Im 13. Teil reisen wir in der Erinnerung in die glücklichsten Tage von Marshal Mathews Kindheit zurück: als seine Tante Elfriede die hochhackigen Schuhe gegen Gummistiefel tauschte und im Schrebergarten zu Werke ging. Marshal Mathew und Shaolin Sandra ermitteln sich an ein Tötungsdelikt auf dem zweiten Arbeitsmarkt heran. Die Maßnahme: Romanfragment von Uli Christenn in 15 Teilen. Jetzt das Hörbuch als Podcast auf www.valtin.org kostenlos herunterladen, oder auf YouTube, archive.org hören...
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"Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz und Gemeinheit geht vor Eigenheit." In der 14. Folge lernen wir Polizeiweisheiten kennen und gleichen sie mit der Arbeits- und Abendrealität des Berliner Mordermittlers Marshal Mathew ab. Marshal Mathew und Shaolin Sandra ermitteln sich an ein Tötungsdelikt auf dem zweiten Arbeitsmarkt heran. Die Maßnahme: Romanfragment von Uli Christenn in 15 Teilen. Jetzt das Hörbuch als Podcast auf www.valtin.org kostenlos herunterladen, oder auf YouTube,...
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"Mordkommision, ich muss mal rein ins Haus, dienstlich" knurrt Marshal Mathew. "Ach, die Polizei. Ich habe schon gehört vom Massaker bei der ABM.", so das Mütterchen: "So was gab es ja nicht, damals beim Adolf." Sie meint ein Massaker, nicht die Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahme... Marshal Mathew und Shaolin Sandra ermitteln sich an ein Tötungsdelikt auf dem zweiten Arbeitsmarkt heran. Die Maßnahme: Romanfragment von Uli Christenn in 15 Teilen.
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie . Audiobook read by David Suchet, the actor that played Hercule Poirot in the British TV series.
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The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie , first published in the UK in 1923. The story takes place in northern France, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris Sûreté . Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crimes. The book is notable for a subplot in which Hastings falls in love, a development "greatly desired on Agatha's part... parcelling off Hastings to wedded bliss in the Argentine."...
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Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK. Plot summary links 1.1 The Adventure of the Western Star 1.2 The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor 1.3 The Adventure of the Cheap Flat 1.4 The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge 1.5 The Million Dollar Bond Robbery 1.6 The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb 1.7 The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan 1.8 The Kidnapped Prime Minister 1.9 The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim 1.10 The Adventure of the Italian...
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom. Read by Hugh Fraser the actor who portrays Captain Hastings in the TV series. More info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd
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The Big Four is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie , first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on 27 January 1927. Read by Hugh Fraser the actor who portrays Captain Hastings in the TV series. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Four_(novel)
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The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie , first published in the United Kingdom by William Collins & Sons on 29 March 1928. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_the_Blue_Train Read by Hugh Fraser the actor who portrays Captain Hastings in the TV series.
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Read by Hugh Fraser the actor who portrays Captain Hastings in the TV series. Peril at End House is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by the Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1932 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). The book features Christie's famous character Hercule Poirot, as well as Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp, and is...
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Read by Hugh Fraser the actor who portrays Captain Hastings in the TV series. Lord Edgware Dies is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie , published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1933 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Thirteen at Dinner . Before its book publication, the novel was serialised in six issues (March–August 1933) of The American Magazine as 13 For Dinner . The novel features Hercule...
Topics: Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, audiobook, mystery, murder, detective
Read by David Suchet, the actor that played Hercule Poirot in the British TV series. Murder on the Orient Express is a detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934. In the United States, it was published on 28 February 1934, under the title of Murder in the Calais Coach, by Dodd, Mead and Company. The U.K. edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the...
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Read by Hugh Fraser the actor who portrays Captain Hastings in the TV series. Three Act Tragedy is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1934 under the title Murder in Three Acts and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1935 under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). The book features Hercule Poirot,...
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Death in the Clouds is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie .
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The A.B.C. Murders is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie , first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 January 1936 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company on 14 February of the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The book features the characters of Hercule Poirot , Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp . The form of the novel is unusual, combining first- and ...
