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Williams gives a contemporary setting to the traditional story of the Search for the Holy Grail. Examining the distinction between magic and religion, War in Heaven is an eerily disturbing book, one that graphically portrays a metaphysical journey through the shadowy crevices of the human mind.
One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history.The classic novel of a young girl's exploration of physical pleasures.Young Fanny Hill is tricked into a life of prostitution, but she quickly learns the power of her own body as she learns the ways of physical passion. She soon escapes her fate for the loving arms of a wealthy young man, but misadventure and fate conspire to keep her from domestic bliss. Instead, Fanny discovers that sex need not be just for love; that it can be had for pleasure. She then sets out to explore those pleasures in as wide a variety as she can. With old men and young, and women as well; in positions of power, and situations where she has none; either watching or participating, Fanny's journey through the realms of sexual pleasure is a literary tour-de-force.Zum Buch
Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.BOOK 7: PATRON MINETTE: Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, a third lower floor. The social soil is everywhere undermined, sometimes for good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other.Zum Buch
A rare science fiction story by the ever-masterful Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The tale narrates the mysterious fate of pioneer aviator Joyce-Armstrong, whose attempts to explore a mysterious and perilous "air jungle" just over thirty thousand feet above Wiltshire brings him face to face with hitherto unseen monsters.Zum Buch
The greatest Christmas story ever written is brought to life by the inimitable Jason Isaacs. ''If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!' To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, alongside the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late.Zum Buch
This Audiobook contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last namesEmma [Jane Austen]Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë]The Awakening [Kate Chopin]Heart of Darkness [Joseph Conrad]Crime and Punishment [Fyodor Dostoevsky]The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [F. Scott Fitzgerald]The Call of the Wild [Jack London]The Dunwich Horror [H.P Lovecraft]The Art of War [Sun Tzu]The Importance of Being Earnest [Oscar Wilde]Zum Buch
A. J. Alan was the pseudonym of Leslie Harrison Lambert (1883-1941), an English magician, intelligence officer, short story writer, and radio broadcaster. He was hugely popular in the '20s and '30s for his radio broadcasts, when he performed his own humorous and often macabre short stories, which he always delivered wearing full evening dress.The Voice tells the story of a family whose wireless reception is being mysteriously interrupted by unusual sounds of a woman singing. Attempts to discover the source of the interference leads to something quite extraordinary.Zum Buch
