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How can humans survive and prosper 1,500 feet below the earth's surface? Jules Verne successfully weaves a dark yet magnificent story into this equally dark world.

Der grüne Strahl (auch Das grüne Leuchten , Der grüne Blitz ) ist ein Roman des französischen Autors Jules Verne. Der Roman wurde erstmals 1882 von dem Verleger Pierre-Jules Hetzel unter dem französischen Titel Le Rayon-vert veröffentlicht. Die erste deutschsprachige Ausgabe erschien 1885 unter dem Titel Der grüne Strahl . Der grüne Strahl ist ein reiner Liebesroman. Erzählt wird die Geschichte der jungen Helena Campbell, die von ihren beiden Onkeln Sib Melvill und Sam Melvill erzogen wird.

Questo romanzo di Verne, del 1882 , che ruota intorno al fenomeno del raggio verde che il sole lancia prima di tramontare , è un pretesto per una accurata descrizione delle piccole Ebridi e dei paesaggi Scozzesi, in particolare del’isola di Staffa , che presenta delle particolarità geologiche, di cui Verne era ovviamente appassionato.

Der geniale Uhrmacher Zacharius glaubt, den Schlüssel zur Zeit selbst gefunden zu haben. Doch je tiefer er sich in sein Werk verstrickt, desto deutlicher wird: Wer mit den Kräften der Ewigkeit spielt, bezahlt einen schrecklichen Preis... Alexander Wohnhaas verleiht dieser vergessenen Perle der Weltliteratur eine eindringliche Stimme.

The Underground City is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community at Aberfoyle, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman, Simon Ford, along with his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a large vein of coal in the mine but the characters must deal with mysterious and unexplainable happenings in and around the mine.

Tolstoy's story of one woman's fate is brought powerfully to life in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation starring Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens. Anna Karenina enjoys a privileged and aristrocratic lifestyle as the wife of influential government official Alexy Karenin. Yet their ten-year...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Pippa Bennett- Warner. Pippa has recently starred in the BBC Drama MotherFatherSon alongside Richard Gere and has featured in Harlots and Sick Note. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Kathryn Sutherland. Taken...

“The Amazing Race" meets Around the World in 80 Days as a woman desperate to save her family bookstore falls for her competition. Born and raised in New York City, Ramona Keene dreams of attending photography school and traveling to Paris, but her reality never quite catches up with her...

This is a diverting delight, a window on romance in literature. There are high lovers and low lovers, tragic lovers, comic lovers, and lovers who shouldn’t be doing what they are doing at all and certainly not then and there. There is even Fanny Hill trying not to discover what physical love is about when set upon by an old roué who has paid for the privilege. Though of special interest for lovers and their special lover’s day of St. Valentine, it is an amusing and sometimes surprising collection.