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

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language....

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

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 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....

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....

The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....

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, brings Hamlet to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition....

This new full-cast recording - based on the most respected edition of Shakespeare's classic - expertly produced by the Folger Theatre, is perfect for students, teachers, and the everyday listener....

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.

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....

When Louis Trevelyan's young wife meets an old family acquaintance, his unreasonable jealousy of their friendship sparks a quarrel that leads to a brutal and tragic estrangement....

Fear stalks familiar ground. Acting DCI Rob Marshall is back in the Borders with a permanent promotion dangled in front of him – but storm clouds are gathering, with his new boss eyeing cutting Marshall’s Major Investigation Team.

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....

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons' perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity....

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....

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....

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

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....

While attempting to discover the roots of Hamlet’s unhappiness, two courtiers go on a journey to plumb the depths of the universe’s mysteries. Tom Stoppard’s wildly inventive first play takes us through a tilted version of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy....

Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon....

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....

Adopting the methodology of the music charts, The Classic Hundred Poems presents the "top 100" poems of all time...

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....

I hate Nico Moretti. The Reaper. The man who turns blood into power, whose name is spoken in fear and reverence. And in forty-eight hours, I'll be wearing his ring. Our marriage is meant to prevent a war, but it's the very thing that might ignite one. A mole is revealing sensitive information, causing chaos amongst mafia heads, threatening to destroy both our families. My father calls it business—like trading me to the devil is nothing more than balancing the books. I tell myself I can do this—I'm a Bellanti. I've survived worse than becoming a mobster's bride. But the real betrayal? My...

The rice is ripe in Provence… and so is a wicked murder plot. During a rice-themed culinary competition, head judge and top food critic Seraphin Rampal is found face down in the Rhône River. The gendarmes believe it was a drunken accident. But pastry chef Julie Cavallo disagrees. With the help of her misfit crew, she discovers that much more than rankings were at stake. Ruined careers, shortchanged colleagues, and scorned girlfriends all point to one thing: many in the region’s finest kitchens wanted Seraphin Rampal to pay. As their unsavory secrets come to light, danger closes in, ...

The past isn't always how we picture it. Thirty years after his father’s death, a drifter stumbles across a painting that changes everything. The man in the portrait looks exactly like his father… only older than he was when he died. As he digs into the painting’s origins, he uncovers a trail of secrets, lies, and a love story buried beneath the ashes. The Painting is a haunting story of memory, loss, and the lies we live with.

John Worthing, a carefree young gentleman, is the inventor of a fictitious brother, “Ernest,” whose wicked ways afford John an excuse to leave his country home from time to time and journey to London, where he stays with his close friend and confidant, Algernon Moncrieff. Algernon has a cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax, with whom John is deeply in love.

A storm. A secret. A throne with a body in it. Welcome to Harrowgate Manor — you’re going to die laughing. Vivian Sinclair thought her scandals were buried beneath old headlines and designer fur. But when she’s lured to a crumbling castle with a cast of suspicious strangers and one truly cursed chair, she realizes she’s walked into a murder mystery more twisted than her last tabloid spread. By dessert, someone’s dead. By midnight, everyone’s a suspect. There’s a war hero with something to hide, a socialite with a taste for arsenic, a reverend with blood on his hands, and an ...

" Dis-leur Jeannot, dis-leur de raconter tout cela de ma part, avec leurs mots à eux, ceux de leur époque. Les miens ne sont faits que des accents de mon pays, du sang que j'ai dans la bouche et sur les mains. ". Mars 1943. À Toulouse, Raymond, 20 ans, et son frère Claude, 17 ans, rejoignent la Résistance ; ils y rencontrent des garçons et des filles de leur âge. Planques, traques, combats, arrestations au petit matin, leur périple les conduira jusqu'au train fantôme. Quand l'un d'entre eux tombe, un autre sort de l'ombre...

Guided by the Roman poet Virgil and the love of his life, Beatrice, Dante traverses the three realms of the dead—Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven—encountering sinners, souls seeking forgiveness, and divine beings. With vivid imagery, sharp social commentary, and profound spiritual insight, The Divine Comedy is an unforgettable exploration of the human soul’s journey toward salvation.

From the author of The Find series comes PAINTER, the first book in the gripping new nordic noir series, The Stockholm Killings. In the frozen heart of a Stockholm winter, a new terror stalks the night. Families are being slaughtered, their bodies arranged in grotesque parodies of classical art—horrific masterpieces staged for Inspector Stefan Eklund to find. Haunted by his own past traumas, Eklund is thrust into leading a new elite unit, partnered with the sharp, ambitious Delara Holm and the unsettlingly brilliant forensic psychologist, Dr. Torre Nylander. Their only lead is a man found...

Farm laborer Charles Jackson doesn't expect much from life. For the price of a few pints of ale and enough food on the table, he's happy to take work where he can get it. Until he finds himself at Chadwick's farm. Falling in love with the farmer's daughter wasn't part of his plans. But when they're found in an intimate embrace, his troubles are only just beginning . . .

Tears of a Black Man is a raw, powerful poetry collection drawn from the real-life experiences of author Lawrence McLendon.These aren’t just poems—they're confessions, reflections, and scars. From false accusations and prison time to broken love, fatherhood, and the daily battles of being a Black man in America, Lawrence bares it all with brutal honesty and grace. Every verse is a testimony of survival. Of standing tall after being knocked down. Of carrying invisible weights while trying to be seen, heard, and understood. This book is for anyone who's ever felt invisible, misunderstood,...

