Family Classics

There is no finer way to welcome young people (or adults!) to the pleasures of Shakespeare than with these four masterful retellings of the Bard's most beloved plays. Ranging from the pure magic of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the heartbreak of young love in Romeo and Juliet, featuring the spine-tingling tragedy of Macbeth (complete with ghost and witches) and culminating in the laugh-out-loud hijinks of Twelfth Night.

Taking place three years after The Bean Trees, Taylor is now dating a musician named Jax and has officially adopted Turtle. But when a lawyer for the Cherokee Nation begins to investigate the adoption—their new life together begins to crumble. Depicting the clash between fierce family love and tribal law, poverty and means, abandonment and belonging, Pigs in Heaven is a morally wrenching, gently humorous work of fiction that speaks equally to the head and the heart.

La historia de amor de America. La novela romantica colombiana y de America por excelencia, "María" ha deleitado y conmovido a sus lectores por mas de un siglo, ya que en esta obra estan no solo el tierno y tragico idilio de Efrain y María, sino tambien el paisaje vallecaucano en todo su esplendor.

Hawthorne approached the Romantic notion of the ability of science to destroy art (or beauty) in the form of fictive "horror stories" of biological research out of control. This story is the best of that group. A devoted scientist marries a beautiful woman with a single physical flaw: a birthmark on her face. Aylmer becomes obsessed with the imperfection and his attempts to remove it via his scientific skills, thus rendering his bride perfect.

Trois histoires pour découvrir Paris avec Martine ! Martine à Paris. Pour les vacances, Martine et son frère vont rendre visite à leur tante... à Paris, quelle chance ! Ils s'émerveillent tour à tour devant Montmartre et le Sacré Cœur, Notre-Dame de Paris et bien sûr... la tour Eiffel ! Martine au Louvre. Martine et sa classe vont visiter le Louvre. Tout le monde est ravi, surtout Patapouf, qui a eu le droit de venir, et Léo, le petit ami de Martine, qui se passionne pour l’Égypte ancienne et rêve de voir une vraie momie !

This is the abridged version of the trilogy The Torrents: Family, Spring, and Autumn, masterpieces of Ba Jin, one of the greatest writers of modern Chinese literature. The trilogy recounts the decline of a large feudal family following the May Fourth Movement of 1919. The abridged version of 30,000 words for each title, approximately 1/10 of each of the original, can be listened to by elementary-level students of Chinese with a 2,000-word vocabulary or can be used as an aid to reading the original.

Published in 1848, the novel follows the fortunes of a shipping firm owner, who is frustrated at the lack of a son to follow him in his footsteps. He initially rejects his daughter's love before eventually becoming reconciled with her before his death. The story features many Dickensian themes, such as arranged marriages, child cruelty, betrayal, deceit, and relations between people from different British social classes.

Orphaned at 13, Rose goes to live with her Uncle Alec. Here she meets her seven spirited boy cousins with whom she has home-spun fun, many exciting adventures and in the process learns valuable lessons about life, love and friendship.

Wien um 1880: Der persische Schah besucht die Hauptstadt. Gelangweilt von seinen Haremsdamen verlangt er die verheiratete Gräfin W. als Gespielin für eine Nacht. Ein moralisches und diplomatisches Dilemma, für das der anwesende Baron von Taittinger zum Glück eine Lösung kennt: Er lässt die Prostituierte Mizzi Schinagl, die der Gräfin stark ähnelt, fürstlich ausstaffieren und präsentiert sie dem persischen Herrscher.

Billy the King tells the story of a relentless dreamer who can’t accept a boring reality when his mind is so filled with delightful fantasies.

Jane, ich begehre von Ihnen, daß Sie mein Weib werden; nur Sie beabsichtige ich zu heiraten...

When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naïve son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father by criticizing the landowning way of life and by his outspoken determination to sweep away traditional values of contemporary Russian society.

Главный герой Гордей находит золотой жилу, нежданное счастье, а потому "дикое". Роман о конфликте ценностей, материальное благо или счастьем семьи? Аудиокнига. Русская классика.

Ta niewielkich rozmiarów powieść Dostojewskiego, przenosi nas do fikcyjnego Ruletenberga, w którym ważą się losy arystokratycznej rodziny i osób z nią związanych. Wszyscy grają: sami ze sobą, z najbliższymi, z losem; grają pasjami, zatracając się całkowicie. Nawet stareńka "la baboulinka", 75-letnia Antonida Wasiliewna, która – mogłoby się wydawać – bezbłędnie demaskuje zakłamanie bliskich i ukazuje ich prawdziwe motywy, sama daje się porwać emocjom gry w kasynie przegrywając pieniądze przeznaczone na remont cerkwi. Autor z niezwykłą precyzją opisuje wir uczuć, w jaki wpadają hazardziści.

Heidi, a five-year-old orphan girl, is sent to live with her grandfather up in the mountains of Dorfli after her Aunt Dete receives a job offer in the city. Enchanted by the old man and his jaded attitude towards the villagers and God, Heidi wins him over with her enthusiasm and love. When her aunt returns, she insists Heidi go to live with a wealthy family in Frankfurt. Disappointed to leave her grandfather and her friend, Peter, Heidi reluctantly agrees.

The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book about how people think and feel and relate. There’s insight into the world of childhood thought and emotion, and a variety of views of adult care and perceptions. I hope this doesn’t make it sound ‘difficult’, it doesn’t need to be–just let the sentences flow and make your own sense of the words. It’s perhaps as close as a novel can come to the highly individual experience of looking at a painting.

Ben has been tramping for two weeks when he's discovered, nearly starving, by a widow and her two little girls. Mrs. Moss feeds and clothes him and gets him a job with the local Squire. But herding cows is boring for an active boy and he's about to take to the road again when the lovely Miss Celia, owner of the Big House (bordered by lilacs!) arrives and hires him to do odd jobs and be the company for her teenage invalid brother.

Um die Gerüchte zu verdrängen, dass seine geliebte Tochter Klara in der fernen Stadt auf die schiefe Bahn geraten sei, erfindet Jan Andersson eine wahnhafte Scheinwelt: Dort ist die Tochter eine Kaiserin, er selbst der "Kaiser von Portugallien". Als Klara nach fünfzehn Jahren in die Heimat zurückkehrt, erträgt sie ihren geisteskranken Vater nicht – ein Familiendrama beginnt. Es sind Romane wie dieser, mit denen Selma Lagerlöf berühmt wurde. 1909 erhielt sie als erste Frau den Literaturnobelpreis.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of any of Twain's works during his lifetime. Tom Sawyer, an orphan, lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri sometime in the 1840s.

Isabel Archer is a young American orphan who receives an inheritance from an uncle. Taken under her aunt's wings, she meets Madame Merle, her aunt's worldly friend, who instills in Isabel a sense of European sophistication, a trait that comes to overpower her own common sense. Isabel marries widower Gilbert Osmond, who projects refined tastes and intellectual detachment. Isabel is utterly captivated by Osmond's languid charm, and he is thrilled to have his superior prize.