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    Under Western Eyes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 677min
    Under Western Eyes, Joseph Conrad's novel of political treachery and oppression, of betrayal, guilt, and intrigue, begins with a bomb that kills its intended target, a hated Russian minister of police, along with a number of innocent bystanders. A young student named Razumov hides the perpetrator, then betrays him and becomes a spy among his exiled comrades. He faces a moral dilemma from which there is no escape. Conrad professed that he intended to render "the psychology of Russia", a country being driven by a Czarist despotism into anarchy by revolutionaries, "unable to see that all they can effect is merely a change of names". This masterwork, published six years before the Russian Revolution, is a chillingly accurate prophecy of what was to come. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Geoffrey Howard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001747/bk_blak_001747_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Thomas Jefferson and His Time, Volume 6: The Sage of Monticello , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1106min
    The Sage of Monticello is the sixth and final volume of Dumas Malone's epic masterwork, Jefferson and His Time, a biography begun in 1943 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1975. More wide ranging than the preceding volumes, The Sage of Monticello recounts the accomplishments, friendships, and family difficulties of Jefferson's last 17 years, including his retirement from Washington and the presidency, his correspondence with John Adams and James Madison, his mounting personal tribulations, and his major role in the founding of the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia, where he proved himself to be an extraordinary educator and architect as well as a statesman. This is a fitting final chapter in the life of one of America's greatest men. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Fields. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/002104/bk_blak_002104_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Light on Tantra in Kashmir Shaivism - Volume 2
    Tantraloka is the voluminous masterwork of the 10th-century philosopher-saint, Abhinavagupta. It is a veritable encyclopedia of non-dual Shaivism, a spiritual treasure trove containing a glorious synthesis of all the schools that make up Kashmir Shaivism. This second volume includes chapters two and three, dealing with anupaya, the means (upaya) where there is nothing to be done for attaining oneness with Universal Being, and sambhavopaya, the means requiring supreme awareness. Being the last master in the direct line of Abhinavagupta, Swami Lakshmanjoo is singularly able to reveal the true meaning of this otherwise difficult (or inaccessible) text. In the accompanying audio, the sincere student can hear the words of a master who lived and breathed Kashmir Shaivism in its fullness.
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    The Number of the Beast , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1289min
    The wickedest, most wonderful science-fiction story ever created in our - or any - time. Anything can begin at a party in California - and everything does in this bold masterwork by a grand master of science fiction. When four supremely sensual and unspeakably cerebral humans - two male, two female - find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies - and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller-coaster ride of adventure, danger, ecstasy, and peril. Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) was the dominant science-fiction writer of the modern era, a writer whose influence on the field was immense. He won science fiction's Hugo Award for best novel four times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Dunne, Emily Durante, Malcolm Hillgartner, Sean Runnette, Richard Powers, Tom Weiner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005002/bk_blak_005002_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Jane Eyre , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1166min
    Jane Eyre, the plain yet spirited governess, introduced a new kind of heroine in literature - one whose virtuous integrity, sharp intellect, and tireless perseverance broke through class barriers to win equal stature with the man she loved. Orphaned and subjected to cruelty at Lowood charity school, Jane nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. The story of how Jane becomes governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than that traditionally accorded to her by Victorian society. Hailed by William Makepeace Thackeray as "the masterwork of a great genius", this impassioned love story is still regarded, more than a century later, as one of the finest novels in literature. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Juliet Mills. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006703/bk_blak_006703_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Once and Future Myths , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 475min
    This book of mythology for the 21st Century is Phil Cousineau's grand opus - his masterwork, in which he gleans from the world's body of myth a stirring vision that offers the potential for "a deep experience of life". The hallmark of myth is a sense of timelessness. The story rings true not only now but through time, and people experiencing myth feel that they are living something larger than themselves. This timelessness is evident in Cousineau's discussions of the mythology of travel, mentors, cities, baseball, and creatures of the night, such as vampires. Once and Future Myths is a fascinating listen and an original contribution to what we know about the power of myth. Phil Cousineau has been called the Joseph Campbell for the new millennium. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Cousineau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000605/bk_pnix_000605_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Cream of the Jest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 378min
    James Branch Cabell (1879-1956) is best known for his tales of the imaginary land of Poictesme, where chivalry and gallantry live on.In this volume we meet the novelist, Felix Kennaston, who lives in parallel worlds. One of these is with his wife in their suburban Virginia home and genteel society. The other is with the beautiful Lady Ettarre, who shares his travels through space and time to meet, among many others, Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon, and the Emperor Tiberius. Lusty and magical, romantic and rueful, subtly erotic and laced with sardonic humor, this absorbing book is highly regarded as a masterwork of Fantasy literature."A book of dreams it is, and of very wonderful dreams." (Sinclair Lewis)"A curious, singular and enchanting book. I have read it with admiration and delight." (Arthur Machen) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Burlinson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/003104/bk_mike_003104_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A History of the Arab Peoples , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1263min
    Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern wars, and oil crises, the history of the Arab world has been little known and poorly understood in the West. One reason may be that, for more than half a century, there has been no up-to-date single volume work that chronicles the story of Arab civilization - until now. Albert Hourani, distinguished historian and interpreter, has written a masterwork, a panoramic view encompassing twelve centuries of Arab history and culture. He looks at all sides of this rich and venerable civilization: the beauty of the Alhambra and the great mosques, the importance attached to education, the achievements of Arab science - but also internal conflicts, wide-spread poverty, the role of women, and the contemporary Palestinian question. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nadia May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000185/bk_blak_000185_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Something Wicked This Way Comes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 545min
    Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and mind as has this one - Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precariously on the brink of adulthood will soon discover the secret of the satanic raree-show's smoke, mazes, and mirrors, as they learn all too well the heavy cost of wishes - and the stuff of nightmare. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christian Rummel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018698/bk_adbl_018698_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Jane Eyre [Blackstone Edition] , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1131min
    Jane Eyre, the plain yet spirited governess, introduced a new kind of heroine in literature - one whose virtuous integrity, sharp intellect, and tireless perseverance broke through class barriers to win equal stature with the man she loved. Orphaned and subjected to cruelty at Lowood charity school, Jane nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. The story of how Jane becomes governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than that traditionally accorded to her by Victorian society. Hailed by William Makepeace Thackeray as "the masterwork of a great genius," this impassioned love story is still regarded, more than a century later, as one of the finest novels in literature. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nadia May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003296/bk_blak_003296_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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