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    The Fool Who Thought Too Much, Hörbuch, Digital, 82min
    It’s tough to be a buffoon when the Age of Reason is trying to downsize your job. When the King’s Fool dies unexpectedly, a professional buffoon tries to move up the ranks and grab the top slot. But the politics involved in becoming a court jester are no laughing matter. The rules of becoming the top fool are simple: The winner is the one who performs the most outrageous act. Our buffoon and his fellows struggle for supremacy in a profession that is heading for extinction. Ishmael Reed is a playwright, poet, and author of such groundbreaking novels as Mumbo Jumbo and Reckless Eyeballing as well as the best-selling Audible Original Malcolm and Me. Now the acclaimed writer returns to the form that introduced him to reading when he was a child: fairy tales.  Language: English. Narrator: Adam Lazarre-White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/orig/001408/or_orig_001408_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Zarathustra Contra Zarathustra
    Zarathustra Contra Zarathustra ab 33.99 € als epub eBook: The Tragic Buffoon. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    Down the Dragon Hole: A Tale of the School of Spells & War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 110min
    Alis was a quiet librarian at the campus library of the School of Spells & Magic - that is, until the sword wielding buffoon Cahan had the audacity to battle a dragon in her library! Now she's following him off on some foolhardy adventure. As they try to save the university from the mysterious Formless, she fights an equally important battle - to maintain her self-respect! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meghan Crawford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/071344/bk_acx0_071344_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Another Nice Mess: The Laurel & Hardy Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 173min
    Arguably the greatest comedy duo in show business history, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy delighted filmgoers and theatregoers for over 30 years. The public not only found Laurel's serene simpleton and Hardy's pompous buffoon hilarious, but they also thought of them as friends. Laurel and Hardy may have been nitwits, but they were loveable nitwits. Another Nice Mess: The Laurel and Hardy Story explores the lives and careers of Laurel and Hardy. The book examines how the comedians teamed up and it explains why, nearly half a century after their deaths, their films continue to enchant people all over the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack de Golia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bear/000018/bk_bear_000018_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Scaramouche, Hörbuch, Digital, 1018min
    Scaramouche is an historical novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1921. A romantic adventure, Scaramouche tells the story of a young lawyer during the French Revolution. In the course of his adventures he becomes an actor portraying "Scaramouche" (a roguish buffoon character in the commedia dell'arte). He also becomes a revolutionary, politician, and fencing-master, confounding his enemies with his powerful orations and swordsmanship. He is forced by circumstances to change sides several times. The book also depicts his transformation from cynic to idealist. The three-part novel opens with the memorable line: "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." This line was to become Sabatini's epitaph, on his gravestone in Adelboden, Switzerland. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Shelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/009737/bk_edel_009737_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Wit and Wisdom of Yogi Berra , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 258min
    In The Wit and Wisdom of Yogi Berra, author Phil Pepe takes Yogi from St. Louis to New York's Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium, including all the stops along the way - from the days he put soles on women's shoes to his induction into the Baseball's Hall of Fame, when he coined one of his most remembered phrases: "I thank everybody for making this day necessary." Phil Pepe explores Yogi Berra as a boy, player, hero, coach, manager, husband, and father, a buffoon and a human being. He relates all of the Berraisms in an absorbing treatment that is simultaneously comical, thoughtful, and biographical. Who can forget what Yogi said about a popular restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." Or Yogi's take on Little League Baseball? "I think it's wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Pepe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010064/bk_adbl_010064_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mussolini , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 932min
    Historian Jasper Ridley brings us this comprehensive biography of the man who invented fascism, Benito Mussolini, widely regarded as one of the arch villains of the 20th century. A complex and contradictory figure, Mussolini won the fascination of many statesmen and writers, and their wives. From his early years raised in the traditions of revolutionary Italian Socialism, to his violent execution by Communist partisans at the end of World War II, we watch Mussolini's power ambitions erode his political ideals, as he evolves from brilliant orator and journalist to empire-building dictator enforcing his authority by death squads. A man initially praised and admired by such Western luminaries as Winston Churchill, or underestimated as a posturing buffoon, Mussolini eventually showed his true colors as a racist and persecutor of the Jews. He sought equal stature with Hitler, but his alliance with him would prove disastrous. Ridley's account of this unforgettable 20th-century figure is even-handed and indispensable. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nadia May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001448/bk_blak_001448_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Inside Melania: What I Learned About Melania Trump by Impersonating Her , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 237min
