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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 With Charles II restored to the throne in 1660, Oliver Cromwell's ban on stage performances was rescinded, and for the first time, women were invited to tread the boards as actresses.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.

Ukrainian-born humorist, dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol is widely believed to have led the realist revolution in Russian literature. His surreal, absurdist satires liberated comedy from its sentimental traditions and influenced writers both within Russia and worldwide, among them Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka and Flannery O’Connor.

Cuentan que, en cierta ocasión, mientras mi maestro, Djalal al Din Rumi, sumergido en un éxtasis de Amor Divino, recitaba poemas cargados de pasión, un extranjero que se sentaba entre nosotros no pudo contenerse y empezó a llorar y a gemir, arrobado por la belleza de lo que estaba escuchando. De esa manera, cuando mi maestro terminó y abrió los ojos, el extranjero le preguntó: "Oh señor, ¿dónde ha encontrado la inspiración para escribir esos versos". A lo que mi maestro contestó: "Del mismo sitio donde tú has encontrado tus lágrimas". La Taberna del Derviche.

ജീവിതത്തിന്റെ തുരുത്തുകളിൽ ഒറ്റപ്പെട്ട് നില്ക്കുമ്പോഴും ഒരു സാമൂഹ്യജീവിയായി കഴിയാൻ വിധിക്കപ്പെട്ട മനുഷ്യരുടെ കഥ. ഹൈറേഞ്ചിന്റെ പശ്ചാത്തലത്തിൽ രചിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന ഈ നോവലിൽ ഒറ്റപ്പെടലിന്റെ വേദനയും തീക്ഷ്ണാനുഭവങ്ങളുടെ പകർന്നാട്ടവും അനുഭവവേദ്യമാക്കുന്നു.

Three American GIs have gone missing in different South Korean cities. Sergeants George Sueno and Ernie Bascom, agents for the Army CID, link the disappearances to a woman locally rumored to be a gumiho, a legendary 9000-tailed fox disguised as a woman. George suspects that the woman is no mythical creature, but a wealthy kidnapper who's good at covering her tracks. Scrambling to stay one step ahead of a psychotic mastermind, George realizes he will have to risk his life to discover the whereabouts of his fellow countrymen.

Harry Graf Kessler hält in seinem Tagebuch den ersten Revolutionstag der Novemberrevolution 1918 fest, es ist ein beeindruckendes Zeugnis eines der wichtigsten Tage der Deutschen Geschichte.

Guy de Maupassant was an absolute master of the short story genre, delighting in clever plotting, concise style, and efficient storytelling, which he used to produce stunning pieces in a very condensed format. Maupassant specialized in realism, with its sharp criticism of lower human nature and society, and fantastic, although his ventures in the supernatural are often used as an implicit symptom of the protagonists' troubled minds - he was absolutely fascinated with psychiatry, which was nascent at the time.

From USA Today bestselling author, Ashley Cade comes a brand new small town romance between the sweet southern baker and her ex's surly older brother.

Indhold: 1. Den standhaftige Tinsoldat, 2. De vilde svaner, 3. Lille Tuk, 4. Den gamle gadeløgte, 5. Stoppenålen, 6. To jomfruer, 7. Et billede fra Castelvolden, 8. Det gamle hus, 9. Nissen hos spekhøkeren, 10. Fra et vindue i Vartov, 11. Det er ganske vist!, 12. Hvad gamle Johanne fortalte, 13. Hønse-Grethes familie, 14. Portnerens søn.

A Storytel tem a honra de apresentar uma série original para quem está em casa, para quem está lutando, para quem enxerga além. A cada sexta-feira, cinco grandes autores terão suas histórias publicadas em áudio, ficções que trazem esperança e novos horizontes. Ouça histórias...

