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Nine essential works by C. S. Lewis in one deluxe audio edition: Mere Christianity The Screwtape Letters The Great Divorce Miracles The Problem of Pain A Grief Observed The Abolition of Man The Weight of Glory George MacDonald...

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language....

Albert Camus' The Stranger is one of the most widely read novels in the world, with millions of copies sold. It stands as perhaps the greatest existentialist tale ever conceived, and is certainly one of the most important and influential books ever produced. Now, for the first time, this revered...

A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and...

Renowned poet and critic Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation into English verse of Dante’s The Divine Comedy....

A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world.

In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town....

The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....

Ever since Colin Firth's Mr Darcy emerged from the lake in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, the novels of Jane Austen have become more popular than ever, delighting millions of fans all over the world....

For the very first time, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm makes available in English all 156 stories from the 1812 and 1815 editions....

FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY The World’s Leading Center for Shakespeare Studies The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, brings Romeo and Juliet to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition. In Romeo...

Nurse Gemma Tate is heartbroken when she hears that one of her young charges at the Foundling Hospital has been killed. She knows that police inspector Sebastian Bell will work tirelessly to uncover the truth, but he’ll need her help navigating the cloistered world of the orphanage.

Sir Ian McKellen, fresh from his performance as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, is Prospero, and heads a strong cast in Shakespeare’s last great play....

Finnegans Wake is the greatest challenge in 20th-century literature. In the rich nighttime and the language of dreams, here are history, anecdote, myth, folk tale and, above all, a wondrous sense of humor....

This magnificent novel - which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature - is now available to contemporary American audiences. Although it is set in the early 20th century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And...

First ever audio edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war. The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son was originally published in the 1953 edition of Essays and Studies. In December...

When I discovered that my online gaming friend was Leo Evans, a student from my university, I had no idea how much my life would change. On paper, we’re complete opposites. He’s a shy computing student and I’m an outgoing footballer. Yet there’s an undeniable connection between us.

There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece....

FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY The World’s Leading Center for Shakespeare Studies The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, brings Macbeth to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition. Macbeth, one of...

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (père) completed in 1844...

At a luxurious country wedding, the mother of the bride is found murdered and the groom caught red-handed, but who is really to blame? When the Duchess of Hinwick is found dead on her daughter’s wedding day, renowned sleuth Lord Edgington must prove his grandson's innocence by discovering the...

Ross Poldark is a heartwarming, gripping, and utterly entertaining saga that brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters and one of the greatest love stories of our age. Ross Poldark returns to Cornwall from war, looking forward to a joyful homecoming with his family and his beloved...

In this funny Regency romance series, the Shackleford sisters descend on a Regency society that doesn't know what's hit it… In the eyes of her family, Chastity Shackleford was impulsive, flighty, overly emotional and inclined to sentimental overtures. All in all, a disaster waiting to happen...

How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least 30 years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays....

In Shakespeare's most controversial play, the opposing values of justice and mercy must be resolved....

Jane Austen's last novel — and her most radical. The one in which the heroine already knows everything the other heroines spend the book learning. Jane Austen completed Persuasion in 1816, less than a year before her death. It was published posthumously in 1818, alongside Northanger Abbey, and has been overshadowed by the louder novels ever since. It is quieter than Pride and Prejudice, less comic than Emma, less dramatic than Sense and Sensibility. It is also, by many measures, the most perfectly made thing Austen wrote. Anne Elliot is twenty-seven years old when the novel begins — old...

This is not the translation you already know. This is the one Dumas deserved. In 1844, Alexandre Dumas serialized The Three Musketeers in a Paris newspaper at a pace that left readers sleepless and booksellers helpless. He was writing, he said, not about what happened — but about what could have happened. That distinction explains everything. His seventeenth century is not the historian's; it is the novelist's: a century of rapiers and intrigue and absolute loyalty among men who have no reason to trust anyone, and trust each other completely. The Three Musketeers — D'Artagnan rides out ...

What if Mrs. Bennet were the sharpest mind in Hertfordshire—and Darcy never saw her coming? At the Meryton Assembly, Darcy insults Elizabeth Bennet. Not once, but twice. First, as a common sharp-tongued harpy. Then, more cuttingly, as an intelligence suitable for a companion to his sister. While Elizabeth is still smarting, her mother goes to work. A contract appears within two days, binding Darcy to his hasty words heard by the entire assembly. He suggested her daughter was suitable? Excellent. He can pay for the privilege. Elizabeth goes to Netherfield, seething with resentment but ...

The novel that invented the modern conscience — complete, unabridged, in a new translation that restores Hugo's full voice. Victor Hugo spent seventeen years writing Les Misérables. When it appeared in 1862, readers across Europe and the Americas queued for copies before dawn. It was immediately recognized as something the novel had never been before: not a story about characters, but a judgment on a civilization — a vast, furious, compassionate reckoning with poverty, law, justice, and the question of whether a single human soul can be redeemed by a single act of grace. This is the ...

