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  The Little Prince - My Little...

  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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  This audiobook was created as part of a multilingual Audiofairytellers' My Little Prince Project for the 80th anniversary of the first edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince - and in a brand new English translation by Mícheál Úa Séaghdha. 
  All the audio content was produced, mixed, original music written & recorded by Zdeněk Berry Beran | REC. at the Berrymusic Production Studios & First Floor Studios Barrandov. David Urban - dramaturgical consultant | Pierre Savage - mastering | Rézi Bazarova - cover design. 
  The audiobook also includes a music written by Johann Sebastian Bach (Air) and our MLP project's title song "I, A Rose" (My Little Prince) co-written by Vlastimil Červený, sung by Phoebe - with Radek Baborák as a special guest on French horn. 
  A very special thanks to all the musicians, artists and supporters involved in this project: The Castle Guard Fanfare Orchestra (Prague), Gabriela Urbánková, Johana "Joy Joy" Freywaldová, Roman Lomtadze, Eliška Dvorská, Dagmar Sečkařová, Kateřina Zíková (String Ladies), Jan Pařík, Anna Podskalská, Mikoláš Orlický, Vladimír Van Maule, Jiří Mika, Petr Holý, Marie Beranová and more.

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  The Lost Christmas Tales

  Charles Dickens

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  “A heartfelt and lovely Christmas tale for kids, moms, dads and book lovers everywhere!" The Washington PostCharles John Huffam Dickens FRSA was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. A true Christmas treasure for the whole family!

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  Lady Susan

  Jane Austen

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  Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. This early complete work, which the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the title character.
  Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother- and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine Vernon, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence. Catherine is far from pleased, as Lady Susan had tried to prevent her marriage to Charles and her unwanted guest has been described to her as "the most accomplished coquette in England". Among Lady Susan's conquests is the married Mr. Manwaring.

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  A Scene from the Ghetto of...

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was born into a troubled marriage on the 4th December 1875 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  His mother, having previously lost a baby girl, would dress the young boy up in girl’s clothing.   
  Later his father dispatched him to a military academy at age 10 but after a miserable 5 years the young Rilke left due to illness and instead entered first Prague and then Munich and finally Berlin university to study art history, philosophy and literature. 
  His initial forays into literature was in poetry.  His intense, mystical and lyrical style was much admired and over time inspired many in succeeding generations.    
  His short prose collection ‘Stories of God’, written in an impassioned burst over several nights was published in 1900 and offers a beguiling view of much of Rilke’s influences and outlook.  
  The following year he married the pioneering sculptor and artist Clara Westhoff.  The union produced one child, a daughter Ruth.   
  He lived in Paris for most of the Century’s first decade where he mixed with many great minds of the time.  Although he continued to write he also worked as a secretary to the sculptor, Rodin.   
  It was only after they settled in Switzerland in 1919 that his writing output was in full flow.  Here he wrote profusely in both German and French, which included much on his previous travels, his left-wing sympathies, his religious and existential thoughts, all part of a unique and consummate style. 
  From 1923 on, Rilke increasingly struggled with his health which was now in constant decline and often spent time rehabilitating at a sanatorium.   
  Rainer Maria Rilke died of leukaemia on the 29th December 1926 in Montreux, Switzerland.  He was 51.

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  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde

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  "It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done," said Lord Henry, languidly. "You must certainly send it next year to the Grosvenor. The Academy is too large and too vulgar. The Grosvenor is the only place."    "I don't think I will send it anywhere," he answered, tossing his head back in that odd way that used to make his friends laugh at him at Oxford. "No: I won't send it anywhere."    Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows, and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy opium-tainted cigarette. "Not send it anywhere? My dear fellow, why? Have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men quite jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."    "I know you will laugh at me," he replied, "but I really can't exhibit it. I have put too much of myself into it."    Lord Henry stretched his long legs out on the divan and shook with laughter.  "Yes, I knew you would laugh; but it is quite true, all the same."    "Too much of yourself in it! Upon my word, Basil, I didn't know you were so vain; and I really can't see any resemblance between you, with your rugged strong face and your coal-black hair, and this young Adonis, who looks as if he was made of ivory and rose-leaves. Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you--well, of course you have an intellectual expression, and all that.    But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and consequently he always looks absolutely delightful. Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks. I feel quite sure of that. He is a brainless, beautiful thing, who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence. Don't flatter yourself, Basil: you are not in the least like him."

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  Astral Projection - The...

  Madam H. P. Blavatsky

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  "You can be woke without waking to the news." Madam Blavatsky 
   
  Astral projection is a term used in esotericism to describe an intentional out-of-body experience that assumes the existence of a soul called an "astral body" that is separate from the physical body and capable of traveling outside it throughout the universe. Here is the definitive classical Theosophical audiobook on a subject which has enthralled humankind since near the beginning of time. The author, Madam Helena Blavatsky was a Russian philosopher and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the leading theoretician of this stirring faith. Here is everything you need to know about the ability of a person's spirit to travel to distant places - including a step-by-step guide of how to do it. Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of some thirty-two international best-selling biographies on the Beatles and other iconic rock groups of the 1960s. He is also a well know Hollywood screenwriter, the voice on over five hundred popular audiobooks as well as an in-demand character actor in some twenty-five classic films.

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