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The Foundations of Fiction - Werewolves Audiobook

A dog may be man's best friend. It is also one of his worst nightmares. The idea that humans could suddenly present themselves as demonic werewolves can only have come from the deepest, darkest and most diabolical recesses of an author's mind.In this volume we present a roll-call of classic authors including Rudyard Kipling, Saki, Arthur Conan Doyle, Catherine Crowe and many others who short story by short story establish the building blocks of this horrific yet thrilling genre. Here all manner of characters and narratives weave together to bring a unique yet intricate account of the beginnings of this most troubling of literary genres.1 - Foundations of Fiction - Werewolves - An Introduction2 - Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling3 - A Pastoral Horror by Arthur Conan Doyle4 - Tarnhelm or The Death of My Uncle Robert by Hugh Walpole5 - Gabriel-Ernest by Saki6 - The She-Wolf by Saki7 - The Lame Priest by Susan Morrow writing as S Carleton8 - The Thing in the Forest by Bernard Capes9 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman10 - A Story of a Weir-Wolf by Catherine Crowe

Bernard Capes, Catherine Crowe, E T A Hoffman, Hugh Walpole, Rudyard Kipling, Saki, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Spiderweb

The Austrian writer Joseph Roth's first novel, 'Das Spinnennetz', 1923, intensely chronicles the development of a fascist and the first steps in his rise to power. It is a vivid portrait of the nationalist fervor and the struggle between Right and Left in Germany during the years immediately following the end of the Great War, or First World War. Two days after its serial publication in the Vienna Arbeiterzeitung ('The Worker'), Adolf Hitler and General Erich Ludendorff set in motion the Munich 'Beer Hall Putsch'. 'The Spiderweb' - here translated by the narrator - is a prophetic look into the political machinery that was to force its author into exile in France ten years later, where he died in 1939 at the age of 45.

Joseph Roth (Author), Leon Stephens (Narrator)

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Anatomy of 55 More Songs: The Oral History of Top Hits That Changed Rock, Pop and Soul

Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits become something more-iconic recordings that not only inspire a generation but also change the direction of music. In Anatomy of 55 More Songs, based on his column for the Wall Street Journal, music journalist and historian Marc Myers tells the story behind fifty-five rock, pop, R&B, country, and soul-gospel hits through intimate interviews with the artists who wrote and recorded them. Part oral history, part musical analysis, Anatomy of 55 More Songs ranges from Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Bad Moon Rising' to Dionne Warwick's 'Walk On By,' The Beach Boys' 'Good Vibrations,' and Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid.' Bernie Taupin recalls how he wrote the lyrics to Elton John's 'Rocket Man;' Joan Jett remembers channeling her rage against how she had been unfairly labeled and treated as a female rocker into 'Bad Reputation;' and Ozzy Osbourne, Elvis Costello, Bob Weir, Sheryl Crow, Alice Cooper, Roberta Flack, John Mellencamp, Keith Richards, Carly Simon, and many others reveal the emotions and technique behind their major works. Through an absorbing chronological, song-by-song analysis of the most memorable post-war hits, Anatomy of 55 More Songs provides a sweeping look at the evolution of pop music between 1964 and today.

Marc Myers (Author), Michael Butler Murray (Narrator)

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التعادلية مع الإسلام

يقدم توفيق الحكيم فلسفته ومنهجه في الحياة والفن عبر مقالات فكرية ضمها هذا الكتاب. 'التعادلية' منهج الحكيم الذي يرى من خلاله علاقة الإنسان بالكون والمجتمع، وعلاقة الأرض بالشمس، ومن غيره لا تستقيم الحياة. حيث يختل التوازن في المجتمع إذا طغت المادة على الروح، ولا يعيش الإنسان حياة صحيحة دون تساوي كفتي القلب والعقل، وهكذا تدور الحياة في فلك من التعادلية، بداية من علاقة الذرة والنواة حتى علاقة الأرض بالشمس. أضاف الحكيم فصلًا جديدًا لهذا الكتاب بعد إنجازه بسنوات، عن التعادلية مع الإسلام، ليفند ويوضح عدم تعارض هذه الفلسفة مع مبادئ الإسلام! استمع الآن.