Topics: Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, audiobook, mystery, murder, detective
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Read by Hugh Fraser the actor who portrays Captain Hastings in the TV series. This book features the recurring characters of Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle and the bumbling crime writer Ariadne Oliver, making her first appearance in a Poirot novel. The four detectives and four possible suspects play bridge after dinner with Mr Shaitana. At the end of the evening, Mr Shaitana is discovered murdered. Identifying the murderer, per Mrs Christie, depends wholly on discerning the...
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Murder in Mesopotamia is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 July 1936 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The book features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot . The novel is set at an archaeological excavation in Iraq , and descriptive details derive from the author's visit to...
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Read by David Suchet, the actor that played Hercule Poirot in the British TV series. Death on the Nile is a book of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 1 November 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The full length novel was preceded (1934) by a short story with the same title, but with ...
Topics: Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, audiobook, mystery, murder, detective
Read by Hugh Fraser the actor who portrays Captain Hastings in the TV series. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and is narrated by his friend Arthur Hastings. One novel published after this one features Hastings as narrator, 1975's Curtain: Poirot's Last Case .
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Murder in the Mews and Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club on 15 March 1937 . In the US, the book was published by Dodd, Mead and Company under the title Dead Man's Mirror in June 1937 with one story missing ( The Incredible Theft ); the 1987 Berkeley Books edition of the same title has all four stories. All of the tales feature Hercule Poirot . The UK edition retailed at seven ...
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The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and reflects Christie's experiences travelling in the Middle East with her husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan . Holidaying in Jerusalem , Poirot overhears Raymond Boynton telling his sister, "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" Their stepmother, Mrs Boynton, is a sadistic tyrant who dominates her family. When she is found dead on a trip to Petra , Poirot proposes to solve the case in...
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When multi-millionaire Simeon Lee unexpectedly invites his family to gather at his home for Christmas, the gesture is met with suspicion by many of the guests. Simeon is not given to family sentiment, and not all of the family are on good terms with one another. To make things worse, he has invited the black sheep of the family, Harry, and Simeon's granddaughter, Pilar, whom none of them has ever met before. Simeon is intent on playing a sadistic game with his family's emotions. An...
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The novel is notable for being the first novel in the Poirot series set at least partly in the courtroom, with lawyers and witnesses exposing the facts underlying Poirot's solution to the crimes. The title is drawn from a song in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night . The novel was well received, even by her usual critic, who said "Elegiac, more emotionally involving than is usual in Christie, but the ingenuity and superb clueing put it among the very best of the classic titles."...
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This is one of several of Christie's crime fiction novels to feature both the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot , and Chief Inspector Japp . This is Japp's final novel appearance. It also bears a stark resemblance with one of Christie's previous novels, Three Act Tragedy which features similar elements with respect to the denouement and also the plot on the whole. When Hercule Poirot's own dentist, Henry Morley, is found dead from a gunshot wound, the official verdict is...
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In this novel, Agatha Christie does what she does best: assembles a group of diverse characters on holiday, has one of them murdered, and provides the rest with plenty of opportunity and motive to have committed the crime. Arlena Marshall is a beautiful woman known for her affairs with men, both before and during her marriage. While on holiday at the Jolly Roger Hotel on England's South Coast, she openly cavorts with Patrick Redfern while her husband and his wife watch helplessly. Tragedy is...
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The book features Hercule Poirot . The novel is notable as a rigorous attempt to demonstrate Poirot's repeatedly stated contention that it is possible to solve a mystery purely by reflecting upon the testimony of the participants, and without access to the scene of the crime. This was the last novel of an especially prolific phase of Christie's work on Poirot. She published thirteen Poirot novels between 1935 and 1942 out of a total of eighteen novels in that period. By contrast, she...
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On the morning that he and his downtrodden wife, Gerda, are due to travel down to the country to weekend with friends, Dr John Christow, a successful physician and leading researcher, allows his little daughter to tell his fortune with cards. When the death card is drawn, he pays no attention, but the appearance of an old flame at The Hollow seems to be the final link in a chain of fatal circumstances.
