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My Secret Life: Volume One Chapter Eleven, Hörbuch, Digital, 20min, (USK 18)

My Secret Life", the anonymously written erotic memoirs of a Victorian English gentleman who refers to himself simply as "Walter" is one of the most idiosyncratic and prurient books ever written. In this vast autobiographical confessional the author recounts, in meticulous detail, his sexual exploits throughout the course of a life devoted entirely to the pursuit of carnal knowledge. Through this compelling exploration of the author's sexual and moral behaviour we are left with a uniquely entertaining insight into life behind the closed doors of Victorian society. "My Secret Life" is funny, sorrowful, suspenseful, compulsively readable, obscene, titillating, exciting and erotic... we are privy to the thoughts, emotions and memories of one of the most unusual, unsung and colourful characters of the Victorian era. Now, for the first time, the complete unabridged version of this unique and important text is being narrated and scored by film composer Dominic Crawford Collins as an "audiofilm" (an audiobook in which the emotional landscape is explored through the music score). Each chapter of "My Secret Life" will be released at monthly intervals over the next ten to fifteen years culminating in a lifetime's work for the composer and what is likely to become the longest audio book ever to be produced. Explicit Language Warning: You must be 18 years or older to purchase this program. Language: English. Narrator: Dominic Crawford Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/001542/bk_edel_001542_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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My Secret Life. Volume Four Chapter Twelve, Hörbuch, Digital, 30min, (USK 18)

My Secret Life, the anonymously written erotic memoirs of a Victorian English gentleman who refers to himself simply as 'Walter' is one of the most idiosyncratic and prurient books ever written. In this vast autobiographical confessional the author recounts, in meticulous detail, his sexual exploits throughout the course of a life devoted entirely to the pursuit of carnal pleasure.Through this compelling exploration of the author's sexual behaviour we are left with a uniquely entertaining insight into life behind the closed doors of Victorian society. My Secret Life is evocative, provocative, sorrowful, suspenseful, obscene, exciting and highly erotic...in it we are privy to the thoughts, emotions and memories of one of the most unusual, unsung and colourful English eccentrics of the Victorian era.Now, for the first time, the complete unabridged version of this unique text is being narrated and scored by film composer Dominic Crawford Collins as an 'audiofilm' (an audiobook in which the emotional landscape is explored through the music score). Each chapter of My Secret Life will be released at monthly intervals over the next ten or so years culminating in what is likely to become the longest audio book ever to be produced.Vol. 4 Chapter XII:Sally's antecedents.Her female friend.How to get shillings on the sands.How her friend lost her virginity.Turns gay and goes to London.Her invitation to Sally.My advice.I return to London.Sally in London.The house in U*p*r N**t*n street.Sally's discontent.Mrs. Melvelle.I sleep with her.Confessions of a hotc***ed one.Sally goes home.Explicit Language Warning: you must be 18 years or older to purchase this program. Language: English. Narrator: Dominic Crawford Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/013239/bk_edel_013239_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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My Secret Life. Volume Four Chapter Seventeen, Hörbuch, Digital, 26min, (USK 18)

My Secret Life, the anonymously written erotic memoirs of a Victorian English gentleman who refers to himself simply as 'Walter' is one of the most idiosyncratic and prurient books ever written. In this vast autobiographical confessional the author recounts, in meticulous detail, his sexual exploits throughout the course of a life devoted entirely to the pursuit of carnal knowledge. Through this compelling exploration of the author's sexual and moral behaviour we are left with a uniquely entertaining insight into life behind the closed doors of Victorian society.My Secret Life is funny, sorrowful, suspenseful, compulsively readable, obscene, titillating, exciting and erotic ... we are privy to the thoughts, emotions and memories of one of the most unusual, unsung and colourful characters of the Victorian era.Now, for the first time, the complete unabridged version of this unique and important text is being narrated and scored by film composer Dominic Crawford Collins as an 'audiofilm' (an audiobook in which the emotional landscape is explored through the music score). Each chapter of My Secret Life will be released at monthly intervals over the next ten to fifteen years culminating in a lifetime's work for the composer and what is likely to become the longest audio book ever to be produced.Vol. 4 Chapter XVII:The lady's drawers.Weary of peeping.With the closet-keeper.She consents.The mail-train in.A rush for the closets.Piddlers in succession.The knowing one.A mother and daughters.The closet-keeper again.Connubial habits.An ugly backside.Two Americans.The closet-keeper's anxiety.In the woods."C'est une sale putain."Punished for peeping.Unpleasant reminiscences.A young lady recognized.Explicit Language Warning: you must be 18 years or older to pur Language: English. Narrator: Dominic Crawford Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/014223/bk_edel_014223_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Impeachment: An American History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 474min

