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Audiobooks Narrated by Beverly Nickles
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Content:
Herman Melville. The Lightning-Rod Man
Francis Bret Harte. Miggles
Ambrose Bierce. The Famous Gilson Bequest
Nathaniel Hawthorne. An Old Woman's Tale
Washington Irving. Rip Van Winkle
Mark Twain. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Henry James. The Real Thing
O.Henry. Confessions of a Humorist
Frank Norris. The ship that saw a ghost.
Frank Norris's intriguing and atmospheric tale of an old forgotten crime, a tragedy, an ancient derelict ghost ship... and the very bizarre reaction of the modern tramp steamer whose bows she crosses.
Jack London. To build a fire.
'To Build a Fire' is a short story by American author Jack London. There are two versions of this story, one published in 1902 and the other in 1908. The story written in 1908 has become an often anthologized classic, while the 1902 story is less well known. The 1908 version is about an unnamed protagonist who ventures out in the subzero boreal forest of the Yukon Territory. He is followed by a native dog and is en route to visit his friends—ignoring warnings from an older man about the dangers of hiking alone in extreme cold. The protagonist underestimates the harsh conditions and slowly begins to freeze to death. After building one fire and leaving it to venture on in his journey he later on attempts to build another but fails. He slips into unconsciousness and dies of hypothermia...
Edgar Allan Poe. The pit and the pendulum.
'The Pit and the Pendulum' is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured. The story is especially effective at inspiring fear in the reader because of its heavy focus on the senses, such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike many of Poe's stories which are aided by the supernatural.
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The Cat that Walked by Himself
The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
How the First Letter was Written
How the Alphabet was Made
The Crab that Played with the Sea
How the Leopard Got His Spots
The Butterfly that Stamped
Content:
The Day We Celebrate
The Unknown Quantity
The Enchanted Profile
A Dinner at-
The Duplicity of Hargraves
The Pimienta Pancakes
Christmas by Injunction
The Moment of Victory
No Story
A Municipal Report
'The Guilty Party'
The City of Dreadful Night
Extradited from Bohemiа
On Behalf of the Management
Герберт Уэллс – английский писатель, открывший жанр научной фантастики в мировой литературе XX века. 'Страна слепых' – прекрасно написанная повесть-притча о единомыслии и непонимании, о проблемах личности 'не такой, как все'. Что случится с человеком, обл
