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Gothic Imagination: Dracula, Frankenstein & more: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

A BBC chilling collection of classic gothic horror and ghost stories adapted or written by women In this breathtaking collection of gothic horror and eerie tales, draw the curtains and pull the blankets close for two classic Victorian horror tales in new adaptations, Dracula starring Nicky Henson, Charles Edwards, Don Gilet and Ellie Kendrick and Frankenstein, with Jamie Parker (Harry Potter) as Frankenstein and Shaun Dooley (Gentleman Jack, Broadchurch) as the Monster. Next is a thrilling drama about the scandalous Mary Shelley and Lord Byron in Bloody Poetry. In the sensational psycho-sexual thriller The Mysteries of Udolpho with Robert Glenister (Suspicion, Spooks), a young woman is trapped in a castle of nightmares and villains. But who can she trust? Four spine-chilling dramatised tales follow: The Cold Embrace, where a handsome artist makes a terrible mistake, Man Sized in Marble, in which newly-weds must face a horrifying truth, Afterward sees a couple paying the price for an unexpected windfall, and The Demon Lover, featuring Jenny Howe (Silent Witness, Eastenders) about a woman struggling home through the Blitz. Finally, two of Mary Shelley's finest short stories, The Mortal Immortal - when a young apprentice drinks a potion to cure his heartbreak but discovers a feeling far worse - and Rodger Dodworth: The Reanimated Englishman - where a man is woken after 170 years encased in ice. Cast and credits Dracula Written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz Story written by Bram Stoker Directed by Jessica Dromgoole First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 14 October 2012 Frankenstein Dramatised by Lucy Catherine Written by Mary Shelley Directed by Marc Beeby First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 28 October - 4 November 2012 Bloody Poetry Written by Howard Brenton Adapted by Alison Hindell Directed by Alison Hindell First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 20 October 2012 The Mysteries of Udolpho Written by Ann Radcliffe Dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska Directed by David Blount First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 13 October - 24 October 1996 The Cold Embrace Written by Mary Braddon Produced by Marion Nancarrow Directed by Christopher Hawes First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 26 July 1997 Man Sized in Marble Written by Edith Nesbit Produced by Marion Nancarrow Dramatised by Christopher Hawes First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 17 November 1997 Afterward Written by Edith Wharton Produced by Marion Nancarrow Directed by Christopher Hawes First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 24 November 1997 The Demon Lover Written by Elizabeth Bowen Produced by Marion Nancarrow Directed by Christopher Hawes First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 17 July 1997 The Mortal Immortal Written by Mary Shelley Produced by Gemma Jenkins First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 3 December 2005 Rodger Dodworth: The Reanimated Englishman Written by Mary Shelley Produced by John Cardy First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 24 May 1982 ©2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Ann Ratcliffe, Bram Stoker, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Bowen, Howard Brenton, Lucy Catherine, Mary Braddon, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Author), Charles Edwards, Don Gilet, Ellie Kendrick, Full Cast, Jamie Parker, Maggie Steed, Robert Glenister, Shaun Dooley, Tracy-Ann Oberman (Narrator)

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Herejes de Dune (Las crónicas de Dune 5)

Herejes de Dune es la quinta novela de la serie «Dune» de Frank Herbert, considerada la cumbre de la ciencia ficción contemporánea. Esta quinta entrega de la serie prosigue con las aventuras de la estirpe delos Atreides en el fascinante planeta de arena. Nos hallamos en el futuro respecto a la acción de Dios emperador de Dune. La expansión galáctica que siguió a la muerte de Leto ha terminado. Todos regresan al planeta madre, convertido de nuevo en el mundo inhóspito y seco de sus orígenes. El delicado equilibro entre las antiguas fuerzas está a punto de romperse. En este marco aparece un nuevo personaje: Sheeana, una chica que tiene el poder de invocar, controlar y conducir a Shaihulud, el gigantesco gusano de arena...

Frank Herbert (Author), Daniel García (Narrator)

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An Odyssey of the North

Things are not what they seem. A grizzled traveler arrives in a bluster. He doesn't make sense when he speaks. But once he warms up from the brink of death, his story and his heartbreak unfolds. Enjoy this classic from Jack London, narrated by Audible best seller Evan Schmitt. Story originally published in 1900. Production copyright 2023 by Riveting Publishing

Jack London (Author), Evan Schmitt (Narrator)

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Book at Bedtime: A BBC Radio Collection: 10 Unmissable Classics

