The House of Mirth (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

The House of Mirth (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

A single woman of 29, Lily Bart is Edith Wharton’s quintessential trapped heroine. Orphaned following the death of her parents, Lily understands that she must use her beauty, grace and charm to attain the social position she longs for, but she is caught between her desire for wealth and a strong

The House of Mirth (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

Witty socialite Lily Bart has expensive tastes. Unfortunately, she does not have the social status to match. So far she has managed to get by on ‘old money’ and has become accustomed to a certain level of luxury. Her luck seems to be running out, however, as she approaches thirty and begins

The Custom of the Country (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

Ethan Frome (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

The Custom of the Country (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

The Custom of the Country (1913) is a scathing critique of American upward mobility, as told through the journey of overindulged Undine Spragg. She moves from Apex City to New York and then Paris in pursuit of two things - money and status. She will stop at nothing to achieve this goal, no matter

The Age of Innocence (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 'The Age of Innocence' is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a

Ethan Frome (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

Set deep in the remote countryside of Massachusetts, New England, in a world of small-town prejudice, pettiness and rural poverty, the story of Ethan Frome explores the crippling marriage of a young man to an older woman and his love for her vibrant young cousin, Mattie, who lives as a dependent in

Bunner Sisters (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

‘Bunner Sisters’ explores the lives of the impoverished class in 1870s New York. Sisters Ann Eliza and Evelina run a small shop out of a shabby basement on a side street. Despite their misfortunes, they are happy in their small, supportive community of women. This bubble will soon be burst,

B. J. Harrison Reads The Descent of Man (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

'I tell you there's nothing the public likes as much as convictions – they'll always follow a man who believes in his own ideas. And this book is just on the line of popular interest. ' Professor Linyard is a man of science. And when he writes a book to great acclaim in which he takes the side

The Story of the Amulet (EN) - Edith Nesbit (mp3 audiokniha)

The Book of Dragons (EN) - Edith Nesbit (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison Reads The Eyes (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

'Phil, my dear boy, really -- what's the matter? Why don't you answer? Have you seen the eyes?' An older gentleman invites a group of friends over for dinner and to discuss the supernatural. Afterwards, when only two guests remain, he tells them a story about The Eyes, about a man who is

Summer (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

Charity Royall is a 19-year-old girl, bored with her life in a small New England town. Ever since she was adopted by Mr. Royall as a child and saved from a life of poverty on the 'mountain', she has been unsure of her place in society. She longs to escape the claustrophobic town and the now widowed

Věk nevinnosti - Edith Whartonová (mp3 audiokniha)

Příběh Newlanda Archera, Ellen Olenské a May Wellandové se odehrává v kulisách Páté Avenue, v salonech newyorské aristokracie, kde vládnou přísná a zdánlivě neměnná pravidla. Liberální dvacáté století však už klepe na dveře a Newland Archer je vnímavý mladý muž

The Book of Dragons (EN) - Edith Nesbit (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The Book of Dragons written by Edith Nesbit. A princess is locked away on a remote island guarded by a dragon. Many suitors try and fail to save her, but one day a clever boy arrives. So begins ‘The Island of Nine Whirlpools‘, one of Edith Nesbitt’s eight dragon stories in ‘The

The House of the Dead (EN) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (mp3 audiokniha)

The Railway Children (EN) - Edith Nesbit (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison Reads Afterward (EN) - Edith Wharton (mp3 audiokniha)

'You won't know till afterward. You won't know till long, long afterward. ' When Ned and Mary Boyne hear that their new house is haunted, they laugh it off and joke that every good house in the countryside must have a ghost for it to be worth purchasing. They move in and forget all about its

The Phoenix and the Carpet (EN) - Edith Nesbit (mp3 audiokniha)

The ten commandments of a successful entrepreneur (EN) - Vladimír John (mp3 audiokniha)

The House of Love and Dreams (EN) - Lauren Westwood (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison Reads Barbara of the House of Grebe (EN) - Thomas Hardy (mp3 audiokniha)

A House of Pomegranates (EN) - Oscar Wilde (mp3 audiokniha)

Keeping the House (EN) - Tice Cin (mp3 audiokniha)