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Short Story Press presents "Dead People's Letters", by Matthew Kilpatrick.
“Dead People’s Letters” is a story that should appeal to fans of ghosts and zombies as well as fans of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic works. It not only places the undead in the middle of 19th-century Russia, but also makes them the central characters of the story and also good friends with one another. “Dead People’s Letters” is a complex and layered story that examines:
- The relationship between the body and the soul and where one leaves off and the other begins.
- The differing physical and mental natures of men and women.
- The theme of obsession and being the object of another’s obsession.
- The theme of desperation and deciding what one is willing to do in order to become free of a tormentor.
The letters between Ivan Pavelovich and Philippa Pytrovna tell the story of both characters and how, though each is dealing with their own problems, their plight eventually becomes a shared one. They realize only the two of them truly understand each other’s situation, and they can only rely on one another for help, guidance, and solace. They also learn it is only through one another that they can escape from their seemingly doomed existence.
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In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband's earthy friend, Laurent. But their passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a crime that will haunt them forever.
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Kill the Sound Effects
- De Nancy E. Teufel en 06-08-09
De: Émile Zola
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The Betrothed
- A Novel
- De: Alessandro Manzoni, Michael F. Moore - translator, Jhumpa Lahiri - afterword
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos, Susan Vinciotti Bonito
- Duración: 22 h y 38 m
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The Betrothed is a cornerstone of Italian culture, language, and literature. Published in its final form in 1842, The Betrothed has inspired generations of Italian readers and writers. Giuseppe Verdi composed his majestic Requiem Mass in honor of Manzoni. Italo Calvino called the novel “a classic that has never ceased shaping reality in Italy” while Umberto Eco praised its author as a “most subtle critic and analyst of languages.”
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How to ruin a masterpiece
- De McMurrab en 10-31-22
De: Alessandro Manzoni, y otros
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The Day of Atonement
- De: David Liss
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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Lisbon, 1755: A distinguished-looking gentleman emerges from the bowels of a ship freshly arrived from London, and sets into the city with a singular purpose. This is Sebastian Foxx, born SebastiAo Raposa, and his parents were abducted by the Inquisition when Sebastian was just 13 years old.
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Action packed adventure in an unusual setting
- De Jean en 11-29-14
De: David Liss
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Soren Filipski
- Duración: 2 h y 38 m
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In his perceptive and moving depiction of Ivan Ilych, a worldly careerist facing his own mortality in the midst of a self-absorbed family and indifferent colleagues, Tolstoy provides one of literature's greatest and most memorable reflections on the meaning of the good life and on life as preparation for death.
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Great experience
- De Amazon Customer en 08-03-16
De: Leo Tolstoy
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Crime and Punishment
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrado por: Constantine Gregory
- Duración: 22 h y 2 m
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A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers. A poverty-stricken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him, is faced with an opportunity to solve his financial problems with one simple but horrifying act: the murder of a pawnbroker. She is, he feels, just a parasite on society. But does the end justify the means? Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov makes his decision and then has to live with it.
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A masterpiece
- De Timothy en 02-20-16
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
- De: Franz Kafka
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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In the bizarre world of Franz Kafka, salesmen turn into giant bugs, apes give lectures at college academies, and nightmares probe the mysteries of modern humanity’s unhappiness. More than any other modern writer in world literature, Kafka captures the loneliness and misery that fill the lives of 20th-century humanity.
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Great assortment of stories
- De Himanshu Modi en 08-20-18
De: Franz Kafka
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My Name Is Red
- De: Orhan Pamuk, Erdag Goknar - translator
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 20 h y 36 m
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At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of 16th-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers.
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Complex and interesting
- De Kathleen en 05-13-10
De: Orhan Pamuk, y otros
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The Midwife's Tale
- A Mystery
- De: Sam Thomas
- Narrado por: Leila Birch
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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It is 1644, and Parliament’s armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebels’ hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget’s friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive. Convinced that her friend is innocent, Bridget sets out to find the real killer.
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Only so so
- De Marie en 11-13-13
De: Sam Thomas
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The Betrothed
- De: Alessandro Manzoni
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 24 h y 39 m
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After the jealous tyrant Don Rodrigo foils their wedding, young Lombardian peasants Lucia and Lorenzo must separate and flee for their safety. Their difficult path to matrimony takes place against the turbulent backdrop of the Thirty Years War, where lawlessness and exploitation are at their height. Lucia takes refuge in a convent, where she is later abducted and taken on a nightmarish journey to a sinister castle, while Lorenzo goes to Milan, where he witnesses famine, riots, and plague - all evoked through meticulous description and with stunning immediacy.
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Fantastic reading of a great work of literature
- De Pia Crosby en 03-25-19
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Notes from Underground
- De: Natasha Randall - translator, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrado por: D. B. C. Pierre
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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A groundbreaking new translation of Dostoyevsky's most radical work of fiction. In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory, and even sadistic nature. Yet in Dostoyevsky's most extreme and disturbing character, there is the uncomfortable flicker of recognition of the human condition. When the narrator ventures above ground, he attends a dinner with a group of old school friends.
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The first modern anti-hero?
- De John L. Murphy en 07-14-17
De: Natasha Randall - translator, y otros
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Dracula, My Love
- The Secret Journals of Mina Harker
- De: Syrie James
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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Mina Harker is torn between two men. Struggling to hang on to the deep, pure love she's found within her marriage to her husband, Jonathan, she is inexorably drawn into a secret, passionate affair with a charismatic but dangerous lover. This haunted and haunting creature has awakened feelings and desires within her that she has never before known, remaking her as a woman. Although everyone she knows fears him and is pledged to destroy him, Mina sees a side to him that the others cannot.
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Far Better Than I Thought or Hoped For!
- De Troy en 03-27-13
De: Syrie James
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Merivel
- A Man of His Time
- De: Rose Tremain
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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In search of answers, Merivel sets off for the French court. But Versailles leaves him in despair, until a chance encounter with a seductive Swiss botanist allows him to dream of an honorable future. But back home, his loyalty and medical skill are about to be tested to the limit, while the captive bear he has brought back from France begins to cause havoc.
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On Foolishness and Mortality
- De Ilana en 12-27-14
De: Rose Tremain
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The Face of a Stranger
- A William Monk Novel #1
- De: Anne Perry
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk’s efforts doubly difficult, since he’s forgotten his professional skills along with everything else.
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promising start to the series
- De connie en 01-09-10
De: Anne Perry
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
- De: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrado por: Michael Kitchen
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality, and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.
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The Dark Human Heart
- De Jefferson en 01-30-11
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Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra
- De: Anne Rice, Christopher Rice
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle of wills and psyches against the once-great Queen Cleopatra. Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same perilous elixir whose unworldly force brings the dead back to life.
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I am hungry for more......
- De Michelle M. Durante en 11-23-17
De: Anne Rice, y otros