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This work presents an incredible biography of the great Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns. It is a diligently and carefully written biography that gives a vivid portrait of the poet's personality. Contents include: Birth and Education Lochlea and Mossgiel The Series of Satires The Kilmarnock Edition The Edinburgh Edition Burns's Tours Ellisland Dumfries Summary and Estimate
In the 1840s Charles Dickens wrote 5 short stories with strong social and moral messages. The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home, is the third of these stories. Following the home life of John Peerybingle, the story introduces the many people in John's family and life along with a cricket that acts as the guardian angel of the family. Like its predecessors, this story also contains heavy social and moral implications. However it differs from A Christmas Carol and The Chimes, in that its main theme focuses on actions that affect the family rather than action affecting society as a whole.Show book
To categorise Chesterton’s tale "The Man Who Was Thursday" is near impossible and ultimately fruitless. Nightmare? Dream? Allegory? It matters little; like all Chesterton’s writing it is packed with rich imagery, whimsical humour and universal wisdom. Like Gabriel Syme, at the conclusion of the story, we may not be quite sure whether we too, were dreaming or not. Narrated by Simon Hester. With original music.Show book
In the squalor of a textile town, successful businessman and arch-pragmatist Thomas Gradgrind, proclaiming that he is a self-made man, teaches his children to suppress their imaginations and embrace hard facts. He arranges the marriage of his daughter Louisa to Josiah Bounderby, an unattractive, boastful manufacturer who is thirty years older her senior, and Gradgrind' s son Tom goes to work in Bounderby's bank. But after Tom steals from his employer and Louisa flees the horrors of her marriage, Gradgrind must reconsider his lifelong devotion to facts and utility.Show book
An enhanced audiobook with complete music score and extensive sound effects to add to your listening experience. I do not suppose that you have brought your revolver with you, Watson? I shook my head to indicate that my response was in the negative to his question. He turned his head forward again and led us through the kitchen, past several side pantries. As we cautiously inched forward, Holmes observed that the blood trail consisted of droplets of varying size. "Whomever it came from, they must have been applying intermittent pressure on the wound as they walked." A Roger Rittner Production. Pulp Radio — Audio Dramas. Narrated by Ian Whitcomb, with Barbara Goodson and J. W. Terry. Announced by Dave Mallow.Show book
Listen to Armageddon 2419 AD with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. Armageddon—2419 A.D. is the first appearance of the character that would become Buck Rogers. First published in the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories, followed by a sequel in March 1929. These two novellas would spawn a comic strip that would run for over 40 years, a radio series, a movie serial, and a bevy of imitators.Show book
A Study in Scarlet is the first published story of one of the most famous literary detectives of all time, Sherlock Holmes. Here Dr. Watson, who has just returned from a war in Afghanistan, meets Sherlock Holmes for the first time when they become flat-mates at the famous 221 B Baker Street. In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes investigates a murder at Lauriston Gardens as Dr. Watson tags along with Holmes while narratively detailing his amazing deductive abilities.An Author's Republic audio production.Show book
