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The Cricket on the Hearth
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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The cricket of the title in this story comes to represent the life and home of John Peerybingle and his younger wife, Dot. When things go well, the cricket on the hearth chirps; it is silent when there is sorrow. Tackleton, a jealous old man, poisons John's mind about Dot, but the cricket, through its supernatural powers, restores John's confidence and all ends happily.
By: Charles Dickens
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The Battle of Life
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
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Sisters Grace and Marion are driven apart, only to be reunited over the festive season. Dickens's Christmas stories perfectly enraptured the spirit of the Victorian Christmas and came to inspire many traditional aspects of the season today, including what we know think of as Christmas dinner, family gatherings, dancing, and more.
By: Charles Dickens
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Anti-Heroes: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Five Full-Cast Dramatisations Including Macbeth, Emma & The Great Gatsby
- By: William Shakespeare, Alexandre Dumas, Jane Austen, and others
- Narrated by: Neil Dudgeon, Emma Fielding, Iain Glen, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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Ambitious. Ruthless. Unprincipled. With their blurred morals and relatable imperfections, it’s no wonder we find anti-heroes so appealing and fascinating. Featuring a mixture of male and female anti-heroes across England, Scotland, France and New York, these fantastic adaptations of five of the best-known and best-loved classics of literature follow some of these flawed, nuanced characters as they steal the spotlight and make their presence known.
By: William Shakespeare, and others
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The War in the Air
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Gregory Dwyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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Bert Smallways, a “kind of bicycle engineer,” is creatively trying to avoid bankruptcy when he meets by chance a certain Mr. Butteridge—the inventor of a new form of aircraft. Butteridge, Bert discovers, has plans to sell his invention either to British Government—or to the Germans, if the British won’t have it. When one of Butteridge’s aircrafts is shot down while Bert is aboard, Bert stumbles across a secret German plot to destroy the United States. As the story unfolds, Bert finds himself in an unexpected position, called upon to perform tasks he never could have foreseen.
By: H. G. Wells
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Albert Camus: The Plague, The Outsider & more
- A study in drama and documentary
- By: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield, John Shrapnel, Ronald Pickup, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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One of postwar France’s most influential writers, Albert Camus was fêted for his masterful exploration of the absurdity of the human condition. Included here are adaptations of his three iconic existential novels – The Plague, The Outsider and The Fall – alongside four bonus pieces shining a light on the man and his work.
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it's Camus!!
- By David Adams on 16-09-24
By: Albert Camus
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Teddy Garraway
- Length: 48 hrs and 37 mins
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The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (père) completed in 1844. It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France.
By: Alexandre Dumas
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The Cricket on the Hearth
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The cricket of the title in this story comes to represent the life and home of John Peerybingle and his younger wife, Dot. When things go well, the cricket on the hearth chirps; it is silent when there is sorrow. Tackleton, a jealous old man, poisons John's mind about Dot, but the cricket, through its supernatural powers, restores John's confidence and all ends happily.
By: Charles Dickens
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The Battle of Life
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Sisters Grace and Marion are driven apart, only to be reunited over the festive season. Dickens's Christmas stories perfectly enraptured the spirit of the Victorian Christmas and came to inspire many traditional aspects of the season today, including what we know think of as Christmas dinner, family gatherings, dancing, and more.
By: Charles Dickens
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Anti-Heroes: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Five Full-Cast Dramatisations Including Macbeth, Emma & The Great Gatsby
- By: William Shakespeare, Alexandre Dumas, Jane Austen, and others
- Narrated by: Neil Dudgeon, Emma Fielding, Iain Glen, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Original Recording
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Ambitious. Ruthless. Unprincipled. With their blurred morals and relatable imperfections, it’s no wonder we find anti-heroes so appealing and fascinating. Featuring a mixture of male and female anti-heroes across England, Scotland, France and New York, these fantastic adaptations of five of the best-known and best-loved classics of literature follow some of these flawed, nuanced characters as they steal the spotlight and make their presence known.
By: William Shakespeare, and others
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The War in the Air
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Gregory Dwyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Bert Smallways, a “kind of bicycle engineer,” is creatively trying to avoid bankruptcy when he meets by chance a certain Mr. Butteridge—the inventor of a new form of aircraft. Butteridge, Bert discovers, has plans to sell his invention either to British Government—or to the Germans, if the British won’t have it. When one of Butteridge’s aircrafts is shot down while Bert is aboard, Bert stumbles across a secret German plot to destroy the United States. As the story unfolds, Bert finds himself in an unexpected position, called upon to perform tasks he never could have foreseen.
