The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
This book came highly recommended, but I was skeptical. Nerdy pointless trivia? Becoming the "smartest person in the world" by reading Brittanica? I was even skeptical about the format--an alphabetical tour through the encyclopedia, with starting entries on a-ak, a capella, Aachen, Aaron, etc. Fortunately, Jacobs is a very talented narrator, and he had me hooked in the first few pages. His method of detailing the journey from A to Z was very effective.
At the Tabard Inn, a tavern in Southwark, near London, the narrator joins a company of twenty-nine pilgrims. The pilgrims, like the narrator, are traveling to the shrine of the martyr Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury.
This version contains explanations and offers modern synonyms of Middle English words originally used by the author.
A classic adventure of the man who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Listen for Alan Reed, best known as the voice of Fred Flintstone, who plays multiple characters on this Bozo Approved Record-Reader. Launch the audio stream and open the storybook. As you listen, advance the pages whenever you hear the narrator strum his lute. Alan Livingston - Told by Nestor Paiva : Music by Billy May
The Overcoat is the story of Bashmachkin, an impoverished clerk who has toiled for a number of years in an unspecified department within the huge government bureaucracy in St. Petersburg. The tale is told by an unnamed narrator with a tendency to digress and editorialize. Critics have disagreed about how closely the narrator should be identified with Gogol and about how much sympathy the author intended his readers to feel for Akaky the clerk. The tone of the narration is at various times condescending, compassionate, humorous and nightmarish.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupйry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls.
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