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Renowned poet and critic Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation into English verse of Dante’s The Divine Comedy....

In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town....

The complete "box set" of T. H. White's epic fantasy novel of the Arthurian legend....

At a luxurious country wedding, the mother of the bride is found murdered and the groom caught red-handed, but who is really to blame?

Ever since Colin Firth's Mr Darcy emerged from the lake in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, the novels of Jane Austen have become more popular than ever, delighting millions of fans all over the world....

The epic grandeur of Dante's masterpiece has inspired readers and listeners for 700 years and has entered the human imagination....

The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, brings Hamlet to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition....

For the very first time, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm makes available in English all 156 stories from the 1812 and 1815 editions....

The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, Macbeth to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition....

The famous Middle English poem by an anonymous Northern England poet is beautifully translated by fellow poet Simon Armitage in this edition....

Nurse Gemma Tate is heartbroken when she hears that one of her young charges at the Foundling Hospital has been killed. She knows that police inspector Sebastian Bell will work tirelessly to uncover the truth, but he’ll need her help navigating the cloistered world of the orphanage.

Dante's Divine Comedy is considered to be not only the most important epic poem in Italian literature, but also one of the greatest poems ever written....

The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, his ascent of Mount Purgatory and his encounter with his dead love Beatrice, and finally, his arrival in Heaven....

The book is full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization, and paints a vivid picture of 18th-century London, peopled by prominent personalities of the time....

Sir Ian McKellen, fresh from his performance as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, is Prospero, and heads a strong cast in Shakespeare’s last great play....

A woman lies bedridden from a high fever. Suddenly she is struck with an urge to revisit a novel from her past. Inside the book is an inscription: a get-well-soon message from Johanna, an ex-girlfriend who is now a famous television host.

Over the course of a steamy and tense afternoon, twelve jurors deliberate the fate of a 19-year-old boy alleged to have murdered his own father....

Stranded on Prehistoric Earth since the end of the first series, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are once again trying to hitch their way off the planet....

Finnegans Wake is the greatest challenge in 20th-century literature. In the rich nighttime and the language of dreams, here are history, anecdote, myth, folk tale and, above all, a wondrous sense of humor....

There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece....

All the delightful and bizarre inhabitants of Wonderland are here: the White Rabbit and the Cheshire Cat, the hooka-smoking Caterpillar and the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Ugly Duchess....

Graham's a career police officer, with a tragic past. His quiet, thoughtful exterior hides a complex mind, and a fierce determination to see justice done.

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (père) completed in 1844...

Real French people don’t speak like your textbook…so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning Method, and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn authentic spoken French in the process....

In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce....

Award-Winning Author, Violet Sinclair, presents Her Viscount's Secret, a historical romance novel set in the Duchess Diaries world. In Regency-era England, Jane Seymour dreams of publishing her illustrations of rare birds, but societal expectations threaten to clip her wings. Enter Sebastian Westwood, the brooding Viscount with secrets as dark as his estate's shadowy corridors. When circumstances force them into a marriage neither expected, Jane and Sebastian must navigate a landscape of half-truths and hidden passions. As Jane works to complete her magnum opus in the newly built aviary, ...

In the heart of Yorkshire, where power is won through blood and loyalty, a new order is rising. Old alliances fracture as rival lords vie for control, their ambitions driving them to the brink. In a world where trust is a deadly gamble, and betrayal is the price of survival, the stakes have never been higher. "The Toad Cartels"—where the battle for supremacy knows no bounds.

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (père) completed in 1844. It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France.

When his carriage is damaged on the way to surprise his sister with a visit, Mr Darcy is sure the delay is of no consequence. He could have no idea that even then, Mr Wickham was persuading Georgiana Darcy to marry him. The successful elopement will result not just in a highly imprudent marriage, but in icy estrangement between the Darcy siblings - and the alteration of Mr Bingley’s plans to let Netherfield Park.

