Acres of Diamonds (Audiobook)
£2.99A preacher’s oft-repeated lecture argues that opportunity is usually right where you’re standing, if you bother to look for it.
Showing 1–16 of 321 results

A preacher’s oft-repeated lecture argues that opportunity is usually right where you’re standing, if you bother to look for it.

Huck fakes his own death and rafts down the Mississippi with the escaped slave Jim, dodging con men, feuds, and his own conscience.

A clergyman’s daughter takes work as a governess and confronts the casual cruelty of the wealthy families who employ her.

A girl follows a waistcoated rabbit down a hole into a world of riddles, shrinking cakes, and a short-tempered Queen of Hearts.

Xenophon’s firsthand account of ten thousand Greek mercenaries stranded deep in Persia, and their desperate march back to the sea.

The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, and The Snow Queen — the original tales that made Hans Christian Andersen the world’s best-known writer of fairy stories.

A married woman’s affair with a dashing officer scandalises St Petersburg society and sets her on a collision course with ruin.

A talkative orphan sent to Prince Edward Island by mistake wins over her adoptive family with sheer force of imagination.

Milton’s furious argument against government censorship of the press, still quoted in free-speech debates nearly four centuries later.

Phileas Fogg bets his fortune he can circle the globe in eighty days — by rail, steamer, elephant, and sheer stubbornness.

A slim, hugely influential tract arguing that character and circumstance are shaped by habitual thought — the proto-self-help book that launched a genre.

The steel magnate’s own account of his rise from Scottish immigrant to America’s richest man, and the philosophy of giving it all away.

A quiet cathedral town is thrown into an uproar of petty rivalries and social climbing when a new bishop’s chaplain arrives.

Nietzsche attacks conventional morality, truth, and philosophy itself, arguing that traditional values are just disguised expressions of power.

A sprawling lawsuit over a disputed inheritance drags on for generations, ensnaring everyone connected to it in fog, delay, and ruin.

A naive young optimist is battered by earthquakes, war, and the Inquisition while insisting this is still ‘the best of all possible worlds,’ in Voltaire’s savage satire.