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Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history - and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom delivers exhilarating clarity and invites us to look at this character as a flawed human who might be living in our world. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are in high school and college and another when we are adults, Bloom explains his shifting understanding of Cleopatra over the course of his own lifetime.

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. Short Stories in Dutch for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you, and give you a feeling of progress.

In The World According to Narnia, Jonathan Rogers takes you further into the imaginative world of C. S. Lewis, helping you to view our world in the way that Narnia invites you to view it. Rogers shows how the storylines and characters from Narnia sing with biblical truth.

Deep in limestone country, at the corner of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, and Gloucestershire, lies the village of Coleshill. This haunting new collection from Fiona Sampson is a portrait of place, both real and imaginary; a dreamscape with its roots deep in the local soil. The poems hum with an evocative music of their own: there are hymns of the orchards, verses for walkers, songs for bees. These are slices of life and states of mind; poems of grief, fears, and maledictions, but also of renewal, resurrections, and the promise of spring.

Julius Caesar is at the height of his power. He has just defeated his top rival and is basking in the glory of his triumph. Some believe that he is abusing his power, though, and behind his back, a conspiracy is developing to assassinate him. Even his close advisor Brutus is swayed to participate in the murder plot. Once Caesar is murdered, the conspirators are forced to explain themselves to Rome’s citizens and explain their intentions and attempt to convince them that this murder was necessary to create peace.

The Waste Land is a seminal work of modernist poetry by T.S. Eliot. Written in 1922, this five-part poem is a portrait of its time, a work that expresses the disillusionment of the modernist era and the desperation that the generation of writers of that time was feeling....

In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a 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 centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the fall of man....

Si possono abbandonare il proprio padre e la propria madre? Si può sbattere la porta, scendere le scale e decidere che non li si vedrà più? Mettere in discussione l’origine, sfuggire alla sua stretta? Dopo dieci anni sottratti al logoramento di una violenza sottile e pervasiva tra le mura di casa, finalmente un figlio può voltarsi e narrare la sua disgraziata famiglia e il tabù di questa censura “con la forza brutale del romanzo”.

世界怪談名作集より、ホフマンの「廃宅」を読んでみました。怪談ものは本を読むよりオーデイオブックで聴くほうが没入感があると思います。岡本綺堂の訳でお楽しみ下さい。

Aurélien est directeur du département des Peintures du Louvre. Cet intellectuel nostalgique voit dans le musée un refuge où se protéger du bruit du monde. Mais la nouvelle présidente, Daphné – une femme énergique d'un pragmatisme désinhibé –, et d'implacables arguments marketing lui imposent une mission aussi périlleuse que redoutée : la restauration de La Joconde. À contrecoeur, Aurélien part à la recherche d'un restaurateur assez audacieux pour supporter la pression et s'attaquer à l'ultime chef-d'oeuvre. Sa quête le mène en Toscane, où il trouve Gaetano, personnalité intense et libre.

Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898, and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908, Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chronicle of Rilke's life.

Descubre la extraña idea que la España del siglo XVII tenía del honor de las mujeres. Cervantes cuenta la historia de Leocadia, una hermosa joven que es raptada y violada por un joven desconocido. Como consecuencia, la joven tiene un hijo al que sus padres hacen pasar por su sobrino para salvar el honor de su hija. Pero el destino tiene preparada una sorpresa.

"The Classic Collection of Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy, The New Life" offers listeners an exquisite journey through Dante's masterworks. This volume includes "The Divine Comedy," Dante's epic exploration of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, alongside "The New Life," a poetic reflection on his love for Beatrice.

Le secret de la vie, l'origine de l'humanité... Adrian a payé cher l'audace de s'en être approché. Dans sa quête échevelée, il a perdu la femme qu'il aimait. Ou du moins le croit-il... Car Keira aurait échappé aux griffes de leurs poursuivants. Il n'en faut pas plus à l'astrophysicien pour quitter la solitude de son île grecque et reprendre la route. La vérité n'a jamais été aussi proche. Mais le monde est-il porêt à l'entendre ? Des hauts plateaux éthiopiens aux étendues glacées du nord de l'Oural, Marc Levy conclut avec ce roman la fantastique épopée commencée avec Le Premier Jour.

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 Sept 1888 – 4 Jan 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work and marry there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, subsequently renouncing his American citizenship.

Un roman-reportage glaçant et criant de modernité qui imagine un assassinat raté contre Mussolini. Un enregistrement remasterisé exceptionnel, contenant une interview exclusive de Marguerite Yourcenar.

Drawing on deep archival research and decades of scholarship, Ann Schmiesing tells the affecting story of how the Grimms’ ambitious projects gave the brothers a sense of self-preservation through the atrocities of the Napoleonic Wars and a series of personal losses.

An introduction to Harry, accompanied by 15 poems in his tribute - the leader of the pack.

Mitschnitt eines literarischen Abends am 22.07.2007 in der Barockresidenz Rastatt: Lesung von Gedichten von Joseph von Eichendorff (O wunderbarer Nachtgesang, Nachtzauber, Abend, Der Umkehrende, Wünschelrute, Die Nacht, Zwielicht) von Clemens von Brentano (Abendständchen, Von den Mauern Widerklang, Sprich aus der Ferne), von Friedrich Rückert (Nachtwache I und II, Amaryllis), von Novalis (Hymnen an die Nacht), von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Die schöne Nacht), von Friedrich Hebbel (Nachtgefühl) und von Friedrich Hölderlin (Abendphantasie).

A gripping collection of over 50 of the greatest short stories written by great British writers. 1."The Missing Years" by Barry Pain, 2. "His Brother's Keeper" by W. W. Jacobs, 3. "A Madman's Manuscript" by Charles Dickens, 4. "The House of Cobwebs" by Barry Pain, 5. "Old Fags" by Stacy Aumonier, 6. "A Long-Ago Affair" by John Galsworthy, 7. "August Heat" by W. F. Harvey, 8. "The Dabblers" by W. F. Harvey, 9. "Rose Rose" by Barry Pain