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MP3 Audio CD. Cardinal Wolsey CHAPTER I THE STATE OF EUROPE 1494-1512 All men are to be judged by what they do, and the way in which they do it. In the case of great statesmen there is a third consideration which challenges our judgment--what they choose to do. This consideration only presents itself in the case of great statesmen, and even then is not always recognised. For the average statesman does from day to day the business which has to be done, takes affairs as he finds them, and makes the best of them. Many who deliberately selected the questions with which they dealt have yet shrunk from the responsibility of their choice, and have preferred to represent their actions as inevitable. Few can claim the credit of choosing the sphere of their activity, of framing a connected policy with clear and definite ends, and of applying their ideas to every department of national organisation. In short, statesmen are generally opportunists, or choose to represent themselves as such; and this has been… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. Major Barbara ACT I It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present] would have, on his right, Lady Britomart's writing table, with the lady herself busy at it; a smaller writing table behind him on his left; the door behind him on Lady Britomart's side; and a window with a window seat directly on his left. Near the window is an armchair. Lady Britomart is a woman of fifty or thereabouts, well dressed and yet careless of her dress, well bred and quite reckless of her breeding, well mannered and yet appallingly outspoken and indifferent to the opinion of her interlocutory, amiable and yet peremptory, arbitrary, and high-tempered to the last bearable degree, and withal a very typical managing matron of the upper class, treated as a naughty child until she grew into a scolding mother, and… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. Written and published in 1928 in the pulp magazine entitled Weird Tales, Red Shadows is the very first short story by Robert Ervin Howard to feature Solomon Kane, the somber-looking Puritan whose only goal in life is to vanquish evil, no matter what form it takes.Red Shadows starts in Paris, with Kane finding a girl on the verge of death after she was attacked by a some brigands led by the notorious Le Loup. Though Kane has never met the girl before, he swears to avenge her death and tracks the mastermind behind the gang who becomes Kane?s arch enemy from that moment onwards, a notorious criminal called Le Loup through France to Africa. He follows his prey on land and sea, he doesn?t lose the trail for a second, not even in the thick African jungle. During his bloody journey, Kane encounters a savage African tribe and the story gets spiced up not only with bloody fights, but with lots of supernatural elements as well. The forces beyond palpable reality are, of course, on Kane?s side,… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. Tourmalin's Time Cheques by Thomas Anstey Guthrie is a highly entertaining fantasy fiction novel with a story built around a very strange idea: that of the possibility to deposit time that we cannot make good use of and is spent in boredom and to withdraw the time deposited when we are more in need of it.The protagonist of the novel is Peter Tourmalin, travelling by ship from Australia to England to meet his fiancée. He is bored during the journey, so he is more than happy when he is offered the opportunity to open an account with the Anglo-Australian Joint Stock Time Bank Limited where he can deposit his spare time, available for being withdrawn later in a way similar to withdrawing money from a standard bank account, the only difference being that time cheques must be presented to a clock and not to a clerk in a bank office.However, Peter Tourmalin is in for lots of surprises: he soon finds out that things are more complicated than presenting a check to a time measuring device, then… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. When you mentioned showmanship in the United States during the 19th century, the name of Phineas Taylor Barnum was never far behind. The well-known organizer of the ?Greatest Show on Earth? - a traveling circus and museum of ?freaks? that was founded in 1872 ? and the man who restored the American Museum to its former glory, he was also a skilled writer and accomplished author of non-fiction books about success.Aside from Barnum?s famous book Struggles and Triumphs, The Art of Money Getting was counted by many experts among the most practical books about success ever written, and the principles he explains here are still quite usable today. Essentially, The Art of Money Getting comprises Barnum?s genuine story and guidelines on how to become successful at managing your own business. Principles such as ?choose your location first, and then your occupation? dominate this work, and the author gives quite a few practical guidelines that anyone interested in ?selling? a product or an idea… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. Über die Weiber Mit