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Orgullo y prejuicio es una novela clásica que gira en torno a la complicada relación entre Elizabeth Bennet y el apuesto pero arrogante señor Darcy en la Inglaterra del siglo XIX. Elizabeth, una mujer inteligente y de espíritu independiente, choca con Darcy debido a sus prejuicios mutuos. A medida que la historia se desarrolla, los personajes descubren sus propios errores y luchan contra los obstáculos sociales y personales para encontrar el amor verdadero.

Amerika, 1843: Nach dem mysteriösen Tod seiner ersten Frau heiratet Julian erneut und nimmt einen schwarzen Kater ins Haus. Seltsame Erscheinungen und irritierende Geschehnisse dominieren in der Folgezeit das Leben des neuen Paars. Der Hausherr beginnt sich die Frage zu stellen, was die Ursache ist: Sind dunkle Kräfte am Werk, ist es der Kater, oder entspringt das Grauen nicht viel eher den Schattenseiten seiner eigenen Persönlichkeit?

Beim Lunch mit Holmes erfährt der Anwalt Paul Pickett vom Tod einer jungen Frau. Paul kennt die Ermordete. Es handelt sich um seine Geliebte. Aber das behält er für sich. Schließlich will er nicht unter Mordverdacht geraten...

Eine ältere Dame berichtet von einem außergewöhnlichen Erlebnis aus ihrer Vergangenheit: Innerhalb eines einzigen Tages gerät sie in einen Strudel aus Mitleid, Faszination und Leidenschaft, als sie einem fremden Mann begegnet. Was als spontane Geste beginnt, entwickelt sich zu einem intensiven inneren Konflikt zwischen Vernunft und Gefühl. Zweig entfaltet mit großer Sensibilität ein psychologisches Drama über Moral, Sehnsucht und die Macht eines Augenblicks.

This short story begins on a yacht anchored off the Florida coast where a young woman, Ardita, and her Uncle are engaged in a heated discussion about her dating decisions. Ardita, independent and stubborn, is set on marrying a young man who her uncle believes does not have the highest character...

This short story is about the stressful relationship between a son and his father. The family lives in a small house in the Russian countryside. Poverty has played a toll on how the father reacts to his childs need for money to attend college. An emotional conversation ensues...

William Blake is known for some very mystical hard-to-understand poetry, but his "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" is very different from his other work. Innocence was printed five years before Experience, but the books complement each other: the first consisting of poems telling of...

The Book of wisdom is one of the Old Testament books of the Bible and is classified with a number of other books that have the main purpose of instruction . The author, although many times wrongly attributed to Solomon, was an Alexandrian Jew who was attempting to strengthen the religious...

Phineas Taylor Barnum is best remembered for his entertaining acts and for founding the circus that eventually became Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Through his entire life, fraught with many failed ventures, Barnum remained a resourceful entrepreneur with a deep conceptual...

Le second Empire est à son apogée. Paris est, pour les favorisés, une éternelle fête. Nana, courtisane sans la moindre morale, a compris que son corps et sa personne sont les atouts essentiels de sa réussite. Tout Paris a les yeux rivés sur elle. Dans une totale insouciance, elle passe d'amants en amants les ruinant par ses caprices. Plus d'un y laisseront leur fortune et leur vie. Mais l'Empire et Nana vont être engloutis dans un même destin par la débâcle de 1870. Ainsi s'achèvera en un naufrage commun la pourriture d'une courtisane et d'une société révolue.

A timeless Gothic masterpiece of creation, ambition, isolation, and consequence — presented in a pure, unabridged narration of Mary Shelley's original 1818 text. Victor Frankenstein pursues the secrets of life and succeeds in creating a living being, only to recoil from what he has made...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Two American travellers drive across Italy in the spring of 1927. They pick up a sullen young Fascist who takes the ride as his due. They eat a bad meal in Spezia, where the waitresses have other business in mind. They are fined at a roadside checkpoint...

It has often been said that there are two basic stories that define the ethos of men and women. For men it is the myth of Superman, the ultra powerful male figure who saves the world against evil. For women it's the Cinderella, the story of a downtrodden young maiden who eventually overcomes the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Deep in the Cactus Mountains of the American West, the Norton Mine cuts further into the earth than any shaft has a right to go. When blasting opens an abyss at the bottom of the mine, the miners find a hole so deep that no rope and no lantern can reach...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Some say that things and places have souls. The Street was born with the colony itself: a quiet path of oaks and wells, walked by settlers, by soldiers marching to war, by generations of children who grew old in its houses. But centuries pass. The old...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Professor Parkins does not believe in ghosts. A sensible Cambridge academic, he has come to the quiet seaside town of Burnstow for a peaceful golfing holiday. While exploring the ruins of an old Templar site, he finds a small bronze whistle with a...

In »Jérôme« entfaltet der Dark Lord der Pornografie Marquis de Sade das düstere Porträt eines Mannes, der sich ganz den Trieben und der Macht über andere hingibt. Jérôme ist ein Verführer, ein Manipulator, ein Sadist, der mit der Liebe seiner Opfer spielt. Seine Reise führt durch Bordelle, Folterkammern und die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele.

Il maggiore Kovalev si risveglia una mattina senza il proprio naso. Peggio ancora: il naso sembra aver assunto una vita autonoma, vagando per la città in uniforme da funzionario e comportandosi come se fosse un rispettabile membro della società. Tra smarrimento, vanità ferita e tentativi disperati di ristabilire l'ordine, la vicenda si trasforma in una satira tagliente dell'apparenza sociale, della burocrazia e dell'identità personale.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Sheehan's Pool Room is the lowest dive in Chicago's stockyard district. Illegal whiskey flows there, and lost souls come to forget. Its most pitiful regular is Old Bugs, a filthy, trembling wreck of a man who sweeps the floors and begs for drinks. Yet...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. On a stormy night in San Francisco, the narrator visits Mohun Dampier, an old friend he has not seen in years. He finds him living alone in a strange tower on a hill, pale, aged beyond his years and waiting for something. Then a soft knocking comes from...