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The Picture of Dorian Gray – Part 1 | Oscar Wilde, an animated bedtime story

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde – Part 1 Audiobook | animated and soft spoken for sleep Next part A summer afternoon in a London studio full of roses. The painter Basil Hallward has just finished a portrait of a beautiful young man, and his friend Lord Henry Wotton says it's the best thing he has ever done and must be shown. Basil won't show it. He says he has put too much of himself into it.

Topics: The studio · The portrait · "Is that his name?" · The garden · The secret of his soul · Lady Brandon's party

An unhurried reading of The Moomins: A Winter Sleep (animated bedtime story)

125 views · 2d ago · 19:55

The Moomins: A Winter Sleep – Animated Bedtime Story | soft spoken audiobook for sleep ◀ Previous part This is an animated film of the whole story, drawn and moving along with the reading, so you can watch it or just listen. The Moomin family settles into winter in Moominvalley, and the snow comes down over the blue-grey hills, the river and the round Moominhouse. The pace is slow and the voice is soft. You can start it in bed and be asleep long before the end.

An unhurried reading of The Moomins: A Valley Sleep Story (animated)

465 views · 1w ago · 28:07

The Moomins: A Valley Sleep Story – Animated Bedtime Story | soft spoken audiobook for deep sleep ◀ Previous part This is an animated, drawn film of the whole story, and the pictures move gently along with the reading. Moomintroll and Moominmamma are at home in the round blue house, with the river running past and the valley going quiet around them. Snufkin is somewhere nearby with his harmonica, and Little My is up to something small, as usual.

Beauty and the Beast, slowly retold: the old fairy tale from the Beast's side, for sleep

323 views · 1w ago · 2:46:54

Beauty and the Beast – Full Sleep Story | the fairy tale retold slowly, from the Beast's side A great house lights its own candles for a guest who never comes. A rose grows in a winter garden. Years pass, and the one who keeps the house waits. Then a traveller picks the rose, a daughter comes in his place, and the long quiet evenings begin: supper by candlelight, a dream that returns each night, and a slow, gentle waking at the end.

Drift off with Dracula – Part 3: an animated bedtime story, read slowly

158 views · 2w ago · 41:50

Dracula – Part 3 Audiobook | an animated reading for sleep Previous part → This is an animated, drawn film of the story that moves along with the reading. Jonathan Harker knows now that he is a prisoner in the castle, so he decides to say nothing and keep his eyes open. He finds the Count making his bed and laying the table himself, which means there are no servants at all.

Drift off with Dracula – Part 2: an animated bedtime story, read slowly

357 views · 3w ago · 40:23

Dracula – Part 2 Audiobook | an animated reading for sleep Previous part → Next part This is an animated, drawn film of the story that moves along with the reading. The calèche leaves Jonathan Harker in the dark courtyard of the castle, in front of a great old door with no bell and no knocker.

Drift off with Dracula – Part 1: Jonathan Harker's train east (animated audiobook)

692 views · 1mo ago · 41:33

Dracula – Part 1 Animated Audiobook | read slowly for sleep (Transylvania, 1890s) Next part It's early May, and Jonathan Harker is heading east by train from Munich, jotting notes in his journal as he goes. Tonight's reading comes with an animated film: drawn pictures that move along with the story. He crosses the Danube at Buda-Pesth, eats paprika chicken in Klausenburg, and stops at the Golden Krone in Bistritz.

Sleeping Beauty, slowly retold: the Grimms' Briar-Rose as a bedtime reading

547 views · 1mo ago · 2:38:16

Sleeping Beauty – Full Audiobook | a slow fairy tale retelling for sleep A king and queen wait years for a child. When their daughter comes at last, the whole kingdom is asked to the christening feast. Gifts are laid over her cradle one by one, until a fairy who was left out speaks a curse about a spindle, and every spinning wheel in the land is carried away and burned. Years later, on a quiet afternoon, the princess climbs to a small room at the top of an old tower.

The Riverbank: 4 Hour Sleep Music | The Wind in the Willows, Dusk to Dawn

87 views · 1mo ago · 4:00:01

The Riverbank: four hours of slow, gentle sleep music for the world of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. One unhurried drift down the river, from a golden summer dusk, through the moonlit hush of the Wild Wood and the firelit windows of a cottage in the trees, to the pale mist of the piper's dawn. No beats, no swells. Just the long quiet hours by the water.

Topics: Dusk on the Riverbank · The Wild Wood, Hushed · Badger's Hearth · The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children – Part 3 | the island in Abe's letters, sleep audiobook

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs – Part 3 of 13 | a soft spoken audiobook for sleep ◀ Previous part Jacob is still in Florida. His grandfather is three weeks in the ground, and a therapist named Dr Golan is carefully explaining that what Jacob saw that night in the woods was grief making things up. Jacob isn't sure, and Abe's old letters keep mentioning a Welsh island called Cairnholm.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children – Part 2 | Abe's call in the dark, sleep audiobook

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs – Part 2 of 13 | a soft spoken audiobook for sleep Next part ◀ Previous part Jacob Portman grew up on his grandfather's impossible stories, and on his photographs of children who float and children who breathe fire, sheltered in a house somewhere on the Welsh coast. In this part, Grandpa Abe calls in the dark, and the stories begin to come true.

Pride and Prejudice – Part 2 | a slow Jane Austen audiobook for sleep, with Rain Sounds (7 hours)

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Pride and Prejudice – Part 2 of 2 Full Audiobook | calming reading for sleep ◀ Previous part The second and final half of the Longbourn story, picking up with the letter Elizabeth reads and re-reads on the road out of Kent. Pemberley waits ahead — its trout stream, its long gallery, its housekeeper who has only ever had good to say of her master.

Pride and Prejudice – Part 1 | a slow Jane Austen audiobook for sleep, with Rain Sounds (7.5 hours)

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen – Full Audiobook | Part 1 of 2, read slowly for sleep Next part The first half of the whole novel, from the moment the news reaches Longbourn that Netherfield Park is let at last. Mrs Bennet has five daughters and a plan; Elizabeth has an opinion about everything, including the gentleman from Derbyshire who declines to dance with her.