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Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only 15 centimetres tall . . . I was so surprised that I gave a great shout. ’But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses which talk. An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Jonathan Swift original by Clare West.

The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the 20th century, despite its surreal environment of talking cats, Satan and mysterious happenings. Naxos AudioBooks presents this careful abridgement of a new translation in an imaginative reading by the charismatic Julian Rhind-Tutt. With War and Peace and Crime and Punishment among the Naxos AudioBooks best-sellers, this too promises to be a front title.

Adopting the methodology of the music charts, The Classic Hundred Poems presents the "top 100" poems of all time. The selections are illuminated by the informative notes of editor William Harmon and read by an ensemble of contemporary poets including Alfred Corn and Rita Dove.

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the...

Drawing upon everyday incidents, common situations, and rural imagery, Robert Frost fashioned poetry of great lyrical beauty and potent symbolism. His language is simple, clear, and colloquial, yet dense with meaning and wider significance. This brilliant collection features some of Frost's greatest works, including "The Road Not Taken," "Asking for Roses," "The Death of the Hired Man," "In the Home Stretch," "Into My Own," "Meeting and Passing," "Mending Wall," and more.

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge is the saga of a clean-cut, "upper-class" couple who increasingly find their post-WWII world and traditional belief systems challenged by a changing society. For Walter Bridge, an ambitious lawyer, and his wife, whose focus is her household, affluence and material comforts create a cocoon of community respectability that cloaks the void within.

The central character, Tevye the milkman, goes around the community in the Russian countryside delivering milk and cheese, but also dispensing wisdom from the Talmud laced with his commonsense view of life. Funny, enriching, but also moving, this remarkable little Jewish classic will charm all who hear it, especially in the reading by veteran audiobook performer Neville Jason.

The complete sonnets performed by the quintessential Shakespearian actor, Sir John Gielgud...

Ein Berliner Ehepaar wagte einen aussichtslosen Widerstand gegen die Nazis und wurde 1943 hingerichtet. Von ihrem Schicksal erfuhr Hans Fallada aus einer Gestapo-Akte, die ihm durch Johannes R. Becher in die Hände kam. Fieberhaft schrieb Fallada daraufhin im Herbst 1946 in weniger als vier Wochen seinen letzten Roman nieder und schuf ein Panorama des Lebens der "normalen" Leute im Berlin der Nazizeit: Nachdem ihr Sohn in Hitlers Krieg gefallen ist, wollen Anna und Otto Quangel Zeichen des Widerstands setzen.

George Sand et Victor Hugo étaient exactement contemporains et pourtant ils ne se sont jamais rencontrés. Il faudra même attendre l'année 1856 pour qu'ils entament une relation épistolaire. On connaissait depuis longtemps la magnifique correspondance entre Sand et Flaubert.

The period of English romantic poetry occurred roughly between 1800 and 1850 and was represented by poets such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth. All of these poets are featured in this collection of more than 50 poems read by award-winning actors that include Joan Allen, Julie Christie, Stephen Fry, Glenda Jackson, and Jude Law.

தாயை இழந்து தந்தையை பிரிந்து, மாமா வீட்டிற்கு செல்லும் தமயந்திக்கு நேர்ந்தது என்ன? பழைய வாழ்க்கையை மறந்து ஆடம்பர மோகத்தில் திளைக்கும் தியாகராஜன் தன் நிலைக்கு திரும்பினானா? படிப்பறிவில்லாத காந்திமதி அனைத்து பெண்களுக்காக சூரிய காந்தத்தில் நடத்திய அற்புதத்தை வாசிக்கலாம்.

Naguib El-Samadouni has a significant advantage: he's boring. Boring people are everywhere around us; finding one is as easy as looking in the bathroom mirror or opening the window and looking out at the street. But Naguib is boring to an exciting degree... to a fascinating, ever-renewing degree.

இந்தக் கதையில் குறிஞ்சி மலர் போல் அரிதின் மலர்ந்த பெண் அவள்; குறிஞ்சியைப் போல் உயர்ந்த இடத்தில் பூத்தவள் அவள். அவளுக்கு அழிவே இல்லை. நித்திய வாழ்வு வாழ்பவள் அவள்.

From best-selling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society. At twelve, Emily Parmenter is left mostly to herself after her mother disappears and her beloved older brother dies. Emily has built a life around the faded...

El libro que faltaba de Almudena Grandes. Las historias y las escenas cotidianas que resumen el mundo de una escritora irrepetible. Escalera interior es el murmullo de los patios de luces que recogen olores de guisos, ruidos de cacharros y cucharones, risas, confidencias susurradas a media voz, buenos días y buenas noches que se intercambian en el rellano; es el murmullo que recoge nuestra rutina, la de la gente de a pie, en esas realidades pequeñas que son las que esconden las grandes historias.

Este Melhores Poemas Cora Coralina traz a seleção especial dos mais célebres poemas da poeta. Organizado por Darcy França Denófrio, mestre em Teoria Literária, a obra apresenta-se em formato pocket. Simples, muito próxima do gosto do povo, fluindo com naturalidade, a poesia de Cora Coralina encontrou uma imensa receptividade popular. O segredo talvez esteja no fato de que os seus versos dizem o que as pessoas sentem, mas não conseguem expressar, e na grande simpatia pelo semelhante, sobretudo os humilhados e perseguidos.

Norbert steckt fest. In einem Job, der ihn überfordert, in einem Leben, das ihm nichts gibt außer Stress. Schuld? Die Anderen. Lernen, Veränderung und Selbstwirksamkeit sind für den Verkäufer der alten Schule die drohende Dreifaltigkeit des Grauens und nicht Chance auf ein Wiederentfachen des Feuers der Arbeits- und Lebensfreude. Bis zu einem Skiurlaub mit Stephanie, einer Freundin aus Jugendtagen, die ihm eigentlich nur den perfekten Carving-Schwung näherbringen will, dabei aber mehr in Gang bringt, als alle Vorgesetzten-Vorgaben und gut gemeinten Ratschläge der Kollegen.

In London, Little Nell lives in The Old Curiosity Shop with her grandfather, who has a weakness for gambling. Hoping to mend his finances, the old man borrows money from Quilp, a moneylender and swindler. After losing that money as well, the grandfather flees to the country with Nell in a desperate attempt to escape the clutches of Quilp, who has designs on Nell and believes that the grandfather is secretly a rich miser. Out of devotion to Nell, Kit Nubbles, the shop's errand boy, pursues the pair and in the process earning the wrath of Quilp.

John Keats, the last of the Romantic School, was born in 1795 and died at age 25 in 1821. He was a "Poet's Poet", developing his themes from a high artistic faith, and his aesthetic philosophy from his love of beauty.