den Mädchen hat es die Natur auf Das, was man im dramaturgischen Sinne, einen Knalleffekt nennt, abgesehen, indem sie dieselben, auf wenige Jahre, mit überreichlicher Schönheit, Reiz und Fülle ausstattet, auf Kosten ihrer ganzen übrigen Lebenszeit, damit sie nämlich, während jener Jahre, der Phantasie eines Mannes sich in dem Maße bemächtigen könnten, daß er hingerissen wird, die Sorge für sie auf Zeit Lebens, in irgend einer Form, ehrlich zu übernehmen; zu welchem Schritte ihn zu vermögen, die bloße vernünftige Ueberlegung keine hinlänglich sichere Bürgschaft zu geben schien. Sonach hat die Natur das Weib, eben wie jedes andere ihrer Geschöpfe, mit den Waffen und Werkzeugen ausgerüstet, deren es zur Sicherung seines Daseins bedarf, und auf die Zeit, da es ihrer bedarf; wobei sie denn auch mit ihrer gewöhnlichen Sparsamkeit verfahren ist. Wie nämlich… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. Persuasion (version 4) Chapter 1 Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed. This was the page at which the favourite volume always opened: "ELLIOT OF KELLYNCH HALL. "Walter Elliot, born March 1, 1760, married, July 15, 1784, Elizabeth, daughter of James Stevenson, Esq. of South Park, in the county of Gloucester, by which lady (who died 1800) he has issue Elizabeth, born June 1, 1785; Anne, born August… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. Ch 4, The Dutch at New Amsterdam, Part 2 (in Poems of American History, The Colonial Era ) A few days were spent in exploring the bay, and on September 6 occurred the only fatality that marked the voyage. A seaman named John Colman, with four sailors, was sent out in a small boat to sound the Narrows, and encountered some Indians, who sent a flight of arrows toward the strangers. One of the arrows pierced Colman's throat, killing him. THE DEATH OF COLMAN [September 6, 1609] 'Twas Juet spoke--the Half Moon's mate And they who Holland's ship of state Compass'd with wisdom, listening sate: Discovery's near-extinguished spark Flared up into a blaze, When Man-na-hat-ta's virgin hills, Enriched by Autumn's days, First fell on our impatient sight, And soothed us with a strange delight. Bidden by fevered trade, our keel Had ploughed unbeaten deeps; From many a perfume-laden isle To the dark land that sleeps Forever in its winter robe, Th' unsocial hermit of the globe. But we, who sought… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. A Child's Song Of Christmas (in Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection ) My counterpane is soft as silk, My blankets white as creamy milk. The hay was soft to Him, I know, Our little Lord of long ago. Above the roofs the pigeons fly In silver wheels across the sky. The stable-doves they cooed to them, Mary and Christ in Bethlehem. Bright shines the sun across the drifts, And bright upon my Christmas gifts. They brought Him incense, myrrh, and gold, Our little Lord who lived of old. Oh, soft and clear our mother sings Of Christmas joys and Christmas things. God's holy angels sang to them, Mary and Christ in Bethlehem. Our hearts they hold all Christmas dear, And earth seems sweet and heaven seems near, Oh, heaven was in His sight, I know, That little Child of long ago.

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MP3 Audio CD. Star Surgeon CHAPTER 1 THE INTRUDER The shuttle plane from the port of Philadelphia to Hospital Seattle had already gone when Dal Timgar arrived at the loading platform, even though he had taken great pains to be at least thirty minutes early for the boarding. "You'll just have to wait for the next one," the clerk at the dispatcher's desk told him unsympathetically. "There's nothing else you can do." "But I _can't_ wait," Dal said. "I have to be in Hospital Seattle by morning." He pulled out the flight schedule and held it under the clerk's nose. "Look there! The shuttle wasn't supposed to leave for another forty-five minutes!" The clerk blinked at the schedule, and shrugged. "The seats were full, so it left," he said. "Graduation time, you know. Everybody has to be somewhere else, right away. The next shuttle goes in three hours." "But I had a reservation on this one," Dal insisted. "Don't be… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. Arkansas Planter, The (in The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 03 ) Slowly and heavily the Major walked out upon the veranda. He stood upon the steps leading down into the yard, and he saw Louise afar off standing upon the river's yellow edge. She had thrown her hat upon the sand, and she stood with her hands clasped upon her brown head. A wind blew down the stream, and the water lapped at her feet. The Major looked back into the library, at the door wherein Pennington had stood, and sighed with relief upon finding that he was gone. He looked back toward the river. The girl was walking along the shore, meditatively swinging her hat. He stepped to the corner of the house, and, gazing down the road, saw Pennington on a horse, now sitting straight, now bending low over the horn of the saddle. The old gentleman had a habit of making a sideward motion with his hand as if