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Winnie-the-Pooh (also known as Edward Bear, Pooh Bear or simply Pooh) is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard. Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story commissioned by London's Evening News for Christmas Eve 1925. The character is inspired by a stuffed toy that Milne had bought for his son Christopher Robin in Harrods department store, and a bear they had viewed at London Zoo.

The first collection of stories about the character is the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children's verse book When We Were Very Young (1924) and many more in Now We Are Six (1927). All four volumes were illustrated by E. H. Shepard. The stories are set in Hundred Acre Wood, which was inspired by Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex—situated 30 miles (48 km) south of London—where the Londoner Milne's country home was located.

A. A. Milne named the character Winnie-the-Pooh after a teddy bear owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, on whom the character Christopher Robin was based.

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Opening Credits. 0:00:00

Introduction 0:00:42

01. Chapter 0:03:38

02. Chapter 0:22:47

03. Chapter 0:34:15

04. Chapter 0:42:01

05. Chapter 0:51:12

06. Chapter 1:07:35

07. Chapter 1:28:47

08. Chapter 1:42:52

09. Chapter 2:04:46

10. Chapter 2:20:19

Ending Credits. 2:32:28

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Narrated by Nick Donovan

Author: A. A. Milne

Date of original publication: 1925

Genre: children's story

Language : English

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was conceived on 4 July 1862, when Lewis Carroll and Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed up the river Isis with the three young daughters of Carroll's friend Henry Liddell: Lorina Charlotte (aged 13; "Prima" in the book's prefatory verse); Alice Pleasance (aged 10; "Secunda" in the verse); and Edith Mary (aged 8; "Tertia" in the verse).

The book has never been out of print and has been translated into 174 languages. Its legacy includes adaptations to screen, radio, visual art, ballet, opera, and musical theatre, as well as theme parks, board games and video games. Carroll published a sequel in 1871 entitled Through the Looking-Glass and a shortened version for young children, The Nursery "Alice", in 1890.

Plot:

Alice, a young girl, sits bored by a riverbank and spots a White Rabbit with a pocket watch and waistcoat lamenting that he is late. Surprised, Alice follows him down a rabbit hole, which sends her into a lengthy plummet but to a safe landing. Inside a room with a table, she finds a key to a tiny door, beyond which is a garden. While pondering how to fit through the door, she discovers a bottle labelled "Drink me". Alice drinks some of the bottle's contents, and to her astonishment, she shrinks small enough to enter the door. However, she had left the key upon the table and cannot reach it. Alice then discovers and eats a cake labelled "Eat me", which causes her to grow to a tremendous size. Unhappy, Alice bursts into tears, and the passing White Rabbit flees in a panic, dropping a fan and two gloves. Alice uses the fan for herself, which causes her to shrink once more and leaves her swimming in a pool of her own tears. Within the pool, Alice meets various animals and birds, who convene on a bank and engage in a "Caucus Race" to dry themselves. Following the end of the race, Alice inadvertently frightens the animals away by discussing her cat...

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Opening Credits 0:00:00

01. Chapter 0:00:38

02. Chapter 0:12:41

03. Chapter 0:25:01

04. Chapter 0:36:10

05. Chapter 0:51:15

06. Chapter 1:04:36

07. Chapter 1:20:10

08. Chapter 1:34:43

09. Chapter 1:49:47

10. Chapter 2:04:15

11. Chapter 2:17:41

12. Chapter 2:29.10

Ending Credits 2:42:07

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Narrated by Abigail Weir

Author: Lewis Carroll

Date of original publication: 1865

Genre: children's novel

Language : English

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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922. Following a move to the French Riviera, Fitzgerald completed a rough draft of the novel in 1924. He submitted it to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After making revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. Painter Francis Cugat's dust jacket art, named Celestial Eyes, greatly impressed Fitzgerald, and he incorporated its imagery into the novel.

In spring 1922, Nick Carraway—a Yale alumnus from the Midwest and a World War I veteran—journeys to New York City to obtain employment as a bond salesman. He rents a bungalow in the Long Island village of West Egg, next to a luxurious estate inhabited by Jay Gatsby, an enigmatic multi-millionaire who hosts dazzling soirées yet does not partake in them...

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Chapter 1 0:00:39

Chapter 2 0:36:51

Chapter 3 1:02:44

Chapter 4 1:38:37

Chapter 5 2:12:09

Chapter 6 2:38:18

Chapter 7 Part 1 3:03:41

Chapter 7 Part 2 3:40:45

Chapter 8 3:59:24

Chapter 9 4:26:29

Ending Credits 4:56:49

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Narrated by Nick Donovan.

