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Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's best dramatist. His plays have been translated into every major language, and are the most performed ever. His work contains stunningly modern insight, witty jokes and soaring passion; it is an endless source of amazement and inspiration. A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage, widely performed across the world.

Roma, Idi di marzo del 44 a.C. Nella notte di sangue che ha cambiato il corso della storia antica, Marco Tullio Cicerone riceve una tremenda profezia: Giulio Cesare, che giace cadavere trafitto dai pugnali dei congiurati, gli appare in sogno e gli rivela il giorno della sua morte. Angoscia, sgomento e attesa dei fati si fondono nell'animo di Cicerone alla speranza di restituire la libertà a Roma. Ma la realtà diventa di giorno in giorno più dura e sangue chiama altro sangue. La funesta guerra civile, ormai inevitabile, non risparmierà nessuno.

Die junge Kommissarin Frieda Lieken wird auf die Insel Fehmarn versetzt. Gegen ihren Willen. Doch sie muss sich fügen, wurde Opfer einer fiesen Mobbingattacke. In Lübeck kann sie nicht bleiben, ist das Gespött der Kollegen. Außerdem lebt dort der Mann, den sie am liebsten nie mehr im Leben sehen will. Auf Fehmarn angekommen, macht sie gleich an ihrem ersten Tag eine grausige Entdeckung. Ein Leichenteil wurde am Strand angeschwemmt. Statt den Dienstweg einzuhalten, nimmt sie sich der Sache selbst an. Ihr neuer Vorgesetzter, Insel-Urgestein Heiner Eisler, ist wenig entzückt.

This is the novel Typhoon. Written for you by Joseph Conrad, and read by Jim Edmark.

Ein kleiner Bauernhof am Meer - klingt idyllisch und romantisch? Nicht für Lilly, denn sie wohnt dort mit ihrem siebenjährigen Sohn, dem kauzigen Untermieter und einer bissigen Gans. Aber dann zieht Lilly mit ihrem Traktor das Auto eines gut aussehenden Surfers aus dem Sand, und ein geheimnisvoller Hausgast mit sehr blauen Augen quartiert sich unerwartet in ihre Ferienwohnung ein. Und auf einmal sieht es fast so aus, als könnte es mit der Liebe doch noch klappen... Ein Hörbuch zum Abschalten, Loslachen und Träumen.

Eine Inselromanze mit Herz, Humor und einem Hengst der besonderen Art. Melli sieht sich in ihrem Leben am absoluten Tiefpunkt angelangt. Da sorgt eine spontane Zugreise nach Sylt für willkommene Abwechslung. Zusammen mit ihrer Großmutter besucht sie dort ihre Schwester, die mit ihrem Mann einen Pferdehof auf der beliebten Ferieninsel betreibt. Trotz jahrelanger Funkstille wird sie mit offenen Armen empfangen und lernt dabei nicht nur ihre neue Familie zum ersten Mal richtig kennen. Denn sie begegnet hier auch dem attraktiven Sven, der als Stallbursche auf dem Hof lebt.

I 1896 flygtede fire englændere med deres bytte, en formue i uslebne diamanter, gennem den nådesløse Kalahari-ørken, stærkt forfulgt af en afrikansk stamme. Det lykkedes de fire mænd at komme om bord på det ventende HMS Rove, men en storm blæste op, og skibet forsvandt med alle ombordværende. Juan Cabrillo og hans besætning på det ombyggede fragtskib, Oregon, er med nød og næppe sluppet helskindet fra en mission på Congo-floden, da de opfanger et nødkald fra et skib, der er kommet under beskydning ud for den afrikanske kyst.

Are you ready for romance, mystery, suspense and the heartwarming power of family love? Then it is time to escape to Clearwater Beach and spend time with the adorable McCaids. Fallon and Piper McCaid have not spoken to each other in fifteen years, much to the despair of their younger sister...

"Dagon" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in July 1917, one of the first stories he wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant (issue #11). Dagon was later published in Weird Tales and is considered by many to be one of Lovecraft's most forward looking stories.

Genocide. Jellyfish smack. Unrequited love. This is a tale of thirteen mermaid sisters, the last of their kind.

"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages, the growing sense of solitude, the close dependence upon the very forces that, friendly to-day, without changing their nature, by the mere putting forth of their might, become dangerous to-morrow, make for that sense of fellowship which modern seamen, good men as they are, cannot hope to know."

In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to run dangerous missions on their behalf, with the financial support of a beautiful but exceedingly baffling young heiress, with whom the young man is soon giddily in love. Told largely in the first person, the novel is unusual, for Conrad, in focusing largely on the evolving psychology of a young man in the throes of a great romantic passion.

Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic reputation, with visceral disgust. There is a sad irony in this, for Conrad's title originally alluded to a rather complex set of meanings, implying that, by virtue of our human nature, we all carry within the fragile vessel that is our idealised image of ourselves a darker being we find troubling, even despicable, but with whom we must eventually come to terms.

Autumn, a mother-to-be, has an unsteady grip on the meaning of family. Her father abandoned her. She hasn’t seen her estranged mother in more than twelve years. And her marriage is crumbling. As Autumn struggles with painful memories of her childhood and fosters hopes for her own baby’s future, she must come to terms with the past to be the mother she and her child need her to be.

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs.

Discover Jo Bartlett's wonderful Seabreeze Farm series! Welcome to Seabreeze Farm. Freya Halliwell is looking forward to marrying the man of her dreams and starting their new life together. After the death of both of her parents, Ollie, along with Freya’s aunt, are the only family she has, but...

Eigentlich wollte Anna sich nur eine kurze Auszeit bei ihrer Großmutter in Hamburg nehmen, denn in ihrem Leben läuft es wirklich nicht gerade rund. Ihr Traummann entpuppt sich eher als Albtraum, in der neuen Firma wird sie herausgemobbt und eine Wohnung hat sie dank ihrer Trennung ebenfalls nicht mehr. Doch das Leben im Norden wird mit jedem Tag interessanter. Nach und nach erfährt sie die Geschichte ihres Großvaters Erik, der im Südatlantik verschollen ist und über den in der Familie nie gesprochen wurde. Dann gibt es da noch Lenny, der direkt neben ihrer Großmutter wohnt.

An Outcast of the Islands, Joseph Conrad’s second novel, is a tale of intrigue, isolation, and morality. The story follows the undoing of Peter Willems, a dishonorable man on the run from a scandal of his own making. After leaving Macassar, he takes refuge in a remote village and river post...

1775: General George Washington has discovered his store of gunpowder has dwindled to next to nothing. Captain Isaac Biddlecomb is despatched to Bermuda to capture the British gunpowder known to be there. But the plan is a trap, hatched by a traitor among the Patriots. Washington's aide-de-camp Major Edward Fitzgerald is tasked with hunting the traitor down; Biddlecomb meanwhile must work to free his ship and his men and capture the gunpowder so vital in the fight for freedom. Will Biddlecomb and Fitzgerald overcome their common enemy – the greatest military power on Earth?

O jovem Humphrey van Weyden é salvo de um náufrago pela escuna Ghost. Porém, ele logo compreende que seu pesadelo está apenas começando: o capitão Wolf Larsen o obriga a integrar a tripulação de seu navio! A bordo, ele vivencia a árdua rotina dos marujos e a tirania imposta pelo capitão.