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HOW TO BE HAPPY ALONE AND SINGLE?Ellie is a 35-year-old woman who broke up with her boyfriend and is now single. She is afraid of becoming an unhappy woman if she continues alone. However, a friend will teach Ellie how to be happy alone and single.
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born on 26th May 1799 in Moscow into a family of Russian nobility. Raised by nursemaids and French tutors in French he learnt Russian only via the household staff. He graduated from the prestigious Imperial Lyceum, near St Petersburg and plunged into the vibrant and raucous intellectual youth culture of what was then the capital of the Russian Empire. In 1820, he published his first long poem, ‘Ruslan and Ludmila’, with much controversy about both subject and style. Pushkin was heavily influenced by the French Enlightenment and gravitated, with other literary radicals, towards social reform angering the Government. His early literary work and reputation was poetic and written as he travelled around the Empire or engaged himself in various rebellions against the Ottoman Empire. A clash with his own government after his poem, ‘Ode to Liberty’, was found among the belongings of the Decembrist Uprising rebels meant two years of internal exile at his mother's rural estate. His friends and family continually petitioned for his release, sending letters and meeting with Tsar Alexander I and then Tsar Nicholas I. In 1825, whilst at his Mother’s estate, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama ‘Boris Godunov’. Upon meeting with Tsar Nicholas I, Pushkin obtained his release and began work as the Tsar's Titular Counsel of the National Archives. However, because of the earlier problems the tsar retained control of everything Pushkin published, and he was banned from travelling at will. Around 1828, Pushkin met the 16-year-old Natalia Goncharova, one of the most talked-about beauties of Moscow. After much hesitation, Natalia accepted his marriage proposal after she received assurances that the government had no intentions to persecute the libertarian poet. When the Tsar gave Pushkin the lowest court title, Gentleman of the Chamber, he became enraged, feeling that the Tsar intended to humiliate him. In the year 1831, during Pushkin's growing literary influence, he met Nikolai Gogol. Recognising his gifts Pushkin supported him and published his short stories in his own magazine ‘The Contemporary’. By the autumn of 1836, Pushkin was falling into greater and greater debt and facing scandalous rumours that his wife was having an affair. In January 1837, Pushkin sent a ‘highly insulting letter’ to his wife’s pursuer, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès. The only answer could be a challenge to a duel. It took place on 27th January. D'Anthès fired first, critically wounding Pushkin; the bullet entered at his hip and penetrated his abdomen. Two days later Alexander Pushkin died of peritonitis. He was 37.Ver livro
Set during the dark days of World War II, Agatha Christie’s N or M? puts two most unlikely espionage agents, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, on the trail of a pair of Nazi spies who have murdered Britain’s top agent. World War II is raging, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces a sinister threat from “the enemy within”—Nazis posing as ordinary citizens. With pressure mounting, the intelligence service appoints two improbable spies, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Their mission: to seek out a man and a woman from among the colorful guests at Sans Souci, a seaside hotel. But this assignment is far from an easy stroll along the promenade—N and M have just murdered Britain’s finest agent and no one can be trusted.Ver livro
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a mysterious and unsettling realm where reality blends with hallucination, a lost wanderer discovers the ancient ruins of the legendary city of Carcosa. Surrounded by ominous landscapes and inexplicable phenomena, the protagonist comes face to face with their own identity and destiny. Is what we see the truth? Can we trust our own senses? Uncover the secrets of Carcosa and immerse yourself in a world where the boundaries between life and death, past and present, become blurred.Ver livro
A nine-year-old boy falls off the terrace of a ten storied building. The mother calls for an investigation. Anshuman Singh investigates the case and finds out the kid was a prodigy. Why would a nine-year-old boy kill himself or why would someone kill a nine-year-old boy or was it an accident? Can Anshuman find the truth?Ver livro
More classic horror narrations on Jonathan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks Title: At the Mountains of Madness Author: H. P. Lovecraft Narrator: Jonathan Dunne Original Publication: 1936 Public Domain: Yes Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 84 Series Format: Part 1 of 12 Description: At the Mountains of Madness is one of H. P. Lovecraft’s most influential works of cosmic horror—a vast and unsettling account of forbidden knowledge, ancient civilizations, and humanity’s fragile place in an uncaring universe. This narration marks Part One of a 12-part series, with new installments released regularly. The story begins with a Miskatonic University expedition to Antarctica, undertaken in the name of scientific discovery. What initially appears to be a routine research mission soon uncovers evidence of an impossibly ancient presence buried beneath the ice—one that predates humanity and defies all conventional understanding. Central to the tale is Lovecraft’s vision of cosmic insignificance. As the expedition pushes deeper into the polar wasteland, reason and science prove inadequate in the face of revelations that threaten not only the explorers’ sanity, but humanity’s understanding of its own origins. Rather than relying on constant action, Lovecraft builds horror through atmosphere, scale, and the gradual unveiling of terrifying truths. Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the story’s mounting dread, intellectual unease, and slow-burn descent into cosmic terror. At the Mountains of Madness endures as a cornerstone of Lovecraftian fiction—a chilling reminder that some knowledge is better left buried, and that the universe is far older, stranger, and more hostile than we dare imagine.Ver livro
Hector Hugh Munro, more familiarly known by his pen-name ‘Saki’ was born in what was then Akyab in British Burma on 18th December 1870. His father was an Inspector General for the Indian Imperial Police, and his mother the daughter of a Rear Admiral. When he was 2 his mother died and he and his siblings were sent back to England to be raised by their grandmother and paternal maiden aunts in a strict, puritanical household near Barnstaple, Devon. Educated by governesses Saki used many of these women as character models for his later writing. At 17 his father retried and returned to England and then embarked on a series of European travels with Saki and his siblings. After a short stint working in Burma with the Indian Imperial Police Saki decided to move to London to make a living as a writer. Initially he wrote as a journalist for a number of newspapers and magazines before attempting an historical study, ‘The Rise of the Russian Empire’, whose real value lay in directing him to writing short stories instead, the first of which, ‘Dogged’, he published in 1899. From here it was a short stab of the pen to writing political satire before in 1902 he became the foreign correspondent for The Morning Post, first in the Balkans, then Russia, Paris and back to London in 1908, where 'the agreeable life of a man of letters with a brilliant reputation awaited him.' Collections of his short stories full of witty, mischievous and often macabre stories that satirized Edwardian society and two novels now appeared in the years up to the Great War. At its’ outbreak he was 43 but managed to join as an ordinary trooper. More than once he returned to the battlefield when officially too sick or injured. On 14th November 1916 Hector Hugh Munro was sheltering in crater during the Battle of the Ancre, when he was shot and killed by a German sniper. According to several sources, his last words were "Put that bloody cigarette out!"Ver livro