Ein Arzt, betrogen um sein Medizinstudium, verbringt sein letztes Lebensjahr hin- und hergerissen zwischen Verzweiflung und Euphorie. Überwältigt von Wissen und Weisheit sinniert er über die ihm gegebenen Doktrin, doch sein Leben endet, ohne einen Erben für seine Erkenntnis gefunden zu haben.

Rausch, Schmerz, Sucht – Georg Trakls Leben war geprägt von Extremzuständen und existenziellen Krisen. Dennoch erschuf der österreichische Lyriker und Expressionist in seinen gerade einmal 27 Jahren ein außergewöhnliches und beeindruckendes Werk, das bis heute nachhallt. 32 Schauspieler:innen, darunter Tobias Moretti, Paula Beer, Albrecht Schuch, Hannah Herzsprung, Max von der Groeben, Karoline Schuch u. v. a., interpretieren Trakls Gedichte auf vielstimmige Weise und erzeugen so, eingebettet in ein extra für diese Produktion geschaffenes Soundkonzept, einen ganz eigenen Trakl-Sound.

Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age eleven, and spent every vacation in France, desperate to escape her Englishness and to have some French chic rub off on her. In Au Revoir, Tristesse, Groskop mixes literary history and memoir to explore how the classics of French literature can infuse our lives with joie de vivre and teach us how to say goodbye to sadness.

Un texte sur le pouvoir émancipateur de la littérature, qui est aussi un pouvoir de consolation et de réconciliation avec la vie. Toute mon adolescence, j'ai entendu parler des personnages d' À la recherche du temps perdu, persuadée qu'ils étaient des cousins que je n'avais pas encore rencontrés. À la maison, les répliques de Charlus, les vacheries de la duchesse de Guermantes se confondaient avec les bons mots entendus à table, sans solution de continuité entre fiction et réalité.

El Principito Voz humana. Español castellano. El principito (en francés: Le Petit Prince) es una novela corta y la obra más famosa del escritor y aviador francés Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944). A pesar de que es considerado un libro infantil por la forma en la que se encuentra escrito, también posee observaciones profundas sobre la vida y la naturaleza humana. Las observaciones profundas sobre la vida se pueden ejemplificar también con la visita del principito a la tierra. Esta visita comienza con una valoración profundamente pesimista de la humanidad.

Like the Roman matron for whom she is named, plain but clever Octavia seems destined for abandonment. Handsome, fun-loving and heir to an earldom, Dorian is the opposite. In Regency London, life for him is a game in which other people, including Octavia, are his pawns. Everyone loves him until he does the unspeakable: he runs off with anther man's wife. Despite the permanent ache in her heart, Octavia spends her early and middle years building a life she loves as a village apothecary with people who love and appreciate her. Exiled Dorian spends most of his in regret.

From 1820 to 1860, nearly two million Irish migrated to the United States, mostly due to the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1852. Many died crossing the ocean due to disease and dismal conditions of what became known as coffin ships. Not Forgotten is the story of love and loss, enchantment and despair, joy and sorrow. Nora Brown was smitten when she met Oliver McManus. After fathering six children with Nora, Oliver disappeared, joining the Irish Brotherhood and leaving his family behind, he never returned.

Sous le beau soleil de juin 1940, les Stukas allemands mitraillent les colonnes de civils en fuite. Pris au piège dans leur limousine hors d'usage, quatre amis, modèles de la jeunesse dorée parisienne, trouvent refuge dans une ferme. Une imprévisible et cocasse partie de campagne commence alors : pour ces oisifs, ces mondains, la rencontre brutale avec des paysans renverse toutes leurs certitudes. L'héritière et le diplomate, le gigolo et la bourgeoise délaissée découvrent la rudesse et l'inconfort d'un milieu insoupçonné.

Un roman dont le magnétisme, la gravité, le spectacle rappellent que toute littérature est une littérature d'évasion. " Il y a beaucoup de monde ! " remarqua la visiteuse à peine entrée. Lucille compta. " Nous sommes huit. Neuf avec vous. – Je ne parlais pas des vivants. " Sussex, Angleterre, 1934. Alors qu'ils viennent d'emménager dans le manoir de Winnicott Hall, Archibald et Lucille Montgomery confient à Viviane Lombard, une Française à l'attitude et au franc-parler peu ordinaires, l'éducation de George, leur jeune fils aveugle.

