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ID: 302553

Title: The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Phil Chenevert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:06:12

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-17

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Detective Stories

Summary:

Sherlock Holmes and Watson are awoken early by a distraught woman desperately seeking their aid. Something is terribly wrong and she fears for her life. Upon hearing her story, Sherlock agrees and springs into action to track down and deal with the sinister Speckled Band who have killed once already. Listen to another exciting adventure of the super sleuth as he uses his powers of observation and deduction to solve this perplexing case. Will he be in time to save the lady's life? Will his powers fail him this time? Listen and find out. (summary by Phil Chenevert )

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ID: 290447

Title: Tales of the Five Towns

Author: Arnold Bennett

Narrator: Martin Clifton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:40:21

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-17

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the six towns in the county of Staffordshire, England, known as the Potteries. Arnold Bennett chose to fictionalize these towns by changing their names and omitting one (Fenton) as he apparently felt that Five Towns was more euphonious than Six Towns. The real town names which are thinly disguised in the novel are: Hanley, Longton, Burslem and Tunstal, the fifth, Stoke, became Knype.

Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was born in Hanley, the eldest child of a pawnbroker who subsequently became a solicitor. Bennetts father wished him to become a solicitor too, but he failed his university entrance examination and instead became a solicitor's clerk, at first in his father's office and, from 1889, in London.

He showed early promise as a writer winning a writing competition in a local newspaper as a boy. In London he began to see his writing published in popular magazines and he joined the staff of Woman magazine in 1893.

His first novel to be published, A Man from the North, appeared in 1898 and its success allowed him to give up other work to concentrate on writing. His first short story (A Letter Home) was written in 1893 and appears in Tales of the Five Towns. (Summary by Martin Clifton)

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ID: 290266

Title: Prisoner of Zenda

Author: Anthony Hope

Narrator: Andy Minter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:43:16

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-17

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, a country not a thousand miles from Bavaria. There, by reason of his resemblance to the King of Ruritania he becomes involved in saving the Kings Life and his Throne from the Kings dastardly brother and his allies. Woods, moated castles, pomp, swordplay, gallantry, villainy and a beautiful princess. What story could ask for more? (Summary by Andy Minter)

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ID: 322442

Title: Van Gogh's Inner Struggle: Life, Work and Mental Illness

Author: Liesbeth Heenk

Narrator: Denise Kahn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:43:55

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-17

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Non-Fiction, Art & Music

Summary:

Fascinating look into the life of a tortured GeniusUsing Van Gogh's letters as a primary source, the author discusses the artist's life, his approach to his work and his mental illness. The letters vividly show the artist's life was no bed of roses. Whereas Van Gogh perfectly knew what was sellable, he continued to produce what he considered as honest, 'truthful' art, regardless of current taste. He did not expect the art-buying public to understand the rough appearance of his work. Van Gogh acknowledged that being an artist simply involved struggle, but he believed that one would benefit from adversity, both personally and professionally. 'No victory without a battle, no battle without suffering.'

In Van Gogh's case it seems to have been a never ending battle against poverty, isolation and adversity. Given his circumstances - being financially dependent upon his brother Theo, not selling any work, and getting minimal recognition - his achievements are utterly amazing.

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- #2 Van Gogh's Inner Struggle - Life, Work and Mental Illness

- #3 Van Gogh Today: Short Stories

- #4 Van Gogh in Love - a (not so!) romantic Van Gogh Biography

- #5 Van Gogh and Money - The Myth of the Poor Artist

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ID: 291700

Título: cuarto propio

Autor: Virginia Woolf

Narrador: Neus Sendra

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 03:55:00

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 01-01-17

Editor: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial

Categorías: Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism

Resumen:

Un cuarto propio es un breve ensayo de Virginia Woolf sobre la condición femenina que se ha convertido en un icono de la literatura del siglo XX.

No hay marca en la pared para medir la precisa estatura de las mujeres. No hay medidas que determinen las condiciones de una buena madre o el cariño de una hija, la fidelidad de una hermana o la capacidad de una ama de llaves, comenta Virginia Woolf en este ensayo, pero lo que también nos dice es que para escribir una novela una mujer tiene que tener un cuarto propio y comida caliente; en resumen, tener una vida propia e independiente.

