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Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality.

Una fotógrafa comprende algo que hubiera preferido no comprender. Un veterano de la guerra de Corea se enfrenta a su pasado durante un encuentro que parecía inofensivo. Tras el hallazgo por internet de un libro de 1887, un escritor acaba descubriendo la vida de una mujer apasionante.

Luc: When you come from a crime family, you have a name to live up to. My enemies know I'm a bastard who shows no mercy - exactly the cold-hearted don my father would want me to be. Except we're not the ones in charge. Yet...The Boss wants me to take over his billion-dollar business, and the only way that's happening is if I can win the heart of his cop daughter. I planned to treat her just like all the other women who meant nothing to me, until I met her and everything changed. Falling in love wasn't part of the plan.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Eleanor Matsuura, known for AMC's The Walking Dead and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Paul Murray. In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. Recently swept off her feet, after a week of courting, the newly married Alix Martin is a woman obsessed by a reoccurring dream of her new husband’s murder. Each time she can see the murderer clearly and...

A mind-blind scholar outwits the mages who disdain him. A gold mage must secure a bank vault from a monster capable of obliterating entire cities. An aging basketweaver wakes up one morning to find a brand new river in front of her house. A palace-sized octopus seeks to defend his city from a living fortress of bone—if he can get his arms to cooperate. In these twenty-four short stories set in the world of Mage Errant, John Bierce explores the murky depths of history, forgotten corners of Ithos and beyond, and the strangest reaches of magic itself.

Der Erzähler sucht auf einer Schiffspassage von Kalkutta nach Neapel die nächtliche Einsamkeit - und trifft auf einen einsamen, sich offenbar versteckenden Herrn, der ihm nur zögernd seine Geschichte anvertraut. Zuerst vorsichtig, dann immer offener werdend, bis er sich seelisch völlig entblößt, erzählt er von seinem Schicksal im indischen Dschungel als Stationsarzt - ein ereignisloses Leben, bis eines Tages eine Frau auftaucht, die ihn völlig in ihren Bann schlägt. Das Drama beginnt, und Zweigs Erzählung entwickelt eine Wucht, der man sich nicht entziehen kann.

In this romantic and comic story about class, language, and the art of reinvention, “Nebraska Jack" Rigel is about to quit his Latin studies program at the Vatican when he suddenly finds himself face-to-face with the mysterious and ethereal Angelina Amadio, the famous Angel of Rome. Hired to translate the romantic feelings of the unpredictable former TV detective Ronnie Tower, Jack must navigate these two forces of nature in a Rome of late night bars and fancy villas, as he searches for his own role to play.

This audiobook contains both Unholy Union and Unholy Intent, the complete Unholy Union Duet!

Под общим названием "Повести Белкина" объединены пять произведений: "Выстрел", "Метель", "Гробовщик", "Станционный смотритель" и "Барышня- крестьянка". Они были написаны Пушкиным в 1830 году в Болдине. Пушкин решил напечатать повести анонимно, с предисловием "от издателя", содержащим биографию И.П. Белкина.

Though best known now for his collection of lively and vivid Parallel Lives from ancient Greece and Rome, Plutarch (c46 CD-120 CE) was, for centuries, more respected for his Moralia, a remarkable and wide-ranging collection of essays and speeches. No fewer than 78 in total, they range over a broad list of topics in which Plutarch observes, dispenses wisdom, admonishes, entertains and informs: covering social issues and politics, manners and religion - in short, life in general.  

Turiddu Macca, ritornato al suo paese dopo aver fatto il soldato, scopre che la realtà in cui viveva prima non esiste più. Se da un lato può godere dell’ammirazione dei giovani compaesani e sfoggiare con orgoglio la divisa e ciò che essa rappresenta, dall’altro si ritrova sentimentalmente sconfitto. La sua amata infatti sposerà qualcuno più ricco di lui, benché l’attrazione fra i due ex sia tutt’altro che scemata. Riuscirà ora Turiddu a farsi valere nei confronti del rivale?

Celebre storia d'amore tra una ragazza di buona famiglia e un bandito, "L'amante di Gramigna" venne portata sul grande schermo anche da Carlo Lizzani nel 1968, nel celebre film interpretato da Gian Maria Volonté e Stefania Sandrelli. In questa novella Verga ci racconta un amore intenso e unico, capace di sfidare leggi e convenzioni. Un sentimento totalizzante che legherà in maniera indissolubile la bella Peppa al bandito Gramigna.

The Mysterious Stranger is a novel by the American author Mark Twain. It tells the tale of three boys, Theodor, Seppi, and Nikolaus, who live relatively happy simple lives in a remote Austrian village called Eseldorf in 1590, and their meeting with a handsome stranger who, unknown to the boys, is Satan incarnate.

Dopo un week-end di passione a Las Vegas, Harlow e Finn si sono sposati... Peccato che la loro unione sia durata solo dodici ore. Non gli ci è voluto molto tempo per scoprire di essere troppo diversi per trascorrere insieme un'intera vita. Ma non è finita... A causa di amicizie comuni e di una chimica un po' folle, Harlow e Finn proseguono il loro rapporto, in un gioco fatto di sesso e opportunismo ma anche di vicinanza e amicizia.

"Je n'ai jamais imaginé que l'acte d'écrire pût s'accomplir à l'extérieur. Et ce fut le penchant que j'avais pour le repli qui me mit dans la voie de l'écriture. Sortir de soi, de chez soi, signifie se perdre. Écrire, à mes yeux, est un acte intime. Nul geste ne me rapproche davantage de moi-même. De ce à quoi je tiens le plus. Rien ne me fait me sentir moins seule, absente, écartée de tout : pas même l'acte d'aimer." (Silvia Baron Supervielle)

Former police psychologist Ronni Alexander had it all before a poison attacked her heart and gave her a death sentence. Now, on her last leg, she has an opportunity to live if she mates a vampire. A real vampire. One night of sex and a good bite, and she'd live forever with no more weaknesses. Well, except for the vampire whose dominance is over the top, and who has no clue how to deal with a modern woman who can take care of herself.

Magical creatures known as beings emerged from hiding amid the destruction of the First World War. Since then they've lived on the margins of the human world as misunderstood objects of fear and desire. Some are beautiful, others fearsome and powerful. Yet for all their magic and strength, they are as vulnerable as anyone when it comes to matters of the heart.

The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the solar system. A listing of alternate histories tells you all the various ways Hitler has died. A lawyer sues an interplanetary union for dangerous working conditions. And four artificial intelligences explain, in increasingly worrying detail, how they plan not to destroy humanity. Welcome to Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. Mrs Lancaster doesn’t believe in ghosts. She moves her family into a house that has been derelict for years, unconcerned about the story of the young boy who lived...