    “Don’t listen to a words that she say.” (XO Melania)Was Melania Trump only a model? What is she thinking when she stares lifelessly at her husband? Does she regret her decision to become a trophy piece for a misogynistic buffoon? These are just some of the questions that are not definitely answered in this collection of humorous essays.After three years impersonating Melania Trump, actor and comedian Lauren LoGiudice is telling you everything she overheard while living in her skin. Like a regular sleuth, LoGiudice gathered together all of the “actor hunches” that Melania’s spirit whispered in her ear throughout their time together and typed them up for you to enjoy. She lifts the veil of mystery around the first lady and goes right for the jewel-encrusted jugular.In Inside Melania you’ll laugh through the scary-but-real to the absurd as “Melania” fills in the blanks of her mysterious past with diary entries and newspaper articles, reimagines Grimm's Fairy Tales and A Christmas Carol as allegories for her present position, unveils the subtexts of her tweets and the secret non-meanings of her outfits, and, most importantly, reveals her secret rap fetish and Andrew Dice Clay impression. If you’re frustrated by the current political climate and need a laugh, then this will be your welcome reprieve. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lauren LoGiudice. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/215419/bk_acx0_215419_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Trump and Me , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 138min
    Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race - in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants - he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history. It was not always so. In 1996, longtime New Yorker writer Mark Singer was conscripted by his editor to profile Donald Trump. At that time Trump was a mere Manhattan-centric megalomaniac, a failing casino operator mired in his second divorce and (he claimed) recovering from the bankruptcy proceedings that required him to inventory the contents of his Trump Tower home. Conversing with Trump in his offices, apartments, cars, and private plane, Singer found himself fascinated with this man "who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul". In Trump and Me, Singer revisits the profile and recounts how its publication lodged inside its subject's head as an enduring irritant - and how Singer ("A TOTAL LOSER!" according to Trump) cheerfully continued to bait him. He reflects on Trump's evolution from swaggering buffoon to potential threat to America's standing as a rational guardian of the world order. Heedlessly combative, equally adept at spewing insults and manipulating crowds at his campaign rallies, the self-proclaimed billionaire has emerged as an unlikely tribune of populist rage. All politics is artifice, and Singer marvels at how Trump has transfixed an electorate with his ultimate feat of performance art - a mass political movement only loosely tethered to reality.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Singer, David Remnick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004646/bk_rand_004646_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wedding Worries: Verba Mundi, Book 30 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 714min
    Hildur is about to marry the village butcher, a man twice her age and a buffoon. Set in rural Sweden, Dagerman uses Hildur’s rite of passage to explore human loneliness, longing, love and deliverance. The novel, narrated through a multitude of characters, begins on the morning of the wedding day with a mysterious knocking on the bride’s window, and ends 24 hours later following a bacchanalian feast of unexpected drama. Among the many vivid characters: Hildur's mother Hilma, filled with hard-won womanly wisdom; her father, a recluse who refuses to leave his second floor hide-away; Irma, her embittered sister with a bastard son; and three enigmatic tramps housed in the barn. The shifting perspectives offer a richly textured tale that ranges in mood from poetic tenderness to folksy hilarity to transcendent wisdom. J.M.G. Le Clézio, Nobel Laureate in Literature: “As I slowly read Wedding Worries, I rediscover what fascinated me in Dagerman... The same fascination I sensed when I first read [James Joyce’s] Ulysses, [William Faulkner’s] Light in August...when I felt a towering wave wash over me, carrying all the force that had unleashed it on the other side of the horizon.... The wedding party is a celebration of life, making us forget for a time our fear, despair and loneliness.” Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) was the literary wunderkind of his generation in Sweden. Surpassed in Swedish literature perhaps only by August Strindberg in terms of his work’s compressed intensity, Dagerman’s remarkable literary output came to an abrupt end when he committed suicide at the age of 31. Lo Dagerman, narrator, is the daughter of Stig Dagerman and actress Anita Björk. Cover Art: "Går i sömnen" (Sleepwalking) 1986 © Karin Mamma Andersson / Bildupphovsrätt 2019 ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lo Dagerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/175739/bk_acx0_175739_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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