By: H. G. Wells
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Albert Camus: The Plague, The Outsider & more
- A study in drama and documentary
- By: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield, John Shrapnel, Ronald Pickup, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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One of postwar France’s most influential writers, Albert Camus was fêted for his masterful exploration of the absurdity of the human condition. Included here are adaptations of his three iconic existential novels – The Plague, The Outsider and The Fall – alongside four bonus pieces shining a light on the man and his work.
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it's Camus!!
- By David Adams on 16-09-24
By: Albert Camus
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Teddy Garraway
- Length: 48 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (père) completed in 1844. It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France.
By: Alexandre Dumas
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The Murder on the Links
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Graham Stuart
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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Hercule Poirot is at it again in this murder mystery set both in England and France. Hercule must travel back to France to solve the crime, and finds himself battling the French Police Force as much as the culprit!
By: Agatha Christie
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La aventura de la cocinera - Cuentos cortos de Agatha Christie
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: David Alejandro Alvarez Fortul
- Length: 33 mins
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Hércules Poirot es contratado para investigar la desaparición de Elisa Dunn, la excelente cocinera de los Todd. Al principio, el detective cree que se trata de un asunto doméstico y poco interesante, pero al avanzar descubrirá que no hay caso pequeño por insignificante que parezca al principio.
By: Agatha Christie
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La desaparición del señor Davenheim - Cuentos cortos de Agatha Christie
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: David Alejandro Alvarez Fortul
- Length: 35 mins
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Poirot y Hastings invitan al inspector James Japp, de Scotland Yard, a tomar el té en su casa. La conversación gira alrededor de la reciente desaparición de un famoso banquero y financista, el señor Davenheim; de su gran mansión de campo. Poirot apuesta con Japp cinco libras a que será capaz de resolver el caso en una semana sin moverse de su silla, siempre y cuando pueda contar con todos los detalles de la investigación.
By: Agatha Christie
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La mina perdida - Cuentos cortos de Agatha Christie
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: David Alejandro Alvarez Fortul
- Length: 25 mins
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Poirot le relata a su amigo Hastings el curioso caso por la cual recibió 14 mil acciones de una mina en Birmania. La historia involucra una mina perdida, un mapa de localización en manos de una familia china, y un extraño asesinato. El señor Wu Ling, líder de la familia que posee el mapa, viaja a Inglaterra para vender este importante documento, pero antes de la reunión con los interesados su cuerpo es encontrado flotando en el río Támesis. Una vez más, las células grises de Poirot lograrán desentrañar este extraño caso.
By: Agatha Christie
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La caja de bombones - Cuentos cortos de Agatha Christie
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: David Alejandro Alvarez Fortul
- Length: 39 mins
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¿Es posible que Poirot haya fallado alguna vez? Pues; en esta oportunidad, Hercules Poirot se confiesa ante su amigo Hastings y relata los entretelones del único caso que no fue capaz de resolver: la repentina y extraña muerte de Paul Déroulard, un famoso diputado francés. Poirot está de vacaciones cuando recibe la visita de Virginie Mesnard, prima de Madame Déroulard, quien lo convence de que la muerte de Paul no fue natural. Luego de su investigación, Poirot cree haber descubierto al asesino, sin embargo se equivoca de cabo a rabo.
By: Agatha Christie
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Eine Nachtigall in New York
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Dietmar Wunder
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
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Magische Abenteuer in der Stadt, die niemals schläft! Peter Grant, Police Constable in London und Zauberlehrling, hat alles von ihm gelernt: Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale. Der geheimnisvolle Meister des Folly hat eine undurchsichtige Vergangenheit. Ben Aaronovitch bringt mit seinem vierten Kurzroman Eine Nachtigall in New York endlich ein wenig Licht in die Ereignisse rund um Nightingale.
By: Ben Aaronovitch
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The Thomas Hardy Collection: Six Novels
- Far From the Madding Crowd; Tess of the D'Urbevilles; The Return of the Native; Jude the Obscure; The Woodlanders; The Mayor of Casterbridge
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Matt Bates, Dawn Murphy
- Length: 90 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The Thomas Hardy Collection: Six Novels is a collection of Thomas Hardy most well-renowned works, read by an esteemed cast of narrators. The titles included in this collection are: Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the D'Urbevilles, The Return of the Native, Jude the Obscure, The Woodlanders, The Mayor of Casterbridge. This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.
