a man with the ancient, mystical power...
A truck skids on a snowy country road just as a girl on horseback rides into its path. In seconds, a family's peaceful life is shattered and a mother's quest begins - to save her wounded daughter and a horse driven mad with pain. For Annie Graves, it is heartwrenching journey that leads to the Horse Whisperer. He is the stuff of legeneds - a man with the ancient, mystical power...
Read by John Telfer. — Hachette, 2010. — 64 kbps. — Duration 20:16:00. Berlin, 1940. The city is paralysed by fear. But one man refuses to be scared. Otto, an ordinary German living in a shabby apartment block, tries to stay out of trouble under Nazi rule. But when he discovers his only son has been killed fighting at the front he's shocked into an extraordinary act of...
Read by Stefan Rudnicki. — Blackstone, 2017. — 64 kbps. — Duration 08:26:00. Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable novel about the desolation of postwar Germany after Hitler. The war is over, yet Dr. Doll, a loner and "moderate pessimist", lives in constant fear. By night, he is still haunted by nightmarish images of the bombsite in which he is...
Read by Grover Gardner. Total running time: 8 hours 30 mins.
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy,...
Read by Grover Gardner. Total running time: 8 hours 30 mins.
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy,...
Read by Grover Gardner. Total running time: 8 hours 30 mins.
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy,...
Chivers, 2000. Duration: 8h 36m Reader: James Wilby Quality: 64 kbps Reading Faulks's second novel (written before Fool's Alphabet, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray), one sees that his preoccupations and choice of genre have been clear from the beginning. Published in the U. K. in 1989, this is another postmodern historical romance, telling the story of a short-lived but intense...
Read by Kymberly Dakin. Beautiful, happily married, and the owner of a successful interior design business, Casey Marshall coldn't be more content with the life, until a car slams into her, breaking nearly every bone in her body und plunging her into a coma. Lying in her hospital bed, Casey realizes that although she is unable to see or communicate, she can hear everything. She...
Read by Kymberly Dakin. Beautiful, happily married, and the owner of a successful interior design business, Casey Marshall coldn't be more content with the life, until a car slams into her, breaking nearly every bone in her body und plunging her into a coma. Lying in her hospital bed, Casey realizes that although she is unable to see or communicate, she can hear everything. She...
Read by Kymberly Dakin. Beautiful, happily married, and the owner of a successful interior design business, Casey Marshall coldn't be more content with the life, until a car slams into her, breaking nearly every bone in her body und plunging her into a coma. Lying in her hospital bed, Casey realizes that although she is unable to see or communicate, she can hear everything. She...
(2008)
Starring: Stephanie Cole
Roger Allam
Benedict Cumberbatch
John Finnemore
Cabin Pressure is a radio sitcom written and created by John Finnemore and directed and produced by David Tyler. It follows the exploits of the oddball crew of the single aeroplane owned by "MJN Air" as they are chartered to take all manner of items, people or animals across the world.
(2008)
Starring: Stephanie Cole
Roger Allam
Benedict Cumberbatch
John Finnemore
Cabin Pressure is a radio sitcom written and created by John Finnemore and directed and produced by David Tyler. It follows the exploits of the oddball crew of the single aeroplane owned by "MJN Air" as they are chartered to take all manner of items, people or animals across the world.
Read by Ophan Winfrey. Total playing time: approx. 6 hours. Text abridged by John Whitman.
Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private worlde full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is chatterd when Astrid's mother falls...
Read by Ophan Winfrey. Total playing time: approx. 6 hours. Text abridged by John Whitman.
Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private worlde full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is chattered when Astrid's mother falls...
Tantor Media, 2006. Duration: 11h 38m Reader: Donada Peters Quality: 92 kbps In this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succes de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and arousing novel.
Tantor Media, 2006. Duration: 11h 38m Reader: Donada Peters Quality: 92 kbps In this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succes de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and arousing novel.
Tantor Media, 2006. Duration: 11h 38m Reader: Donada Peters Quality: 92 kbps In this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succes de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and arousing novel.
Read by a full cast. (The book to read: PDF, RTF, FB2) The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author, Candace Fleming, gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860's to the present, and ends with the...
Read by a full cast. (The book to read: PDF, RTF, FB2) The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author, Candace Fleming, gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860's to the present, and ends with the...
Unabridged. Total running time approx. 4 hours. Read by by Kirsten Potter.
In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck.
A sophisticated, layered, and...
Unabridged. Total running time approx. 4 hours. Read by by Kirsten Potter.
In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck.
A sophisticated, layered, and...
Read by Dan Bittner. — Listening Library, 2011. — 64 kbps. — Duration 05:18:00. Unabridged. It's been three years since the devastating accident...three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever. Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck...
A Boy’s Will was Frost’s first collection of poems, published in 1913 and introduced the world to this remarkable poet. This first book of early writings is representative of his focus on subjects of nature and love. Robert Frost is probably one of America’s most well-known poets and four of his poetry volumes were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
A Boy’s Will was Frost’s first collection of poems, published in 1913 and introduced the world to this remarkable poet. This first book of early writings is representative of his focus on subjects of nature and love. Robert Frost is probably one of America’s most well-known poets and four of his poetry volumes were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Read by Fry Stephen. — Acast, 2018. — 128 kbps. — Duration 05:25:00. Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years explores topics ranging from the rise of humankind as the inventor, to the astonishing combination of persistence, investment and inspiration it took to create the Gutenberg Press and the communication technologies that created our world. It tells the story of how our lives have...
Read by Fry Stephen. — Acast, 2018. — 128 kbps. — Duration 05:25:00. Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years explores topics ranging from the rise of humankind as the inventor, to the astonishing combination of persistence, investment and inspiration it took to create the Gutenberg Press and the communication technologies that created our world. It tells the story of how our lives have...
ВВС This archive-rich investigation into the changing value of knowledge comes at the issue from an original angle - the black cabbie's famed 'Knowledge' test. Stephen Fry is a celebrated British actor, novelist, journalist, presenter, intellectual and wit. He has produced four novels and two volumes of autobiography, and has written for radio shows and TV. His TV credits...
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name) - MP3
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The love that dare not speak its name is a phrase from the poem "Two Loves" by Lord Alfred Douglas, published in 1894. It was mentioned at Oscar Wilde's gross indecency trial, and it is classically interpreted as a euphemism for homosexuality.
The Trials of Oscar Wilde also...
Read by Steven Macintosh. Total running time approx. 4 hours. (The book to read) The Khao San Road, Bangkok - first stop on the backpacker trail. On Richard's first night there a fellow traveller slits his wrists, leaving Richard a map to "the Beach". The Beach is a legend among young travellers in Asia: white as sands circling a lagoon hidden from the sea, coral gardens and...
Read by Steven Macintosh. Total running time approx. 4 hours. (The book to read) The Khao San Road, Bangkok - first stop on the backpacker trail. On Richard's first night there a fellow traveller slits his wrists, leaving Richard a map to "the Beach". The Beach is a legend among young travellers in Asia: white as sands circling a lagoon hidden from the sea, coral gardens and...
Simon & Schuster Audio, 2009. — Duration 07:51:00. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 What if every memory you've ever had will be erased from your mind, and you have no choice but to carry on...powerless to stop it? Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At 50 years old, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics...
Simon & Schuster Audio, 2009. — Duration 07:51:00. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 What if every memory you've ever had will be erased from your mind, and you have no choice but to carry on...powerless to stop it? Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At 50 years old, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics...
Simon & Schuster Audio, 2009. — Duration 07:51:00. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 What if every memory you've ever had will be erased from your mind, and you have no choice but to carry on...powerless to stop it? Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At 50 years old, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics...
Read by Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan. — Smithsonian Folkways, 1965. — 256 kbps. Продолжительность: 01:37:18. Compiled by Erwin A. Glikes and Paul Schwaber and read by Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan, this 1965 release, Of Poetry and Power: Poems Occasioned by the Presidency and by the Death of John F. Kennedy, features works by 52 poets. “With the exception of Abraham...
Read by Paul Michael Garcia. — Blackstone audio, 2009. — 64 kbps. — Duration 25:23:00. The Tin Drum deals with the rise of Nazism and with the war experience in the unique cultural setting of Danzig, by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass. To mark the 50th anniversary of the original publication of this runaway best-seller, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, along with Grass's...
Read by Paul Michael Garcia. — Blackstone audio, 2009. — 64 kbps. — Duration 25:23:00. The Tin Drum deals with the rise of Nazism and with the war experience in the unique cultural setting of Danzig, by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass. To mark the 50th anniversary of the original publication of this runaway best-seller, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, along with Grass's...
Read by Paul Michael Garcia. — Blackstone audio, 2009. — 64 kbps. — Duration 25:23:00. The Tin Drum deals with the rise of Nazism and with the war experience in the unique cultural setting of Danzig, by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass. To mark the 50th anniversary of the original publication of this runaway best-seller, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, along with Grass's...
Read by Paul Michael Garcia. — Blackstone audio, 2009. — 64 kbps. — Duration 25:23:00. The Tin Drum deals with the rise of Nazism and with the war experience in the unique cultural setting of Danzig, by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass. To mark the 50th anniversary of the original publication of this runaway best-seller, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, along with Grass's...
Read by Matt Bate. — Audible, 2013. — 64 kbps. — Duration 19:55:00. Including many of the greatest stories ever told - the labours of Hercules, the voyage of the Argonauts, Theseus and the minotaur, Midas and his golden touch, the Trojan War and Odysseus's journey home - Robert Graves's superb and comprehensive retelling of the Greek myths for a modern audience has been regarded...
Read by Matt Bate. — Audible, 2013. — 64 kbps. — Duration 19:55:00. Including many of the greatest stories ever told - the labours of Hercules, the voyage of the Argonauts, Theseus and the minotaur, Midas and his golden touch, the Trojan War and Odysseus's journey home - Robert Graves's superb and comprehensive retelling of the Greek myths for a modern audience has been regarded...
