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Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol. 2 (Animals)

Kashtanka by Anton Chekhov, Sredni Vashtar by Saki, Kholstomer, The Story of a Horse by Leo Tolstoy, Jackals and Arabs by Franz Kafka, A Dark-Brown Dog by Stephen Crane and others

by Saki, Leo Tolstoy, Stephen Crane, Anton Chekhov, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Mansfield, Pu Songlbying, Franz Kafka ...

Narrated by Peter Coates ...

Unabridged

4 hours 17 min

In these selections, an animal plays an important role in the action or plot of the story. The animals in these stories are real or are stand-ins for humans:Sredni Vashtar by Saki (H. H. Munro)Kholstomer, The Story of a Horse by Leo TolstoyA Dark-Brown Dog by Stephen CraneKashtanka by Anton ChekhovThe Cat That Walked By Himself by Rudyard KiplingThe Black Cat by Edgar Allan PoeThe Fly by Katherine ... Read more

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In these selections, an animal plays an important role in the action or plot of the story. The animals in these stories are real or are stand-ins for humans:Sredni Vashtar by Saki (H. H. Munro)Kholstomer, The Story of a Horse by Leo TolstoyA Dark-Brown Dog by Stephen CraneKashtanka by Anton ChekhovThe Cat That Walked By Himself by Rudyard KiplingThe Black Cat by Edgar Allan PoeThe Fly by Katherine
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A Hunger Artist

by Franz Kafka ...

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Unabridged

24 min

"A Hunger Artist" is a short story by Franz Kafka first published in Die neue Rundschau in 1922. The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist, the last book Kafka prepared for publication, which was printed by Verlag Die Schmiede shortly after his death. The protagonist, a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft, is typically Kafkaesque: an ... Read more

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"A Hunger Artist" is a short story by Franz Kafka first published in Die neue Rundschau in 1922. The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist, the last book Kafka prepared for publication, which was printed by Verlag Die Schmiede shortly after his death. The protagonist, a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft, is typically Kafkaesque: an
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Blindsight

by Peter Watts ...

Series Book 1 - Firefall
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, BlindsightTwo months since the stars fell...Two months of silence, while a world held its breath.Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. ... Read more

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Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, BlindsightTwo months since the stars fell...Two months of silence, while a world held its breath.Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam.
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50+ Great Novellas and Short Stories. Vol.2

Selections from Irving, Wilde, Chopin, Wells, Chekhov, Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, Bradbury, Christie and many more

by Washington Irving, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joel Chandler Harris, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, Jerome K. Jerome, Kate Chopin, H. G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, H. H. Munro, O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, John Galsworthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, G. K. Chesterton, Ivan Bunin, Aleksandr Kuprin, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Mikhail Bulgakov, Agatha Christie ...

Narrated by Kenneth Elliot, Peter Coates, David J Miles, Mike Hogan, Michael Goodrick, Mark Bowen, Sharon Plummer, Abigail Reno, John Lingua, Jim Gerard, Carl Hughes, Anthony Bottoms ...

Unabridged

39 hours 33 min

This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature.The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century.The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose.It features classics ... Read more

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This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature.The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century.The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose.It features classics
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Jaws

A Novel

by Peter Benchley ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The shark-versus-man classic that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg movie—now in a fiftieth anniversary edition with an exclusive foreword from the author’s wife, renowned ocean conservation advocate Wendy Benchley“A tightly written, tautly paced study of terror.”—The Washington Post**A great white shark terrorizes the beautiful summer getaway of Amity Island, ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The shark-versus-man classic that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg movie—now in a fiftieth anniversary edition with an exclusive foreword from the author’s wife, renowned ocean conservation advocate Wendy Benchley“A tightly written, tautly paced study of terror.”—The Washington Post**A great white shark terrorizes the beautiful summer getaway of Amity Island,
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The Silk Roads

A New History of the World

by Peter Frankopan ...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next."A rare book that makes you question your assumptions about the world.” —The Wall Street JournalFrom the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast ... Read more

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next."A rare book that makes you question your assumptions about the world.” —The Wall Street JournalFrom the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast
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25+ The World's Greatest Short Stories. Vol. 2

Roger Malvin's Burial, Notes From The Underground, The Mark On The Wall, Heart Of Darkness and other

by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, Charles Dickens, Ivan Turgenev, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Guy De Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Herbert George Wells, Stendhal, Honore De Balzac, Mark Twain, Aldous Huxley, Ernest Hemingway, Nikolay Gogol, O. Henry, Jack London ...