By: Thomas Hardy
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El Misterio Del Tren Azul [The Mystery of the Blue Train]
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Natanael Echegaray
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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En un París sombrío, un americano recibe un misterioso paquete de manos de una pareja rusa, solo para ser atacado poco después por delincuentes. Mientras tanto, en un lujoso tren que recorre Europa, las vidas de una heredera en crisis, un detective enigmático y una serie de personajes intrigantes se entrelazan. Entre rubíes legendarios, secretos peligrosos y pasiones ocultas, Hércules Poirot deberá desentrañar un crimen que se convierte en un laberinto de sospechas.
By: Agatha Christie
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Historia del joven de las tartas de crema
- By: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrated by: Luis Marquez
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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"La Historia del Joven de las Tartas de Crema" de Robert Louis Stevenson es un cuento caprichoso de la aventura culinaria de un joven, que combina el humor y la alegría del capricho, con un toque de reflexión moral.
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The Murder on the Links
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Rob Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Step into the world of classic mystery with The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, now available as an enthralling audiobook. Join the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot as he faces one of his most perplexing cases yet. Summoned to France by a wealthy businessman, Poirot arrives only to find his client brutally murdered on a golf course. What follows is a masterful tale of intrigue, deception, and red herrings, where everyone is a suspect and nothing is as it seems.
By: Agatha Christie
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Un Descenso Al Maelström
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Luis Marquez
- Length: 41 mins
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Uno de los recordados cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe agrupado dentro de sus cuentos de raciocinio o de temática marinera.
By: Edgar Allan Poe
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El diablo en el campanario
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Mariana Godward
- Length: 29 mins
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Una apasionante historia de locura y suspenso. La historia sigue a un narrador que se obsesiona con una figura misteriosa que acecha en un campanario, lo que lleva a un clímax escalofriante y horroroso.
By: Edgar Allan Poe
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The Masque of the Red Death
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Myron Hieronymous Thomas
- Length: 19 mins
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The Radio Reading Room Halloween Classics features stories of the season from some of Americana's most revered writers, including the master of the Macabre Edgar Allen Poe 's "The Masque of The Red Death" and "The Raven", Mark Twain's "A Ghost Story", O'Henry's "The Furnished Room" and an adaptation of an old ghost tale "The Ghost with Two White Eyes" by Myron Hieronymous Thomas.
By: Edgar Allan Poe
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Cuentos completos [Collected Stories]
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Ariel Abadi, Gustavo Bonfigli, Mara Campanelli, and others
- Length: 46 hrs and 10 mins
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Por primera vez en un único volumen, esta edición definitiva de los Cuentos completos de Roald Dahl incluye algunos relatos inéditos en español. Brillante y con tintes fantásticos como un Grimm, realista como un O. Henry o despiadado como un Saki, sus historias fueron adaptadas por Alfred Hitchcock para la televisión, y han inspirado a creadores como Steven Spielberg o Quentin Tarantino.
By: Roald Dahl
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Un médico rural
- Pequeños relatos
- By: Franz Kafka, Luis Fernando Moreno Claros - traductor
- Narrated by: Arturo López
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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Estos catorce relatos que Kafka publicó en 1920 reúnen narraciones visionarias cuyos protagonistas—el médico que acude al lecho de un paciente una noche de tormenta, el artesano cuya ciudad ha sido invadida por una temible tribu nómada, el mensajero imperial que jamás llegará a su destino—son hijos de una época en que la vida ha quedado entregada a una lógica impenetrable y la comprensión del mundo resulta inconcebible.
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Kafka,,
- By Chizu on 20-09-24
By: Franz Kafka, and others
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Der Zauberberg
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: Gert Westphal
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
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Ein kurzer Besuch in einem Davoser Sanatorium wird für den jungen Ingenieur Hans Castorp zu einem siebenjährigen Aufenthalt, der Kurort wird zur Bühne für die europäische Befindlichkeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Fern von der erdrückenden Realität drehen sich die Gespräche unter den Patienten um Politik, Philosophie, Liebe, Krankheit und Tod. Im Juli 1913 begonnen, während des Krieges durch essayistische Arbeiten unterbrochen, konnte der Roman 1924 abgeschlossen und veröffentlicht werden.
