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Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories

Exploring Victorian and Edwardian Humor and Satire through After-Dinner Tales

de Phil May, Charles Keene, John Leech, L. Raven-Hill, A. S. Boyd, George du Maurier, F. H. Townsend, J. Bernard Partridge, Reginald Cleaver, Lewis Baumer, Tom Wilkinson, G. D. Armour ...

Engaging, whimsical, and culturally reflective, *Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories* enchants readers with its vibrant array of comedic illustrations and narratives. This anthology, a tribute to the Victorian and Edwardian eras, features a collection of satirical pieces that explore themes of social mores, political nuances, and human folly. These stories are imbued with humor of various shades ... Leer más

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Engaging, whimsical, and culturally reflective, *Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories* enchants readers with its vibrant array of comedic illustrations and narratives. This anthology, a tribute to the Victorian and Edwardian eras, features a collection of satirical pieces that explore themes of social mores, political nuances, and human folly. These stories are imbued with humor of various shades
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Mr. Punch with the Children

A Rich Tapestry of British Humor and Victorian Childhood

de Phil May, Charles Keene, John Leech, L. Raven-Hill, David Wilson, George du Maurier, Gordon Browne, C. E. Brock, Tom Browne, J. Bernard Partridge, Lewis Baumer, Tom Wilkinson, Charles Pears, Hilda Cowham ...

Mr. Punch with the Children is a captivating anthology that delves into the whimsical yet poignant realm of childhood through the lens of classic illustration and narrative. This collection showcases an extensive array of literary and artistic styles, ranging from satirical caricatures to tender depictions of youthful innocence. Highlighting the societal nuances and cultural norms surrounding ... Leer más

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Mr. Punch with the Children is a captivating anthology that delves into the whimsical yet poignant realm of childhood through the lens of classic illustration and narrative. This collection showcases an extensive array of literary and artistic styles, ranging from satirical caricatures to tender depictions of youthful innocence. Highlighting the societal nuances and cultural norms surrounding
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Bricks & Mortals

Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made

de Tom Wilkinson ...

We don't just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces where we live. We are born, work, love, and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent and squat it, create and destroy it. All of these aspects of buildings-economic, erotic, political, and psychological-are crucial if we are to understand architecture properly. And because architecture molds us just as much ... Leer más

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We don't just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces where we live. We are born, work, love, and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent and squat it, create and destroy it. All of these aspects of buildings-economic, erotic, political, and psychological-are crucial if we are to understand architecture properly. And because architecture molds us just as much
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十座建築看人類文明史：從權力與道德，到商業與性愛，十座建築十個面向解構人類文明的發展

Bricks & Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made

de 湯姆．威金森, Tom Wilkinson ...

Traducido por 呂奕欣 ...

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人類形塑建築，建築也造就了我們建築的一磚一瓦，堆疊而成文明的發展史十座建築，十種觀點第一本從建築視角跨越大眾文化、社會學、哲學、歷史領域，論述人類發展歷程的權力、道德、記憶、商業、殖民、娛樂、性愛……【本書特色】1.以十座歷史上的經典建築為主，同時援引許多耳熟能詳的知名建築例證加以比較。2.搭配超過六十張珍貴建築照片、有趣的建築軼聞、歷史事件與社會思潮。3.以十座建築，爬梳人類文明的十個面向；以十個面向，開展社會文化的十種想像。論建築的十個面向：1.權力——高塔建築代表建築有賦予權力的潛能，人也有權利傾覆之。從巴士底監獄、巴別塔、紐約世貿中心談權力與自由雙重象徵。2.道德——羅馬金宮誇張的怪異是暴政的象徵；納粹公路的優雅曲線靠猶太人死亡所造就。如果建築的興建目的並不良善，還能算是好建築嗎？3.記憶——清真寺、凱旋門、泰姬瑪哈陵──所有紀念性建築都象徵國家與社群的記憶，卻常又被群眾賦予新的意 ... Leer más

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人類形塑建築，建築也造就了我們建築的一磚一瓦，堆疊而成文明的發展史十座建築，十種觀點第一本從建築視角跨越大眾文化、社會學、哲學、歷史領域，論述人類發展歷程的權力、道德、記憶、商業、殖民、娛樂、性愛……【本書特色】1.以十座歷史上的經典建築為主，同時援引許多耳熟能詳的知名建築例證加以比較。2.搭配超過六十張珍貴建築照片、有趣的建築軼聞、歷史事件與社會思潮。3.以十座建築，爬梳人類文明的十個面向；以十個面向，開展社會文化的十種想像。論建築的十個面向：1.權力——高塔建築代表建築有賦予權力的潛能，人也有權利傾覆之。從巴士底監獄、巴別塔、紐約世貿中心談權力與自由雙重象徵。2.道德——羅馬金宮誇張的怪異是暴政的象徵；納粹公路的優雅曲線靠猶太人死亡所造就。如果建築的興建目的並不良善，還能算是好建築嗎？3.記憶——清真寺、凱旋門、泰姬瑪哈陵──所有紀念性建築都象徵國家與社群的記憶，卻常又被群眾賦予新的意
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The Maltese Falcon (BBC Radio Crimes)

de Dashiell Hammett ...