توفيق الحكيم (Author), أحمد مجدي (Narrator)

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Vernon Lee - A Short Story Collection

Amy Levy. Vernon Lee died on 13th February 1935 in San Gervasio Bresciano|France to intellectual expatriate British parents. In common with several other very talented literary women of the day she felt it necessary to publish under a masculine pseudonym in order for her writing to be taken seriously. Indeed she seems to have adopted that persona across her whole lifestyle becoming personally known and acknowledged by all as Vernon Lee and accordingly dressed as a man. Her first published work|Italy.1 - Vernon Lee - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - A Wicked Voice - Part 1 by Vernon Lee3 - A Wicked Voice - Part 2 by Vernon Lee4 - Amour Dure - Part 1 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee5 - Amour Dure - Part 2 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee6 - Marsyas in Flanders by Vernon Lee7 - The Enchanted Woods by Vernon Lee8 - Dionea - Part 1 by Vernon Lee9 - Dionea - Part 2 by Vernon Lee|Vernon Lee was born Violet Paget on 4th October 1856 in Boulogne|and travel with her scholarly appreciation animated by wit and imagination. Lee was well-regarded as an expert on the Italian Renaissance and was a proponent of the Aesthetic movement.Her literary talents were extensive and she wrote a number of novels and plays. Perhaps her best remembered works are her haunting and powerful short stories exploring the supernatural. Lee has often received accolades for these and glowingly compared to other authors such as M R James. A committed pacifist she was resolved to protest against World War I. Her social activism in other areas was perhaps fueled by her feminist beliefs. In her private life she was a lesbian and had long-term passionate relationships with three women including the doomed author and poet|in 1880|music|was taken from her collection of essays that had originally appeared in Fraser's Magazine with the scholarly title of; 'Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy.' It reflected her passion for music and centered on the rich creative lives of poet-librettist Pietro Metastasio and dramatists Carlo Goldoni and Carlo Gozzi. She wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art

Vernon Lee (Author), Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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Desolation Peak: Collected Writings

In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, California, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend his time in deep contemplation and to achieve enlightenment. Kerouac's experience on Desolation Peak forms the climax of his novel The Dharma Bums and has also been depicted in part 1 of Desolation Angels and a chapter in his nonfiction book Lonesome Traveler. None of these versions offers a full, true picture, however; and for that reason, Desolation Peak is essential listening. The highlight of Desolation Peak is the journal he kept, starkly revealing the depth of his poverty, the extremity of his mood swings, and the ongoing arguments with himself over the future direction of his life, his writing, and faith. Along with the journal, he worked on a series of projects, including 'Ozone Park,' 'The Martin Family,' and 'Desolation Adventure.' Also included in this collection are 'The Diamondcutter of Perfect Knowing,' Kerouac's 'transliteration' of the Diamond Sutra, his 'Desolation Blues' and 'Desolation Pops' poems, and assorted prose sketches and dreams.

Jack Kerouac (Author), Christian Rummel (Narrator)

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Canción

'Halfon es uno de los mejores escritores de su generación y, probablemente, de alguna otra, pasada o futura.'—Manuel Hidalgo, El Cultural 'A Halfon le bastan cien páginas para conmovernos. Una proeza al alcance de pocos escritores.'—Sergio Del Molino, Mercurio Una helada mañana de enero de 1967, en plena guerra civil guatemalteca, un comerciante judío y libanés es secuestrado en un callejón sin salida de la capital. ¿Por qué? ¿Cómo? ¿Por quién o quiénes? Un narrador llamado Eduardo Halfon tendrá que viajar a Japón, y volver a su infancia en la violenta Guatemala de los años setenta, y acudir a un misterioso encuentro en un bar de mala muerte ubicado en la esquina de un edificio redondo, para finalmente dilucidar los detalles que rodean la vida y el secuestro de aquel hombre que también se llamaba Eduardo Halfon, y que era su abuelo. 'Una preciosa, incipiente, esbozada y elíptica historia de amor... en que se unen melancólicamente dos países, dos abuelos, dos tragedias, Eros y Tánatos. Gran final.'—Manuel Hidalgo, El Cultural 'Eduardo Halfon está escribiendo, sin que importe que sus libros se publiquen por etapas, la gran novela de su vida.'—Süddeutsche Zeitung

Eduardo Halfon (Author), Diego Ruiz (Narrator)

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A Guest at the Feast

Brought to you by Penguin. In his essay about the life of Irish writer John McGahern, Tóibín reveals the tones of melancholy and amusement within both art and the artist. In his extraordinary essay on his cancer diagnosis, Tóibín unpicks the word 'battle', and illuminates the distress, horror and blankness of his experiences. From the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists, to the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances and tied up with dictators and politics, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as in Marilynne Robinson's fiction. A Guest at the Feast reveals the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. The imprint of the written word on the private self, as Tóibín himself remarks, is extraordinarily powerful. In this collection, that power is gloriously alive, illuminating history and literature, politics and power, family and the self. © Colm Tóibín 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Colm Tóibín (Author), Colm Tóibín (Narrator)

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Letzte Fahrt: Das tragische Ende der Terra Nova Expedition

