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Despite the title, Dickens's portrayal of early industrial society is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or Charles Kingsley. Hard Times weaves the tale of Thomas Gradgrind, a hard-headed politician who raises his children Louisa and Tom without love and to have no empathy, their lives completely devoid of beauty, culture, or imagination. Only after a series of crises does their father realise that the manner in which he raised his children has ruined their lives.

في فضاء سردي بين حي المنيل ومدينة الموتى، وبين مهندس مدني ولاعب كرة قدم وبائع فاكهة مخبر، تطرح «أصل الأنواع» سؤال الحب والسلطة والفقد، وبين أفراد بأصابع مبتورة وآخرين بأصابع ضخمة وموتى تهدمت عليهم مقابرهم، يتجسد شكل المدينة الجديدة وساكنيها في صورة سوريالية تتراوح بين السخرية السوداء والملهاة.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the greatest danger in society were not a criminal hiding in the shadows, but a charming gentleman welcomed into its finest drawing rooms? In *The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom*, Tobias Smollett unveils a world of deception, ambition...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Hollisters have made it through Delhi, Tokyo, Greece, Rome, and Egypt. Doug has learned to ask questions, listen to the answers, and—occasionally—remember that a plan is not the same thing as an adventure. Now the family has arrived in Kenya...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Hollisters have made it through Delhi, Tokyo, Greece, and Rome. Now Doug, Jen, their children, and seventy-four-year-old Bev have arrived in Cairo, where the traffic never stops, the horns seem to speak their own language, and even a simple journey...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Hollisters have survived Delhi, but Tokyo is a whole new adventure—and Doug is determined to do things properly this time. He has laminated the maps, studied the instructions, and learned the most important Japanese sentence he can think of: “I...

He spent six months looking for the beautiful, bookish girl who dropped a patch. Finding her was the easy part. Logan I grip too hard. My pitch. My family. Even the memory of Georgie, the girl I met six months ago at a Spring Training fan event. The girl with the dimpled smile, the coffee-shop...

When Ollie Sweet is very publicly dumped by ‘The One’, his seemingly perfect world dissolves into misery, self-pity, and a bizarre rooftop meeting with a suicidal man in flip-flops. While most would seek out the support of loved ones at such a torrid time, natural-born journalist Ollie asks the subscribers of his website: how did they get over their failed relationships? When Ollie follows some of their more extreme advice, chaos inevitably ensues.

La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades, de autor anónimo, es una de las mejores obras de la picaresca española. En ella, Lázaro de Tormes nos relata su niñez y su adolescencia, los diferentes amos a los que sirvió, y lo que aprendió en su lucha por sobrevivir. Una novela llena de crítica a la sociedad de su tiempo, de penas y alegrías...y, sobre todo, de ingenio. Literaudio te ofrece las obras cumbres de la literatura española e hispanoamericana en formato audiolibro.

"All I want is to be a success.That's all I ask." Joe fails to sell a single set of the Encyclopedia Britannica in six months. Then he fails to sell a single Electrolux and must eat hundreds of pieces of homemade pie, served up by his would-be customers who feel so sorry for him. Holed up in his trailer, Joe finds an outlet his for frustrations in a series of ingenious sexual fantasies, and at last strikes gold. His brain storm, Lightning Rods, Inc., will take Joe to the very top - and to the very heart of corporate insanity.

The funny man is a middling comic in an unnamed city. By day he takes care of his infant son, by night he performs in small clubs, sandwiched between other aspiring comics. His wife waits tables to support the family. It doesn't sound like much, but they're happy, more or less. Until the day he comes up with it. His thing. His gimmick. And everything changes. He's a headliner, and the venues get bigger fast. Pretty soon it's Hollywood and a starring role in a blockbuster, all thanks to the gimmick.

Master wit Mark Twain selected these twenty-seven stories himself by fifteen of his favorite nineteenth century authors. The order follows that which Twain placed them in in the original anthology, published in 1888. He indulged his comic fancy rather than making a textbook in which all themes...

Stoned out of his skull - this is how we find washed-up New York magazine writer Digby Maxwell when he is offered a last chance to redeem himself by becoming editor of a small philosophy magazine headquartered in a rural Vermont college town. Digby’s assignment is to make the magazine relevant to contemporary culture. For starters, that requires several more tokes, very deep tokes.

The Big Jewish Book for Jews brings together Jewish wit, inspiring tales, classic skills, and even pickle recipes, for the instruction and edification of the modern Jew. Readers will learn how to sacrifice a lamb unto the Lord, the rules of Canasta, how to build a pyramid (the Bernie Madoff and the Egyptian kind), and how not to accept the first table you are shown to in a restaurant.

Wilhelmina “Billie” Bennett, red-haired daughter of American millionaire Rufus, loves golf, dogs and Tennyson—and is to marry Eustace Hignett, the weak, poetry-writing son of Mrs. Horace Hignett, the famous English writer on theosophy. Enter Sam Marlowe, Eustace's cousin, who plays...

In "The Robot Who Looked Like Me," a busy man and a busy woman find a way to carve out time to romance each other—by having look-alike robots made to do the job—who then run away together. 

Now an animated film adaptation produced and directed by Andy Serkis George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable. The animals of Mr...

Truth is stranger than fiction. In this wickedly funny sequel to the Arabian Nights, Edgar Allan Poe lets Scheherazade embark on a thousand-and-second night, spinning the untold final adventures of Sinbad. Sea monsters with blazing eyes, islands built by tiny engineers, forests of stone, rivers...

One overlooked clerk. One diary. A mind coming apart. Experience Nikolai Gogol's psychological classic through a human-narrated performance by Luke Meinier Dalofin—not a synthetic AI voice. A low-ranking government clerk begins recording everyday frustrations, workplace humiliations, and his...

Amanda Keeler is a bestselling novelist, famed for her martini-soaked parties. It's a glamorous life, paid for in full by marriage to a tedious, teeth-grinding newspaper tycoon. When a meek friend from her provincial past arrives in Manhattan, Amanda plots to use her as cover for an affair-until...