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A kaleidoscopic story of myth, Spiritualism, and the Victorian search for Utopia from one of the brightest and most original non-fiction writers at work today.In 1872 there was a bizarre eruption of religious mania in Hampshire’s New Forest. Its leader was Mary Ann Girling, a Suffolk farmer's daughter who claimed to be the female Christ and whose sect, the Children of God, lived in imminent anticipation of the millennium. It was rumoured that Mrs Girling mesmerised her supporters, literally hypnotising them to keep them in her power. Other reports claimed that the sect murdered their illegitimate offspring in their Utopian home at 'New Forest Lodge'.Through Mary Ann's story and the spiritual vortex around her, Philip Hoare takes us deeper into the pagan heart of the New Forest. In the neighbouring village of Sway, an eccentric barrister, Andrew Peterson, conducted seances in which the spirit of Christopher Wren instructed Peterson to build a 300-foot concrete tower to alleviate local unemployment. Wren, although dead for two centuries, even issued Peterson with the exact plans for the foundations and the formula for the concrete. It rose like some spiritualist lighthouse towering over the trees, and looming over the Shaker encampment and Mrs Girling's Children of God.At the same time, on the other side of the forest, in the grand country house of the Cowper-Temples, further experiments into the realms of the Victorian uncanny were under way. William Cowper-Temple, a supporter of Mary Ann Girling, vegetarian, anti-blood sport activist and member of Parliament, had joined his wife Georgiana in her Spiritualist quest. A third pair of hands came to the table, those of John Ruskin – the great Victorian artist, scientist, poet and philosopher – who sought the dead spirit of his beloved Rose La Touche. His explorations into the afterlife would eventually send him insane.Through this unique biography of the New Forest Philip Hoare paints a strange, and little known, portrait of Victorian England – a fascinating story of disorder in an avowed age of reason.

Throughout these classic crime stories, we see Holmes at his incisive and eccentric best. All groups within Victorian society feature, from European aristocrats to travelling Gypsies, mad doctors to innocent ladies. These are truly classic stories and a perfect introduction to the fascinating world of Sherlock Holmes.

Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey down the Mississippi River. Raising the timeless and universal l issues of prejudice, bravery and hope, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was and still is considered the great American novel.

Что будет, если пойти за спешащим Белым Кроликом в жилете? Можно ли оказаться не в своем уме, а в чужом? А встречали ли вы улыбку без кота? И почему нельзя убить время за чаепитием с Мартовским Зайцем? Удивительные ответы на удивительные вопросы можно найти только в Стране чудес, нырнув за отважной Алисой в кроличью нору, пережив множество захватывающих приключений и разгадав по пути тысячу головоломок.

Доктор Джозеф Белл – вот с кого списан портрет Шерлока Холмса! Белл был худой, гибкий, с острым взглядом и стремительной походкой. По одному внешнему виду пациента он мог сказать, чем тот болен, и сообщить ряд деталей его жизни, прежде чем тот успевал раскрыть рот. Не правда ли, узнается образ знаменитого сыщика? У доктора Белла Дойль научился методу дедукции и анализа и мог бы стать талантливым детективом, ведь имел за плечами собственные поразительные случаи раскрытия преступлений. Аудиокнига будет интересна не только любителям детективов, но и людям, совершенствующим свои знания в английском языке. The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge The Adventure of the Red Circle The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

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