Audiobooks by Boleslaw Prus

3 Stories About - Life & Existence Audiobook

"There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears. 01 - 3 Stories About - Life & Existence02 - The Four Fists by F Scott Fitzgerald03 - Mold of the Earth by Boleslaw Prus04 - The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte"

Boleslaw Prus, Bret Harte, F Scott Fitzgerald (Author), Eric Meyers, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Stories About Orphans

"Life can be difficult. We all experience hurdles, obstacles and problems that get in the way and may limit our opportunities. But we can usually count on the steadfast and loving support of others. We get that comfort from our parents and pass it on through the generations. Sadly, some will not get that unconditional love and bond from their onset or their early years. Growing up as an orphan is to know you are different and, on some levels at least, alone. Surviving and thriving with this can damage a life or be used as fuel to achieve a whole, rich, and nurtured life.In this volume our authors use this as their theme as they construct moving stories from bleak beginnings to lives with surprising outcomes. 1 - Stories About Orphans - An Introduction2 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov3 - Betty Brown, the St Giles Orange Girl by Hannah More4 - Stephen Archer by George MacDonald5 - The Indian Orphan. A Tale by Letitia Elizabeth Landon6 - An Angel in Disguise by T S Arthur7 - A Story of a Wedding Tour by Margaret Oliphant8 - Some of the Shipwrecked by Mary E Mann9 - The Living Telegraph by Boleslaw Prus10 - The Sea Voyage by Charles Lamb"

Anton Chekhov, Boleslaw Prus, Charles Lamb, George MacDonald, Hannah More, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Margaret Oliphant, Mary E Mann, T S Arthur (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe, Tom McLean (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1880's - The Europeans

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. Across the globe many European nations are trading with and conquering new lands in a frantic burst of Empire building. At home, governments and societies eye one another with alarm, greed and even fear. What will tomorrow bring? For literature its sons and daughters, of whatever tongue, are bringing new stories with new ambitions to the eyes and ears of a hungry public. 1 - The Top 10 - The 1880's - The Europeans - An Introduction 2 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy 3 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 4 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde 5 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson 6 - The Kiss by Anton Chekhov 7 - The Daughter of Lilith by Anatole France 8 - A Legend of Old Egypt by Boleslaw Prus 9 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy 10 - Arachne by Marcel Schwob 11 - Cavalleria Rusticana by Giovanni Verga 12 - The Signal by Vsevolod Garshin"

Amy Levy, Anatole France, Anton Chekhov, Boleslaw Prus, Giovanni Verga, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Schwob, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vsevolod Garshin (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Garard Green (Narrator)

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Boleslaw Prus - A Short Story Collection

"Aleksander G?owacki who wrote under the nom de plume Boleslaw Prus was born on 20th August 1847 at Hrubieszów in the Kingdom of Poland, at that time, controlled by the Russian Empire.At three his mother died and then at nine his father. Female relatives helped raise him but at 15 he joined the Polish uprising against the might of Imperial Russia. Wounded on the battlefield, arrested and imprisoned, he was later released into the care of a relative and resumed secondary school and then Warsaw University but poverty forced him to leave after two years. At some point he developed agoraphobia which often caused problems.In 1869, he enrolled in the Forestry Department at Pu?awy but was soon sacked and so he began a system of self-education that led to work as a newspaper columnist on a wide-ranging series of topics that eventually became the 'Weekly Chronicles' and spanned 40 years.With his finances now stabilized he married and then adopted his late brother-in-law's son. It seems he had doubts as to the scale of his talents and early on adopted the name 'Boleslaw Prus' for both his journalistic and literary offerings.His work as a short-story writer met with much acclaim. He wrote several dozen of them, originally published in newspapers and ranging in length from micro-story to novella. His keen observation of everyday life and sense of humor are evident in them. During his career he also wrote novels. After 'Pharoah', in 1895, he embarked on a four-month journey taking in Berlin, Dresden, Nuremberg, Rapperswil in Switzerland, where he stayed for two months, and his final destination, Paris. Here his agoraphobia was so bad he couldn't cross the Seine. However, his writing continued and in 1911 his novel 'Changes', though uncompleted, began to be serialised. It was never finished.Boleslaw Prus died on 19th May 1912, at his Warsaw apartment. He was 64. A National Hero, thousands attended both his funeral service and interment.1 - Boleslaw Prus - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - Shades by Boleslaw Prus3 - Fading Voices by Bolslaw Prus4 - The Living Telegraph by Boleslaw Prus5 - Mold of the Earth by Boleslaw Prus6 - A Legend of Old Egypt by Boleslaw Prus"

Boleslaw Prus (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Pharaoh and the Priest

"The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Boles?aw Prus. It was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on the ground that they inevitably distort history. Pharaoh has been described by Czes?aw Mi?osz as a "novel on mechanisms of state power and, as such, probably unique in world literature of the nineteenth century.... Prus, in selecting the reign of 'Pharaoh Ramses XIII' in the eleventh century BCE, sought a perspective that was detached from pressures of topicality and censorship. Pharaoh is set in the Egypt of 1087-85 BCE as that country experiences internal stresses and external threats that will culminate in the fall of its Twentieth Dynasty and New Kingdom. The young protagonist Ramses learns that those who would challenge the powers that be are vulnerable to co-option, seduction, subornation, defamation, intimidation and assassination. Perhaps the chief lesson, belatedly absorbed by Ramses as pharaoh, is the importance, to power, of knowledge. Prus' vision of the fall of an ancient civilization derives some of its power from the author's intimate awareness of the final demise of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, a century before the completion of the novel. (Summary by Wikipedia)"

Boleslaw Prus (Author), LibriVox Volunteers (Narrator)

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