Read by the author. — Philadelphia: PennSound, 2002. — 128 kbps. — Duration 00:41:50. — (Segue Series Reading). Gregory Whitehead is an American poet, writer, radiomaker and audio artist. Allen S. Weiss considers him to be a major international figure in the fields of audio and radio art, from the 1980s to the present. Active in cassette culture during the 1980s, his early...
Performed by Nicole Roberts. "The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story, this spellbinding novel is at its core a tale of how...
Performed by Nicole Roberts. "The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story, this spellbinding novel is at its core a tale of how...
Performed by Nicole Roberts. "The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story, this spellbinding novel is at its core a tale of how...
Performed by Nicole Roberts. "The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story, this spellbinding novel is at its core a tale of how...
Librivox Recording
The Diary of a Nobody is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, his family, friends and small circle of acquaintances. It first appeared, serialised in Punch magazine and might be regarded as the first ‘blog’; being a record of the simplicities and humiliations in the life of this mundane, but upright, city clerk, who had an...
From The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. Отрывок. Более сорока страниц . На английском языке. Места из дневника. Дневник писателей свободы. По книге был сделан фильм: "О том, как учительница и 150 подростков писали, чтобы изменить себя и мир вокруг. Молодая учительница Эрин Грувелл вдохновляет своих...
Unabridged. Read by Jeanne Stith. (The book to read) Laurie Halse Anderson (born Laurie Beth Halse 1961 in Potsdam, New York) is an American author who writes for children and young adults. Lia and Cassie were best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies. But now Cassie is dead. Lia's mother is busy saving other people's lives. Her father is away on business. Her...
Unabridged. Read by Jeanne Stith. (The book to read) Laurie Halse Anderson (born Laurie Beth Halse 1961 in Potsdam, New York) is an American author who writes for children and young adults. Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss-her life-and Lia...
M4A. Fanella bravely faces the challenge of adopting a child alone after her partner leaves her. Fanella and five-year-old Ellie get off to a rocky start, but Fanella patiently steers their relationship on to more solid ground. Meanwhile, her relationship with Rod, Ellie's teacher and a married man, is a little more complicated.
M4A. Fanella bravely faces the challenge of adopting a child alone after her partner leaves her. Fanella and five-year-old Ellie get off to a rocky start, but Fanella patiently steers their relationship on to more solid ground. Meanwhile, her relationship with Rod, Ellie's teacher and a married man, is a little more complicated.
Penguin Audiobooks, 2010
Duration: 13h 9m
Reader: Elizabeth Sastre
Quality: 64 kbps
Sally Thorning is watching the news with her husband when she hears an unexpected name: Mark Bretherick. It's a name she shouldn't know, but last year Sally treated herself to a secret vacation - away from her hectic family life - and met a man. After their brief affair, the two planned to...
Penguin Audiobooks, 2010
Duration: 13h 9m
Reader: Elizabeth Sastre
Quality: 64 kbps
Sally Thorning is watching the news with her husband when she hears an unexpected name: Mark Bretherick. It's a name she shouldn't know, but last year Sally treated herself to a secret vacation - away from her hectic family life - and met a man. After their brief affair, the two planned to...
Naxos Audio Books, 2006. — 115-160 kbps. — Duration 02:30:49. — (Classic Literature with Classical Music). — ISBN-10 9626341491; ISBN-13 978-9626341490. Read by Peter Jeffrey, John Moffatt, David Timson, Susan Engel, Simon Harris, Liza Ross, Benjamin Soames. Unabridged edition. Christmas brings out the best and the worst in us, as can be seen in this evocative anthology. Among...
Read by William Roberts. Unabridged. Total running time: 12 hours 45 min. In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer’s block finds a new—and very lucrative—stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world. (The book to read EPUB, FB2, RTF, PDF) When Frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his...
Read by William Roberts. Unabridged. Total running time: 12 hours 45 min. In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer’s block finds a new—and very lucrative—stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world. (The book to read EPUB, FB2, RTF, PDF) When Frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his...
Read by William Roberts. Unabridged. Total running time: 12 hours 45 min. In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer’s block finds a new—and very lucrative—stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world. (The book to read EPUB, FB2, RTF, PDF) When Frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his...
Read by William Roberts. Unabridged. Total running time: 12 hours 45 min.
In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer’s block finds a new—and very lucrative—stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world.
When Frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dabble...
Abcool Libertorrent, 2012 Исполнитель: Blake Arthur Жанр: Рассказы о животных Язык: English Битрейт аудио: 56 kbps Продолжительность всех частей: 16:48:07 James Herriot's stories about his life as a vet in Yorkshire have charmed and delighted millions of readers in the twenty years since his first book If Only They Could Talk was published in 1972. All Creatures Great and Small...
Abcool Libertorrent, 2012 Исполнитель: Blake Arthur Жанр: Рассказы о животных Язык: English Битрейт аудио: 56 kbps Продолжительность всех частей: 16:48:07 James Herriot's stories about his life as a vet in Yorkshire have charmed and delighted millions of readers in the twenty years since his first book If Only They Could Talk was published in 1972. All Creatures Great and Small...
Abcool Libertorrent, 2012 Исполнитель: Blake Arthur Жанр: Рассказы о животных Язык: English Битрейт аудио: 56 kbps Продолжительность всех частей: 16:48:07 James Herriot's stories about his life as a vet in Yorkshire have charmed and delighted millions of readers in the twenty years since his first book If Only They Could Talk was published in 1972. All Creatures Great and Small...
This is an audio version of James Herriot's "Cat Stories" read by Christopher Timothy. Between these covers, teller and tales finally meet in a warm and joyful new collection that will bring delight to the hearts of readers the world over: James Herriot's Cat Stories. Here are Buster, the kitten who arrived on Christmas; Alfred, the cat at the sweet shop; little Emily, who lived...
Радиоспектакль - BBC Merle is a penguin keeper at London Zoo. When her sister Beth fails to make a date at the cinema, she goes searching for her. She soon realises that Beth has been abducted by aliens - not for the first time. Качество 128 кбит/с, 44 кГц, продолжительность 47:47 мин. Katie Hims writes for radio, stage and television. She has written on the BBC's long-running...
Listening Library, 2015.
Audible Audio Edition
Listening Length: 4 hours and 43 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
In her first novel for middle-grade readers, best-selling author Alice Hoffman tells a bewitching story of love and friendship that is truly magical.
Twig lives in Sidwell, where people whisper that fairy tales are real. After all, her...
Fully dramatised by BBC. With Tim McInnerny, Amanda Redman et al. Winner of the Audio Drama category at the Audies, 2009. Listening Length: 3 hours and 49 minutes. "My fame is written in the heavens, and my fate too." So speaks Odysseus as he starts to recount his struggles to sail home to Ithaca, in one of the greatest pieces of storytelling in Western literature. The Odyssey...
Fully dramatised by BBC. With Tim McInnerny, Amanda Redman et al. Winner of the Audio Drama category at the Audies, 2009. Listening Length: 3 hours and 49 minutes. "My fame is written in the heavens, and my fate too." So speaks Odysseus as he starts to recount his struggles to sail home to Ithaca, in one of the greatest pieces of storytelling in Western literature. The Odyssey...
Read by the Author. The timely and critically acclaimed debut novel that's becoming a word-of-mouth phenomenon. An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his...
Read by the Author. The timely and critically acclaimed debut novel that's becoming a word-of-mouth phenomenon. An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his...
This book of the famous American writer Washington Irving, published in 1894 and illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, represents the author's nostalgic recollections of Christmas traditions in XIX century England. It reveals Irving's experiences during his staying at the country estate of his friend Mr. Bracebridge and describes the scenes of feasting and dancing, the old English...
An American short story in Special English from VOICE OF AMERICA. It was written by Washington Irving. (адаптированный текст)
"The Devil and Tom Walker" was first published in 1824 as part of Washington Irving's collection of short stories Tales of a Traveller. The story was included in Part IV of the book, also known as the "Money-Diggers" series of stories. Gentleman Geoffrey...
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«Легенда о Сонной Лощине» - рассказ Вашингтона Ирвинга (1783—1859) — выдающегося американского писателя-романтика, которого часто называют «отцом американской литературы». Английский оригинальный текст без сокращений. Продолжительность 1 час 23 мин. К аудиокниге приложен файл PDF с полным английским текстом и 11 черно-белыми иллюстрациями. Audio book издательства...
One of the greatest ethical novels of the nineteenth century, this is a tale of true love tested. Set in Old California, this powerful narrative richly depicts the life of the fading Spanish order, the oppression of tribal American communities and inevitably, the brutal intrusion of white settlers. Ramona, an illegitimate orphan, grows up as the ward of the overbearing Senora...
One of the greatest ethical novels of the nineteenth century, this is a tale of true love tested. Set in Old California, this powerful narrative richly depicts the life of the fading Spanish order, the oppression of tribal American communities and inevitably, the brutal intrusion of white settlers. Ramona, an illegitimate orphan, grows up as the ward of the overbearing Senora...
One of the greatest ethical novels of the nineteenth century, this is a tale of true love tested. Set in Old California, this powerful narrative richly depicts the life of the fading Spanish order, the oppression of tribal American communities and inevitably, the brutal intrusion of white settlers. Ramona, an illegitimate orphan, grows up as the ward of the overbearing Senora...
BBC Audiobooks, 2010. Unabridged
Quality: 128 kbps
Duration: 6 h 10 min
Reader: Eleanor Bron
Language: British English
Eugenia, an American expatriate brought up in Europe, arrives in New England with her charming brother Felix, hoping to find a wealthy second husband. Their exotic, sophisticated airs cause quite a stir with their affluent, God-fearing American cousins, the...
