B. J. Harrison
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audioknihaEdgar Allan PoeB. 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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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
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audioknihaElizabeth Fries Ellet
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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
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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
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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
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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
