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The purpose in publishing this edition of The Pilgrim's Progress is to carry forward this treasured legacy for a new generation. With this as the objective, the text of this edition has only been lightly edited to update archaic words and difficult sentence structure, while retaining the beauty and brilliance of the original story, and to let the story unfold with all the power, truth, and remarkable creativity of the original.

Den midaldrende Mary Horton er godt tilfreds med sin komfortable, men ensomme tilværelse - lige indtil hun møder Tim. En billedskøn, ung mand, der mentalt er udviklet som et barn. De to udvikler et varmt venskab. Tim rusker op i Marys respektable, velordnede liv med det forbudte løfte om en ganske særlig kærlighed.

Ein überreiches Potpourri deutscher Literatur erwartet die Hörerschaft, mit Meisterwerken aus vielen Jahrhunderten. Die vorliegenden zwanzig Erzählungen, Novellen oder Geschichten künden vor allem von der Freude am Erzählen. Mit dabei: Joseph Roth (Stationschef Fallmerayer), Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (Krambambuli), Wolfgang Borchert (Die Hundeblume), Kurt Tucholsky (In der Hotelhalle), Friedrich Glauser (Verhör), A.J. Mordtmann (Der Untergang der Carnatic), Franz Kafka (Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle), Johann Peter Hebel (Unverhofftes Wiedersehen), Wilhelm Hauff (Das kalte Herz).

Rafe har svært ved at acceptere, at han både var fuld første gang, han havde sex, og at det var med en kvinde, han ikke elsker. Men det er svært at sige højt, for selvom hans nabo Bella er fantastisk, så har hun gjort det krystalklart, at hun ikke er interesseret i forhold og følelser. Bella er kendt på campus for at have selvtillid nok til ti personer. Som trænerassistent for ishockeyholdet er hun vant til at fortælle fyrene, hvor skabet skal stå, og der skal mere end et sødt smil til at bringe hende ud af fatning …

Fifteen years ago in the colourful bustle of Vietnam, Celine and Patrick met and shared four blissful days together. It felt like true love, but soon reality tore them apart and Celine moved on. But now, when she sees him unexpectedly on a busy London street, suddenly nothing else matters. As she deals with the mixed emotions of an amicable divorce, Celine becomes preoccupied with her daughter and the dating agency she founded - not least when her ex-husband, Mike, asks her to find him someone new.

Freshly trained detective Johannes "Hannes" Niehaus is brand new to the Criminal Investigation Department. And his partner, unconventional veteran detective Fritz Janssen, isn't the least bit thrilled to train a rookie. When a woman's body washes up on the nearby shores of the Baltic Sea, Hannes gets his first taste of real crime - and a chance to prove himself. Quickly the investigation pulls him and Fritz into a whirlpool of dangerous, decades-old cover-ups.

Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen - the writer never spoke of them. Why did he choose not to publish them along with the others? One possible answer is that he was developing his themes in preparation for his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time; another is that the stories were too audacious - too near to life - for the censorious society of the time. In these stories, published here for the first time, we find an intimate picture of a young author full of darkness and melancholy, longing to reveal his true self to the world.

Diese große Hörbuch-Box versammelt zahlreiche Kurzgeschichten Tschechows sowie die ungekürzten Bühnenwerke "Drei Schwestern" und "Die Möwe". Kurzgeschichten: "Die Dame mit dem Hündchen", "Der böse Knabe", "Der Orden", "Der Rächer seiner Ehre", "Das Gewinnlos", "Der Tod des Beamten", "Der Dicke und der Dünne" und viele mehr.

These four works show Samuel Beckett at his most penetrating. Both Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Not I (1972) are among the most striking pieces written for the theatre in the 20th century. An old man sits at a table, playing back old tapes made when he was younger, mixed glimpses of past feelings. In Not I, we have just a mouth expressing memories and torment in a torrent of words.

In her prize-winning fourth collection, Mean Time, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and desire...