BBC Audiobooks, 2010. Unabridged
Quality: 128 kbps
Duration: 6 h 10 min
Reader: Eleanor Bron
Language: British English
Eugenia, an American expatriate brought up in Europe, arrives in New England with her charming brother Felix, hoping to find a wealthy second husband. Their exotic, sophisticated airs cause quite a stir with their affluent, God-fearing American cousins, the...
Read by William Hope. CD 1: 01:19:35 CD 2: 01:18:25 Series: Classic Literature with Classical Music. Milly Theale is a young, beautiful, and fabulously wealthy American. When she arrives in London and meets the equally beautiful, but impoverished Kate Groy, they form an intimate friendship. But nothing is as it seems.
Read by William Hope. CD 3: 01:19:39 Series: Classic Literature with Classical Music. Milly Theale is a young, beautiful, and fabulously wealthy American. When she arrives in London and meets the equally beautiful, but impoverished Kate Groy, they form an intimate friendship. But nothing is as it seems.
Berkley, 2009. — 118 MB. — ISBN: 978-0425226742.
From the New York Times bestselling Julie James comes this "tantalizing dessert-a delicious delightful read that all hopeless romantics will enjoy" (Chicago Sun-Times). For fans of Susan Mallery and Rachel Gibson.
WHEN IT COMES TO THE LAWS OF ATTRACTION…
Payton Kendall and J.D. Jameson are lawyers who know the meaning of...
Berkley, 2009. — ISBN: 978-0425226742.
From the New York Times bestselling Julie James comes this "tantalizing dessert-a delicious delightful read that all hopeless romantics will enjoy" (Chicago Sun-Times). For fans of Susan Mallery and Rachel Gibson.
When it comes to the laws of attraction…
Payton Kendall and J.D. Jameson are lawyers who know the meaning of objection. A...
Comedy Drama. — BBC Studios Distribution Ltd, 2020. — 128 kbps. — Duration 08:10:36. Produced by Geoffrey Perkins (Series 1) and Pete Atkin (Series 2 and 3). First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 18th January-22nd February 1982 (Series 1), 7th February-13th March 1984 (Series 2), 7th October-11th November 1986 (Series 3). Performed by: Ken Handley - Martin Jarvis Sarah - Sheila Steafel...
Comedy Drama. — BBC Studios Distribution Ltd, 2020. — 128 kbps. — Duration 08:10:36. Produced by Geoffrey Perkins (Series 1) and Pete Atkin (Series 2 and 3). First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 18th January-22nd February 1982 (Series 1), 7th February-13th March 1984 (Series 2), 7th October-11th November 1986 (Series 3). Performed by: Ken Handley - Martin Jarvis Sarah - Sheila Steafel...
Comedy Drama. — BBC Studios Distribution Ltd, 2020. — 128 kbps. — Duration 08:10:36. Produced by Geoffrey Perkins (Series 1) and Pete Atkin (Series 2 and 3). First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 18th January-22nd February 1982 (Series 1), 7th February-13th March 1984 (Series 2), 7th October-11th November 1986 (Series 3). Performed by: Ken Handley - Martin Jarvis Sarah - Sheila Steafel...
Carrie Jones, "Need" Zara collects phobias the way other girls collect Facebook friends. Little wonder, since life’s been pretty rough so far. Her father left, her stepfather just died, and her mother’s pretty much checked out. Now Zara’s living with her grandmother in sleepy, cold Maine so that she stays safe. Zara doesn’t think she’s in danger; she thinks her mother can’t...
Carrie Jones, "Need" Zara collects phobias the way other girls collect Facebook friends. Little wonder, since life’s been pretty rough so far. Her father left, her stepfather just died, and her mother’s pretty much checked out. Now Zara’s living with her grandmother in sleepy, cold Maine so that she stays safe. Zara doesn’t think she’s in danger; she thinks her mother can’t...
Время звучания: 2:14:37
Качество звука: 64 кбит/с
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling...
Audio - MP3, 52 Mb, 56 min. Audio from BBC Radio 4. Written by Erich Kaestner; Full cast dramatisation; Dramatised by Katie Hims; Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. Country boy Emil Tischbein, up from Neustadt for the first time, enlists the aid of hundreds of Berlin street boys to help him catch a thief. Emil . Joshua Swinney Kaestner . Bruce Alexander Grundeis . Ewan Hooper...
Read by George Guidall. — Recored, 1996. — 64 kbps. — Duration: 12:35:00. A wonderful tale of a young man’s coming of age, Zorba the Greek has been a classic of world literature since it was first translated into English in 1952 and made into an unforgettable movie with Anthony Quinn. Zorba, an irrepressible, earthy hedonist, sweeps his young disciple along as he wines, dines,...
Simon & Schuster Audio, 2000. Abridged Audiobook Narrated by: Ben Kingsley Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to...
Read by Will Patton. — Penguin, 2007. — 64 kbps. — Duration 11:08:00. Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "beat" and has inspired...
Read by Will Patton. — Penguin, 2007. — 64 kbps. — Duration 11:08:00. Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "beat" and has inspired...
Read by Tom Parker. — Blackstone, 2008. — 64 kbps. — Duration 06:21:00. Two ebullient young men are engaged in a passionate search for dharma, or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude, a lesson that has a hard time surviving their forays into the pagan groves of San Francisco's...
Аудиофайлы к книге /file/348176/ "В дороге" - это во многом автобиографическое произведение, повествующее от лица одного из персонажей, Сэла Пэрэдайза; оно описывало его приключения в скитаниях по Соединённым Штатам и Мексике с Нилом Кэссиди, прототипом персонажа Дина Мориарти. Роман часто определяют как определяющее произведение для послевоенного «разбитого поколения», с его...
Read by Campbell Scott. — Random House Audio, 2012. — 95 kbps. — Duration 15:50:00. Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic...
Read by the author. — Folkways Records, 1959. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 00:34:08. In 1957, American poet and activist Aaron Kramer recorded a collection of poems written by himself and by Alexander Bergman, Maxwell Bodenheim, and Morris Rosenfeld. Noted for his support of progressive political agendas, Kramer’s poetry includes themes of racism, economic inequality,...
Read by Kerry Shale and Amber Sealy. Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is translating, she goes to search of its author.
Unabridged. Read by Sunil Malhotra. The book to read: PDF, FB2, DOC, TXT. From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother's sight. So close in age, they were inseparable in...
Unabridged. Read by Sunil Malhotra. The book to read: PDF, FB2, DOC, TXT. From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother's sight. So close in age, they were inseparable in...
Unabridged. Read by Sunil Malhotra. The book to read: PDF, FB2, DOC, TXT. From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother's sight. So close in age, they were inseparable in...
Unabridged. Read by Sunil Malhotra. The book to read: PDF, FB2, DOC, TXT. From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother's sight. So close in age, they were inseparable in...
Reab by Edoardo Ballerini. — Random house, 2012. — 48 kbps. — Duration 08:15:00. Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic sweep and richness of observation, the seamless intertwining of public and private worlds, and the grasp of human...
Narrated by Jill Daly. — Duration 02:54:30. Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter-the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that...
Audio Drama - BBC Radio 7, 2 x 60 Minutes. Constance's life is bleak and lonely, until an encounter with Oliver Mellors changes everything. A two-part dramatisation of D H Lawrence's classic novel, Lia Williams, Robert Glenister and Roger Allam. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley's_Lover Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928....
Audio Drama - BBC Radio 7, 2 x 60 Minutes. Constance's life is bleak and lonely, until an encounter with Oliver Mellors changes everything. A two-part dramatisation of D H Lawrence's classic novel, Lia Williams, Robert Glenister and Roger Allam. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley's_Lover Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928....
Радиоспектакль BBC. When Max Coleman is suspended from work for an allegedly offensive remark, he just can't figure out what on earth he might have said. Продолжительность 45 минут, качество 128 кбит/с, 44 кГц. Жанр социальная комедия. Уровень advanced.
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Read by Reese Witherspoon. — HarperAudio, 2015. — 64 kbps. — Duration 06:58:00. "Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades... - New York Times (Opinion Pages) A landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird....
Gloss Publishing, 2014.
From New York Times bestselling author Cassia Leo comes an epic love story about rewriting destiny.
Mikki and Crush have crossed paths twice before, but they've never met. Their first encounter changed Mikki's life forever, but their second meeting left them both scarred from a violent attack.
Three years after the attack, Mikki and Crush both book a...
Фантом оперы - французский триллер, написанный в 19-м веке Гастоном Леру. Язык английский. Продолжительность 2 часа 30 минут. Читают Джереми Николас и Питер Йапп. Сокращения и режиссура Яна Филдена. Издательство Максос audio book, серия Classic Literature with Classic Music (Классическая литература с классической музыкой)
Read by Nadia May. Total running time approx. 14 hours. The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpected challenges in their quest to incite social change against complacency...
Read by Nadia May. Total running time approx. 14 hours.
The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpected challenges in their quest to incite social change against complacency...
Read by Nadia May. Total running time approx. 14 hours.
The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpected challenges in their quest to incite social change against complacency...
Read by Neville Jason. — Naxos Audio. — 64 kbps. — Duration 09:32:00. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection tells of the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian chemist before, during, and after Auschwitz in luminous, clear, and unfailingly...
A true story. Read by the Author. Running time approx. 2 3/4 hours.
Kevin Lewis grew up on a council estate in South London. Beaten and starved by his parents, ignored by the social services and bullied at school, he was offered a chance to escape this nightmare world and was put into care. Despite his best efforts to make things work out, his life spiralled out of control. At...
One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed "The Quack who saved a King". Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing,...
Radio series. Sketches and outtakes. Little Britain is a British character-based comedy sketch show which was first broadcast on BBC radio and then turned into a television show. It was written by comic duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas. The show's title is an amalgamation of the terms 'Little England' and 'Great Britain', and is also the name of a Victorian neighbourhood and...
