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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Shaheen Khan. This definitive recording includes an introduction by J. D. Smith, read by Sagar Arya. The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian...

Step into a world of dark enchantments, clever heroines, and timeless magic in this beautifully crafted collection of fairy tales. Mary De Morgan's stories are rich with wit, wonder, and just enough shadow to make the light shine brighter.

Prince Jasim dreams of freedom, so when his mother commands him to select a bride, he flees the palace. Wandering the marketplace, he’s rescued by a beautiful woman. Ali is far from a pampered princess—she wields a blade and has an even sharper tongue, and Prince Jasim is entranced by her. Ali can’t resist the pull she feels towards the hapless stranger, who introduces himself as Jase. But before they can explore their connection, the royal guards find them and arrest Ali for unknowingly kidnapping the prince.

What if a single act of kindness could change a young girl’s fate forever? In Cinderella by the Brothers Grimm, a gentle and kind-hearted girl, mistreated by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters, faces hardship with courage and grace.

When a peasant girl follows glowing mushrooms into the forbidden forest, she discovers the witch waiting in the cave wears her own face—and the mad queen in the castle does too. In a kingdom gripped by famine, young Carys has always been the wild child her mother couldn't tame. But when mysterious mushrooms begin to glow at her touch and lead her deep into the forest, she stumbles into an impossible truth.

Zinnia Gray, di professione riparatrice di fiabe, ha finito di correre in aiuto di principesse addormentate. Dopo aver salvato decine di donzelle in pericolo, arso una cinquantina di arcolai, e dopo essersi ubriacata con decine di fatine buone e aver limonato con membri di famiglie reali di ogni ordine e grado, comincia a desiderare che tutte quelle fanciulle si diano una mossa e inizino a occuparsi da sole dei loro problemi di trama. Ma proprio quando pensa di non voler soccorrere nessun'altra principessa, si guarda in uno specchio e vede di rimando un volto che la fissa: è il viso del Male che la chiama.

In this great science fiction novel, Andre Norton brings to new life the legendary King Arthur and the wizard Merlin in the light of modern knowledge of a lost period of history and today's understanding of science and interplanetary communication. Yet, as in all Norton's wonder novels, this is a fabulous adventure in fantasy. Here is Merlin, half star-born, gifted with the advice of an alien intelligence, given the task of renewing civilization and starting humanity again up the ladder to the stars. Here is Arthur, unaware of his stellar heritage. 

Sarà proprio lei, la più piccola della famiglia, a proteggere la casata e difendere la loro terra dai nemici britanni: il padre, infatti, è stato stregato da Lady Oonagh e i fratelli sono stati colpiti da un incantesimo che solo la ragazza potrà sciogliere. Per riuscirci, dovrà sostenere un lungo esilio da Sevenwaters e affrontare imprese durissime, che la feriranno nel corpo e nell'anima. Sorha conoscerà la paura, il tradimento, ma anche l'onore, la lealtà. E soprattutto l'amore.

Emily Wilde has spent her life studying faeries. A renowned dryadologist, she has documented hundreds of species of Folk in her Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Now she is about to embark on her most dangerous academic project yet: studying the inner workings of a faerie realm-as its queen. Along with her former academic rival-now fiancé-the dashing and mercurial Wendell Bambleby, Emily is immediately thrust into the deadly intrigues of Faerie as the two of them seize the throne of Wendell's long-lost kingdom, which Emily finds a beautiful nightmare, filled with scholarly treasures.

When my grandmother, the leader of the Rathmore Coven, summons me, I have no choice but to answer her call. To reach her, I must cross the Wood, the realm of Wotan, lord of the hunt. Rumors of his cruelty and brutality precede him, but nothing prepares me to meet the monster face to face. Because Wotan is more than a monster. He's a predator, a bully, and now he's claimed me as his pawn in his war against my grandmother. A master of torture, he's determined to master me, stripping me bare of all my secrets.

Gwendolyn Mary Darling Carlisle's young life has been a saga of misfortune. After a tragic accident unexpectedly took her parents, Gwen found herself the sole caregiver for her ailing sister. It's her eighteenth birthday, but with responsibilities weighing heavy, she struggles to find something worth celebrating. Everything in her life has fallen apart. That is until she finds a mysterious man in her bedroom. Peter Pan has returned to the Darling estate. The boy from Neverland, who refused to grow up, has, in fact, grown into an alluring man.

Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside--and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she has great allies in the widows Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew.

This is the tale of the coming of the Irish to Ireland, and of the men and women who made that emerald isle their own.

Even as a girl Morgan has always been wild, like the seas which batter the cliffs beneath her home, Tintagel Castle. But she has always been safe, too. Then one day her father is called away to a war from which he does not return. In his place comes the High King, Uther Pendragon, with the sorcerer Merlin lurking in his wake. Uther claims Morgan’s mother, the Lady Igraine as his queen.

In hiding all her life, Layala prepares for the day the wicked High Elf King Thane will come to steal her—his powerful mate. She trains to take her revenge for the wrongful execution of her parents, who died for her freedom. Now that day has come, forcing her to come face-to-face with what she’s hidden from: a dangerous, dark-haired, warrior king determined to marry her.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume. J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be...

Alice’s adventures continue in this dramatized version of the timeless classic. Join Alice as she steps through a mirror into a strange new world where she encounters very peculiar characters, including a giant egg named Humpty Dumpty, the two odd brothers Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Tiger Lily, and the White Knight. Featuring stellar performances by a full cast of talented voice actors with music and sound effects. Expect the unexpected in this incredible journey into fantasy.

This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams. Mina finds herself in a room with a wall of glass, and an electric light that activates at nightfall, when the watchers come above ground. These creatures emerge to observe their captive humans and terrible things happen to anyone who doesn't reach the bunker in time. 

En ce sauvage Morbihan, la noblesse bretonne a gardé toute sa fierté, tous ses préjugés aussi... Et c'est avec méfiance qu'on apprend à Sermor cette nouvelle: un certain Franz Wolf a loué le manoir de Ty-Glaz. Un Autrichien... et un "roturier"! On le dit séduisant, musicien, il n'empêche !

Una preciosa colección de cuentos de realismo mágico venidos del Japón tradicional, zen e intimista. Cuentos de tradición oral que han pasado a lo largo de los siglos de la boca de las abuelas a los sueños de sus nietos y nietas, siempre de corte fantástico, siempre con enseñanzas profundas y siempre portando la esencia de la identidad japonesa a través de su tradición.