The greatest revenge story ever written — now in a powerful new abridged translation that cuts straight to the heart of the epic Second Edition — Revised and Corrected Translated by Henry Bugalho — philosopher, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Published by Erato Press. You know the story. A young sailor named Edmond Dantès has everything — youth, love, a future. In a single day, jealousy and conspiracy destroy it all. Falsely accused of treason, he is cast into the dungeon of the Château d'If. Fourteen years of darkness. Fourteen years of despair. And then — an ...

What if the road to Scotland led Elizabeth Bennet away from one impossible marriage… and straight into another? When Elizabeth Bennet flees Longbourn to escape an arranged marriage to Mr. Collins, she boards a northbound coach with three pounds, a stolen ham, and the grief of a woman whose father has betrayed her. On the road, she befriends a desperate young girl running toward a forbidden love—never suspecting the girl is Georgiana Darcy on the way to eloping with George Wickham. They assume names, swap dresses, and exchange stories. But when Darcy’s men intercept the coach, they ...

The most dangerous novel Hermann Hesse ever wrote — and the one he almost didn't survive. This new translation restores its full strangeness. Harry Haller is fifty years old, brilliant, and convinced he is two beings at war inside a single body: a cultivated man of letters and a wild wolf of the steppes, irreconcilable, exhausting each other. One night, instead of ending his life, he follows a stranger into a magic theater where the price of admission is your sanity — and where the self turns out to be not two things, but a thousand. Published in 1927, Steppenwolf is Hesse's most ...

Seamus Heaney Explained: Poetry of Place, Irish Identity, Memory, Language, Violence, Nature, History, and the Search for Meaning in a Changing World Discover the life, work, and enduring legacy of one of the most celebrated poets of the twentieth century. Seamus Heaney Explained offers a deeply engaging exploration of Heaney’s major ideas, tracing how his poetry transforms the everyday world of land, labor, and memory into something profound and universal. From his rural upbringing in Northern Ireland to his global influence as a Nobel Prize winning writer, this book reveals how ...

For thirty years Anne Enright—one of our greatest living novelists (Times)—has been paying attention: casting her distinctive gaze across the world, literature, and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights. These essays, collated from across Enright’s career, take us from Galway to Honduras, from keen-eyed memoir to urgent political writing. Enright writes about the free voices and controlled bodies of women in society: She interprets Sophocles’ Antigone through the lens of the Mother and Baby Homes in Galway, writes on Ireland’s successful 2018 referendum on abortion rights…

Why do two continents bear Amerigo Vespucci's name instead of Columbus's, despite Columbus reaching the New World first? Stefan Zweig solved this historical mystery in his 1942 final work through archival detective work. The answer: A German cartographer named Martin Waldseemüller, working in 1507, read an account claiming Vespucci reached the mainland before Columbus. Based on this likely forged document, Waldseemüller labeled the continents "America." The name spread across Europe in thousands of copies before the error was recognized—by then, too late to correct.

A superb selection of Emlyn Williams’ finest plays Emlyn Williams was one of the brightest stars of Welsh stage and screen. An acclaimed playwright, actor and director, he made over 40 film and TV appearances, re-invented the one-man show with his virtuoso portrayals of Charles Dickens and...

Wales, 1118. In a world of war and ambition, love may prove the most dangerous force of all. King Gruffydd ap Cynan has spent a lifetime winning and defending Gwynedd. But while enemies gather beyond his borders, the gravest threats come from the hearts of those closest to him. Gwenllian’s fierce devotion to her husband, the displaced Prince Griffith ap Rhys, threatens to draw the royal family into ruin. At the same time, Annest’s forbidden love for a married man awakens jealousy, bitterness, and vengeance that may destroy more than one life. As battle closes in, Queen Angharad must ...

A mysterious woman appears nightly at the bedside of a prince and sings to him until he falls sick with love for her. A determined hero tracks his beloved through several incarnations, struggling to win her back. A young warrior seeks a woman who turns into a swan. These are the plots of...

Transport yourself to late 11th-century Wales in 'The Welsh Traitor's Daughter', a captivating tale inspired by the noble lives of Angharad ferch Owain and Gruffydd ap Cynan. Immerse yourself in the tumultuous changes of this era as hostile Norman expansion threatens the Welsh way of life. In this thrilling story, Angharad is torn between two worlds, navigating the Welsh's chaotic yet rich culture while facing the cold brutality of their Norman overlords. As she enters womanhood, Angharad is faced with difficult choices, complicated further by her passionate love for her father's enemy, ...

George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she was judged harshly by family, friends, and strangers. Eliot wanted to draw attention to the feelings and motivations of ordinary people, so that we...