From BBC Radio 4. Written by Alison Lurie; Full-cast dramatisation. 1968. New York State. Newly graduated sociologist Roger Zimmern is delighted to be asked work with his academic hero Tom McCann. They are to investigate the Truth Seekers, a small cult group who believe they are receiving spiritual guidance from the planet Varna. The group is run by middle-aged Elsie and her...
Brilliance Audio, 2016. Running time: Side 1 — 1:23:35; Side 2 — 1:27:25; Side 3 — 1:27:22; Side 4 — 1:26:15; Side 5 — 1:27:08. Norman Mailer was one of the most original and powerful writers of the twentieth century. He became a celebrity at the age of twenty-five, with the publication, in 1948, of The Naked and the Dead . Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the...
Brilliance Audio, 2016. Running time: Side 6 — 1:26:15; Side 7 — 1:26:14; Side 8 — 1:26:50; Side 9 — 1:28:43; Side 10 — 1:27:34. Norman Mailer was one of the most original and powerful writers of the twentieth century. He became a celebrity at the age of twenty-five, with the publication, in 1948, of The Naked and the Dead . Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the...
Brilliance Audio, 2016. Running time: Side 11 — 1:27:21; Side 12 — 1:28:17; Side 13 — 1:26:43; Side 14 — 1:25:37; Side 15 — 1:25:30. Norman Mailer was one of the most original and powerful writers of the twentieth century. He became a celebrity at the age of twenty-five, with the publication, in 1948, of The Naked and the Dead . Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of...
Brilliance Audio, 2016. Running time: Side 16 — 1:26:17; Side 17 — 1:26:58; Side 18 — 1:14:18. Norman Mailer was one of the most original and powerful writers of the twentieth century. He became a celebrity at the age of twenty-five, with the publication, in 1948, of The Naked and the Dead . Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the...
6 рассказов знаменитой новозеландской писательницы, мастера психологической новеллы.Продолжительность - 1ч. 40 мин., читает Cora McDonald. В сборнике: Taking the veil, The young girl, The lady`s maid, Her first ball, Honeymoon, A cup of tea. Высокое качество звука. Оригинал.Текст 5-ти рассказов - внутри.
Modern Library, Project Gutenberg, 1998. Katherine Mansfield is probably the most famous writer from New Zealand. Her short stories are full of spiritual power and feminine life perception. All her literary works are remarkable by a special psychological analysis of the character. Modern critics consider Mansfield to be a very sincere author, who writes from her personal inner...
Blackstone Audio, 2014. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Audie Award Finalist, Classic, 2014 From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina...
Blackstone Audio, 2014. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Audie Award Finalist, Classic, 2014 From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina...
Blackstone Audio, 2014. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Audie Award Finalist, Classic, 2014 From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina...
Performed by Laura Hamilton Hardcover, 226 pages Published October 7th 2014 by Feiwel & Friends Rose Howard has Asperger’s syndrome, and an obsession with homonyms (even her name is a homonym). She gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose’s rules of homonyms, is very special. Rain was a lost dog Rose’s father brought home. Rose and Rain...
Аудиокнига на английском языке.
Shopgirl is a 2000 novella written by Steve Martin. Martin adapted his book for a 2005 film of the same title.
Its titular character is young, lonely, depressed, Vermont transplant Mirabelle Buttersfield, who sells expensive evening gloves nobody ever buys at Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills and spends her evenings watching television with her...
Мейсон Дэниел. Настройщик - аудиокнига на английском языке, на языке оригинала. С сокращениями. Читает Джеймс Фрейн. Сократил Кит Дарвилл. Продолжительность 3 часа. Macmillan audio book.
В октябре 1886 года настройщик Эдгар Дрейк получает неожиданное предписание из Министерства обороны Великобритании: он должен оставить свою жену и спокойную жизнь в Лондоне и отправиться в...
Read by Christopher Eccleston. — BBC Radio, 2007. — 128 kbps. — Duration 00:15:02. A young wife yearns like Cinderella to go to the Twelfth Night ball.
Read by Jacqueline King. Abridged. Total running time 4 hours 25 minutes. How could things have become so twisted that one day Amy would kill her adored husband? And what happened to their little girl, Pearl, just five years old at that time? 1939. Amy was just eighteen when she met Barney and they fell deeply in love. Their romantic, passionate marriage was a match made in...
Read by Jacqueline King. Abridged. Total running time 4 hours 25 minutes. How could things have become so twisted that one day Amy would kill her adored husband? And what happened to their little girl, Pearl, just five years old at that time? 1939. Amy was just eighteen when she met Barney and they fell deeply in love. Their romantic, passionate marriage was a match made in...
Read by the Author. Abridged. Approx 5 1/4 hours listening. From the Pulitzer-Prize winning, bestselling author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, a wonderfully engaging and appealing book about teaching and storytelling, the subject closest to Frank McCourt's heart.
Read by the Author. Abridged. Approx 5 1/4 hours listening.
From the Pulitzer-Prize winning, bestselling author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, a wonderfully engaging and appealing book about teaching and storytelling, the subject closest to Frank McCourt's heart.
Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (MP3),2004 (.rar) Read By:Cherry Jones Number of MP3 files: 18 Total Duration: 12:26:38 In 1940 Richard Wright described Carson McCullers' first novel as a work of "astonishing humanity." This American classic and Oprah Book Club selection has been cherished by readers for more than 60 years and has been hailed as a masterpiece....
Английский оригинальный текст с сокращениями. Общая продолжительность 5 часов 45 мин. Read by Isla Blair.
Atonement is a 2001 novel by British author Ian McEwan.
On a fateful day, a young girl (who aspires to be a writer) makes a terrible mistake that has life-changing effects for many people. Consequently, she lives seeking atonement—which leads to an exploration on the nature...
Английский оригинальный текст с сокращениями. Общая продолжительность 5 часов 45 мин. Read by Isla Blair.
Atonement is a 2001 novel by British author Ian McEwan.
On a fateful day, a young girl (who aspires to be a writer) makes a terrible mistake that has life-changing effects for many people. Consequently, she lives seeking atonement—which leads to an exploration on the nature...
Read by the author. Английский оригинальный текст без сокращений. Приложен файл PDF с полным английским текстом. 1962 год, канун сексуальной революции. Новобрачные сразу после свадьбы останавливаются в отеле на побережье, они молоды, девственны и намерены быть счастливы в своей семейной жизни. Bonus: Exclusive author interview.
Read by the author. Английский оригинальный текст без сокращений. Приложен файл PDF с полным английским текстом.
1962 год, канун сексуальной революции. Новобрачные сразу после свадьбы останавливаются в отеле на побережье, они молоды, девственны и намерены быть счастливы в своей семейной жизни.
Bonus: Exclusive author interview.
Chapters 01 to 06 from 12. Published by : Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd. Published : March 01 2005. Read by : Peter Hosking. All Duration : 6 hours 45 minutes. Genre : Humour. Format : Complete and Unabridged. About this book Winner of the 2003 Australian Popular Fiction Competition. Perfect for long journeys - the ideal audio book for people traveling for work! Hilarious and...
Chapters 07 to 12 from 12. Published by : Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd. Published : March 01 2005. Read by : Peter Hosking. All Duration : 6 hours 45 minutes. Genre : Humour. Format : Complete and Unabridged. About this book Winner of the 2003 Australian Popular Fiction Competition. Perfect for long journeys - the ideal audio book for people traveling for work! Hilarious and...
The novel was released as an audio book, read by actress Julia Roberts. (The book to read FB2, RTF, PDF) The Nanny Diaries tells the story of the emotional and often humorous journey of Annie Braddock (Johansson), a young woman from a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey, struggling to understand her place in the world. Fresh out of college, she gets tremendous pressure...
Дневники няни (2002). Английский оригинальный текст. Общая продолжительность 4 часа 45 мин. Читает Джулия Робертс (род. 1967) - американская актриса, обладательница премии «Оскар» и других престижных премий, самая высокооплачиваемая актриса в мире. (The book to read FB2, RTF, PDF) Никола Краус и Эмма Маклафлин (обе род. 1974) - американские писательницы, познакомились друг с...
Дневники няни (2002). Английский оригинальный текст. Общая продолжительность 4 часа 45 мин. Читает Джулия Робертс (род. 1967) - американская актриса, обладательница премии «Оскар» и других престижных премий, самая высокооплачиваемая актриса в мире. (The book to read FB2, RTF, PDF) Никола Краус и Эмма Маклафлин (обе род. 1974) - американские писательницы, познакомились друг с...
Penguin Audiobooks, 2011
Duration: 7h 35m
Reader: Cristin Milioti
Quality: 64 kbps
Language: American English
It's 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows - a fascinating boy who's not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of becoming a spy. When...
Narrated by Michael Scott. — ThoughtAudio.com, 2016. — 96 kbps CBR, 44.100 Hz, mono. — Duration 01:40:45. Файл формата PDF — полный текст рассказа. This is a short story about a lawyer with offices on Wall Street in New York City. He runs an advertisement for a scrivener, or professional copyist, for his office and Bartleby responds to his advertisement and comes to work for the...
BBC Radio 4, 2 x 60 Minute Episode - 128Kbps - MP3. Herman Melville's classic tale of adventure on the high seas. In this last episode Ishmael comes to the end of the story of what he witnessed as a young man, a story that has haunted him ever since. Captain Ahab, himself now rarely sleeping or eating, ignores the need of the crew for rest and presses on in his obsessive quest...
Издательство New York Publishing, 2006. Тип звука- MP3. Это неадаптированный текст.Состоит из 39 файлов. которые можно слушать по отдельности. Описание: The fifth in the Revenge of the Sisterhood series Isabelle Flanders had everything: her own architectural firm, her fianc? Bobby, a life she deserved. Until Rosemary Hershey came and stole it all. Took her reputation, her...
Penguin Books, 1998. — ISBN: 0140481346 / 0-14-048134-6. Arthur Miller's 1949 Death of a Salesman has sold 11 million copies, and Willy Loman didn't make all those sales on a smile and a shoeshine. This play is the genuine article-it's got the goods on the human condition, all packed into a day in the life of one self-deluded, self-promoting, self-defeating soul. It's a sturdy...
