73 Results for : fenney
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The Old House , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 19min
In The Old House, a boy is invited to meet the old man across the street, and he offers the old man a gift of a toy soldier. The toy soldier, unhappy with his new surroundings, flings himself through a hole in the floor and disappears. After the old man dies, the old house is torn down, and a new one is built, but the toy soldier remains to be rediscovered. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Fenney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/003468/bk_drms_003468_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Put a Spell on You , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 501min
On the eve of her 27th birthday, Josie Goodwin is feeling harassed. Her boyfriend, Will, has become a donkey-loving hippy ,and her best friend, Lara, has baby brain. She desperately needs to find the perfect location for a film shoot, or her career may implode. Her eccentric grandma has always said that Josie will inherit a book of spells on her birthday, but since she doesn’t believe in magic, nothing will improve; or will it? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Fenney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/025404/bk_adbl_025404_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Princess and the Pea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 3min
In The Princess and the Pea, a prince who wants to marry a princess finds it difficult to ascertain whether a princess is authentically noble. On a stormy night, a bedraggled young woman claiming to be a princess seeks shelter in the prince's castle. The Prince’s mother tests the girl’s claim by placing three peas underneath the 20 mattresses laid out for her. A humorous tale about the absurdities of the noble. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Fenney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/003469/bk_drms_003469_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Elderbush , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 21min
In "The Elderbush", a boy arrives home with a cold. His mother whisks him off to bed and prepares some elderflower tea to warm him up. A kindly older neighbor stops by to visit the boy, who asks for a fairy tale. The old man struggles to think of one, but becomes inspired by the aroma of the elderflower tea. A story about how real life can provide subjects for some of the most wonderful fairy tales. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Fenney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/003459/bk_drms_003459_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Swineherd , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 11min
In The Swineherd, a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, a prince who disguises himself as a swineherd woos an arrogant princess. Sending her a nightingale and a rose, the princess rejects the humble gifts preferring the man-made over the real. The prince/swineherd creates a musical pot and charges the princess 10 kisses for it. The princess trudges through the mud to pay 100 kisses for his next creation, a musical rattle. A parable about the shallowness of earthly things. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Fenney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/003475/bk_drms_003475_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Shadow , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 35min
In this bleak fairytale, a kind and good-natured learned man on vacation sends his shadow to investigate a balcony across the street. When his shadow never returns, he notices that he has grown a new one and figures all is well. However, five years later, he meets his original shadow, and it is now corporeal - but it doesn’t share his principles. As the shadow grows in strength, the man weakens, raising the question of whether good always triumphs over evil. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Fenney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/003472/bk_drms_003472_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Emperor's New Clothes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 13min
In "The Emperor's New Clothes", two weavers tell the emperor that they can make him a new suit of clothes that is invisible to people who are unfit for their positions or who are stupid or incompetent. Con men, the two weavers actually outfit the emperor in nothing, but will anyone be willing to tell the emperor that he is naked? As an idiom, the story's title refers to things that are accepted as common knowledge in spite of being obviously untrue. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Fenney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/003460/bk_drms_003460_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Shoes of Fortune , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 84min
In The Shoes of Fortune, a series of people who are dissatisfied with their lives put on a pair of magic shoes that grants them wishes. A civil servant who idealizes the middle ages experiences all its inconveniences. A watchman lives the lonely life of his superior and endures a terrifying visit to the moon. The shoes pass from owner to owner until one exhausted wearer who wishes for rest and spiritual freedom dies. Andersen concludes with a quote by Solon: Call no man happy until he rests in his grave. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Fenney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/003473/bk_drms_003473_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Red Shoes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 14min
In The Red Shoes, a peasant girl named Karen is adopted by a rich old lady and grows up vain and spoiled. She is so enamored of a new pair of red shoes that she wears them to church in spite of a warning to only wear black shoes there. She soon learns that ignoring that warning was a bad idea: a mysterious old soldier at the church charms the red shoes with a tap of his hand. This cautionary tale has been adapted for various media including film. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Fenney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/003470/bk_drms_003470_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Now You See Me , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min
Since walking out on her life at sixteen, Lamb has lived alone in the gaps between other people's lives. Secretly inhabiting the cellar of an elderly man for whom she cleans, she keeps herself to herself, her life a precarious balancing act - until she meets Doggo, a young criminal on the run. Both strangers to the concept of truth, Doggo and Lamb are drawn together, glimpsing in one another the possibility of finding solace and maybe even love. But with secrets too dark to admit to even themselves, let alone someone else, first they must just learn to trust in each other. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Fenney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021192/bk_adbl_021192_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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