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George Eliot's first full-length novel is the moving, realistic portrait of three people troubled by unwise love. Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one... |
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This collection of some of the best-known and best-loved tales from The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, or The Thousand and One Nights, includes the stories of Sinbad and his voyages, Ali Baba and... |
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Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, The Beautiful and Damned chronicles the relationship between Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria,... |
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Perhaps the finest novel of nineteenth-century England, Bleak House embodies artful narrative, an engaging cast of characters, biting satire, and a detailed depiction of Victorian society. At the... |
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For anyone who likes a damn good 'sleuthing' mystery. A gem of a collection perfect for anybody who likes to guess at 'whodunnit', this compilation includes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and... |
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Scary and dark, these stories will make you want to pull the covers up that little bit higher… You may need to locate the nearest duvet before you start to listen to this truly 'haunting'... |
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A very amusing collection of stories from yesteryear given the comic touch of The Madness of George film star, sadly now deceased, Nigel Hawthorne with authors such as Mark Twain, O. Henry, Saki and... |
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Cranford is Elizabeth Gaskell's gently comic picture of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s. It describes the small adventures in the lives of two middle-aged... |
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| Los grandes clásicos del cuento infantil. Hans Cristián Andersen, el gran escritor danés, trajo al mundo del cuento infantil una imaginación amable y una inventiva única. Al contrario de los Hermanos... |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald makes anti-bellum Baltimore his setting for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a fantastical tale with some Poe-like overtones about a baby born at age seventy who then lives... |
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