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100+ Mythical Creatures for Curious People: A Journey Through Time and Cultures Exploring Over 100 L

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Unleash your imagination and embark on a thrilling journey through the world of mythical creatures! '100+ Mythical Creatures for Curious People' is a groundbreaking non-fiction page-turner that delves into the fascinating world of mythical beings. Written by Luke Marsh, a renowned mythologist and storyteller, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of over a hundred mythical creatures from various cultures and periods that will ignite your curiosity and broaden your understanding of mythology. In this captivating guide, Luke Marsh draws on extensive research and a lifelong passion for mythology to provide detailed descriptions, intriguing origins, and cultural significance of each creature. With '100+ Mythical Creatures for Curious People', readers will: - Gain a deep understanding of the rich tapestry of mythical beings. - Discover the enduring legacy of ancient, European, Asian, African, American, Oceanic, and hybrid mythical creatures. - Explore the role of mythical creatures in modern culture and media. - Unravel the major themes and findings in mythical narratives. - Understand the impact of mythical creatures on society and culture. '100+ Mythical Creatures for Curious People' is perfect for mythology enthusiasts, fantasy lovers, and curious minds looking to delve into the enchanting world of mythical creatures. With its detailed descriptions, compelling storytelling, and comprehensive coverage, this book is a must-read for anyone seeking to expand their knowledge and understanding of mythology. Don't miss the opportunity to embark on a thrilling journey through the world of mythical creatures with the help of '100+ Mythical Creatures for Curious People'. Order your copy today and start exploring the fascinating world of mythology!

Luke Marsh (Author), Digital Voice Mike G (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Poemas de Amor en Español: Colección de Poesía Universal

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Este audiolibro de poesía es un viaje hacia el corazón de las emociones y los sentimientos. Con versos que desbordan de melancolía, tristeza y amor, cada poema es una oportunidad para conectarte con tu ser más profundo y sentir la fuerza poética en toda su intensidad. La poesía es un lenguaje que trasciende las palabras y te invita a explorar las profundidades de tus pensamientos y emociones. Prepárate para ser transportado a un mundo de belleza y sentimientos intensos

Sarah Aurtkov (Author), Voz Digital Susana G (Narrator)

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60 Love Poems in English: The Most Beautiful Collection of Poems in the World

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. In the silence of the night, when the heart beats strongly and the soul seeks its complement, words become verses and verses become the purest expression of love. Imagine a place where the deepest and purest feelings are transformed into words that touch the soul and the heart. That place exists, and it is the universe of poetry. In this audiobook, '60 Love Poems in English: The Most Beautiful Collection of Poems in the World,' you will find a compilation of the most beautiful and emotional love poems ever written. Each poem is a literary jewel that will make you feel the passion, tenderness, nostalgia, and happiness that only love can awaken. This collection will take you on a journey through the centuries, discovering the beauty of poetry in all its manifestations. Here you will find verses that will inspire you, that will move you, and that will make you dream of true love. Get ready to be carried away by the passion of words and immerse yourself in the most sublime world of poetry. This is undoubtedly the most beautiful collection of poems in the world.

Josyie Anifka (Author), Digital Voice Melissa G (Narrator)

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Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens's London

The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years Tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens's London ever since the death of the world-renowned author. Late Victorians and Edwardians were obsessed with tracking down the locations-dubbed 'Dickensland'-that famously featured in his novels. But his fans were faced with a city that was undergoing rapid redevelopment, where literary shrines were far from sacred. Over the following century, sites connected with Dickens were demolished, relocated, and reimagined. Lee Jackson traces the fascinating history of Dickensian tourism, exploring both real Victorian London and a fictional city shaped by fandom, tourism, and heritage entrepreneurs. Beginning with the late nineteenth century, Jackson investigates key sites of literary pilgrimage and their relationship with Dickens and his work, revealing hidden, reinvented, and even faked locations. From vanishing coaching inns to submerged riverside stairs, hidden burial grounds to apocryphal shops, Dickensland charts the curious history of an imaginary world.

