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The most famous of the three canticles that compose The Divine Comedy, "Inferno" describes Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life, with Virgil as a guide. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonizing torture, Dante encounters doomed souls that include the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicidal Cleopatra, and his own political enemies, damned for their deceit.

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny.

When her father remarries, the honest, innocent Molly Gibson suddenly finds herself with a new stepsister, Cynthia, who is beautiful, worldly and impetuous. This would be more than enough to deal with, but the new wife is the deeply snobbish (and darkly secretive) Hyacinth. Thwarted love, scheming ambition and small-town gossip underlie the warmth, irony and brilliant social observation which link the relationships and the inevitable conflicts as profound change comes to rural England.

This collection of John Milton's finest poetry offers an ideal overview of his work. It is read by several of Britain's foremost classical actors, including Anton Lesser, Samantha Bond and Derek Jacobi. Milton's uncompromising views set him firmly on the side of Cromwell, putting his life in danger when the Stuart monarchy was restored.

This anthology of Kipling's most famous poems - including "If", "Mandalay", "Gunga Din" - is taken from Naxos AudioBooks' Great Poets series. Though sometimes still regarded as a product of the colonial era, Kipling touches a very popular nerve in Britain's literary tradition and is regarded more generously now as a master of popular verse. It is often forgotten that he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907.

Una splendida raccolta poetica dedicata al mondo delle farfalle, alla loro bellezza, alla magia dei loro colori e all’armonia del loro volo. Una vivida, delicatissima celebrazione della meraviglia della natura. A wonderful collection of poems dedicated to the world of butterflies, their beauty, the magic of their colors and harmony of their flight. A vivid, delicate celebration of the wonder of nature.

In der berühmten Versdichtung Sonette an Orpheus zeichnet Rainer Maria Rilke die Lebensgeschichte des mythischen Sängers Orpheus nach. Eindringlich, poetisch, leidenschaftlich: Die Gedichte haben bis heute nichts von ihrem großen Reiz und ihrer intensiven Wirkung verloren.

A Christmas Carol is a novella by the great Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.

This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag. Jack and Algernon are best friends, both wooing ladies who think their names are Ernest, "that name which inspires absolute confidence". Wilde's effervescent wit, scathing social satire, and high farce make this one of the most cherished plays in the English language.

It is Christmas Eve, and the air outside is as cold as Scrooge’s heart. Come nightfall, Scrooge receives three visitors: the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Each spirit takes him on a hair-raising journey through time, yielding glimpses of Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit—and even Scrooge’s painfully hopeful younger self. Will Scrooge’s heart be opened? Can he escape his cursed fate?

When Jack sees Betty Dean—actress, mother, trainwreck—playing the part of a crazed nun on stage in an indie production of The Devils, he is struck dumb by her resemblance to Martha. Desperate to find a way to complete his masterpiece, he hires her to go and stay in his house in France and resuscitate Martha in the role of 'loving spouse'. But as Betty spends her days roaming the large sunlit rooms of Jack's mansion and her evenings playing the part of Martha over scripted video calls with Jack, she finds her method acting taking her to increasingly dark places.

In her first-ever solo anthology, New York Times best-selling author Rebecca Cantrell demonstrates her award-winning skill with four wonderful stories - including the prequel to her Hannah Vogel series where Ernst Vogel explores the shadowy world of Weimar-era Berlin as he investigates the murder of a young cigarette boy at his cabaret. The collection also includes a journey through the wreckage of postwar Berlin in a search for hope, a fated meeting on a train to a concentration camp, and a supernatural warrior protecting a shtetl in wartime Czechoslovakia.

Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie's writing life ran from 1920 to the 1970s, and she didn't just write puzzles, she wrote plays, supernatural stories, thrillers, satires, and domestic noir. She...

1939. Alla fine della Guerra civile spagnola, il giovane medico Víctor Dalmau e un’amica di famiglia, la pianista Roser Bruguera, sono costretti, come altre migliaia di spagnoli, a scappare da Barcellona. Attraversati i Pirenei, a Bordeaux, fingendosi sposati, riescono a imbarcarsi a bordo del Winnipeg, il piroscafo preso a noleggio da Pablo Neruda per portare più di duemila profughi spagnoli in Cile – il “lungo petalo di mare e neve”, nelle parole dello stesso poeta –, in cerca di quella pace che non è stata concessa loro in patria.

Sous le beau soleil de juin 1940, les Stukas allemands mitraillent les colonnes de civils en fuite. Pris au piège dans leur limousine hors d'usage, quatre amis, modèles de la jeunesse dorée parisienne, trouvent refuge dans une ferme. Une imprévisible et cocasse partie de campagne commence alors : pour ces oisifs, ces mondains, la rencontre brutale avec des paysans renverse toutes leurs certitudes. L'héritière et le diplomate, le gigolo et la bourgeoise délaissée découvrent la rudesse et l'inconfort d'un milieu insoupçonné.

This translation of The Iliad equals Fitzgerald's earlier Odyssey in power and imagination. It recreates the original action as conceived by Homer, using fresh and flexible blank verse that is both lyrical and dramatic. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF containing Notes on the...

​Plus de deux millions de lecteurs conquis par la saga Les Déracinés. Découvrez la jeunesse de son inoubliable héroïne, Almah. Vienne, 1911. Almah Kahn naît au sein d'une famille de la grande bourgeoisie juive. Son père, chirurgien réputé et grand amateur d'art, est aussi un mécène qui côtoie les plus grands artistes de l'époque. Sa mère, pianiste de talent, soigne son spleen auprès du docteur Freud dont elle est l'une des premières patientes. Au cœur de ce bouillonnement culturel, Almah chemine vers l'âge adulte.

Eine unscheinbare junge Frau trifft auf den attraktiven Witwer Maxim de Winter. Der ist ein bekanntes Gesicht der britischen Upper Class, noch in Trauer um seine glamouröse erste Frau Rebecca. Die beiden heiraten und das frischgetraute Paar zieht auf Maxims herrschaftliches Anwesen Manderley. Und was der glückliche Beginn einer jungen Ehe sein könnte, entpuppt sich als albtraumhafte Beziehung zu dritt: Maxim, die zunehmend verzweifelte "zweite Mrs. de Winter" und die übermächtige tote Vorgängerin.

À la fin du XIXe siècle, l'Irlande vit toujours au rythme de ses légendes : forêts enchantées et mystérieuses ensorceleuses. Nostalgique de sa terre, Sir John quitte Londres pour s'installer sur l'île d'Albans, à l'endroit même où il est né. Griselda, la troisième de ses cinq filles, rêve d'ailleurs. Rebelle dans l'âme, la jeune femme à la chevelure d'or se languit dans la demeure de ses ancêtres, vaste prison gardée par l'océan. Du haut de ses murailles, elle attend qu'on vienne la délivrer...

Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of our national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last two hundred...