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Gustav Meyrink - A Short Story Collection

Austrian author with a huge influence in European supernatural fiction

de Gustav Meyrink ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell, Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw-Parker ...

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1 horas 12 minutos

Gustav Meyrink was born in Vienna on the 19th January, 1868.As a young man he co-founded a bank in Prague, but a personal crisis and a suicide attempt turned his life away from commerce to a study of the occult and a career in literature.His early short stories, supernatural, occult and weird, are full of promise, menace and the unusual.In 1915 he published his landmark novel ‘Der Golem’ and ... Leer más

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Gustav Meyrink was born in Vienna on the 19th January, 1868.As a young man he co-founded a bank in Prague, but a personal crisis and a suicide attempt turned his life away from commerce to a study of the occult and a career in literature.His early short stories, supernatural, occult and weird, are full of promise, menace and the unusual.In 1915 he published his landmark novel ‘Der Golem’ and
... Leer más
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Detective Stories – Police Investigation

Truth and justice by way of clues

de William E Burton, Ralph Plummer, G K Chesterton, Ernest Bramah, Clarence Rook, Ethel Lina White, Arthur Morrison, George R Sims, Arthur Gask ...

Narrado por Mark Rice-Oxley, Robert Maskell, David Shaw-Parker ...

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6 hora 19 minutos

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult ... Leer más

$19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult
... Leer más
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Water Running Out

A cruel Aunt continously abuses her nephew until he reaches breaking point

de Ethel Lina White ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell ...

Completo

28 minutos

Ethel Lina White was born on the 2nd April 1876 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, in Wales.Her family were wealthy due to her father’s invention of a waterproofing material used, initially, for the London Underground.Ethel started writing when she was only a child and published essays and poems in children’s papers. She was also a talented artist.As an adult she began to write short stories and, some ... Leer más

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Ethel Lina White was born on the 2nd April 1876 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, in Wales.Her family were wealthy due to her father’s invention of a waterproofing material used, initially, for the London Underground.Ethel started writing when she was only a child and published essays and poems in children’s papers. She was also a talented artist.As an adult she began to write short stories and, some
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Forgotten Authors, The - Men - The Complete Edition

Don't let great literature die

de Grant Allen, Edmondo de Amicus, F Anstey, Richard Harris Barham, Sabine Baring-Gould, Max Beerbohm, Camillo Boito, Guy Boothby, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, William E Burton, Georges Eekhourd, Anatole France, Théophile Gautier, Perceval Gibbon, Stefan Grabinski, William Dean Howells, Thomas Mann, John Willaim Polidori ...

Narrado por David Shaw-Parker, Jake Urry, Robert Maskell ...

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65 hora 15 minutos

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Leer más

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Leer más
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Classic Sci-Fi Stories NOT by Isaac Asimov

The name that first comes to mind isn't always the best

de H G Wells, Jack London, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, H P Lovecraft, H P Lovecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jules Verne, Edward Page Mitchell, Mary Shelley0, Voltaire1, Owen Oliver2, Owen Oliver3, L T Meade4, Robert Duncan Milne5, Washington Irving6, Robert Barr7, Valery Bryusov8, Fred M White9, Herbert C Ridout0, Fitz James O'Brien1 ...

Narrado por Richard Mitchley2, Christopher Ragland3, Robert Maskell4 ...

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20 hora 1 minutos

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured ... Leer más

$39.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured
... Leer más
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Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, The

Collection from the hugely celebrated Austrian poet

de Rainer Maria Rilke ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell, Janet Fullerlove, Ghizela Rowe ...

Completo

58 minutos

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was born into a troubled marriage on the 4th December 1875 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother, having previously lost a baby girl, would dress the young boy up in girl’s clothing.Later his father dispatched him to a military academy at age 10 but after a miserable 5 years the young Rilke left due to illness and instead entered ... Leer más

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René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was born into a troubled marriage on the 4th December 1875 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother, having previously lost a baby girl, would dress the young boy up in girl’s clothing.Later his father dispatched him to a military academy at age 10 but after a miserable 5 years the young Rilke left due to illness and instead entered
... Leer más
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Detective Stories – Mysteries

Truth and justice by way of clues

de Arthur Conan Doyle, Nicholas Olde, Ernest Bramah, Jacques Futrelle, Rose Champion de Crespigny, G K Chesterton, Frank Howel Evans, Arthur Morrison, George Griffiths, Maurice LeBlanc, Arthur Gask, Headon Hill ...

Narrado por Mark Rice-Oxley, Robert Maskell, David Shaw-Parker ...

Completo

9 hora 54 minutos

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult ... Leer más

$19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult
... Leer más
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Media, The - A Short Story Collection

Classic stories before the age of social media

de Henry James, E M Delafield, E M Delafield, Frank R Stockton, H D Everett, W F Arnold, Barry Pain, Dorothy Edwards, Robert Duncan Milne, Owen Oliver, Winifred Holtby0, Charlotte Perkins Gilman1, C E Montague2 ...

Narrado por Richard Mitchley3, Robert Maskell4, Eric Roberts5 ...

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7 hora 49 minutos

The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting.However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s ... Leer más

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The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting.However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s
... Leer más
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - A J Alan

The top ten stories of all time by A J Alan

de A J Alan ...

Narrado por David Shaw-Parker, Robert Maskell ...

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3 hora 5 minutos

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 ... Leer más

$14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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
... Leer más
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Amputated Arms, The

A Danish classic of academic pursuit gone wrong

de Jørgen Vilhelm Bergsøe ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell ...

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40 minutos

The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is the Danish writer Jørgen Vilhelm Bergsøe. ... Leer más

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The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is the Danish writer Jørgen Vilhelm Bergsøe.
... Leer más
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Stories From The Shadows – The 1880’s

Embrace the darkness

de Louisa Baldwin, Anton Chekhov, Vsevolod Garshin, Thomas Hardy, Dorothy Havers, Lafcadio Hearn, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Rudyard Kipling, Amy Levy, Guy de Maupassant, Edward Page Mitchell0, Mary Louisa Molesworth1, Edith Nesbit2, Margaret Oliphant3, Margaret Oliphant4, Mary E Penn5, Charlotte Riddell6, Robert Louis Stevenson7, Leo Tolstoy8, Oscar Wilde9 ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell0, Richard Mitchley1, Christopher Ragland2 ...

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12 hora 59 minutos

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Leer más

$29.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Leer más
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Parlour Tricks

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

de Ralph Plummer ...

Narrado por Robert Maskell ...

Completo

17 minutos

The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Ralph Plummer. ... Leer más

$1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Ralph Plummer.
... Leer más