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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 ...

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

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. Yet it is both a popular text to be studied at school and an enigma. The scene is a country road. There is a solitary tree. It is evening. Two tramp-like figures, Vladimir and Estragon, exchange words. Pull off boots. Munch a root vegetable. Two other curious characters enter. And a boy. Time passes. It is all strange yet familiar.

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!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc.

A grumpy duke. A sharp-tongued widow. One reckless wager that changes everything. A Pride and Prejudice Variation She swore never to belong to another man. He never wanted to be a legend. Society has other plans. Elizabeth Bennet Collins has survived a loveless marriage, buried a husband she never wanted, and emerged into London society with one firm resolution: she will never again be any man's possession. Armed with a sharp wit and sharper instincts, she has already refused three proposals this Season—and become the most whispered-about widow of the Ton. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Duke of ...

This collection of stories continues the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-loved fictional detective. In these intriguing tales, Holmes and Watson solve cases that range from the suspicious to the downright strange, and encounter mysteries as diverse as vanishing staff, secret plans and eccentric lodgers.

Doctor Thorne is the third audiobook in Anthony Trollope's series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. Long regarded as one of Trollope's greatest works, it is a complex story of love, greed and illegitimacy. Set in fictional Barsetshire, it concerns the romantic challenges facing Doctor Thorne's penniless niece, Mary, and Frank Gresham, the only son of the impoverished squire of Greshambury. Mary falls in love with Frank but he is constrained by the need to marry well to restore the family fortunes.

Seven hundred years old. Still the most ambitious journey in literature. In 1308, a Florentine poet in exile began writing about a man who walked through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven in the course of three days. He was writing about himself. He was writing about Florence, about the papacy, about the men who had wronged him, about the woman he had loved at nine years old and never forgotten. He was also writing about the structure of existence, the nature of justice, and what it means to have lived. The Divine Comedy is all of these things simultaneously — and it has never stopped being ...

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.

Four classic comedies from one of the wittiest playwrights in Western literature: Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, all featuring star-studded casts with the likes of Jacqueline Bisset, Miriam Margolyes, James Marsters, Alfred Molina, Roger Rees, Yeardley Smith, Eric Stoltz, and many more. This audio also includes a chilling dramatization of Wilde's sole novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Over the course of a steamy and tense afternoon, 12 jurors deliberate the fate of a 19-year-old boy alleged to have murdered his own father. A seemingly open and shut case turns complicated, igniting passions and hidden prejudices.

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 real killer’s plot. As he unravels the mystery of the murdered aristocrat, it becomes clear that even her own family are happy to see the back of her. With the bride’s ex-fiancé, a suspicious butler, and a plethora of plotting relatives among the suspects, how will the famous detective find the truth when just about everyone wanted the duplicitous woman dead?

La mayor historia de venganza jamás escrita — en una nueva traducción íntegra de los 117 capítulos originales Traducida por Erota Press bajo la supervisión editorial de Henry Bugalho — filósofo, escritor y Fellow de la Royal Society of Arts. Edmond Dantès lo tiene todo: juventud, amor, una carrera prometedora. En un solo día, la envidia y la conspiración lo destruyen. Falsamente acusado de traición, es arrojado a las mazmorras del Château d'If, donde pasará catorce años sumido en la oscuridad y la desesperación. Pero un encuentro fortuito con un prisionero moribundo le ...

Goethe’s two-part dramatic work, Faust, based on a traditional theme, and finally completed in 1831, is an exploration of that restless intellectual and emotional urge which found its fullest expression in the European Romantic movement, to which Goethe was an early and major contributor. Part I of the work outlines a pact Faust makes with the devil, Mephistopheles, and encompasses the tragedy of Gretchen, whom Faust seduces.

Beneath Pemberley Skies A Pride and Prejudice Variation He is determined to court her properly. She is determined never to trust him again. When Elizabeth Bennet visits Pemberley with her aunt and uncle, she is assured its master is away. He is not. And before she can flee the mortification of being discovered in his home, a sudden illness changes everything. The Gardiners must return to London. Elizabeth must remain—stranded in his house, dependent on his care, and stripped of every defense she once relied upon. Darcy is no longer the man who wounded her with his proposal. He is ...

From the author of The Christmas Hirelings comes this Audible Exclusive production of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s classic sensation novel Lady Audley’s Secret. English actress Olivia Poulet gives an assured and captivating narration; a cornerstone of the genre and a scandal at the time of its publication, Lady Audley’s Secret is an entertaining and shocking tale of high drama and shifting perceptions.

Hidden Threads in Sherlock Holmes is a fresh approach to the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Arthur Conan Doyle hid scores of topics in the Sherlock Holmes adventures on subjects as diverse as arsenic and gorse wine, laughing gas and depression. Wanting to offer something for everyone, he added a layer of sports, everything from billiards to cricket. Each mystery is a puzzle to be unraveled. Discover the richness concealed in the stories. "Hidden Threads in Sherlock Holmes, (Vol. 1) is an amazing work." -- Jayantika Ganguly, BSI, Proceedings of the Pondicherry Lodge, Volume 10, Issue 2, December...

He stole my life. So I’ma steal his heart. Seventeen years ago, I died in a pool of my father’s blood. My identity erased in order to survive. Now I’m a woman reborn for one purpose: revenge. My target: Lorenzo Bianchi. Mafia Don. Ruthless. Untouchable. Or so he thought. The man who built his empire on the formula stolen from my father. So I use the one art that’s taken years to master…seduction. A glance during a tango. A brush of skin during a lesson. A whisper meant only for him. Now he’s watching me like I’m the only thing keeping him alive. But he switched the game. He ...

Há palavras que não se dizem. Sentem-se. "Antes Que o Tempo Nos Esqueça" é uma viagem poética pelas memórias, pelos silêncios e pelos sentimentos que ficam quando tudo o resto passa. Narrado pelo próprio autor, este audiobook transforma cada poema numa experiência íntima, onde a voz dá vida ao que muitas vezes não conseguimos explicar. Não é apenas para ouvir. É para parar. Respirar. E sentir.Porque há coisas que só existem… antes que o tempo nos esqueça.

Livre de dévotions esthétiques, Autels privilégiés voit Robert de Montesquiou ériger ses autels à ceux qu’il aime: un tendre procès en Cour d’art et d’amour plaidant la canonisation de Desbordes‑Valmore; un culte scruté autour du «demi‑dieu» Leconte de Lisle, sur les pelouses du Luxembourg; le pauvre Lelian, Paul Verlaine, fragile et fraternel; l’ensoleillé Mistral, «notre Provençal Horus». Entre hommages, plaidoiries et fleurs jetées — des Pensives Roses sur la route — se dessine une procession de saints laïcs où ferveur, ironie et grâce composent, à voix basse, de véritables romans du ciel.