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audioknihaElizabeth Fries ElletDetektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads The Witch Caprusche (EN)
Elizabeth Fries Ellet: “I will not suffer thee, ungrateful girl, to rule my people according to thine own capricious will!” The king of Denmark is extremely frustrated with his daughter. Not only does she reject every suitor who asks for her hand – she does it so rudely that
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audioknihaEdith Wharton
Detektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads Afterward (EN)
Edith Wharton: “You won’t know till afterward. You won’t know till long, long afterward. ” When Ned and Mary Boyne hear that their new house is haunted, they laugh it off and joke that every good house in the countryside must have a ghost for it to be worth purchasing.
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audioknihaEdith Nesbit
Dobrodružné romány
B. J. Harrison Reads The Aunt and Amabel (EN)
Edith Nesbit: “What would you have done? Rubbed your eyes and thought you were dreaming? Well, if you had, nothing more would have happened. Nothing ever does when you behave like that. ” In ‘The Aunt and Amabel’ a young girl damages a special flower-bed without meani
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audioknihaEdith Wharton
B. J. Harrison Reads The Descent of Man (EN)
Edith Wharton: “I tell you there’s nothing the public likes as much as convictions – they’ll always follow a man who believes in his own ideas. And this book is just on the line of popular interest. ” Professor Linyard is a man of science. And when he writes a book
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audioknihaEdith Nesbit
B. J. Harrison Reads The Ebony Frame (EN)
Edith Nesbit: “Her arms rested on a table beside her, and her head on her hands; but her face was turned full forward, and her eyes met those of the spectator bewilderingly. ” One day, a man who has recently enherited his aunt’s house, discovers a portait of a woman in
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audioknihaEdgar Wallace
Detektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads The Four Just Men (EN)
Edgar Wallace: “In newspaper-land a dull lie is seldom detected, but an interesting exaggeration drives an unimaginative rival to hysterical denunciations. ” When a British politician pushes through a law that will allow political refugees to be sent back to their count
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audioknihaCharlotte Perkins Gilman
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads Herland (EN)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The three friends Van, Terry and Jeff are about to embark on a mission which will change their lives forever. They have heard of a place where only women live but they are more skeptics than believers. However they really do find such a place. And all
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audioknihaCharles F. Hall
Detektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads The Man Who Lived Backwards (EN)
Charles F. Hall: Can you imagine traveling back to the past? What would you find there? Would you like it? Would you find that everything you do has some consequences in the future? Do you want to join the man in our story? Because he is about to “trap” himself in a backw
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audioknihaCharles Dickens
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Baron of Grogzwig (EN)
Charles Dickens: Baron Grogzwig lives a life full of pleasure, drinking and hunting with his friends. But when he decides ´ to marry one of his fellow baron’s daughter, his days change drastically. First he has to send his friends away as per his wife’s demands. T
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audioknihaCharles Dickens
B. J. Harrison Reads David Copperfield (EN)
Charles Dickens: David Copperfield was a little boy who grew up in an unfortunate family. His father died six months before David’s birth. Later his mother remarried to a cruel man who beat him up. David however fought back and bit him. This resulted in David gettin
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audioknihaCharles Dickens
B. J. Harrison Reads Great Expectations (EN)
Charles Dickens: Pip is a poor orphaned boy who lives together with his sister and her husband. Pip is not educated but has great dreams of the future. He is determined to get out of the low class and seek progress in the higher class. One day a lawyer appears. Pip ha
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audioknihaCharles Dickens
B. J. Harrison Reads Nicholas Nickleby (EN)
Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby is a young boy left without a father. Nicholas has to take care of his mother and sister and is forced by his uncle to work as an assistant to the schoolmaster Wackford Squeers. Squeers’ intentions are however not good and his only g
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audioknihaCharles Dickens
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens (EN)
Charles Dickens: “The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens” is a precious collection of Christmas tales. Christmas spirit, joy, excitement, cheer and Christmas trees against low classes living in despair and poverty. There are two sides to the story but the holiday and
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audioknihaCharles Dickens
Detektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads A Christmas Carol (EN)
Charles Dickens: Christmas is just around the corner. People are cheery and excited, except for Ebenezer Scrooge for whom Christmas is just another day. Ebenezer is an old, bitter miser who has distanced himself from everyone and leads a lonely life by his own choice.
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audioknihaBram Stoker
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Judge’s House (EN)
Bram Stoker: A student arrives in a small town willing to find a quiet place where he can prepare for his exams. An old mansion seems like a great option for him. The locals warn him that strange things occur from time to time, but the student is not superstitious.
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audioknihaBram Stoker
Detektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads Dracula (EN)
Bram Stoker: You have certainly heard of Dracula. But do you know the whole story? Everything begins with Jonathan Harker, an English solicitor who travels to Transylvania. He is about to sell a piece of real estate to Count Dracula. The locals warn Harker of the s
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audioknihaBram Stoker
Detektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads Dracula’s Guest (EN)
Bram Stoker: An Englishman stops at an inn during his trip through Transylvania. He decides to wander around in a carriage despite the approaching night; darkness doesn’t seem to worry him. He sets off but after a while the horses get scared by howling wolfs. The E
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audioknihaBram Stoker
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Squaw (EN)
Bram Stoker: “The Squaw” is not your typical horror story but the brutality of it will take by surprise even the biggest horror fiction fan. Bram Stoker introduces us to a couple on a honeymoon and an American tourist whom they meet in Nuremberg, Germany. The story
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audiokniha- Erckmann-Chatrian
B. J. Harrison Reads The Invisible Eye (EN)
– Erckmann-Chatrian: “The physiognomy of this old woman had struck me more than once: her little green eyes, long, thin nose, the immense bouquets of flowers on her shawl, which must have been at least a hundred years old. ” Soon after Christian settles in Nuremberg, he becom
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audioknihaCarl Stephenson
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads Leiningen vs. the Ants (EN)
Carl Stephenson: Man against nature, Leiningen against ants. Leiningen, an owner of a plantation, gets one day warned that an army of ants is approaching his fields and that it would be smartest to leave. Leiningen is however not going to give up on his land without a f
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audioknihaPamela Kent
Meet me in Istanbul (EN)
Pamela Kent: Gay is living a luxurious life in Istanbul but wants to escape what has become a caged life. She turns to Charles Villers, a fellow countryman she hardly knows, to help her leave. What follows is an adventure beyond her imagination set in romantic and e
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audioknihaElizabeth von Arnim
Klasická literatúra
The Enchanted April (EN)
Elizabeth von Arnim: Four very different women, all wanting to escape cold and dreary London for different reasons, come together to share a month’s holiday in an Italian medieval castle. There’s timid Lotty Wilkins, terrified of her domineering husband; sober and religiou
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audioknihaElizabeth Cooper
Klasická literatúra
My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard (EN)
Elizabeth Cooper: In “My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard,” Elizabeth Cooper offers the reader a translation of two series of letters by Kwei-li, the wife of a high-rank Chinese official. The first series is addressed to her husband whilst he is on a world tour with Prince C
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audioknihaEdna Ferber
Iné
The Homely Heroine (EN)
Edna Ferber: “The Homely Heroine” is a short story by American author Edna Ferber. It features a writer whose heroines are generally extremely beautiful. But one day, whilst she is out shopping, a shop-keeper asks her why she doesn’t write stories about a homelier
