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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 19th Century - The Ghost Story

The ten best ghost stories written from 1800-1899

by Oscar Wilde, Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, Alexander Pushkin, Rudyard Kipling, Amelia Edwards, E T A Hoffman, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Sheridan Le Fanu ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Ian Holm, Eric Meyers ...

Unabridged

8 hours 53 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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Foundations of Fiction, The - Gothic Horror

Stories that helped shape one of literatures most acclaimed genres

by Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexander Pushkin, Mary Shelley, Sheridan Le Fanu, George Eliot, M R James, E T A Hoffman0, E T A Hoffman1, Gertrude Atherton2, Perceval Landon3, Robert W Chambers4, W W Jacobs5, Ambrose Bierce6, Ernst Raupach7 ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley8, Eric Meyers9, Mark Rice-Oxley0 ...

Unabridged

16 hours 31 min

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Read more

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In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success
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The Top 10 Short Stories - The Germans

by E T A Hoffman, Fredrich Schiller, Johann von Goethe ...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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3 Stories About - Appearance Vs Reality

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Anton Chekhov, Washington Irving, E T A Hoffman ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Mark Rice-Oxley, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

1 hour 41 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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Stories From the Shadows - Vampires

Embrace the darkness

by John Willaim Polidori, E T A Hoffman, Jan Neruda, Phil Robinson, Hume Nisbet, E F Benson, F G Loring, Ernst Raupach ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

4 hours 40 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
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Lost Reflection, The

A New Years Eve tale of demonic lust

by E T A Hoffman ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

1 hour 15 min

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman was born on the 24th January 1776, the youngest of three children, in Königsberg, then in Prussia but now part of the Kaliningrad Russian enclave.His parents separated when he was two and for many years life was to be provincial and, despite his talents for the creative arts and the classics, much was passing him by.At 20 Hoffman obtained employment as a clerk and to ... Read more

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Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman was born on the 24th January 1776, the youngest of three children, in Königsberg, then in Prussia but now part of the Kaliningrad Russian enclave.His parents separated when he was two and for many years life was to be provincial and, despite his talents for the creative arts and the classics, much was passing him by.At 20 Hoffman obtained employment as a clerk and to
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E T A Hoffman - A Short Story Collection

German Romantic titan of Gothic horror and fantasy

by E T A Hoffman ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

5 hours 29 min

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman was born on the 24th January 1776, the youngest of three children, in Königsberg, then in Prussia but now part of the Kaliningrad Russian enclave.His parents separated when he was two and for many years life was to be provincial and, despite his talents for the creative arts and the classics, much was passing him by.At 20 Hoffman obtained employment as a clerk and to ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman was born on the 24th January 1776, the youngest of three children, in Königsberg, then in Prussia but now part of the Kaliningrad Russian enclave.His parents separated when he was two and for many years life was to be provincial and, despite his talents for the creative arts and the classics, much was passing him by.At 20 Hoffman obtained employment as a clerk and to
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3 Stories About - Class & Status

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Guy de Maupassant, Katherine Mansfield, E T A Hoffman ...

Narrated by Eve Karpf, Mark Rice-Oxley, Jake Urry ...

Unabridged

2 hours 13 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
Mlle de Scuderi

Enriched edition. A Captivating Tale of Mystery, Romance, and Suspense in 17th-Century Paris

by E. T. A. Hoffman, Tessa Benson ...

In "Mlle de Scuderi," E. T. A. Hoffmann explores the intersections of art, identity, and morality within the vibrant cultural milieu of 17th-century France. This novella is rendered in Hoffmann's characteristic blending of fantasy and reality, utilizing rich, evocative prose that captures the enchantment and peril of the artistic world. Set against the backdrop of Paris, the narrative revolves ... Read more

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In "Mlle de Scuderi," E. T. A. Hoffmann explores the intersections of art, identity, and morality within the vibrant cultural milieu of 17th-century France. This novella is rendered in Hoffmann's characteristic blending of fantasy and reality, utilizing rich, evocative prose that captures the enchantment and peril of the artistic world. Set against the backdrop of Paris, the narrative revolves
... Read more
The Billion Dollar Spy

A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

by David E. Hoffman ...

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold WarWhile driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA’s Moscow ... Read more

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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold WarWhile driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA’s Moscow
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3 Stories - Dark Romanticism

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Edgar Allan Poe, E T A Hoffman, Washington Irving ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland, Elliot Fitzpatrick, William Dufris ...

Unabridged

2 hours 37 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
The Sand Man

by E. T. A. Hoffman ...

I KNOW you are all very uneasy because I have not written for such a long, long time. Mother, to be sure, is angry, and Clara, I dare say, believes I am living here in riot and revelry, and quite forgetting my sweet angel, whose image is so deeply engraved upon my heart and mind. But that is not so; daily and hourly do I think of you all, and my lovely Clara's form comes to gladden me in my dreams ... Read more

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I KNOW you are all very uneasy because I have not written for such a long, long time. Mother, to be sure, is angry, and Clara, I dare say, believes I am living here in riot and revelry, and quite forgetting my sweet angel, whose image is so deeply engraved upon my heart and mind. But that is not so; daily and hourly do I think of you all, and my lovely Clara's form comes to gladden me in my dreams
... Read more

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