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audioknihaWorld HistoryKnights Templar: Lost Secrets Revealed (EN)
World History: Historians find the Middle Ages a period shrouded in mystery. On the one hand, sources speak of greedy kings and corrupt popes who flourished during a time of widespread hunger, disease and servitude. On the other, nobler thoughts began to flourish. Le
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audioknihaWorld History
Biggest Blunders of WWII (EN)
World History: In August 1940, Berlin was hit by British bombers. Hitler immediately ordered a series of gigantic air defences be built – each one more expensive than the city’s entire Olympic facilities – but they’re ineffective and resources are wasted. The
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audioknihaWorld History
Hell on the Eastern Front (EN)
World History: German tanks rolled unimpeded across the Russian steppes at the start of Hitler’s campaign against the Soviet Union. But in 1943, the so-called Slavic “untermensch” (subhumans) gain the initiative and transform the country into a hell for Hitler’s in
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audioknihaKate Chopin
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads Desiree’s Baby (EN)
Kate Chopin: Kate Chopin’s short story “Desirée’s Baby” depicts a love story that is far from simple. Desirée was found as a baby by a wealthy French Creole couple, Monsieur and Madame Valmondé, in Louisiana before the American Civil War. She marries Armand,
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audioknihaJ.M. Barrie
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads Peter Pan (EN)
J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan is a special little boy, dressed in withered leaves, who does not want to grow up. He lives with the fairies far, far away, on the magical island of Neverland. One night, Peter Pan flies into the room of Wendy and her brothers, Michael and Joh
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audioknihaHans Christian Andersen
Dobrodružné romány
B. J. Harrison Reads The Snow Queen (EN)
Hans Christian Andersen: B. J. Harrison reads one of Hans Christian Andersen’s most beloved stories, “The Snow Queen”. The devil, who has taken the shape of an evil troll, has created a mirror that freezes the heart and turns everything ugly. But the mirror breaks and shard
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audioknihaEmily Brontë
Detektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads Wuthering Heights (EN)
Emily Brontë: “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ” In the winter of 1801, a man named Lockwood rents a home in Northern England. When he meets his unfriendly landlord, Heathcliff, who lives in the old nearby manor
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audioknihaEdgar Rice Burroughs
Detektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads The Gods of Mars (EN)
Edgar Rice Burroughs: “There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it. ” After being unwillingly transported back to Earth, John Carter finally finds a way back to Mars, exited to be reunited with his beloved wife Dejah Thoris after a ten-year separation. Unfortunately, J
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audioknihaEdgar Rice Burroughs
Dobrodružné romány
B. J. Harrison Reads A Princess of Mars (EN)
Edgar Rice Burroughs: “Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known. ” After the Civil War, Capta
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audioknihaEdgar Allan Poe
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Tell-Tale Heart (EN)
Edgar Allan Poe: B. J. Harrison tells Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Tell-Tale Heart”, where our narrator has committed the crime of murdering an older man. He does not consider himself a madman, and he describes the murder up to the smallest detail. Yet he has killed a
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audioknihaEdgar Allan Poe
B. J. Harrison Reads The Raven and Other Poems (EN)
Edgar Allan Poe: Is there anyone more associated with a raven than the writer Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the macabre? His famous poem “The Raven”, published in 1845, presents us with a speaking bird and numerous mythological references. Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry is kn
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audioknihaEdgar Allan Poe
Klasická literatúra
B.J. Harrison Reads Berenice (EN)
Edgar Allan Poe: Egaeus is a man who can get lost in matters with “nervous intensity of interest”. He is about to marry his cousin Berenice, whose health is deteriorating until the only part the disease has not touched are her teeth. It is those teeth, which fill Egaeus
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audioknihaEdgar Allan Poe
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (EN)
Edgar Allan Poe: In “The System of Doctor Tarr and Pofessor Fether” from the 19th century nothing is quite what it seems. During his tour of southern France, our narrator visits a local mental institution, of which he has heard a great deal. Upon arriving at the institu
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audioknihaEdgar Allan Poe
Klasická literatúra
B.J. Harrison Reads The Purloined Letter (EN)
Edgar Allan Poe: B. J. Harrison reads “The Purloined Letter” by Edgar Allan Poe, which is a story of an unusual mystery that needs to be solved. A sensitive letter has been stolen from the queen’s boudoir, and the famous amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin has been call
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audioknihaEdgar Allan Poe
B. J. Harrison Reads The Cask of Amontillado (EN)
Edgar Allan Poe: B. J. Harrison visits Edgar Allan Poe’s grim horror story, “The Cask of Amontillado”. Montresor is a man who has been insulted, and he does not take this lightly. Seeking revenge on the person who slighted him, Fortunato, he sets out on a terrible miss
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audioknihaEdgar Allan Poe
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Pit and the Pendulum (EN)
Edgar Allan Poe: A prisoner arrives at a trial before the Spanish Inquisition and is condemned to death. Upon his conviction, he faints and finds himself in a horrendous cell to fight off death. Still, this prisoner is not giving up that easily and describes his horrend
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audioknihaEdgar Allan Poe
B.J. Harrison Reads The Masque of the Red Death (EN)
Edgar Allan Poe: B. J. Harrison reads one of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short stories “The Masque of the Red Death”. Prince Prospero and 1,000 other nobles have taken refuge at a castle-like abbey to escape the Red Death, a horrifying plague that has taken over the land
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audioknihaEdgar Allan Poe
Dobrodružné romány
B.J. Harrison Reads MS. Found in a Bottle (EN)
Edgar Allan Poe: In “MS. Found in a Bottle”, one harrowing event seems to take place after another. Our narrator is a man who has become alienated from others and his country. He steps aboard a cargo ship from Batavia, which crashes into stormy conditions that send mos
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audioknihaGuy de Maupassant
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Head of Hair (EN)
Guy de Maupassant: Can a man lose his mind because of a braid of hair? Can people come back from the dead? “The Head of Hair” tells the story of one poor man who gets so obsessed with a hairpiece that he comes to believe that the lady it belonged to has returned from the un
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audioknihaFelix Salten
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads Bambi (EN)
Felix Salten: Bambi is a poor little roe deer who loses his mother and suddenly has to face obstacles, which he finds hard to overcome. In the forest, dangers hides behind every tree and Bambi has to learn fast if he wants to survive. The other males in the forest ha
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audioknihaMary Whistler
Escape to Happiness (EN)
Mary Whistler: Rose had read about the wedding, a widely covered social event, and under no circumstances had imagined that she would have anything to do with such an important event. Then, to her great surprise, she finds the wounded groom at her doorstep after leavin
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audioknihaAnita Charles
One Coin in the Fountain (EN)
Anita Charles: When Rose’s charming guardian Sir Laurence Melville is ditched by her fiancée, Rose is secretly happy, as she is quite in love with the man herself. When she travels to Rome, nothing and no one can seem to take Rose’s mind off him, not even the gorg
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audioknihaElmer Brown Mason
Dobrodružné romány
B. J. Harrison Reads The Golden Anaconda (EN)
Elmer Brown Mason: Adventurer Wandering Smith is hunting anacondas in the jungles of South America when he spots an orchid hunter, who is fleeing from a group of natives. The two join forces, but it soon becomes clear to Wandering Smith that the orchid hunter is after some
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audioknihaElizabeth von Arnim
B. J. Harrison Reads The Enchanted April (EN)
Elizabeth von Arnim: “. Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer. ” Lottie and Rose belong to the same London women’s club, but they don’t know each other very well. They both see the same adverti