Narrated by Kenneth Eliot, David Miles, Peter Coates, John Broun, Trevor O'Harre, Richard Williams, Cari Hughes, Joshua Szatmari, Joanne Thompson, Mark Bowen, Andrey Repin, Lusy Stone, Joe Phoenix, Jim Girard, John Lingua ...

Unabridged

39 hours 31 min

Contents:• Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle• Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders In The Rue Morgue• Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes From The Underground• Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis• Charles Dickens: The Chimes• Ivan Turgenev: Mumu• Francis Scott Fitzgerald: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button• Joseph Conrad: Heart Of Darkness• Ambrose Bierce: Chickamauga• Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study In Scarlet• H. P. ... Read more

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Contents:• Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle• Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders In The Rue Morgue• Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes From The Underground• Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis• Charles Dickens: The Chimes• Ivan Turgenev: Mumu• Francis Scott Fitzgerald: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button• Joseph Conrad: Heart Of Darkness• Ambrose Bierce: Chickamauga• Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study In Scarlet• H. P.
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Jackals and Arabs

by Franz Kafka ...

Narrated by Peter Coates ...

Unabridged

10 min

"Jackals and Arabs" is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. The story was first published by Martin Buber in the German monthly Der Jude. A European traveler from the North, accompanied by Arab guides, is camped in the desert. When night falls, and the Arabs are at a distance, the traveler is accosted by talking jackals. The jackals speak of an age-old hatred for Arabs, ... Read more

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"Jackals and Arabs" is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. The story was first published by Martin Buber in the German monthly Der Jude. A European traveler from the North, accompanied by Arab guides, is camped in the desert. When night falls, and the Arabs are at a distance, the traveler is accosted by talking jackals. The jackals speak of an age-old hatred for Arabs,
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A Country Doctor

by Franz Kafka ...

Narrated by Peter Coates ...

Unabridged

15 min

"A Country Doctor" is a short story written in 1917 by Franz Kafka. It was first published in the collection of short stories of the same title. In the story, a country doctor makes an emergency visit to a sick patient on a winter night. The doctor faces absurd, surreal predicaments that pull him along and finally doom him. A Country Doctor is perhaps Kafka's most fantastical or surreal work. It ... Read more

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"A Country Doctor" is a short story written in 1917 by Franz Kafka. It was first published in the collection of short stories of the same title. In the story, a country doctor makes an emergency visit to a sick patient on a winter night. The doctor faces absurd, surreal predicaments that pull him along and finally doom him. A Country Doctor is perhaps Kafka's most fantastical or surreal work. It
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The Dog Stars

by Peter Heller ...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RIDLEY SCOTT AND STARRING JACOB ELORDI, MARGARET QUALLEY, AND JOSH BROLIN • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The River: In this "end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning" (San Francisco Chronicle), Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. His gripping story is "an ode to friendship between two men...the strong ... Read more

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RIDLEY SCOTT AND STARRING JACOB ELORDI, MARGARET QUALLEY, AND JOSH BROLIN • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The River: In this "end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning" (San Francisco Chronicle), Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. His gripping story is "an ode to friendship between two men...the strong
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The Wild Robot

by Peter Brown ...

Series Book 1 - The Wild Robot
Now a DreamWorks movie available on Prime Video!This #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from a Caldecott Honor winner tells an extraordinary story full of action and thought-provoking questions as a robot learns to survive—and live—in the wilderness.Can a robot survive in the wilderness?When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone ... Read more

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Now a DreamWorks movie available on Prime Video!This #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from a Caldecott Honor winner tells an extraordinary story full of action and thought-provoking questions as a robot learns to survive—and live—in the wilderness.Can a robot survive in the wilderness?When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone
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The Kind Worth Killing

A Novel

by Peter Swanson ...

A devious tale of psychological suspense so irresistible that it prompts Entertainment Weekly to ask, “Is The Kind Worth Killing the next Gone Girl?” From one of the hottest new thriller writers, Peter Swanson, a name you may not know yet (but soon will), this is his breakout novel in the bestselling tradition of Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train—and is soon to be a major movie directed by ... Read more

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A devious tale of psychological suspense so irresistible that it prompts Entertainment Weekly to ask, “Is The Kind Worth Killing the next Gone Girl?” From one of the hottest new thriller writers, Peter Swanson, a name you may not know yet (but soon will), this is his breakout novel in the bestselling tradition of Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train—and is soon to be a major movie directed by
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Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol. 2 (Animals)

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