he would put all unpleasant thoughts behind him, and now he made the motion not only once, but many times. And it seemed that… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. Six Years in the Prisons of England CHAPTER I. MY COMMERCIAL ANTECEDENTS--HOW I GOT INTO PRISON. In the beginning of the year 1856 I commenced business on my own account, as a merchant in a Northern City. Previous to that time I had been engaged in an unsuccessful partnership, but I paid my creditors in full with the small capital advanced to me by my friends for the purpose of my new adventure. When I began operations, therefore, I was literally without a shilling in the world, but I had a spotless character, enjoyed good credit, and possessed a thorough knowledge of my business; advantages which I easily persuaded myself would enable me to succeed without the actual possession of capital.--My business connections were scattered over various parts of the world, and generally ranked among the very best class of foreign merchants. I usually received orders by letter, sometimes I gave open credits to houses whose orders I could not otherwise secure, but frequently I had remittances… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. A Traveller in Time (in Short Science Fiction Collection 052 ) "Tell me what time is," said Harrigan one late summer afternoon in a Madison Street bar. "I'd like to know." "A dimension," I answered. "Everybody knows that." "All right, granted. I know space is a dimension and you can move forward or back in space. And, of course, you keep on aging all the time." "Elementary," I said. "But what happens if you can move backward or forward in time? Do you age or get younger, or do you keep the status quo?" "I'm not an authority on time, Tex. Do you know anyone who traveled in time?" Harrigan shrugged aside my question. "That was the thing I couldn't get out of Vanderkamp, either. He presumed to know everything else." "Vanderkamp?" "He was another of those strange people a reporter always runs into. Lived in New York--downtown, near the Bowery. Man of about forty, I'd say, but a… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. Der Vampyr Erstes Kapitel. Ein unglückliches, aber unverdientes Schicksal zwang den russischen Obersten Alfred Lobenthal, im Jahr 1818 seinen Abschied zu nehmen. Er begab sich nach Berlin, seinem Geburtsorte, wo er gern sein Leben beschlossen haben würde; aber sein Verhängniß hatte es anders über ihn bestimmt. Nach einem kaum halbjährigen Aufenthalte in dieser prächtigen Königsstadt trat Alfred eines Morgens tief bekümmert in das Zimmer seiner Gemahlin und kündigte ihr an, daß eine gebieterische Nothwendigkeit ihn zwinge, Berlin zu verlassen und in einer entfernten Gegend einen einsamen Aufenthaltsort zu suchen, wo sie in Ruhe und Frieden leben könnten. Helene, die Gemahlin des Obersten, erschrak über diese Neuigkeit, aber sie verlor den Muth nicht. Sie liebte ihren Gatten zärtlich, und ward eben so von ihm wieder geliebt; den übrigen Theil ihres Glücks machten ihre Kinder aus, und wo sie sich auch… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. Sara Teasdale was a United States lyric poet. Her full name was Sarah Trevor Teasdale born in St. Louis, Missouri, and made use of the name Sara Teasdale Filsinger after getting married.Sara became a member of The Potters, presided by Lillie Rose Ernst, a group of female artistes in their adolescence and early adulthood who wrote, The Potter's Wheel, a monthly creative and fictional magazine in St. Louis.Sara?s first verse was printed in William Marion Reedy's Reedy's Mirror, a local periodical. Her first set of verses, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, was printed at the same time as her first verse, in 1907.Sara?s 2nd set, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, was printed in 1911. It was favored by critics, who celebrated its lyrical expertise and passionate theme.Sara was fawned over by many men, such as the poet Vachel Lindsay, who was really much in love with her although did not agree that he can give sufficient money or financial security to make her happy. She decided to wed Ernst… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. Das Waldbauernbübel "Das Waldbauernbübel" ist nichts anderes, als eine Sammlung von Erlebnissen und Erfahrungen aus dem Jugendleben in der Waldheimat. Die Erzählungen sind in sehr verschiedenen Zeiten entstanden. Sie bleiben stehen wie sie gewachsen sind, doch habe ich ihre Formen und Launen noch einmal scharf unter das Gewissen genommen... (Vorwort von "Das Waldbauernbübel)

MP3 Audio CD. Long Poems Collection 006 Paul Revere's Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807 - 1882 Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five: Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm." Then he said "Good night!" and with muffled oar Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, Just as the moon rose over the bay, Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war: A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon, like a prison-bar, And a huge black hulk, that was magnified… Leer más