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Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires - to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake! In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet -- reasoned the detective -- like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed 'Labours'. Each would go down in the...
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When Rosaleen Cloade comes to sleepy Warmsley Vale to collect on her late spouse’s sizable inheritance, the Cloade family — who all rely in various ways on the funds from their dear departed Uncle Gordon — have other plans for the money. This classic Christie, originally published as THERE IS A TIDE, opens with Hercule Poirot in a London club, where he overhears a story that later helps to sort out a tangled murder case. Hugh Fraser, known to PBS "Mystery" fans in...
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Hercule Poirot is feeling bored, so he is delighted when he is visited by his old friend Superintendent Spence of the Kilchester Police. Spence has recently been in charge of murder case, an old charwoman, Mrs McGinty, has been brutally bludgeoned to death. Her lodger, James Bentley, has been convicted of her murder and is due to hang. But Spence is convinced Bentley didn't do it, and he wants Poirot to find out who did. So Poirot goes to stay in the village of Broadhinny, where the grizzly...
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After the Funeral is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1953 under the title of Funerals are Fatal and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 18 May of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6). A 1963 UK paperback issued by Fontana Books changed the title to Murder at the Gallop to tie in with...
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It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot . The novel is notable for featuring Poirot's efficient secretary, Miss Felicity Lemon, who had previously only appeared in the Poirot short stories. An outbreak of apparent kleptomania at a student hostel arouses Hercule Poirot's interest when he sees the bizarre list of stolen and vandalized items. These include a stethoscope , some light bulbs, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack, some boracic...
Topics: Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, audiobook, mystery, murder, detective
Sir George and Lady Stubbs are holding the village fete in their grounds. it is to be a fete with a difference, for well-known mystery writer Ariadne Oliver is to organise a Murder Hunt as the main event. Every detail is arranged with her customary flair and ingenuity - and the scene is set for Murder. But Ariadne is uncomfortable. Something is not quite right - if only she knew what it was. In desperation she telephones her old friend Hercule Poirot for assistance... Read by David Suchet
Topics: Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, audiobook, mystery, murder, detective
It features Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot , who makes a very late appearance in the final third of the novel. The emphasis on espionage in the early part of the novel relates it to Christie's international adventures. At the start of the summer term at Meadowbank School for Girls, the most prestigious prep school in England, Miss Bulstrode, the popular but aging headmistress, has no reason to believe that the challenges facing her on parent's day will be more than the...
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The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrees is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 24 October 1960. It is the only Christie first edition published in the UK that contains stories with both Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple , the writer's two most famous detectives. It retailed in the UK for twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6) and comprises six cases. It was not published...
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The novel is notable for the fact that Poirot never visits any of the crime scenes or speaks to any of the witnesses or suspects. He is challenged to prove his claim that a crime can be solved by the exercise of the intellect alone. The novel marks the return of partial first-person narrative, a technique that Christie had largely abandoned earlier in the Poirot sequence but which she had employed in the previous Ariadne Oliver novel, The Pale Horse (1961). There are two interwoven...
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It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver . The novel is notable for being the first in many years in which Poirot is present from beginning to end. It is uncommon in that the investigation includes discovering the first crime, which happens comparatively late in the novel. Read by Hugh Fraser
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The novel features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver. A girl at a Hallowe'en party with Ariadne Oliver in attendance, claims she witnessed a murder, which at the time as she was so young, she had not realized was a murder. Soon, the girl is found murdered. Oliver calls in Poirot to find the cause of this and the next murder. This book was dedicated to P.G. Wodehouse . During the preparation of a Hallowe'en party in Woodleigh Common,...
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Elephants Can Remember is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie , first published in 1972 . It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver . This was the last Christie novel to feature either character, although in terms of publication it was succeeded by Curtain: Poirot's Last Case , which had been written in the early 1940s but published last. The novel is notable for its concentration on memory and oral testimony...
