Verlag: Grosvenor House Publishing
Amidst the harsh environment of Sector 7G, two pigs, Ruth and Sunflower, find each other and brave the cruel treatment as friends. As Sunflower shares her dreams of the magical outside, Ruth's hope of a life beyond her cage is reignited. Finding strength in each other, they begin to formulate plans for an improbable escape.
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born on 9th November 1818 in Oryol, Russia to parents from the nobility. He and his two brothers were raised by their mother on the family estate. Surrounded by foreign governesses he became fluent in French, German, and English. Their father spent little time with them and this undoubtedly had an effect on him and his brothers. When he was nine the family moved to Moscow to give their children a proper education. Turgenev studied for a year at the University of Moscow and then at the University of St Petersburg to study Classics, Russian literature, and philology. During that time his father died from kidney stone disease. In 1838 Turgenev studied philosophy and history at the University of Berlin for 3 years before returning to St Petersburg for his master's. He started his career with the Russian Civil Service and it was only in 1852 that he made his name with his short story collection, ‘A Sportsman's Sketches’, based on his observations of peasant life and nature. That same year he wrote an obituary for Nikolai Gogol: "Gogol is dead!... What Russian heart is not shaken by those three words?... He is gone, that man whom we now have the right (the bitter right, given to us by death) to call great." The St Petersburg censor banned publication but the Moscow censor allowed it. He was dismissed but Turgenev was held responsible and imprisoned for a month, and then exiled to his country estate. Along with many other Russian intellectuals Turgenev left and settled in Paris in 1854. During this period he wrote his finest stories and four novels. Alexander II ascended the Russian throne in 1855, and the political climate became more relaxed, Turgenev returned home. ‘Fathers and Sons’, Turgenev's most famous and enduring novel, appeared in 1862. Its leading character is considered the first ‘Bolshevik’ in Russian literature. But the hostile reaction prompted Turgenev's decision to again leave Russia. His health declined during his later years. In January 1883, an aggressive malignant tumor was removed but by then it had metastasized in his upper spinal cord, causing him intense pain in his final few months of life. Ivan Turgenev died on 3rd September 1883 of a spinal abscess, a complication of the metastatic liposarcoma, in his house near Paris. He was buried in St Petersburg.Zum Buch
The Ladies' Society for the Dead meets once a year. This year, there are eleven ghostly attendees who must work together to pierce the veil between the living and the dead. Each woman has an important message to share if her ghost is ever to find peace. This year, Maude will do everything she can to complete her séance and tell the world who the real axe murderer was on the night of her grisly demise.Zum Buch
In "The Red-Headed League", the legendary Sherlock Holmes catches one of London's most daring criminals while investigating the strange business of the League, a suspicious organization that gives its members money for "nominal work".Zum Buch
🎬 Experience the atmospheric visual edition of this tale by searching "Jonathan Dunne Horror" on YouTube. Title: At the Mountains of Madness — Part 11 of 12 Author: H. P. Lovecraft Narrator: Jonathan Dunne Original Publication: 1936 Public Domain: Yes Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 85 — Part 11 of 12 Description: In Part Eleven of At the Mountains of Madness, terror reaches its most immediate and overwhelming form as Dyer and Danforth come face to face with the full, unthinkable reality of the ancient city. What had been pieced together through murals and inference now manifests in a way that defies both reason and endurance. The vast corridors and alien structures become a maze of dread, where every turn threatens revelation—or worse. The explorers’ fragile composure begins to fracture under the strain, as the true nature of the forces within the city emerges with horrifying clarity. No longer observers, but participants in a nightmare beyond human comprehension, they are driven by a single, desperate impulse: escape. Yet even flight offers no assurance of safety, for what they have seen—and what may have seen them—cannot be easily left behind. In this eleventh installment of the 12-part complete audiobook series, Lovecraft unleashes the culmination of mounting suspense, plunging the narrative into raw cosmic horror as the explorers confront a truth that threatens to shatter both mind and reality itself.Zum Buch
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 065: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, chosen and read by Librivox volunteers.Zum Buch
There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. From their pens to your your ears.Zum Buch