Lee Jackson (Author), Hannah Curtis (Narrator)

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The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction

The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in its transport networks, sewage systems, streets, and houses. Victorian cultural legacies, especially in art, science, and literature, are still celebrated. Much mythologized, inexhaustibly controversial, the Victorians are an inescapable reference point for understanding the modern histories not just of Britain and its empire, but of the world. In The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction Martin Hewitt offers a guide through the thickets of judgement and debate which have grown around the period and its people, to offer a historical overview of the Victorians and their legacies. Beyond ideology, what was Victorian Britain actually like DS and in particular, what was distinctive about it? Who were the Victorians DS not just the eminent few, but the population as a whole? And finally, how far and with what results did the Victorians and their culture spread across the globe? In answering these questions, Hewitt cautions against some long-held orthodoxies, throws a light on some less well-known aspects of the period, and urges the importance of understanding the Victorians on their own terms if we are to effectively engage with their legacies.

Martin Hewitt (Author), Mike Cooper (Narrator)

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Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau

'An engaging glimpse into a world both fascinating and fundamentally unknowable to those who aren't born into it.' -R. E. BURRILLO, author of Behind the Bears Ears Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau-bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals in stone, human figures with upraised arms shifting with the desert light, each one a portal to the open mouth of time. With a spirit of generosity, humility, and love of the arid, intricate landscapes of the desert Southwest, Childs sets these ancient communications in context, inviting listeners to look and listen deeply.

Craig Childs (Author), Craig Childs (Narrator)

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We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition

After centuries of colonization, this important new work recovers the literary record of Oceti Sakowin (historically known to some as the Sioux Nation) women, who served as their tribes' traditional culture keepers and culture bearers. In so doing, it furthers discussions about settler colonialism, literature, nationalism, and gender. Women and land form the core themes of the book, which brings tribal and settler colonial narratives into comparative analysis. Divided into two parts, the first section of the work explores how settler colonizers used the printing press and boarding schools to displace Oceti Sakowin women as traditional culture keepers and culture bearers with the goal of internally and externally colonizing the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota nations. The second section focuses on decolonization and explores how contemporary Oceti Sakowin writers and scholars have started to reclaim Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota literatures to decolonize and heal their families, communities, and nations.

Sarah Hernandez (Author), Katie Anvil Rich (Narrator)

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Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths

'My writing allows me flight from society through solitude while permitting me to rejoin society on some of my own terms through the trading of the finished work with the society. My imaginative narrative gives me relief from prevaility and strident ideologies by allowing me the heresy of decadence (as in erotica). Namely, revenge against normality, reversal of normality and regression from normality. My imaginative narrative is relief from prevailing self by allowing the potential self, the discarded self, the rejected self and the non-self to have play. My imaginative narrative is relief from privacy by allowing exposure of self and the network of self.' ~ Frank Moorhouse, 1985, private telex Frank Moorhouse was legendary in Australian literary and cultural life, the author of a huge and diverse body of work - essays, short stories, journalism, scripts, the iconic Edith Trilogy - an unapologetic activist, intellectual, libertarian and champion of freedom of speech and sexual self determination. Though he lived his life publicly, his private stories have not been shared, the many paths he forged left unexamined, until now. Matthew Lamb shared many a luncheon table with Moorhouse and immersed himself in the archived life and cultural ephemera of Frank's world. This landmark study, from Moorhouse's own publisher, the first in a projected two volumes, is the fascinating and comprehensive story of how one of Australia's most original writers and pioneer of the discontinuous narrative came to be. Fearless, sardonic and utterly dedicated to his creative life, his relationships with friends, other writers and lovers were complex and long-lasting. Lamb shares the strange paths that Frank traversed and gives us a cultural history of the times that shaped Moorhouse and which Moorhouse himself helped to shape

Matthew Lamb (Author), Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Matthew Lamb (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Los Verdaderos Orígenes Del Vaticano

La Ciudad del Vaticano, oficialmente Estado de la Ciudad del Vaticano (en latín: Status Civitatis Vaticanæ; en italiano: Stato della Città del Vaticano), o simplemente el Vaticano, es un Estado soberano sin salida al mar, cuyo territorio es un enclave dentro de la ciudad de Roma, en Italia. Es uno de los seis micro-Estados europeos, y también es el Estado soberano más pequeño del mundo en extensión y población. Su forma de gobierno, de acuerdo con la clasificación internacional, es la de una teocracia organizada como una monarquía absoluta. La Ciudad del Vaticano tiene una extensión de 0,49 km² (49 hectáreas) y una población de aproximadamente 800 habitantes, por lo que resulta un híbrido de ciudad elevada al rango de Estado independiente, siendo además el más pequeño del mundo. Es tan pequeño que solo la basílica de San Pedro es un 7 % de su superficie; la basílica y la plaza de San Pedro ocupan un 20 % del territorio, lo que lo convierte en el territorio independiente más urbanizado del mundo. La Ciudad del Vaticano comenzó su existencia como Estado independiente en 1929 tras la firma de los Pactos de Letrán celebrados entre la Santa Sede y el entonces Reino de Italia, que en 1870 había conquistado los Estados Pontificios.

