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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Shaheen Khan. This definitive recording includes an introduction by J. D. Smith, read by Sagar Arya. The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian...

ഇന്ത്യയുടെ ജീവനാഡിയായ റെയില്‍വേയുടെ അന്തര്‍നാടകങ്ങളെ വെളിവാക്കുന്ന നോവല്‍. അധികാരവും സാധാരണമനുഷ്യരും തമ്മിലുള്ള സംഘര്‍ഷങ്ങളിലൂടെ മൂന്നാംലോകപൗരന്മാര്‍ എങ്ങനെ മള്‍ട്ടിനാഷണലുകളുടെ ഇരയായിത്തീരുന്നു എന്ന് അന്വേഷണാത്മകമായി അവതരിപ്പിക്കുകയാണ് ഈ നോവലിലൂടെ.

The four Grace sisters love their quiet life in the country village of Chevis Green. To some, their insular world might seem dull, but the sisters never seem to run out of conversation, jokes, and pleasant ways to pass the time together. They truly are the happiest of families. That is, until Aunt Rona comes to town. Rona intends to stay with the Graces indefinitely, and her meddlesome attitude immediately sets the sisters' teeth on edge. Throw in another unexpected houseguest, some potential suitors and a case of mistaken intentions, and the members of the Grace family suddenly find themselves quite out of their element.

Charlotte Dean enjoys nothing more than the solitude of her London flat and the monotonous days of her work at a travel bookshop. But when her younger sister unceremoniously bursts into her quiet life one afternoon, Charlotte's world turns topsy-turvy. Beloved author D. E. Stevenson captures the intricacies of post-World War I England with a light, comic touch that perfectly embodies the spirit of the time. Alternatively heartbreaking and witty, The Young Clementina is a touching tale of love, loss and redemption through friendship.

As a woman used to traveling and living the high life in Bangkok, Leanne Shirtliffe recognized the constant fodder for humor while pregnant with twins in Asia's sin city. But in spite of deep-fried bug cuisine and nurses who cover newborn bassinets with plastic wrap, Shirtliffe manages to keep her babies alive for a year with help from a Coca-Cola deliveryman, several waitresses, and a bra factory. Then she and her husband return home to the isolation of North American suburbia.

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

Le tre cantiche inì un unico audiolibro, precedute da riassunti e seguiti da note storiche esplicative del testo.

La Storia della letteratura italiana, completata nel 1871 è la principale opera di Francesco De Sanctis, il più grande critico letterario e saggista italiano dell'Ottocento: essa costituisce la prima grande sintesi organica di tutta la letteratura italiana. L'opera, che non deve essere considerata un manuale di consultazione ma una sintesi ardente di tutta l'intera storia della società italiana vista attraverso le opere letterarie, si svolge con un forte ritmo narrativo dove i personaggi sono gli autori e i loro testi.

In "The Prussian Officer", there is an anti-militarism theme, unpopular as the nation drew near to war, and an examination of latent homosexuality as the officer in the story struggles with his feelings for his orderly. The young soldier is driven beyond his breaking point, but finds a kind of redemption in his final return to natural surroundings and, symbolically, he finds equality in death with his tormentor as they are put side by side in the mortuary.

Quando Cara Romero perde il suo posto in fabbrica a causa della Grande Recessione, ha ormai più di cinquant'anni e deve, una volta ancora, ricominciare tutto daccapo. Costretta alla trafila degli uffici di collocamento, in una torrenziale confessione riversa la storia della sua vita su un'anonima consulente del lavoro: le turbolente vicende sentimentali; la nostalgia per la Repubblica Dominicana da cui è fuggita; le relazioni in un condominio newyorkese assediato dalla gentrificazione; la lotta continua per sopravvivere alle difficoltà economiche e alla burocrazia americana.

Raunchy, risqué and rebellious, early Restoration comedies were a breath of fresh air for 17th century theatregoers. With Charles II restored to the throne in 1660, Oliver Cromwell's ban on stage performances was rescinded, and for the first time, women were invited to tread the boards as actresses. Playwrights developed a new style of social comedy, packed with amorous escapades, bawdy humour, wicked wit and sexual innuendo. This scintillating anthology showcases six leading lights of early Restoration drama.

In this beautifully observed study of a new marriage and the sexual tensions that run through it, Lawrence returns to his theme that happiness in marriage can only come with the submission of the woman to the man. The young wife strains against the bonds of being married and dallies with another man but returns to the arms of her husband once he shows his true feelings for her.

Da Raul Montanari a Paolo Roversi, una schiera di scrittori racconta le parti meno conosciute della propria città.

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.

Un affresco collettivo che si muove tra passato e presente, mare e montagna, paesi e città, castelli e prigioni, santuari e bordelli, riti religiosi e feste pagane, diavoli e acque sante. Un viaggio sull'isola tra luci e ombre, geografiche ed emotive.

Les aventures du Chevalier de Pardaillan sont celles que l'on dévore sans voir passer les heures, pour retrouver, confus et enthousiaste le bouillonnement d'une épopée traversée par la générosité d'un héros qui se place aux côtés de d'Artagnan et de Cyrano de Bergerac.

Esta novela de la narradora española Marisa D'Santos, de larga radicación en México, se desarrolla totalmente en una localidad de provincia, en España. El ámbito general de la guerra en España de los años 30 y la posterior dictadura franquista envuelven el destino de cada personaje en una especie de fatalismo que nos hace pensar en los extremos pasionales —vida, amor y muerte— de la tragedia clásica. El ámbito pueblerino se presenta con tal fidelidad a la propia invención de la autora, que adquiere valores plásticos, sonoros, sensoriales, táctiles, etc., en verdad incanjeables.

Charles Peguy (1873-1914), letterato di talento e socialista, si convertì al cattolicesimo nel 1907, ma per la sua intransigenza non fu mai accettato completamente da nessuna delle due comunità.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord.

Découvrir qu'elle est enceinte et que son père, qu'elle n'a pas connu, était iranien, c'est l'occasion parfaite pour Lila, jeune Parisienne à la vie tourbillonnante, de partir pour Téhéran à la recherche de ses origines. Elle y calmera peut-être ses ardeurs en matière de sorties et de séduction... ou pas. Car, au fil de son enquête, Lila va goûter, en même temps qu'aux joies de la grossesse, à une multitude de saveurs et de plaisirs inattendus. Elle va aussi faire la connaissance de son grand-père et d'une partie de son histoire, entre blessures de l'exil et souvenirs enterrés.