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Audiokniha Pád Cařihradu, kterou napsal Mika Waltari. Příběh lásky a zrady na pozadí dobytí nejslavnějšího města přelomu středověku a novověku.
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Audiokniha Povětroň, kterou napsal Karel Čapek. Tento příběh začíná tím, že do nemocnice přivezou muže v bezvědomí, který se zranil při leteckém neštěstí. Nad jeho lůžkem se postupně vystřídají jasnovidec, jeptiška a básník a každý z nich se snaží přijít na...
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Audiokniha Továrna na Absolutno, kterou napsal Karel Čapek. Proč po celém světě jako lavina vzrůstá náboženské běsnění a lidská touha po dokonalém štěstí? Nechtěným efektem zázračného stroje na výrobu energie je totiž vytvoření „Absolutna" – esence, působící...
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Audiobook Vathek, written by William Beckford. Written in 1786, this Oriental fantasy tells the story of a dissolute and debauched Caliph, Vathek. Having become obsessed with power and immortality, Vathek embarks on a journey to obtain supernatural powers,...
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Audiobook The Solitary Summer, written by Elizabeth von Arnim. Published in 1899, The Solitary Summer is a charming companion to von Arnim’s earlier novel Elizabeth and Her German Garden. As with its prequel, the novel is semi-autobiographical and in the form...
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Audiobook Elizabeth and Her German Garden, written by Elizabeth von Arnim. Elizabeth von Arnim, who is best known for her later novel The Enchanted April, married a Prussian aristocrat and, with their five children, lived in Nassenheide, Pomerania. Elizabeth...
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Audiobook The Convenient Marriage written by Georgette Heyer. Horatia Winwood is the youngest and the least attractive of the three Winwood sisters. She also has a stammer. But when the enigmatic and eminently eligible Earl of Rule offers for her oldest sister’s...
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Audiobook The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Elegant, enigmatic Jay Gatsby yearns for his old love, the beautiful Daisy. But she is married to the insensitive if hugely successful Tom Buchanan, who won’t let her go despite having a mistress himself....
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Audiobook The Invisible Man written by H. G. Wells. A stranger arrives in a small English town, wreathed in a hat, coat, goggles and bandages. It’s not just his identity he’s hiding, though; he has discovered the secret of invisibility, and believes it will...
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Audiobook Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories written by Oscar Wilde. A palmist’s prediction leads to murder; an enigmatic woman’s lifestyle is a mystery to be solved; a ghost tries to frighten the new tenants of his home; a man has discovered the...
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At the heart of these stories, as with all the best of Lovecraft’s work, is the belief that the Earth was once inhabited by powerful and evil gods, just waiting for the chance to recolonise their planet. Cthulhu is one such god, lurking deep beneath the sea...
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At the Mountains of Madness first appeared in 1936, in the February, March and April editions of the American magazine Astounding Stories. One of H. P. Lovecraft’s most chilling works, it draws on Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, as well as...
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Audiobook The Island of Doctor Moreau written by H. G. Wells. The shipwrecked Edward Prendick is rescued by the passing ship Ipecacuanha, which is carrying a cargo of animals. On board he comes across Montgomery, who appears to have a grotesque servant named...
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Born in 1623 as the youngest child of a wealthy Essex family, Margaret Cavendish became a Maid of Honour to Queen Henrietta Maria before going on to marry the widowed William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. She was a prolific writer whose work encompassed a range...
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Published at the end of Flaubert’s career, Three Tales is a collection of three compelling short stories about faith, loneliness and love. In ‘A Simple Heart’ (the inspiration for Julian Barnes’s novel Flaubert’s Parrot), a saint-like servant girl begins to...
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Audiobook The Shadow-Line written by Joseph Conrad. An unsettling tale of plague, drift and terror, The Shadow-Line documents a young seaman’s coming of age after he is recruited to captain a ship for the first time. Bad luck and disease haunt the inexperienced...
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Dick Young stays in his friend Professor Magnus Lane’s house in Cornwall, on the understanding he will be a guinea-pig for a new drug that Magnus has developed. As a result of the experiment he is transported back to fourteenth-century Cornwall. With each ‘trip’...
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Auguste Dupin, investigator extraordinaire, was the remarkable creation of Edgar Allan Poe. Written in the 1840s, Poe presented the acutely observant, shrewd but idiosyncratic character who, with his chronicler, provided the inspiration for the more famous...
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