Read by Thomas A. Copeland. — LibriVox, 2014. — 128 kbps. — Duration 10:59:21. As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to recount the origin of the human race itself and, in particular, the origin of and the remedy for evil; this is what he refers to as “things unattempted yet in prose...
Read by Thomas A. Copeland. — LibriVox, 2014. — 128 kbps. — Duration 10:59:21. As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to recount the origin of the human race itself and, in particular, the origin of and the remedy for evil; this is what he refers to as “things unattempted yet in prose...
Read by Thomas A. Copeland. — LibriVox, 2014. — 128 kbps. — Duration 10:59:21. As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to recount the origin of the human race itself and, in particular, the origin of and the remedy for evil; this is what he refers to as “things unattempted yet in prose...
BBC WW, 2010. Unabridged
Duration: 6 h 54 min
Reader: Gwen Watford
Quality: 48 kbps
Language: British English
From an unusual weight-losing recipe found in an old notebook – and used with alarming consequences – to the queen of copy-cats who drives her neighbour mad with anger, Over The Gate is a hugely entertaining collection of tales from Fairacre, past and present. Miss...
Read by Linda Stephens. - Recorded books. - MP3, 32 kbps, 24 kHz, mono. - 48:18:51. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!" This spectacular Civil War classic stuns and entertains with its romantic story of spoiled, beautiful Scarlett, who gains strength and determination as the war breaks everyone around her. First time in audio, this production is an Audie Award...
Read by Linda Stephens. - Recorded books. - MP3, 32 kbps, 24 kHz, mono. - 48:18:51. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!" This spectacular Civil War classic stuns and entertains with its romantic story of spoiled, beautiful Scarlett, who gains strength and determination as the war breaks everyone around her. First time in audio, this production is an Audie Award...
Read by Linda Stephens. - Recorded books. - MP3, 32 kbps, 24 kHz, mono. - 48:18:51. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!" This spectacular Civil War classic stuns and entertains with its romantic story of spoiled, beautiful Scarlett, who gains strength and determination as the war breaks everyone around her. First time in audio, this production is an Audie Award...
Read by Linda Stephens. - Recorded books. - MP3, 32 kbps, 24 kHz, mono. - 48:18:51. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!" This spectacular Civil War classic stuns and entertains with its romantic story of spoiled, beautiful Scarlett, who gains strength and determination as the war breaks everyone around her. First time in audio, this production is an Audie Award...
Read by Liza Ross. Abridged. 2:19:39 The second in L. M. Montgomery's series of books about Anne Shirley. She is the orphan who came to live at Green Gables. Anne is sixteen-and-a-half now and is about to start teaching at the very same school she herself attended.
Read by Liza Ross. Abridged. Running time 2:37:08
Bestselling novel (1908) by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Written as fiction for readers of all ages, the literary classic has been considered a children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, a young orphan girl mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged...
Performed by Caroline Lee. — Penguin Audio, 2014. — 69-72 kbps. — Duration 16:00:00. Unabridged. Book about crazy parents :) Pirriwee Public's annual school Trivia Night has ended in a shocking riot. One parent is dead. The school principal is horrified. As police investigate what appears to have been a tragic accident, signs begin to indicate that this devastating death might...
Performed by Caroline Lee. — Penguin Audio, 2014. — 69-72 kbps. — Duration 16:00:00. Unabridged. Book about crazy parents :) Pirriwee Public's annual school Trivia Night has ended in a shocking riot. One parent is dead. The school principal is horrified. As police investigate what appears to have been a tragic accident, signs begin to indicate that this devastating death might...
7 файлов MP3-формата, 112 kbps, моно, по 8-8,5 мин В файле формата DOC - краткое содержание и обложка печатного издания. About The Book How many times have you sat down to eat your tea, with the television playing in the background? How many times do we hear of a tragedy, make a casual remark, saying how awful it is and then put it to the back of our minds and carry on eating?...
Read by Dan Stevens. Running time approx. 4 hours.
War Horse is a children's novel by Michael Morpurgo. It was first published in Great Britain by Kaye & Ward in 1982. The story recounts the experiences of Joey, a horse purchased by the Army for service in World War I France and the attempts of young Albert, his previous owner, to bring him safely home. It formed the basis of...
7 файлов MP3-формата, 112 kbps, моно, по 8-9 мин. В файле формата DOC - краткое содержание и обложка печатного издания. About The Book Gracie and Daniel, two young children, live on the island of Bryher in the Isles of Scilly at the beginning of World War I. Their parents warn them not to go to near the Birdman, who lives on the south side of the island. There are rumours that...
Read by Kimberly Farr and Anthony Morey. (The book to read) In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancée, a wealthy woman deciding whether to...
Read by Kimberly Farr and Anthony Morey. (The book to read) In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancée, a wealthy woman deciding whether to...
Read by Kimberly Farr and Anthony Morey. (The book to read) In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancée, a wealthy woman deciding whether to...
1Q84 (One Q Eighty-Four or ichi-kew-hachi-yon (いちきゅうはちよん Ichi-Kyū-Hachi-Yon?)) is a novel by Haruki Murakami, first published in three volumes in Japan in 2009–10.The novel quickly became a sensation, with its first printing selling out the day it was released, and reaching sales of one million within a month. The English language edition of all three volumes, with the first two...
Audible Publisher: naxosaudiobooks, Listening Length: 9 hours and 35 minutes, Version:Unabridged, MP3 32 kbps , read by Rupert Degas It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company’s advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a...
Random House Audio, 2013. Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's...
Random House Audio, 2013. Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's...
Random House Audio Books, 2011. Unabridged Audio book. — Narrated by: Derek Jacobi. —Length: 7 hrs and 24 min. Martin Lynch-Gibbon believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly....
Narrated by Miriam Margoyles. (The book to read FB2, PDF, RTF) A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches and prays...
Narrated by Miriam Margoyles. (The book to read FB2, PDF, RTF) A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches and prays...
Read by Bryan Cranston. — Audible, 2013. — 48 kbps. — Duration 07:47:00. In 1979, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato—a novel about the Vietnam War—won the National Book Award. In this, his second work of fiction about Vietnam, O'Brien's unique artistic vision is again clearly demonstrated. Neither a novel nor a short story collection, it is an arc of fictional episodes, taking...
Read by Charles Olson. — New York: Folkways Records, 1975. — 320 kbps. — Duration 01:03:24. — FL 9738. Produced, edited and recorded by Barry Miles. Cover design by Ronald Clyne; cover photo by Gerard Malanga. Charles Olson was born December 27, 1910 in Worcester, Mass. He attended Wesleyan, Yale and Harvard. He taught at Clark, then Harvard from 1936-1939 and was an instructor...
First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. It is September 1793 and French Agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is determined to get his revenge for the previous humiliations dished out to him at the hands of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Audio book. Part II.First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. It is September 1793 and French Agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is determined to get his revenge for the previous humiliations dished out to him at the hands of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Read by Johanna Ward. A sequel to Orczy's novel The Scarlet Pimpernel is a delightful romp through fields of adventure, danger, betrayal, daring rescue, and true love. Orczy's weaving of the love motif amidst the events of the plot.
Кead by Johanna Ward.
A sequel to Orczy's novel The Scarlet Pimpernel is a delightful romp through fields of adventure, danger, betrayal, daring rescue, and true love. Orczy's weaving of the love motif amidst the events of the plot
Read by Frederic Davidson. — Blackstone audio, 1994. — 64 kbps. — Duration 12:23:00. Viewed as too libelous to print in England until 1968, the title essay in this collection reveals the abuse Orwell experienced as a child at an expensive and snobbish boarding school and offers insights into his lifelong concern for the oppressed. "Why I Write" describes Orwell's sense of...
Read by Frederic Davidson. — Blackstone audio, 1994. — 64 kbps. — Duration 12:23:00. Viewed as too libelous to print in England until 1968, the title essay in this collection reveals the abuse Orwell experienced as a child at an expensive and snobbish boarding school and offers insights into his lifelong concern for the oppressed. "Why I Write" describes Orwell's sense of...
Read by J.Todd Adams, duration 5:01:02.
Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. Inspired by his doctor's exasperated remark that insomnia is not suffering, the protagonist finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups. Then he meets a mysterious man named Tyler...
The books are never about what you think they are about. Survivor is really about our education system because I feel, more often than not, kids are sort of taught or trained to be the best possible cogs in some big corporate machine. They're not really taught in an empowered way that they can start their own company so that they can create and run their own lives. They are sort...
Edited by Marion Meade. Read by Lorna Raver. Total running time : 13 1/2 hours. (Book to read: RTF, PDF, FB2) When it comes to expressing the pleasure and pain of being just a touch too smart to be happy, Dorothy Parker is still the champion, after all these years. Along with Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table, she dominated American...
Edited by Marion Meade. Read by Lorna Raver. Abridged. Total running time : 13 1/2 hours. (Book to read: RTF, PDF, FB2) When it comes to expressing the pleasure and pain of being just a touch too smart to be happy, Dorothy Parker is still the champion, after all these years. Along with Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table, she...
Edited by Marion Meade. Read by Lorna Raver. Total running time : 13 1/2 hours. (Book to read: RTF, PDF, FB2) When it comes to expressing the pleasure and pain of being just a touch too smart to be happy, Dorothy Parker is still the champion, after all these years. Along with Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table, she dominated American...
Edited by Marion Meade. Read by Lorna Raver. Total running time : 13 1/2 hours. (Book to read: RTF, PDF, FB2) When it comes to expressing the pleasure and pain of being just a touch too smart to be happy, Dorothy Parker is still the champion, after all these years. Along with Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table, she dominated American...
