Inglaterra, marzo de 1941. Virginia Woolf pasea por la orilla del río Ouse. Recoge una piedra del suelo, la sopesa en la palma de su mano y observa el flujo del agua. Piensa en la feroz batalla que se desarrolla en el mundo y dentro de ella. Todo lo que la acompañó hasta esa orilla resplandece en imágenes que representan la gran fuerza de sus sentimientos, como la pasión por su amante Vita Sackville-West, la ternura por su esposo Leonard y el dolor por el terrible luto familiar. Esos senti...

Dorothy L. Sayers' classic play cycle based on the life and times of JesusDorothy L. Sayers was best known for her mystery novels featuring aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. But she was also a poet, playwright and committed Christian, and in The Man Born to Be King she combined art and evangelism to powerful effect, making the story of Christ accessible, relevant and every bit as thrilling as her detective fiction.Written specially for...

When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's opportunistic values and Holt's profound beliefs becomes apparent. Forthright, brusque and driven by a firm desire to educate the working-class, Felix is at first viewed with suspicion by many, includin...

E-artnow bietet Ihnen eine sorgfältig ausgewählte Sammlung der größten Klassiker der Weltliteratur: Englische Meisterwerke: Romeo und Julia (William Shakespeare) Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark (William Shakespeare) Othello, der Mohr von Venedig (William Shakespeare) Don Juan (Lord Byron) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Sturmhöhe (Emily Brontë) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit (William Makepeace Thackeray) Drakula ...

Mit zahlreichen Texten aus Wissenschaft, Philosophie, Theater, Lyrik u.v.m. wird das ewige Thema der Liebe aus allen möglichen Blickwinkeln betrachtet und die ZuhörerInnen durch die Höhen und Tiefen der Liebe begleitet: Vielseitig wie unterhaltsam, aber auch nachdenklich, melancholisch und mitunter bitterböse und sarkastisch. Ein kurzweiliges Hörvergnügen, eingebettet in das sehnsuchtsvolle Volkslied "Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär", welches von zahlreichen MusikerInnen und SängerInnen auf unter...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . . Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter. Love letters express the spectrum of our emotions, offering a colorful glimpse into the soul of the writer, and of the writer's beloved. For passionate readers and lovers of words, a letter is irresistible. List of letters included: Ludwig van Bethoveen - The Immortal Beloved Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfr...

The witty Irish beauty Diana marries a man insensitive to her qualities. She then falls in love with another man, but they part because of a betrayed political secret. Ultimately she marries a man of sufficient understanding to appreciate her.

The author created in Daniel Deronda possibly the most likeable character of all her novels. Through the actions and reactions of society life in the mid-nineteenth century there emerges a clear picture of the life of the European Jew, no longer actively persecuted yet made aware of English prejudice.

A collection of seminal dramatised pieces by the great German polymathJohann Wolfgang Goethe was a colossus of German literature and a true Renaissance man. A novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist and philosopher, he wrote the first international bestseller, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and his epic masterpiece Faust is one of the most famous and celebrated dramas of all time.We open this anthology with a dramatisation of

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf’s classic six-part essay, the iconic Modernist writer takes on the misogyny of writing, publishing, and creativity in her time. Through the imagined sister of William Shakespeare, who in her argument possesses the same talent and intellect as the famous playwright, Woolf lays out the fundamental truth that on...

Roderick Random is a boisterous and unprincipled hero who answers life's many misfortunes with a sledgehammer. Left penniless, he leaves his native Scotland for London and on the way meets Strap, and old schoolfellow. Together they undergo many adventures at the hands of scoundrels and rogues. Roderick qualifies as a surgeon's mate and is pressed as a common soldier on board the man-of-war Thunder. In a tale of romance as well as adventure, Roderick also finds time to fall in love.

When the Foreign Secretary Sir Philip Ramon receives a threatening, greenish-grey letter signed FOUR JUST MEN, he remains determined to see his Aliens Extradition Bill made law. A device in the members' smoke room and a sudden magnesium flash that could easily have been nitro-glycerine leave Scotland Yard baffled. Even Fleet Street cannot identify the illusive Manfred, Gonsalez, Pioccart and Thery - four just men dedicated to punishing by death those whom conventional justice can not touch...