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In this rich new audio production, acclaimed British American actress Rebecca Hall brings one of E. M. Forster's most admired works to life in this classic tale of human struggle. A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, is wooed by both free-spirited George Emerson and wealthy Cecil Vyse while vacationing in Italy. Though attracted to George, Lucy becomes engaged to Cecil despite twice turning down his proposals. On hearing of the news, George confesses his love, leaving Lucy torn between marrying the more socially acceptable Cecil or George, the man she knows would bring her true happiness. Should Lucy choose social acceptance or true love?

Oliver Marks has just served 10 years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago.

Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.

For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state.

En los anos de 1920, El Árabe fue uno de los libros mas leídos, controversiales escandalosos de su época. Fue el precursor de las historias de amor contemporáneas y a su vez fue una de las primeras novelas románticas llevada al cine.

Down the Road to Eternity: New & Selected Fiction is a collection of M.A.C. Farrant’s work dating from 1985 to 2009. Satiric and philosophical in approach, indelibly marked by wit, humor, irony, playfulness, a blend of parody and science fiction, irreverent analysis and comic existentialism, these stories celebrate the literary imagination as an antidote to the stranglehold the popular media now has on the public’s imagination.

Please note: In S., J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst conceived of a multi-layered novel-within-a-novel that involves handwritten notes in the margins and physical objects slipped between the pages. Because an audio edition is unable to recreate those innately visual pieces and thus the full experience...

Shortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize 'A masterpiece' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain 'An extraordinary novel' - Michael Magee, author of Close to Home 'It deserves its modern classic status' - The Times It’s the west of Scotland in the 1950s. New houses are going up. Factories...

A vibrant portrait of Edwardian England, Howards End examines personal relationships and conflicting values. The Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and their brother, Tibby, place their values in civilized living, music, literature, and conversation with their friends. The Wilcoxes, Henry and his children Charles, Paul, and Evie, are concerned with the business side of life and distrust emotions and imagination.

Het vervolg op de bestseller De jongen in de gestreepte pyjama volgt Bruno's zus Gretel, en verkent via haar op meeslepende en ontroerende wijze de nasleep van de oorlog en de effecten van een levenslang schuldgevoel. Gretel Fernsby woont al tientallen jaren in een luxe appartement in Londen. Ze leidt een ogenschijnlijk comfortabel en kalm leven, ondanks haar donkere verleden. Dan komt er een jong gezin wonen in het appartement onder haar. Gretel sluit aarzelend vriendschap met de negenjarige Henry, hoewel hij herinneringen bij haar oproept die ze juist probeert te vergeten.

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of 20th-century literature—a chilling and still-provocative look at a postapocalyptic future.

The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." —The New Yorker At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled...

An embittered dog walker obsessed with a social media influencer inadvertently puts a curse on a young man - and must adventure into a mysterious dimension in order to save him - in this wildly inventive, delightfully subversive, genre-nonconforming debut novel about illusion, magic, technology, kinship, and the emergent future.

"ಕೆಲವೊಮ್ಮೆ ಅಳುವುದು ಅಥವಾ ನಗುವುದು ಮಾತ್ರ ಉಳಿದಿದೆ, ಮತ್ತು ನಗುವುದು ಇದೀಗ ಉತ್ತಮವಾಗಿದೆ." "ಜಗತ್ತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನಗು ಮತ್ತು ಉತ್ತಮ...

எம். வி. வெங்கட்ராமின் 'வேள்வித் தீ', தமிழ் நாவல்களில் மிக அரிதாகவே பேசப்பட்ட சௌராஷ்டிரா என்ற ஒரு சமூகத்தைப்...

നദി കടന്നെത്തിയ പരദേശിയായ കാലമ്മൂപ്പന്‍ ചാവുകരയുടെ കടിഞ്ഞാണ്‍ കൈയിലേന്തി. ചാവുകരയിലെ മനുഷ്യരുടെയും തിര്യക്കുകളുടെയും സസ്യലതാദികളുടെയും വിധി അതോടെ ദൈവത്തിന്റെ കൈയിലായി. കാലമ്മൂപ്പന്റെ അനുവാദം കൂടാതെ ചാവുകരയില്‍ ഒരു പൂവുപോലും വിരിഞ്ഞില്ല.

Brad Thor's Summer 2018 Fiction Pick for THE TODAY SHOW! NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Elle Refinery29 PopSugar Verge ""Eerie, dark, and compelling, [The Book of M] will not disappoint lovers of The Passage and Station Eleven."" —Booklist WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER? Set...

M. Ré Dièse et Mlle Mi bémol nous emmène dans un petit village suisse peu de temps avant la fête de Noël. Le vieil organiste est devenu sourd ; aussi tout le monde se demande qui jouera de l'instrument le soir, à l'église, et fera chanter les enfants. C'est alors qu'un mystérieux personnage avec de longs doigts et des yeux de braise se présente, et offre même de restaurer l'orgue… Entre un voyage sur la lune et un autre au centre de la Terre, Jules Verne a écrit un conte de Noël fascinant.

The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist - all these narratives intersect at an estate called Howards End. The fate of this country home symbolizes the future of England in an exploration of social, economic, and philosophical trends during the post-Victorian era.

குங்குமம் வார இதழில் வெளியான கதை 'கொலை அரங்கம்'. ஈழ விடுதலைப் போராட்டம் தமிழகத்திலும் எதிரொலிகளை எழுப்பிய பரபரப்பான 1984 கால கட்டத்தில் அதன் தாக்கத்-தில் உருவான திரில்லர் வடிவக் கதை. கணேஷ்-வஸந்த், முதல் அத்தியாயத்தி-லிருந்தே தோன்றி கதையை நடத்தும் நாவல்களில் இதுவும் ஒன்று