День, который мы празднуем — история, вышедшая из-под пера популярного американского новеллиста О. Генри (англ. O. Henry, 1862–1910). Попугай, бездумно повторяя заученные слова, заставил друзей вспомнить о днях лишений на банановых плантациях далекой Коста-Рики. Писатель также прославился благодаря рассказам "Фараон и хорал", "Сыщики", "Момент победы", "Закон и порядок", "День, который мы празднуем", "Тысяча долларов", "Багдадская птица" и "Орден золотого колечка".

"Mientras yo coloreaba uno de los mandalas relajantes de Amanda, un dragón alado se puso a revolotear por encima de mi cabeza y nada pudo hacer ella por asustarlo, porque consiguió acercarse a mi oído y susurrarme suavemente una verdad absoluta y necesaria para comprender los embustes de la vida".

Entgegen sämtlicher Widerstände ihrer Zeit nimmt eine junge Lebkuchenbäckerin ihr Schicksal selbst in die Hand... 1864: Die Süße von Honig vereint mit dem würzigen Aroma des Orients - Lebkuchen haben auf die achtzehnjährige Elise schon immer einen besonderen Zauber ausgeübt. Als Tochter eines Nürnberger Lebküchners möchte sie unbedingt einmal die familieneigene Großbäckerei übernehmen und dort herrliche Lebkuchen-Kreationen herstellen. Doch dann droht Elises Traum zu zerplatzen: Ihr geliebter Vater verunglückt.

Della terra in cui è nata le sono rimasti pochi ricordi, vaghi e confusi: la zia Aster che si sforza di farla mangiare, i suoi passi a testa bassa sulla strada per la scuola, i giochi con il cugino Abbush e i bambini del quartiere. Le è rimasto il nome, che in amarico significa “nostalgia” e sembra alludere a qualcosa di originario che le mancherà sempre. E il cognome, Abraham, preso da un padre che non conosce, ma che si trascina dietro come un’ombra, come la traccia di un passato divenuto ormai troppo distante. Perché Tezeta è italiana.

Un ballo in maschera, due misteriose figure in domino rosso, uno straniero insolente, qualche parola incomprensibile e allusiva: queste apparizioni gettano, una sera, "un’ombra di avventura, di libertà e di pericolo" nella vita di un medico e di sua moglie, giovani, belli e chiusi in un’ovattata felicità domestica. Da quel momento essi entrano, senza saperlo, in un intreccio speculare di peripezie notturne tanto inverosimili da sembrare oniriche e di sogni tanto invadenti da sembrare fatti reali.

El Cafè de la Granota són catorze contes plens de gràcia i tendresa, i de misèria i desgràcies, i és també el primer llibre que Moncada va dedicar íntegrament a recrear la Mequinensa perduda sota el pantà de Riba-roja. Esperonat encara per Calders, que no es cansava d’animar-lo —“continua produint ‘granotes’ d’aquesta categoria i ens faràs contents a tots”, li diu a les cartes que clouen aquest volum—, i amb una llengua afinada, rica, divertida i vivíssima, Moncada treu a la palestra un enfilall de personatges dispars, rics i pobres, mesquins i ingenus, saberuts i ignorants, per fer-los girar en un calidoscopi alhora cru i entendridor.

Niente canne, né spleen, né amori perduti nel crudo Nordest.Ci sono milioni di italiani a cui questo paese piace esattamente così comè. Sono piccoli imprenditori che hanno fatto fortuna prima della crisi, oggi alle prese con crediti in sofferenza e fatture difficili da scontare. Sono famiglie totalmente assorbite dallimpegno di mandare avanti il lavoro, lattività, abituate a giudicare severamente il conflitto e la divagazione. Persone che credono nel denaro e nella possibilità del successo per chiunque sia disposto a sacrificarsi.