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  The Picture of Dorian Gray , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 495min

  The most personal of Oscar Wilde's works, The Picture of Dorian Grey was also one of the earliest. It was published in 1891 and caused immediate controversy and great notoriety for its writer. The story of an immensely beautiful and hedonistic boy whose conscience becomes separate from his body and housed in a portrait which slowly and hideously ages and decays in keeping with his increasing depravity whilst the boy himself remains untouched plays with all of Oscar Wilde's theories of art and life. As a major proponent of aestheticism and its belief in art for art's sake, Wilde is examining his contention, made in the book, that all art is useless and should be. The flamboyant excess of the beautiful youth's life and the detachment he feels from his surroundings and fellow revellers echo Wilde's own rampant existence. There is even an exploration of Wilde's obsession with beauty and beautiful things in the repeated idea that when life gets too painful, human beings find escape in 'that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid'. The book is full of Wilde's astonishingly clever epigrams and witticisms. The detachment that Dorian feels from his society allows him a perfect vantage point from which to hurl some glorious insults. But like all of Wilde's work, the clever aphorisms and the all but perfect form hide a stingingly sharp and ultimately rather Catholic moral. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Crispin Bonham-Carter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/slks/000039/bk_slks_000039_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Pride and Prejudice

  Pride and Prejudice: An Epistolary Edition Containing Nineteen Handwritten Letters is a collection of the letters exchanged between Jane Austen's characters in Pride and Prejudice. Glassine pockets placed throughout the book contain removable replicas of all 19 letters in the story. From Lydia's announcement of her elopement, to Mr. Darcy's honest, beseeching missive to Elizabeth, this deluxe edition pays homage to the power of these epistles .- Nothing captures Jane Austen's vivid emotion and keen wit better than her characters' correspondence.- Each letter is re-created with gorgeous calligraphy.- Letters are hand-folded with painstaking attention to historical detail.Perusing the letters will transport readers straight to the drawing room at Netherfield or the breakfast table at Longbourn.For anyone who loves Austen, and for anyone who still cherishes the joy of letter writing, this book illuminates a favorite story in a whole new way.- Step inside the world of Pride and Prejudice , one of the most beloved novels of all time.- Great Mother's Day, birthday, or holiday gift for diehard Jane Austen fans- A visually gorgeous book that will be at home on the shelf or on the coffee table- Add it to the shelf with books like What Would Jane Do?: Quips and Wisdom from Jane Austen by Potter Gift, Jane-a-Day: 5 Year Journal with 365 Witticisms by Jane Austen Edition by Potter Gift, and The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne.

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  Laugh Tactics: Master Conversational Humor and Be Funny on Command , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 160min

  Exact phrases to develop your sense of humor, master witty remarks, make people laugh, and be funnier - even if you're not naturally funny. Laugh Tactics is full of strategies that dissect, break down, and analyze all of the types of humor that you'll encounter in daily conversation - stuff you can really use with people you talk to. We're not all trying to become standup comedians, and this isn't a book about ha-ha jokes with setups and punch lines. Learn to simply make a better impression on people, put them at ease, charm them, and make them smile with you. Learn witticisms, quips, retorts, comebacks, and wisecracks without being cheesy or corny. Don't worry if you feel like you've never understood humor or how to be funny. I've done the work for you and analyzed everyone from comedy writers to standup comedians and given you step-by-step, complete guidance to use common joke structures in everyday situations. Adaptable to any premise, topic, or setting! Strategies to instantly be clever and witty and sound like a world-class comedian. Patrick King is an internationally best-selling author and sought-after social skills and conversation coach. He teaches building rapport, and a major part of that is using humor to connect with others - shared moments of laughter are incredible bonding moments, and you'll be able to create them without being "that guy/girl". PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Hempel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/077691/bk_acx0_077691_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Oscar Wilde Collection, Hörbuch, Digital, 502min