Read by the author. — Folkways Records, 1961. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 00:53:00 Beautiful You Are Give You A Lantern Little Birds Sit On Your Shoulder As Beautiful As The Hands Of The Winter Tree While the Sun Still Spends his Fabulous Money Oh Now The Drenched Land Wakes The Great Birds No I Do Not Deal With Angels O She Is Lovely-Often O My Darling Troubles Heaven We Go...
Read by the author. — Folkways Records, 1960. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 00:28:26 American poet and novelist Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972) reads 19 poems in this Folkways recording. Throughout his career, Patchen experimented with poetic writing styles and forms including reading his poems set to jazz music. Some critics have compared his work to the poetry of Walt Whitman...
12 файлов MP3- формата, 112 kbps, моно, по 8-9 мин. В файле формата DOC - краткое содержание и обложка печатного издания. Book Review. The book deals with the struggles of a young girl. Single mother, Verna Morgan, struggles to support her family. Verna's daughter Angel is caring for her little seven year-old brother, Bernie. Their mother visits their father in the jail and...
Read by Jenna Lamia. Unabridged. Total running time: 7,5 hours.
Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a year-long coma. Her parents show her movies of her life, her memories, but she has no recollection. Is she really the same girl she sees on the screen?
This fascinating novel represents a stunning new direction for...
Read by Jenna Lamia. Unabridged. Total running time: 7,5 hours.
Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a year-long coma. Her parents show her movies of her life, her memories, but she has no recollection. Is she really the same girl she sees on the screen?
This fascinating novel represents a stunning new direction for...
Unabridged. Read by Lois Smith. Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel return for more astonishing, laugh-out-loud adventures when fifteen-year-old Mary Alice moves in with her spicy grandmother for the year. Her extended visit is filled with moonlit schemes, romances both foiled and founded, and a whole parade of fools made to suffer in unusual (and always hilarious) ways. Wise,...
128 kbps; read by David Tennant
Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his Dad and his teenage sister, Jasmine for a 'Fresh New Start'. Five years ago his sister's twin, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents are wrecked by their grief, Jasmine turns to piercing, pink hair and stops eating. The family falls apart. But Jamie hasn't...
128 kbps; read by David Tennant
Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his Dad and his teenage sister, Jasmine for a 'Fresh New Start'. Five years ago his sister's twin, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents are wrecked by their grief, Jasmine turns to piercing, pink hair and stops eating. The family falls apart. But Jamie hasn't...
365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. Read by and featuring a special conversation with the author. Total running time 6 hours. Abridgement approved by the author. With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child+s Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul. Julie...
365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. Read by and featuring a special conversation with the author. Total running time 6 hours. Abridgement approved by the author. With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child+s Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul. Julie...
Read by Rosalin Landor. Total running time 8 ½ hours. Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. (The book to read PDF, EPUB, RTF, FB2) Review "Pullinger is equally unerring at conveying the subtle cruelties of power relationships and the incremental dawnings of love and affection. Coupled with this is an almost painterly ability to depict an Egypt alternately parched...
Read by Rosalin Landor. Total running time 8 ½ hours. Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. (The book to read PDF, EPUB, RTF, FB2) Review "Pullinger is equally unerring at conveying the subtle cruelties of power relationships and the incremental dawnings of love and affection. Coupled with this is an almost painterly ability to depict an Egypt alternately parched...
Read by Rosalin Landor. Total running time 8 ½ hours. Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. (The book to read PDF, EPUB, RTF, FB2) Review "Pullinger is equally unerring at conveying the subtle cruelties of power relationships and the incremental dawnings of love and affection. Coupled with this is an almost painterly ability to depict an Egypt alternately parched...
In this beautiful audiobook of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a'clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice. Bitrate: 64 Kbps — Penguin Classics, 2012. New York Times bestseller Philip Pullman retells the world’s best-loved fairy tales on their 200th...
Read by Ron McLarty. — Penguin Audio, 2008. — 64 kbps. — Duration 14:31:00. This book is a classic Pynchon novel except that it's completely accessible, unlike his actual classic, Gravity's Rainbow. Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield titled his review of Inherent Vice "The Bigger Lebowski", and this is absolutely the truth, convincingly supported by the fact that Ron McLarty's voice...
Read by Ron McLarty. — Penguin Audio, 2008. — 64 kbps. — Duration 14:31:00. This book is a classic Pynchon novel except that it's completely accessible, unlike his actual classic, Gravity's Rainbow. Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield titled his review of Inherent Vice "The Bigger Lebowski", and this is absolutely the truth, convincingly supported by the fact that Ron McLarty's voice...
Audible Inc, 2009. Unabridged. Quality: 128 kbps Duration: 9 h 56 min Reader: Gabrielle De Cuir Book My Fair Godmother is a feel-good book that had me laughing A LOT. Janette Rallison has a special talent for bringing humor into even the most dire of situations. If she were a movie writer, she could win an Oscar for Best Comedy script. Main character Savannah is the queen of...
Audible Inc, 2009. Unabridged. Quality: 128 kbps Duration: 9 h 56 min Reader: Gabrielle De Cuir Book My Fair Godmother is a feel-good book that had me laughing A LOT. Janette Rallison has a special talent for bringing humor into even the most dire of situations. If she were a movie writer, she could win an Oscar for Best Comedy script. Main character Savannah is the queen of...
12 файлов MP3-формата, 64 kbps, моно, по 9-10 мин. В файлe формата DOC - краткое содержание и обложка печатного издания. About The Book Book Description In the autumn of 1636, tulip fever is sweeping Amsterdam, and Europe's fortunes rise and fall with the promise of the New World. That year, the great Dutch family of Windjammer suffers the loss of their entire trading fleet and...
Год выпуска: 1992
Исполнитель: Dixie Carter
Издательство: Audioworks
Язык: английский
Тип: аудиокнига
Книга состоит из 8-ми файлов.Общее время звучания 5:45:52
Описание: The timeless tale continues. The most popular and beloved American historical novel ever written, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is unparalleled in its portrayal of men and women at once larger...
Год выпуска: 1992
Исполнитель: Dixie Carter
Издательство: Audioworks
Язык: английский
Тип: аудиокнига
Книга состоит из 8-ми файлов.Общее время звучания 5:45:52
Описание: The timeless tale continues. The most popular and beloved American historical novel ever written, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is unparalleled in its portrayal of men and women at once larger...
Read by Aoife McMahon. — Random House Audio, 2019. — 64 kbps. — Duration 07:34:22. Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can’t. Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the...
США, 2004. Роман Мэг Розофф - писательницы, родившейся (в 1956 году) и выросшей в США, а с 1989 года живущей в Англии, роман, получивший сразу три национальные премии: за лучший роман для детей (хотя, по-моему, это совсем не детское чтение), за лучший роман для молодых взрослых и за лучший дебют года в литературе. Критики считают, что это роман для чтения в любом возрасте и что он...
Два рассказа американского писателя Филипа Рота (род. 1933): - The Conversion of the Jews - Обращение евреев - You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings - Нельзя судить о человеке по песне, которую он поет Английский оригинальный текст рекомендуется для уровня A2 и выше, Level A2 = Waystage or elementary (продвинутый начальный уровень). Продолжительность 1 час 6 мин. Audio book...
2009. Unabridged
Duration: 24h 35m
Reader: Lyndam Gregory
Quality: 64 kbps
Language: British English
Midnight's Children is an epic book of magical realism, a poioumenon about India's transition from British colonialism to independence. It was written by Salman Rushdie in 1981 and is considered an example of postcolonial literature. The story is expressed through various...
2009. Unabridged
Duration: 24h 35m
Reader: Lyndam Gregory
Quality: 64 kbps
Language: British English
Midnight's Children is an epic book of magical realism, a poioumenon about India's transition from British colonialism to independence. It was written by Salman Rushdie in 1981 and is considered an example of postcolonial literature. The story is expressed through various...
2009. Unabridged
Duration: 24h 35m
Reader: Lyndam Gregory
Quality: 64 kbps
Language: British English
Midnight's Children is an epic book of magical realism, a poioumenon about India's transition from British colonialism to independence. It was written by Salman Rushdie in 1981 and is considered an example of postcolonial literature. The story is expressed through various...
2009. Unabridged
Duration: 24h 35m
Reader: Lyndam Gregory
Quality: 64 kbps
Language: British English
Midnight's Children is an epic book of magical realism, a poioumenon about India's transition from British colonialism to independence. It was written by Salman Rushdie in 1981 and is considered an example of postcolonial literature. The story is expressed through various...
Аудиокнига по роману Луиса Сачар (Louis Sachar) Ямки / Клад (Holes). Английский оригинальный текст с сокращениями. Дата выхода печатной книги 20 августа 1998 г. Архив содержит 10 файлов формата MP3, по 8-9 минут, качество 64kbps In this funny yet poignant story, a boy embarks on a personal journey that changes his life, as he spends the summer paying for a crime he didn't...
Unabridged. Read by Kerry Beyer. Approx. 5 hours. Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile detention centre. At Camp Green Lake the boys must dug a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the dried up lake bed. The warden claims the labour is character building, but it is a...
Unabridged. Read by Kerry Beyer. Approx. 5 hours.
Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile detention centre. At Camp Green Lake the boys must dug a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the dried up lake bed. The warden claims the labour is character building, but it is a...
Аудиокнига "Маленький принц" на английском.
Одно из самых противоречивых детских произведений. Автор представляет страсти общества через призму маленького принца, который любил свою единственную розу и затерявшегося в пустыне летчика.
Файл MP3-формата, 96kbps, моно, 16 мин Saki (Hector Hugh Monro) This British writer poet and writer is best known for his short stories. He was killed in World War I while serving active duty. This short story is about a woman named Sylvia who moves with her new husband to his country house. They spend days roaming through the woods, but when Sylvia scoffs at a statue of the...
Read by Christopher Eccleston. — BBC Radio, 2007. — 128 kbps. — Duration 00:14:48. At a winter house party, one unbearable guest has pretentions to be a master of the dark arts. There is consternation all round when he turns his hostess into a wolf and then can't seem to turn her back again.
