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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Exploits of Moominpappa by Tove Jansson, read by Hugh Dennis. If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun! 'I decided to run away. There simply wasn't anything else to do.' Here at last is Moominpappa's promised life story -...

Oscar Wilde's first play confronts the hypocrisy of public "morality" compared with genuine, private kindness. The reasons for its continued popularity are not difficult to identify: the play's witty dialogue contains many of Wilde's most quoted aphorisms, its stylish setting provides opportunities for elegant presentation, and its cast of memorable characters play out a story which is genuinely moving. This new audio production brings together a full cast worthy of Wilde's creative genius.

"Mentono per ironia Campanile e Pratt; mente per interesse Cagliostro (o forse per condanna, prigioniero quale diventa a poco a poco del suo stesso mito), e Manzoni prende le parti, con indignazione, dei poveri che subiscono le soperchierie del linguaggio dei potenti; ma in realtà - poiché di ironia ne pratica anche lui - fa dell'ironia al quadrato, e condanna le parole attraverso la parola narrativa." (Dall'introduzione di Umberto Eco). Quattro scritti dedicati al tema della menzogna e dell'ironia in Cagliostro, Manzoni, Campanile e Hugo Pratt.

This widely studied play is one of the "best sellers" of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the sixth Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press.

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons' perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity. Major poems range from 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' through the post-war desolation of 'The Waste Land' and the spiritual struggle of 'Ash-Wednesday', to the enduring charm of 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'.

Le "coffret" Arthur Rimbaud regroupe l'intégralité de la poésie de l'auteur, ainsi qu'une sélection de sa correspondance avec ses amis et ses proches. Poésies ; Vers nouveaux et chansons ; Une saison en enfer ; Illuminations ; Œuvres diverses ; Correspondances (Extraits).

"Les misérables" est un roman de Victor Hugo paru en 1862. L'action se déroule en France au début du XIXe siècle. On suit la vie de Jean Valjean, du retour du bagne jusqu'à sa mort. Autour de lui gravitent les personnages témoins de la misère de ce siècle, misérables eux-mêmes ou proches de la misère : Fantine, Cosette, Marius, mais aussi les Thénardier ainsi que le représentant de la loi Javert.

Though by profession a doctor (he coined the word anesthesia) Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) was one of the leading 19th century American poets and a member of the famous Saturday Club with Emerson, Longfellow, and Lowell. The 200th anniversary of his birth occurs in 2009. Here are his major poems, including "Old Ironsides" and "The Last Leaf" in a rare audiobook collection read by Peter Marinker.

In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic—with ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor—The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950’s.

One of the most famous of all literary dogs, Flush was the golden cocker spaniel belonging to Elizabeth Barrett. In this charming and heartfelt biography, Viginia Woolf tells his story: his early days as Miss Mitford's puppy running across the fields in wild abandon and fathering another, then the years spent in his invalid mistress' bedroom in Wimpole Street.

En 1939, Patricia, la fille du puisatier Pascal Amoretti, se retrouve enceinte de Jacques Mazel, un jeune aviateur, fils de bonne famille. Or, celui-ci est mobilisé et ses parents refusent de reconnaître l'enfant. Amoretti chasse sa fille de la maison. Peu après, Jacques Mazel est porté disparu, son avion s'étant écrasé en flammes derrière les lignes allemandes. Puis survient l'armistice.

Marcel Proust est un écrivain français, dont l'œuvre principale est la suite romanesque intitulée "À la recherche du temps perdu", publiée de 1913 à 1927. Ces 100 citations visent à donner accès à son œuvre monumentale par une sélection de ses pensées les plus marquantes, dans un format accessible à tous.

Octave Mouret, précurseur inspiré, bouleverse sa corporation comme Haussmann bouleverse la ville. Il parie tout sur les femmes, sur leurs envies et sur leur incapacité à surmonter les tentations.
Une lui résiste : Denise, incarnation de la vertu et de la générosité. Elle devient une obsession pour cet ogre.

The story begins with two men discussing an impending marriage proposal. Algernon Moncrieff’s best friend, Ernest, has planned to propose to Algernon’s cousin but has secretly been living a double life. To some, he is named Jack Worthing, to some he is Ernest. His dual personas have different personalities - Ernest is a libertine, while Jack is a serious man. This deception makes Algernon wonder what may happen if he also adopts the Ernest persona

A highwayman ravages the countryside, robbing the unsuspecting traveler. He promises to come at midnight for Bess, the landlord’s daughter. But when the redcoats come, and lay a trap for the highwayman at the inn, Bess warns her lover in a method and manner never to be forgotten.

En 1871, Arthur Rimbaud débarque à Paris. Il y rencontre Paul Verlaine. Commence alors entre ces deux hommes une histoire qui les lie à tout jamais. Pendant deux longues années, les deux hommes s'aiment en secret et composent des vers magnifiques, des poèmes aujourd'hui encore adulés et connus de tous...
Pourtant l'histoire d'amour entre les deux hommes dégénère et un jour de juillet 1873 à Bruxelles, en proie à l'alcool, tiraillé par ses sentiments, Paul Verlaine tire une balle sur Arthur Rimbaud.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads "Ode to a Nightingale", a personal poem that describes Keats's journey into a state of negative capability. The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems and, instead, explores the themes of nature, transience, and mortality, the latter being particularly relevant to Keats.

In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there.

This classic Shakespearean comedy is presented here in a colorful full-cast dramatization, drawn from the complete text and starring Warren Mitchell, Michael Maloney, and Sarah Woodward.

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is a science-fiction drama that was first presented in Czech in 1921. It introduced the term "robot", which is derived from a Czech word meaning "worker," to international vocabulary. The action opens in a factory that has successfully produced thousands of robots, who are essentially mindless drones. An idealistic humanitarian activist launches a plan to imbue some of the robots with human traits. The robots which have been humanized then assume leadership over the other robots and seek to organize them in a revolution to take over the world.