A bumper collection of accessible classics from the perennially popular BBC Radio 4 series This diverse, wide-ranging anthology features readings of 10 of the greatest books in the English language, taken from the BBC's Book at Bedtime and performed by a stellar cast of narrators. Here are nearly 27 hours of sensational stories, from iconic romances and humorous travelogues to pioneering Modernist masterpieces and compelling explorations of the human heart. Comprising much-loved favourites as well as neglected classics, this genre-spanning selection has something for everyone. This collection includes abridged readings of: Persuasion by Jane Austen: Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth get a second chance at love following their broken engagement seven years earlier. Read by Juliet Stevenson. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: An orphaned young woman discovers romance when she meets the charming Mr Rochester. Read by Anne-Marie Duff. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: Independent Bathsheba Everdene must contend with three very different suitors all vying for her affections. Read by Douglas Hodge. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson: Stephenson's travelogue from his 12-day hike, taken to distance himself from his love affair with a married woman. Read by Alan Cumming. The Aspern Papers by Henry James: A nameless narrator goes to Venice to persuade American poet Jeffrey Aspern's lover to let him read Aspern's letters. Read by Samuel West. Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome: The Three Men in a Boat return for a bicycle tour through the German Black Forest. Read by Hugh Laurie. Dubliners by James Joyce: Form-defining stories about life in Dublin at the start of the 20th century. Read by Stephen Rea. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford: Two couples, two marriages; both seemingly perfect. But beneath the surface lies deception and betrayal. Read by Toby Stephens. The Rector's Daughter by F.M. Mayor: Mary has spent thirty-five years taking care of others, but with the arrival Robert Herbert her quiet, ordered existence is changed forever. Read by Juliet Stevenson. Orlando by Virginia Woolf: A playful mock biography of a chameleonic historical figure, immortal and ageless, who changes sex and identity on a whim. Read by Amanda Hale. First published 1817 (Persuasion), 1847 (Jane Eyre), 1874 (Far from the Madding Crowd), 1879 (Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes), 1888 (The Aspern Papers), 1900 (Three Men on the Bummel), 1914 (Dubliners), 1915 (The Good Soldier), 1924 (The Rector's Daughter), 1928 (Orlando) © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Brontë, F.M. Mayor, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, James Joyce, Jane Austen, Jerome K. Jerome, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf (Author), Alan Cumming, Amanda Hale, Anne-Marie Duff, Douglas Hodge, Hugh Laurie, Juliet Stevenson, Samuel West, Stephen Rea, Toby Stephens (Narrator)

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El Hombre Mas Rico De Babilonia [The Richest Man in Babylon]

Para lograr que se cumplan tus sueños y deseos, tienes que tener éxito con el dinero. Este libro te muestra cómo acumular riquezas personales al compartir los secretos de los antiguos babilonios, quienes fueron los primeros en descubrir las leyes universales de la prosperidad. Reconocida como la mejor obra inspiradora existente sobre el tema del ahorro, la planeación financiera, y las riquezas personales, El Hombre Más rico de Babilonia es un libro clásico atemporal que contiene la llave a todo lo que deseas y todo lo que anhelas lograr. Por medio de relatos entretenidos acerca de los pastores, mercaderes y obreros de la antigua Babilonia, George S. Clason provee consejos concretos para crear, incrementar, y mantener las riquezas. Amado por millones, este libro celebrado de mejor venta ofrece entendimiento de, y una solución para, tus problemas financieros personales. Este libro contiene los secretos para que te quedes con tu dinero y ganes más. Los principios financieros cubiertos en este libro incluyen: Págate a ti primero No confíes en un albañil para comprar joyas . (No te dejes llevar por la emoción de otros. Consigue a un experto.) No pongas todos tus huevos en una sola canasta. (Diversifica tu cartera de valores.) Controla tus gastos. (Aun el hombre más rico tiene limitaciones de tiempo en su vida. Haz lo que disfrutas, pero no te excedas). Aumenta tu habilidad de ganar dinero. Mantener estos principios fundamentales en tu mente te ayudará a atravesar los tiempos económicos difíciles y te pondrá en el camino hacia las riquezas.

George S. Clason (Author), Carlos Ramos (Narrator)

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1984

1984 es el último libro escrito por Orwell, publicado un año antes de su muerte en 1950. En él, proyectaba un futuro distópico donde se presentaba una sociedad estrictamente controlada por un totalitarismo extremo y un individuo que empieza a pensar por sí mismo, replanteándose el sistema vigente. Aunque la fecha se haya superado, con Internet como una versión inmaterial del Gran Hermano, el creciente poder de las grandes corporaciones, cada vez más poderosas y globalizadas, y la capacidad de control y recopilación de información que representan las nuevas tecnologías, que suponen a la vez un medio de difusión de proclamas, de mansajes velados y fake news, mantienen la vigencia del relato de Orwell.

George Orwell (Author), Carlos Ramos (Narrator)

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Rebelión en la granja

Los animales ya están cansados de ser explotados por el hombre y deciden expulsarlo de sus propiedades para fundar una sociedad animal en la que el ser humano es el enemigo. La cabeza de la rebelión es un cerdo que, en principio, parece preocuparse por los intereses comunes y el bienestar general. Sin embargo, el veneno del poder lo invade paulatinamente. Los animales están desconcertados porque su situación no ha mejorado y lo que comenzó como un proyecto de prosperidad se convierte poco a poco en una desoladora utopía.Rebelión en la granja

George Orwell (Author), Carlos Ramos (Narrator)

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Selbstbetrachtungen

Das philosophische Tagebuch, das nicht zur Veröffentlichung bestimmt war, stellt ein außerordentlich intimes und ehrliches Zeugnis eines königlichen Denkers dar. Die meditativen Gedanken und Aphorismen zeugen von einem edlen Menschenbild und großer Lebensweisheit. Marc Aurel legt angesichts der Kriegswirren und des sich abzeichnenden Niedergangs des Reiches ein unermüdliches Streben nach Selbstbesinnung und die sprichwörtlich gewordene stoische Gelassenheit an den Tag. Die Selbstbetrachtungen sind eine unvergängliche Sammlung von Leitsätzen, bestimmt von menschlichen Werten und der Suche nach Übereinstimmung mit der Natur.

