2020
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audioknihaArthur Conan DoyleKlasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads A Study in Scarlet (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Dr. John Watson comes back to London to recover after being heavily injured at war. However, thanks to his scarce pension, Watson cannot afford a decent apartment. One day he serendipitously meets an old friend named Stamford with whom he shares his pl
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Dying Detective (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: The great detective, Sherlock Holmes, is dying from a highly contagious tropical disease called Tapanuli fever. Dr. Watson is shocked when he hears about his friend’s illness. He travels to examine him, but Holmes refuses his help. Instead, a man ca
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Adventure of the Dancing Men (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Hilton Cubitt visits Sherlock Holmes to show him a sheet of paper with a weird sequence of drawn figures. When these odd messages began to arrive at Cubitt’s house, fear and panic overwhelmed his wife Elsie. She is afraid her past is catching up with
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are discussing the lack of interesting new cases when a man bursts into the room. The panicked young man is McFarlane and he believes that he will be arrested for the murder of 52-year-old Jonas Oldacre. Oldacre’s burnt
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Hound of the Baskervilles (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Dr. James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for advice, after finding his friend Sir Baskerville dead. According to the official version, Baskerville died from a heart attack, but Mortimer thinks that something terrible happened to his frien
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads Lot No. 249 (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Abercrombie Smith and Edward Bellingham are neighbors and fellow students at the University of Oxford. Smith is a medical student and athlete, while Bellingham is a specialist of Eastern studies and the owner of many Egyptian artefacts. A series of stra
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Speckled Band (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Helen Stoner goes to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. She is afraid that her stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Roylott, may be trying to kill her. Helen’s sister died mysteriously two years earlier, right before her own wedding. Her last words, which Helen n
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Gloria Scott (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes is still a student when he receives his very first case. While still in college, he is invited to the house of his good friend, Victor Trevor. There he meets Trevor’s father, who challenges Holmes to analyze him, so that he can test th
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Ring of Toth (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Mr. John Smith is a British student of Egyptology who travels to Paris. The main purpose of his trip is to visit the Louvre and research some papyri. Unfortunately, tired from going round the museum, Smith falls asleep in one its the many corners. Whe
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Leather Funnel (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Lionel Dacre is a young man who lives in a small house in Paris. Because of his large interest in the occult, Dacre has gathered a huge library of occult literature and many mysterious items. One of these items is a leather funnel next to which the youn
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audioknihaAnonymous
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Three Apples (EN)
– Anonymous: One day a poor fisherman finds a large and heavy chest. Caliph Harun al-Rashid buys the chest, thinking that it encloses a treasure. Instead, he finds out that it contains a woman’s corpse sliced into pieces. Following this discovery, the caliph orde
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audioknihaAnonymous
B. J. Harrison Reads Sinbad the Sailor (EN)
– Anonymous: Sinbad is a poor man who works as a carrier under the regime of Harun al-Rashid. Every day, obediently, the man carries the heavy load on his head. One day he feels that fatigue taking over him, and he decides to sit and rest for a few minutes. While S
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audioknihaAnonymous
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Tale of Two Viziers (EN)
– Anonymous: After their father’s death, the two brothers, Nur al-Din and Shams al-Din, agree to marry two sisters on the same day. The main idea is that Nur wants to have a son, while Shams wants to have a daughter. And so it happens. Shams al-Din has a daughter
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audioknihaAveril Ives
Desire for the Star (EN)
Averil Ives: Valerie was once saved from a life in a wheelchair by the charming Dr. Axel Anton. Years later, when looking after his young niece in Vienna, Valerie comes across the doctor again. Her long-standing affections towards him are soon rekindled, but their
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audioknihaAnna Bridgwater
Biografie a texty
Sister on Borrowed Time (EN)
Anna Bridgwater: In November 2005 a young woman, Margaret, dies of leukemia. In this moving and personal book Margaret’s sister, the journalist and writer Anna Bridgwater, tells about the years leading up to her death – about life as a young woman in Copenhagen, abou
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audioknihaClaes Johansen
Dobrodružné romány
Nicola and the Child Correction Centre (EN)
Claes Johansen: Nicola’s father froze. He slowly put down his knife and fork. She looked at him, shocked to see how he had suddenly turned chalky white. She began to shiver. What did her father know about the Child Correction Centre? From the moment Nicola hears ab
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audioknihaClaes Johansen
Dobrodružné romány
The Boatman and the Boy (EN)
Claes Johansen: By now the sun was up, and through the periscope he minded he could see the stony plateau in front of the position. On the other side of it were the outskirts of the jungle where the enemy was hiding and building his camps, preparing for new attacks. He
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audioknihaH.c. Andersen
Deti
Bronzový kanec
H.c. Andersen: Ve Florencii mají bronzovou fontánu ve tvaru kance, kterému z tlamy stříká voda. Jednoho večera se sem přišel napít chudý chlapec. Vedle fontány našel pár listů salátu a kaštany, a protože byl hladový, tak je snědl. Rozhodl se přen
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audioknihaH.c. Andersen
Deti
Šťastná rodina
H.c. Andersen: Kolem starého opuštěného zámku rostla džungle lopuchů. Pod velkými zelenými listy žili dva staří hlemýždi, potomci starého rodu. Jejich předky si kdysi panstvo ze zámku vychutnávalo jako delikatesu podávanou na stříbrných talíří
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audioknihaH.c. Andersen
Deti
Sousedé
H.c. Andersen: U rybníka žije spousta rodin – růže, vrabci a samozřejmě i lidé. Jednou se malí vrabčáci zeptají svých rodičů: „Co je to krása? ” Odpověď se dozví překvapivým způsobem!.
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audioknihaHans Christian Andersen
What One Can Invent (EN)
Hans Christian Andersen: Once upon a time, a young man dreamed of becoming a writer and making a living from his pen. But there was a problem. The writers of the previous centuries had already exhausted all the subjects and he no longer knew what to write about! This is why he
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audioknihaHans Christian Andersen
The Toad (EN)
Hans Christian Andersen: A family of toads lived in a very deep well: it was so deep that, from the top, you could not even see the surface of the water. One of the young toads dreamed of knowing what there was outside of the well, so, ignoring his mother’s warnings, he used t
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audioknihaHans Christian Andersen
The Psyche (EN)
Hans Christian Andersen: The star that is brightest this morning knows many things: she has watched over the earth for centuries and knows many things that we men have long forgotten. Today, she tells us the story of the Roman artist that only she knows.
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audioknihaHans Christian Andersen
The Nightcap of the “Pebersvend” (EN)
Hans Christian Andersen: A long time ago, in Copenhagen, there lived an old bachelor who lived alone in a small shack and always slept with a nightcap that he pulled well down over his face. People laughed at his strange attire. However, there was a story behind this nightcap a
