- Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, The

Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, The

Written By : Mark Twain

Narrated By : various readers

Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 6 hours

Categories : Classic Literature

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David Wilson is called “Pudd’nhead” by the townspeople, who fail to understand his combination of wisdom and eccentricity. He redeems himself by simultaneously solving a murder mystery and a case of transposed identities.

Two children, a white boy and a mulatto, are born on the same day. Roxy, mother of the mulatto, is given charge of the children; in fear that her son will be sold, she exchanges the babies. The mulatto, though he grows up as a white boy, turns out to be a scoundrel. He sells his mother, murders and robs his uncle, then blames the murder on Luigi, one of a pair of twins. Pudd’nhead, a lawyer, undertakes Luigi’s defense and, on the basis of fingerprint evidence, exposes the real murderer.

The book implicitly condemns a society that allows slavery. It concludes with a series of witty aphorisms from Pudd’nhead’s calendar.

12 Books That Changed the World

Written By : Melvyn Bragg

Narrated By : Patricia Hodge, Hugh Ross, Robert Powell & Bill Bingham

Published By : Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks

Runtime : 2 hours

Categories : Arts & Drama
History
British

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Twelve Books that Changed the World presents a rich variety of human endeavour and a great diversity of characters. There are also surprises. Here are famous books by Darwin, Newton.. More info...

Sonnets, The

Written By : William Shakespeare

Narrated By : Sir John Gielgud

Published By : Harper Collins US

Runtime : 2 hours

Categories : Shakespeare
Poetry

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As read by the legendary Sir John Gielgud-- perhaps the greatest interpreter of the Bard we shall ever know-- the sonnets in this selection come alive... More info...

Michelangelo

Written By : George Bull

Narrated By : Nadia May

Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 20 hours 30 minutes

Categories : Arts & Drama

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Michelangelo Buonarroti was a sculptor, architect, and painter of genius and a poet and writer of great accomplishment. In all his work, Michelangelo impressed his contemporaries as a divine genius... More info...

Tale of Two Cities, A

Written By : Charles Dickens

Narrated By : Buck Schirner

Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc

Runtime : 15 hours 23 minutes

Categories : Classic Literature
Classics

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The "two cities" are Paris in the time of the French Revolution, and London. Dr. Manette, a French physician, having been called in to treat a young peasant and his sister, realizes that they have... More info...

Daisy Miller

Written By : Henry James

Narrated By : Susan O'Malley

Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 2 hours 30 minutes

Categories : Classic Literature

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Frederick Winterbourne, an American expatriate visiting at Vevey, Switzerland, meets commonplace, newly rich Mrs. Miller from Schenectady, New York, her mischievous small son and her daughter, Daisy, an “inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence.” The Millers have no perception of the... More info...

"It's about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be huge."
--Jack Canfield, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul

"Sick of the rat race? Tim is the future!"
--Tim Colvin, office of the CTO, Morgan Stanley

Tim Ferriss is an extraordinary young man on a mission. The twenty-eight-year-old serial vagabond and successful entrepreneur has been teaching a wildly popular course at Princeton University for the past four years: a how-to and why-to guide to throwing out the old methods for success (balancing life and work, retiring well, having a great nest egg) and replacing them with an entirely new way of living.

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