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Female Short Story, The - The Complete Version

Over 80 Hours - Aphra Behn to Emma Vane

de Edith Wharton, George Eliot, Mary Shelley ...

Narrado por Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf ...

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80 hora 11 minutos

01 - The Female Short Story. A Chronological History - An Introduction - The Complete History02 - The Unfortunate Bride or The Blind Lady a Beauty by Aphra Behn03 - Fantomina or, Love in a Maze by Eliza Haywood - Part 104 - Fantomina or, Love in a Maze by Eliza Haywood - Part 205 - The Story of Sir Bertrand by Anna Laetitia Barbauld06 - Betty Brown, the St Giles Orange Girl by Hannah More07 - The ... Leer más

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01 - The Female Short Story. A Chronological History - An Introduction - The Complete History02 - The Unfortunate Bride or The Blind Lady a Beauty by Aphra Behn03 - Fantomina or, Love in a Maze by Eliza Haywood - Part 104 - Fantomina or, Love in a Maze by Eliza Haywood - Part 205 - The Story of Sir Bertrand by Anna Laetitia Barbauld06 - Betty Brown, the St Giles Orange Girl by Hannah More07 - The
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Moaning Lily, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

de Emma Vane ...

Narrado por Christopher Ragland ...

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25 minutos

The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Emma Vane. ... Leer más

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The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Emma Vane.
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The Guernsey Girls Find Peace

The Final Heartbreaking Instalment of the Wartime Trilogy

de Mary Wood ...

Narrado por Emma Vane ...

Series series The Guernsey Girls
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9 hora 51 minutos

**The final heartbreaking instalment of The Guernsey Girls wartime trilogy by Mary Wood, bestselling author of The Orphanage Girls series.Their dreams are worth fighting for . . .**Winter, 1941. Olivia’s life in Guernsey is uprooted by the Nazi occupation. Forced to flee in the dead of night, she escapes to London’s East End. As she steps foot in Bethnal Green, Olivia’s former life is there to ... Leer más

$20.99 USD

**The final heartbreaking instalment of The Guernsey Girls wartime trilogy by Mary Wood, bestselling author of The Orphanage Girls series.Their dreams are worth fighting for . . .**Winter, 1941. Olivia’s life in Guernsey is uprooted by the Nazi occupation. Forced to flee in the dead of night, she escapes to London’s East End. As she steps foot in Bethnal Green, Olivia’s former life is there to
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The Guernsey Girls

A heartwarming historical novel from the bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls

de Mary Wood ...

Narrado por Emma Vane ...

Series series The Guernsey Girls
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9 hora 38 minutos

**Friendship is found far from home. Set in the years before WW2 and travelling from London to the island of Guernsey, The Guernsey Girls is the first in a touching series from Mary Wood, author of The Jam Factory Girls.'Wood is a born storyteller' – Lancashire Evening PostJanuary 1936.** After the hard work of being a maid at Wallington Manor in the lead-up to Christmas, Annie is thrilled at the ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

**Friendship is found far from home. Set in the years before WW2 and travelling from London to the island of Guernsey, The Guernsey Girls is the first in a touching series from Mary Wood, author of The Jam Factory Girls.'Wood is a born storyteller' – Lancashire Evening PostJanuary 1936.** After the hard work of being a maid at Wallington Manor in the lead-up to Christmas, Annie is thrilled at the
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Foundations of Fiction, The - Mad Scientists

Hear the stories that gave birth to the modern genre craze

de Ambrose Bierce, Constance Cotterell, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Page Mitchell, Emma Vane, H P Lovecraft, Herbert C Ridout, Jack London, L T Meade, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, M R James, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrado por David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, Robert Maskell ...

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11 hora 35 minutos

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Leer más

$39.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success
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The Guernsey Girls Go to War

de Mary Wood ...

Narrado por Emma Vane ...

Series series The Guernsey Girls
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10 hora 1 minutos

**From Mary Wood, bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls, comes the second heartfelt installment in The Guernsey Girls trilogy.War separates them, but it cannot dampen their spirits . . .Spring, 1940.** Annie’s new husband Ricky leaves to fight, but she soon discovers battles brewing closer to home. As her sister Janey begins to unravel, only Annie can pick up the pieces – and, with London’s ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

**From Mary Wood, bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls, comes the second heartfelt installment in The Guernsey Girls trilogy.War separates them, but it cannot dampen their spirits . . .Spring, 1940.** Annie’s new husband Ricky leaves to fight, but she soon discovers battles brewing closer to home. As her sister Janey begins to unravel, only Annie can pick up the pieces – and, with London’s
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 20th Century - The American Women

The top ten Short Stories of the 20th Century written by American women

de Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Parker, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Ellen Glasgow, Emma Vane, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Martha Gruening, Susan Glaspell, Zona Gale ...

