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Lucy Entwhistle's beloved father has just died; aged twenty-two she finds herself alone in the world. Leaning against her garden gate, dazed and unhappy, she is disturbed by the sudden appearance of the perspiring Mr Wemyss. This middle-aged man is also in mourning - for his wife Vera, who has died in mysterious circumstances. Before Lucy can collect herself, Mr Wemyss has taken charge: of the funeral arrangements, of her kind aunt Dot, but most of all of Lucy herself - body and soul.

Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss, both recovering from recent unhappiness, meet and quickly fall in love. However, over their new-found bliss looms the spectre of Vera, Wemyss’s first wife who died in mysterious circumstances. After their wedding the couple return home and Lucy really does begin to be troubled by what happened to Vera. Considered a high-water mark by the author, the story is an extraordinarily black vision of a young wife who gradually begins to understand that her husband will accept nothing less than total intellectual and emotional servitude.

Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charmsnot even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to find out who turned her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Lauras death, he becomes obsessed with her strange power.

Listen to Blue Lagoon with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. Two shipwrecked children grow up on a South Pacific island. This beautiful story of adventure and innocent love was H.D. Stacpoole’s most popular work.

Vera; or, The Nihilists is Oscar Wilde’s first play. It features Russian revolutionaries who seek to assassinate a reform-minded Emperor, and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich who shot the Governor of St. Petersburg in 1878. Contemporary events in Russia, as published in the British press of the time, clearly influenced the plot and characters. The first public performance of Vera; or, The Nihilists was in New York City in 1883. The play was a failure and folded after one week. It remains fascinating as part of a study into the development of Wilde's work.

Sappho was a female poet who was well known in ancient Greece and Rome for her lyrical poetry. She was most famous for her poems involving women who loved women, and it is from her name that sapphic, a term referring to sexual relations between women, originated. This is a compendium of her surviving work, a collection of 54 fragments translated by Henry de Vere Stacpoole.

A selection of writings about gardens and gardening by six 19th-century women, compiled by Dee Palmer, a journalist and writer with a special interest in gardening. When she started the research for this audiobook, she expected to find many differences between the experiences of 19th-century women gardeners and those of today. Instead, she was struck by how modern much of their advice is, and her personal selection from the writings of these six women reflects that.

"Дворянское гнездо" - роман, написанный Иваном Сергеевичем Тургеневым в 1856 - 1858 годах, впервые опубликованный в 1859 в журнале "Современник". Главным героем романа Фёдор Иванович Лаврецкий, дворянин, возвращается из-за границы в Россию, в свое «родовое гнездо», где его всегда ждут и по-прежнему любят....

Илья Артамонов, бывший приказчик князя Георгия, отпущен с большим вознаграждением. Он приезжает с сыновьями в небольшой город Дрёмов и собирается открыть фабрику полотна. На прибывших смотрят с подозрением, всячески пытаясь мешать. Только протекция князя помогла выстоять на первом, самом трудном этапе. Старший сын Пётр женится на дочери местного старосты и после смерти отца, надорвавшегося на стройке, становится главой семейного дела.

P'esa Deti solnca pisalas' v janvare - fevrale 1905 g. v Petropavlovskoj kreposti, v kamere nomer 39 Trubeckogo bastiona, kuda M. Gor'kij byl zakljuchjon 12 janvarja 1905 g. posle aresta po delu o 9 janvarja. Na pervoj stranice rukopisi p'esy, hranjashhejsja v Arhive A. M. Gor'kogo, est' nadpis': Pisalos' v Petropavlovskoj kreposti 16 janvarja - 20 fevralja 1905 goda. Pervaja tetrad'. A. Peshkov. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Theodor Fontanes berühmteste Romanfigur hatte ein lebendes Vorbild: Else von Ardenne hatte wie Effi einen Geliebten...

Sam Gogol' tak otzyvalsja o svoej rabote: V «Revizore» ja reshilsja sobrat' v odnu kuchu vsjo durnoe v Rossii, kakoe ja togda znal, vse nespravedlivosti, kakie delajutsja v teh mestah i v teh sluchajah, gde bol'she vsego trebuetsja ot cheloveka spravedlivosti, i za odnim razom posmejat'sja nad vsem.Scenicheskaja sud'ba p'esy slozhilas' ne srazu.

