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Passion, beauty, and classical desire unfold through poetry and sensual reflection in Erotica Romana by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Elegant, intimate, and richly atmospheric, this literary work explores romance, longing, and the timeless allure of classical beauty through Goethe’s poetic voice...

Nell's dream of traveling on a transatlantic steamship is about to come true. Although not in the way she expected. Life is hard, and with only three women working amongst a crew of eighty, there are challenges Nell had not foreseen. While she struggles to cope with the constant attention of her colleagues, not to mention their criticisms, there are some who will do whatever they can to support her.

Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the "happy valley" in order to make their "choice of life". By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of others they come to understand the nature of happiness and value it more highly. Their travels and enquiries raise important practical and philosophical questions concerning many aspects of the human condition, including the business of a poet, the stability of reason, the immortality of the soul, and how to find contentment.

Vous rencontrez tous les jours vos meilleurs amis, mais vous ne le savez pas encore ! Iona, courrier du cœur dans un magazine féminin, n'aurait jamais songé à enfreindre la Règle no2 de l'Usager du Train de Banlieue (" ne jamais adresser la parole à son voisin ") si " Macho-Stylé de...

When the world drowns and there is no land left to stand on — where do you go? Welcome to No Place But the Water, a haunting, full-cast drama set in a future flooded world. It begins at a hotel on the edge of the water, and with a messy family of dreamers in the middle of nowhere: their last...

This edition includes both poems and letters, as well as the only contemporary description of Emily Dickinson, and is designed for readers who want the best poems and most interesting letters in convenient form. An excellent introduction to the work of a poet whose originality of thought remains...

The play is significant for the way it deals with the fate of a married woman, who at the time in Norway lacked reasonable opportunities for self-fulfillment in a male-dominated world, despite the fact that Ibsen denied it was his intent to write a feminist play. It aroused a great sensation at the time and caused a "storm of outraged controversy" that went beyond the theatre to the world of newspapers and society.

THE IRISH BESTSELLER 'A dazzling modern mythology of our oldest stories, richly imagined by the very best of Irish writers' DOIREANN NÍ GHRÍOFA, author of A Ghost in the Throat' 'Enthralling . . . The imaginative freedom in Banshee's stories is remarkable' Irish Times 'Bold, beautiful' Daily...

Gerade erst ist der Polizist Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg aus der tiefsten Pyrenäenprovinz nach Paris gekommen, doch sein Ruf eilt ihm voraus: Er sei still, ein Einzelgänger, der in seiner eigenen Welt lebt. In ganz Paris tauchen über Nacht merkwürdige blaue Kreidekreise auf. In deren Mitte liegt stets ein willkürlicher, wertloser Gegenstand: eine Bierdose, eine alte Fahrkarte, ein abgenagter Knochen. Adamsberg ahnt, dass der scheinbar harmlose Kreidezeichner einen perfiden Plan verfolgt. Und bald trifft ein, was Adamsberg befürchtete: Ein toter Mensch liegt im blauen Kreis.

A bomb at Holyrood. A dead socialite. A cover-up with bodies at every turn.When a car bomb detonates at the Scottish Parliament, a far-right group is quick to claim they're acting to save the Union. It's the biggest story in a generation. Reporter Doug McGregor was there. Now he can't let it go...

Avec ce texte complémentaire à Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth, Adèle Yon présente les conclusions auxquelles ont abouti son enquête dans les différents champs de recherche qu'elle y a croisés. Enquête sur le double fantôme est une tentative de prendre à la racine le désir de savoir d'une chercheuse en sciences humaines.

Cinco cuentos inmortales (Cuentos para reflexionar, reír y llorar) reúne cinco cuentos populares recopilados por Paul Sébillot. Esta breve recopilación nos muestra distintos personajes, algunos demasiado simpáticos como para no enamorarse de ellos. Esta selección incluye: El origen de los...

Resist the thirst. Protect the Brotherhood. South Boston, 1982. When Sarah McCready finds her boyfriend in bed with another woman on the same day she loses her job, she goes home to Boston to start again. Nothing changed in her old neighborhood, except the creepy house next to hers. Someone...

You are invited on a poetic journey of discovery to visit ancient castles; observe life during a day spent sat on a bench looking out to sea in Dover; enjoy the historical city of Chester sauntering around its Roman Wall; take in the scenery alongside picturesque canals; share two legendary...

A desperate man escapes 1920's rural poverty in Ireland to find work in Barrow's shipyard, he helps build ships as he builds his new life in Barrow. From encountering world famous creatives in the most unlikely place to imaginary time-travelling back to the Cumbria of our ancestors, the poet...

Meeting by chance at a gambling hall in Europe, the separate lives of Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen Harleth are immediately intertwined. Daniel, an Englishman of uncertain parentage, becomes Gwendolyn's redeemer as she finds herself drawn to his spiritual and altruistic nature after a loveless marriage. But Daniel's path was already set when he rescued a young Jewess from suicide.

Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. Arnold's famous piece of writing on culture established his High Victorian cultural agenda which remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s. According to his view advanced in the book, ‘Culture [...] is a study of perfection’.

Imagine waking up one morning and finding that you are a giant insect, a cockroach, still perceiving your surroundings and family as they are, but unable to comminicate. This is what happens to Gregor Samsa. Yesterday he was a traveling salesman, and today he finds himself a repulsive vermin.

A dynamic remastering of the second BBC Radio 4 full-cast serial – Fit the Seventh to Fit the Twelfth – which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legend The second original series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy remastered by Dirk Maggs (director of the Tertiary, Quandary and...

Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, which was originally performed in Athens in 411 BC. It is a comic account of a woman's extraordinary quest to terminate the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states, by advocating that the women deny all the men of the land any sex. At a meeting, Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to withhold sexual privileges from their men. She has also persuaded the older women of Athens to seize the Acropolis.