Audiobook Tales of the Elders of Ireland, written by Oxford University Press. Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Acallam na Senórach) represents the largest literary text surviving from 12th-century Ireland, the most comprehensive early collection of Fenian stories...
Audiobook The Crystal Stopper, written by Maurice Leblanc. When Arsene Lupin and two of his criminal associates try to rob the villa of Deputy Daubrecq, things do not go according to plan and Lupin’s two partners are arrested and sentenced to death, leaving...
Audiobook Fräulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther, written by Elizabeth von Arnim. Fräulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther is a novella written by Elizabeth von Arnim, a British-German author known for her witty and insightful novels. Published in 1907, the story revolves...
Audiobook The Man Who Disappeared (America), written by Franz Kafka. Rhe first of Kafka’s three great novels, The Man Who Disappeared (America) follows the picaresque adventures of Karl Rossman, who is banished to America following a family scandal. Upon his...
Audiobook This Side of Paradise written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise proved to be a best-selling novel in Fitzgerald’s own lifetime. The book follows the early life and education of Amory Blaine and is, in fact,...
Often compared to Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest tells the poignant story of a passionate and spontaneous young woman who becomes trapped in a dull and restrictive upper-class existence. Married at the tender age of 17 to Geert...
Orphaned at the age of 10, Jim Burden moves to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. There he meets Ántonia Shimerda, the daughter of an immigrant family from Bohemia, who have come to carve out a life for themselves in the harsh and bountiful Nebraskan landscape....
Justine is the first volume in The Alexandria Quartet, four interlinked novels set in the sensuous, hot environment of Alexandria just before the Second World War. Within this polyglot setting of richly idiosyncratic characters is Justine, wild and intense,...
Gertrude Stein’s pioneering triptych Three Lives portrays the lives of three working-class women in the fictional American town of Bridgepoint (Baltimore). A progenitor of the ‘stream of consciousness’ technique later adopted by Joyce and Woolf, Stein takes...
Audiobook News from Nowhere by William Morris. Although William Morris is known primarily as a designer, he was also a writer of poetry and prose. The novel News from Nowhere (subtitled An Epoch of Rest Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance) is his best-known...
Audiobook A Bridge in Time (EN), written by Elisabeth McNeill. The railway promises progress – but in Camptounfoot, change comes at a cost. In 1853, Scotland’s oldest village stands on the brink of transformation. When shy but determined Emma Jane Wylie loses...
Audiokniha Šaman, kterou napsal Noah Gordon. Někteří muži ze skotské lékařské dynastie Coleů jsou obdařeni schopností instinktivně vycítit, kdy se blíží smrt. Náleží k nim také Rob J. Cole, který se v druhé polovině 19. století připojil k prvním bělošským přistěhovalcům...
Audiokniha Sophiina volba, kterou napsal William Styron. „Nikdy se nemohla vymanit z dusivého vědomí, že v jejím životě byla doba, kdy hrála roli účastnice na plánovaném zločinu. “
Audiobook The Towers of Trebizond, written by Rose Macaulay. Rose Macaulay was a fascinating and influential British writer, known for her wit and intellect. She wrote numerous novels, essays and biographies, and she was highly regarded for her versatility...
Audiobook The Hollow Needle: The Further Adventures of Arsene Lupin, written by Maurice Leblanc. An exciting and entertaining listen for fans of detective fiction, The Hollow Needle features the popular character Arsene Lupin. Gentleman-burglar and master of...
The Poetic Edda is the most important collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, covering the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, The Doom of the Gods. The mythological poems are an exploration of the wisdom of gods and giants,...
More preoccupied with drinking, sleeping and writing, an unnamed student neglects his studies and invents three separate openings for a novel. The first introduces the Pooka MacPhellimey, ‘a member of the devil class’, the second involves Mr John Furriskey,...
Published in 1897, The Spoils of Poynton is one of the quintessential works of James’s middle period. The ‘spoils’ of the book’s title refer to furniture and other objets d’art that the widow Adela Gereth moves to her cottage so that they are kept away from...