Arthur Clennam is back in England after many years abroad. He finds his mother as cold and hard as ever, but his father's recent death has thrown up a mystery, and he is determined to get to the bottom of it. Could it have anything to do with Little Dorrit, the quiet, kind girl who sews for his mother and goes back at night to her home in the Marshalsea Prison? As Arthur gets to know the Dorrit family, he is too busy looking for the truth about his mother's secret to notice that he has perhaps found the answer to his own happiness...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Audiobook) BriviVox
The world famous Scottish and English writer - author of detective works about the detective Sherlock Holmes, adventure and science fiction - of Professor Challenger, humorous - about Brigadier Gerard. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - a collection of 12 detective stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Was published in 1892 and is the first collection of short stories about Holmes. In the four stories of twelve offense, as such, no. In some stories the criminals are, for whatever reasons, unpunished, and ever-present theme of justification was accused falsely.
Edward I (1272-1307) is one of the most commanding of all English rulers. He fought in southwest France, in Wales, In Scotland and in northern France, he ruled with ruthlessness and confidence, undoing the chaotic failure of his father, Henry III's reign. He reshaped England's legal system and came close to bringing the whole island of Great Britain under his rule. He promoted the idea of himself as the new King Arthur, his Round Table still hanging in Winchester Castle to this day. His greatest monuments are the extraordinary castles--Caernarfon, Beaumaris, Harlech and Conwy--built to ensure his rule of Wales and some of the largest of all medieval buildings.
Preview and narration by David Timson David Timson’s talent for characterization and narration provides the splendid pacing for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Crooked Man,” in which Sherlock Holmes must solve the mystery of Colonel Barclay’s death; the old solider found stone dead from a violent blow, face distorted by fear. Unusual animal paw prints, and an encounter with a dreadful looking creature speaking in a strange tongue, convince Holmes he must approach the case from another aspect. Excellent! Watson cries. Elementary, Holmes replies.
Arthur Miller's deeply moving drama reunites two long estranged brothers. Nostalgia and recrimination erupt as they sell off an attic full of furniture, their last link to a family and a world that no longer exist.