Anthony Trollope is among the best-loved novelists in the English language. This Very Short Introduction will place Trollope's work in the context of his life and times, drawing on recent scholarship to illuminate his central interests and literary strategies. The major series of novels (the six novels located in the fictional Barsetshire, and the six Palliser novels) are explored alongside the novels set in Ireland, his travel writing, and his less well-known fiction.

Amphitryon ist der Feldherr der Thebaner. Seine Gattin Alkmene erwartet sehnlich seine Rückkehr aus dem Krieg gegen die Athener. Statt seiner erscheint jedoch Jupiter in Amphitryons Gestalt. Als der echte Amphitryon zurückkehrt und Alkmene ihm von der vermeintlich gemeinsam verbrachten Nacht erzählt, fühlt sich dieser betrogen - und fordert Genugtuung. Der Amphitryon-Stoff ist ein wahrer Dauerbrenner auf den Bühnen dieser Welt!

Der Schmied Friedeborn klagt den Grafen vom Strahl an, seine Tochter Katharine mit magischen Mitteln verführt zu haben. Tatsächlich war sie ihm freiwillig gefolgt. Der Graf denkt allerdings, Kunigunde von Thurneck, die er befreit hat, sei seine vorbestimmte Gattin, denn er hält sie für die Tochter des Kaisers. Zahlreiche Verwirrungen und Abenteuer später stellt sich heraus, dass tatsächlich Käthchen die uneheliche Tochter des Kaisers ist. Das Märchendrama, wie es genannt wird, ist noch heute ein permanenter Gast auf den Spielplänen der Bühnen.

Penthesilea ist die Königin der Amazonen, jenes kriegerische Volk, das keine Männer unter sich duldet. Doch sie verliebt sich unsterblich in Achill. Nur wenn sie ihn im Kampf besiegt, dürfte sie ihn zum Partner wählen, so lautet das Gesetz. Doch sie verletzt ihn tödlich. Heinrich von Kleist verfasste sein Drama im Blankvers. 24 Auftritte umfasst das Trauerspiel, das lange Zeit unaufführbar galt - und heute ein Klassiker auf den Bühnen ist!

Some words were never meant to be spoken. Some letters were written but never sent, folded away in the quiet corners of time. Still, they linger. In the hush before dawn, in the spaces between footsteps, in the salt-laced wind that moves through empty rooms. This book is not a collection of answers, nor a search for closure. It is a meditation on what remains—on the echoes of voices we can no longer hear, on the weight of things left behind, on the way absence shapes us as much as presence does.

"L'idée d'Ourika, c'est une idée d'inégalité, soit de nature, soit de position sociale, une idée d'empêchement, d'obstacle entre le désir de l'âme et l'objet mortel ; c'est quelque chose qui manque et qui dévore, et qui crée une sorte d'envie sur la tendresse. (...) L'auteur de ces touchants récits aime à exprimer l'impossible et à y briser les cœurs qu'il préfère, les êtres chéris qu'il a formés : le ciel seulement s'ouvre à la fin pour verser quelque rosée qui rafraîchit." - Sainte-Beuve.

Nicht nur die Brüder Grimm oder Hans Christian Andersen haben Märchen gesammelt oder geschrieben, auch in anderen Ländern ist das Märchen selbstverständlich kulturelles Volksgut. In Polen wurden und werden gerne Märchen erzählt - wie diese feine Sammlung von zwanzig wunderbaren Geschichten beweist!

Ein Buch wie ein Gesang auf die Natur. Ein malerisches Dorf im rauen Tal der Haute Provence und eine Verbeugung vor der zornigen Natur und dem weiblichen Mut. Ein Klassiker der französischen Literatur in großartiger Neuübersetzung. "Der Wind teilt sich in den Bäumen. Er verliert sich darin, zerrinnt zu Musik, wird zur Brise." Auf einem Bauernhof in den Bergen ist Marie glücklich im Kreise ihrer Familie. Sie ist schön, sie ist jung, sie strahlt, aber eines Tages kreuzt ihr Weg den von Olivier. Sie küssen sich, doch dann geht er weg. Und das Schicksal nimmt seinen Lauf.

Gli amanti: pastelli è una raccolta di racconti di Matilde Serao, pubblicata nel 1894. L'opera si compone di dodici "pastelli", ritratti letterari che esplorano le sfumature dell'amore e delle relazioni umane. Tra i racconti inclusi vi sono "L'imperfetto amante (Nino Stresa)", "Il perfetto amante (Massimo Dias)" e "Il viale degli oleandri (Mario Felice)". Serao, con la sua prosa evocativa, dipinge personaggi complessi e situazioni sentimentali variegate, offrendo al lettore un'analisi profonda delle dinamiche amorose dell'epoca.

In Dänemark war Meter pro Sekunde der erfolgreichste Roman der letzten Jahre. Seine besondere Mischung aus Humor, Menschenfreundlichkeit und Sprachkunst macht es zum Buch unserer Tage. Kühe, Windräder und die sonderbare Welt einer Internatsschule: Eine junge Mutter zieht mit Mann und Baby nach Westjütland, ins "Land der kurzen Sätze". Eine einfache Unterhaltung wird für sie zum Wagnis, und das Leben selbst ist auf einmal voller Hindernisse. Mutterschaft, Ehe und Fahrprüfung: alles kaum zu schaffen.