House Classics

Experience The Force Awakens as a Shakespeare play, complete with Elizabethan verse, Shakespearian monologues, and theatrical stage directions! As the noble Resistance clashes with the vile First Order, Rey, Finn, Poe Damaron, Kylo Ren, and BB-8 are pulled into a galaxy-wide drama - in iambic pentameter! Star Wars fans and Shakespeare enthusiasts alike will enjoy the authentic meter, reimagined movie scenes and dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs throughout.

M. R. James (1862-1936) was provost of King's College, Cambridge, and Eton College. He was a highly regarded scholar and academic in his time but today is remembered for his ghost stories, which are considered among the finest in the genre. The six stories in Volume Two are: "The Ash Tree", "Martin's Close", "Lost Hearts", "The Tractate Middoth", "After Dark in the Playing Fields", and "Wailing Well".

Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man is unlike any other philosophy book you may have come across. It is inspired by a single concept: that, to thrive in the world, we need ready access to the practical wisdom of our forebears. Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man answers that need by introducing for the general listener the most powerful and enduringly relevant works of great thinkers from around the world.

El día más esperado en la vida de Ana ha llegado. Su verdadero amor, Gilbert Blythe, ha terminado sus estudios de medicina y por fin podrán casarse y comenzar una vida juntos. Tras su maravillosa boda, en el jardín de la querida Tejas Verdes, rodeados por familia y amigos, viajarán a Cuatro Vientos, para llegar a una pequeña casita que se convertirá en la Casa de los Sueños de Ana.

Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and In Cold Blood. This collection of more than a dozen pieces showcases the young Capote developing the unique voice and sensibility that would make him one of the twentieth century’s most original writers.

Mary Poppins alkonyattájt a keleti széllel érkezik Banks-ék házába és szinte azonnal olyan otthonosan érzi magát, mintha mindig ott élt volna. A gyerekekkel is rögtön megtalálja a közös hangot. Igen, Mary a keleti széllel jött és egy napon a nyugati széllel ment el. De mi történt közben a Banks-házban?! Travers elbűvölő műve talán azért oly népszerű a mai fiatalok körében is, mert benne a gyerekvilág hétköznapjai a tündérmesék varázslatával ötvöződnek.

Ellie Jordan and her apprentice Stacey investigate a house in an elaborate planned community that was only half-built before it went bankrupt, leaving an instant ghost town with only a few residents. The entity haunting this house is a banshee that feeds on sadness and misery. Unfortunately for Ellie, this is no simple haunting but just one symptom of the cursed land on which the suburban community was built.

In the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly under threat from a pair of dragons that circle the skies. When violence strikes, reality star Duncan Humphrey Ripple V, the spoiled scion of the metropolis' last dynasty; Baroness Swan Lenore Dahlberg, his tempestuous, death-obsessed betrothed; and Abby, a feral beauty he discovered tossed out with the trash; are forced to flee everything they've ever known.

Generationen von Schauspielern haben Lessings Stück interpretiert, und zu Recht gilt "Nathan der Weise" als eine der Paraderollen auf deutschen Bühnen. Mitschnitt aus dem Deutschen Theater in Berlin.

Holmes y Watson se trasladan a los páramos de Dartmoor para ayudar a la familia Baskerville, víctima de una antigua y terrible maldición. Un miembro de la familia ha muerto y un perro diabólico parece acechar en los alrededores, amenazando la vida del nuevo heredero. ¿Conseguirán los detectives desentrañar el misterio antes de que la bestia ataque de nuevo?

Considerada por la crítica como la primera obra maestra de Dostoievski, Crimen y castigo es un profundo análisis psicológico de su protagonista, el joven estudiante Raskólnikov, cuya firme creencia en que los fines humanitarios justifican la maldad le conduce al asesinato de una usurera. Pero, desde que comete el crimen, la culpabilidad será una pesadilla constante con la que el estudiante será incapaz de convivir.

A dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins - the Pandavas and the Kouravas - but The Mahabharata is about conflicts of dharma. These conflicts are immense and various, singular and commonplace. Throughout the epic, characters face them with no clear indications of what is right and what is wrong; there are no absolute answers. Thus every possible human emotion is featured in in the Mahabharata, the reason the epic continues to hold sway over our imagination.

Heidi es una niña que se va a vivir con su abuelo a una aldea en los Alpes. Allí hará amigos para siempre, vivirá aventuras con los animales que la rodean y subirá a los Alpes hasta que anochezca.

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson is a captivating tale of a recluse living in an isolated house on the border of reality and another dimension.

Ossman & Steel's Guide to Health or Household Instructor (its original title) is a collection of spells, remedies, and charms. The book draws from the old Pennsylvania Dutch and German powwow healing practices that in turn helped shape Appalachian folk healing, conjure, root work, and many folk healing traditions in America. Jake Richards, author of Backwoods Witchcraft and Doctoring the Devil, puts these remedies in context, with practical advice for modern-day "backwoods" healers interested in using them today.

Everyone knows about Hill House. It's the biggest tourist attraction in town. That's because it's haunted. Haunted by the ghost of a 13 year-old boy. A boy with no head! Duane and Stephanie love Hill House. It's dark. And creepy. And totally scary. Still, they've never actually seen the ghost. Until the night they decide to go on a search. A search for his head.

After the frightful events of last autumn, 17-year-old Louisa Ditton has settled into her role as a maid at Coldthistle House, but she has not settled into what that means for her humanity. As Louisa struggles to figure out whether she is worthy of redemption, the devilish Mr. Morningside plans a fete - one that will bring new guests to Coldthistle House. From wicked humans to Upworlders, angelic beings who look down on Mr. Morningside’s monstrous staff, all are armed with their own brand of self-righteous justice.

Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life.

Los hermanos De Witt, protegidos del gran rey Luis de Francia, encuentran la muerte a manos de la enloquecida población de La Haya, que los cree culpables de conspiración. Pero antes de morir dejan a su ahijado Cornelius unos comprometedores documentos que lo llevarán a la cárcel. Allí, en compañía de la joven Rosa, se afanará en conseguir lo que más desea en el mundo: el bulbo del tulipán negro.

«El cuento no es más ni menos arte que la novela». Esta era la premisa a partir de la cual Clarín, la más importante figura del naturalismo español, se enfrentaba al género en el que se iba a desarrollar. La precisión de los mecanismos narrativos, la fluidez de un relato aparentemente sencillo y la limpieza de estilo convierten los cuentos de Clarín en verdaderas joyas, que renuncian al efecto fácil de lo llamativo para recorrer el difícil camino de lo mesurado.