La plume de Le Rouge entraîne l'auditeur dans des lieux étonnants, mystérieux et énigmatiques, où s'affrontent impitoyablement deux conceptions du monde antagonistes; l'une, incarnée par le sympathique savant français Prosper Bondonnat dont les travaux de recherches sont orientés dans le seul but d'ajouter une pierre à "l'édifice radieux de la modernité", l'autre, par le maléfique docteur Cornélius Kramm, chirurgien esthétique américain, "sculpteur de chair humaine", inventeur de la "carnoplastie", obsédé par la conquête du pouvoir et de l'argent.

Have you ever been to a King Lear performance with the impression of not having understood everything? It's normal. Shakespeare's plays are the most beautiful of the theatrical repertoire, but you cannot go to a Shakespeare play if you do not have a minimum prepared this show: understand the issues, characters, context, cultural or historical references is indispensable. The same is true if you intend to read a play by William Shakespeare: our summaries will help you better understand what you have read.

When Richard Hannay returns to London after an action-packed life in Rhodesia, he finds life unbearably dull. He is on the point of leaving the city in search of adventures, when mystery and intrigue turns up at his door in the shape of Franklin Scudder, Hannay’s neighbour, who turns out to be a spy trying to escape the clutches of a shady international organisation, bent on sparking a European war. When Scudder is mysteriously murdered and all the evidence seems to point to Hannay himself, he escapes to Scotland, bearing Scudder’s cryptic coded notebook, which he struggles to decipher.

"Les fleurs du mal", in english "The Flowers of Evil", is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. The author and the publisher were prosecuted in France under the regime of the Second Empire as an "outrage aux bonnes mœurs" ("an insult to public decency"). Because of this prosecution, Baudelaire was fined 300 francs. Victor Hugo announced that Baudelaire had created "un nouveau frisson" (a new shudder, a new thrill) in literature.

28 famose poesie di 11 grandi autori italiani del '900 tratte dall'Audio Antologia della Letteratura Italiana. Da La Pioggia nel pineto di D'Annunzio a Lavorare stanca di Pavese, un meraviglioso percorso poetico fra le liriche più amate e studiate della letteratura italiana moderna.

"Quand le capitaine Épivent passait dans la rue, toutes les femmes se retournaient. Il présentait vraiment le type du bel officier de hussards. Aussi paradait-il toujours et se pavanait-il sans cesse, fier et préoccupé de sa cuisse, de sa taille et de sa moustache. Il les avait superbes, d’ailleurs, la moustache, la taille et la cuisse. La première était blonde, très forte, tombant martialement sur la lèvre en un beau bourrelet couleur de blé mûr, mais fin, soigneusement roulé, et qui descendait ensuite des deux côtés de la bouche en deux puissants jets de poils tout à fait crânes."

Cuando el capitán Epivent pasaba por la calle, todas las mujeres se volvían. Era el auténtico prototipo del gallardo oficial de húsares. Por ello se exhibía pavoneándose siempre, orgulloso y atento a sus piernas, a su cintura y a su bigote.

Paris, 1614. Louis XIII n'est qu'un jeune garçon de quatorze ans. La reine mère Marie de Médicis est régente et les Concini abusent de sa faiblesse pour usurper le pouvoir et piller le trésor royal. Paris gronde. C'est dans ce contexte que le chevalier de Pardaillan est venu aider son fils pour retrouver sa petite-fille, née il y a cinq ans et enlevée quelques mois après à ses parents, Jehan de Pardaillan et Bertille de Saugis, probablement sur l'ordre de Faust.

When the local trader is found murdered the only clue points directly at Lucy Tallwoman. The FBI sweeps in to discover a decades-old trail of deceit and betrayal as the darker days of Lucy's past come back to haunt her. The family decides they need help . . . and fast.

The handsome Texas sailor who offers dinner to a runaway in Central Park. The Midwestern college girl who stops a cop in Times Square for restaurant advice. The Brooklyn man on a midnight subway who helps a weary tourist find her way to Chinatown. The Columbia University graduate student who encounters an unexpected object of beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art....