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For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of In Search of Lost Time (while bedridden no less), Alain de Botton has the answer. For, in this stylish, erudite and frequently hilarious book, de Botton dips deeply into Proust’s life and work - his fiction, letter, and conversations – and distils from them that rare self-help manual: one that is actually helpful.

There’s something Constance Middleton’s friends are dying to tell her: her husband is having an affair – with her best friend! Despite their hints, Constance remains ever cool, and seemingly oblivious. Or is she? In this biting comedy of manners, marriages and mistresses, Constance – a not-so-desperate housewife - has some ideas of her own about extra-marital activity that surprise everyone in the end!

"Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs", toute première phrase de l'ouvrage, affirme sans détour son rejet de l'exotisme comme porte vers le sensationnel. Il s'agit ici d'un voyage bien plus philosophique, retour sur les études de terrain qui ont formé son esprit d'ethnologue. Comment se positionner face à l'autre, face à des cultures aux structures si différentes ? Quelles sont les valeurs intrinsèques de l'Homme ?

Eines der größten Werke der "klassischen" deutschen Literatur und zugleich eines der meistgefürchteten Schullektüren. Hier in der Nacherzählung von Barbara Kindermann. Und so mancher dürfte beim Hören verblüfft feststellen: Es ist ein Werk, das sich seinen herausgehobenen Status bis heute durchaus zu Recht bewahrt hat. Ein Werk zugleich, das sich leider allzu vielen verschließt, weil sich ihnen der zeitgemäße Zugang nicht eröffnet. Dieses Hörbuch liefert endlich Abhilfe.

Pour tous ceux qui aiment et admirent Sacha Guitry, cet événement, de voir rassembler en un audio une anthologie de son œuvre phonographique, est un des heureux privilèges de notre époque, où les progrès techniques permettent de ressusciter, en les améliorant, des trésors qui risquaient fort de sombrer dans l'oubli. Cette entreprise est d'autant plus louable et audacieuse qu'il fallait beaucoup de détermination pour réunir des documents quasi introuvables.

28 poèmes de Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Desnos, Max Jacob, Gérard de Nerval, Lautréamont, Oscar Vladislas de Milosz, Gaston Couté.

"A weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares." This is how Marlowe describes his journey into the Belgian Congo. And while Europeans go mad, Corporations turn tyrannous, and the legend of a great Ivory hunter is dangled before him, Marlowe observes everything with a keen eye, as we journey with him, into the Heart of Darkness. This audiobook also includes another short story featuring Marlowe, "Youth".

"Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind", beginnt eines der berühmtesten Gedichte aus der Hand des großen deutschen Dichterfürsten...

"In classical Greece men called rhapsodes memorized and recited “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” My own rhapsode is the English actor Dan Stevens, whom fans of “Downton Abbey” will know as Matthew Crawley. He’s been performing the Robert Fitzgerald translation, and no Hellene could...

When novelist Charles Condomine invites a medium into his house in order to learn about the occult for his new book, the last thing he or his second wife dream is that the seance will bring back his first wife, Elvira, who wants Charles all to herself!

Una madre sufre por sus hijos, una novia sufre por su historia. Todos sufren por amor. Cuando el novio le comenta a su madre que desea casarse, la madre no está de acuerdo. Sabe que la novia tuvo otro novio, Leonardo, y que a pesar de que está casado, sigue enamorada de él... Ambientada en la Andalucía rural, esta obra está inspirada en una historia real, sobre los hechos sucedidos en 1928 en Almería, España. Los conflictos de familia, amor y engaño constituyen la trama de esta obra teatral compuesta por tres actos.

Los pazos de Ulloa es una de las obras más conocidas de Emilia Pardo Bazán, una culminación de su peculiar concepción del naturalismo. El texto es un gran fresco rural donde recrea a su gusto el campo gallego, violento, sensual, lleno de contrastes sociales y culturales. Novela de aprendizaje, plasma a la perfección el tránsito de la inocencia a la desencantada madurez.

Questo delizioso racconto lungo di Edmondo De Amicis, ci offre un quadro tutto diverso dall’idea che possiamo esserci fatta dall’autore del libro Cuore. La storia, che si snoda tra personaggi descritti e tratteggiati da un bonario senso umoristico, ci porta nel mondo delle insegnanti e dell’ entusiasmo per la neo materia dell’educazione fisica che si stava diffondendo in quel periodo nella scuola italiana, anch’essa ai primi passi. Cornice musicale di Kevin Mac Leod.

100 Balladen aus dem 18. und 19. Jahrhundert! Mit dabei: Der Erlkönig, Der Zauberlehrling, Der König in Thule, Ode an die Freude, Der Handschuh, Die Bürgschaft, Der Ring des Polykrates, Der Mummelsee, Belsazar, Der Taucher und viele mehr!

