Charles Dickens
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The Seven Poor Travellers takes place on Christmas Eve in Rochester at the charity hospice founded in 1579 by Richard Watts - an actual hospice that Dickens knew well from his childhood days. According to Watts' will, his hospice was to supply six poor travelers (providing they were not rogues or proctors) with one night's free lodging and entertainment and with fourpence. In the opening section of The Seven Poor Travellers, entitled 'The First,'...
202) Oliver Twist
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Deutsch
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Der arme und gutgläubige Waisenjunge Oliver Twist gerät in die Fänge einer Diebesbande. Deren Anführer, der diabolische Fagin, hat große Pläne mit Oliver - er soll ein Meisterdieb und Einbrecher werden...
Der Norddeutsche Rundfunk produzierte 1961 das Hörspiel zu Charles Dickens' gesellschafts-kritischem Klassiker. Schauspielgrößen wie Joseph von Offenbach, Richard Münch,Volker Lechtenbrink oder Helmut Peine machten daraus ein von vielen...
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English
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Mark Redfield performs and eclectic mix of story excerpts, poems and favorite readings of some of his favorite British and American storytellers.
CREDITS: Narrator: Mark Redfield. Audio engineers: Bill Dickson and Jennifer Rouse. Original Music by Bill Dickson and Jennifer Rouse. Recorded at Drat Productions and Seven Elms Studio, Baltimore. Album photography: Tami Hamalian.
204) The Holly Tree Inn
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English
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On Christmas Eve, a traveler finds himself waiting out a snowstorm at the Holly Tree Inn. While passing the hours for the weather to pass so his coach can continue its journey, the warm hearth of the inn brings his mind to roam to pass recollections, both happy and grave. He also ponders the true meaning of his current journey and reason for his melancholy... the women he planned on marrying is, instead, going to marry his best friend. However, the...
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This delightful collection of children's stories is perfect listening for the whole family. Featured are four beloved stories to entice your imagination, including Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Snow White by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, and The Bell by Hans Christian Andersen. Each story is performed by a full cast of voice actors with sound effects and music.
206) A Tale of Two Cities
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Deutsch
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A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. The novel has been adapted...
207) The magic fish-bone
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[2000]
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English
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King Watkins the First is proud of his eldest daughter's magical gift but wonders why she isn't using it.
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2012.
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English
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Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others were published in magazines. This collection gathers them together in one volume, providing an invaluable insight into the author's storytelling apprenticeship and his steady growth towards excellence. As well as offering a further dimension to the world of his better-known masterpieces, these tales - from 'The Story of...
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2012.
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English
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"What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid, close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British Academy Pilgrim Edition, which contains over 14,000 of Dickens's letters. The 450 letters included here have been cherry-picked to give readers the best essence of the 'Sparkler of Albion'"-- Book...
216) Twist: a novel
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English
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"Eighteen-year-old Twist doesn't have much. No money, no home, and no family. All he has is his reputation as one of the most daring street artists in London. But when he finds himself on the run from the police, he knows that he could be about to lose the last thing he has left - his freedom. Until he is saved by the mysterious Dodge. When Dodge introduces him to con artist and art collector Cornelius Faginescu, Twist realizes that he finally has...
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Pippa Park volume 1
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Fabled Films Press,
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English
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In this modern reimagining of Great Expectations, Korean American Pippa Park struggles to manage her grades, basketball, friendship and cyberbullying.
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Pippa Park volume 2
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Fabled Films Press,
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English
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"Korean American Pippa Park picks up right where she left off...trying to balance basketball, school, friends, working at the struggling family laundromat, and fitting in. Eliot, her math tutor--and the cutest boy at school--is finally paying attention to her. And Marvel--her childhood friend--is making her required volunteering much more interesting. But things with the Royals, her new friends and teammates who rule the school, still feel a bit rocky....
