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Beauty and The Beast (Audio) (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-09-20
(обновлено 2012-09-20)

Andrew Lang was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales.

Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale translated by Andrew Lang.

A lovely girl Belle came to the Beast's castle with the exchange of her father's life. The hideous Beast gave her lavish clothing and food to persuade her to marry him, only to be refused each time.

After several months, Belle became homesick and begged the Beast to allow her to go to see her family and she agreed to return to the castle a week later. Due to her wicked sisters' false show of love, Belle broke her promise to go back.  She later discovered by using the enchanted mirror that the Beast was lying half-dead of heartbreak. When her tears stroke him, the Beast is transformed into a handsome prince and they lived happily ever after.

Find out more about other interesting stories in this book.

01 - Beauty and the Beast
02 - The Witch in the Stone Boat
03 - The Half-Chick
04 - Hok Lee and the Dwarfs
05 - The Boy and the Wolves retold
06 - The Indian Who Lost His Wife
07 – Trusty John
08 - The Dragon of the North
09 - Puss In Boots

Aucassin and Nicolette (Audio) (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-09-20
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Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the early 13th century by an unknown French author, the work deals with the love between the son of a count and a Saracen slave girl who has been converted to Christianity and adopted by a viscount.

Since Aucassin’s father is strongly opposed to their marriage, the two lovers must endure imprisonment, flight, separation in foreign lands, and many other ordeals before their ardent love and fierce determination finally bring them back together.

Aucassin is the very model of an intrepid knight, totally devoted to his love; and Nicolette is daring and ingenious in her staunch perseverance against all odds.

This translation, completed in 1887, is by Scottish poet, novelist, critic, and collector of folk tales Andrew Lang.

The Variable Man (Audio Book) (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-09-20
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The Variable Man is a novella written and sold by Philip K. Dick before he had an agent.

Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre.

Predictability has come a long way. The computers of the future can tell you if you’re going to win a war before you fire a shot. Unfortunately they’re predicting perpetual standoff between the Terran and Centaurian Empires.

What they need is something unpredictable, what they get is Thomas Cole, a man from the past accidently dragged forward in time. Will he fit their calculations, or is he the random variable that can break the stalemate? – The Variable Man first appeared in the September, 1953 issue of Space Science Fiction magazine.

The Admirable Crichton (Audio) (v. 1.0)

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The Admirable Crichton is a comic stage play written in 1902 by J. M. Barrie.

Sir James Matthew Barrie was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.

This play was filmed twice for television, in 1950 and 1968.

In this play, Lord Loam, a British peer, considers class divisions to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea-parties where servants mingle with his aristocratic guests, to the embarrassment of all. Crichton, his butler, particularly disapproves of this.

Loam, his family, a maid, and Crichton are shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. The resourceful Crichton is the only one of the party with any practical knowledge. Eventually, social roles are reversed, and Crichton becomes the governor.

1 - Act I; At Loam House, Mayfair
2 - Act II; The Island
3 - Act III; The Happy Home
4 - Act IV; The Other Island

Love Letter Collection (Audio) (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-09-20
(обновлено 2012-09-20)

Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.

In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements.

This is a small collection of letters and poems, from fiction and from life, from heart to heart and from soul to soul.

You will enjoy following in this book.

01: Abigail Adams to John Adams 16 October 1774, Adams Family Papers by Abigail Adams
02: From don Felipe to Louise – in L 15 of Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac
03: Don’t Tell the World that You’re Waiting for Me by Eliza Cook
04: Heloise to Peter Abelard by Heloise
05: Let It Be This Way by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
06: A Letter to Her Husband Absent Upon Public Employment by Anne Bradstreet
07: Love Letter – Monday, February 28, 1820 by Victor Hugo
08: Love Letter – Saturday Evening, January, 1820 by Victor Hugo
09: To Countess Giulietta Guicciardi, Section 15 from Beethoven’s Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 by Ludwig van Beethoven

What Men Live By and Others (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-09-16
(обновлено 2012-09-16)

This book was written by Leo Tolstoy. It was translated by Louise Shanks Maude (1855-1939) and Aylmer Maude (1858-1938).

Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experience went on to inform his writing and his lifestyle in profound ways.

His views transcended the specifics of religion, as known in his day – so much so he came to be a helpful guide both to Mohandas Gandhi and to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The four stories in this collection ask profound questions and gently supply helpful, non-dogmatic hints to their answerings:

What is the most important thing to do?
Who is the most important person?
When is the most important time?
What is worth owning?
What is the most profound religion?
What rules should men live by?
How much land does a man need?
Who is God?
What should we bother to discuss?
How should we act towards one another?
How should we respond to cruelty and violence?
And many more! These are wonderful stories written in a relaxed style.

1 – What Men Live By
2 – Three Questions
3 – The Coffee-House of Surat
4 – How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Tolstoy on Shakespeare (Audio) (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-09-16
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This book was written by Leo Tolstoy and translated by Vladimir Chertkov.

This book contains a critical essay on Shakespeare by Leo Tolstoy.

During his life, Tolstoy came to the conclusion that William Shakespeare was a bad dramatist and not a true artist at all.

Tolstoy explained his views in a critical essay on Shakespeare written in 1903: "I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful aesthetic pleasure, but having read, one after the other, works regarded as his best: "King Lear", "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet" and "Macbeth," not only did I feel no delight, but I felt an irresistible repulsion and tedium..."

Ivan the Fool (Audio Book) (v. 1.0)

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Ivan the Fool was written by Leo Tolstoy. This Book was translated by Benjamin R. Tucker.

Written after Tolstoy suffered a spiritual crisis, Ivan the Fool is a fairy tale that offers children instruction in how to live rightly, simply, and generously.

The story emphasizes the destructive aspects of materialism and militarism while idealizing manual labor and the peasant life.

Its plot is about the struggles of three brothers and a sister with the Old Devil. The name "Ivan the Fool" hints to a popular hero of Russian folklore.

It is also used as an indication of Tolstoy's political leanings in support of Christian anarchism.

The Death of Ivan Ilyitch (v. 1.0)

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The Death of Ivan Ilyitch was written by Leo Tolstoy. This book was translated by Constance Garnett

The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness.

As Ivan Ilyitch is forced to face the death he fears, he asks himself whether the life he thought was so correct was, in fact, a moral life after all.

Written after Tolstoy's religious conversion, the novella is widely considered to be one of his masterpieces.

Many people have different interpretations for the end of the novella. One interpretation is that Ivan Ilyich's whole struggle and agony ends with the great gift of a cessation of suffering. Another is that Ivan Ilyich's breakthrough is the freedom that comes with truth – in his case, seeing the falsity of his life, which enables him to have a brief moment of unselfish love or at least compassion for his wife and children. It can also be interpreted that Ivan did not feel compassion towards his wife, but pity, and saw the truth of humanity in his son, that is, what it meant to be truly human.

Boyhood (Audio Book) (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-09-15
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Boyhood was written by Leo Tolstoy. This book was translated by C. J. Hogarth.

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays.

Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal during the 1850s.

Tolstoy's earliest works, the autobiographical novels Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856), tell of a rich landowner's son and his slow realization of the chasm between himself and his peasants. Though he later rejected them as sentimental, a great deal of Tolstoy's own life is revealed. They retain their relevance as accounts of the universal story of growing up.