Family Life Classics

Six children decide that the only way to restore the fortunes of their family is to go out and do it themselves. They produce a series of madcap schemes and one after another try them out with varying degrees of success, most resulting in trouble rather than riches. But then one scheme begins to look more promising than the rest.

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy's then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and his thinking on the role of art and music in society.

Adam Bates, the Land King of Hartley, Indiana, rules his 16 children with a firm hand and a tight purse. All work tirelessly on the family farm until the sons, at 21, are given 200 acres of land with a house and barn (they pay the taxes while their father holds the deeds). The daughters, at 18, get a term at Normal School to train as schoolteachers, a position they hold until they marry. Kate, the youngest, has always bristled at her father's preference for his sons but eagerly awaits her chance for further education. Her father has other plans.

The story of a man who does not want to leave his old study for a new house.

Durraghglass is a beautiful mansion in Southern Ireland, now crumbling in neglect. The time is the present - a present that churns with the bizarre passions of its owners' past. The Swifts - three sisters of marked eccentricity, defiantly christened April, May and Baby June, and their only brother, one-eyed Jasper - have little in common, save vivid memories of darling Mummy, and a long lost youth peculiarly prone to acts of treachery.

I Malavoglia è il romanzo più famoso di Giovanni Verga, ambientato ad Aci Trezza, alla fine del 1800. Il romanzo non ha un solo protagonista, né una sola famiglia, i Malavoglia, come protagonista, ma è il coro di tutto il paese e di un tipo di vita che segue , senza ribellarsi, i proverbi e le tradizioni, le convinzioni e i pregiudizi dell’ambiente.

Nick hadn't planned on being the prodigal son. But when his father dies and leaves half of Silver Buckle, the Noble family ranch, to Nick's former best friend, he must return home to face those he left behind - and to make sure that the Silver Buckle stays in the Noble family.

A wonderful holiday excerpt from the classic Little Women features all of your favorite characters as they prepare to celebrate Christmas in their enthusiastic, optimistic, take-no-prisoners fashion.

This is the first complete English-language translation of a classic of Yiddish literature, one of the great comic novels of the 20th century. The Zelmenyaners describes the travails of a Jewish family in Minsk that is torn asunder by the new Soviet reality. Four generations are depicted in riveting and often uproarious detail as they face the profound changes brought on by the demands of the Soviet regime and its collectivist, radical secularism.

Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens – and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden . . . which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key. An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Frances Hodgson Burnett original by Clare West.

Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire England after her parents die from Cholera. Also living in the manor house is her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as spoiled as she. Mary and Colin are like two peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors, until a secret garden captures their imaginations. As spring brings new life to the Earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to change.

Poliana conta a história de uma jovem que só vê o lado bom das coisas. Audiolivro narrado com vozes de dez atores que fazem os diferentes personagens e ambientado por vários efeitos sonoros.

Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel takes place over the course of a single June day in the lives of some very different Londoners: wealthy society hostess Clarissa Dalloway, who is preparing for a party; her old friend Peter Walsh, recently returned from India, whose proposal of marriage Clarissa rejected years ago; Septimus Warren Smith, a WWI veteran suffering from shell shock; and his Italian-born wife, Rezia, who is trying to care for him as best she can. Woolf's beautiful prose captures the minds and souls of these vivid characters.

This novel is about a family from Switzerland who become shipwrecked on a tropical island and are forced to become resourceful in order to survive and adapt to a solitary family life removed from general civilization.

Tag med den tapre og modige pige, Mulan, på et spændende eventyr! Sammen med en gammelklog drage, en lykkefårekylling og en lurvet gruppe soldater prøver Mulan at bringe sin familie ære - på sin egen måde! "Den blomst, der blomstrer i modgang, er den mest sjældne og smukke af dem alle." - Kejseren Bliv fortryllet af DISNEYS fantastiske verden.

When Mr. Gruber shows Paddington an outdoor painting exhibition he is inspired to take up a new hobby… After attending an Outside Exhibition, Paddington is inspired to take up painting himself. He gets busy with his own paints and holds his own exhibition, but is discouraged by the problems of self-portraiture – forgetting what he looks like in the mirror! Then a mystery art collector buys up his entire works. This is just the boost he needs, and he’s soon busily trying his first family portrait!

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.

Die Welt von Jane Austen in einer Box vereint - Drei zeitlose Klassiker der britischen Literatur. Diese Sammlung enthält die deutschen Ausgaben der Romane "Überredung", "Verstand und Gefühl" und "Stolz und Vorurteil". Austen greift tief in die Herzen ihrer Charaktere ein, beleuchtet ihre Stärken, Schwächen, Ängste und Leidenschaften mit feiner Ironie und scharfem Verstand. Sie entführt uns auf eine Reise durch die Gesellschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts mit ihren strengen Regeln, Klatschtratsch sowie den Konflikten zwischen Liebe, Vernunft und Stolz. Ein Muss für alle Freunde klassischer englischer Literatur.

Monsieur Saval blickt auf sein Leben zurück, und was er dort sieht, gefällt ihm ganz und gar nicht. Seit seine Mutter gestorben ist, hat er niemanden mehr - und über sechzig ist er auch mittlerweile. Er wird einsam sterben, das wird ihm klar. Aber warum ist alles so gekommen? Hätte er nicht auch eine Frau haben können? Aber es hat sich nie ergeben. Bis auf das eine Mal, als er mit der Frau seines Freundes alleine am Fluss war... Eine wunderbar-wehmütige Novelle über das menschliche Leben, verpasste Chancen und die immer wiederkehrende Frage des "Was wäre, wenn...".

Une surprise attend Martine et ses frères : des poneys ! Pas si facile des les apprivoiser... mais quelle rencontre inoubliable ! La pétillante Mélodie Le Blay s’empare avec bonheur des histoires de Martine, pour le plus grand plaisir des petits curieux.