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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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    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 Hunger Artist

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Narrated by Peter Coates ...

    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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    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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    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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    The classic of German literature

    A Summer Novella, Siddhartha, The Metamorphosis, Death in Venice and others

    by Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse ...
    Narrated by Mark Bowen, Shawna Wolf, Peter Coates ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 14 min

    German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora.Contents:Thomas MannDeath in VeniceHermann HesseSiddharthaFranz KafkaThe MetamorphosisStefan ZweigA Summer NovellaRainer ... Read more

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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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    50+ Great Novellas and Short Stories. Vol.1

    Selections from Poe, London, Twain, Melville, Kipling, Dickens, Tolstoy, Joyce, Hemingway, Bradbury, Christie and many more

    by Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Ambrose Bierce, Thomas Hardy, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Rainer Maria Rilke, H. H. Munro, O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Mansfield, Willa Cather, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Fiodor Dostoievski, Sherwood Anderson, Virginia Woolf, Ring Lardner, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, E.M. Forster, H. P. Lovecraft, Agatha Christie ...
    Narrated by Paul Gibson, Peter Coates, David J Miles, Joe Phoenix, Trevor O'Hare, Mark Bowen, Frank Bailey, David McCord, Abigail Reno, Joanne Thompson, Judy Kriz, Jeremy Albret, Jim Girard, John Lingua, Richard Williams, John Brown, Michael Goodrick, Joshua Szatmari, Carl Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    42 hours 32 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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    The Great Wall of China

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Narrated by Peter Coates ...

    Unabridged

    32 min

    "The Great Wall of China" is a short story by Franz Kafka. While written in 1917, it was not published until 1930, seven years after his death. Its first publication occurred in Der Morgen, a German literary magazine. A year later, Max Brod included it in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer, the first posthumous collection of short stories by Franz Kafka. Contained within the story is a parable that ... Read more

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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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  • Other Minds

    The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    Series series
    Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other MindsAlthough mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In ... Read more

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  • Delphi Masterworks of Franz Schubert (Illustrated)

    by Peter Russell ...
    Series Book 9 - Delphi Great Composers
    Renowned for melody and harmony, the Austrian composer Franz Schubert represents the foremost bridge between the worlds of Classical and Romantic music. In spite of his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre of original and inspiring works, including more than 600 secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of piano and chamber ... Read more

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