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"An Ideal Husband" explores the intricacies of morality, marriage, and political intrigue as Sir Robert Chiltern faces the consequences of a past indiscretion while navigating the demands of public life and personal integrity.
"The Happy Prince & Other Stories" is a collection of whimsical yet poignant tales that delve into themes of sacrifice, compassion, and the nature of beauty, epitomized by the selfless acts of the golden statue of the Happy...
2) Early Autumn
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Portraits of generations of family members line a great hall in the lavish home of the Pentlands; a wealthy, upper-class family who were among the first settlers in the fictional town of Durham, New England. Members of the family desperately try to keep their prestigious reputation alive while the world around them is changing.
Olivia Pentland is about to turn forty, has been stuck in a loveless marriage to Anson Pentland, producing heirs to the family...
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Rose Macaulay was a fascinating and influential British writer, known for her wit and intellect. She wrote numerous novels, essays and biographies, and she was highly regarded for her versatility as a writer. Her works often explored themes of social change, women's rights and the complexities of human relationships. She had a unique ability to capture the essence of her characters and the world they inhabited, making her a much-admired figure in...
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First appearing in 1782, Dangerous Liaisons is one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The plot unfolds through a series of letters as the two main protagonists, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, attempt to bring about the seduction of a young woman.
The epistolary nature of the novel gives a multi-faceted perspective of the action, which places the book firmly in the tradition of libertine literature....
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A respectable young widow and mother of two children, the Marquise of O- finds herself inexplicably pregnant after being rescued by a Russian officer from the attentions of his soldiers during the storming of her town's citadel. Convinced of her own innocence and wishing to vindicate her own integrity, the Marquise places an advert in the newspapers, appealing for the father to come forward and promising to marry him. But will this be enough to quench...
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Though it is for the sparkling epic, Aeneid, that the Roman poet Virgil is best known, it was these two poems, The Eclogues and Georgics, which first established his reputation. Cast in the tradition of pastoral poetry, The Eclogues were written between 41 BCE and 37 BCE when Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, to give him his full name) was in his thirties. The Eclogues (the word means 'Selections' in Greek) contain 10 poems, a combination of dialogues...
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Listen to this collection of celebrated classic cat stories read by an ensemble cast of beloved audiobook readers - including Samuel West, Lorelei King and Imogen Church.
Classic Cat Stories is an anthology that includes fairy tales and fables from the likes of Rudyard Kipling and Charles Perrault as well as comic tales from Saki and E. F. Benson. Cats, of course, have always had a dark and mysterious side which is explored to chilling effect by...
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Bill is out of options. Unemployed, alone and returning to the raucous seas of Northern California, the only home he knows, he takes a loan out at the bank and pours his last cent into his final chance for redemption: a tired old boat without a name. Although "pitted with rust" with "the cancer of salt corrosion gnawing at the copper engine parts" Bill purchases the WWII craft, warts and all, hoping he can eventually turn her into a solid charter....
9) O Jogador
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Ambientado na Alemanha, «O Jogador» tem como protagonista Alexei Ivanovitch, um jovem com um forte sentido crítico em relação ao mundo que o rodeia, mas carente de objetivos, que desenvolve uma paixão compulsiva pelo jogo (vício que acometeu o próprio escritor).
Dostoiévski expõe as personagens nas suas motivações mais íntimas, com humor e ironia, criando uma obra simultaneamente viva e profunda.
10) Tunes of Glory
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Introduced by Allan Massie.
Lt. Colonel Jock Sinclair is a rough talking, whisky drinking soldiers soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Colonel Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in Japanese prison camps. But he has come to take command of the Battalion he has long admired, the one that Jock Sinclair has served in since he was a boy. In the claustrophobic world of...
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Edited and introduced by P.H. Scott & Ian Gordon.
Galts two great political novels date from around the passing of the Reform Act of 1832. The Member has claims to be the first political novel in the English language and is a tour de force of wit, observation, and a devastating critique of political self-seekings. Its hero is a Scot, newly returned from India, who purchases a seat in a rotten borough. As a study of the corruption of the pre-reform...
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Lançando mão da sua experiência pessoal, de manuais de ginecologia, de conselhos médicos para a higiene feminina e do relato que ouvira das angústias de um homem ante a traição de sua esposa, o autor de «Guerra e Paz» criou uma narrativa cujo enredo dialoga com as escalas vertiginosas do piano e do violino na sonata de Beethoven, e no qual o andamento inexorável da tragédia se soma à lucidez cristalina da linguagem.
13) King for Ever!
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King Sinanda wanted to rule for ever. But he was an evil man with many enemies. Nobody liked him.
When he had destroyed his enemies, he began to worry about his friends.
Whom could he trust?
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From the author of The Raj Quartet, a coming-of-age tale about a boy and his childhood friendships with a British diplomat's daughter and the son of a Raj.
The Birds of Paradise is set in India when the British Raj still seemed a paradise, but a paradise that boy comes to recognize as already lost. As Scott weaves together themes of political and personal history, he makes us feel how the protagonist identifies with the beautiful, mysterious India...
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Profound and passionate essays from one of America's greatest literary voices of the twentieth century. This Quiet Dust is a compilation of William Styron's nonfiction writings that confront significant moral questions with precision and vigor. He examines topics as diverse as the Holocaust, the American Dream, and the controversy that raged around his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner. In each entry, Styron expertly wields...
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These stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, which were originally published, each one separately, between the years of 1891 and 1892, in the British newspaper The Strand Magazine and later compiled under the title of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, constitute the largest theme of his work and represent the cornerstone of detective stories.
In The Best Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, this detective and his assistant, Dr. John H. Watson, will face...
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Enter a magical world where dreams and imagination are linked. The immortal tales of the Grimm Brothers are brought to life through wonderful illustrations, transporting readers to enchanted lands and teaching valuable lessons. Discover the charm of this unique compilation that will delight young and old alike. Embark on a journey of fantasy and surprises with the classics that have captivated generations!
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«Netochka Nezvanova» é o primeiro romance de Dostoiévski. A obra, iniciada em 1842, teve a sua primeira parte publicada em 1849 e foi interrompida pela prisão do autor em 23 de abril de 1849, sendo retomada apenas em 1860. Dostoiévski abandonou o livro em 1866, quando a personagem Netochka atinge a fase adulta.
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Publicada em 1859, quando o escritor tinha pouco mais de trinta anos, 'A Felicidade Conjugal' é talvez a primeira obra-prima de Lev Tolstoi e prenuncia um tema que terá muita importância na vida do autor russo: o tema do desejo, neste caso apreendido do ponto de vista feminino.
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A collection of short fiction set in the Lovecraftian cosmic horror universe from "a masterful storyteller" (Publishers Weekly).
In the early twentieth-century, in the pages of Weird Tales and other pulp magazines, H. P. Lovecraft created the Cthulhu Mythos and offered it to his friends, creating a shared mythology for much of their weird fiction. Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, was one of those good friends. Fresh from dusty...
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