Resultados Editorial "audible studios" en Clásica

Els records dinfantesa i de joventut serveixen d inspiració a Mark Twain per a escriure Les aventures den Tom Sawyer, ambientades en una petita localitat a la vora del riu Mississipí, com la que va veure créixer lescriptor en els primers anys de la seva vida (Hannibal). En aquella època existia lesclavitud en aquella regió, lestat de Missouri, al sud dels Estats Units.

En Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe mostra com lésser humà és capaç de superar les dificultats amb esforç, paciència i enginy, alhora que fa veure la necessitat de comunicar-se i dintegrar-se en la societat.

Bram Stoker va aconseguir una original recreació del mite del vampir en Dràcula, perquè tot i que va inspirar-se en el folklore i altres obres literàries, va dotar el seu personatge duna atracció irresistible, i combinà així la por de la mort amb lafany de la immortalitat i el desig amorós.

A young girl called Tozi stands at the bottom of a pyramid, waiting to be led to the top where her heart will be cut out.... Pepillo, a Spanish orphan who serves a sadistic Dominican friar, is aboard the Spanish fleet as it sails towards Mexico.... This is the epic story of the clash of two empires, two armies and two gods of war. Five hundred desperate adventurers are about to pit themselves against the most brutal armies of the ancient Americas, armies hundreds of thousands strong.

A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust. It was all real: himself, the room, Andrée still lying on the ravaged bed. For Tony and Andrée, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the Hôtel des Voyageurs. Their adulterous affair is intoxicating, passionate - and dangerous. Soon it turns into a nightmare from which there can be no escape.

Nineteen-year-old Frank - thug, thief, son of a brothel owner - gets by surprisingly well despite living in a city under military occupation, but a warm house and a full stomach are not enough to make him feel truly alive in such a climate of deceit and betrayal. During a bleak, unending winter, he embarks on a string of violent and sordid crimes that set him on a path from which he can never return. Georges Simenon's matchless novel is a brutal, compelling portrayal of a world without pity; a devastating journey through a psychological no-man's land.

Graham Hancock, an expert in ancient civilisations and author of the nine million selling Fingerprints of the Gods, and expert, too, on the use of hallucinogens to achieve higher states of consciousness, brings these two interests together in the final volume of the War God trilogy.

Long ago when the Earth was flat, beautiful, indifferent Gods lived in the airy Upperearth realm above; curious, passionate demons lived in the exotic Underearth realm below; and mortals were relegated to exist in the middle. Azhrarn, Lord of the Demons and the Darkness, was the one who ruled the night, and many mortal lives were changed because of his cruel whimsy. And yet, Azhrarn held inside his demon heart a profound mystery which would change the very fabric of the Flat Earth forever.

Malgrat que va publicar-se el 1894, el llibre conté diversos contes escrits anteriorment per Kipling. Lautor va basar-se en relats i llegendes de l Índia que van fer-li estimar la natura i la vida salvatge. Els seus personatges i el savi Baloo ens ensenyen a conviure en pau.

Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, Reflections in a Golden Eye tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. Upon the novel's publication in 1941, reviewers were unsure of what to make of its relatively scandalous subject matter.

Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charmsnot even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to find out who turned her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Lauras death, he becomes obsessed with her strange power.

When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. Multilingual, knowledgeable about many European countries, and a celebrated writer, Maugham had the perfect cover, and the assignment appealed to his love of romance, and of the ridiculous. The stories collected in Ashenden are rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue and treachery, as well as its absurdity.

In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict risks his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation.

1929 mein likha gaya upanyaas saat-paagal vinaash ke kagaar par khade Argentina ki partibimbit karta hai.

Acércate a este audiolibro para que, además, al igual que este pícaro personaje, seas en algunos ratos filósofo o barbero y, en otros, boticario, médico, asistente de coronel y hasta náufrago.

Esta obra que tienes es un clásico de la literatura. La historia se desarrolla en una casita situada al norte de los Estados Unidos, donde vivían las cuatro hijas de un soldado que luchaba por la liberación de los esclavos. Las cuatro hermanas eran muy distintas físicamente y en su manera de ser y se llamaban Meg, Jo, Beth y Amy. Vive con ellas sus aventuras y diviértete con las tremendas travesuras de Amy.

Some of the parchment pages were the color of cream, thick and substantial, made to last many, many lifetimes. Other pages were thin and desiccated, positively yellow from age, and crackled alarmingly as Van Richten turned them over. There were no ornate illuminations, no fussy borders, only lines of plain text in hard black ink. The flowing handwriting was a bit difficult to follow at first; the writer's style of calligraphy had not been in common use for 300 years. No table of contents, but from the dates it looked to be some kind of history.

Esta historia, llena de aventuras, trata de un cachorro de lobo que se convierte en el perro fiel de Castor Gris, un indio que lo adopta y bautiza con el nombre de Colmillo Blanco, y quien lo trata de manera poco cariñosa, aunque leal. En una ocasión, este lobo-perro salva al hijo de su amo y a cambio solo recibe una doble ración de carne, pero ningún apapacho. Colmillo Blanco se hace un animal malo, e incluso, más cuando su hombre lo vende a un hombre blanco que lo utiliza como contrincante en peleas de perros.

This first novel in The Deptford Trilogy introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross but who is destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As we hear Ramsey tell his story, we begin to realize that, from childhood, he has influenced those around him in a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious way.

Oliver Twist es una de las grandes obras del siglo XIX, del escritor inglés Charles Dickens, quien narra con lujo de detalle y mucha ternura las penurias que padece el pequeño protagonista llamado Oliver Twist. Este conmovedor personaje, un huérfano que crece en las calles, se encuentra a una pandilla comandada por individuos sin escrúpulos que tratan de convertirlo en un ladronzuelo. A pesar de ello, Oliver conoce también a personas buenas y honestas que le tienden la mano.