Файл MP3-формата. 96 kbps, моно, 16 мин. Saki (Hector Hugh Monro) This British writer poet and writer is best known for his short stories. He was killed in World War I while serving active duty. J.P Huddle and his sister live a staid life in the country where they have settled a little too comfortably into elderly middle-age. When Clovis, a fellow passenger on the train hears...
96 kbps, моно, 20 мин.
Saki (Hector Hugh Monro)
This British writer poet and writer is best known for his short stories. He was killed in World War I while serving active duty.
What if your house pet could talk? It has probably seen and heard quite a few things that you would not want spread around at a dinner party of your friends and acquaintances. Well that is exactly...
Роман американского писателя Джерома Сэлинджера «Над пропастью во ржи», 1951. Аудиокнига+текст (MP3+PDF, DOC). Продолжительность 7 часов в 9 частях. Озвучивает Ray Hagen. В романе от имени 17-летнего юноши по имени Холден в весьма откровенной форме рассказывается о его обострённом восприятии американской действительности и неприятии общих канонов и морали современного общества.
2006; 5h 5m; 64 kbps; read by Mark Hammer
A collection of spooky stories, competently adapted and retold (sometimes quite freely) from world folklore, including Japan, Africa, and Latin America, as well as Europe and the U.S. Fairy tales are represented, from Grimm's The Robber Bridegroom to the modern urban folktale Lavender, a reworking of the phantom hitchhiker story. Some...
Рассказы. Английский оригинальный текст рекомендован для уровня А2 и выше, Level A2 = Waystage or elementary (продвинутый начальный уровень).
Audio book Hueber:
- Crybaby (10 min)
- In the Waiting Room (13 min)
- Keeping up (14 min)
- Solution to Saturday's Puzzle (15 min)
Audio book dp:
- Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities (25 min)
- Go Carolina (20 min)
- Me Talk Pretty One...
The new New York Times bestseller.
Four short stories from Naked (Нагишом)
- Intro & A Plague of Ties
- Get Your Ya-Ya's Out
- Next of Kin
- Cyclops
Дэвид Седарис (р. 1956) явно стоит особняком среди авторов современных бестселлеров в категории "Художественная литература". Писателем Дэвид Седарис стал в сорок лет, но его дебют в жанре юмористической прозы быстро принес ему...
Goya LiT, Jumbo audio book. Серия: The Sound of the Language. Read by Hayward Morse and Anah Ruddin.
- P. Sidney: With How Sad Steps, O Moone, Thou Climb'st the Sky
- W. Shakespeare: Sonnet 18
- W. Shakespeare: Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
- A. Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
- J. Donne: The Good-morrow
- R. Burns: A Red Red Rose
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: A Man...
Lara Cameron is America's Princess, a self-made billionaire who towers over a traditionally male domain. Beautyful but insecure, ruthless yet vulnerable, Lara has struggled brutally to achieve it all - yet she still wants more. And she will find everything she has ever desired and won - her fortune, her fame, the man she loves.
Lara Cameron is America's Princess, a self-made billionaire who towers over a traditionally male domain. Beautyful but insecure, ruthless yet vulnerable, Lara has struggled brutally to achieve it all - yet she still wants more. And she will find everything she has ever desired and won - her fortune, her fame, the man she loves.
Read by unknown narrator. — 64 kbps. — Duration 08:35:50. On September 5th, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: they're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: there's an app for that. It's...
Read by unknown narrator. — 64 kbps. — Duration 08:35:50. On September 5th, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: they're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: there's an app for that. It's...
Read by Kimberly Farr. Abridged. 9 hours. Random House 2008
Роман, вымышленная история Первой Леди, основанная на жизни жены американского президента Буша, но никак не ее биография.
Куртис Ситтенфилд (род. 1975 г.) - американская писательница. Автор трех романов - "Приготовишка" (история девочки, которая учится в престижной Массачусетской школе-интернате), "Мужчина моей мечты"...
Read by Kimberly Farr. Abridged. 9 hours. Random House 2008
Роман, вымышленная история Первой Леди, основанная на жизни жены американского президента Буша, но никак не ее биография.
Куртис Ситтенфилд (род. 1975 г.) - американская писательница. Автор трех романов - "Приготовишка" (история девочки, которая учится в престижной Массачусетской школе-интернате), "Мужчина моей мечты"...
Read by Kimberly Farr. Abridged. 9 hours. Random House 2008
Роман, вымышленная история Первой Леди, основанная на жизни жены американского президента Буша, но никак не ее биография.
Куртис Ситтенфилд (род. 1975 г.) - американская писательница. Автор трех романов - "Приготовишка" (история девочки, которая учится в престижной Массачусетской школе-интернате), "Мужчина моей мечты"...
Memoir. Audio book read by the Author. "What is rape?" Mary-Ann Tirone Smith asked her father when he walked through the door. She was in grade school. She had just read an article about a man who assaulted and murdered her 11-year-old friend. Her father sent her to her room and refused to talk about it. Children were locked inside their homes, and police scoured the town for...
Memoir. Audio book read by the Author. "What is rape?" Mary-Ann Tirone Smith asked her father when he walked through the door. She was in grade school. She had just read an article about a man who assaulted and murdered her 11-year-old friend. Her father sent her to her room and refused to talk about it. Children were locked inside their homes, and police scoured the town for...
Рассказ Мюриэл Спарк, шотландской писательницы (1918–2006). (The text to read) Портобелло Роуд - лондонская улица, где торгуют антиквариатом (и другими товарами, но знаменита эта улица именно антиквариатом). Две девушки и два молодых человека проводили летний день за городом. Одна из девушек нашла иголку в стоге сена. Смех, солнце, молодость. Через много лет "Иголка" встретила...
Рассказ Мюриэл Спарк, шотландской писательницы (1918–2006). (The text to read) Портобелло Роуд - лондонская улица, где торгуют антиквариатом (и другими товарами, но знаменита эта улица именно антиквариатом). Две девушки и два молодых человека проводили летний день за городом. Одна из девушек нашла иголку в стоге сена. Смех, солнце, молодость. Через много лет "Иголка" встретила...
Рассказ Мюриэл Спарк, шотландской писательницы (1918–2006). (The text to read) Портобелло Роуд - лондонская улица, где торгуют антиквариатом (и другими товарами, но знаменита эта улица именно антиквариатом). Две девушки и два молодых человека проводили летний день за городом. Одна из девушек нашла иголку в стоге сена. Смех, солнце, молодость. Через много лет "Иголка" встретила...
Издательство: Brilliance Audio - 2008г. Исполнитель: Jay O. Sanders Аннабелл Уортингтон родилась в богатой семье, принадлежащей к высшему обществу Нью-Йорка, и выросла в роскошных домах на Пятой авеню и на Род-Айленде. Но в один из холодных апрельских дней произошла ужасная трагедия, которая полностью перевернула ее комфортную и беззаботную жизнь… История Аннабелл - это...
Аудиоспектакль на английском языке.
Повесть Стейнбека "О мышах и людях" является одной из самых ярких его работ. Именно в этом произведении автор хотел отобразить процесс осуществления мечты отдельного маленького человека. Данная повесть пользуется огромным успехом у читателей и в действительности весьма интересным и увлекательным. Два друга почти как братья ездят в поисках...
Read by Anton Lessr. — Naxos, 2009. — 32 kbps. — Duration 19:03:00. Laurence Sterne’s most famous novel is a biting satire of literary conventions and contemporary 18th-century values. Renowned for its parody of established narrative techniques, Tristram Shandy is commonly regarded as the forerunner of avant-garde fiction. Tristram’s characteristic digressions on a whole range...
Penguin Audio, 2009. Unabridged
Duration: 18h 19m
Reader: Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell, Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin
Quality: 64 kbps
Language: American English
Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver. Some lines will never be crossed. Aibileen is a black maid: smart, regal, and raising her seventeenth...
Penguin Audio, 2009. Unabridged
Duration: 18h 19m
Reader: Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell, Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin
Quality: 64 kbps
Language: American English
Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver. Some lines will never be crossed. Aibileen is a black maid: smart, regal, and raising her seventeenth...
Penguin Audio, 2009. Unabridged
Duration: 18h 19m
Reader: Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell, Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin
Quality: 64 kbps
Language: American English
Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver. Some lines will never be crossed. Aibileen is a black maid: smart, regal, and raising her seventeenth...
Originally published as Q & A. Unabridged. Read by Christopher Simpson. Total running time: 10 hours 45 min. Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat who has served in Turkey, the United States, Ethiopia and Great Britain. He is presently posted in the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi. Q & A is being translated into twenty-five languages and is due to be made into both a...
Originally published as Q & A. Unabridged. Read by Christopher Simpson. Total running time: 10 hours 45 min. Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat who has served in Turkey, the United States, Ethiopia and Great Britain. He is presently posted in the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi. Q & A is being translated into twenty-five languages and is due to be made into both a...
Originally published as Q & A. Unabridged. Read by Christopher Simpson. Total running time: 10 hours 45 min. Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat who has served in Turkey, the United States, Ethiopia and Great Britain. He is presently posted in the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi. Q & A is being translated into twenty-five languages and is due to be made into both a...
Издание:неизвестно
Размер файла: 145 MB
At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the...
Рождественская история. Author: Charles Tazewell Published: Children's stories Продолжительность: 00:20:48 Без иллюстраций 4 страницы Once upon a time - oh many, many years ago as time is calculated by men - but which was only Yesterday in the Celestial Calendar of Heaven - there was, in Paradise, a most miserable, thoroughly unhappy, and utterly dejected cherub who was known...
Narrated by the authors. — Broadside Records, 1967. — 256 kbps. Продолжительность: 01:02:44 Recorded on February 20, 1966, in New York City, the Read-In for Peace in Vietnam was a cultural event aimed not only at registering dissent against the American war in Vietnam, but also at “bearing witness to the viability of the American conscience.” The evening featured 29 writers and...