Narrado por Full Cast, Jane Lapotaire, Nickolas Grace, Peter Vaughan, Tom Wilkinson ...

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1 horas 55 minutos

It’s San Francisco, 1928, and Sam Spade is a wisecracking, womanising Private Investigator. Missing husbands and unfaithful wives are his usual stock-in-trade, but when the beautifully distressed Miss Wonderley calls he gets involved in a dangerous caper most people would run a mile from. Miss Wonderley asks Sam’s partner, Miles Archer, to shadow Floyd Thursby, whom she maintains has kidnapped her ... Leer más

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It’s San Francisco, 1928, and Sam Spade is a wisecracking, womanising Private Investigator. Missing husbands and unfaithful wives are his usual stock-in-trade, but when the beautifully distressed Miss Wonderley calls he gets involved in a dangerous caper most people would run a mile from. Miss Wonderley asks Sam’s partner, Miles Archer, to shadow Floyd Thursby, whom she maintains has kidnapped her
... Leer más
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Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon & other adventures

A BBC Radio Collection

de Dashiell Hammett ...

Narrado por Connie Booth, Full Cast, Jane Lapotaire, Stuart Milligan, Tom Wilkinson, William Hootkins ...

Completo

4 hora 54 minutos

The godfather of the hard-boiled detective novel, Dashiell Hammett is widely acknowledged as one of America's greatest mystery writers. This collection brings together the BBC radio adaptations of his works for the first time, including the iconic The Maltese Falcon featuring his most famous character: Sam Spade.The Maltese FalconSan Francisco, 1928. When his partner is murdered on an assignment, ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

The godfather of the hard-boiled detective novel, Dashiell Hammett is widely acknowledged as one of America's greatest mystery writers. This collection brings together the BBC radio adaptations of his works for the first time, including the iconic The Maltese Falcon featuring his most famous character: Sam Spade.The Maltese FalconSan Francisco, 1928. When his partner is murdered on an assignment,
... Leer más
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Fatelessness

A Novel

de Imre Kertész ...

Narrado por Josh Bloomberg ...

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8 hora 25 minutos

At the age of fourteen, György Köves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and, without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, “You are no Jew.” In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, György ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

At the age of fourteen, György Köves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and, without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, “You are no Jew.” In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, György
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Inspector Resnick

Five BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations

de John Harvey ...

Narrado por Philip Jackson, Keith Barron, Full Cast, Tom Georgeson, Tom Wilkinson ...

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8 hora 26 minutos

Five BBC Radio 4 full-cast crime dramas featuring DI Charlie Resnick'John Harvey is one of the all-time greats and remains one of my favourite writers.' - Ian RankinJazz-loving policeman Charlie Resnick is one of the most popular characters in contemporary crime fiction. This thrilling collection brings together three dramatisations and two original radio stories starring the Nottingham-based ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

Five BBC Radio 4 full-cast crime dramas featuring DI Charlie Resnick'John Harvey is one of the all-time greats and remains one of my favourite writers.' - Ian RankinJazz-loving policeman Charlie Resnick is one of the most popular characters in contemporary crime fiction. This thrilling collection brings together three dramatisations and two original radio stories starring the Nottingham-based
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The Thin Man

de Dashiell Hammett ...

Narrado por William Dufris ...

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5 hora 55 minutos

The Thin Man introduces Nick and Nora Charles, New York’s coolest crime-solving couple.Nick retired from detecting after his wife inherited a tidy sum, but six years later, a pretty blonde spies him at a speakeasy and asks for his help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nick’s client.Nick can no more resist the case than a morning cocktail or a good fight, and soon he and Nora ... Leer más

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The Thin Man introduces Nick and Nora Charles, New York’s coolest crime-solving couple.Nick retired from detecting after his wife inherited a tidy sum, but six years later, a pretty blonde spies him at a speakeasy and asks for his help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nick’s client.Nick can no more resist the case than a morning cocktail or a good fight, and soon he and Nora
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The Glass Key

de Dashiell Hammett ...

Narrado por Stephen R. Thorne ...

Completo

6 hora 22 minutos

Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett's tour de force of detective fiction combines an ... Leer más

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Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett's tour de force of detective fiction combines an
... Leer más

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The Dain Curse

de Dashiell Hammett ...

Narrado por Richard Ferrone ...

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7 hora 43 minutos

The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle the victim of a family curse? Or is the truth about her weirder and infinitely more dangerous? The Dain ... Leer más

$21.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Disponible también en: eBooks

The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle the victim of a family curse? Or is the truth about her weirder and infinitely more dangerous? The Dain
... Leer más

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Double Indemnity

de James Cain ...

Narrado por James Naughton ...

Completo

3 hora 17 minutos

Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1936, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.Performed by James Naughton ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

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Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1936, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.Performed by James Naughton
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