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Poirot's Early Cases is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in September 1974. In the collection, Christie charts some of the cases from Hercule Poirot 's early career, before he was internationally renowned as a detective. All the stories had first been published in periodicals between 1923 and 1935. Plot summaries 1.1 The Affair at the Victory Ball 1.2 The Adventure of the Clapham Cook 1.3 The Cornish Mystery 1.4...
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The novel features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings in their final appearances in Christie's works. It is a country house novel, with all the characters and the murder set in one house. Not only does the novel return the characters to the setting of her first, The Mysterious Affair at Styles , but it reunites Poirot and Hastings, who last appeared together in Dumb Witness in 1937. It was adapted for television in 2013. It is the last novel published by Christie before her death,...
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A Bridge Too Far , a non-fiction book by Cornelius Ryan published in 1974, tells the story of Operation Market Garden , a failed Allied attempt to break through German lines at Arnhem across the river Rhine in the occupied Netherlands during World War II in September 1944. The title of the book comes from a comment made by British Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning , deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army , who told Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery before the...
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Topics: WWII, British, American, Polish, Paratroopers, Operation Market-Garden. Netherlands, Eindhoven,...
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas , [1] commonly known as A Christmas Carol , is a novella by Charles Dickens , first published in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. [2] The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebeneezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner ...
Topics: Christmas, Ghost-Story, Scrooge, Christmas stories
Charlotte Miller has always scoffed at talk of a curse on her family's woolen mill, which holds her beloved small town together. But after her father's death, the bad luck piles up: departing workers, impossible debts, an overbearing uncle. Then a stranger named Jack Spinner offers a tempting proposition: He can turn straw into gold thread, for the small price of her mother's ring. As Charlotte is drawn deeper into her bargains with Spinner-and a romance with the local banker-she must unravel...
Topics: Fantasy, YA, Fairy Tales, Romance, Historical Fiction
Lu Xun (Lu Hsün, 1881-1936) is considered the father of modern Chinese literature. Expressing an affinity with Nikolai Gogol, his works speak in the language of everyday China entering the Modern Age. "A Madman's Diary," with its nod to Gogol's tale of the same name, tells of one man’s struggles with outmoded traditions in the guise of cannibalism. Are his fears real or are they an expression of madness? Like Gogol in "The Cloak" and other tales, Xun approaches our...
Topics: China, Gogol, Chinese Literature, madman, Alan Davis Drake
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This is the first tale in Burroughs classic Martian novel series. At the center of the series is the protagonist John Carter, a Confederate Captain of the American Civil War, who finds himself mysteriously transported to the planet Mars. "A Princess of Mars" is both a romantic adventure and a science fiction tale of fantasy. John Carter finds himself captive by large four-armed green men along with the lovely princess of Helium, Dejah...
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John George Nicolay (born February 26, 1832, as Johann Georg in Essingen, Rhenish Bavaria – September 26, 1901) was an American (German-born) biographer, secretary of US President Abraham Lincoln and member of the German branch of the Nicolay family. In 1838, he immigrated to the United States with his father, attended school in Cincinnati. He later went to Illinois, where he edited the Pike County Free Press at Pittsfield, and became a political power in the state. Then he became assistant...
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, 1861-1865, biography
THE LIFE OF BUDDHA by André Ferdinand Herold translated from the French by Paul C. Blum Narrated by Alan Davis Drake Originally published in French in 1922 and later translated by Paul C. Blum, this biography of Buddha is told in an unassuming and engaging style. The public domain text strings together the narrative of Buddha's life as gathered from several classic Buddhist texts, including the Buddhacharita of Asvaghosa, the Lalitavistara, and the Jataka, tales of the Buddha's former births....
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A companion podcast to ACME TALES which involves discussions with the authors, friends, and Colby Trax's Idols when he can get them on the phone.
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Fiction Podcast showcasing whatever Colby Trax finds interesting
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September 1944. Germany is burning at both ends and the Reich is crumbling. Word has drifted back to Berlin that the Americans are testing a secret weapon of unbelievable destruction. A weapon that will win the war. The Fuhrer himself calls upon Agent 146 in a last ditch effort to sabotage America's atomic program. Two months later, a German U-boat surfaces off the coast of Maine. Agent 146 and an American turncoat named William Collepaugh sneak ashore. Down the coast they go, ending up in New...