Read by Jefferson Mays. — Recorded books, 2012. — 64 kbps. — Duration 12:30:00 Ellis Hock runs a menswear store in Massachusetts but still dreams of the four years he spent in Malawi. When his wife leaves him, he realises that there is only one place for him to go: back to Malawi, where he can be happy again. Arriving at the dusty village he finds it transformed, but the locals...
Read by Jefferson Mays. — Recorded books, 2012. — 64 kbps. — Duration 12:30:00 Ellis Hock runs a menswear store in Massachusetts but still dreams of the four years he spent in Malawi. When his wife leaves him, he realises that there is only one place for him to go: back to Malawi, where he can be happy again. Arriving at the dusty village he finds it transformed, but the locals...
Read by Ron McLarty.— Recorded Books, 2005. — 64 kbps. — Duration 06:00:00. Maverick author Hunter S. Thompson introduced the world to "gonzo journalism" with this cult classic that shot back up the best seller lists after Thompson's suicide in 2005. No book ever written has more perfectly captured the spirit of the 1960s counterculture. In Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race,...
Read by Christopher Lane. — Simon Schuster, 2011. — 64 kbps. — Duration 06:20:00. Begun in 1959 by a 22-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a...
Read by Pearce Quigley. Running time approx. 3 hours. Adrian Mole, now an angst-tidden 38, is still coping with life in middle-England as a single parent to Glen and William, and battling his own particular weapon of mass destruction.
Read by Stephen Mangan. Abridged. Running time approx. 3 hours. Long before Bridget Jones came the maddest, daftest diarist of them all - Adrian Mole. Life is far from easy when you are 13 3/4 - If you're not worried about spots and school bullies, it's trying to decide which of your parents to live with or whether to be a vet or a comedy writer when you grow up. Not to mention...
Publisher: Leatherback Date: 2005 Format: MP3 Time: 1 hr 50 min Leatherback presents a selection of short erotic stories, narrated for your pleasure. Each story is approximately 20 minutes long. Club Erotica Nick's brother had recommended a club in Soho, saying he and Emma would have never seen anything like it. In order to gain entry, Emma had to gain the secret camera's...
Narrated by the author. — Smithsonian Folkways, 1967. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 00:40:15 Mark Van Doren (1894–1972), poet, writer, critic, and scholar, reads 32 poems from his Collected and New Poems: 1926–1963. The range of his subjects is broad: children, animals, people of every sort, night and day, sun and snow, love, memory, and poets. The liner notes state “…his...
Genre: tale. Reader: Michael Scott. Format: MP3+PDF. Language: English. На восточном берегу Гудзона, в глубине одной из бухт, стоит деревня, невдалеке от нее есть лощина, которую за её тишину и безмятежность, а также за флегматичный нрав её обитателей прозвали Сонной. Место это словно пребывает под каким-то заклятием, заворожившим умы местных жителей, которые живут в мире грез...
BBC audio. A full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's classic story of a lost golden age.
In 1944 Captain Charles Ryder travels with a company of soldiers to Brideshead. He has been there before, and the great house serves as a potent reminder of the decadent, stylish lifestyle now destroyed by the austerity of the Second World War.
Adapted for radio by Jeremy Front and...
BBC audio. A full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's classic story of a lost golden age.
In 1944 Captain Charles Ryder travels with a company of soldiers to Brideshead. He has been there before, and the great house serves as a potent reminder of the decadent, stylish lifestyle now destroyed by the austerity of the Second World War.
Adapted for radio by Jeremy Front and...
Аудиокнига (MP3): время звучания – 4 часа 48 мин + полный текст произведения на английском языке. Daddy Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college years. She writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen. Judy catches a glimpse of...
Аудиокнига (MP3): время звучания – 4 часа 48 мин + полный текст произведения на английском языке. Daddy Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college years. She writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen. Judy catches a glimpse of...
Аудиокнига (MP3): время звучания – 4 часа 48 мин + полный текст произведения на английском языке. Daddy Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college years. She writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen. Judy catches a glimpse of...
Аудиокнига (MP3): время звучания – 4 часа 48 мин + полный текст произведения на английском языке. Daddy Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college years. She writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen. Judy catches a glimpse of...
Ирвин Уэлш, «На игле». Аудиокнига на английском языке - на языке оригинала. «На игле» — дебютный роман шотландского писателя Ирвина Уэлша. Впервые опубликован в 1993 году. Сюжет произведения вращается вокруг обычной жизни молодых людей Эдинбурга, конкретнее его припортового района — Лейта. Большинство главных и второстепенных героев страдают от героиновой зависимости. Действие...
Ирвин Уэлш, «На игле». Аудиокнига на английском языке - на языке оригинала. «На игле» — дебютный роман шотландского писателя Ирвина Уэлша. Впервые опубликован в 1993 году. Сюжет произведения вращается вокруг обычной жизни молодых людей Эдинбурга, конкретнее его припортового района — Лейта. Большинство главных и второстепенных героев страдают от героиновой зависимости. Действие...
Ирвин Уэлш, «На игле». Аудиокнига на английском языке - на языке оригинала. «На игле» — дебютный роман шотландского писателя Ирвина Уэлша. Впервые опубликован в 1993 году. Сюжет произведения вращается вокруг обычной жизни молодых людей Эдинбурга, конкретнее его припортового района — Лейта. Большинство главных и второстепенных героев страдают от героиновой зависимости. Действие...
An A+ Audio Study Guide. Audio book + PDF booklet 21 pages language: English Чтение стихов в оригинале из сборников: Song of Myself, When Lilacs, Passage to India, а также вступление и заключение. A brief exegesis on the life and works of the ground-breaking nineteenth-century poet features excerpts from his writing and snippets of instrumental music by Carl Ives and Sergei...
Read by Sam Waterston. Unabridged. 3 1/2 hours. The Bridge of San Luis Rey was Thornton Wilder's second novel, published when he was just thirty, and it won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1928. It tells the story of a religious man's spiritual quest to determine why God allows disasters to occur. Wilder sets the action in Lima, Peru, in 1714, where a Franciscan monk witnesses the...
Unabridged Duration: 13h 25m Reader: Stephen Crossley Quality: 64 kbps Language: British English Fourteen-year-old Will Burrows lives with his parents and younger sister Rebecca in London. He has little in common with any of them, except for a passion for digging, which he shares with his father, a museum curator and doctor of archaeology. When his father suddenly disappears...
Unabridged Duration: 13h 25m Reader: Stephen Crossley Quality: 64 kbps Language: British English Fourteen-year-old Will Burrows lives with his parents and younger sister Rebecca in London. He has little in common with any of them, except for a passion for digging, which he shares with his father, a museum curator and doctor of archaeology. When his father suddenly disappears...
Narrated by the author. — PennSound, 1999. — 128 kbps. Продолжительность: 00:56:56. Sonnet 1909 (Martin and Katherine) Paterson The Falls Peace on Earth Postlude Pastoral ('When I was younger') Pastoral ('The little sparrows') Portrait of a Woman in Bed Sympathetic Portrait of a Child Spring Strains Dedication for a Plot of Ground (Incomplete) Love Song ('I lie here thinking of...
Unabridged, read by Clare Higgins
8 hours and 43 minutes
AudioGO Ltd., January 2005
Fantasy, love offering, exuberant celebration of English life and literature, Orlando is a uniquely entertaining novel. Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to Vita Sackville-West, Orlando's central character lives as both a man and a woman through four centuries.
Английский оригинальный текст с сокращениями. Продолжительность 2 часa 29 мин. Сократила Хизер Годвин. Режиссер Николас Соамс. Читает Лора Патон. Издательство Maxos, серия Modern Classics.
"Orlando: A Biography" is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf, first published 1928. A semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West, it is generally...
Read by Phyllida Law.
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence, and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an...
Файл содержит William Wordsworth "Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge" + аудио.
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
Narrated by: Brock Peters. — Caedmon Records, 1970. — 192 kbps. Продолжительность: 00:30:06 NB! Fragments from various chapters. See the book here. When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them, maybe, someday,...
Say What You Want to Hear - The Startup. Радиоспектакль - ВВС (Afternoon Drama)
Do you have things you say to yourself? Things you wished you'd said, or wish other people had said? Dotcom entrepreneurs Erik and Mike set up Say What You Want to Hear, a website for people to voice these secret thoughts - and you can take part on the Radio 4 website.
Качество 128 кбит/с, 44 кГц,...
Read by Mark Bramhall. (The book to read) In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the...
Read by Mark Bramhall. (The book to read) In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the...
Read by Mark Bramhall. (The book to read) In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the...
Total running time 11 1/2 hours. Read by Grover Gardner. The novel, Yglesias’s return to fiction after a thirteen-year hiatus, was inspired by his relationship with his wife, who died in 2004. Both intimate and expansive, it is a stunningly candid novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of the courtship of Enrique Sabas and his wife Margaret...
Total running time 11 1/2 hours. Read by Grover Gardner.
The novel, Yglesias’s return to fiction after a thirteen-year hiatus, was inspired by his relationship with his wife, who died in 2004. Both intimate and expansive, it is a stunningly candid novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of the courtship of Enrique Sabas and his wife Margaret...
Total running time 11 1/2 hours. Read by Grover Gardner.
The novel, Yglesias’s return to fiction after a thirteen-year hiatus, was inspired by his relationship with his wife, who died in 2004. Both intimate and expansive, it is a stunningly candid novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of the courtship of Enrique Sabas and his wife Margaret...
2002. Первый роман "Gossip Girl" для молодых взрослых (или, скорее, для молодых женщин - так называемая chick lit) американской писательницы Сесили фон Зигесар, положивший начало серии романов, а также телесериалу "Gossip Girl". Английский оригинальный текст с сокращениями. Продолжительность 2 часа. Audio book издательства Тайм Уорнер. Читает Кристина Риччи.
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