European Literature

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man's perpetual search for an inner kingdom.

Cette histoire tient en quelques mots, ceux que la cadette, témoin malgré elle, prononce en tremblant : " Papa vient de tuer maman. "

Disfruta de las aventuras del famoso caballero Don Quijote y su fiel escudero Sancho Panza en su lucha contra gigantes, molinos y otros peligros imaginarios. Esta es una historia que ha cautivado a generaciones enteras y que sigue siendo relevante hoy en día.

John Keats was largely unappreciated during his lifetime and died in Rome at the age of 26. Most of his 150 poems were written in just nine extraordinary months in 1819. This selection contains some of his finest works, including the principal "Odes", "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", "Old Meg", and "Much Have I Travelled".

Joseph Fouché begann als Priesterlehrer. Während der französischen Revolution plünderte er hemmungslos Kirchen und verbreitete...

On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole - and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute.

In Loving Mr. Darcy, Darcy and Lizzy venture away from Pemberley to journey through England, finding friends, relatives, fun, love, and an even deeper and more sacred bond along the way. Having embarked on the greatest adventure of all - marriage and the start of a new life together - now the Darcys take the listener on a journey through a time of prosperity, enjoyment, and security.

This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of the sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. More intimate and personally revealing than his fiction, and more classical in form than the inventive metafictions that are his hallmark, the sonnets reflect Borges in full maturity, paying homage to many of his literary and philosophical paragons—Cervantes, Milton, Whitman, Emerson, Joyce, Spinoza—while at the same time engaging the mysteries immanent in the quotidian.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Juana Inés de Asuaje y Ramírez, 1651-1695) es una de las mayores figuras de las letras hispanas del siglo XVII y su nombre figura por derecho propio junto a los grandes autores del Siglo de Oro. Cultivó la lírica, el auto sacramental y el teatro, así como la prosa. Por la importancia de su obra, recibió los sobrenombres de «el Fénix de América», «la Décima Musa» o «la Décima Musa mexicana».

"Claudine s'en va" est le quatrième et dernier volet d'une "Tétralogie" retraçant, de l'enfance au mariage ("Claudine à l'école", "Claudine à Paris"), et du mariage au divorce ("Claudine en ménage", "Claudine s'en va"), la vie romancée de Colette. C'est ce qu'elle reconnaît de mauvaise grâce. Ainsi, à la question de savoir si "Claudine s'en va" reflète le moment où elle pense se séparer de son mari Willy, Colette répond : "Oh ! si peu. Je veux bien vous dire qu'il y a dans ce mince volume une coïncidence avec des circonstances de ma vie personnelle, mais elles sont de peu de poids, du moins de peu de poids littéraire".

The ancient gods of Ireland were once worshipped throughout the land. Powerful and brave, they were unafraid to show their vulnerability, reject violence, or lean on others for support. Sadly, their stories – passed down by our ancestors – are all but forgotten. Gods Don’t Cry reawakens these gods, whose ancient tales redefine modern ideas of what it means to be a hero.

Un explorateur de grande valeur, dont on ne connaîtra pas le nom, visite une île éloignée constituant la colonie pénitentiaire d'un pays puissant (on ne saura pas lequel). Il est invité à participer à une exécution publique. Celle-ci est effectuée par un appareil étrange développé par le défunt commandant de l'île.

Le XIXe siècle en France est un âge d'or littéraire, marqué par des courants très affirmés comme le romantisme, le réalisme, le naturalisme ou le symbolisme, et une évolution moderne de la poésie et du roman qui donna naissance à des chefs-d’œuvre en nombre inégalé. Cette collection de citations présente la pensée de sept figures incontournables du XIXe siècle sous forme concise et accessible.

C'est l'histoire de Guille... C'est l'histoire d'un petit garçon débordant d'imagination qui voue un amour sans bornes à Mary Poppins. L'histoire d'un père un peu bougon, qui vit seul avec ce fils sensible et rêveur dont il a du mal à accepter le caractère. D'une institutrice qui s'inquiète confusément pour l'un de ses élèves qui vit un peu trop dans ses rêves. D'une psychologue scolaire à qui on envoie un petit garçon qui a l'air d'aller beaucoup trop bien. Quel mystère se cache derrière cette apparence si tranquille, et pourtant si fragile ?

This delightful fairy tale for all ages is filled with fantasy, wit, and wisdom. A classic penned in 1872 by author George MacDonald, it has inspired the work of his friend Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland), and many others, including C.S. Lewis (The Narnia Chronicles), J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings), G.K. Chesterton (The Father Brown Mysteries), and Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time).

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a poet, novelist, and literary critic. He created the enchanting world of fairyland inhabited by characters like the snow-queen, the mermaid's son, ogres, dwarfs, monsters, magicians, and giants. The Pink Fairy Book contains 41 tales from Africa, Japan, Scandinavia, and Europe. They range from familiar stories like "The Snow-Queen" and "The Fir-Tree" to the obscure tales of the Tanuki. This collection contains stories like "The Cats' Elopement", The "Princess in the Chest", "Snowflake", and more....

When her father remarries, the honest, innocent Molly Gibson suddenly finds herself with a new stepsister, Cynthia, who is beautiful, worldly and impetuous. This would be more than enough to deal with, but the new wife is the deeply snobbish (and darkly secretive) Hyacinth. Thwarted love, scheming ambition and small-town gossip underlie the warmth, irony and brilliant social observation which link the relationships and the inevitable conflicts as profound change comes to rural England.

Une exploration éblouissante des sentiments au féminin, des jeux entre l'apparence et la vérité. Son nom est Liv Maria Christensen. Enfant solitaire née sur une île bretonne, entre une mère tenancière de café et un père marin norvégien. Envoyée subitement à Berlin à l'âge de 17 ans, elle tombe amoureuse de son professeur d'anglais. Le temps d'un été, elle apprend tout. Le plaisir des corps, l'intensité des échanges. Mais, à peine sortie de l'adolescence, elle a déjà perdu tous ses repères.

The Knight's Tale of medieval wars and chivalry is the first tale told to the pilgrims as they set out to Canterbury. It concerns Theseus, returning from fighting at Thebes, and two brother knights Palamon and Arcite, imprisoned but yearning for their loves. But the real hero of this recording is Richard Bebb who, with the help of Professor Derek Brewer, the leading expert on Chaucerian pronunciation, make the original Middle English not only comprehensible to the modern ear, but exciting.

Collected and published by the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800s, "Snow White" is a classic and timeless tale. The jealous queen's multiple attempts to take the beautiful Snow White's life are foiled by the sympathetic dwarfs. Eventually, Snow White gets her happily ever after with the prince, while the queen receives her comeuppance. Included in this book are this and 20 more tales from the Grimm Brothers' collection and by Charles Perrault.