By: Thomas Mann
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Londoner Skizzen 6
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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Charles Dickens ist bis heute einer der meistgelesenen Autoren Englands und seine famose Weihnachtsgeschichte läuft Jahr für Jahr in der xten Verfilmungsvariante pünktlich zum Geburtstag von Jesus plus minus 1-3 Tage beim Fernsehsender freier Wahl in den meisten bekannten Sprachregionen dieses Planeten. Zurück zur Literatur: Seine Erzählungen sind geprägt durch die Lebenswirklichkeit, entsprechend sind die auftretenden Charaktere Menschen wie Sie und du, welche einem täglich über den Weg laufen können bzw. das Treffen eines solchen Menschen unvermeidlich ist, was Positives wie Negatives an Begleitumständen mit sich bringt.
By: Charles Dickens
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Great Expectations
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Arthur Lane
- Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
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Orphaned Pip lives with his sister and her blacksmith husband. One day, the boy helps a hiding fugitive. Years pass, and Pip works as an apprentice for his brother-in-law. He is unhappily in love with Estella, a beautiful girl raised by the wealthy, eccentric old Miss Havisham. The young people are separated by one of the most prosaic reasons—financial status.
By: Charles Dickens
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Buddenbrooks. Verfall einer Familie
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: Gert Westphal
- Length: 27 hrs and 32 mins
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In seinem ersten Roman Buddenbrooks erzählt Thomas Mann nur wenig verschlüsselt die Geschichte seiner Familie und ihrer Stellung in der Vaterstadt Lübeck, soweit er sie nachvollziehen, in Einzelheiten überblicken konnte, ja sogar noch miterlebt hat. Verwandte, Honoratioren und markante Persönlichkeiten seiner Jugend werden integriert. Es ist die Geschichte des langsamen Niedergangs einer reichen Kaufmannsfamilie über vier Generationen hinweg. Auch mehr als hundert Jahren nach seinem ersten Erscheinen hat der Roman nichts an Charme und Aktualität eingebüßt.
By: Thomas Mann
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Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Benjamin Werner
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
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Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt des ersten modernen Detektivromans mit Edgar Allan Poes Klassiker Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue, meisterhaft gelesen von Benjamin Werner. Diese spannende Erzählung, die als Vorläufer des Detektivgenres gilt, führt uns in die düsteren Straßen von Paris, wo der brillante Auguste Dupin ein scheinbar unlösbares Verbrechen aufklärt. Die Geschichte vereint Mystery, Spannung und das Rätsel einer grausamen Tat, die Sie bis zum überraschenden Ende fesseln wird.
By: Edgar Allan Poe
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- By: Washington Irving
- Narrated by: Myron Hieronymous Thomas
- Length: 58 mins
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"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is an 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Irving wrote the story while living in Birmingham, England. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle.
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 44 mins
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An engineer, Victor Hatherley, attends Dr Watson's surgery after his thumb is chopped off, and recounts his tale to Watson and Holmes. Hatherley had been hired for 50 guineas to repair a machine he was told compressed Fuller's earth into bricks. Hatherley was told to keep the job confidential, and was transported to the job in a carriage with frosted glass, to keep the location secret. He was shown the press, but on closer inspection discovered a "crust of metallic deposit" on the press, and he suspected it was not being used for compressing earth.
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The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 45 mins
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Lord Robert St. Simon's new American bride, Hatty Doran, has disappeared almost immediately after the wedding. The servants had prevented an old love interest of his from forcing her way into the wedding breakfast, Hatty had been seen in whispered conversation with her maid, and Inspector Lestrade arrives with the news that Hatty's wedding dress and ring have been found floating in the Serpentine. Holmes quickly solves the mystery, locating Hatty at a hotel with a mysterious, "common-looking" man who had picked up her dropped bouquet after the ceremony.
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Das Flaschenteufelchen
- By: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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Der junge Mann "Keawe" fristet auf Hawaii ein mehr oder weniger sorgenfreies Dasein, er kann sich zwar keine kleinen Extras leisten, aber ist gesund und munter. Eines Tages trifft er einen alten Mann, der ihm eine besondere Flasche verkaufen will. Darin haust ein kleiner Teufel, der dem Flaschenbesitzer alle Wünsche erfüllt. Die Sache hat nur einen Haken: Der jeweilige Inhaber des kleinen Schmuckstücks muss dieses unter allen Umständen vor seinem Tod wieder verkaufen und zwar zu einem günstigeren Verkaufs- als Kaufpreis, sonst landet die Seele des aktuellen Eigentümers in der Hölle.