Onofre Quezada (Author), Anonimo, Onofre Quezada (Narrator)

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Little Women Podcast: The Real-Life Friedrich Bhaer

There was a real-life Friedrich Bhaer. In fact, Louisa May Alcott wanted to marry him and even start a school with him. This man appears in literal disguises in all of her novels. He is Friedrich in Little Women, Mac in Rose in Bloom and David in Work and many more. Henry and Louisa shared a deep friendship, was it more than friendship? In Little Women Jo's and Friedrich's age gap is 16 years. It is the same age difference as between Henry and Louisa. One of the models for Jo and Friedrich might be Louisa's friend Elizabeth and her husband. Her life was surprisingly similar to the book Jo. She wasn't a writer, but there are parallels. Based on what I have found, her marriage with her lawyer husband was a happy one. She was devoted to the educational work and in the same way, as Jo does, she promoted co-education, for both male and female students. She became a dean of the university. Same way as Jo who becomes the matriarch of the Bhaer Academy in 'Jo´s Boys'.. There is a very compelling case to be made that Henry David Thoreau was the real-life Friedrich Bhaer. Louisa once called her friend Emerson 'The God of my idolatry' but it was Henry who merited her lifelong affection. The ties between Henry and the Alcotts are more extensive than one might expect. From the time when the Alcotts moved to Concord in March 1840 until Henry's passing in 1862. He was a frequent guest in the Alcott´s home taking tea or dinner with the family. Bronson who admired the young man's intellect often visited him in his hut at Walden Pond. If the connection between Henry and the Alcotts was strong, the connection between Louisa and Henry was even stronger

Niina Niskanen (Author), Niina Niskanen (Narrator)

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[French] - Eldorado de Laurent Gaudé (Analyse de l'oeuvre): Analyse complète et résumé détaillé de l

Décryptez Eldorado de Laurent Gaudé avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !Que faut-il retenir d’Eldorado, le roman essentiel de la littérature française contemporaine ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :• Un résumé complet• Une présentation des personnages principaux tels que Salvatore Piracci et Soleiman• Une analyse des spécificités de l’œuvre : le mythe de l'Eldorado, les frontières et les migrations, et une forme narrative au service du récitUne analyse de référence pour comprendre rapidement le sens de l’œuvre.

Agnès Fleury, Lepetitlitteraire (Author), Nina Beltram (Narrator)

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[French] - Le Premier Jour du reste de ma vie de Virginie Grimaldi (Fiche de lecture): Analyse compl

Décryptez Le Premier Jour du reste de ma vie de Virginie Grimaldi avec l'analyse du PetitLittéraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir du Premier Jour du reste de ma vie, ce roman contemporain ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée. Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche : • Un résumé complet • Une présentation des personnages principaux tels que Marie, Anne et Camille • Une analyse des spécificités de l'œuvre : la chick lit, la correspondance discographique et le premier jour du reste de leurs vies Une analyse de référence pour comprendre rapidement le sens de l'œuvre. LE MOT DE L'ÉDITEUR : « Dans cette fiche de lecture sur Le Premier Jour du reste de ma vie (2016), avec Ludivine Auneau, nous fournissons des pistes pour décoder ce succès de la chick lit. Notre analyse permet de faire rapidement le tour de l'œuvre et d'aller au-delà des clichés. » Laure Delacroix À propos de la collection LePetitLittéraire.fr : Plébiscité tant par les passionnés de littérature que par les lycéens, LePetitLittéraire.fr est considéré comme une référence en matière d'analyse d'œuvres classiques et contemporaines. Nos analyses, disponibles aux formats papier et numérique, ont été conçues pour guider les lecteurs à travers toute la littérature. Nos auteurs combinent théories, citations, anecdotes et commentaires pour vous faire découvrir et redécouvrir les plus grandes œuvres littéraires. LePetitLittéraire.fr est reconnu d'intérêt pédagogique par le ministère de l'Éducation.

Lepetitlitteraire, Ludivine Auneau (Author), Denise Dubois (Narrator)

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