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Camí de sirga és un quadre de Brueghel on cada personatge pogués parlar. El llibre comença amb l’enderrocament de la casa número 20 de la baixada de la Ferradura, que desencadena la fi de la vila vella de Mequinensa. Però aquesta explicació simple es trenca de seguida. ¿Com mor un poble? Més que erigir mitologies de circumstància, Moncada fa sonar l’orquestra de destins dels que hi vivien.

Zwei Jugendfreunde aus Dublin verabreden sich nach knapp 10 Jahren in einer Bar auf ein paar Bier. Während der eine Dublin nie verlassen hat, ist der andere viel gereist, hat neue Erfahrungen gemacht, seinen Horizont erweitert und arbeitet als erfolgreicher Journalist in der Weltstadt London.

Die Schriften der französischen Prosa-Ikone Anatole France wurden zu Beginn des letzten Jahrhunderts vom Vatikan auf den Index verbotener Bücher gesetzt. Ob bei den offiziellen europäischen Gottes-Profis inzwischen ein Umdenken stattgefunden hat ist zu bezweifeln. Jedenfalls zeugen die Erzählungen des Anatole France von einem großartigen Verständnis der praktischen Welt und einem sehr gutem Verständnis der menschlichen Natur – wahrscheinlich deswegen für den Vatikan unverständlich.

Fille de Minos et de Pasiphaé, Phèdre lutte en vain contre la passion qu'elle éprouve pour Hippolyte, le fils de Thésée dont elle est l'épouse.

This anthology of Kipling's most famous poems - including "If", "Mandalay", "Gunga Din" - is taken from Naxos AudioBooks' Great Poets series. Though sometimes still regarded as a product of the colonial era, Kipling touches a very popular nerve in Britain's literary tradition and is regarded more generously now as a master of popular verse. It is often forgotten that he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907.

The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc.

In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic—with ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor—The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950’s.

Le comte de Monte-Cristo s'est installé à Paris. Par sa magnificence, sa spiritualité et ses étranges manières, il devient la personnalité la plus recherchée de la haute société. C'est justement ce qu'il voulait afin de pouvoir mettre en place son implacable vengeance. Ainsi, tous les protagonistes de cette affaire, tous ceux qui participèrent à l'horrible machination dont le jeune Edmond Dantès fut autrefois la victime, s'avancent en toute innocence dans les rets tendus par le comte. Et pour chacun un piège longuement, patiemment, diaboliquement construit se prépare. Le comte, tel un chat, va jouer avec ses victimes, savourant le moment où il les fera basculer dans la déchéance.

Fuente Ovejuna es un pequeño pueblo que está bajo el dominio del Comendador, Fernán Gómez de Guzmán. El comendador es conocido como un hombre cruel y sin escrúpulos, no respeta las leyes y abusa de su poder, traicionando así los principios feudales y comportándose como un tirano. La historia comienza cuando una joven mujer del pueblo llamada Laurencia quiere contraer matrimonio con el joven llamado Frondoso. Pero un día todo cambia, cuando Laurencia se encuentra en el bosque con el Comendador, quien forcejea con ella al querer llevarla a la fuerza al palacio y poseerla...

These masterly poems span the whole of Nabokov's career from "Music", written in 1914, to the short, playful "To Vera", composed in 1974. The works are newly translated by Dmitiri Nabokov, and include "The University Poem", an extraordinary autobiographical poem in which Nabokov recalls his life in Cambridge, with its crooked alleys and age-old gates, teas at the vicar's and British girls. Included to are such poems as "To Russia" ("Will you leave me alone! I implore you!), the enchanting "Eve", and verse about America, sport, love, and poetry itself.

An outbreak of plague in London forces a gentleman, Lovewit, to flee temporarily to the country, leaving his house under the sole charge of his butler, Jeremy. Jeremy uses the opportunity given to him to use the house as the headquarters for fraudulent acts. He transforms himself into "Captain Face", and enlists the aid of Subtle, a fellow conman and Dol Common, a prostitute. In The Alchemist, Jonson unashamedly satirizes the follies, vanities and vices of mankind, most notably greed-induced credulity. People of all social classes are subject to Jonson's ruthless, satirical wit.

This Very Short introduction explores the major themes of Austen criticism through close analysis of her major and minor works, with particular emphasis on the literary, social, and political backgrounds from which the novels emerge, and with which they engage. Thomas Keymer combines critical introductions to each of Austen's six major novels with an exploration of the key themes in her works.

お互いの信用を失った男と女房のひりひりするような修羅場。そしてこのうちの子どもは、その証拠とも言えるほど、よその男によく似た面影を持っていた――。

殺人容疑で尋問を受けている男は、殺された女も凶器のナイフも見たことが無いと言って頑なに罪を認めない。

アルトヴェルという猟師とその夫人の間でおこる、人間の内なる狂気を描いたモーリスルヴェルの短編小説。

二人の乞食の間に生まれる優しさと、その先に待ち受ける容赦のない真実を描いたモーリスルヴェル原作の短編小説。

Life hasn't been easy for Nell. Orphaned as a child, her elder sister Maria is a substitute for the mother she barely remembers. All she wants now is a husband and family of her own. Second mate Jack Riley loves his life at sea and dreams of one day captaining his own ship. Settling down to life in the back streets of Liverpool holds no appeal. Until he bumps into his old flame, Nell.

"Poems in Prose" is the collection of six prose poems by Oscar Wilde published in 1894, including, in order: "The Artist," "The Doer of Good," "The Disciple," "The Master," "The House of Judgment" and "The Teacher of Wisdom."

Annes dreijähriger Aufenthalt in Summerside Anne Shirley macht ihre ersten Karriereschritte als Rektorin der Summerside Highschool. Dass man in einer solchen Position nicht immer von allen geliebt wird, ist eine Erfahrung, die sie bitter zu spüren bekommt. Vor allem der im Ort sehr mächtige Pringles-Familienclan macht ihr zu schaffen. Aber Anne wäre nicht Anne, wenn sie allen Sorgen nicht mit viel Optimismus, Mut und einer kräftigen Portion Humor begegnen würde. Eine heitere und lebensbejahende Geschichte voller Schwung.

BBC Audio presents full-cast dramatisations of Thomas Mann's three bestselling works: Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain.