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Fourteen outstanding authors. Fourteen worlds that never were. Throughout the human experience, historians have wondered, “What if?” What if Japan had been on the side of the U.S. in World War II? What if things had been just a little different in the Falklands? What if Russia had started World War Three?

In this romance anthology, 15 Austenesque authors assemble to sketch Darcy's character through a series of reimaginings, set in the Regency through contemporary times - from faithful narratives to the fanciful. In The Darcy Monologues, the man himself reveals his intimate thoughts, his passionate dreams, and his journey to love - all told with a previously concealed wit and enduring charm.

The Socialist Scholars Conference, held every spring in New York City for the last 23 years, is the largest event of the U.S. Left. Every year thousands of radical activists, socialists, feminists, anarchists, union organizers, black liberation advocates, alternative journalists, and democratic scholars gather for a weekend of spirited debate and dialogue. This is the beston-going conference in America.

The Book of Genesis sets out the power of God, the creator, and in doing so opens to door on an endless controversy over its interpretation. Jane Williams' insightful ebook explores how Genesis still has much profound use behind the noise and why it remains one of the most powerful texts ever written.

Acts of the Apostles tells the story of a disparate group of men who, against the odds, came to spearhead an international movement. Jane Williams examines the central messages of Acts and how and why they matter to us. The How to Believe series of books explores the teachings, philosophies, and beliefs of major thinkers and religious texts. In a short, easy-to-access format, leading writers present new understandings of these perennially important ideas.

This anthology looks back over some of the great love affairs of literary history. It includes readings of poetry, letters and scenes from fiction written by British poets and authors from Shakespearian times to the twentieth century. Here are real-life romantic couples, such as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and Fanny Brawne, Lord Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb, Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning.

Read by Juliet Stevenson and Simon Callow, A Literary Christmas is a seasonal anthology that collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens’ ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and new - from John Donne’s Elizabethan hymn over the baby Jesus to Rudyard Kipling’s "Christmas in India", from Thomas Tusser counting the cost of a Tudor feast to Laurie Lee’s "Cider with Rosie".

Climate change is a major topic of concern today and will be so for the foreseeable future, as predicted changes in global temperatures, rainfall, and sea level continue to take place. But as Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams reveal in The Goldilocks Planet, the climatic changes we are experiencing today hardly compare to the changes the Earth has seen over the last 4.5 billion years.

This is a diverting delight, a window on romance in literature. There are high lovers and low lovers, tragic lovers, comic lovers, and lovers who shouldn’t be doing what they are doing at all and certainly not then and there. There is even Fanny Hill trying not to discover what physical love is about when set upon by an old roué who has paid for the privilege. Though of special interest for lovers and their special lover’s day of St. Valentine, it is an amusing and sometimes surprising collection.

Normalerweise nimmt die Londonerin Nadia die 7:30-U-Bahn - es sei denn, sie verschläft oder übernachtet bei ihrer Freundin Emma oder es kommt eben sonst irgendetwas dazwischen. Schließlich ahnt Nadia nicht, dass Daniel jeden Morgen auf sie wartet, seit er sie in einem mit Kaffee bespritzten Kleid gesehen und sich nicht getraut hat, sie anzusprechen. Dann entdeckt Nadia eines Tages eine Anzeige in der Zeitung: "An die hinreißende Frau mit den Kaffee-Flecken auf dem Kleid: Ich bin der Typ, der immer in der Nähe der Tür steht und darauf hofft, dich wiederzusehen. Lust auf einen Drink?"

Bli bekant med de viktigaste engelska författarna genom sina egna ord, tack vare ett urval av viktiga citat och utdrag från de viktigaste verk av William Shakespeare, Jane Austen och Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Denna ljudbok hjälper dig att upptäcka och förstå deras tänkande genom ett noggrant urval av representativa citat från deras verk, så att du presenterar deras idéer genom sina egna ord och på ett mycket effektivt sätt.

For the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times best-selling editors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, with stories of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and friends in a variety of eras and forms. King and Klinger have a simple formula: Ask some of the world's greatest writers-regardless of genre - to be inspired by the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. The results are surprising and joyous.

The Life Diet is Laura Jane Williams' brilliantly funny, painfully honest and inspiringly insightful philosophy of what it means to curate your life in order to fill your time, thoughts and relationships with inspiration, motivation, and love - by getting rid of everything else. A manifesto...

With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter, Philip Pullman, Alice Pung, Jancis Robinson...

When the day finally comes for Annie to marry Alexander, the last thing she expects is to be left standing at the altar. She was so sure he was Mr Right. Now, she has no idea how she could have got it so wrong. After a chance meeting with Patrick, an old friend who reminds her of who she used to be, Annie takes a vow of her own: she’ll say yes to every opportunity that comes her way from now on. Could a spontaneous trip with Patrick be the way to mend Annie’s heart? She’s about to find out as she embarks on her honeymoon - with a man who’s not her husband.

Penny Bridge has always been unlucky in love. So she can’t believe it when she meets a remarkable new man. Followed by another. And then another. And all of them want to date her.

Selten hat Izzy einen Kurzurlaub so nötig gehabt - und selten hat sie sich so sehr darauf gefreut, denn sie ist zur wohl glamourösesten Hochzeit des Jahres eingeladen, die auf einem Schloss in der Toskana stattfindet. Sams Begeisterung über die Einladung hält sich dagegen in Grenzen, nachdem ihn seine Freundin am Flughafen eiskalt abserviert hat. Prompt verschüttet sein Neffe im Flugzeug auch noch ein Glas Milch über Sam.

"300 Quotes from English Writers" is a carefully crafted collection of quotes from some of England’s greatest-ever writers, including Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. Between them, they are responsible for many of the world's most famous literary works, such as "Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Sense and Sensibility", and "Pride and Prejudice". This compilation contains many famous quotes and is guaranteed to inspire, educate, and amuse. 300 Quotes from English Writers will delight fans of some of the greatest English authors.

Join us as we seek to encourage, edify, and embrace the feminine joys of delighting in life.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of 1800 to 1849 and its male authors whose time has now come again.