  Four classic comedies from one of the wittiest playwrights in Western literature: Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, all featuring star-studded casts with the likes of Jacqueline Bisset, Miriam Margolyes, James Marsters, Alfred Molina, Roger Rees, Yeardley Smith, Eric Stoltz, and many more. This audio also includes a chilling dramatization of Wilde's sole novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Lady Windermere's Fan: The irreverent satire that launched Wilde's succession of classical comedies. A lord, his wife, her admirer, and an infamous blackmailer converge in this delicious comic feast of scandal. A divinely funny comedy of good girls, bad husbands, and the moral hypocrisy of British high society in the late 19th century. Stars Roger Rees, Eric Stoltz, Miriam Margolyes, Joanna Going, Gina Field, Judy Geeson, Arthur Hanket, Lisa Harrow, Dominic Keating, James Warwick, and Tom Wheatley. Directed by Michael Hackett. A Woman of No Importance: Devilishly attractive Lord Illingworth is notorious for his skill as a seducer. But he is still invited to all the "best" houses while his female conquests must hide their shame in seclusion. In this devastating comedy, Wilde uses his celebrated wit to expose English society's narrow view of everything from sexual mores to Americans. Stars Rosalind Ayres, Jane Carr, Peter Dennis, Judy Geeson, Paul Gutrecht, Martin Jarvis, Cherie Lunghi, Robert Machray, Miriam Margolyes, Samantha Mathis, and Jim Norton. An Ideal Husband A tender love story, a glittering setting in London society, and a shower of witticisms are only a few of the reasons this play has enjoyed hugely successful revivals. Language: English. Narrator: James Marsters, Jacqueline Bisset, Alfred Molina, Roger Rees, Eric Stoltz, Charles Busch, Yeardley Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/latw/000284/pf_latw_000284_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 670min

  This is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber, whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s. Marion Meade re-creates the aura of excitement, romance, and promise of the 1920s, a decade celebrated for cultural innovation, the birth of jazz, the beginning of modernism, and social and sexual liberation, bringing to light, as well, the anxiety and despair that lurked beneath the nonstop partying and outrageous, unconventional behavior. The literary heroines in Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin did what they wanted, said what they thought. They drank gallons of cocktails and knew how to have fun in New York, the Riviera, and Hollywood, where they met and played with all the people worth knowing. They kicked open the door for 20th-century female writers and set a new model for every woman trying to juggle the serious issues of economic independence, political power, and sexual freedom. In a style and tone that perfectly captures the jazzy rhythms and desperate gaiety that defined the era, Meade tells the individual stories of Parker, Fitzgerald, Millay, and Ferber, traces the intersections of their lives, and describes the men, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, Harold Ross, and Robert Benchley, who influenced them, loved them, and sometimes betrayed them. She describes their social and literary triumphs (Parker's Round Table witticisms appeared almost daily in the newspapers and Ferber and Millay won Pulitzer Prizes) and writes movingly of the penances they paid: the crumbled love affairs, abortions, depression, lost beauty, nervous breakdowns, and, finally, overdoses and even madness. A vibrant mixture of literary scholarship, social history, and gossip, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin is a rich evocation of a period that continues to intrigue and captivate listeners. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lorna Raver. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000917/bk_blak_000917_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Humor and Witticisms 101 Plus

  Humor and Witticisms 101 Plus: ab 3.99 €

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  The Quotable Intellectual

  The Quotable Intellectual - 1 417 Bon Mots Ripostes and Witticisms for Aspiring Academics Armchair Philosophers. . . And Anyone Else Who Wants to Sound Really Smart: ab 9.37 €

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  The Quotable Negan

  The Quotable Negan - Warped Witticisms and Obscene Observations from The Walking Dead's Most Iconic Villain: ab 9.37 €

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  Vertical Lines

  Vertical Lines - A Compilation of Sarcasm. Word Play and Witticisms: ab 7.99 €

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  Hatfield, Ken : String Theory