Author: Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Date of original publication: 1925

Genre: novel

Language : English

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Audiobook Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final completed book. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a staunch believer in democratic socialism and member of the anti-Stalinist Left, modelled the Britain under authoritarian socialism in the novel on the Soviet Union in the era of Stalinism and on the very similar practices of both censorship and propaganda in Nazi Germany. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated.

The story takes place in an imagined future. The current year is uncertain, but believed to be 1984. Much of the world is in perpetual war. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, has become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania, which is led by Big Brother, a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the Party's Thought Police. The Party engages in omnipresent government surveillance and, through the Ministry of Truth, historical negationism and constant propaganda to persecute individuality and independent thinking.

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Opening Credits 0:00:00

Part 1: Chapter 1 0:00:46

Part 1: Chapter 2 0:34:31

Part 1: Chapter 3 0:51:25

Part 1: Chapter 4 1:08:28

Part 1: Chapter 5 1:29:55

Part 1: Chapter 6 2:00:06

Part 1: Chapter 7 2:11:36

Part 1: Chapter 8 2:34:24

Part 2: Chapter 1 3:19:18

Part 2: Chapter 2 3:42:11

Part 2: Chapter 3 4:00:34

Part 2: Chapter 4 4:19:52

Part 2: Chapter 5 4:40:24

Part 2: Chapter 6 4:59:04

Part 2: Chapter 7 5:04:54

Part 2: Chapter 8 5:20:23

Part 2: Chapter 9 5:43:35

Part 2: Chapter 10 6:57:12

Part 3: Chapter 1 7:10:42

Part 2: Chapter 2 7:38:04

Part 2: Chapter 3 8:14:29

Part 2: Chapter 4 8:40:07

Part 2: Chapter 5 8:56:38

Part 2: Chapter 6 9:05:49

Appendix 9:27:47

Ending Credits 9:54:44

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Narrated by Mark Macho

Author: George Orwell

Date of original publication: 1949

Genre: Dystopian novel

Language : English

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Audiobook The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. It details the story of Mole, Ratty, and Badger as they try to help Mr. Toad, after he becomes obsessed with motorcars and gets into trouble. It also details short stories about them that are disconnected from the main narrative. The novel was based on bedtime stories Grahame told his son Alastair. It has been adapted numerous times for both stage and screen.

The Wind in the Willows received negative reviews upon its initial release, but it has since become a classic of British literature. It was listed at No. 16 in the BBC's survey The Big Read and has been adapted multiple times in different media.

The audiobook Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novel by George Orwell in the form of an animal tale, first published in England on August 17, 1945. It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer in the hope of creating a society in which animals are equal, free and happy. The rebellion is eventually betrayed and under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon, the farm finds itself in a much worse state than before.

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Opening Credits 0:00:00

Chapter 1 0:00:34

Chapter 2 0:20:18

Chapter 3 0:37:07

Chapter 4. 0:52:08

Chapter 5 1:03:50

Chapter 6 1:24:56

Chapter 7 1:43:36

Chapter 8 2:08:10

Chapter 9 2:36:55

Chapter 10 3:01:21

Ending Credits 3:24:01

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Narrated by Thomas Luzansky

By George Orwell

Date of original publication: 1945

Genre: Satirical allegorical novella

Language : English

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Audiobook The Little Prince is a novella written and illustrated by French writer and military pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in English and French in the United States by Reynal & Hitchcock in April 1943 and was published posthumously in France following liberation; Saint-Exupéry's works had been banned by the Vichy Regime. The story follows a young prince who visits various planets, including Earth, and addresses themes of loneliness, friendship, love, and loss. Despite its style as a children's book, The Little Prince makes observations about life, adults, and human nature.CHAPTERS:Opening Credits. 0:00:0001. Chapter 0:00:5102. Chapter 0:04:3203. Chapter 0:09:5304. Chapter 0:13:1005. Chapter 0:19:1306. Chapter 0:24:5807. Chapter 0:26:5308. Chapter 0:32:4909. Chapter 0:38:1610. Chapter 0:41:3011. Chapter 0:50:1712. Chapter 0:52:4713. Chapter 0:54:1114. Chapter 1:00:1815. Chapter 1:05:3916. Chapter 1:11:3217. Chapter 1:13:5318. Chapter 1:18:0619. Chapter 1:19:1420. Chapter 1:20:4721. Chapter. 1:22:4922. Chapter 1:31:3723. Chapter 1:33:4324. Chapter 1:34:4925. Chapter 1:40:1126. Chapter 1:46:1027. Chapter 1:56:52Ending Credits 2:00:09CREATED:Narrated by Thomas LuzanskyAuthor: Antoine de Saint-ExupéryDate of original publication: 1943Genre: Philosophical fairy tale for adultsLanguage : EnglishVersion : unabridged, full/completeWithout subtitles