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B. J. Harrison Reads The Canterville Ghost (EN) - Oscar Wilde

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Humor, satira

B. J. Harrison Reads The Canterville Ghost (EN)

Oscar Wilde: B. J. Harrison breathes life into one of Oscar Wilde’s first short stories, “The Canterville Ghost”. The American Hiram B. Otis and his family move to a castle in Canterville Chase in the English countryside. They soon discover that they are not alo

Oscar Wilde

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B. J. Harrison Reads The Importance of Being Earnest (EN)

Oscar Wilde: In “The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People”, our main characters Algernon and Jack are tired of social obligations and have decided to lead a double life instead. However, nothing is simple when it comes to keeping secrets a

Oscar Wilde

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Poézia

B. J. Harrison Reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol (EN)

Oscar Wilde: “Yet each man kills the thing he loves / By each let this be heard / Some do it with a bitter look / Some with a flattering word/ The coward does it with a kiss, /The brave man with a sword!” Oscar Wilde’s poem “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” depicts an ex

Oscar Wilde

B. J. Harrison Reads The Circular Staircase (EN) - Mary Roberts Rinehart

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B. J. Harrison Reads The Circular Staircase (EN)

Mary Roberts Rinehart: Rachel Innes is a rich lady who has been taking care of her niece and nephew since their father died. The three of them decide to rent a house in the country and although everything seems to be alright in the beginning, strange events soon begin to occur

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B. J. Harrison Reads The Diaries of Adam and Eve (EN) - Mark Twain

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B. J. Harrison Reads The Diaries of Adam and Eve (EN)

Mark Twain: Have you ever read the story of Creation told in the first person and in a diary form? If not “The Diaries of Adam and Eve” would be the best choice for you. You will find out what the Garden of Eden looked like, see how Adam and Eve lived, and what thei

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B. J. Harrison Reads The Velveteen Rabbit (EN) - Margery Williams

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Klasická literatúra

B. J. Harrison Reads The Velveteen Rabbit (EN)

Margery Williams: It is Christmas and a little boy receives a gift – a velveteen rabbit. Although the other toys look down on him, the rabbit is happy to be with the boy. They are constant companions and it seems like nothing can worsen their days. But then the boy ge

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B. J. Harrison Reads Through the Looking-Glass (EN) - Lewis Carroll

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B. J. Harrison Reads Through the Looking-Glass (EN)

Lewis Carroll: “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There” allows readers to return to the wondrous world of Alice. A sequel to Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland,” this novel sees Alice visiting a fantastical world once again, this time through a mirror.

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B. J. Harrison Reads Alice in Wonderland (EN)

Lewis Carroll: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” also known as “Alice in Wonderland,” is a story loved by adults and children alike throughout the world. Alice is a young girl who falls down a rabbit hole, only to find herself in a whole new world filled with speakin

Lewis Carroll

B. J. Harrison Reads The Scarlet Plague (EN) - Jack London

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B. J. Harrison Reads The Scarlet Plague (EN)

Jack London: Sixty years ago, a plague wiped out mankind and only a handful of people managed to survive. The survivors established their own civilization and rules in the wild and destructed world. Now, sixty years later, an old man named James Howard Smith walks t

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B. J. Harrison Reads At The Mountains of Madness (EN) - H. P. Lovecraft

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B. J. Harrison Reads At The Mountains of Madness (EN)

H. P. Lovecraft: William Dyer is a geologist who embarks on a long expedition to the Antarctic continent. The journey is dangerous but the strange things he and his group witness and find are far from what they had expected. The discovery mission turns into a fantastica

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B. J. Harrison Reads The Door in the Wall (EN)

H. G. Wells: B. J. Harrison breathes new life into the fantastical world of “The Door in the Wall”. Wallace is a good student living in London’s West Kensington neighborhood with his family. At age five, he finds a mysterious door in the wall. When he enters, he

H.G. Wells

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Sci-fi, fantasy, horory

B. J. Harrison Reads The Island of Doctor Moreau (EN)

H. G. Wells: B. J. Harrison reads a classic science fiction novel from the late 19th century. In “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, a man is rescued from death after a shipwreck, only to face something possibly even more frightening. The island he now faces is inhabit

H.G. Wells

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B. J. Harrison Reads The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (EN)

H. G. Wells: Winter Wedderburn is an amateur collector of orchids, spending his days peacefully with his housekeeper. One day he invites more adventure into his life and buys an unknown species of orchids brought from the Andaman Islands. Little does he know that pu

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B. J. Harrison Reads Tarzan of the Apes (EN) - Edgar Rice Burroughs

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B. J. Harrison Reads Tarzan of the Apes (EN)

Edgar Rice Burroughs: In 1888, a young British couple are left behind in an African jungle. Seeing no other way than to make a life for themselves, they’ve soon built a cabin and had a son. When they die unexpectedly, their young boy ends up in the care of a she-ape, who cal

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B. J. Harrison Reads The Fall of the House of Usher (EN)

Edgar Allan Poe: One of the most haunting short horror stories to date is told to us by B. J. Harrison. Our narrator is invited to visit his acquaintance Roderick, who lives in a remote house with his sister when strange things begin to happen. Neither of the siblings

Edgar Allan Poe

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B. J. Harrison Reads The Edgar Allan Poe Collection (EN)

Edgar Allan Poe: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection features a selection of works from the pioneering 19th-century poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe. Poe’s works include the dramatic short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” to his perhaps most famous poem “The Raven”. This collectio

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B. J. Harrison Reads 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (EN) - Jules Verne

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B. J. Harrison Reads 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (EN)

Jules Verne: Pierre Aronnax is a famous marine biologist, who works together with his manservant Conseil and harpoonist Ned Land. The three brave men are tirelessly hunting a mysterious sea monster in the dangerous sea waters. But a great danger loom over them. Why

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