B. J. Harrison
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audioknihaOscar WildeHumor, 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
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audioknihaOscar Wilde
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
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audioknihaOscar Wilde
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
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audioknihaMary Roberts Rinehart
Klasická literatúra
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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audioknihaMark Twain
Klasická literatúra
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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audioknihaMargery Williams
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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audioknihaLewis Carroll
Dobrodružné romány
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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audioknihaLewis Carroll
Dobrodružné romány
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
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audioknihaJack London
Klasická literatúra
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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audioknihaH. P. Lovecraft
Klasická literatúra
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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audioknihaH.G. Wells
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
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audioknihaH.G. Wells
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
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audioknihaH.G. Wells
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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audioknihaEdgar Rice Burroughs
Dobrodružné romány
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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audioknihaEdgar Allan Poe
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
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audioknihaEdgar Allan Poe
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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audioknihaJules Verne
Klasická literatúra
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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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
