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Audiokniha 20000 Leagues Under The Sea obsahuje slavný dobrodružný román, jehož autorem je Jules Verne, namluvený v angličtině rodilým mluvčím. Jeden z nejznámějších románu francouzského spisovatele Julesa Verna patří mezi klasiky dobrodružné a vědeckofantastické literatury. Příběh o tajuplném kapitánu Nemovi a jeho ponorce zvané Nautilus, která brouzdá v hloubkách oceánů, je znám snad každému dítěti. Trosečníci z lodi Abraham Lincoln mají Nautilus poznat opravdu zblízka. Kapitán Nemo si však navýsost cení svého tajemství, podaří se zachráněným utéct z podmořského vězení?

Audiobook 22 Top Stories of H. P. Lovecraft & H. G. Wells. HP Lovecraft 15 Essential Stories & HG Wells 7 Essential Stories : 22 stories of real fantastic, horror or science fiction classics. Lovecraft : The Temple, Dagon, The Music of Erich Zann, The Nameless City, Hypnos, The Outsider, The Colour out of Space, The Rats in the Walls, The History of Necronomicon, Azathoth, The Stolen Body, The Lurking fear, The Whisperer in Darkness, Herbert West reanimator, The Shadow over Innsmouth.

Audiobook 3 American Indian Stories. It is as great an offense against a child to starve his mind as to starve his body. The Astorg Audiobook collection means to bring together the fairy tales, stories, myths and legends which have fed the children of many generations in the years when the imagination is awakening and craving stimulus and material to work upon.

Audiobook 3 French Short Stories by Gustave Flaubert. Herodias, The Dance of death and The Legend of Saint Julian The Hospitalier, 3 french short stories by Gustave Flaubert. Dance of Death is a prose poem in which Death laments over the cruel task God has given him. Engaging in a dialogue with Satan, and later Nero as one of Satan's first minions, Death suggests that of the two of them, Satan has the more enviable lot, as his work will one day be done and he will have rest.

It is 1846, famine is gripping Ireland and nowhere is it crueller than in Mayo on the west coast. Owen FitzDeane of Ballyford Castle is a good landlord, but even he is powerless to save all his tenants. When he comes upon a half-dead girl beside the road, he insists on taking her back to the castle, to see if they can save her.

Oscar Wilde supposedly said that these fables were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public". A follow-up to his first popular fairy-tale collection (‘The Happy Prince and Other Tales’), ‘A House of Pomegranates’ (1891) is indeed decidedly darker and more adult. The collection includes "The Young King", "The Birthday of the Infanta, " The Fisherman of his Soul", and " The Star Child".

"I just moved to Barcelona, and I don't know anyone other than my co-workers at my new job. They're the ones who told me about the public pool. In one of the pools, a man is doing a front crawl. I dive into the water and open my eyes. The man is toned and muscular. His buttocks clench as his legs kick in the water.

This fictionalised portrait of Joyce’s youth is one of the most vivid accounts of the growth from childhood to adulthood.

The expected never happens . . . a man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged . . . Has he achieved ‘The Perfect Murder’? A tantalising opening to A Twist in the Tale, a fantastic collection of short stories from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer.

Audiobook Address Book written by Neil Bartlett. Address Book is the new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of "Skin Lane". Neil Bartlett’s cycle of stories takes us to seven very different times and situations: from a new millennium civil partnership celebration to erotic obsession in a Victorian tenement, from a council-flat bedroom at the height of the AIDS crisis to a doctor’s living-room in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, they lead us through decades of change to discover hope in the strangest of places.