9 Results for : succour
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Nethergate , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 731min
Forced to flee Revolutionary France after the brutal guillotining of her beloved father, Isabella de Savigny arrives at Nethergate, the Suffolk house of her cousin, hoping for sympathy and succour. Instead, as a poor relation, she is forced to live the life of a servant and suffer the casual cruelty of lady’s maid Martha Pratt. When she is seduced and abandoned by the son of the house, Isabella is forced to marry Martha’s brother, and her struggle to survive truly begins. However, her misery is lessened when her daughter is born, and for her sake she decides to fight back against a hostile world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicolette McKenzie, Gordon Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/001672/bk_isis_001672_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Things I Don't Want to Know , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 179min
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy. Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. Taking George Orwell's famous essay 'Why I Write' as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory as a young woman and shape it to her need. Things I Don't Want to Know is a work of dazzling insight and deep psychological succour from one of our most vital contemporary writers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Juliet Stevenson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/001628/bk_pauk_001628_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Sowers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 784min
A romantic adventure yarn of plotting and corruption largely set against the panorama of Imperialist Russia but with some of the skullduggery taking place in the major capitals of Europe. An old Etonian and half Russian, Prince Paul Alexis, inherits the Osterno estate in the Steppes. Naive and honest, but helped by experienced campaigner Steinmetz, he forms a progressive but illegal Charity League to succour the needs of the starving uneducated peasantry who are ravaged by cholera. When the League is betrayed there are severe consequences for the neighbouring nobility and Paul himself only just escapes a violent death at the hands of his own serfs. Who has betrayed them? Is it Claude de Chauxfille Paul's erstwhile rival in love or is the beautiful Etta, his wife, keeping more secrets than he or Steinmetz can guess? With intrigue and deception at every turn The Sowers was Merriman's biggest best seller eventually reprinted 30 times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000094/bk_assm_000094_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lunch: Complete Series 1-4: BBC Radio 4 comedy drama, Hörbuch, Digital, 275min
Stephen Mangan and Claire Skinner star in all four series of the popular BBC Radio 4 comedy drama. Bill works as an economist in a right-wing institute giving succour to bankers and businessmen. Bella teaches yoga, waters the plants in Canary Wharf and holds Proust seminars for retirees. Years ago they shared a flat before Bill got married and moved to America. Now he's back and feeling a little off-kilter, so he decides to rekindle his friendship with Bella. Once a month they get together for lunch, where they talk about everything from politics to Proust, parenting and the perils of online dating. The only thing they never discuss is how much they love each other.... In Marcy Kahan's delightful "platonic romantic comedy", we join Bill and Bella as they meet, eat and disagree about everything; and over the course of four series, we learn their hopes and dreams and listen in as their lives change direction. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Mangan, Claire Skinner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002699/bk_rhuk_002699_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Palace of Curiosities , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 681min
A luminous and bewitching debut novel that is perfect for fans of Angela Carter. Set in Victorian London, it follows the fortunes of Eve, the Lion-Faced Girl and Abel, the Flayed Man. A magical realism delight. Before Eve is born, her mother goes to the circus. She buys a penny twist of coloured sugar and settles down to watch the heart-stopping main attraction: a lion, billed as a monster from the savage heart of Africa, forged in the heat of a merciless sun.Mama swears she hears the lion sigh, just before it leaps…and when Eve is born, the story goes, she didn’t cry – she meowed and licked her paws. When Abel is pulled from the stinking Thames, the mudlarks are sure he is long dead. As they search his pockets to divvy up the treasure, his eyes crack open and he coughs up a stream of black water. But how has he survived a week in that thick stew of human waste? Cast out by Victorian society, Eve and Abel find succour from an unlikely source. They soar to fame as The Lion Faced Girl and The Flayed Man, star performers in Professor Josiah Arroner’s Palace of Curiosities. And there begins a journey that will entwine their fates forever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jane Copland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001259/bk_hcuk_001259_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 826min
India's fault lines run wide and deep. Some of them go back centuries; others are of comparatively recent origin. The myriad villains these fault lines have spawned include rapists, murderers, terrorists, prophets of religious hatred, corrupt politicians, upholders of abhorrent caste traditions, opponents of free speech and dissent, apologists for regressive cultural practices, and external adversaries who try to destabilize our borders. All of them are responsible for impeding the country's progress, destroying the lives of numberless innocents, usually the poorest and most vulnerable of our people, and besmirching the democratic, plural, free and secular nature of our society. Set against these enemies of our nation's promise are the heroic ones - the poor, illiterate woman who was gang-raped but helped change the nation's attitude towards women through her determined fight for justice; the young soldier whose courage and sacrifice in the high Himalayas was an inspiration to his comrades fighting the Kargil War; the wife whose husband was beheaded by Maoist terrorists yet sought not revenge but succour for the poor and underprivileged; and the son of the village blacksmith who was lynched by a mob of religious fundamentalists appealing for an end to discord and sectarian violence. These stories, and dozens of others like them, map our country's fault lines. In this book Barkha Dutt recounts the ones that have left an indelible mark on her. Taken together they provide a vivid, devastating and unforgettable portrait of our unquiet land. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sakuntala Ramanee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028651/bk_adbl_028651_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Wappy Ding-Do Trilogy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 22min
Written by British author Paul Cook FRSA (the author of the Pete the Bee stories), The Wappy Ding-Do Trilogy charts the unique entity's journey through the liquid silver array of the Dalbinae, the marshes of the Loupadapper, and the ocean of the Flounadget. The stories are suitable for listeners ages 11 years and older. The wappy ding-do kind of was, but, well, sort of wasn't either. Perhaps something more than a soul of mere essence, but somewhat less than a corporeal presence. The wappy ding-do was, in fact, a globule of glandular lesions and fibroid connectors, invisible to the human eye but nevertheless tangible in a unique spectral, fluid-like, temporal universe. There were none to succour this creature and no instinct had it upon which to draw save the energy which emanated from the deep infinite. Depth does not imply an ocean, but rather the ethereal undefined dimensional space in which the wappy ding-do was found to exist. Quite possibly there are billions of this species co-existing in a parallel, yet disjunct ecosystem in a preordained tapestry of linear mutual survival. Moreover, and more probably, the wappy ding-do was a unique species quite separate from any classified genum. In short, the creature drifted in an immense ocean of conscious sub-consciousness, unaware and yet fully sentient. In short, the wappy ding-do existed in its own singular, self-contained world and any flux which occurred in its immediate environment served as nothing more consequential to it than if a suggested shadow of a billionth of a nano-particle of air had spontaneously ceased to be, somewhere on an undiscovered world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Coleburn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/096371/bk_acx0_096371_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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