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Hamlet and Macbeth are two of Shakespeare's best-known plays and contain some of the most famous speeches in world literature. These one-act versions of the plays, which were edited by J. P. Crabb (the details of whose life and other works have disappeared into obscurity) retain the significant monologues and dialogues while presenting a streamlined view of the action.

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel, first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. A work of considerable power and intensity set in the Yorkshire moors in the late 18th century - the bleak and wild moorland often reflected in the natures of the characters. Unsettling at times, the novel is a heady mix of gritty realism, romance, Gothic horror, and tragedy.

When Anna David got sober and sold a book about her recovery to the biggest publisher in the world, she thought she'd made it. She was wrong. Still, after years of struggle and self-discovery, she ended up thriving personally and professionally. Now she's sharing what she's learned and showing others how to do the same.

In Jane Austen's unfinished novel, young Emma Watson returns to her father's house after being raised by her wealthy and refined uncle. As she gets to know her family, she finds that her father is reclusive and sickly, her sisters are crude and shallow, and her eldest brother has a petulance that is matched only by his wife's.

The Wind in the Willows, first published in 1908, is one of the most beloved of all children's classics and has been adapted on multiple occasions for presentation on stage, in film, and as an opera. The action centers on the efforts of Mole, Rat, and Badger to discipline and reform their wealthy and self-destructive friend Toad, who lives in a splendid mansion known as Toad Hall.

According to George Bernard Shaw, Joan of Arc was in fact one of the first Protestant martyrs. She was one of the first apostles of nationalism, and the first French practitioner of Napoleonic realism in warfare. She also refused to accept the specific woman's lot, and dressed and fought and lived as men did. Shaw's exploration of the story of this ingenuous and eponymous heroine is set in six scenes and an epilogue, which takes place in 1456, when the church cleared Joan of the charge of heresy and condemned her accusers of corruption.

Fresh off his victory at The Battle of Lodi, Napoleon is planning to enjoy his lunch when a lieutenant arrives with the bad news that the dispatches he had been carrying were stolen. Infuriated, Napoleon threatens him with being court-martialed unless he can recover them. A woman appears who claims to know about the theft. Unconvinced of her story, Napoleon and the woman enter into a battle of wits in true Shaw style. Will the conqueror of worlds end up conquered by a woman?

Anatol, one of Arthur Schnitzler's earliest works, concerns the life of a shallow and immature playboy, who has multiple dalliances with various women but suffers from a crippling fear of commitment underneath his womanising facade. The play offers sharp social commentary on the themes of toxic masculinity and fidelity, and has been adapted in English to two different musicals: The Game of Love and The Gay Life.

In this deeply felt, compulsive and edgy work, Sarah Meehan Sirk shines a distinctive light on love and death in their many incarnations. In "The Dead Husband Project", an artist who has planned to make an installation out of her terminally ill husband’s dead body has to recalibrate when his diagnosis changes. In "The Date", an online dating match takes an unusual turn when the man who shows up to the restaurant has no face. In "Ozk", a young girl longs to connect with her socially isolated mother, a professor of mathematics who makes a radical discovery.

A 25,000-copy best seller in Quebec, Arvida, with its stories of innocent young girls and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips heading nowhere, is unforgettable. Like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy, Samuel Archibald's portrait of his hometown, a model town designed by American industrialist Arthur Vining Davis, does for Quebec's North what William Faulkner did for the South and heralds an important new voice in world literature.

A multicultural nexus, Toronto hosts Indian, Portuguese, African, Italian, and Chinese communities that provide fertile backdrops for Toronto Noir's corrosive exposés. Features brand-new stories by RM Vaughan, Nathan Sellyn, Ibi Kaslik, Peter Robinson, Heather Birrell, Sean Dixon, Raywat Deonandad, Christine Murray, Gail Bowen, Emily Schultz, Andrew Pyper, Kim Moritsugu, Mark Sinnet, George Elliott Clarke, Pasha Malla, and Michael Redhill.

When one of her college boyfriends ended up becoming a movie star, Anna David became fixated on finding another famous boyfriend. But jobs at celebrity magazines and intimate encounters with boldfaced names ultimately left her clear that no red carpet embrace or award show acknowledgment would bring her what she was ultimately seeking.

Winner of the Académie Française award 2010. "In a house on a suburban street in Nagasaki, meteorologist Shimura Kobo lives quietly on his own. Or so he believes. Food begins to go missing. Perturbed by this threat to his orderly life, Shimura sets up a webcam to monitor his home. But though eager to identify his intruder, is Shimura really prepared for what the camera will reveal? This prize-winning novel is a heart-rending tale of alienation in the modern world.

Anna David never expected to end up a crazy cat lady. A successful author ( Party Girl, Bought, Reality Matters, Falling For Me) and dating expert for numerous television shows (including the Today Show, The CBS Morning Show and G4's Attack of the Show), David had every reason to imagine that at this point in her life, she'd be sharing her bed with a man and not two four-legged furballs.

Perhaps England’s greatest literary family. To find one brilliant novelist in a family is extremely rare. But two? Three?

The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily Jane and Anne, together with their brother Patrick, are famed throughout the world. And amongst their many talents was poetry. Of course, being Brontë’s, they were rather good at that too.

Perhaps England's greatest literary family. To find one brilliant novelist in a family is extremely rare. But two? Three?

The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily Jane and Anne, together with their brother Patrick, are famed throughout the world. And amongst their many talents was poetry. Of course, being Brontë's, they were rather good at that too.

Whether you’re ready to share your expertise with the world, want to launch a book that will serve you for your entire career, or are tired of releasing books that don’t do anything to help your business, On Good Authority is for you. Culled from dozens of interviews with top founders, CEOs, thought leaders, and authors like Robert Greene, Chris Voss, and Jay Abraham, On Good Authority walks you through a proven system for planning, promoting, and profiting from your own how-to book while also breaking down how this kind of book can build your authority in ways nothing else can.

2131: Mark Brandis folgt den Spuren, die sein Halbbruder Nat quer Ÿber den Planeten hinterlassen hat, zuerst auf die Kerguelen und dann nach Nordafrika. Der Geheimdienst der Union ist Brandis mal einen Schritt voraus, mal versucht er, ihn einzuholen. Doch was wirklich mit den biologischen Kampfstoffen geschehen soll, ahnt noch niemand.

2125: Mark Brandis und die Besatzung seiner Hermes sind von ISIDOR entkommen und auf dem Weg zur rätselhaften "Büchse der Pandora". Major Young kommt an Bord, doch auch seine Gegenwart kann die Hermes nicht davor bewahren, dieses Mal einem Geschwader der Republiken in die Hände zu fallen. Während die Crew gefangen auf dem Jupitermond Kallisto auf ein Wunder wartet, bahnt sich eine Begegnung an, die die Geschichte der Menschheit in andere Bahnen lenken könnte.

2129: Commander Brandis und seine Crew haben zur Jubiläumspräsentation der VEGA Dienst als Ausstellungsführer in San Francisco. Ein ungewöhnlich starkes Erdbeben lässt die San-Andreas-Spalte, auf der die Stadt steht, aufbrechen. Der Hangar stürzt ein, und nur Brandis' Geistesgegenwart verhindert, dass die HERMES zusammen mit dem Rest der VEGA-Raumschiffe vor Ort zerstört wird. Die Stadt geht im Erdbeben unter. In der Nachbesprechung eröffnet Direktor Harris erschreckende Fakten: schon bald werde dieses Unglück durch ein weit größeres abgelöst, wenn kein Wunder geschieht.