Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Audiobooks | 30 April 2007
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Mark Twain - The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper is an 1882 book by Mark Twain that represents his first attempt at historical fiction.
Read By: Norman Dietz
Publisher: Recorded Books (1993)
Unabridged
8 mp3 (240.42 MB) + 1 txt file (391 KB)
The Employee by Sebastian Baczkiewicz BBC Radio, Arts & Drama.
Радиоспектакль BBC "Служащий" по пьесе Себастьяна Бачкивича.
Черная комедия о стрессах современной жизни.
A dark comedy about the pressures of modern life. Iain Adam is Head of Maintenance in the intelligent building, The Elm, and his life is beginning to unravel.
160 kbps, Stereo, 64,5 mb, 56 min.
Any lover of Shakespeare, or of the Romantic poets, can concede that poetry is pleasurable. But is it good for us, and can it teach us anything?
These questions may seem odd, but they have beguiled and engaged eminent critics for millennia. What we call literary criticism is really a debate over a few key questions: What is poetry's wellspring? God? Nature? The human self? Is poetry superfluous to human progress? Are the literary arts a vehicle to higher truths or a pack of lies? Is the author a divinely inspired rhapsode or a mere artisan, "manufacturing" meaning?
Why do some people commit crimes, use the wrong fork, or speak out of turn? How does a society determine when a crime has been committed, which fork to use, and who should speak when? How have we tried to explain deviance and create categories of deviants? What has been the role of race and class in these definitions? How do deviants reconcile their behavior with society's norms? What have been the contributions of Freud, Durkheim, Lombroso, and modern literary criticism to our understanding of deviance and conformity? How is the practice of science itself an example of deviance and conformity?
О маленьких девочках и вполне дружелюбных гигантах.
Evidently not even Roald Dahl could resist the acronym craze of the early eighties. BFG? Bellowing ferret-faced golfer? Backstabbing fairy godmother? Oh, oh ... Big Friendly Giant! This BFG doesn't seem all that F at first as he creeps down a London street, snatches little Sophie out of her bed, and bounds away with her to giant land. And he's not really all that B when compared with his evil, carnivorous brethren, who bully him for being such an oddball runt. After all, he eats only disgusting snozzcumbers, and while the other Gs are snacking on little boys and girls, he's blowing happy dreams in through their windows. (Ages 9 to 12)