Narrado por Laurel Lefkow, Liza Ross, Kelly Burke ...

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6 hora 30 minutos

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Leer más

$19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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Stories From The Shadows - Volume 10

Embrace the darkness

de Hesba Stretton, Ernest R Stuffing, E G Swain, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Allen Upward, Emma Vane, Clara Venn, Edgar Wallace, Hugh Walpole, Mary Webb, Catherine Wells, H G Wells, Edith Wharton, Ethel Lina White, Oscar Wilde, W J Wintle, Mrs Ellen Wood, Virginia Woolf, Israel Zangwill ...

Narrado por Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw-Parker ...

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11 hora 30 minutos

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Leer más

$29.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Leer más
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Her Dark Materials - Volume 4

Mary E Penn to Virginia Woolf

de Mary E Penn, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Kate and Hesketh Pritchard, Violet Quirk, Alicia Ramsay, Katherine Rickford, Charlotte Riddell, Gertrude Minnie Robins, Mary Shelley, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Helen Simpson, May Sinclair, Lady Eleanor Smith, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Hesba Stretton, Emma Vane, Clara Venn, Mary Webb, Catherine Wells, Edith Wharton, Ethel Lina White, Mrs Ellen Wood, Virginia Woolf ...

Narrado por Lisa Bowerman, Marie-Pierre, Ghizela Rowe ...

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12 hora 14 minutos

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile ... Leer más

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In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile
... Leer más
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Female Short Story, The - A Chronological History - Volume 10

Katherine Mansfield to Emma Vane

de E M Delafield, Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Edwards ...

Narrado por Eve Karpf, Liza Ross, Christopher Ragland ...

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7 hora 54 minutos

A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’. This is a perfect place to start our anthology of female short stories.Some of our earliest memories are of our mothers telling us bedtime stories. This is not to demote the value of fathers but more to promote the often-overshadowed talents of the gentler sex.Perhaps ‘gentler’ is a word that we should re ... Leer más

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A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’. This is a perfect place to start our anthology of female short stories.Some of our earliest memories are of our mothers telling us bedtime stories. This is not to demote the value of fathers but more to promote the often-overshadowed talents of the gentler sex.Perhaps ‘gentler’ is a word that we should re
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Geschichte der Piraten (Zusammengefasste Ausgabe)

Bereicherte Ausgabe. Karibikpiraterie im 18. Jahrhundert: Biografien von Schwarzbart, Vane, Anne Bonny & Mary Read – zwischen Prozessakten und Hafenklatsch

de Kapitän Charles Johnson, Emma Schwarz, Emma Schwarz ...

Die Geschichte der Piraten versammelt in chronologisch geordneten Lebensläufen die berühmtesten Seeräuber des sogenannten Goldenen Zeitalters – von Blackbeard (Edward Teach) und Bartholomew Roberts über Charles Vane bis zu Anne Bonny und Mary Read. Johnson kombiniert Prozessakten, Admiralty-Berichte und Hafenklatsch zu einer hybriden Form aus Reportage, Sittenbild und Sensationsprosa. Sein ... Leer más

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Die Geschichte der Piraten versammelt in chronologisch geordneten Lebensläufen die berühmtesten Seeräuber des sogenannten Goldenen Zeitalters – von Blackbeard (Edward Teach) und Bartholomew Roberts über Charles Vane bis zu Anne Bonny und Mary Read. Johnson kombiniert Prozessakten, Admiralty-Berichte und Hafenklatsch zu einer hybriden Form aus Reportage, Sittenbild und Sensationsprosa. Sein
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Short Stories About Mad Scientists

In search of a better world, power can corrupt even the smartest of us

de H P Lovecraft, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Constance Cotterell, Edward Page Mitchell, Emma Vane, L T Meade, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, M R James, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrado por David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, Garrick Hagon ...

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10 hora 27 minutos

Science has brought us many benefits for our health, our understanding, and our quality of life in all sorts of positive ways. We are all the better for it. But there is also a darker side when science reaches into the shadows. It claims that a fuller knowledge would benefit everyone, it must investigate. But, let’s be honest, some in science have lost their true calling and their ideas and ... Leer más

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Science has brought us many benefits for our health, our understanding, and our quality of life in all sorts of positive ways. We are all the better for it. But there is also a darker side when science reaches into the shadows. It claims that a fuller knowledge would benefit everyone, it must investigate. But, let’s be honest, some in science have lost their true calling and their ideas and
... Leer más