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Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down.

Electric Spark explores not the celebrated Dame Muriel but the apprentice mage. We return to her early years when everything was piled on: divorce, madness, murder, espionage, poverty, skullduggery, blackmail, love affairs, revenge, and a religious conversion.

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. Now, Alison Larkin's critically acclaimed narrations of Austen's six completed novels are brought together in this very special 200th anniversary audio edition. "Alison Larkin's narration will captivate listeners from the first sentence" raves AudioFile magazine about the Earphones Award-winning recording of Sense and Sensibility, which starts the collection.

The complete "box set" of T. H. White's epic fantasy novel of the Arthurian legend. The novel is made up of five parts: "The Sword in the Stone", "The Witch in the Wood", "The Ill-Made Knight", "The Candle in the Wind", and "The Book of Merlyn".

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. In Anthony Burgess' nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology.

Surviving the Trojan War was just the beginning of the adventure for Odysseus. What lay ahead was a journey home that would last for years as he encountered gods and monsters before finally returning home - only to face the greatest threat to his happiness of all. This translation of Homer's classic tale captures all the timeless excitement and gripping drama that have made it a favorite for centuries.

When I discovered that my online gaming friend was Leo Evans, a student from my university, I had no idea how much my life would change. On paper, we’re complete opposites. He’s a shy computing student and I’m an outgoing footballer. Yet there’s an undeniable connection between us. Despite our differences, he’s become my closest friend, and I'm on a mission to make him see himself the way I see him. So I’ve been daring him to do things to get him out of his comfort zone, to prove to himself that he’s capable of so much more than he thinks he is.

Elizabeth as a single mum? Darcy’s secret baby? They spend one night at an inn before Darcy is viciously attacked, leaving him without memory. Will the heart remember what the mind has forgotten? Cast out by her family for refusing Mr. Collins, Elizabeth Bennet finds herself alone and penniless at a coaching inn. There she encounters Mr. Darcy, whose gallantry in the face of her compromised situation leads to a hasty marriage. When Darcy seeks transportation for his bride, he falls victim to a vicious attack that robs him of his memory and their marriage documents. While Darcy recovers in...

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny.

In Wonderland, she encounters strange creatures like the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, and the Queen of Hearts, each more surreal than the last.

A PRIDE AND PREJUDICE SECOND-CHANCE MASQUERADE ROMANCE She shattered his heart. He wounded her pride. At a masked ball in Pemberley, fate offers them one last dance—and a final chance to get it right. Two years ago, Elizabeth Bennet turned down Fitzwilliam Darcy’s proposal—and his love—with words that cut deep. Now older, wiser, and still aching with regret, she never expects to fall for a stranger behind a mask… or to discover too late that the man beneath is the very one she once rejected. Now unmasked, Darcy is determined not to lose her again. From moonlit gardens to ...

In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James of Scotland, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed, and it may have seemed to some that his prolific genius was a thing of the past. But that year, at age 42, he found his footing again, finishing a play he had begun the previous autumn - King Lear - then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra.

A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world.

One morning in February 1952, a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk and set about creating a fictional secret agent. James Bond was born and would go on to become one of the most successful, enduring and lucrative creations in literature. But Bond's world of glamour and romance, gadgets and cocktails, espionage and villainy wasn't entirely drawn from imagination: Fleming's background and his experiences as an intelligence officer during the Second World War were all formative parts in the creation of the world's most famous spy.

He waited half his life for a homecoming, only to discover his home no longer existed. . . . But perhaps he can create a new one. In 1956, more than a decade after the end of World War II, Hans Becker is finally released from a Soviet POW camp and returns to Germany. The reunion is disheartening—his beloved Dresden is largely blackened rubble, and his feelings of disorientation and melancholy hinder his attempt to revive the life—and love—he left behind. Elise, the once delicate teenager whose memory Hans carried in his heart, has, through unspeakable trauma, transformed into a strong...

To Love and to Cherish, A Pride and Prejudice Variation Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy first cross paths in London, circa 1805: neither yet shaped by society’s expectations, both brimming with youthful expectations. Their acquaintance is brief, yet it leaves young Elizabeth’s heart quietly stirred. Darcy departs England for the Continent—first on the Grand Tour with friends, then unexpectedly thrust into military service for the Crown. As he faces European intrigue and wartime peril, growing into the man he must become, Elizabeth contends with her mother’s relentless ...

A Pride and Prejudice Marriage-of-Convenience Romance When tragedy strikes, duty demands a wedding— love was never part of the arrangement. After the sudden death of Mr Bennet, Elizabeth Bennet faces the unthinkable: no dowry, no home, and no future for her sisters. With the family one step from ruin, salvation arrives in the most unlikely form— Fitzwilliam Darcy, aloof and enigmatic, offering a marriage of convenience. Driven by honour, Darcy proposes. Driven by desperation, Elizabeth accepts. Now mistress of Pemberley, she must navigate a world of wealth, judegment, and whispered ...

In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic—with ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor—The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950’s.

This collection of stories continues the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-loved fictional detective. In these intriguing tales, Holmes and Watson solve cases that range from the suspicious to the downright strange, and encounter mysteries as diverse as vanishing staff, secret plans and eccentric lodgers.

Perhaps this concealment, this disguise, was beneath me… It is done, however, and it was done for the best. Elizabeth Bennet, walking in Kent the day after Mr Darcy’s proposal meets with an unfortunate mishap. A meeting with an adder has disastrous consequences for her and when she wakes from a period of unconsciousness, she has no memory at all of the last ten months of her life. To her complete shock she learns that she is engaged to a man called Darcy, a man she has no recollection of meeting before.