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A young woman named Lulu, who has a history of brushes with the law and once lived on the streets of the 18th arrondissement, is found murdered in Paris. Maigret is called to the scene and soon learns that her boyfriend, a musician, has gone into hiding upon reading the news of her death. And when the inspector learns that the young victim was pregnant, he begins to suspect the case might be more sinister than he imagined.

Swann's Way is Marcel Proust's literary masterpiece and the first part of the multivolume audiobook Remembrance of Things Past. In the opening volume, the narrator travels back in time to recall his childhood and to introduce the listener to Charles Swann, a wealthy friend of the family and celebrity in the Parisian social scene. He again travels back, this time to the youth of Charles Swann in the French town of Combray, to tell the story of the love affair that took place before his own birth.

Teenage delinquent Angel Crawford lives with her redneck father in the swamps of southern Louisiana. She's a high school dropout, addicted to drugs and alcohol, and has a police record a mile long. But when she's made into a zombie after a car crash, her addictions disappear, except for her all-consuming need to stay "alive".

Set in the Dorset landscape familiar to Hardy novels, The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-do-do Grace Melbury is challenged by the arrival of a dashing and dissolute doctor, Edred Fitzpiers. When the mysterious Mrs Charmond further complicates the romantic entanglements, marital choice and class mobility become inextricably linked.

Fantasy, love and an exuberant celebration of English life and literature, Orlando is a uniquely entertaining story. Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to the family of her friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando's central character, a fictional embodiment of Sackville-West, changes sex from a man to a woman and lives throughout the centuries, whilst meeting historical figures of English literature.

Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.

Scandal, treachery and crime are rife in Old London Town. A king blackmailed by his mistress, dark dealings in opium dens, stolen jewels, a missing bride - these are cases so fiendishly complex that only Sherlock Holmes would dare to investigate.

Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach Falls. In that time the criminals of London have been able to sleep safe in their beds. But the capital has never been in greater need of its protector.

Maisie is an innocent six year-old, torn between her divorced parents, pathetically isolated yet tragically involved.

Um clássico da literatura brasileira publicado no século XIX. Pertencente a fase indianista de José de Alencar, Iracema narra o romance proibido entre a nativa da tribo dos tabajaras e o português, Martim. O romance histórico-indianista é um dos maiores exemplos de prosa poética do cânon nacional e uma grande narrativa de fundação, trazendo mais do que apenas uma história de amor, mas também a busca pela identidade brasileira por meio de elementos mitológicos e épicos.

匂宮は宇治へ行き、薫と偽って浮舟と契りを交わす。浮舟は匂宮の情熱に惹かれるが、二人の関係が薫に知られ、入水を決意する。浮舟の愛と性愛、その結末とは…。「浮舟」から「夢浮橋」まで収録の完結巻。

A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed - according to Nabokov's fiction - by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.

Containing drafts of stories later rewritten for other collections (including Carry On, Jeeves), My Man Jeeves offers a fascinating insight into the genesis of comic literature’s most celebrated double-act. All the stories are set in New York, four of them featuring Jeeves and Wooster themselves; the rest concerning Reggie Pepper, an earlier version of Bertie.

Da Terra à Lua é a primeira história da exploração espacial escrita. Foi publicada em 1865 e apresenta, de maneira surpreendente, uma conjectura científica precisa. Quando os membros do Baltimore Gun Club, veteranos de guerra entediados, decidem embarcar em um projeto para atirar na lua, começa a corrida para arrecadar dinheiro, superar desafios de engenharia e convencer os detratores de que eles não são ”lunáticos”.

Los hijos legítimos de Fiódor Pávlovich Karamázov - un "bufón", un "filisteo", un "déspota", solo en última instancia un padre - se reúnen después de haber sido educados, lejos unos de otros, en distintas partes de Rusia: Dmitri es soldado y - como su padre - puro "ímpetu", bebedor, derrochador, lujurioso; Iván se ha convertido en un escéptico que duda de la ley, de la conciencia y de la fe (el primer existencialista, según Sartre); Aliosha ha abrazado la religión, todo el mundo lo llama "ángel" y vive en un monasterio.

宇治の八の宮亡きあと、妹・中の君は匂宮と結ばれるが、姉・大君は薫の求愛を拒み続け亡くなってしまう。薫は大君によく似た異母兄妹の浮舟を知り、惹かれていく。「総角」から「東屋」までを収録。

This anthology has been in the making for some years in the mind of the editor, Dione Venables, founding member of The Orwell Society. In 2006 she contributed the postscript to her cousin Jacintha Buddicom's memoir about the childhood and early youth of George Orwell. She continues to work for greater clarity and appreciation of the great man's genius and felt that this emotional layer of perception had been largely ignored by academia.

'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.' So says Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, utilitarian school board superintendent. Father to Tom and Louisa, he shapes the minds of all the young children, including his own, with the exception of only one: the circus-born Sissy Jupe.

生きる苦しさと、愛するかなしみ。紫の上の死を迎え、悲しみにくれる光君は出家を決意し、光源氏の物語はしめやかに終焉に向かう。そして新たな物語、薫と匂宮が姫君たちと繰り広げる「宇治十帖」へ！

À la fin de la guerre fédérale des États-Unis, les fanatiques artilleurs du Gun-Club (Club-Canon) de Baltimore sont bien désœuvrés. Un beau jour, le président, Impey Barbicane, leur fait une proposition qui, le premier moment de stupeur passé, est accueillie avec un enthousiasme délirant. Il s'agit de se mettre en communication avec la Lune en lui envoyant un boulet, un énorme projectile qui serait lancé par un gigantesque canon !