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Emotional Intelligence: Practical Ways to Improve Relationships (Effective Strategies and Skills to Master Your Emotions and Improve Your Relationships)

by George Irving ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Matt G ...

Unabridged

3 hours 3 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, understand and manage emotions. It does not just about understand your own emotions – it’s also about understanding the emotions of other people. When you have high emotional intelligence, you can build strong social skills and improve your relationships.You don’t even need to be born with this skill – ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, understand and manage emotions. It does not just about understand your own emotions – it’s also about understanding the emotions of other people. When you have high emotional intelligence, you can build strong social skills and improve your relationships.You don’t even need to be born with this skill –
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Man Size in Marble

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Edith Nesbit ...

Narrated by George Irving ...

Unabridged

41 min

Edith Nesbit was born on the 15th August 1858 in Kennington, then part of Surrey.Due to the health issues and tuberculosis of her sister Mary, Nesbit’s early life was one of constant changes of house both in England and on the continent.At age 17, Nesbit met Hubert Bland and they married three years later―whilst she was 7 months pregnant. Bland also kept his affair with another woman going ... Read more

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Edith Nesbit was born on the 15th August 1858 in Kennington, then part of Surrey.Due to the health issues and tuberculosis of her sister Mary, Nesbit’s early life was one of constant changes of house both in England and on the continent.At age 17, Nesbit met Hubert Bland and they married three years later―whilst she was 7 months pregnant. Bland also kept his affair with another woman going
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The Twist

The top ten short house stories with a twist of all time

by Edith Wharton, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Nesbit, Kate Chopin, Katherine Mansfield, Nikolai Gogol, O Henry, Saki ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland, George Irving, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

4 hours 11 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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Horror Stories Set In The Countryside

Classic dark and scary tales in the classic dark and scary setting

by Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, Ambrose Bierce, E F Benson, Ulric Daubeny, Dorothy Easton, Ethel Lina White, Edward Lucas White, Saki ...

Narrated by Lisa Bowerman, Elliot Fitzpatrick, George Irving ...

Unabridged

4 hours 15 min

By daylight the countryside seems a world full of wonder, of solitude, of somewhere to relax outside the hectic and stressed lives we endure in the big cities. But our authors, in this volume, beg to differ and have turned nature’s delightful setting into a terrifying space where only bad and evil things are about to happen. ... Read more

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By daylight the countryside seems a world full of wonder, of solitude, of somewhere to relax outside the hectic and stressed lives we endure in the big cities. But our authors, in this volume, beg to differ and have turned nature’s delightful setting into a terrifying space where only bad and evil things are about to happen.
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The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes

The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

by Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas à Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel de Cervantes, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, George Gordon Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Homer, Richard Henry Dana, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Abraham Cowley, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Babington Macaulay, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Alan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Michael Faraday, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Simon Newcomb, Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Francis Drake, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Henry Harrison, Niccolo Machiavelli, William Roper, Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, Charles W. Eliot, William A. Neilson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Gottfried Keller, Guy de Maupassant, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland ...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction. Content: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & ... Read more

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The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction. Content: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus &
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Victorian Ghost Story, The - The Women

Capable of equally brilliant tales despite being neglected during this time

by Elizabeth Gaskell, Mrs Craik, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, Mrs Ellen Wood, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Amelia Edwards, Margaret Oliphant, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Charlotte Riddell, B M Croker.wav, Edith Nesbit, Lettice Galbraith, Gertrude Atherton ...

Narrated by Janet Fullerlove, George Irving, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

9 hours 21 min

Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians.When you consider the depth of literary talent available over the extraordinary length of Queen Victoria’s reign, allied to the fascination with their all things spiritual on ‘the other side’, then perhaps it’s simply right place, right time.Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known ... Read more

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Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians.When you consider the depth of literary talent available over the extraordinary length of Queen Victoria’s reign, allied to the fascination with their all things spiritual on ‘the other side’, then perhaps it’s simply right place, right time.Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known
... Read more
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Diagnosis of Death, A - A Short Story Volume

Classic horror stories with death looming

by Ambrose Bierce, Wilkie Collins, Edith Nesbit, Rabrindinath Tagore, Edgar Allan Poe ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, George Irving ...

