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One of Tolstoy’s most important shorter works, The Kreutzer Sonata presents a problematic view of the relationship between the sexes and promotes abstinence as the solution. Pozdnyshev jealously observes the intimacy that emerges between his wife and a violin player. Haunted by The Kreutzer Sonata, over which they bonded, it plays round and round in Pozdnyshev’s head driving him to distraction and to an unquenchable rage.

The viscount's house party promises to be one of the season's highlights, and Lord and Lady Kilgorn are delighted to attend. If only the long-estranged couple had realized they were both invited - and assigned to the same bed chamber.... 

Read by Emilia Fox The delightful Miss Marple is ensnared in A Caribbean Mystery when a retired military man sparks her curiosity with a photograph and a strange story of a murderer As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth...

Read by David Suchet The classic Evil Under the Sun, one of the most famous of Agatha Christie’s Poirot investigations, has the fastidious sleuth on the trail of the killer of a sun-bronzed beauty whose death brings some rather shocking secrets into the light. The beautiful bronzed body of...

Read by Hugh Fraser In Agatha Christie’s Dumb Witness, Hercule Poirot investigates the very suspicious death of an elderly spinster who, fearing the very worst, had written to the great detective prior to her demise. Everyone blamed Emily Arundell’s accident on a rubber ball left on the...

Esta original novela entremezcla una serie de narraciones o cuentos con el libro de viajes y el diario. El protagonista e hilo conductor es el propio autor, Washington Irving, que tras su llegada a España inicia un recorrido por tierras andaluzas que le llevan a Granada. Allí queda extasiado por la majestuosidad de la Alhambra en cuyas habitaciones se hospedará.

Новелла «Встреча» была написана мной после рассказа одной женщины — это действительно её история. Это чистая правда, такая встреча была на самом деле. Я принципиально не меняла ни профессию главной героини, ни место этой встречи.

It's 1963 in the small town of Monroe, New York. The Arringtons, a Black family, buy a house in a picturesque, all-white neighborhood. Some residents are welcoming, but many react to Dr. Philip Arrington, his wife Velma, and their daughters Livia and Maddie by conspiring against their success in both big and small ways. Amid this mix of hostility and shaky acceptance, the Arringtons must navigate their careers, deal with a volatile marriage, and raise their daughters.

Gogol’un klasik eseri Palto, sıradan bir memurun trajikomik hikâyesi üzerinden toplumun acımasız yüzünü anlatır. Kısa ama etkileyici bu eser, modern öykücülüğün temel taşlarından biridir.

Büyük usta Çehov'un kaleminden Altıncı Koğuş, ilk yayınlandığında muazzam bir etki yarattı; olayların geçtiği taşra hastanesinde akıl hastalarının kapatıldığı koğuş, Çarlık Rusyasının bir alegorisi olarak değerlendirildi. Altıncı Koğuş'u okuyup bitirdikten sonra "kendimi o koğuşa kapatılmış gibi hissettim" diyen Lenin, hikayenin kendisini bir devrimci yaptığını söylüyordu.

"The Spinoza of Market Street" is yet another masterful short story from literary great Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story is set in Warsaw in the days leading up to World War I. There Dr. Nahum Fischelson lives alone in an attic room overlooking Market Street. From on high he observes the crowd...

This short story from the collection Gimpel the Fool, and Other Stories is infused with the wit and imagination, the humor and wisdom, that characterizes all of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s work. Theodore Bikel reads this tale in classic Yiddish storyteller cadence, injecting special warmth and...

Der amerikanische Prosa-Künstler Washington Irving hat einen prägenden Einfluss auf die amerikanische Literatur ausgeübt. Das liegt an seiner sehr angenehmen Sprachgestaltung und seiner Genreübergreifenden Virtuosität.

বিশ্বসাহিত্যের এক মহান শিল্পী লেভ তলস্তয়। তাঁর উপন্যাস ও ছোটগল্পে অমর হয়ে রয়েছে তাঁর দেশ, দেশের আত্মা ও দেশের...

The remarkable new work of fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, Wasteland, Here We Are and Mothering Sunday In the aftermath of the Second World War Private Joseph Caan, a young Jewish soldier stationed in Germany, seeks the truth about lost family members; in the 1960s a...

Bir Kudüs Öyküsü kavimler tarihinin biraz gerçek ama daha çok fantastik ve alabildiğince etkileyici öyküsüdür... Hemen surlara gidelim, dedi Abel Phittim, Buzi Ben Levi'yle Ferisi Simeon'a, Temmuz ayının onuncu gününde, dünyanın üç bin dokuz yüz kırk bir senesinde. Hemen Benyamin kapısının yanındaki, Davud şehrindeki, sünnetsizler kampının karşısındaki surlara gidelim. Çünkü şimdi gün doğduğundan, bu dördüncü nöbetçinin son saati ve putperestler Pompey'in vaadini yerine getirmek üzere bizi kurbanlık kuzularla bekliyorlardır.

Hear the incredible story in Acts 12 of the Apostle Peter’s escape from jail with the help of an angel. With two guards chained to him, Peter lay sleeping until an angel came and hit him on his side. “ And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.” In other words, “Throw on your clothes. Let’s get out of here.” Peter had trouble believing what was happening. The angel led him through the open gates of the jailhouse and down some streets in the dark.

تُغيِّب القبور الأجساد ولكن الأرواح تظل حية، طليقة، تملأ الأثير من حولنا وتتسرب إلى لحظاتنا المعيشة لتروي قصصها. التاريخ لا يموت، ولا تكف أطيافه عن التشكل، ملوك...

This fascinating, fact-inspired fiction collection from Emma Donoghue, author of the bestselling Room, is a sequence of fourteen stories about travels to, in, and from North America. With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways...

Carlos Ruiz Zafón concibió está obra como un reconocimiento a sus lectores, que le habían seguido a lo largo de la saga iniciada con La Sombra del Viento. “Puedo conjurar rostros de chiquillos del barrio de la Ribera con los que a veces jugaba o peleaba en la calle, pero ninguno que...