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Four neo-classical tragedies from the renowned French dramatist, with star-studded casts including Timothy West, Prunella Scales and Geraldine McEwan Jean-Baptiste Racine stands with Molière and Corneille as one of the three premier dramatists of 17th-century France. A foundational figure in...

Worried? Bewildered? Had enough of the chaos? Laura Kuenssberg's unmissable first book is what you need to make sense of a confusing world. The UK used to pride itself on being sensible, and its politics, a little bit dull. But with yet another prime minister booted out of Number 10, that...

Paru à la fin du XIXe siècle, ce recueil de fictions rassemble des contes où l’imaginaire se fait souverain. Le comte de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam y déploie une voix singulière, à la fois fiévreuse et précise, pour sonder les zones d’ombre et d’éclat de l’âme humaine. D’une scène à l’autre, l’étrangeté affleure, le quotidien se fissure, l’idéal se heurte au réel: autant d’histoires brèves qui ouvrent des portes sur l’inattendu.

Dans ce quatrième volet de son monument d’histoire littéraire, Hippolyte Taine poursuit, avec la rigueur d’un philosophe et la verve d’un moraliste, son exploration des lettres anglaises. Au fil de portraits saillants et d’analyses lumineuses, il met en perspective œuvres, styles et idées, et montre comment une nation se raconte à travers sa poésie, son théâtre et sa prose. Entre héritages, ruptures et métamorphoses, se dessine la carte vivante d’une littérature en mouvement.

Texte singulier de Denis Diderot, cette œuvre fait du récit lui‑même un terrain d’expérimentation: par le détour, l’ironie et le paradoxe, elle interroge ce qui fonde une société qui se pense moderne. Derrière le badinage apparent affleure une réflexion philosophique sur le pouvoir, la vérité et les discours qui nous gouvernent.

À la suite d'un tremblement de terre, Nayla, douze ans, se retrouve seule au monde. Commence alors pour elle un étrange voyage. Guidée par Sibo, un chat qui semble connaître les secrets de l'invisible, et par une vieille femme à la parole mystérieuse, Nayla quitte son univers familier, traverse des paysages d'oasis, de signes et d'animaux parlants. À chaque rencontre, une blessure s'apaise, une vérité apparaît.

Even as a child, Tennyson loved the Classical world of ancient Greece and Rome. When he grew up, he often wrote about that world. In Demeter and Persephone, Tiresias, The Hesperides, Tithonus, Oenone, Ulysses, St. Simeon Stylites, and St. Agnes’ Eve, he allowed characters from the ancient...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Celebrate Annie Ernaux with this stunning collection of interviews, critical analyses, and twenty-four previously unpublished writings offering insight into her life, writing style, thoughts, and influence. Magisterial in scope and size, Writing, the...

Many English poets have translated Psalms, but surprisingly few have translated other parts of the Bible. This collection includes John Donne’s outstanding translation of the book of Lamentations, together with versions of all the other songs in the Hebrew Bible and some other Biblical prayers...

Writing Home is the first of four wonderfully entertaining collections of Alan Bennett's prose. Bringing together Alan Bennett's diaries for 1980-1995 and the journal he kept during the production of Forty Years On starring John Gielgud, the book also includes accounts of his many television...

Slavoj Žižek revists his radical interpretation of Antigone 10 years on, elaborating on the original work in daring and surprising ways. This updated text includes an additional essay reflecting on how this play speaks to our contemporary moment more powerfully than ever, as well as a...

Dieses historische Sachbuch schildert den packenden Überlebenskampf einer Nation gegen Vulkane und Fremdherrschaft. Ideal für die tägliche Fahrt zur Arbeit, entführt dich diese atmosphärische Erzählung direkt in die raue, unbarmherzige Landschaft des hohen Nordens. Erlebe hautnah, wie aus...

Read by the author, John Cooper Clarke. John Cooper Clarke may have an honorary doctorate and a poem on the English Literature GCSE syllabus, but don’t let that fool you: the ‘Poet Laureate of Punk’ is still a bona fide iconoclast. In Have It, a collection of scathing new poems, the Bard...

The only way to uniqueness is to be yourself, to achieve happiness start with your health. Never plan for tomorrow, be here right now, do not entertain sorrow, no creasing of the brow. Beware of the virus called ignorance, love of wisdom will keep you immune, always practice the art of patience, the Golden Age will be back soon. The light shines out from within, take a moment to let it sink in, Open up to all possibilities, discover your own abilities

Oscar Wilde war ein irischer Schriftsteller, der sich nach Schulzeit und Studium in Dublin und Oxford in London niederließ. Als Lyriker, Romanautor, Dramatiker und Kritiker wurde er zu einem der bekanntesten und gleichzeitig umstrittensten Schriftsteller im viktorianischen Großbritannien.

Cesare Vairaghi ha ventiquattro anni, vive a Milano e vuole aprire una libreria, ma ha bisogno di un prestito per riuscirci. Intorno a lui, tre donne che non potrebbero essere più diverse. Benedetta, la fidanzata e promessa sposa, lo aiuta a realizzare il suo sogno con il denaro della dote. Nel loro idillio entra Candida, una donna elegante, affezionata cliente del negozio, che sembra interessata alle edizioni rare almeno quanto al nuovo giovane libraio.

Unabridged version with stage directions! Jealousy, deception, and betrayal lie at the heart of William Shakespeare's Othello, one of the greatest tragedies ever written. This unabridged English-language recording presents the complete play exactly as Shakespeare conceived it, including the...

John Achilles Fortune, der gut aussehende Londoner Anwalt, erhält seinen ersten eigenen Fall. Er wird beauftragt, mögliche Nachkommen der betuchten Eleanor Cavendish zu finden. Was zuerst nach reiner Routine aussieht, entwickelt sich bald zu einem mysteriösen Verwirrspiel. Denn die alte Lady umgab ein Geheimnis.

Behind every picture-perfect Cornish holiday lies a story waiting to be told Porthant Bay looks like the perfect Cornish seaside escape: white sands, sparkling blue sea, narrow winding streets and a picturesque harbour. But beneath its postcard-perfect surface lies a town full of hidden stories...

What if Elizabeth Bennet met Mr Darcy before she knew he was Mr Darcy? While touring Pemberley with her aunt and uncle, Elizabeth encounters a handsome gentleman working among the roses. With his coat discarded and his hands marked by honest labour, she naturally assumes he is one of the estate’s gardeners —and speaks to him with all her usual openness. Fitzwilliam Darcy knows he ought to correct her mistake. Instead, charmed by a young woman who sees neither his fortune nor his consequence, he allows their conversation to continue.