Revealed in this mysterious tale is no less than the transition of the ages. Our recently wakened narrator, suddenly renewed and revitalized, finds himself moving beyond the ruins of a lost world and on to the very cusp of a yet unidentified dawning new age. Bierce at his prophetic best.
The journalistic War correspondent skills of Ambrose Bierce are unmistakable in this description of the great Civil War battle. Listen to his fictional treatment of the same battle as well.
After Shiloh, it is said, the South never smiled again. Bierce’s vivid prose shows why most critics consider this story to be the foundation of all American War literature that followed.
Los cuentos dejan entrever otra historia detrás de la historia manifiesta. Audiolibros Colección propone un recorrido por los cuentos del "padre del cuento" Antón Chéjov.
El presente audiolibro reúne algunas de las narrativas breves del maestro ruso universal, relatos tan conocidos e imborrables como "El camaleón", "El Beso" y "La Tristeza".
Una selección para disfrutar de Chejov, que, a pesar de su vida, tormentosa y de sacrificio y responsabilidad familiar, leía y escribía con pasión.
"I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her daughter, Ruth, learns that everything she ever knew about her mother was a carefully constructed lie. Sally Gilmartin is a respectable English widow living in picturesque Cotswold village; Eva Delectorskaya was a rigorously trained World War II spy, a woman who carried fake passports and retreated to secret safe houses, a woman taught to lie and deceive, and above all, to never trust anyone.
Three decades later the secrets of Sally's past still haunt her. Someone is trying to kill her and at last she has decided to trust Ruth with her story. Ruth, meanwhile, is struggling to make sense of her own life as a young single mother with an unfinished graduate degree and escalating dependence on alcohol. She is drawn deeper and deeper into the astonishing events of her mother's past-the mysterious death of Eva's beloved brother, her work in New York City manipulating the press in order to shift public sentiment toward American involvement in the war, her dangerous romantic entanglement.
Now Sally wants to find the man who recruited her for the secret service, and she needs Ruth's help. Restless is a brilliant espionage audiobook and a vivid portrait of the life of a female spy. Full of tension and drama, and based on a remarkable chapter of Anglo-American history, this is listening at its finest.
In 1910 Minnesota, Nilda Carlson's dreams are coming true. Though her first few months in America were difficult, her life now resembles the images that filled her daydreams in Norway. She and her younger brother Ivar live in their own house, just a short distance from her older brother and his family. Together they work the farm and fell trees for lumber. They plan to grow a dairy herd, weave rugs out of their own wool, and make skis to sell. Everything is going right. The only thing missing from Nilda's life is love. But though she has two suitors--a quiet schoolteacher and a handsome lumberjack--Nilda feels hesitant. A terrifying experience in Norway has made her cautious where men are concerned. When she thinks she sees the man in question, all her fears come flooding back. Is it possible the danger has followed her across the Atlantic? If Dreng Nygaard is truly in Minnesota, all of her dreams for the future could come crashing down around her.
