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His last and most controversial novel, Jude the Obscure provoked such widespread and bitter attacks that Hardy claimed it caused him to stop writing novels. The primary causes of the uproar involved Hardy’s frank treatment of sexual themes and his unconventional portrayal of the pillars of Victorian society: the British university system, marriage, and religion. Today, many consider this to be Hardy’s finest work.

Burn's finest work including "Auld Lang Syne" and "Mary Morrison".

Joanna Lyon is the great-granddaughter of the legendary TwenCen musician Sean Lyon. Joanna may have inherited some of her ancestor's musical talent, but her parents' bitter divorce and her Uncle Jack's attempts to remake her into another Sean have left her hostile toward her family and music. Her passion is for science, but since she has no access to the family funds, she struggles to earn enough credits for graduate school. Then her uncle sets up a business deal with her employer....

Charles Paris' old friend Mark, who runs a recording studio in Bath where Charles is making a talking book, has a drinking problem that amounts to a death wish. But it's not the drink that kills Mark, it's somebody in the cast of Charles' play who has a dirty little secret that Mark must not be allowed to reveal...

A twisted tale indeed, featuring love lost, alluring demons, idiotic servants, beautiful ladies, magicians, spells, pirates, and duels, Stolen from Gypsies has been called a comedic tour de force comparable to Shakespeare.

I've been lucky all my life, but today I've had the unlucky misfortune of having my two girlfriends find out about each other. Will this be the end of my lucky streak, or can I turn this into the greatest sexual experience of my life?

Yolo dares you to look closer at the little flutters of negative thought that paralyze you from moving forward. It is an enlightening story of Yolo, a little spider monkey, who lives in her perch high atop the jungle floor and attempts to find happiness without ever taking a risk. Yolo is faced with the same unexpected challenges that we all deal with, including love, loss, family, abandonment, depression, and success.

Enoch Arden first came to international attention with a recording by Claude Raines and Glenn Gould, but it has since drifted back to obscurity. This is a work that both Luxon and Moyer have loved for many years. The poem is immediately accessible to any audience and tells a heart-wrenching story of friendship, love, separation, and sacrifice. The masterful score creates a powerful soundtrack to the saga.

Born in an overcrowded slum in Scotland in 1813, David Livingstone worked 12-hour days in a cotton factory from age 10 to 24. But a pamphlet by Karl Gutzlaff changed his life. Resolved to become a missionary, he applied himself to medicine, self-educating and eventually qualifying as a doctor.

Continuing a collaboration started years ago, Benjamin Luxon and Frederick Moyer now turn to the little-explored genre of music for piano and narrator. Enoch Arden first came to international attention with a recording by Claude Raines and Glenn Gould but has since drifted back to obscurity. This is a work that both Luxon and Moyer have loved for many years. The poem is immediately accessible to any audience and tells a heart-wrenching story of friendship, love, separation, and sacrifice.

In his first published work in prose, James Joyce paints vivid portraits of the people of Dublin, his city of birth, in a collection of stories whose larger purpose, he said, was to depict a "moral history of Ireland". From the first story, in which a young boy encounters death, to the haunting final story involving the middle-aged Gabriel, the book gives an unflinching and realistic portrayal of "dear, dirty Dublin" in the early 20th-century.

A Room with a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy, a country which to Forster represents the forces of true passion. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Forster's heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians, who encourage her to take up with a well-connected boor.

Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered, “Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound.”

A father and three of his seven children work brutal hours in a mine, facing hazards such as landslides, fire, and poisoned air, to scrape together enough money for food. When their lodger, Étienne, shares ideas about a workers' revolt, the family gradually embraces his plans. Soon the settlement is aflame with resolve to strike for better wages and working conditions. Savage and horrifying events ensue as miners clash with management and with each other.

Morgonen den 6 augusti 1945 fäller besättningen på planet Enola Gay en atombomb över Hiroshima. Några minuter senare har den japanska staden förvandlats till ett brinnande helvete. Tre dagar senare drabbas Nagasaki av samma öde. Till och med de förhärdade japanska generalerna, som varit fast beslutna att fortsätta strida, är skakade av den ofattbara förödelsen. När även kejsaren förespråkar en kapitulation, väljer Japan till slut att acceptera en villkorslös sådan. I allra sista ögonblicket är det nära att planerna kullkastas av en grupp officerare.

Den 25 augusti 1944 intar franska och amerikanska divisioner Paris. De svettiga och uttröttade soldaterna möts av kyssar, blommor, vin och framsträckta spädbarn. Hitlers kommendör har kapitulerat, och den svartröda hakkorsflaggan byts ut mot trikoloren på alla officiella byggnader, efter hand som befriarna rensar ut de tyska soldater som förskansat sig runt om i staden. Resten av landet är dock långtifrån befriat, och i det övriga Europa rasar kriget på. Tidigt på morgonen den 16 december bryter helvetet lös i Ardennerna i Belgien.

Den 27 januari 1944 förklarar Stalin Leningrad befriat. Efter två och ett halvt års belägring drar Wehrmacht sig tillbaka. Röda armén förföljer de uppgivna tyska soldaterna, som på bara tre dagar drivs 100 kilometer västerut. Uppmuntrad av segern beslutar den ryske generalen Govorov sig för att befria Estland. I slaget om floden Narva sätter tyskarna dock stopp för hans planer, och fronten går tillfälligt i stå. Trots det är tyskarna fortfarande trängda från alla sidor.

År 1943 har läget på östfronten vänt. I början av fälttåget krossade tyska stridsvagnar allt motstånd på sin väg över de ryska stäpperna. Nu har de slaviska "undermänniskorna" dock fått övertaget och gjort det vidsträckta landet till ett helvete för Hitlers invasionsstyrka. Nästan 100.000 soldater blir krigsfångar efter slaget vid Stalingrad i början av året. I mitten av juli tillfogar sedan Röda armén den tyska krigsmakten ett avgörande nederlag efter ett taktiskt genidrag i historiens största pansarslag.

Karl-Erik Forss lever ett anspråkslöst liv som taxichaufför. Men när han en dag träffar en ung vacker kvinna vänder hans tillvaro i en handvändning. Tillsammans tar de en kärleksfull kryssning till Estland, och framtiden ser ljus ut. Elias Beckman är en ung estländsk KGB-underordnad. När han av en okänd anledning blir beordrad att hoppa av till Väst, verkar det som om livet slutligen har tagit en godartad vändning.

"Ambulansen tvärnitar, precis som mitt liv. Och tiden niger till i några frusna ögonblick som stannar alltet, och med ögonen fortfarande slutna inser jag att mitt liv, som jag kände det, aldrig skulle bli sig likt igen. Så, tystnad. Ligg blickstilla. Inte röra sig. Och morsans jävla kungsord 'Man ska vara hel och ren inunder, för man vet aldrig var man hamnar.' Han tänker på nybytta kallingar." Det är brustet hjärta, menar författaren när han sätter diagnos på sig själv.