Die Terra Nova Expedition war eine Expedition in die Antarktis, die zwischen 1910 und 1913 stattfand. Unter der Leitung von Kapitän Robert Falcon Scott hatte die Expedition verschiedene wissenschaftliche und geografische Ziele. Scott wollte die wissenschaftliche Arbeit fortsetzen, die er bereits während seiner Discovery Expedition von 1901 bis 1904 begonnen hatte und wollte zudem als Erster den geografischen Südpol erreichen. Er und vier Gefährten erreichten den Südpol am 17. Januar 1912, wo sie allerdings feststellten, dass bereits ein norwegisches Team unter der Leitung von Roald Amundsen 34 Tage vor ihnen den Pol erreicht hatte. Auf der dramatischen Rückreise vom Südpol zur Küste verstarben Kapitän Scott und vier seiner Begleiter. Ihre Leichen, Tagebücher und Fotos wurden acht Monate später von einem Suchtrupp gefunden. Die Tagebuchaufzeichnungen Kapitän Scotts sind die textliche Grundlage dieses Hörbuchs.

Robert Falcon Scott (Author), Philipp Engelhardt (Narrator)

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The Wife Who Didn't Eat

A farmer in old Japan prays to the gods for a wife, someone who is kind, beautiful, and hardworking. What would be even better is if she didn’t eat at all, saving him both money and food. Imagine his surprise when just such a woman shows up at his house one night. But all is not perfect. The gods have quite the sense of humor, and the farmer soon learns what kind of monster he is living with. But is it too late? “The Wife Who Didn’t Eat” is author Thersa Matsuura’s retelling of a classic horror-tinged Japanese folktale, “Kwazu Nyobo”. Here she reads her version of the story followed by a short commentary with some of her research notes and thoughts on the tale. Both the short story and commentary come in at just under one hour. Thersa Matsuura is a published author of two short story collections, one nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. You can also find her on her podcast, Uncanny Japan, where she talks more about the more obscure parts of Japanese culture. Reviews: “Very soothing, educational and entertaining. Love this deep dive into Japanese culture. Not to mention just the right amount of Spooky.” By Spooks76 “High production value and haunting storytelling helps shed light onto Japanese folklore. Teresa is clear, concise and highlights stories that might otherwise never be heard by Western ears. Highly recommend!” By Jameswhojamesyu

Thersa Matsuura (Author), Thersa Matsuura (Narrator)

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Italian Short Stories for Beginners: Engaging Short Stories to Learn Italian and Build Your Vocabula

Are you looking for a stimulating tool that will allow you to make progress towards achieving your linguistic objective while having fun? Many of the books for native speakers are too long and difficult for most language students to understand. Despite this, I realize how important it is to listen in the target language to improve one's linguistic competence. As a teacher, I always encourage and support those who strive to learn. That’s why I produce simplified books in Italian for foreigners because I want to make learning Italian easy, interesting, and enjoyable. Italian Short Stories is a collection of three fun, original, fact-based stories, and it is perfect for learners of Italian from elementary to intermediate level (according to the Common European Framework of Languages). Each story will stimulate your interest, with its linguistically and culturally relevant content, which will expose you to a variety of words and expressions commonly used in the Italian language. You will also be able to learn about some unique cultural aspects that concern not only Italian but also world history. The division into chapters allows you to make progress step-by-step while achieving small goals Frequent dialogues and short sentences help in the understanding of the text Simplified but natural language, so that you can understand more, without feeling overwhelmed by the language’s complexity Section summaries with an overview of the story's progress Word lists at the end of each section, translated into English, will help you understand less common words Comprehension questions for each section Ten major grammar rules were explained Cultural cards that will help you discover uncommon historical, social, and geographical aspects You will be delighted without ever feeling overwhelmed or frustrated. Enjoy this audiobook!

Victor Hill (Author), Krystina Bailey, Robin Stone (Narrator)

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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

*2018 '12 best books to give this holiday season' ?TODAY Show *Best Books of 2018 ?Rolling Stone 'A Best Book of 2017' ?NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review, Michigan Daily *American Booksellers Association (ABA) 'December 2017 Indie Next List Great Reads' *Midwest Indie Bestseller In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy and magnetism that resonates profoundly. In the wake of the nightclub attacks in Paris, he recalls how he sought refuge as a teenager in music, at shows, and wonders whether the next generation of young Muslims will not be afforded that opportunity now. While discussing the everyday threat to the lives of black Americans, Abdurraqib recounts the first time he was ordered to the ground by police officers: for attempting to enter his own car. In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others?along with original, previously unreleased essays?Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world, so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times. 'Funny, painful, precise, desperate, and loving throughout. Not a day has sounded the same since I read him.' ?Greil Marcus,

Hanif Abdurraqib (Author), Eve L. Ewing, Hanif Abdurraqib, Jason Reynolds (Narrator)

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