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Unpublished at the time of her death, The Professor is the first novel written by Charlotte Bronte¨, and the seed of her later books, Jane Eyre and Villette. The narrator of the tale, William Crimsworth, tells a story of courage and ambition among jealousy...
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‘Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin. ’ Satan’s final judgement on Victoria sums up a shocking novel, set in Venice at the end of the 15th century, that tracks the path of its heroine from abused victim to fully fledged criminal. Her conscious...
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‘Mountolive who had already found the open sesame of language ready to hand, suddenly began to feel himself really penetrating a foreign country. ’ In Mountolive, the third volume in Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, the events surrounding the interwoven community...
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The Beetle is a horror novel that was published in 1897 and significantly outsold Dracula, which appeared in the same year. A polymorphous Egyptian creature – the Beetle – seeks revenge on the eminent British politician Paul Lessingham for crimes committed...
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Audiobook Basil by Wilkie Collins. Appearing in 1852, Basil was Wilkie Collins’s second published novel. The eponymous narrator is emotionally torn between two women: Margaret Sherwin and his sister Clara. His marriage to Margaret, a draper’s sexually precocious...
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Audiobook The White Guard written by Mikhail Bulgakov. In the Ukrainian capital Kiev (‘the City’), life has become frightening and fragile. Bulgakov’s first full-length novel is set in the harsh and chaotic winter of 1918–19, as power struggles start to play...
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Jane Austen’s most popular novel, originally published in 1813, some 17 years after it was first written, presents the Bennet family of Longbourn.
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Audiobook The Phantom of the Opera, written by Gaston Leroux. Step aboard for perhaps the nearest thing to a ride on a ghost train: a thrilling trip into the murky world that lies deep beneath the vast opera house in Paris, famously haunted by a mysterious...
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‘To inherit a great fortune. To inherit a great misfortune. ’ These words, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s notebook, neatly encapsulate the theme of The House of the Seven Gables – that of a family whose fortunes are poisoned by its past misdeeds. The sins of the...
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Deep in the grounds of Welland House lies an ancient memorial tower, surrounded by a prehistoric wilderness that isolates it from the rest of the land. When one day Viviette Constantine, the wife of the estate’s owner, investigates the tower, she there discovers...
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Audiobook Sartor Resartus written by Thomas Carlyle. Part novel, part philosophical treatise, part satire, Sartor Resartus is a masterpiece of 19th-century literature, following in the footsteps of Swift’s Tale of a Tub and Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and a key...
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Audiobook Jezebel’s Daughter, written by Wilkie Collins. Set in the financial centres of 1820s Frankfurt and London, Jezebel’s Daughter (1880) tells the story of two widows: Madame Fontaine, who will go to any lengths to secure her daughter’s marriage, and...
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Audiokniha Ako sa vyrába ďalší majstrovský veľkofilm, ktorú napísal Tom Hanks. Od oscarového herca a autora bestsellerov: román o vzniku hviezdneho, multimiliónového filmu o superhrdinoch... a o skromných komiksoch, ktoré ho inšpirovali. Vtipný, dojímavý a...
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Audiokniha Idiot, kterou napsal Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij. Neskrátená (takmer 30-hodinová) audioknižná verzia kultového Dostojevského románu Idiot majstrovsky načítaná Petrom Himičom.
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Audiobook The Three Musketeers (EN), written by Alexandre Dumas. Deep dive into Alexandre Dumas' swashbuckling historical adventure tale of honour and chivalry, set during the backdrop of the French monarchy’s slow demise, ´The Three Musketeers´. Kickstarting...
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The Mysterious Island (French: L'Ile mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly different...
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Pierre Aronnax is a famous marine biologist, who works together with his manservant Conseil and harpoonist Ned Land. The three brave men are tirelessly hunting a mysterious sea monster in the dangerous sea waters. But a great danger loom over them. Why are...
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Ahab is the captain of a whaling ship named the Pequod. His great obsession with the giant whale, Moby Dick, makes him embark on a dangerous voyage. Some years before, the captain lost his leg because of the whale and now Ahab’s main desire is to take his revenge...
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