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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....

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....

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?

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....

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....

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.

A vicious 15-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom....

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

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....

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....

In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time....

The Waste Land is a seminal work of modernist poetry by T.S. Eliot. Written in 1922, this five-part poem is a portrait of its time, a work that expresses the disillusionment of the modernist era and the desperation that the generation of writers of that time was feeling.

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....

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.

In an attempt to appeal to the Medici family during the Italian Renaissance, Machiavelli outlines the way to acquire and retain political power, and how great men should behave in a princely government....

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....

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

Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, and Ebenezer Scrooge come to marvelous life in Patrick Stewart's critically-acclaimed solo interpretation of A Christmas Carol....

War has come to Discworld...again....

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

AMA Audiolibros presenta la Narración del Audiolibro en Español (acento Castellano) de "La Divina Comedia" de Dante Alighieri en la voz de...

Eliza Rose is the perfect lady—until a scandal disrupts her privileged world. The fallen Rose family has struggled to regain their standing until a fortuitous connection helps Eliza re-secure her family’s place in Society, giving her everything she believed she wanted.

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.

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.

In this charming reimagining of Jane Austen's beloved classic, the world of Regency England is aflutter with a new obsession: exotic birds. As the gentry vie for status with their colorful avian companions, Elizabeth Bennet finds herself thrust into a world of peacocks, parrots, and pride. When the wealthy and austere Mr. Darcy arrives in Hertfordshire with his prized cockatoo, Elizabeth is determined to dislike him, despite his feathered friend's attempts to win her over. But as misunderstandings take flight and secrets emerge, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy must navigate a society where a rare ...

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, ...

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.

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.

Barbados, 1834. El amo de la plantación Providence reúne a sus esclavos y anuncia que el rey de Inglaterra ha decretado el fin de la esclavitud. Pero los gritos de alegría se apagan cuando les advierte que ya no son esclavos, sino aprendices. Nadie puede irse. Deberán trabajar para él durante seis años más. La libertad es solo otro nombre para la vida que siempre han vivido. Esa noche Rachel huye y se convierte en fugitiva. Comienza una búsqueda desesperada para encontrar a sus hijos, los cinco que sobrevivieron al nacimiento y fueron vendidos.

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.

El cura de Tours de Honoré de Balzac es una novela que describe la vida del tímido y modesto sacerdote François Birotteau, en la ciudad provincial de Tours. Birotteau se ve envuelto en una red de intrigas sociales, celos y manipulación cuando hereda una importante fortuna. Balzac explora las complejidades de la naturaleza humana, la hipocresía social y la influencia corruptora de la riqueza. La novela es parte de la obra más amplia de Balzac, "La Comédie Humaine", que ofrece una visión panorámica de la sociedad francesa del siglo XIX a través de una serie de historias y personajes interconectados.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

"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".

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.

Un legado invaluable que nos invita a seguir leyendo, escribiendo y soñando Frágil testimonio "del momento que pasa", "la poesía es la sombra de la memoria / pero será materia del olvido", palabras "que dicta en su fluir / el tiempo en vuelo". Los días no volverán, aunque cada día amanezca; la vida deja su estela remanente que no conduce a ningún lado, pues "a todas partes vamos a no volver. /Estamos por vez última / en dondequiera".

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.

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.