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ポワロやミス・マープルを生みだし，今も愛されつづける作家クリスティ．その作品には，古き良きイギリスとともに，移りゆく二〇世紀のイギリスが巧みに描き込まれている．カントリー・ハウスの住人たち，多様化するレジャー，使用人と階級文化，女性たちの生き方……．「ミステリの女王」の眼がとらえたイギリスの今と昔．

スコットランドの孤島の別荘．哲学者ラムジー氏の妻と末息子は，闇夜に神秘的に明滅する灯台への旅を夢に描き，若い女性画家はそんな母子の姿をキャンバスに捉えようとするのだが――第1次大戦を背景に，微妙な意識の交錯と澄明なリリシズムを湛えた文体によって繊細に織り上げられた，去りゆく時代への清冽なレクイエム．

The Old English epic poem Beowulf, recorded in its original Saxon dialect for the first time. Performed by Icelandic poet, playwright, professional storyteller and performer Svanur Thorkelsson, Audible’s production gives listeners the opportunity to experience how it might have felt to hear bards recite sections of the 3000-line poem from memory in Anglo Saxon dining halls. Audible’s Beowulf recaptures the heroic style and vast scale of what can be considered ‘England’s first native audiobook’.

The Old Wives' Tale is broken up into four parts, and the lives of two sisters are laid bare: one timid and unassuming, the other romantic and adventurous. From working as children in their family's drapery shop to their later years, Constance and Sophia's journey through life could not be more different. While one travels the world and defies male expectations, the other becomes a dutiful wife and mother.

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. While his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications.

Totalmente revista e atualizada pelo autor–professor titular de Literatura Brasileira na USP–essa obra consagrada aos estudantes universitários, professores e pós-graduados, é tida como a melhor do gênero. Está divida em oito partes: Condição Colonial, Barroco, Arcádia e Ilustração, Romantismo, Realismo, Pré-Modernismo, Modernismo e Tendências Contemporâneas e História da Literatura Brasileira.

Cumbres Borrascosas es la única novela de Emily Brontë, fue publicada por primera vez en 1847 bajo el seudónimo de Ellis Bell, y es considerada un clásico de la literatura inglesa. Influenciada por el romanticismo y la ficción gótica, la historia narra las turbulentas relaciones entre dos familias de la nobleza de West Yorkshire. Una historia de venganza, pasiones y desprecio que cuestionó la moral, la religión y el sistema de clases victoriano.

This is perhaps one of the best-loved of all journals. William Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy, began it in May 1800 and resolved to keep it for a short time. She continued it for nearly three years. In it, she brought the Dove Cottage years to vivid and intimate life. She noted the walks and weather, the friends, country neighbours, and travellers on the roads. She set down accounts of the garden, of Wordsworth's marriage, their concern for Coleridge, and the composition of Wordsworth's poetry.

Shy and stammering Meg Burton-Smythe has spent the whole of her life living on the fringes of local society. She’s more comfortable with her daydreams than she is with people. But when a dashing, golden-haired hero rides to her rescue one morning, she dares to hope that her dreams might finally come true. There’s only one problem: her handsome rescuer is the son of her father’s sworn enemy.

Más de doscientas figuritas de madera y marfil, ninguna de ellas mayor que una caja de cerillas, son el origen de este fascinante libro en el que Edmund de Waal describe el viaje que han hecho a lo largo de los años. Un viaje lleno de aventuras, de guerra, de amor y de pérdida, que resume, en la historia de una familia, la historia de Europa en los siglos XIX y XX.

La vie du jeune Jim Hawkins bascule le jour où un marin ivrogne et balafré s'installe dans l'auberge tenue par ses parents. Qui est réellement celui que l'on surnomme le "capitaine" ? Pourquoi se cache-t-il ? Une nuit, des pirates attaquent l'auberge. Jim n'a que le temps de fuir, emportant avec lui le secret du vieux forban : la carte d'une île abritant un fabuleux trésor... Le chef-d'œuvre incontesté d'un maître de l'aventure.

Jane Eyre es una niña huérfana que se ha educado en un orfanato, su inteligencia y su afán por aprender consiguen apartarla del mundo de su infancia. Al llegar a los dieciocho años abandona la institución y comienza a trabajar como institutriz, para educar a la hija del señor Rochester. Poco a poco, el amor irá tejiendo su red entre ellos, pero la casa y la vida de Rochester guardan un estremecedor y terrible misterio.

De Tokyo, on connaît les cerisiers en fleur, les maisons traditionnelles aux toits de tuiles et aux portes coulissantes, le quartier branché de Shibuya avec ses néons et ses boutiques de vêtements. Mais la nuit, dans les ruelles sombres de la ville, vagabonde une chatte aux yeux verts, attentive à tous ceux que le destin a conduits dans ces quartiers abandonnés, à la marge de la cité titanesque.

Le cœur ne gèle jamais, même au milieu des icebergs. Le plus souvent, Veronica, 84 ans, passe ses journées à chercher où elle a mis ses lunettes, à ramasser les déchets sur la plage ou à aboyer des ordres à sa dame de compagnie, Eileen. Depuis peu, la vieille dame s'interroge : que faire d'utile durant les années qu'il lui reste et, surtout, à qui laisser sa fortune considérable ? Quand elle a soudain une illumination : et si elle mettait tout en œuvre pour sauver les pingouins d'Antarctique ?

Certains fantômes hantent les demeures, d'autres les cœurs... Londres, 1914. Atteinte de la maladie des os de verre, Clara vit recluse depuis toujours, choyée par une mère qui lui raconte le monde. À sa mort, la jeune femme prend son destin en main et s'initie clandestinement à la botanique. Elle est bientôt engagée par Mr Fox pour créer sur son domaine une serre de plantes exotiques. Mais, à peine arrivée à Shadowbrook, elle ressent un étrange malaise.

Best friends and worst enemies, Christy and PJ are destined to spend their lives together over the next 20 years in prison. Reflecting on the events and experiences that led them to the present day, this slow-burning tale explores hope, acceptance and forbidden love. Directed by Jim Culleton with music by Denis Clohessy, On Blueberry Hill is a powerful exploration of freedom, friendship and forgiveness. With outstanding performances from Irish Times Theatre Award and Olivier Award winner, Niall Buggy (Christy) and West End and Broadway star David Ganly (PJ).

La colección Arlequín reúne los cuentos clásicos de siempre en 24 libros de formato muy práctico para los pequeños de la casa, con textos sencillos que ayudarán a los primeros lectores a disfrutar de sus historias preferidas: Bambi, Aladino, Pinocho, Alicia, Ricitos de Oro, La Bella y la Bestia, La ratita presumida, y así hasta 24 títulos.

An important and timely anthology of Black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay in Your Lane. Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of more than 20 established and emerging Black British writers. In Loud Black Girls, the authors of Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible, Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené, ask Black British female writers to focus on what happens next?

mendeko Londresen, industria iraultza betean girotutako eleberri honetan, Charles Dickens bere biografian oinarritu zen egoerak eta pertsonaiak sortzeko. 11 urterekin, aita zorren ondorioz espetxean sartu zutenean, fabrika batean lanean hasi zen, familiarekin egiten zuen lo bertan, ez baitzuten etxerik.

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placement, loss, space exploration and current British and American politics. It is a clarifying action and reaction between terra and solar system, mundanity and possibility, taking us from the grit of road surfaces to the distant glimpses of satellites.