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    In Other Worlds
    In these marvelously wide-ranging essays, Margaret Atwood explores her lifelong relationship to science fiction, as a reader and as a writer. At a time when the borders between genres are increasingly porous, she maps the fertile crosscurrents of speculative and science fiction, utopias, dystopias, slipstream, and fantasy, musing on the age-old human impulse to imagine new worlds. She shares the evolution of her personal fascination with SF, from her childhood invention of a race of flying superhero rabbits to her graduate study of its Victorian antecedents to the creation of her own acclaimed novels. Studded with appreciations of such influential writers as Marge Piercy, Ursula K. LeGuin, Kazuo Ishiguro, H. Rider Haggard, Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, and Jonathan Swift, In Other Worlds is as humorous and charming as it is insightful and provocative.
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    Ulysses, Hörbuch, Digital, 290min
    Ulysses is one of the greatest literary works in the English language. In his remarkable tour de force, Joyce catalogues one day - June 16, 1904 - in immense detail as Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin, talking, observing, musing - and always remembering Molly, his passionate, wayward wife. Set in the shadow of Homer's Odyssey, internal thoughts - Joyce's famous stream of consciousness - give physical reality extra color and perspective. Though Ulysses is widely regarded as a "difficult" novel, this fresh and lively reading shows its comic genius as well as its great moments of poignance, making it more accessible than ever before. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Norton, Marcella Riordan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000136/bk_naxo_000136_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Owl Service , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 275min
    After hearing scratches in the attic, Alison discovers a dinner service covered in an intriguing floral owl pattern, and a series of events are set in motion that will change her life forever. Alison, her step-brother Roger, and Welsh boy Gwyn are forced into a cyclical replay of the tragic Welsh legend of Blodeuwedd, in which a woman is turned into an owl as a punishment for betraying her husband. The Owl Service is a fabulous, multi-layered book of mystery and suspense, but also a contemporary musing on love, class structure and power. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wayne Forester. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000458/bk_naxo_000458_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Comic Fringes: Complete Series 3, Hörbuch, Digital, 37min
    A series of three brand new short stories written and performed by leading comedians. Stairlift Us Up Where We Belong, written and read by Sarah Millican, is a poignant and funny monologue exploring the tricky turning point in a woman's life, when she goes from being thought of as useful to becoming invisible. In Spooky and the Van, written and read by Joe Lycett, seventeen-year-old Julian is writing a blog. He's currently experiencing the weird limbo that lies between finishing school and starting university. As well as musing upon how his life might change, Julian's neighbor, nicknamed Spooky, is providing plenty of writing material and mystery... Finally, in A Difference of Opinion, written and read by Bridget Christie. Language: English. Narrator: Sarah Millican. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/005489/bk_bbcw_005489_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Washington Irving Library , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 231min
    Washington Irving's tales of romance, travel, biographical discourse, and literary musing introduced such classic fictional figures as Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, and the Headless Horsemen of Sleepy Hollow.  A sage, storyteller, and wit, Irving earned his preeminence in early American literature with these masterpieces in miniature.  Includes:"Rip Van Winkle" read by Elliott Gould"Legend of the Rose of the Alhambra" read by Eleanor Mondale"The Devil and Tom Walker and Rural Life in England" read by Efrem Zimbalist Jr."The Pride of the Village" read by Jamie Farr"The Widow and Her Son" read by Susan Anspach"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" read by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Elliott Gould, Eleanor Mondale, Jamie Farr, Susan Anspach. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/001412/bk_pnix_001412_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1938min
    Vanity Fair, with its rich cast of characters, takes place on the snakes-and-ladders board of life. Amelia Sedley, daughter of a wealthy merchant, has a loving mother to supervise her courtship. Becky Sharp, an orphan, has to use her wit, charm, and resourcefulness to escape from her destiny as a governess. This she does ruthlessly, musing: "I think I could become a good woman, if I had £5,000 a year." Thackeray’s story is set at the time of the battle of Waterloo, in which the Sedley fortunes are lost - and Amelia is back to square one - while Becky rises with contemptuous ease. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Georgina Sutton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000831/bk_naxo_000831_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    More Ronnie Barker's Lines from My Grandfather's Forehead, Hörbuch, Digital, 119min
    Ronnie Barker stars in four episodes of the comedy sketch show as heard on BBC Radio 4. Here’s a further cornucopia of clever comedy, featuring sketches, monologues, poems and songs in this sequential entertainment for radio. Here, the sketches include: a bizarre slice of Shakespeare, a poem for a man with a plan, and a forgetful actor. There are also people who use lots of words, but say very little. As well as a musing pianist, we also hear a two-headed Great Eccentric, a spoof Paul Temple, and wires get crossed on the telephone. Co-written by Gerald Wiley (the pseudonym used by Ronnie Barker) and many others, this sophisticated cabaret-cum-sketch-show contains plenty of witty wordplay. Starring Ronnie Barker, with Terence Brady, Pauline Yates, Josephine Gordon, and Dick Abell. Language: English. Narrator: Ronnie Barker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/005502/bk_bbcw_005502_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Vanity Fair, Hörbuch, Digital, 396min
    Vanity Fair, with its rich cast of characters, takes place on the snakes-and-ladders board of life. Amelia Sedley, daughter of a wealthy merchant, has a loving mother to supervise her courtship. Becky Sharp, an orphan, has to use her wit, charm, and resourcefulness to escape from her destiny as a governess. This she does ruthlessly, musing: "I think I could become a good woman, if I had 5000 pounds a year." Thackeray's story is set at the time of the battle of Waterloo, in which the Sedley fortune is lost - and Amelia is back to square one - while Becky rises with contemptuous ease. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Jane Lapotaire. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000011/bk_naxo_000011_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Leap from the Red Dress into the Jar of Clay
    The Leap from the Red Dress into the Jar of Clay ab 8.99 € als epub eBook: A Musing Memoir. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Sachthemen & Ratgeber, Familie & Partnerschaft,
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    Notes from Underground , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 280min
    Dostoevsky’s Underground Man is a composite of the tormented clerk and the frustrated dreamer of his earlier stories, but his Notes from the Underground is a precursor of his great later novels and their central concern with the nature of free will. Initially musing on his “sickness” and the detested notion of self-interest, the maladjusted and willful Underground Man turns to a series of incidents from years earlier. Scornful of others and of himself, he recounts a party he attended at which, unwelcome, he got drunk and acted scandalously, the visit to a brothel that ensued, and the chance arrival there of love—love which, of course, by his very nature he cannot accept, and so debases. Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the greatest, most influential prose writers of all time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Kliban. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003508/bk_adbl_003508_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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