Publisher: Greenbooks Editore
Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville's personal experiences as a crew member on a ship sailing the Pacific.
The story concerns a man alone on New Year's Eve, who loves to "sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel" while he himself has never been "around the world, never has been shipwrecked, ice-environed, tomahawked, or eaten." Some of the books he has read concern Christopher Columbus, James Bruce who searched for the source of the Nile, John Franklin who made an "unhappy overland Journey" and was lost searching for the northwest passage in the Canadian Arctic, "Men-selling despots" and the Atlantic slave trade, and Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer (1771-1806) who wrote Travels in the Interior of Africa and other adventure stories. He also touches on "one awful creature" by the name of Alexander Pearce who escaped from a penal colony on an island and cannibalized his fellow escapees.Show book
Written in 1954, this controversial story cracked down on the public school system and dramatized student violence as no other novel of its time did. Hunter used his own teaching experience to create protagonist Richard Dadier, who lands his first real job as an English teacher at North Manual Trades High School in New York City. Dadier knows the students here will be tough, but nothing has prepared him for the world he enters. Hunter's popular and groundbreaking novel attracted much attention when it was first published, and it became a top bestseller in 1955. Set against the changing social culture of the 1950s, The Blackboard Jungle is a fascinating time capsule that brilliantly illuminates an issue still in the forefront of our minds.Show book
Checkhov says truth and falsehood both play an important role in personal happiness of men. Could this also be the cause of both passionate romance and failed relationship between an impoverished Russian prince and a rich landowner? This story examines the very essence of human psychology providing valuable insight into complexities of such concepts as happiness, deception, romance and depression. Read in English, unabridged.Show book
“A hug is always the right size.” Winnie the Pooh After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends.” Eeyore “The things that make me different are the things that make me, me.” Piglet “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.” Christopher Robin Winnie-the-Pooh also called Pooh Bear and Pooh, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh, and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner.3:10Alan Alexander Milne was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.Show book
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights has been called the most beautiful, most profoundly violent love story of all time. This is the story of the all-encompassing and passionate - yet thwarted - love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. The story concludes by showing how this unresolved love eventually destroys both lovers and many around them.This story is considered a classic in the English literature. An Author's Republic audio production.Show book
The most iconic love story of all time, Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is an epic-scale tragedy of desire and revenge. Despite the bitter rivalry that exists between their families, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet have fallen madly in love. But when the long-running rivalry boils over into murder, the young couple must embark on a dangerous and deadly mission to preserve their love at any cost. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in January 2012. Lead funding for this production is provided by The Sidney E. Frank Foundation Adapted for Radio and Directed by: Martin Jarvis Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring: Janine Barris as Young Lady, Boy Page to Paris, and others Richard Chamberlain as Prince Escalus Henry Clarke as Paris and others Logan Fahey as Tybalt and Balthasar Calista Flockhart as Juliet Nicholas Hormann as Lord Capulet Lily Knight as Lady Capulet Alan Mandell as Friar Laurence Alfred Molina as Chorus Darren Richardson as Sampson and Peter Alan Shearman as Lord Montague and others André Sogliuzzo as Gregory and others Josh Stamberg as Mercutio Mark J. Sullivan as Benvolio and others Julie White as Nurse Matthew Wolf as Romeo Sarah Zimmerman as Lady Montague and others Associate Producer: Christina Montaño Recording Engineer/Sound Designer/Mixer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood Original Music by: Mark Holden and Michael Lopez Sound Effects Artist: Tony Palermo Music Supervisor: Scott Willis Editor: Wes DewberryShow book
