SAGA Egmont ALX
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audioknihaG. K. ChestertonKlasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Invisible Man, a Father Brown Mystery (EN)
G. K. Chesterton: Isidore Smythe is in danger. He has received threating letters and he does not see a way out. John Angus offers Smythe his help and Smythe is escorted back to his flat. Angus is determined to find out who has sent the letters and he heads out to the fo
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audioknihaFyodor Dostoevsky
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads A Christmas Tree and a Wedding (EN)
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The narrator in the story has just came back from a wedding, but he wants to take us to a Christmas party that he was at several years ago and where he witnessed how big of a difference there is between the social classes. He saw how the rich people’s
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audioknihaFrederick Marryat
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The White Wolf (EN)
Frederick Marryat: One day Krantz comes home to witness his wife being unfaithful to him. In a fit of anger he kills both his wife and her lover, who is also Krantz’s lord. Krantz fears the punishment he will surely receive, so he flees with his three children. His saf
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audioknihaF. Scott Fitzgerald
Humor, satira
B. J. Harrison Reads Head and Shoulders (EN)
F. Scott. Fitzgerald: “Am I a laboratory experiment on which the janitors as well as the chemists can make experiments? Is my intellectual development humorous in any way?” Once a child prodigy, Horace is living up to the expectations as a young intellectual at university. Bu
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audioknihaF. Scott Fitzgerald
B. J. Harrison Reads The Cut-Glass Bowl (EN)
F. Scott. Fitzgerald: “Evylyn, I’m going to give a present that’s as hard as you are and as beautiful and as empty and as easy to see through. ” When New York housewife Evylyn Piper receives a cut-glass bowl from a former boyfriend as a wedding gift, it’s like the bowl bri
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audioknihaEdith Wharton
Detektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads The Eyes (EN)
Edith Wharton: “Phil, my dear boy, really — what’s the matter? Why don’t you answer? Have you seen the eyes?” An older gentleman invites a group of friends over for dinner and to discuss the supernatural. Afterwards, when only two guests remain, he tells them a story
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audioknihaFyodor Dostoevsky
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (EN)
Fyodor Dostoevsky: A desperate man wanders around the streets of St. Petersburg. His life having lost its meaning, he is determined to kill himself. Nothing matters anymore and there is no point in making his existence even more painful than it already is. He figures it
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audioknihaEdna Ferber
Iné
The Dancing Girls (EN)
Edna Ferber: “The Dancing Girls, and Other Stories” contains four short-stories by two-times Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber, written between 1910 and 1919. The title story paints a pictures of small-town America and of life “on the other side of the tracks. ” “The
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audioknihaBaroness Orczy
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Scarlet Pimpernel (EN)
Baroness Orczy: The “League of the Scarlet Pimpernel” is a secret society made up of twenty English aristocrats. The commander is the so-called “Scarlet Pimpernel” but almost nobody knows his real identity. The society aims to defy the French revolutionaries. The main
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audioknihaBaroness Orczy
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads A Question of Passports (EN)
Baroness Orczy: The Porte Montmartre is under citizen Bibot’s command and he is determined not to let anybody escape. When he finds out that Scarlet Pimpernel is planning his next rescue mission, he is ready to do whatever it takes to stop the commander of “The League
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audioknihaBanjo Paterson
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Man from Snowy River and Other Poems (EN)
Banjo Paterson: “The Man from Snowy River and Other Poems” is one of the best known collections of poems by Banjo Paterson and was published first in 1895. It includes 48 poems which are described by Rolf Boldrewood as “the best bush ballads”. From horseback pursuits,
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audioknihaAyn Rand
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads Anthem (EN)
Ayn Rand: Mankind has entered another Dark Age. Individuality has been eliminated. People refer to themselves only by using “we” and “they”. All live in collective homes and the mass is more important than the individual. However even in this far future, there
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Inspector Lestrade is investigating a series of break-ins in London which have one thing in common: shattered Napoleon busts. After many unsuccessful attempts to solve the case, Lestrade comes to a dead end and is forced to ask Sherlock Holmes for help.
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Horror of the Heights (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Joyce-Armstrong is a pilot, whose allies dies while they are trying to break the current height record of 30,00 feet. The man is curious over the mysterious deaths and thinks that his friends have been caught in what he calls “air-jungles”. Hay Connor a
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads Playing with Fire (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: A small group of friends decide to attend a seance at a local art studio. While some of them are very sceptical about the whole thing, others believe in the medium’s abilities. The group starts a discussion about a new painting of a mythical creature,
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads A Case of Identity (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: A young woman named Mary Sutherland is engaged and about to marry Hosmer Angel, when he unexpectedly disappears. In her despair and anxiety, Mary decides to ask Sherlock Holmes for his help. This seems to be a simple case for the great detective. After
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: London is such a large city with so many various crimes and mysteries waiting to be solved. In “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, you can find the most notable, complicated and intriguing stories about the great Sherlock Holme
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Lost World (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Edward Malone is a young journalist at the “Daily Gazette”, who is eager to impress his girlfriend Gladys. To do so, he requests a dangerous and complex task. After a few days, he is assigned to an expedition leaded by the notorious Professor Challenger
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes” is Sir Conan Doyle’s second collection about the great detective. In this collection we meet the same two protagonists, namely Holmes and Watson, but the cases and mysteries that must be solved are completely new. The
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audioknihaArthur Conan Doyle
Klasická 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
