The Art of Literature (EN) - Arthur Schopenhauer (mp3 audiokniha)

The Art of Literature (EN) - Arthur Schopenhauer (mp3 audiokniha)

Arthur Schopenhauer’s The Art of Literature is a lively, illuminating and brutally honest collection of essays on literary style and values, writers and critics, and the nature of genius. The volume is comprised of eight chapters: On Authorship, On Style, On the Study of Latin, On Men of

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes I (EN) - Arthur Conan Doyle (mp3 audiokniha)

King Arthur & The Knights of the Round Table (EN) - Benedict Flynn (mp3 audiokniha)

Death of a Salesman (EN) - Arthur Miller (mp3 audiokniha)

The Poison Belt (EN) - Arthur Conan Doyle (mp3 audiokniha)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes V (EN) - Arthur Conan Doyle (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes V, written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Dr Watson comments ‘The stage lost a fine actor’ when Holmes chose to devote his formidable talents to the solution of crime. two of these stories, The Reigate Squire and The Adventure of Beryl Coronet, Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes VI (EN) - Arthur Conan Doyle (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume VI, written by Arthur Conan Doyle. In The Final Problem, perhaps the greatest of the short stories of Sherlock Holmes, the English detective encounters his most formidable rival, Professor Moriarty. ‘The Napoleon of Crime’ is how Holmes

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes II (EN) - Arthur Conan Doyle (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes II written by Arthur Conan Doyle. In the last six stories written by Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, the duo face some of their most challenging cases. In The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, Holmes puts his own life in danger as

The History of English Literature (EN) - Perry Keenlyside (mp3 audiokniha)

Perry Keenlyside tells the remarkable story of the world’s richest literary resource. The story-telling, the poetry, the growth of the novel and the great histories and essays which have informed the language and the imagination wherever English is spoken. This is the fourth in the Naxos

Faust (EN) - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (mp3 audiokniha)

Faust is one of the pillars of Western literature. This classic drama presents the story of the scholar Faust, tempted into a contract with the Devil in return for a life of sensuality and power. Enjoyment rules until Faust’s emotions are stirred by a meeting with Gretchen, and the tragic

The Scarlet Letter (EN) - Nathaniel Hawthorne (mp3 audiokniha)

The Scarlet Letter is one of the great classics of American literature, Set in the harsh Puritan environment of seventeenth century Boston, it describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman who stands alone against society. Having given birth to a child after an illicit affair,

Le Morte d'Arthur (EN) - Sir Thomas Malory (mp3 audiokniha)

Of all the legends of Western civilisation, perhaps the glorious adventures of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are the best known. The Quest for the Holy Grail, and the undying illicit love between Sir Launcelot and Queen Guenever, have provided inspiration for storytellers and

Poetics/Rhetoric (EN) - Aristotle (mp3 audiokniha)

The Art of Rhetoric, a guide on the principles behind oratorical skill, is a core text on the art of persuasion. Aristotle contends that rhetoric is one of the key elements of philosophy – along with logic and dialectic. The work consists of three books: the first is a general overview, the

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes I (EN) - Arthur Conan Doyle (mp3 audiokniha)

In this collection are four of the finest cases of Mr Sherlock Holmes, | narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr Watson. What was the horror | of The Speckled Band or the secret behind the curious legacy for men of | red hair? These and other puzzles are solved by this bloodhound

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes IV (EN) - Arthur Conan Doyle (mp3 audiokniha)

Four more stories from the master detective. The mystery of the missing | suitor is solved and Sherlock Holmes raises his whip... an Indian past | stands in the shadows of a Colonel’s death

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes II (EN) - Arthur Conan Doyle (mp3 audiokniha)

In this collection are four of the finest cases of Mr Sherlock Holmes, | narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr Watson. What was the | mystery of the engineer’s thumb? What was behind the disappearance of the | racehorse?

The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume I (EN) - Arthur Conan Doyle (mp3 audiokniha)

When Sherlock Holmes met his demise in The Adventure of the Final Problem, published in 1893, the distress of the unsuspecting reading public was profound. For years fans showed no signs of letting Sherlock Holmes lie down and die. Eventually, Doyle saw fit to continue his Holmes’ canon and

The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume II (EN) - Arthur Conan Doyle (mp3 audiokniha)

No case is too slight for the mental powers of the great detective: in this second selection from The Return of Sherlock Holmes, a young girl is stalked by a solitary cyclist; whilst the ‘dancing men’ hieroglyphics found in Norfolk lead to a sinister connection with America. Holmes enters the

Good Wives (EN) - Louisa May Alcott (mp3 audiokniha)

The March sisters are among the most beloved characters in children’s literature, and Good Wives – the second volume of Little Women – picks up where its predecessor left off. As Meg marries John, Jo is faced with a romantic dilemma of her own, Amy travels to Europe, and Beth becomes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes III (EN) - Arthur Conan Doyle (mp3 audiokniha)

In this collection are four more individual cases for Mr Sherlock | Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer, Dr Watson. They dive | into the opium dens of London in The Man with the Twisted Lip, recall the | curious history of The Musgrave Ritual

Romeo and Juliet (EN) - William Shakespeare (mp3 audiokniha)

Romeo and Juliet is the play which, in English literature at least, effectively invented the modern love story. Its charm and its power derive from the romantic setting (Verona, an Italian Renaissance city), the youthful innocence and ardour of the lovers, and (perhaps crucially) the excitement

The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume III (EN) - Arthur Conan Doyle (mp3 audiokniha)

Once again Conan Doyle presents a series of cases which baffle the police, but are no match for Sherlock Holmes and his trusty companion Dr Watson. In Black Peter the peace of rural Sussex is disturbed by the discovery of a seafarer’s body pinned to the wall of his hut with a harpoon. In The

The History of Western Art (EN) - Peter Whitfield (mp3 audiokniha)

What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age: religious, political and aesthetic

The Song of Roland (EN) - – Unknown (mp3 audiokniha)