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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....

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....

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.

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

Meet Detective Inspector Zoe Finch. She's ambitious, determined, and damaged. And she's about to uncover evidence that could make her career... or get her sacked.

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

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....

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....

Three of the ever-popular Sheridan’s finest plays Born in Dublin in 1751, Richard Brinsley Sheridan was a theatre impresario, statesman and the most celebrated playwright of his time. His brilliantly witty comedies of manners have become part of the literary canon, and are frequently performed...

This is the story of Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong....

Dans la Chine Impériale, un jeune milliardaire désœuvré et blasé, Kin-Fo décide de mourir en apprenant sa ruine...

In Shakespeare's most controversial play, the opposing values of justice and mercy must be resolved....

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....

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

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....

“Imagine The Leftovers, but with honey” (Elle), and in the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this “spectacular and deeply moving” (Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author) literary novel follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a...

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 Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda are our oldest written sources for Norse mythology. When it comes to the norse myths, they are the closest thing we have to listening these stories as the vikings actually told them, around those ancient campfires so long ago....

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....

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....

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.

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

Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a colossus of German literature and a true Renaissance man. A novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist and philosopher, he wrote the first international bestseller, The Sorrows of Young Werther....

A new family moves in over the road. The new family is acting strange. This new family has some secrets....

Mia Sokolov, Mafia-Erbin mit selektivem Mutismus, macht keine Gefangenen. Landon King ist ein genialer Künstler, ein vornehmer, reicher Junge, der besessen von Mia ist … und dem düsteren Geheimnis, das sie verbirgt.

Essays on London provide an acute and perceptive insight into early twentieth century city life. Including profound meditations on the rhythm of life on Oxford Street and the consumerism that drives it, vivid descriptions of the epic cathedrals that pave the streets and the place of religion in contemporary society, and an intimate sketch of a charming woman who is a Londoner to her core, these eloquent snapshots of the city are told with Woolf’s trademark intimacy and self-awareness.

An anthology of plays and original radio dramas from the prolific playwright Born and brought up in the East End of London, Bernard Kops came to fame in the late 1950s as part of British drama’s ‘New Wave’. A lyrical chronicler of Jewish family life, he is often compared to Arnold Wesker...

Meet Detective Inspector Zoe Finch. She's ambitious, determined, and damaged. And she's about to uncover evidence that could make her career... or get her sacked.

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

Two of J M Synge’s remarkable plays and an exploration of the man, his work and his life on the Aran Islands J M Synge was one of the giants of Irish theatre, and a leading dramatist of the Irish Literary Renaissance. Together with W B Yeats and others, he co-founded Dublin’s famous Abbey...

Vivimos en cambio constante, con miedo a decir «te quiero» por las consecuencias que podría traer. Pero debemos arriesgarnos, tenemos que perdernos para poder encontrarnos, aprender del daño y seguir soñando. Quiere, quiere mucho. Pero nunca te olvides de quererte a ti. Cuando Manu Erena empezó a escribir poesía en sus cuadernos, no podía imaginar que se convertiría en un fenómeno de ventas gracias a la publicación de su primer libro, Consecuencias de decir te quiero, con el que ha llegado a lo más alto de las listas de best sellers.

Inspiriert von der griechischen Mythologie erzählt Goethe die Geschichte von Iphigenie, die als Priesterin auf der Insel Tauris lebt und zwischen ihrer Pflicht und ihrem Wunsch nach Freiheit hin- und hergerissen ist. Das Drama thematisiert die Macht der Menschlichkeit, Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit in einer Welt, die von Konflikten geprägt ist.

In nur einer Nacht geschrieben, entfaltet die Novelle eine beklemmende Dynamik zwischen einem jungen Mann und seinem übermächtigen Vater. Kafka verbindet familiäre Konflikte mit tiefer psychologischer Symbolik und schafft ein düsteres Bild von Schuld, Ohnmacht und dem unergründlichen Zugriff einer Autorität, die sich jeder Logik entzieht. Das Urteil ist eine der bedeutendsten Erzählungen von Franz Kafka und gilt als Schlüsseltext seines Schaffens.

Three of the ever-popular Sheridan’s finest plays Born in Dublin in 1751, Richard Brinsley Sheridan was a theatre impresario, statesman and the most celebrated playwright of his time. His brilliantly witty comedies of manners have become part of the literary canon, and are frequently performed...

Après avoir raconté son enfance, étouffée entre les murs d'un collège où il est la victime des railleries de ses grossiers camarades, le narrateur décrit sa passion adolescente pour une jeune femme mariée, croisée sur la plage, pendant des vacances à Trouville. Le jeune homme, timide, contemple de loin cette Maria, dont il s'efforce de deviner d'abord les formes du corps sous sa robe. Introduit peu après dans l'intimité du ménage, il lui parle avec respect et apprend qu'il partage avec elle les mêmes goûts littéraires.

We All Rise Up by Mary L Murphy is an inspiring of poetry that chronicles her journey from surviving trauma to thriving in life. An experienced poetry writer and performer for 7 years, Mary AKA Pure Mary has also run poetry workshops for young people and adults in an accessible and engaging workshop, #BringIt.

Claros y frescos ríos que mansamente vais siguiendo vuestro natural camino; desiertos montes míos, que en un estado estáis de soledad muy triste de contino; aves, en quien hay tino de descansar cantando...

I cipressi che a Bólgheri alti e schietti Van da San Guido in duplice filar, Quasi in corsa giganti giovinetti Mi balzarono incontro e mi guardâr.

Echoes of an Old World: An English Spirit in New England is a collection of poems by Elizabeth Stansfield Hunter, edited by her grandson, David Hunter Kennedy. The book reflects Elizabeth’s deep connection to both her Victorian English heritage and her life in New England, capturing themes of nature, family, love, and loss. Written between the 1920s and 1960s, the poems explore the beauty of nature, the joys and trials of life, and the devastating impact of losing her son during World War II.

Los presagios astrológicos vaticinan que si Segismundo, hijo del rey Basilio, es coronado, se convertirá en un horrible tirano que traerá la destrucción a su reino. Para evitarlo, Basilio encarcela a Segismundo de por vida. Décadas más tarde, decide dar a su hijo la oportunidad de desafiar el destino augurado. Mientras tanto, Rosaura se cruza con Segismundo, convirtiéndose en la piedra de toque de su transformación. Segismundo, autorizado a gobernar el palacio, confirma con sus crueles acciones la profecía, y es devuelto a su prisión.