Marc Aurel (Author), Philipp Finkelmeier (Narrator)

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The Necronomicon

The mysterious and forbidden Necronomicon is a cursed writing of arcane knowledge, forbidden magic and knowledge of dangerous things whose reading provokes madness and death itself. In addition, the book itself has a record of forgotten phrases and incantations that allow contact with beings of inconceivable power, but at the same time it entails an unimaginably horrifying danger to mention them. In short, it is the blasphemy of life. It seemed to be a rumor, but one of the few surviving editions was discovered in 1845 in the desert near Babylon in the caves of Larbit where a remnant of King Ashurbanipal's descendants had been buried. The Necronomicon was written in the ancient city of Damascus by the Arab poet Abdul Al-Hazred according to dates between 730 AD, and it is rumored that he died dismembered and his bones broken into a thousand pieces by an unknown being. Like all those who came in contact with the blasphemies and curses of this noxious book suffered similar fates; mysterious deaths of a cruel and indescribable horror. If you are of a curious spirit, I advise you for your own sake; that you dare not read this book, for if you should do so, only one thing I can tell you as a consolation and assurance: 'That death you will never meet it before the horror that awaits you...'

Abdul Al-Hazred (Author), Markuus M (Narrator)

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The Poison Belt

A follow up to Arthur Conan Doyles well known novel, The Lost World, the Poison Belt is a short story set over a single 24 hour span of time. On the Anniversary of their momentous trip to the Plateau, as depicted in The Lost World, the irascible Professor Challenger calls his companions to his home in Rochester with a curious directive: 'Bring Oxygen'. What can it mean? Does it have anything to do with his dire warnings printed in the Times that morning? Can it truly be, as he says... The End of the World? Written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1913 and Narrated here by Michael Ward.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Michael Ward (Narrator)

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1984

London, 1984: Winston Smith, Geschichtsfälscher im Staatsdienst, verliebt sich in die schöne und geheimnisvolle Julia. Gemeinsam beginnen sie, die totalitäre Welt infrage zu stellen, als Teil derer sie bisher funktioniert haben. Doch bereits ihre Gedanken sind Verbrechen, und der Große Bruder richtet seinen stets wachsamen Blick auf jeden potenziellen Dissidenten. George Orwells Vision eines totalitären Staats, in dem Cyberüberwachung, Geschichtsrevisionismus und Gedankenpolizei den Alltag gläserner Bürger bestimmen, hat wie keine andere Dystopie bis heute nur an Brisanz gewonnen.

George Orwell (Author), D.Jacobs (Narrator)

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The Philistine

Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture, and more commonly known as E M Delafield, was born in Steyning, Sussex on 9th June 1890. Raised in the fading years of the Victorian era with its Empire and strict moral codes Delafield, not yet married at twenty-one, joined a French religious order, in Belgium, but soon decided that this was a totally wrong choice for her. Her next challenge was her work during the horror of the First World War. Delafield decided to take up a position as a nurse in a Voluntary Aid Detachment in Exeter. It was whilst here that she managed to write her first novel, 'Zella Sees Herself'. With the end of the war new opportunities were sought and she now took up a position for the South-West Region of the Ministry of National Service in Bristol. With it came enough time to write two more novels: 'The War Workers' (1918) and 'The Pelicans' (1918). On 17th July 1919, she married Colonel Arthur Paul Dashwood, OBE, an engineer responsible for building the massive docks at Hong Kong Harbour. The marriage produced two children; Lionel and Rosamund. That same year her fourth novel, 'Consequences', was published. The couple spent their early years in Malaya but returned to England to live in Croyle, an old house in Kentisbeare, Devon. Delafield continued to collect responsibilities and organise whatever she could. At the initial meeting of the Kentisbeare Women's Institute, Delafield was unanimously elected president, and also became a Justice of the Peace, raised the children and, of course, continued to write her best-selling novels. Her greatest work is undoubtedly the largely autobiographical 'Diary of a Provincial Lady', which is a simply structured journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman, living mostly in a Devon village of the 1930s. It spawned several best-selling sequels. Her works also includes stage and radio plays, film scripts and short stories. After the death of her son in 1940, her health began to markedly decline. E M Delafield died on 2nd December 1943 after collapsing whilst giving a lecture in Oxford. She was 53.

E M Delafield (Author), Elliot Fitzpatrick (Narrator)

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