Topics: WWII, Nazi spy, cloak and dagger, espionage, United States, Atom Bomb, Atomic research, secret...
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began. Based on recently declassified files, Agent Zigzag tells Chapman’s full story for the first time. It’s a gripping tale of loyalty, love, treachery,...
Topics: WWII, World War II, Spy, Espionage, Nazi, Double Cross, Agent ZigZag
And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by English writer Agatha Christie , widely considered her masterpiece and described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers , after the British blackface song , which serves as a major plot point. The US edition was not released until December 1939; its American reprints and adaptations were all...
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The body of Polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Antigone defies the law, sealing her fate. Originally produced in Paris during the Nazi occupation, Anouilh's Antigone was seen by the French as theatre resistance and by Germans as an affirmation of authority. Starring (in alphabetical order): Jordan Bridges as Haemon/2nd Guard Dominic Fumusa as Guard Francis Guinan as Creon John Hansen as 3rd Guard/Messenger Alan Mandell as...
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Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) shares insightful moments in the everyday lives of 19th Century Russians. With great economy, Chekhov's short stories reveal the depths of human joy, confusion, dissatisfaction, and sorrow. His tales elicit a deep sympathy for all people, wherever they may be, in Russia more than a hundred years ago or anywhere in the world today. These translations, by Constance Garnett, Marian Fell, and others, are offered here as public domain recordings created both for...
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Anton Chekhov's Swan Song [1887] was one of his early plays. In it are but two characters: Vasili Svietlovidoff, a 68 year old comic actor and Nikita Ivanich, who is an even older man, the theater's prompter. Following a benefit evening in his honor, unbeknownst to everyone, the comic actor Svetlovidov falls asleep in a drunken blur. When he awakens, the theater is dark and empty. He falls quickly into saddened monologue... The play opens with Chekhov's stage directions: The scene is laid on...
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Anton Chekhov wrote three interconnected short stories, sometimes referred to as "The Little Trilogy." The three are: "The Man in a Case," "Gooseberries," and "About Love." These individual tales are well loved in their own right, but read/listened to together, they reveal interrelated, reoccurring characters and themes. The three stories read here in public performance, are now available as a single iPod or MP3 audiobook. Please select the version...
Topics: Chekhov, trilogy, audiobook, Alan Davis Drake, Russian Literature, public performance
archae Journal's eZine publishes on-line recordings and texts of contemporary poetry and prose. archae is proud to publish text and recordings from the 19th Subterranean Readings, the 2009 Hudson Valley Poets Fest in its entirety. (Aug 22) For submission information/guidelines on both text and recordings, visit archaeZine All submissions are reviewed by archae editors, who consider the quality of both the written poem and the recordings. (Assistance is available via email.) Editor-in-Chief:...
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Literatura. Gure irratia.
Topic: Literatura. Gure irratia.
Willow has had an eventful year what with people trying to kill her, finding her one true love in Hawk, learning she can do magic, and then becoming queen of a newly reunited island. Now, all she wants is for people to cease trying to kill her so she and Hawk can have a moment of peace and quiet. But when a new enemy with dreams of conquest and death teams up with an old enemy, the couple is sent deep into the Land of the Dead where only the goddess Skade knows what’s going to happen. ...
Topics: audiobook, fantasy, adventure, betrayal, enemies, murder, magic, good, evil, animals,...
Source: Colbyjack.net Serial Fiction
Noble Prize winner T. S. Eliot wrote some of the best-known, most widely discussed poetry of the past 100 years. He was a daring and uncompromising innovator. With dramatic, original music, and expressive interpretation, this recording dramatizes why his works continue to influence literature - and touch contemporary listeners. Included are "The Love Son of J. Alfred Prufrock", "The Hollow Men", "Preludes", and "Portrait of a Lady".
Topics: Poetry, T.S. Eliot, The Love Son of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Hollow Men, Preludes, Portrait of a...
