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Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage...

The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world. Completed in 8 AD, it has remained one of the most popular works of mythology, being the Classical work best known to medieval writers and thus having a great deal of influence...

Extrait : "I. « Flandre, à la rescousse ! gare au bras de fer ! » tel était le cri de guerre du comte Beauduin Bras-de-Fer. II. Quand on ouissait tel cri au plus fort de la mêlée, vous pouvez être bien sûrs qu'il s'ouvrait aussitôt un vaste passage ; car le trépas était immanquable à qui...

From Shakespeare’s historical plays and comedies such as As You Like It and The Taming of the Shrew, to the great tragedies of Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet you will find the famous plots, wit and drama. This volume is a reprint of the Hayes Barton titles published for the educational market. Included are his Sonnets and longer poems.

From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes...

This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public figure. Also included here is the best of Johnson's...

En El innombrable, un narrador cuya identidad es casi imposible de desentrañar (¿es una persona, es varias o no es ninguna?), filosofa sobre su oscura vida y se va sumiendo, a medida que avanza la historia, en la más terrible desesperación, en un estilo de monólogo interior muy similar al Ulises...

**By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative novel about Roy Basch and five of his fellow interns at the most renowned teaching hospital in the country.  “The raunchy, troubling, and hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon....

The son of a white man and a Cherokee, Joseph Willis must live as a slave on his own property. His struggle for freedom is complicated by a love forbidden by society and his newfound spiritual faith. Declaring himself a slave to Jesus Christ, he experiences an eternal freedom no man or government can...

“A blisteringly good collection.”  “Will read everything in this series I can get my hands on.”  “These stories are full of great, complex characters (not all of them human), twists and turns, and fantastic world-building.” Epic space battles. Exotic aliens. Far-flung...

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Astronomy is one of the oldest natural sciences. From ancient times, people have recorded methodical observations of objects in the night sky and attempted to understand the mysteries of the universe. This title provides an engaging and up-to-date presentation of fundamental astronomy facts and principles....