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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.

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....

Milton tells the story of man's creation, fall and redemption, "to justify the ways of God to men"....

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....

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

DI Jade Tanner has been plunged into managing the Complex Crimes Unit, Police Scotland's newest investigating team. She's recruited Dr Petra McBride, fresh from losing her job at Dundee University, and DS Mo Uddin, who's reluctantly transferred from Birmingham.

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....

Laurence Sterne’s most famous novel is a biting satire of literary conventions and contemporary 18th-century values....

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

For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote In Search of Lost Time (while bedridden no less), Alain de Botton has the answer....

A classic BBC Radio full-cast production of Dylan Thomas' poetic play for voices starring Richard Burton as the narrator....

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

Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....

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....

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....

He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus' classic novel....

Secular humanism has triumphed. Everything the late Victorians and Edwardians believed would bring human happiness has been achieved....

A faithful translation is rare; a translation which preserves intact the original text is very rare; a perfect translation of Montaigne appears impossible....

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....

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....

Real Italian 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 Italian in the process....

Tom Jones, a foundling, is brought up by the kindly Mr. Allworthy. Forced to leave the house as a young man after tales of his disgraceful behavior reach his benefactor's ears, he sets out in utter despair....

At the height of World War II, three women must come together to fight for freedom, for the men they love - and for each other....

This collection of 35 poems is a sequel to a volume of lyrical ballads first published in 1798. While the first volume was a collaboration between Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, this anthology contains verses by Wordsworth only....

In seinem ersten Roman »Buddenbrooks« erzählt Thomas Mann nur wenig verschlüsselt die Geschichte seiner Familie und ihrer Stellung in der Vaterstadt Lübeck, soweit er sie nachvollziehen, in Einzelheiten überblicken konnte, ja sogar noch miterlebt hat. Verwandte, Honoratioren und markante Persönlichkeiten seiner Jugend werden integriert. Es ist die Geschichte des langsamen Niedergangs einer reichen Kaufmannsfamilie über vier Generationen hinweg. Gert Westphal liest diesen epochalen Roman in ganzer Länge.

In 1920, Ireland stands on the brink of civil war. Lucie returns to her familial home to settle the estate, where she uncovers an abundance of handwritten letters—a lifetime’s worth of cherished memories and guarded secrets between her mother and aunts—as well as her grandfather’s diary. As she reads through her findings, Lucie begins to wonder just how well she knew her relatives and the circumstances of their lives.

" 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...

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.

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 . . .

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!

Auteur d' Un jour , récemment adapté en série sur Netflix, David Nicholls nous offre la plus délicieuse des comédies romantiques, tout simplement irrésistible. Une histoire d'amour portée par la lecture sensible de Pierre Lognay... Il faut parfois se perdre pour mieux se retrouver... Marnie est en pleine impasse. Coincée dans son job, dans ses amitiés, dans ses amours, cette correctrice se demande souvent à quel moment sa vie a commencé à se dérouler sans elle. Michael est en pleine détresse.

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.

"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.

A chave, de Machado de Assis, tem seu enredo devidamente circunscrito no tempo: a história começa em 7 de outubro de 1861. Os banhos de mar era então uma realidade no Rio de Janeiro e a personagem central do conto, Marcelina, tem neles sua entrada na narrativa. De forma torta: apesar de ser excelente nadadora, quase se afoga, sendo salva pelo pretendente Luís Bastinhos. Ela, no entanto, considera outros rapazes – quem teria a chave para abrir seu coração? É ler o conto e deliciar-se com a ironia machadiana aí tão presente!

The Don't Touch Garden explores what it is to be adopted, both for the child and the adoptive parents, through a wide range of poetic styles and complex emotions. An absorbing account of the legacy of being an adopted child. Forthright and tender, this moving sequence reflects Foley's unflinching gaze into the mirror in a sometimes excoriating attempt to discern traces of her belonging, and to make peace with the past. Joy Howard, Poet, publisher and former Fostering Services Manager.

Польша, Варшава, 1930-е годы. Воздух пронизан тревожными предчувствиями мировой катастрофы. Аарон Грейдингер — молодой писатель, сын раввина, ведущий богемный образ жизни. Запутавшись в любовных связях и творческих неудачах, он пытается написать мистическую пьесу и вместе с остальными варшавскими евреями ждет неминуемого конца света. Одним весенним днем, гуляя по нищим еврейским кварталам своего детства, он решает заглянуть в дом, где жила его первая возлюбленная, которую он не видел целых двадцать лет.

In Reimen beschrieben, in Liedern besungen. So kann man sich mit auf die Reise begeben. Mal kritisch, mal weise, mal albern, mal traurig. Die Bilder, sie kommen mal lustig, mal schaurig. Und wollen des Lesers Gedanken beleben. In Reimen beschrieben, in Liedern besungen.

Sherlock Holmes is back in one of his most gripping and high-stakes cases, The Sign of the Four. When a beautiful and mysterious woman seeks Holmes' help in uncovering the truth behind her father's disappearance and a series of anonymous gifts, the great detective and his steadfast companion, Dr. Watson, are pulled into a web of deception, murder, and long-buried secrets.