97 Results for : knave
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King, Queen, Knave , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 580min
This novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men’s clothing emporium. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the thin, awkward, myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle’s condescension in his aunt’s bed. One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Lane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/002579/bk_brll_002579_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Send for Paul Temple: A 1940 full-cast production of Paul's very first adventure, Hörbuch, Digital, 275min
Bernard Braden stars in an original 1940 full-cast production of the very first Paul Temple adventure. Between 1938 and 1968, the exploits of amateur detective Paul Temple and his wife, Steve, enthralled generations of BBC radio listeners. Theirs was an exciting world of violence and glamour - car bombs and cocktail parties. In Paul and Steve’s very first adventure, starring Bernard Braden as Paul, with Peggy Hassard as Steve, a spate of jewel robberies in the Midlands has left the police baffled. They are the work of a shadowy criminal mastermind known only as The Knave of Diamonds. But who is the Knave? And can he be stopped? All but one episode of the original 1938 BBC production of Send for Paul Temple are lost from the archives. However, this complete recording of a 1940 production - made for Canadian radio and based on the original BBC radio scripts - was recently rediscovered in the national Library and Archives of Canada. Digitally restored, all six episodes are now available for the very first time. Two bonus features are also included: the sole surviving sixth episode of the original 1938 production, starring the original Paul Temple, Hugh Morton, and an unbroadcast interview with the longest-running Paul Temple actor, Peter Coke. Language: English. Narrator: full cast, Bernard Braden, Peggy Hassard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002018/bk_rhuk_002018_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Kestrel for a Knave , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 384min
Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk. Billy identifies with her silent strength, and she inspires in him the trust and love that nothing else can, discovering through her the passion missing from his life. Barry Hines' acclaimed novel continues to reach new generations of teenagers and adults with its powerful story of survival in a tough, joyless world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gareth Bennett Ryan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/002616/bk_isis_002616_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Misadventure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 635min
Olive Heriot and Hugh Manning had been in love for years, but marriage had been out of the question because of the intervention of Olive’s mother. Now, at last, Olive was of age and due to gain her inheritance and the freedom to choose. A dinner party had been arranged at the Heriots' home, and Hugh expects to be able to announce their engagement. Things start to change after a gruesomely realistic game entitled “murder”, which relies on someone drawing the knave of spades after cards are dealt. Tragedy strikes, and other relationships are tested and consummated--but is this all real or imagined? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Cordell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/002259/bk_isis_002259_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Gamekeeper (eBook, ePUB)
George Purse is an ex-steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a ducal country estate. He gathers, hand-rears and treasures the birds to be shot at by his wealthy employers. He must ensure that the Duke and his guests have good hunts when the shooting season comes round on the Glorious Twelfth; he must ensure that the poachers who sneak onto the land in search of food do not.Season by season, over the course of a year, George makes his rounds. He is not a romantic hero. He is a labourer, who knows the natural world well and sees it without sentimentality.Rightly acclaimed as a masterpiece of nature writing as well as a radical statement on work and class, The Gamekeeper was also, like Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave (Kes), adapted by Hines and filmed by Ken Loach, and it too stands as a haunting classic of twentieth-century fiction.- Shop: buecher
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Two ab 23.99 € als Taschenbuch: A Gerald Knave Science Fiction Adventure. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Belletristik, Science Fiction & Fantasy,- Shop: hugendubel
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No Way But Gentlenesse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 501min
Born and raised in the South Yorkshire mining village of Hoyland Common, it seemed all too likely that Richard Hines would end up working in the pits, especially when, unlike his older brother Barry, he failed the 11+. Crushed by this, and persecuted by the cruelty of his teachers, Richard spent his time in the fields. One morning, he came across a nest of kestrels. Instantly captivated, he sought out ancient falconry texts from the local library. With just these books and some ingenuity, Richard learned to 'man', or train, his kestrel, Kes, and in the process grow into the man he would become. Richard and his experiences with kestrels inspired Barry's classic novel A Kestrel for a Knave. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Keeble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/002562/bk_isis_002562_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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After You with the Pistol , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 405min
Kyril Bonfiglioli's wickedly fun mysteries featuring the Honorable Charlie Mortdecai, degenerate aristocrat, amoral art dealer, seasoned epicurean, unwilling assassin, and general knave-about-Picadilly, have been cult classics in the UK since their first publication there in the 1970s. Charlie's back in After You with the Pistol, along with his new bride, Johanna, and his thuggish manservant, Jock. He's also still drinking too much whiskey, and anything else he can get his hands on, which makes it all the more difficult to figure out what the beautiful and fabulously wealthy Johanna is up to when she tries to convince Charlie to kill the Queen. Suffice it to say that Johanna is not quite what she seems. Don't miss this brilliant mixture of comedy, crime, and suspense ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Prebble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001440/bk_blak_001440_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 127min
What if William Shakespeare had written The Big Lebowski? The Dude has met the Bard, and he doth abide. Join "The Knave" and Sir Walter on a wild tale of mistaken identity, kidnapping, bowling, and a rug that, in faith, really tied the room together - in a sidesplitting Shakespearean comedy of errors and ninepins, told in five glorious acts of iambic pentameter and impeccable period prose. It's already a theatrical hit and a worldwide viral phenomenon. Two Gentlemen of Lebowski is not endorsed by or associated with the Coen Brothers, the writers and directors of the film The Big Lebowski; or Working Title or Universal Pictures, the producer and distributor of The Big Lebowski. Any and all adaptation rights in and to the The Big Lebowski are reserved to the Coen Brothers and to Universal Pictures. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernard Setaro Clark. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/049346/bk_acx0_049346_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Stolen by My Knave: Linked Across Time, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 237min
Nothing is quite what it seems.... Lady Elizabeth Kendall grew up on whimsical tales told by her mother. What if they aren't stories at all? Visions of a handsome pirate in a mirror create questions about everything she believes. The biggest one: Is time travel possible? A pirate who would be a duke.... Jackerson Morgan Carwyn, the Duke of Whitewood hasn't led the charmed life some believe, and in fact, grew up in the worst parts of London. Except it was a different time and it's a secret only he knows. Until he meets Elizabeth...She is far more than she appears to be and has information he believed long buried. A battle of wits.... Through a chess match they make a bet - the winner claiming all the spoils. As the game comes to an end they are left with a choice. They either decide to be together or destroy any chance they may have at happiness. Will they accept fate's decision or ignore all the signs that brought them together? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Duchess DeFoix. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100605/bk_acx0_100605_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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