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Treasure Island: A Telling for the New World is an eight-hour audio mini-series, based on the classic by R.L. Stevenson. The adaptation resets the story in the Bayous of Louisiana, the Port of New Orleans, and the Caribbean in 1828. This fully dramatized production stars the voices of Keith...

Des voyageurs surpris par l'orage se réfugient chez un homme qui a autrefois passé un pacte avec le DIABLE... Repenti, il attend vainement que son pacte cesse. Or, cette nuit-là, nos voyageurs mi-goguenards mi-effrayés vont le tenter… Un récit fantastique ou SF, qui grâce à l'interprétation magistrale de Marc Deroy vous fait dresser les poils et vous donne la chair de poule !

This timeless classic of Jules Verne, depicts the tale of Axel Liedenbrock and his impatient and irascible uncle The Professor as they attempt a journey to the very centre of the Earth. After the Professor finds a coded message by the obscure Icelandic Savant Arne Saknussemm detailing how to...

This classic of Robert Louis Stevenson, charts the tale of David Balfour in the Year 1751: Who upon arriving at his uncles house upon his Fathers death, is then promptly Kidnapped on his orders. All seems lost until a chance encounter with one Alan Breck, which leads to adventure, shipwreck, and...

Reporter Edward Malone seeking a really heroic assignment to impress his would be paramour; Gladys, is sent to try to gain an interview with the irascible Professor Challenger. But he has little idea of the strange chain of events he is about to become embroiled in! He soon finds himself as a...

The first tale of this well known character, this story follows Tarzan's first adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society. So popular was the character that Burroughs continued the series into the 1940s with...

The People That Time Forgot is a direct sequel to The Land That Time Forgot and continues the lost world saga begun in the earlier story. After discovering Bowen Tyler's manuscript in a thermos flask off the coast of Greenland, his family immediately fund and mount a rescue operation to succour...

The year is 1916, Europe is ablaze with war, and Bowen Tyler is crossing the Atlantic to join the Lafayette Escadrille when the course of his life is forever altered by a torpedo, shot from a German U-Boat. What follows is a course of events that leads him into a land unknown to man, filled with...

"What was it that you heard about my brother's journey at Bamangwato?" asked Sir Henry, as I paused to fill my pipe before replying to Captain Good. "I heard this," I answered, "and I have never mentioned it to a soul till to-day. I heard that he was starting for Solomon's Mines." "Solomon's...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the road home led through a land of witches, wonders, false magic, and hidden courage? In *The Wonderful Wizard of Oz*, L. Frank Baum creates one of the most beloved fantasy journeys in American literature. First published in 1900, this...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if a beggar wore a crown, and a prince learned the truth of his kingdom from the streets? In *The Prince and the Pauper*, Mark Twain transforms a simple exchange of clothes into a brilliant historical tale of identity, justice, cruelty, and...

Step into the untamed American frontier of the nineteenth century with this classic adventure tale by prolific British author W. H. G. Kingston. Narrated by young Loraine, the son of an Irish-born settler who has carved out a farm on the banks of the Ohio River in Illinois, With Axe and Rifle...

Der Strickclub aus Mettes Strickladen »Strickschick« sticht in See! Für die Maschen-begeisterte Ermittlungsrunde aus Lüttjekoog geht es auf eine Strickreise über die Färöer nach Island. An Bord des Schiffes sollten die Teilnehmer unter dem Motto Stricken und See eigentlich nur Wolle, Weite und Wellness erwarten – doch es kommt anders. Als ein mysteriöser Todesfall das Bordleben erschüttert, ist der Spürsinn der Strickcrew gefragt.

Ein temporeicher Schicksalsroman, den man atemlos und mit Tränen in den Augen verschlingt. Hotel Shanghai, erschienen 1939, gilt als »Meisterwerk der populären Literatur« und ist doch viel mehr: Die Geschichte von neun Menschen, die zu Beginn des chinesisch-japanischen Krieges aus den verschiedensten Teilen der Welt in einem Hotel zusammentreffen und am Ende durch eine Bombe getötet werden, ist ein Plädoyer für den Frieden und das Leben in seiner vielfältigen, hinreißenden Gestalt.

Tauche ein in eine der bewegendsten Erzählungen von H.G. Wells. In „Die Tür in der Wand" begleiten wir Lionel Wallace auf seiner lebenslangen Suche nach jenem magischen Garten, den er als Kind hinter einer weißen Tür entdeckte. Eine Geschichte über Sehnsucht, verlorene Unschuld und die harten Realitäten des Lebens. H.G. Wells, bekannt für „Krieg der Welten", zeigt hier seine einfühlsame, fast schon mystische Seite. „Die Tür in der Wand" (Original: The Door in the Wall) gilt als Meisterwerk der englischen Literatur.

On the storm-lashed island of Guernsey, one man risks everything to salvage a wrecked steamship from the sea. A haunting portrait of obsession, solitude, and the brutal beauty of nature. In Victor Hugo's hands, the ocean becomes both enemy and witness as Gilliatt battles tides, machinery, and fate itself for the chance to earn love and redemption.

When four travellers, fleeing a revolution during the British Raj, survive a plane crash in the remote Himalayas, they discover a mysterious monastery called Shangri-La. Situated in a hidden valley, with modern conveniences and ample food, Shangri-La appears to be a utopia: a place where time decelerates, serenity reigns and its inhabitants curiously age at a slower rate.

When Allan Quatermain, an adventurer based in Durban, is approached by the devastated Sir Henry Curtis who is looking for his missing brother, Quatermain has no option but to help. Agreeing to lead a search expedition, Quatermain and his crew journey to the mythical King Solomon's Mines, home to hidden treasure according to legend, and the supposed location of Curtis's lost brother. Travelling through unknown terrain, Quatermain and his men navigate perilous climates, fearsome tribes, witch hunts, unexpected rebellions and more.

It is 1792, and the ruthless Reign of Terror during the French Revolution is in full swing: waves of aristocrats are being ordered to be executed daily, and the fear of bloody massacres is at an all-time high. Enter eccentric English dandy, Sir Percy Blakeney, who is far more than what meets the eye. Under the guise of his alter ego – the quick-thinking, masterful swordsman, the Scarlet Pimpernel – Blakeney has made it his duty to free the incarcerated from their guillotined fate.

Set in the late nineteenth century, A High Wind in Jamaica recounts the perilous fate of seven children, as they board a ship which soon becomes captured by pirates. The Bas-Thornton siblings, raised on a plantation in Jamaica, are sent home to England after a high wind obliterates their family house. But once the pirates seize their ship, the Captain flees the scene, abandoning the children to fend for themselves. As gripping as it is brutal, A High Wind in Jamaica is a poignant tale of survival, adventure and having to grow up long before one's own time.