The Legend Continues…In the spirit of popular Dark Fiction and Horror anthologies such as Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories and Behold: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, and the best of Stephen King's short fiction, comes the Tales from The Lake anthologies.This 5th and final volume includes:"Always After Three" by Gemma Files - A young couple discovers that in a downtown condo you almost never kn...

A classic Audiobook collections of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of fairy tales includes many of the world’s best known stories. In these dark foreboding woods, you will find: Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, Lily and the Lion (better known as Beauty and the Beast), and Snow White and Rose Red, among other timeless works. These tales were later heavily revised and sanitized, but here are presen...

The Watsons is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen. She began writing it in 1803 and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. It has five chapters, and is less than 18,000 words long.Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than her sisters. But when her aunt contracts a foolish second marriage, Emma is obliged to r...

He that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind.Leviathan Audiobook by Thomas Hobbs is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications and new refutations in every generation. Hobbes argues that human beings are first and foremost concerned with their own individual desires and fears. He shows that a conflict ...

Zarathustra" is my brother's most personal work; it is the history of his most individual experiences, of his friendships, ideals, raptures, bitterest disappointments and sorrows. Above it all, however, there soars, transfiguring it, the image of his greatest hopes and remotest aims. My brother had the figure of Zarathustra in his mind from his very earliest youth: he once told me that even as a child he had dreamt of him. At different periods in his life, he would call this haunter of his...

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1912. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class sys...

I was born under the shadow of death, and my life since has been intricately entwined with that of the Grim Reaper.They call me the Death Whisperer.One hand fixes; the other breaks.All I have ever known is a life full of pain and suffering, because what the legends don't tell you about my power… is that there's always a price.And I'm the one who has to pay for it.My powers took my voice from me, and every day, I'm forced to experienc...

In 'De regenboog naar Ferry Lane', het laatste deel van de Ferry Lane-serie van Nicola May, wordt de 39-jarige kunstenares Glanna door de liefde getroffen. En hard ook. Als ze de mysterieuze en fascinerende Isaac Benson ontmoet, vergeet ze spontaan haar gebroken hart en haar single status. Glanna runt de Hartmouth Gallery en organiseert een tekencursus waarbij naaktmodellen betrokken zijn, wat leidt tot de nodige roddels. Dan begint ze een serie kleurrijke berichten te ontvangen, afzender ...

Het dorpje Hartmouth in Cornwall is het decor van 'Welkom in Ferry Lane' het eerste deel van de Ferry Lane-feelgoodserie van Nicola May, de Britse hitauteur van de Cockleberry Bay-serie. De 33-jarige Kara droomt van een opleiding tot bloemist. Ze kan haar alleenstaande vader echter niet in de steek laten en dus kiest ze voor the next best thing: bloemen verkopen op de markt. Als er meerdere dingen gebeuren die Kara’s leven op z’n kop zetten, ontdekt ze dat je er niet voor anderen kunt zijn...

Als de 39-jarige soapactrice Sabrina te maken krijgt met een publiek schandaal, slaat ze op de vlucht naar het dorpje Hartmouth in Cornwall. Om niet herkend te worden, verandert ze haar uiterlijk en houdt ze haar identiteit geheim. Als ze een advertentie ziet voor een kraampje op de Ferry Lane-markt, grijpt ze haar kans. Van de een op de andere dag runt ze een kerstcadeauwinkel en Sabrina voelt zich al snel thuis onder de dorpsbewoners. Maar met de feestdagen in zicht gaan er roddels rond ...

Toen Star, de hoofdpersoon in 'De sterrenhemel boven Ferry Lane' van Nicola May, op zestienjarige leeftijd zwanger raakte, dacht ze dat haar leven over was. Nu is ze drieëndertig, moeder van Skye en de eigenaar van de succesvolle sieradenkraam op Ferry Lane Market en is ze dolgelukkig met haar leven. Hoewel... Een paar maanden geleden ontmoette ze de Amerikaanse toerist Jack en Star durfde eindelijk haar hart weer open te stellen voor de liefde. Totdat Jack plotseling vertrok, zonder afsch...

The Most Wonderful Christmas Tales Of All Time is an exquisite anthology that captures the heartwarming essence and infinite diversity of storytelling inspired by the yuletide spirit. Encompassing a range of genres from classic drama to fairy tales and transformative narratives, this collection splendidly showcases tales that explore themes of generosity, hope, and the magic of Christmas. The eclectic array of stories speaks to the classical, romantic, and even modernist literary contexts,...