Das Sturm-und-Drang-Drama "Die Räuber" vollendete Schiller als 20jähriger. Dem achtzehnjährigen Schiller war der Stoff der Räuber in Form einer Anekdote in die Hände gefallen, und er begann ihn zu dramatisieren. Mitschnitt der Städtischen Bühnen Leipzig.

"L'intero corpo insegnante aveva capito benissimo che al di là delle considerazioni di dettaglio l'intera macchina scolastica era bloccata da un fondamentale difetto di comunicazione. Un difetto impossibile da correggere perché riguardava il formato di ricetrasmissione dei sistemi neurali. Torpidi cervelli critici aggrovigliati sui tempi lenti della trasmissione alfabetica non sono compatibili con apparati cognitivi iper-mobili segmentati su configurazioni istantanee e vibratili."

Relation allégorique d’un drame individuel, cet ardent réquisitoire contre la peine de mort et contre la prison met à nu le mécanisme de la brutalité sociale qui ne sait répondre à la détresse que par la répression. Avec Claude Gueux, Victor Hugo n’est plus simplement romancier ou poète. Il conquiert une place éminente auprès des plus grands orateurs de la Liberté.

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the heartbreaking story of TS Eliot's marriage to Viv Haigh-Wood. Michael Hastings' best known play charts the turbulent, doomed marriage of the young TS Eliot and the charismatic Vivienne Haigh-Wood. This moving, highly charged study has been described as 'one of the most important plays of the 20th century'.

Stieg Larsson's best-selling Millennium Trilogy is an international phenomenon. These books express Larsson's lifelong war against injustice, his ethical beliefs, and his deep concern for women's rights. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy probes the compelling philosophical issues behind the entire trilogy. What philosophies do Lisbeth Salander and Kant have in common? To catch a criminal, can Lisbeth and Mikael be criminals themselves? Can revenge be ethical?

Hedda and George have just returned from their honeymoon, but when her former lover Eilert appears with a brilliant new manuscript, George’s hopes for a professorship are dimmed. Hedda’s desperate dissatisfaction with her life leads to dangerous choices in this startling portrait of a woman hell-bent on destruction.

Esta versión del audiolibro Don Juan Tenorio es la más barata que también tiene audio de calidad superior. Nosotros editamos el audio para su placer. Usamos procesos de la computadora y trabajo manual para crear una experiencia buena de volumen y calidad sin ruidos malos. ¡Es nuestro distinto placer presentarle nuestra versión de Don Juan Tenorio por Jose Zorilla, narrado por Marcos Peña!

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.

Brianda, a young engineer, leaves her comfortable life in Madrid to learn more about her ancestors. When she travels to a cold, isolated village high in the Pyrenees to explore her roots, Brianda discovers a family secret - and a new love interest. The mysterious Corso, who is challenging destiny by restoring the neglected manor he has inherited, offers to help Brianda in her research. Together they uncover another woman named Brianda in the family archives, a woman who lived four centuries ago.

Celtic Poets breathes vitality into the works of Swift, Burns, Wilde, and more. Cosham's finely honed delivery brings verdant valleys, quaint villages, and drunkards' and maidens' conversations to listeners' ears. What is not to love?

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Adrian Schiller. In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the...

A gripping narrative history of Spain’s most brilliant and troubled literary family—a tale about the making of art, myth, and legacy—set against the upheaval of the Spanish Civil War and beyond. In this absorbing and atmospheric historical narrative, journalist Aaron Shulman takes us...

Зов предков - рассказ об удивительной судьбе собаки по кличке Бак. Бак был похищен, увезен на Аляску и продан золотоискателям. Непросто было домашнему псу приспособиться к жизни в суровых краях дикого Севера. Но, выдержав все испытания, он стал сильным, выносливым и бесстрашным зверем.

Перед вами знаменитый цикл рассказов Джека Лондона о Смоке Беллью, которого жажда приключений толкнула на полный смертельных опасностей путь отчаянных золотоискателей, покорителей Клондайка.

Аудиокнига "Простая душа" - произведение классика французской литературы, одного из крупнейших европейских писателей XIX века Гюстава Флобера (1821-1880). Эту маленькую повесть автор знаменитых романов "Госпожа Бовари" и "Воспитание чувств" создал в конце жизни, в 1877 году.

Нужно быть французом или очень хорошо знать Францию, чтобы понять, что такое Бальзак для французов. Это не просто талантливый и гениальный романист, в ряду других именитых французских писателей. Бальзак - это целый мир.