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Described by Virginia Woolf as "a little masterpiece", in Seven Men, Beerbohm tells the stories of six men from the world of the 1890s - Beerbohm himself is the seventh man - with such an air of realism and so much circumstantial detail as to blur the boundary between fact and fiction, so that the listener is lulled almost into acceptance of the fantastic events that he describes.

In dieser Sammlung finden sich Theodor Fontanes bekannteste Werke vereint. Egal ob für den Unterricht oder einfach, um die deutschen Klassiker kennenzulernen: Diese Sammlung eignet sich wunderbar dafür, in den deutschen Realismus einzutauchen. Und wer würde sich dafür besser eigenen als der bekannteste Vertreter: Theodor Fontane. Diese Sammlung beinhaltet die Meisterwerke "Der Stechlin", "Irrungen, Wirrungen", "Unterm Birnbaum", "Das Bild meines Vaters", "Effi Briest", "Stine" und "Tuch und Locke".

35 episodes from Series 4-7 of the hugely popular Civil Service sitcom The original ‘Yes Minister’, The Men from the Ministry was a radio comedy phenomenon, running for 15 years and 13 series between 1962 and 1977, with a final fourteenth series broadcast internationally in 1980. In this...

In "The Happy Hypocrite", mischievous Cupid compels disreputable Lord George Hell to win the love of sweet young Jenny Mere by assuming a saintly mask of true love to disguise his own wicked features. "Zuleika Dobson" tells the story of the effect of the devastatingly attractive Miss Dobson on the all-male undergraduate body of Oxford, culminating in a watery end to the Eights Week boat races. And in "Seven Men", Beerbohm blurs the boundary between fact and fiction to tell the incredible stories of six men (Beerbohm himself is the seventh) from the world of the 1890s.