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Bhartiye sahityakaro mein sahityakar traya - Rabindranath Tagore, Sharad Chandra aur Vibhutibhushan Bandhopadhyay tatha Hindi sahityakaro mein Chandradhar Sharma Guleri, Jayshankar Prasad aur Premchand kahaani lekhan ke strotra mein ananya hain. Inn sahityakaro ki prasidh shreshth kahaaniyan iss pustak mein sankalit hain, jo maanav mann ki bhavnaao ko udrelit karne wali hain. Prakashan ki Strot mein pratham baar Bangla aur Hindi sahityakaro ki kahaaniyon ka sangam aur sankalan hai, yeh pustak sab hi ke liye pathniye aur sangrahiyi pustak hai.

Hear rare recordings from five of the most-respected African American poets reading their own works: Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"; Arna Bontemps, "Nocturne At Bethesda"; Countee Cullen, "Heritage"; Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Vacant Lot"; and Sonia Sanchez, "Black Magic".

To celebrate ten years of the National Theatre’s New Views Programme, Audible and the National Theatre bring you New Voices, ten captivating audio plays written by young people, delving into thought-provoking narratives and profound emotions.

リラックスして聴きたい人向けの、青空文庫朗読チャンネルです。聞き流し、聞く読書にどうぞ。 Bedtime stories(from classical worldwide literature). Just close your eyes.✨️🌙 Ideal for listening practice, relaxation, or discovering classic works. All contents are in Japanese. #Literature #朗読 #Reading #リラックス #Relaxing #Japanese #classical ＃青空文庫 ＃読書

It was two hundred years before Columbus. The spirits of nature walked the earth…And the people of the American Southwest lived in intimate harmony with the land, the sky, and the seasons. Here the beautiful, blue eyed Kwani, gifted with magical vision, and Tolonqua, Hunting Chief of the Towa, joined in a passion that defied all taboos. Here Tolonqua fought to build a great fortress city to protect his clan against the dread Pawnee and other foes.

In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle begins as Agatha Heterodyne returns to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg. There she must claim her inheritance by convincing the artificial intelligence that animates her family's castle that she is, in fact, the new Heterodyne. But this apparently simple task is made complicated in several ways: An imposter claiming to be the legitimate heir appears.

A remarkable tale enjoyed by children and adults alike about a family hit hard by a father's removal to prison and their becoming poor but fighting back, as the mother does by writing and selling stories, the children supporting her and having marvelous adventures while bringing joy and help to many.

At the age of 12, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully's Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face - and heart - of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.

Trilby opens in the Latin Quarter of Paris, where Trilby O'Ferrall is working as an artist's model. Her grace and ingenuous charm make a poignant contrast to the cruel magnetism of Svengali, under whose spell she falls. Using hypnotic powers, Svengali shapes her into a virtuoso singer, Europe's most captivating soprano. But her golden voice, and even her life, become fatally tied to him.

The working-class painter Terry Godden was on the brink of his first success. After a violent crisis, he finds himself outcast. Nearing sixty and with modest means, he has retreated to a small island. The island seems to be a closed, cold place. As the seasons turn, Terry comes to see that he is...

Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens, first serialised in All the Year Round from December 1860 to August 1861. The action of the story takes place from Christmas Eve 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years old, to the winter of 1840. Great Expectations is written in a semi-autobiographical style, and is the story of the orphan Pip, tracing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood.

‘Do yourself a favour and read this wonderful book’ Scotsman Based on the true story of conjoined Russian twins, Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep is a tale of survival and self-determination, innocence and lies. No one expects Dasha and Masha to live...

"Allein": Zu keiner Zeit haben so viele Menschen allein gelebt, und nie war elementarer zu spüren, wie brutal das selbstbestimmte Leben in Einsamkeit umschlagen kann. Aber kann man überhaupt glücklich sein allein? Und warum wird in einer Gesellschaft von Individualisten das Alleinleben als schambehaftetes Scheitern wahrgenommen? Im Rückgriff auf eigene Erfahrungen, philosophische und soziologische Ideen ergründet Daniel Schreiber das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen dem Wunsch nach Rückzug und Freiheit und dem nach Nähe, Liebe und Gemeinschaft.

Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page. Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s absence.

VOICES: a sacred sisterscape, spearheaded by Grammy-nominated poet aja monet (When The Poems Do What They Do), is an audio experience of stories written by, narrated by, and centering Black women across the diaspora. It encourages radical listening for the sake of connection, compassion, and community and celebrates the interior lives Black women embody. “We seek to encourage and establish a culture that fosters radical truth-telling love & solidarity,” —aja monet, Artistic Creative Director, Voices at V-Day.

It's Christmas Eve at 221-B as Doctor Watson reads A Christmas Carol to his friend, and to us! In this all new, full-length, and unabridged One Voice Recordings production, listeners will enjoy his lusty-yet-reverent telling of Ebenezer Scrooge's moral redemption and return to the joyful possibilities within the human race

David Ian Davies performs this unique and exciting reading of William Shakespeare's erotic poem, The Rape of Lucrece - not available on cassette or CD!

Frightened, my wife nudges me awake, certain that she heard a noise somewhere in the house. I hear the intruder a moment later. Our home is in a run-down part of town where burglaries and robbery have become commonplace. Worried about our 18-month-old in an adjoining room, I get up, grabbing a golf club I know to be in our closet, and go out to investigate. There's just sufficient light to illuminate the form of a man close to me in the hall.