Lejos de ser un alegato furibundo contra los hombres, Un cuarto propio es un elegante ensayo que ya en 1929 ponía sobre la mesa unos temas que aun hoy son objeto de debate, como la dependencia económica de la mujer con respecto al hombre, el cuidado de una familia y la figura de la mujer como musa inspiradora del artista pero con poca presencia en la práctica de la creatividad.

Este ensayo, publicado ya repetidas veces en España, se presenta ahora de forma nueva, en traducción de Jorge Luis Borges, con prólogo de Kirmen Uribe y espléndidas ilustraciones de la joven dibujante norteamericana Becca Stadtlander.

La vida para todos nosotros, hombres y mujeres, es difícil, ardua: una lucha que no se acaba nunca y nos reclama mucho valor y fuerza. Bien mirado, lo que quizá nos reclame más que nada, siendo como somos criaturas hechas de vaguedades, es confianza en nosotros mismos.

Virginia Woolf

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ID: 301738

Title: Judas Valley

Author: Robert Silverberg

Narrator: Phil Chenevert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:18:07

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-17

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Why did everybody step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment? It was a mystery Peter and Sherri had to solve. If they could live long enough! [from the Judas Valley] Originally published in Amazing Stories October 1956.

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ID: 301916

Title: Misplaced Battleship

Author: Harry Harrison

Narrator: Phil Chenevert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:11:50

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-17

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

"It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship ... but interstellar space is on a different scale of magnitude. But a misplaced battleship-in the wrong hands!-can be most dangerous." The world class con man and thief known as the Stainless Steel Rat (diGriz) has another very big problem to solve and this science fiction novella by the great Harry Harrison will see if he can solve it and perhaps four or five more like it before this fascinating and funny tale is finished. 'Use a thief to catch a thief' sounds great but it sometimes has unexpected results. (Summary from the book and Phil Chenevert)

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ID: 291780

Title: Dream Days

Author: Kenneth Grahame

Narrator: Catharine Eastman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:52:25

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-17

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to Grahame's 1895 collection The Golden Age (some of its selections feature the same family of five children), Dream Days was first published in 1898 under the imprint John Lane: The Bodley Head. (The first six selections in the book had been previously published in periodicals of the dayin the Yellow Book, the New Review, and in Scribner's Magazine in the United States.) The book is best known for its inclusion of Grahame's classic story The Reluctant Dragon.

Like its precursor volume, Dream Days received strong approval from the literary critics of the day. In the decades since, the book has perhaps suffered a reputation as a thinner and weaker sequel to The Golden Ageexcept for its single hit story. In one modern estimation, both books "paint a convincingly unsentimental picture of childhood, with the adults in these sketches totally out of touch with the real concerns of the young people around them, including their griefs and rages." Its concern is chiefly with the lands of imagination, ranging from a reconnaisance of men of solitude, a disastrous introduction of a girl to the narrator's private castle in the clouds, derring-do on the high seas, and, of course, an encounter with a dragon. Its concluding bittersweet story bids a reluctant farewell to the dream days of childhood. (Summary by Wikipedia and Catharine Eastman)

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ID: 308161

Title: Emancipation Proclamation

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Narrator: John Greenman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:07:33

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-17

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

After having written and released an initial draft of this proclamation in September of 1862, minor changes were made and Lincoln signed it on January 1st, 1863. It declared free the slaves in 10 states not then under Union control, with exemptions specified for areas already under Union control in two states. Lincoln spent the next 100 days preparing the army and the nation for emancipation, while Democrats rallied their voters in the 1862 off-year elections by warning of the threat freed slaves posed to northern whites.

Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all three million of them in Confederate territory were freed. Lincoln's comment on the signing of the Proclamation was: "I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper." - Summary by Wikipedia and John Greenman

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ID: 300804

Title: Gambler's World & The Yillian Way

Author: Keith Laumer

Narrator: Phil Chenevert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:36:05

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-17

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Here are two stores starring the always unconventional Terrestrial Diplomat, Retief. As a diplomat, Retief does not always follow procedure. Well the truth is that he almost never follows procedure but somehow his wit and strength manage to salvage most situations from the bumbling of the other diplomats. His sardonic approach to inter galactic negotiations in these two stories is a delight to hear.

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