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  • Hörbuch

    The English Governess at the Siamese Court

    Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

    Erzählt von Wanda McCaddon

    Ungekürzt

    10 Stunden 17 Min.

    This 1870 memoir, which was the basis for the musical The King and I, vividly recounts the experiences of Anna Harriette Leonowens, who served as a governess for the sixty-plus children of King Mongkut of Siam and as translator and scribe for the King himself. Bright, young, and energetic, Leonowens was well-suited to her role, and her writings convey a heartfelt interest in the lives, legends, Lesen Sie mehr

    € 21,25

  • Hörbuch

    The Nicomachean Ethics

    von Aristotle
    Erzählt von Wanda McCaddon

    Ungekürzt

    8 Stunden 45 Min.

    Named for Aristotle's son, Nicomachus, who was the first to edit this work, The Nicomachean Ethics plays a prominent role in defining Aristotelian ethics. In the ten books of this work, Aristotle explains the good life for man: the life of happiness.For Aristotle, happiness exists when the soul is in accordance with virtue. Virtue exists in a deliberate choice of actions that take a middle course Lesen Sie mehr

    € 15,69

  • Hörbuch

    Christopher Columbus

    And How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery

    von Justin Winsor
    Erzählt von Wanda McCaddon

    Ungekürzt

    16 Stunden 19 Min.

    This classic biography should be mandatory reading for all academicians. Winsor, a historian, poet, literary critic, and fiction writer, retraces every important aspect of Columbus’ fascinating life, from his family origins to his beliefs and convictions. Columbus emerges as a living, breathing human being with passions and ideas: a man possessing intellect and imagination enough to believe that Lesen Sie mehr

    € 23,10

  • Hörbuch

    The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

    Erzählt von Wanda McCaddon

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    9 Stunden 37 Min.

    Anne Catherine Emmerich, mystic, stigmatist, and visionary, was born in Germany in 1774 to a poor Catholic peasant family. As a child she believed that angels, saints, and the Holy Family visited and talked with her as she worked in the fields. At twenty-four, she had her first mystic vision of the sufferings of Christ, accompanied by stigmata and bleeding as if from the crown of thorns. At twenty Lesen Sie mehr

    € 18,47

  • Hörbuch

    Felix Holt, the Radical

    von George Eliot
    Erzählt von Wanda McCaddon

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    17 Stunden 52 Min.

    “If a woman really believes herself to be a lower kind of being, she should place herself in subjection….If not, let her show her power of choosing something better.” This is the challenge thrown down to George Eliot’s heroine, Esther Lyon, who dreams of marrying into a life of refinement. But as she struggles to make her choice between two men, Esther finds her values challenged.Felix Holt is a Lesen Sie mehr

    € 33,39

  • Hörbuch

    Agnes Grey

    von Anne Brontë
    Erzählt von Wanda McCaddon

    Ungekürzt

    6 Stunden 28 Min.

    Written when she was twenty-six, Agnes Grey is Anne Brontë's first novel. It tells the story of a rector's daughter who has to earn her living as a governess when her family enters a financial crisis. Drawing directly from her own experiences, Anne Brontë set out to describe the immense pressures that the governess' life involved: the frustration, the isolation, and the insensitive and cruel Lesen Sie mehr

    € 15,69

  • Hörbuch

    Villette

    Erzählt von Wanda McCaddon

    Ungekürzt

    20 Stunden 10 Min.

    Arguably Charlotte Brontë's most deeply felt work, Villette draws on her own profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings.Left to fend for herself after a family tragedy, Lucy Snowe flees from her unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the cosmopolitan capital of Villette. There, Lucy struggles to prove herself in her new Lesen Sie mehr

    € 29,58

  • Hörbuch

    Short Stories by Saki

    Ungekürzt

    11 Stunden 30 Min.

    Hector Monro, writing under the pseudonym of Saki, is justly renowned for his urbane and witty short stories. His eccentric characters, humorous dialogue, and engaging domestic situations all reveal a penetrating and sometimes disturbing insight into human nature. As a quixotic tour guide, Saki leads the reader from garden party to pig sty to political convention with the ease of one who is Lesen Sie mehr

    € 21,25

  • Hörbuch

    The Origins of Totalitarianism

    von Hannah Arendt
    Erzählt von Wanda McCaddon

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    23 Stunden 24 Min.

    A recognized classic and definitive account of its subject, The Origins of Totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an "ideological weapon for imperialism," begining with the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in the nineteenth century and continuing through the New Imperialism period from 1884 to World War I.In her analysis of the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements Lesen Sie mehr

    € 29,58

  • Hörbuch

    Jane Eyre

    Erzählt von Wanda McCaddon

    Ungekürzt

    18 Stunden 53 Min.

    Jane Eyre, the plain yet spirited governess, introduced a new kind of heroine to 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 subject to a cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. How she takes up the post of Lesen Sie mehr

    € 29,58

  • Hörbuch

    Regency Etiquette

    The Mirror of Graces (1811); or, The English Ladies' Costume

    Erzählt von Wanda McCaddon

    Ungekürzt

    4 Stunden 13 Min.

    Written by an anonymous gentlewoman of the period, this book was a popular guide to manners and social customs for the late eighteenth–early nineteenth centuries in England. While devoted mostly to women’s dress, it also covers deportment, movement, propriety, correct dances, and aids to beauty and health—advice that would have been taken very much to heart by women of the time of Jane Austen and Lesen Sie mehr

    € 11,06

  • Hörbuch

    The Voyage Out

    von Virginia Woolf
    Erzählt von Wanda McCaddon

    Ungekürzt

    13 Stunden 25 Min.

    First published in 1915, The Voyage Out marked the literary debut of one of the great pioneers of the modern novel, Virginia Woolf.Woolf’s witty and lyrical debut follows a group of lively, eccentric British tourists embarking on a sea voyage from London to South America. For Rachel Vinrace, a shy, motherless young lady traveling under the wing of her aunt Helen, this first voyage out into the Lesen Sie mehr

    € 23,10