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The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Five is the fifth instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Five features 14 essential works that reach across Europe, America, and Russia - from Twain to Dostoyevsky to Austen - to bring together some of the most influential authors of the 18th and 19th century. Read by a cast of incredible narrators, this is a chance to expand your listening by going deeper into some of your favourite authors' works and find your new favourite piece of classic literature.

The brightest light of the Pickwick Club is its founder member and illustrious leader, Samuel Pickwick. He is joined by his three friends and fellow club members: the poetic Augustus Snodgrass, the romantic Tracy Tupman, and the sporting Nathaniel Winkle. Their mission is to travel the country in search of interesting scenes and characters and to report back the results of their observations. What follows is a series of adventures and misadventures, encounters and intrigues which show the dazzling brilliancy of Charles Dickens' comic invention with regard to character and situation.

74 minute Course Remote Viewing and Telecrux PowerRemote Viewing combined with Telepathy, originally called Telecrux Power by Dick Sutphen, is a fast and accurate psychic pin-pointing technique that can be easily learned and developed by anyone willing to practice regularly for a few weeks...

Orphaned at birth to labor in a workhouse, Oliver Twist is barely ten when he flees for London. There he befriends young Jack Dawkins, who educates the innocent Oliver in the ways of survival. When Jack draws Oliver into a gang of juvenile pickpockets, tutored by the unscrupulous Fagin, Oliver’s corruptive influences grow. But for a boy taught only wrong, Oliver must hold on to what he knows is right.

Als der Waisenjunge Oliver Twist nach London flieht, gerät er in die Fänge von Fagin und seiner Diebesbande. In den finsteren Straßen Londons wird er in das Handwerk des Taschendiebstahls eingewiesen. Doch die Polizei fasst ihn und der gütige Mr. Brownlow nimmt sich seiner an. Olivers Glück währt nur kurz: Fagins Bande holt ihn zurück und er wird gezwungen, ein schreckliches Verbrechen zu begehen.

"Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding," says Ebenezer Scrooge. Mean old Scrooge despises Christmas until Christmas Eve, when a haunted voice from the past changes his life: overnight! Many know this story but few have experienced the true marvel of the tale.

Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Dickens: The Ultimate Collection brings together the major works of fiction from three of the greatest writers of the 1800s. In this collection you'll hear Jonathan Keeble and David Rintoul expertly narrating the grand epics of The Brothers Karamazov and War & Peace, Stephen Fry narrating Great Expectations, Scrooge's ghostly journey narrated by Jason Isaacs, and other award-winning narrators bringing Tolstoy and Dickens' most beloved stories to life.

John Harmon, in exile for many years, discovers that by a curious quirk in his father’s will he must marry Bella Wilfer, a girl he has never met, in order to claim his inheritance. Mistakenly thought to have drowned, on his return he gains employment with the kindly Mr Boffin under the assumed name of John Rokesmith and falls in love with the flighty and mercenary Bella, who scornfully rejects him as a mere impoverished secretary.

"Bitte noch eine Geschichte!" Kinder lieben das Vorlesen, meist können sie gar nicht genug davon bekommen. Die von österreichischen Schauspielerinnen und Schauspielern gelesenen Geschichten - teils fantastisch, spannend und lustig, teils einfühlsam und nachdenklich - werden Ihre Kinder begeistern. Ein Hörbuch für Kinder ab 4 Jahren.

In Marco Polo, by John Lucarotti, the TARDIS breaks down in Central Asia in the year 1289, causing the travellers to meet an intrepid Venetian explorer. In The War Machines, by Ian Stuart Black, the Doctor senses a powerful and sinister force around London's newly built Post Office Tower. In The Faceless Ones, by Terrance Dicks, the Doctor and his friends are drawn into a web of intrigue and deception at Gatwick Airport. In The Ambassadors of Death, by Terrance Dicks, the Doctor and Liz investigate the disappearance of three astronauts after their space capsule returns to Earth empty.

Brought to you by Penguin. Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw. This Penguin Classic is performed by Ed Speleers. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Jeremy Tambling. 'The greatest...

Der ehemalige Jockey und erfolgreiche Romanautor Dick Francis erzählt zwei spannende Geschichten aus der Welt des Pferdesports. Der Pferdeverkäufer Sandy Nutbridge wird fälschlicherweise angeklagt, Steuern hinterzogen zu haben, und er hat einen unsauberen Anwalt an seiner Seite...

Laurie Walsh war eine erfolgreiche Polizistin. Bis sie aus Notwehr schießen musste - und ein Mensch starb. Die Bilder verfolgen sie jede Nacht - selbst jetzt, mehr als ein Jahr später. Doch dann meldet sich ihr ehemaliger Partner Jake und bittet sie um Hilfe bei einem Fall. Und Laurie wird klar, wie sehr ihr Herz noch an der Polizeiarbeit hängt. Immer wieder hilft sie Jake fortan bei harten Fällen, die die Ermittler tief erschüttern. Und gerät dabei nicht selten selbst ins Visier der Täter...Folge 4 - Falsches Vertrauen.

This is Charles Dickens’s second novel and regarded as one of his best. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and titled; Oliver Twist, or; A Parish Boys Progress. As a book, it first appeared in 1838 in three volumes. The story follows the title character Oliver Twist, who, being born and raised in a workhouse for the first ten years of his life, runs away to nearby London. Here, he falls in with a gang of young thieves and pickpockets controlled by Fagin, an elderly criminal.

Envision a life characterized by complete inner peace, even in the midst of suffering and chaos. Envision liberation from negative and aggressive people, frustrating expectations, and the self-defeating fears that hold you back from your true potential and ultimate success. The results would be like magic, a complete, total, and lasting transforming of your life and everything in it.

'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.' So says Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, utilitarian school board superintendent. Father to Tom and Louisa, he shapes the minds of all the young children, including his own, with the exception of only one: the circus-born Sissy Jupe.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (commonly known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel by Charles Dickens. The book became the first real publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books and other merchandise.

Dem geizigen Geschäftsmann Ebenezer Scrooge erscheinen am Heiligabend drei Geister. Der erste entführt ihn in seine Vergangenheit. Der zweite erschüttert ihn in der Gegenwart durch einen Besuch bei seinem verarmten Angestellten Cratchit und dessen schwerkranken Sohn. Der dritte Geist schließlich präsentiert Scrooge seine Zukunft - er ist einsam gestorben, niemand trauert um ihn. Als Scrooge am Weihnachtsmorgen erwacht, ist er ein völlig neuer Mensch.

In Phoenix arbeitet Laurie endlich wieder als Polizistin an Jakes Seite. Gleich ihr erster gemeinsamer Fall hat es in sich: Im Lake Pleasant National Park wurden stark verweste Leichenteile gefunden - von mehreren Personen, alle zerstückelt. Ihre Ermittlungen ergeben, dass alle Opfer Obdachlose, Junkies und Prostituierte waren - und dass zahlreiche weitere Menschen vermisst werden. Doch auch der Täter hat von den Ermittlungen Wind bekommen und fasst einen perfiden Plan - mit Laurie in der Hauptrolle.

Charles Dickens begeistert Jung und Alt mit seiner Weihnachtsgeschichte vom geizigen und hartherzigen Mister Scrooge, dem sein ehemaliger Kompagnon im Traum erscheint und ihm so fürchterlich zusetzt, dass er am nächsten Tag geläutert erwacht und nichts Eiliges zu tun hat, als den Armen zu helfen und Nächstenliebe zu leben...