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Tony®- and three-time Emmy®-nominated Producer Mia Moravis brings to you stellar performers from Broadway, Off-Broadway, London's West End, the Bristol Old Vic, and stages across the country, narrating eleven of Oscar Wilde's most engaging, poignant, and mirthful short stories! "The Oscar Wilde Story Suite" is narrated by Annabel Capper, Philip Hernández, Laura Rocklyn, Gail Shalan, Justin Spencer, and Mia Moravis.

Timeless themes of courage and danger, leadership and honor, along with the bare-knuckle struggle between right and wrong are the hallmark of L. Ron Hubbard’s military and war adventures. Experience the action in these tales set against historical backgrounds as the characters face relentless adversaries and overwhelming odds.

It’s an offer Grace Logan can’t refuse: ghostwrite the memoir of Claudia Blackwood, a successful novelist once accused of a ghastly triple murder. Did she really do it? In self-imposed exile in her island mansion, the frail Claudia is finally bringing her notorious past to a close. But for Grace, the end of Claudia’s story may be more than a sinister reveal…

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs, including an account of Mr. Irving’s dinner with President Ronald Reagan at the White House. The longest of the memoirs, The Imaginary Girlfriend,” is the core of this collection.

Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, one of the comic masterpieces of all time, The Importance of Being Earnest, in 1895. It is a farce playing with love, religion, and truth as it tells the tale of two men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who bend the truth in order to add excitement to their lives. Jack invents an imaginary brother, Ernest, whom he uses as an excuse to escape from his dull country home and gallivant in town.

Un romanzo composto da dieci racconti, cesellati con la finezza di Carver e Salinger. Dieci movimenti che ritraggono Sofia lungo trent'anni della sua vita: dalle estati d'infanzia sulle sponde del lago alla scoperta della passione per il teatro, attraverso le profonde e fragili luminosità dell'adolescenza. Un'esistenza che percorre la storia di una generazione, le sue passioni, le sue medicine, le sue città. Ci sfiora, Sofia, mentre si posa indimenticabile nel cuore del lettore.

This bundle includes books seven, eight, and nine of the Cupcake Bakery Mystery series.

Samantha Lexi knows how to give people what they want—sexy, sultry stories with plenty of heat and passion! Sex Stories for Adults is full of naughty encounters that will get your heart racing and hot under the collar. With scenes of threesomes, spanking, BDSM, and more, there’s something for everyone inside. Listen in and let yourself get lost in these explicit stories. With new scenes every day, you’ll never get bored. And if you finish the audiobook, don’t worry—we have plenty more where that came from. Let the heat build with taboo encounters and explicit scenes.

We all know that listening to erotica is a great way to unwind and let your imagination run wild. But picking the right story can be hard, especially when you're looking for something specific. If you’re tired of sifting through poorly written stories with cardboard characters, then this collection will help you find exactly what you need. Erotic and Explicit Taboo Sex Stories is the perfect collection of steamy stories that will make your heart race. Everything from first-time experiences to kinky sexcapades that will leave your body begging for more!

This special omnibus edition contains the complete Books 1-4 of Guardian of Aster Fall: Battlefield Reclaimer, Aster Fall, Moonlight Relic, and Astral Threads.

H.H. Munro (Saki) is one of the undisputed masters of the short story. In this complete compendium, the full gamut of his subjects and themes is experienced. His stories are imbued with humorous satire, biting irony, and often the macabre, all of which have one target: the stupidities and hypocrisies of Edwardian upper-class society.

Des dieux aux héros, les épopées de la Grèce antique s'ouvrent à vous ! Dans ce voyage épique à travers le cosmos, découvrez un monde où la réalité flirte avec le mythique. Rencontrez Zeus et son Panthéon Olympien, et marchez sur les traces des héros, des titans et des nymphes qui peuplent la mythologie grecque. Ce livre audio comporte des dialogues enrichis de musiques, et est joué par une trentaine de comédien.ne.s. Retrouvez la quasi-totalité des récits les plus connus de la mythologie grecque, écrits d'après les textes fondateur.

Trick I - The first thing to vanish is a worthless doorstop. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, goes its rich and elderly owner. And, for the grand finale, both reappear - each as dead as the other. Trick II - From the House of Darkness issues more bafflement. In total darkness and from a distance of 12 feet, four bullets are pumped within an inch of each other into a spectator's back - a feat utterly impossible to perform yet brazenly and undeniably done.

The King in Yellow is a collection of 10 short stories on supernatural subjects first published 1895. The title refers to a mysterious play which causes derangement in the minds of those who read or see it, and which is mentioned in the first four stories.

Have you ever seen a Shakespeare play and come away without fully understanding it? Or wished you had known the basis of the plot before seeing a play by Shakespeare? Are you studying Shakespeare? Would you like to increase your knowledge of the plays without reading the originals? Then these are the recordings for you!

David Suchet, Poirot to perfection, returns with five further short stories taken from the collection entitled Poirot's Early Cases. The short stories included in this audiobook are 'The Plymouth Express', 'The Submarine Plans', 'Problem at Sea', 'How Does Your Garden Grow?' and 'The Market Basing Mystery'.

The 1925 New York edition of Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time trails readers through the years before, during, and after World War I. The collection’s first two stories, “Indian Camp” and “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,” introduce Hemingway’s semiautobiographical character Nick Adams as a child. In total, seven stories portray the young man’s coming of age. All fourteen, including interspersed vignettes, embody the themes that Hemingway would return to throughout his career: alienation, grief, loss, and separation, as well as the regenerative powers of nature.

Arsène Lupin ? Ce Robin des Bois moderne met son intelligence, sa force physique et son sang-froid au secours de "l'innocence persécutée". Un caractère à la fois séduisant, torturé et mystérieux, lui ont assuré son succès auprès de nombreux lecteurs. Içi sont rassemblées l'intégrale des 36 nouvelles qui mettent en scène le personnage d'Arsène Lupin, encore que parfois il se fasse passer pour un certain Jim Barnett.

After the success of This Side of Paradise, it was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s popular short fiction that helped maintain the luxury and celebrity to which he and his wife, Zelda, had grown accustomed. Reflections of that blithe and glittering lifestyle, these eleven stories reveal a man both beguiled by and critical of the American postwar generation he defined. Fitzgerald’s tales capture the inauguration of the age in all its hysteria, revelry, and tragedy - the same world he would later revisit in his renowned The Great Gatsby.

Gui is a professional cleaner at A Fresh Start, scrubbing away the unpleasant layers of memory that build up on the personal objects of his customers. Memory-blind himself, he can’t feel those wounds. Clara can, and she prefers them irretrievable. Until her sister, Beatrice, ultrasensitive to memory, raises one that could change Clara’s mind. For Gui, the past is gone. For Clara and Beatrice, deciding what to remember reaches to the heart of their shared history.