"Djadjushkin son" - radiospektakl' po motivam odnoimennoj povesti Fjodora Dostoevskogo. Povest' byla opublikovana v Sankt-Peterburge v 1859 godu. V provincial'nyj gorod Mordasov priezzhaet staryj bogatyj knjaz' K. Odna iz mestnyh dam, Mar'ja Aleksandrovna Moskaljova, stremitsja vydat' za nego zamuzh svoju doch' Zinu. Takim obrazom Mar'ja Aleksandrovna zhelaet steret' v mordasovskom obshhestve pamjat' o neudachnom romane Ziny i uchitelja ejo mladshego brata.

Detskij spektakl' "V anglijskoj shkole" po motivam vospitatel'nogo romana Charlza Dikkensa "Zhizn' i prikljuchenija Nikolasa Nikl'bi". Posle smerti otca Nikolas Nikl'bi s mater'ju i sestroj Kjet edet v London prosit' pomoshhi u bogatogo djadi Ral'fa Nikl'bi. Ral'f Nikl'bi napravljaet Nikolasa k Skvirsu, vladel'cu chastnoj shkoly "Akademii Dotbojs-Holl" v Jorkshire. Zdes' Nikolas obnaruzhivaet, chto shkola bol'she napominaet tjur'mu: deti golodajut, podvergajutsja zhestokim nakazanijam.

Otello, mavr, sniskal sebe slavu kak velikolepnyj polkovodec. On znakomitsja s Dezdemonoj, docher'ju Brabancio. Porazhjonnaja ego rasskazami o voennyh kampanijah, devushka vljubljaetsja v Otello i tajno s nim venchaetsja. Brabancio obrashhaetsja k dozhu Venecii, polagaja, chto mavr vljubil v sebja Dezdemonu posredstvom koldovstva. Odnako Otello udajotsja ubedit' vseh, chto Dezdemona sovershenno svobodna v svoej vole: «Ona menja za muki poljubila, a ja ejo za sostradan'ja k nim».

P'esa rasskazyvaet o zhizni Vassy Zheleznovoj, bogatoj sudovladelicy. Razmerennoe techenie zhizni Vassy narushaet neozhidannyj priezd iz-za granicy nevestki Rashel'. Syn Vassy, Fjodor, tjazhelo bolen i umiraet za granicej. Rashel' priehala zabrat' syna Nikolaja, kotoryj zhivjot s Vassoj. Vnuk Kolja - nadezhda Vassy, ejo osnovnoj naslednik, imenno emu ona sobiraetsja peredat' kompaniju.

Zhizn' puritanskoj sem'i amerikanskih kolonistov menjaetsja pod natiskom vojny za nezavisimost'. Nekotorye chleny sem'i eshhe pytajutsja zhit' po obychnym normam svoego sushhestvovanija, no politika uzhe vmeshalas' i vtjanula glavnogo geroja v paradoksal'nuju situaciju. No final jetoj istorii budet samym neozhidannym.

Diego Carriazo y Tomás de Avendaño son dos jóvenes de buenas familias burgalesas que, deseando correr aventuras, deciden engañar a sus padres, diciéndoles que quieren ir a estudiar a Salamanca... cuando lo que en realidad quieren es recorrer aquellas ciudades de España donde poder aprender toda clase de picardías, que nada tienen que ver con el estudio Pero quiere la fortuna que, cuando se hospedan en la posada del sevillano, en Toledo, haya allí una fregona de tal belleza que Tomás se enamorará perdidamente de ella.

En esta historia los protagonistas son dos perros, Cipión y Berganza, que se encuentran recostados a la entrada del hospital de la Resurrección en Valladolid, cuando se dan cuenta que, de repente y de forma inexplicable ,parecen haber adquirido el don del habla. Deciden, pues, aprovechar esta sobrenatural circunstancia para contarse el uno al otro sus vidas.Es Berganza que comienza con la historia de su vida, que, al estilo de la del Lazarillo de Tormes, le hace pasar alegrías y desdichas de la mano de los distintos amos que le han ido tocando lo largo de su vida.

Спектакль "Потерянное письмо" по одноименной комедии румынского писателя, драматурга И.Л.Караджале (1852 - 1912). Действие комедии разворачивается в провинциальном городке вокруг парламентских выборов. Они проходят в обстановке произвола, шантажа, подкупа, закулисных махинаций, типичных для буржуазно-помещичьей Румынии. Абсолютную неразборчивость в средствах достижения успеха демонстрируют обе партии - правящая и оппозиционная....