Unabridged

2 hours 22 min

We sit. We lie. We wait. We are examined. We are left alone. Emotions fritter. The door re-opens. The face. Is it tinged with sadness or reassuring and open? The words. Are they easy to comprehend? Is it good news or bad? We can answer that. It’s bad. Undeniably bad. None of our authors have good news for you. The diagnosis? You already know that. Death.01 - A Diagnosis of Death - A Short Story ... Read more

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We sit. We lie. We wait. We are examined. We are left alone. Emotions fritter. The door re-opens. The face. Is it tinged with sadness or reassuring and open? The words. Are they easy to comprehend? Is it good news or bad? We can answer that. It’s bad. Undeniably bad. None of our authors have good news for you. The diagnosis? You already know that. Death.01 - A Diagnosis of Death - A Short Story
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Edith Nesbit - Six of the Best – An Introduction

Their legacy in 6 classic stories

by Edith Nesbit ...

Narrated by George Irving ...

Unabridged

3 hours 29 min

Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their ... Read more

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Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their
... Read more
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Scary Stories Audio Collection

by Alvin Schwartz ...

Narrated by George Irving ...

Abridged

3 hours 19 min

The iconic anthology series of horror tales that's now a feature film!Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death—they're all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories, collected and retold by folklorist Alvin Schwartz. Brought to spine-tingling, flesh-crawling life by acclaimed Broadway actor (and master ghoul) George S. Irving, these horrific ... Read more

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The iconic anthology series of horror tales that's now a feature film!Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death—they're all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories, collected and retold by folklorist Alvin Schwartz. Brought to spine-tingling, flesh-crawling life by acclaimed Broadway actor (and master ghoul) George S. Irving, these horrific
... Read more
The Santa's Big Book of Christmas Tales: 500+ Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends

A Treasury of 500+ Holiday Stories, Poems, Carols, Folklore & Wonder

by Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Willa Cather, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. H. Murray, Washington Irving, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George Macdonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats ...

The Santa's Big Book of Christmas Tales gathers more than five hundred works into a capacious seasonal archive, where fiction, verse, carols, folklore, and legend illuminate Christmas as both sacred observance and imaginative cultural ritual. Its range moves from domestic sentiment and childhood wonder to ghostly unease, moral fable, comic reversal, and winter pastoral. Familiar Yuletide ... Read more

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The Santa's Big Book of Christmas Tales gathers more than five hundred works into a capacious seasonal archive, where fiction, verse, carols, folklore, and legend illuminate Christmas as both sacred observance and imaginative cultural ritual. Its range moves from domestic sentiment and childhood wonder to ghostly unease, moral fable, comic reversal, and winter pastoral. Familiar Yuletide
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Newly Weds - Short Stories

How long does the honeymoon phase last…

by Edith Nesbit, Dorothy Parker, Guy de Maupassant, Bram Stoker, Stephen Crane, Clotilde Graves, Arnold Bennett, Marjorie Bowen, Elinor Mordaunt ...

Narrated by Lisa Bowerman, George Irving, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Series series Love for stories, stories for love
Unabridged

4 hours 53 min

Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all.In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country.‘With this ring, I thee Wed’. And ... Read more

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Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all.In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country.‘With this ring, I thee Wed’. And
... Read more
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Victorian Ghost Story, The - Volume 3

The iconic ghost stories of English literature

by Mary Louisa Molesworth, Charlotte Riddell, Rudyard Kipling, B M Croker.wav, Jerome K Jerome, Edith Nesbit, Lettice Galbraith, M R James, Gertrude Atherton, W W Jacobs, F G Loring, Barry Pain ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, George Irving, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

5 hours 45 min

Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians.When you consider the depth of literary talent available over the extraordinary length of Queen Victoria’s reign, allied to the fascination with their all things spiritual on ‘the other side’, then perhaps it’s simply right place, right time.Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known ... Read more

$19.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians.When you consider the depth of literary talent available over the extraordinary length of Queen Victoria’s reign, allied to the fascination with their all things spiritual on ‘the other side’, then perhaps it’s simply right place, right time.Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known
... Read more

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