  String Theory - Ken Hatfield Some projects have longer gestation periods than others. The musical ideas on this recording had been percolating in my subconscious for quite awhile, but achieving the balance I desired between simultaneity and sequentiality proved to be elusive. The music on this CD is very personal to me. The forms of the compositions and the instrumentations employed for these recorded performances mirror the sounds that I heard in my 'mind's ear' at the time of each piece's creation. These imaginary sounds and the inspirations that gave rise to them guided every aspect of the compositional process, as well as the recording of my performances of each piece. Two prime objectives motivated the creation of this CD. First, I wanted to delve deeper into the nexus between improvisation and composition that I began to examine on my CD Explorations for Solo Guitar. And second, I felt compelled to undertake an emotional journey to reclaim aspects of my cultural heritage that, frankly, as a jazz musician I had spent a lot of energy trying to distance myself from, namely, my Appalachian roots. Two of the compositions ('Borges & I' and 'Snowhill Variations') are solo guitar pieces and were recorded with no overdubs. The other two pieces ('The Gospel According to Sam' and 'String Theory') were composed as duets and were recorded with that principle in mind. Consequently, though I obviously can't play the guitar and dobro or the guitar and mandolin at the same time, I did play each part as one half of it's respective duet. So the guitar parts for each piece were recorded with no overdubs, and then each of the other instruments was added as it was played, that is, as one integral half of each duet, with no overdubs within each part. The polyphonic nature of the writing does make this difficult, but it is the way the pieces were conceived, and the way they would be performed in a live concert setting. While modern recording technology makes it possible to separate the different voices within each instrument's part, assigning each voice it's own track, I chose not to use that procedure because I felt it would distort the sense of a dialogue between two equals that is central to my conception of the compositions. Each of the four multi-movement works that make up this CD was structured so that any single movement could stand on it's own, but when heard within the context of the entirety of it's surrounding movements, each movement illuminates it's neighbors. This concept is crucial for understanding the sources that inspired each of the four multi-movement works. Even though there are three or more movements within each work, each movement relates to a different aspect of the sources that inspired the work in which it is contained. For example, 'Borges & I' is constructed in the form of a suite with seven movements, each of which is named after a short story written by the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Even the suite's overall title is named after one of Borges's short stories, and each movement of the suite was inspired by the short story after which it was named. While Borges's stories cover an enormous range of ideas and emotions, there are certain constants, which is in part why he is viewed as the father of a literary movement often referred to as 'magic realism.' One of the qualities I find most intriguing in Borges's work is his capacity for addressing the most profound aspects of the human condition in the most succinct terms. The form of the short story and the collections comprised of small numbers of them that were published during Borges's lifetime even resemble the form of a suite made up of individual movements. While my suite is not program music intended to underscore Borges's fictions (as he called them), it is an honest response to the masterful works of one of the 20th century's true visionaries. The inspiration for 'The Gospel According to Sam' was a large number of colorful sayings that I've heard throughout my life, expressed by an extraordinary man named Sam, who also happens to be my father. When I first moved to New York City and began working with a lot of different musicians, I found myself in some unfamiliar situations and responded from time to time with some of the witticisms of my father. For example, when a club owner started to deduct the cost of a glass of water from the band's pay, insisting it was on a musician's bar tab, I responded by saying that the club owner was 'tighter than a fish's ass, and that's watertight.' My fellow musicians loved these expressions so much that they often asked where on earth I came up with the stuff. When I told them, several suggested that I put together a book of my Dad's more outlandish expressions and title it 'The Gospel According to Sam.' My Dad loves the dobro, so I wrote 'The Gospel According to Sam' for him. 'Snowhill Variations' was inspired by a story told during a lecture attended by Adrian Leverkühn, the main character in Thomas Mann's novel Dr. Faustus. As a young man Adrian attended lectures about music, and during one such lecture the speaker speculates that music is such a natural art that, even without the benefit of instruction or guidance and by merely observing the natural implications of sound, a musically talented novice could reinvent music, with the results being much the same as the music we know today (or at least at the time of the novel, the early 20th century). To illustrate his point the lecturer tells the story of Johann Beissel, who formed a religious order in Pennsylvania. Beissel received what he believed to be divinely inspired poems that were messages for the faithful. Upon hearing choral music Beissel decided that his poems would be more effectively communicated with music. Knowing nothing about music did not intimidate Herr Beissel, he simply invented his own method for creating credible vocal music using a system of what he referred to as 'master and slave' tones, not unlike the system of chord tones and alternating passing tones that explain many of our chord-scale relationships today. While this story was only a small but interesting part of Mann's novel, I was intrigued by it. However, I assumed that, like the rest of the novel, it was fiction. To my surprise I found out that Beissel really existed, that he did invent a system for creating choral music, and that he founded religious sects at Ephrata and at Snowhill, Pennsylvania. I began to imagine what Beissel's music might have sounded like, and a theme took shape in my mind. When I began to play around with it on paper, I was surprised to hear how malleable it was. So I wrote twelve variations on it. The title piece for the CD, 'String Theory,' didn't have a single source of inspiration. Rather, it emerged from a serendipitous confluence of encounters with art and science, and my own observations on the interactions between these two seemingly disparate disciplines. For example, when I first saw the Henry Moore drawing that graces the cover of this CD, and the way in which it's audience quizzically awaits the unveiling of the monolithic structure covered in something bound by string, it struck me as a visual metaphor for the way physicists are awaiting the next step in the process of proving or disproving the validity of string theory. I was also fascinated by the way that some physicists began naming subatomic particles and/or the forces governing their behavior with names like 'Grace' and 'Love,' and how the deeper they get into it, the stranger it becomes-with a projected eleven dimensions to reality. It seems that the weirder their discoveries, the more physicists use names of familiar qualities to describe the tendencies of the phenomena they either predict or discover. Finally, there is the conspicuous fact that every instrument I play on this recording has strings attached. I always look for a unifying principle to hold things together, and 'String Theory' seemed the obv

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