It has been years since Reggie "Red-Eye" Tuttle led a group of rowdy toads to take parts of the UK back piece by piece from the corrupt oligarchy of the English controlled criminal underworld. The Toad Cartels made their mark. The oligarchies were put in their place. But, they were never fully extinguished. In the dark corners of the British Isles, dark, menacing, rowdy, and terribly organized English toads continued to exploit the poor and defenseless and amount small fortunes fit for royalty. And fueled by both fear of the Toad Cartels as well as greed, the English toad mobsters have ...

James Calder has spent fifteen years performing a version of himself so convincing he almost believes it. He's twenty-nine, a Premier League captain, and has never told anyone the truth about himself. Noah Achebe is twenty-seven, British-Nigerian, the best physiotherapist at the club, and out in his personal life and precise in his professional one. He has one firm rule: no involvement with players. His Tuesday-Thursday treatment sessions with the captain are entirely professional. Until they're not. Meanwhile, a Herald journalist has noticed that the Premier League's most private captain ...

Jusqu'à ce jour de 1975, Monta Clare était une petite communauté tranquille des Ozarks. Le jeune Patch McCauley a disparu. Dans la forêt voisine, on a retrouvé son tee-shirt, maculé de sang. Saint, une jeune fille du village au caractère bien affirmé, décide de faire tout ce qui est en son pouvoir pour découvrir ce qui est arrivé à son ami. Trois cent sept jours plus tard, Patch McCauley réapparaît. Il faudra des décennies pour élucider tous les mystères et faire la lumière sur ce qui s'est réellement passé durant ces trois cent sept jours.

La vasta produzione è infatti pervasa dalla personalità schiva eppure dirompente che la contraddistinse: gli affetti, la natura, il pensiero ossessivo della morte e dell'abbandono ne sono protagonisti vivi, che Dickinson racconta con uno sguardo in apparenza semplice e ritirato, in realtà ricco di complessità. Nei suoi versi ritroviamo lo scorrere ciclico ma effimero delle stagioni, i fiori e soprattutto gli animali, in grado di risvegliare in lei la più variegata gamma dei sentimenti, dalla repulsione allo sgomento, dall'ironia all'incanto.

A Cliché in the Library A Buddington Hall Mystery The rain taps politely upon the mullioned windows of Buddington Hall, the gramophone hums with a smoky Charleston, and the guests, those glittering butterflies of the 1920s, have gathered for a perfectly civilised weekend in the Cotswolds. But somewhere between the clink of teacups and the whisper of shuffled cards, death deals its hand. When a distinguished guest collapses after a friendly game of bridge in the library, the verdict is swift: heart failure. A tragic inconvenience. Nothing more. Except to Miss Constance Wexley, amateur ...

Luce compte les jours depuis trois ans ! Son père, Gabin, lui avait fait la promesse de l'emmener en voyage pour ses huit ans. Malgré ses appréhensions, le quadragénaire sait qu'il doit honorer son engagement, et la décision est prise : ils s'envoleront bientôt pour rejoindre la tante de la petite fille en mission vétérinaire au Kenya. Mais le départ a un goût doux-amer : l'absence de Julie, la maman de Luce et la femme de Gabin, leur serre le coeur à tous les deux. Elle a disparu il y a déjà sept ans, sans que jamais sa trace soit retrouvée.

Andre Gide Explained: Moral Freedom, Authenticity, The Immoralist, French Modernism, Personal Truth, and the Courage to Live Beyond Social Conformity Andre Gide was one of the most fearless and influential writers of the twentieth century, yet his ideas remain surprisingly underexplored by many modern readers. In Andre Gide Explained: Moral Freedom, Authenticity, The Immoralist, French Modernism, Personal Truth, and the Courage to Live Beyond Social Conformity, this clear and engaging guide introduces the life, works, and revolutionary thinking of the Nobel Prize winning French author who ...

The Three Musketeers are remembered for their courage, loyalty, and legendary adventures. But behind the romance of duels and royal intrigue lay a quieter, more disciplined world—one shaped by routine, silence, and service. This audiobook steps away from the noise of heroism and into the everyday reality of 17th-century France.

Die Novelle von Thomas Mann entstand 1906, wurde aber erst 1921 veröffentlicht und persifliert Richard Wagners Musikdrama Die Walküre, indem sie die snobistische Selbstverliebtheit und inzestuöse Beziehung des reichen, jüdischen Zwillingspaars Siegmund und Sieglind beschreibt. Der Titel spielt auf eine Stelle in der Walküre an, in der Siegmund seine Zwillingsschwester Sieglinde mit den Worten „Braut und Schwester bist du dem Bruder / so blühe denn, Wälsungenblut" zum Inzest (und Ehebruch) auffordert.

Quiet History Behind The Count of Monte Cristo is not a retelling of the famous story. It is a quiet journey into what happens between events—into waiting, silence, justice delayed, and time endured. This book explores the unseen inner world behind one of literature’s most powerful narratives. It focuses on patience instead of revenge, stillness instead of action, and reflection instead of spectacle.