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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....

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....

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....

In a book distinguished by clarity and passion, Robert Zaretsky considers why Albert Camus mattered in his own lifetime and continues to matter today....

Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men....

The Birling family are spending a happy evening celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft. But then they receive a surprise visit from an Inspector Goole....

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

David Edgar – one of Britain’s greatest living playwrights – introduces a collection of his outstanding works....

C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in world history, providing deep insight into some of the greatest writers of the age....

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

This Audiobook contains the following works : 1. Little women by Louisa May Alcott Start at Chapters 1, 2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane...

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....

This work set the style for a whole class of literature, a work that the critic Morton Dauwen Zabel calls an example of Conrad's "central theme...the grip of circumstances that enforce self-discovery..."

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

The most renowned and wittiest of Oscar Wilde's comedies, The Importance of Being Earnest ridicules Victorian sensibilities and is still strikingly relevant to this day....

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

This complete collection brings together the full scope of Nietzsche's radical and transformative philosophy in a single, meticulously curated work.

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....

At the start of the 20th century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself....

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.

The first Doctor, William Hartnell, and his companions join the caravan of the legendary explorer Marco Polo in this seven-part 'lost' story from the programme's original 1964 series....

Dante's Divine Comedy is considered to be not only the most important epic poem in Italian literature, but also one of the greatest poems ever written....

At a luxurious country wedding, the mother of the bride is found murdered and the groom caught red-handed, but who is really to blame?

" Pendant des années, dans la petite ville où j’ai grandi, les esprits restèrent marqués par les évènements qui se produisirent au zoo local un vendredi...

A moving and insightful anthology of personal essays by Irish autistic adults. Wired Our Own Way: An Anthology of Irish Autistic Voices is the first collection of personal essays written by autistic Irish adults.

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.

Les livres sont des portes... Cassie Andrew travaille dans une petite librairie new-yorkaise. Elle mène une vie plutôt tranquille jusqu'au jour où un de ses clients préférés, un charmant vieux monsieur, est pris d'un malaise et meurt sous ses yeux. La jeune femme est surprise de retrouver près de lui un petit ouvrage rempli de dessins et de notes étranges dont il allait lui faire cadeau, Le Livre des portes. Cassie et sa colocataire Izzy vont bientôt découvrir que cet ouvrage a un incroyable pouvoir : faire voyager dans l'espace et dans le temps.

Discover a collection of Rudyard Kipling’s poems written during the Great War. Depicting the war from the perspective of a patriotic citizen who struggles between his duty to his country and the outrage of the horrors that were coming out of the Western Front.

Du temps pour soi, ou presque... Tout le monde vante les mérites de la retraite spirituelle. Enfin, toutes les influenceuses que suit Lily, 40 ans,...

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.

Dans un service d'addictologie, Lara accompagne l'équipe qui soigne des adolescents drogués aux écrans. Il y a Julien, un collégien déscolarisé depuis trois ans, Lou, neuf ans, qui passe ses nuits sur son portable, ou Stefania, tétanisée à l'idée de sortir de chez elle. Les failles de ces enfants sont pour Lara le miroir de ses propres addictions. Celles dont elle peut parler en riant, celles qui lui pèsent et qu'elle essaie régulièrement d'abandonner, celles plus honteuses qu'elle tait. Au fil des consultations, ses souvenirs refont surface.

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.

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.

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!