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This classic farce was first performed in 1892. Since the record-breaking initial run in London, it has been revived many times around the world in a variety of languages, and has also been adapted for a number of presentations on film. The play incorporates many of the features which have become standard in romantic comedies: a cross dressing central character, identity confusion, young lovers kept apart by parental influence and older lovers unexpectedly reunited.

This extended moralistic fable, Oscar Wilde's longest work of fiction, was first published in 1890. It may be described as a tragedy of manners, in which a wealthy young man, endowed with great powers of physical and personal attractiveness, embarks on a hectic course of life which brings destruction to many around him, and ultimately to himself.

How do we step outside our own echo chamber to understand others? What are we losing when we share fewer and fewer national moments? The new media is enabling despots and disempowering democracy. So when every opinion seems to matter equally, On Us offers a few more on choice in a concentrated media world and asks why more information often means less insight.

The alien race known as the Ancients vanished before Earth's last ice age - but not before building interconnected rings that form a highway system across the galaxy. Humanity has used these rings for years but has never figured out how to build its own, or even how to alter the connection pattern. Now, the Imperial starship Pandora is on a mission to discover and explore new interstellar connection points. While on Venus, an unexpected guest arrives - Marvin, a rogue robot who puts his strange mind to work on reconnecting the rings into a new pattern. Everything goes haywire.

Don't be the last man standing. Get the women you want. It doesn't matter what you look like, or how rich you are. Meeting women is all about understanding her, how she thinks and getting instant likeability. These principles have been specially designed to give you the confidence to walk up to an attractive woman and start a conversation. The great thing is that you'll come across in a way that's right for you and right for her. This formula has been tested over the years with hundreds of subjects. It works.

There's nothing worse than a rut - and you're stuck in one. Learn to change things for good at home and at work. This audiobook includes tracks on how to deal with the dreaded Monday morning, coping with the rush hour commute, using your brain to cool yourself down when you're too hot, making the most of your relationship, getting out of the wrong relationship, and dealing with the kids when they're driving you mad.

A great collection of stories from the author of Fight Club. In 'Zombies', the best and brightest of a high school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. While in 'Tunnel of Love', a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing 'relief' to dying clients. And in 'Excursion', Fight Club fans will be thrilled to find a side of Tyler Durden never seen before.

The year is 2016. Not our 2016. Theirs. Earth is dying, the result of a worldwide nuclear holocaust caused by America’s dictatorial President-for-Life Lewis Henderson, a man who will use any means necessary to maintain power and survive. Enter: The Splitter. A machine capable of splitting off an exact replica of Henderson’s world. A world where the cataclysmic events causing its destruction have yet to occur. That world is ours.

As METAtropolis: Green Space moves into the 22nd Century, human social evolution is heading in new directions after the Green Crash and the subsequent Green Renaissance. Nearly everyone who cares to participate in the wired world has become part of the "Internet of things", a virtual environment mapped across all aspects of the natural experience. At the same time, the serious back-to-the-land types have embraced a full-on paleo lifestyle, including genetically engineering themselves and their offspring.

If your job is getting you down or your boss is a pain in the ****, this audio book is for you. The biggest chunk of your life (when you're awake) is spent at work. If your work life is wrong then your whole life is wrong. You've got two options: learn to enjoy the job you're in now or leave and get a new one. Whatever you do, don't put up with second best. Once you've downloaded this audio book, you won't even remember what second best was.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Cruelty by Roald Dahl, read by Will Self, Adrian Scarborough, Stephanie Beacham, Andrew Scott, Richard E Grant, Tamsin Greig, Mark Heap, Juliet Stevenson and Jessica Hynes. 'Cruelty has a human heart . . .' Even when we mean to be kind we can sometimes...

Mr. Show fans rejoice! After all these years, Bob and David are finally back together with a collection of hilarious, never-before-seen scripts, sketches, and ideas that may have just been too good for Hollywood. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, creators of HBO's classic sketch comedy show Mr. Show...

Light up the season with this ode to the diverse ways families celebrate Christmas, written and read by Grammy Award-winning co-founder of Pentatonix, Scott Hoying, and his husband, Mark Hoying. Fa La La Family offers an immersive audio experience, fully sound designed to enhance your enjoyment...

It’s a raw, no-filter look into the real lives of everyday leaders—entrepreneurs, professionals, and purpose-driven people—who’ve walked through storms and found something stronger than success: alignment.

This program includes original music from Scott Hoying and Mark Hoying. How Lucky Am I? offers an immersive audio experience, fully sound designed to enhance your enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of dragonfly wings flapping and the hum of the pond. Sit back and and savor this incredible...

After a devastating military error with tragic results for humanity… a special squad is formed to reverse that error and restore the survival of humankind.

While the youth uprising sweeps across Europe, a debate about Franz Kafka appears in student magazines, arguing that publishing the texts Kafka left behind against his will is unfaithful to his legacy. When Kafka's best friend, Brod, is injured in an attempted assassination, assailant Ferdy Kaplan is captured and questioned by Commissioner Muller at the West Berlin police station.