Four experts on the American presidency examine the three times impeachment has been invoked - against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton - and explain what it means today.Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called impeachment “the most formidable weapon for the purpose of a dominant faction that was ever contrived”. On the one hand, it nullifies the will of voters, the basic foundation of all representative democracies. On the other, its absence from the Constitution would leave the country vulnerable to despotic leadership. It is rarely used, and with good reason. Only three times has a president’s conduct led to such political disarray as to warrant his potential removal from office, transforming a political crisis into a constitutional one. None has yet succeeded. Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 for failing to kowtow to congressional leaders - and, in a large sense, for failing to be Abraham Lincoln - yet survived his Senate trial. Richard Nixon resigned in August 1974 after the House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against him for lying, obstructing justice, and employing his executive power for personal and political gain. Bill Clinton had an affair with a White House intern, but in 1999 he faced trial in the Senate less for that prurient act than for lying under oath about it. In the first book to consider these three presidents alone - and the one thing they have in common - Jeffrey A. Engel, Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, and Peter Baker explain that the basis and process of impeachment is more political than legal. The Constitution states that the president “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”, leaving room for historical precedent and the temperament of the time to weigh heavily on each case. This book reveals the complicated motives behi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Sanders. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006310/bk_rand_006310_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Fifty Shades of Louisa May , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 175min, (USK 18)

During the recent renovations of the Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts - home of the famed Alcott family - workmen repairing rotting beams discovered a handwritten manuscript tightly rolled into a bottle and buried in the earthen floor of what was once the root cellar. Conservators from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum date the manuscript from the late 1800s. Although the title page bears no signature, there can be little doubt of its authenticity or its author.The text, published for the first time, will no doubt offend scholars - while capturing the prurient imagination of many readers. The author’s true purpose is lost to us, save for hints throughout suggesting that writing this memoire d’amour served as a cathartic exercise. Only the manuscript remains, and it is offered in unexpurgated form here. Louisa May Alcott, author of the classic Little Women, consort of Emerson, Thoreau and Hawthorne, beloved icon of professors of American 19th-century literature and perhaps less loved by their legions of students, had a lusty side that was less academic, and more...transcendental than any of us knew. Brilliantly penned by a well-known writer who prefers the cloak of anonymity to the vulgar embrace of rude fame (of which s/he has no need), this hilarious little book reveals the unbridled passion-that-might-have-been of one of the world’s most popular authors. A vividly written tome that just might tell us more about the sowing of transcendental wild oats than any ream of volumes on the subject, Fifty Shades of Louisa May is not for the weak of art, or for those who prefer their literary icons under glass. It imagines an unhinged Melville doing what comes naturally, a Centennial Ball unlike any heretofore described, Louisa May’s ardent encounters with her “Wooden Friend,” and much, much more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mia Chiaromonte. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013809/bk_adbl_013809_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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It's Okay to Lie: If Your Fingers Are Crossed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 429min

It's Okay to Lie if Your Fingers are Crossed, is based on a ritual kids perpetrated in the forties and fifties, which exempted them from the "liar" label, providing that they crossed their fingers behind them, unbeknownst to the person or persons to whom they were lying. The hero of the story is eleven year-old Billy Flynn, a schooled and consummate "liar" who lives in a suburb north of Fenway Park. With his ironic sense of humor, his unusual and amusing way of surviving and seeing through the pretensions of the adult world around him, Billy Flynn could very well remind one of an eleven-year-old Holden Caulfield, minus the rich parents and the sympathetic sister. But this boy is a working class kid (third generation Irish-American) who was unlikely to ever see the inside of a prep school. A reader who appreciates the game of baseball, would especially enjoy this book, because it is baseball as it used to be played by the kids themselves, on an open field without adults hounding their every move. The kids created their own rules, such as 15 fouls and you're out, no one base rule, and when a player hits a fly ball and an outfielder falls into the brook in deep center-field catching it, it is still an out. This book is not recommended to readers under thirteen, because the language gets raw from time to time and the story deals with sexual issues—not in a prurient sense, but rather in a developmental sense as an eleven-year-old might experience it. The pages are populated by real to life characters and situations, written in a down to earth storytelling style with a humorous and ironic bite to it, and occasionally a surreal feel to it. As one reader told the author, "Each page contains a precious jewel, waiting to be uncovered." It's Okay to Lie if Your Fingers are Crossed is recommended for adults, young adults, and especially baby boomer seniors who would find the period (1950) of special interest. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Flynn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/018404/bk_acx0_018404_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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