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Ayckbourn’s celebrated triology The Norman Conquests—three hilarious and poignant plays depicting the same six characters in one house over one weekend, namely Norman and his romantic follies.

Vanity Fair, with its rich cast of characters, takes place on the snakes-and-ladders board of life. Amelia Sedley, daughter of a wealthy merchant, has a loving mother to supervise her courtship. Becky Sharp, an orphan, has to use her wit, charm, and resourcefulness to escape from her destiny as a governess. This she does ruthlessly, musing: "I think I could become a good woman, if I had 5000 pounds a year."

Queste 100 citazioni mirano a fornire l'accesso a un'opera o a una vita eccezionale, attraverso una selezione dei pensieri più eclatanti, in un formato accessibile a tutti. Una citazione è più di un estratto di un'affermazione, può essere un colpo di mente, una sintesi di un pensiero complesso, una massima, un'apertura a una riflessione più profonda.

Molière wrote some of the most durable and penetrating comedies of all time. The Imaginary Cuckold and The School for Husbands are two of his grand farces of marriage and misunderstanding, one set in Paris and the other in the provinces. In The School for Husbands, a tyrannical husband-to-be seeks to isolate his ward, while unwittingly carrying her messages of devotion to her lover. In The Imaginary Cuckold, an enraged husband imagines his wife is unfaithful, but is reluctant to defend his honor.

The follow up to best-selling audio Three Men in a Boat, Three Men on the Bummel features delightful, gentle, comic writing. First published in 1900, the story revives the three companions from Three Men in a Boat, this time taking them on a bicycle tour through the German Black Forest. Written during the Victorian era bicycle-craze, it is a light-hearted commentary on German culture at the time, told through the eyes of the hapless British tourist.

Scotland's beloved storyteller, George MacDonald, 19th-century Scottish novelist and poet, was reintroduced to 20th century Christians by C. S. Lewis, whose reading of MacDonald's Phantastes triggered his own spiritual awakening and conversion. Other renowned writers have voiced similar acknowledgements. G. K. Chesterton said of MacDonald, "If we test the matter of originality of attitude, George MacDonald was one of the three or four greatest men of the 19th century."

Rachel et Vincent s'aiment depuis l'adolescence. Une passion indéfectible. L'avenir semble tout tracé jusqu'au jour où, l'avant-veille de leur mariage, Vincent disparaît. On retrouve sa moto accidentée sur le bord de la route, mais pas de corps. Six ans plus tard, Rachel s'est reconstruite. Mais son monde s'écroule à nouveau quand, au détour d'une rue parisienne, elle l'aperçoit. Vincent. C'est lui, elle en est sûre.

Klassiker der Weltliteratur in dreißig Minuten zusammengefasst, mit den wichtigsten Zitaten – Szene für Szene, Akt für Akt! Mit Inhaltsangabe, Informationen zu Autor, allen Charakteren, literarischer Epoche, geschichtlichem Hintergrund: Diese neue Serie wendet sich an Lernende, Studierende – und solche, die ihre Kenntnisse der klassischen Literatur auffrischen wollen! Diese Ausgabe widmet sich Friedrich Schillers Drama aus der Epoche der Klassik, "Wilhelm Tell". 30 Minuten: Schneller hören – mehr wissen.

As they recount the events surrounding the disappearance of their toddler—one with a tendency to bite—two parents cope with grief in vastly different ways. While the father wrestles with feelings of guilt, the mother is convinced she’s spotted the boy in frightening TV news reports...though let’s just say he looks nothing like the precocious little boy they remember from a decade ago.

Keats commenced writing his epic poem, Hyperion, in 1818 and ceased working on it in the spring of 1819. He said that he gave the project up for having "too many Miltonic inversions." The unfinished poem, which ceases in the middle of the third canto, was published in 1820. The narrative is based on the Titanomachia, or War of the Titans, and describes the aftermath of their fall to the Olympian Gods.

Попрыгунья — одно из творений А. П. Чехова (1860–1904), в основе которого лежит реальная история. Главные герои — нравственная и "талантливая во всем". Ольга Ивановна и ее самоотверженный муж Осип Иванович Дымов сталкиваются с непреодолимыми жизненными препятствиями. Безнравственность и легкомыслие одерживают победу над настоящими чувствами, талантом и самоотверженностью. Чехов мастерски изобразил сложный и противоречивый мир человеческих отношений.

Read by the author, Kae Tempest. Including an audio-exclusive Q&A, in which Kae explores ideas of poetry, music and form. I want to sing you early songs. Go deeper. I want to take you back where you began, Find the scraps of you you hid in secret And bring them back to life beneath my tongue...

Brilliantly manipulative and entirely amoral, the hero-villain Richard is one of Shakespeare's greatest roles. The Yorkists have emerged victorious from the civil wars and Edward IV wears the English crown. But Edward's misshapen brother Richard harbors kingly ambitions and will stop at nothing to achieve the throne. In a fatal battle on Bosworth Field, Richard meets the ghosts of all whom he has murdered and the Earl of Richmond, the future King Henry VII.

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 Sept 1888 – 4 Jan 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work and marry there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, subsequently renouncing his American citizenship.

Il nuovo romanzo di Jonathan Coe: un quadro molto comico, ma ahinoi anche molto serio, della vita pubblica e privata in Gran Bretagna, dal 2010 al 2018. Del pubblico, copre le elezioni del primo governo di coalizione di tutta la storia britannica, le rivolte violente del 2011, i Giochi olimpici del 2012 e, naturalmente, il tellurico referendum per la Brexit del 2016. Del privato, mostra come questi eventi impattino sulle vite dei Trotter, una tipica famiglia delle Midlands inglesi.

In a quiet corner of Cornwall where the cliffs meet the churning Atlantic Elena seeks refuge from a life that has left her feeling like a ghost. Her discovery of an ancient mirror in a forgotten cottage changes everything as it reflects a world where her lost dreams are still within reach. In the silvered glass she encounters Julian a man who understands the weight of secrets and the danger of looking back. Together they embark on a journey through the layers of time and memory discovering that the most profound connection is the one that allows you to see yourself clearly.

Songs that blow the mind.

This collection of 59 short poems consists of verses, some of them incomplete, which remained unpublished at the time of Shelley’s death. Some of them have become the best known of Shelley’s shorter works. The poems were collated and edited by Mary Shelley, who also wrote an introduction to...

Роза—упрямая, как горные цветы, пробивающиеся сквозь камень к солнцу,—сбегает из родительского дома с возлюбленным, вместе с ним открывает харчевню, а после гибели мужа становится главой семьи. Ее дочь Сельма—нежная, словно вышивка, которую она не выпускает из рук,—выходит замуж вопреки материнскому совету. Когда избранник предает ее, растратив приданое, она сохраняет семью ради дочерей. Патриция, Лавиния и Маринелла наследуют не только черты характера матери и бабушки, но и семейные травмы. Им предстоит вспомнить уроки Сельмы и Розы, чтобы начать жить, следуя собственным мечтам.