Family Life Classics

Vor dem Hintergrund des aufkommenden Faschismus in Italien entfaltet Franz Werfel die Familiengeschichte eines Witwers mit 6 Kindern. Die Diktatur des "pater familias" altrömischer Schule lässt den Kindern kaum die Luft zum Atmen. Doch das Schicksal erbarmt sich. Die dramatischen Ereignisse überschlagen sich und bringen den Patriarchen durch schwere Schicksalsschläge zu später Einsicht. Neapolitanisches Lokalkolorit und liebevoll gezeichnete Charaktere machen diesen Roman, bei dem auch eine Prise Humor nicht fehlt, zu einem ungetrübten Hörvergnügen.

Romanzo, scritto nel 1815, dopo "Orgoglio e pregiudizio" e "Ragione e sentimento", è il primo romanzo in cui l'eroina è bella, ricca e senza impedimenti di sorta (tanto che la Austen disse che quell'eroina non sarebbe piaciuta a nessuno fuorché a lei); per cui non ha necessità di sposarsi per vivere, e pertanto decide di "non sposarsi mai".

With an introduction by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James. Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note. Oreo’s quest is to find her father and discover the secret of her birth. What ensues in Fran Ross' opus is a playful, modernised parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with a feminist twist, immersed in '70s pop culture and mixing standard English, black vernacular and Yiddish with wisecracking aplomb.

This delightful true story, written in the first person by the spouse of the title character, will have readers reliving their own pasts. Baby boomers will surely savor references to the pop culture, history, and politics of their collective youth as they get caught up in the personal lives of the author and his spouse. In an afternoon you will learn how a speeding ticket and an interest in four-part a cappella harmony intersected with the Cold War to start the protagonists on the road to holy matrimony.

Главный герой Гордей находит золотой жилу, нежданное счастье, а потому "дикое". Роман о конфликте ценностей, материальное благо или счастьем семьи? Аудиокнига. Русская классика.

"Out on the islands that poke their rocky shores above the waters of Penobscot Bay, you can watch the time of the world go by, from minute to minute, hour to hour, from day to day..." So begins this classic story of one summer on a Maine island from the author of One Morning in Maine and Blueberries for Sal. The spell of rain, the gulls and a foggy morning, the excitement of sailing, the quiet of the night, the sudden terror of a hurricane, and, in the end, the peace of the island as the family packs up to leave are shown in McClosky's poetic language brought to life.

Set at the outbreak of World War II, Lady Sophia Garfield dreams of becoming a beautiful spy but manages not to notice a nest of German agents right under her nose. Until the murder of her maid and the kidnapping of her beloved bulldog force them on her attention, with heroic and absurd results. One of Mitford's earliest novels and written before Christmas 1939, Pigeon Pie is delivered with a touch lighter than that of her later masterpieces but no less entertaining. This comedy combines glamour, wit and a fiendishly absurd plot into an irresistible literary confection.

Blanche, lady Chester, una joven bella, recién casada y embarazada, y también un poco engreída, se traslada a regañadientes junto con su hermana Aileen a una casa adosada de las afueras mientras su marido, Charles, se encuentra de misión diplomática en Berlín. Al llegar, descubre horrorizada que sus vecinos, los que ocupan la casa adosada a la suya, son de una clase social inferior a la suya.

Michail Saltykov, (1826-1889) nacque in uno sperduto villaggio russo, sesto di sette figli, figlio di un tipico nobile di provincia, proprietario di terre che lasciava amministrare alla moglie, di venticinque anni più giovane di lui, figlia di mercanti, avarissima, ignorante e spietata fustigatrice dei figli, che Michail odiò per tutta la vita e che rappresenterà nel suo capolavoro, «La famiglia Golovlev», nella figura della madre.

Il testo integrale del romanzo reso celeberrimo dall’adattamento a cartoni animati avvenuto nel 1974 ll romanzo fu in realtà pubblicato nel 1880 ed è ambientato fra la Svizzera e la Germania intorno alla fine dell'Ottocento. La storia racconta di come Heidi, una bambina di cinque anni, orfana e priva di qualsiasi istruzione, venga allevata sulle montagne svizzere, e sia poi costretta a confrontarsi con una realtà cittadina, che, pur nella sofferenza, le darà il dono di apprendere la lettura e di credere in Dio.

When Lilia, an English widow, marries a penniless Italian while on vacation, her dead husband's relatives are not amused. That the marriage should fail and Lilia die tragically are to be expected. But that she should have a baby, and that the baby should be raised Italian, of all things, are matters requiring immediate correction. E.M. Forster's first novel addresses cultural collisions and English middle-class sterility.

Um die Gerüchte zu verdrängen, dass seine geliebte Tochter Klara in der fernen Stadt auf die schiefe Bahn geraten sei, erfindet Jan Andersson eine wahnhafte Scheinwelt: Dort ist die Tochter eine Kaiserin, er selbst der "Kaiser von Portugallien". Als Klara nach fünfzehn Jahren in die Heimat zurückkehrt, erträgt sie ihren geisteskranken Vater nicht – ein Familiendrama beginnt. Es sind Romane wie dieser, mit denen Selma Lagerlöf berühmt wurde. 1909 erhielt sie als erste Frau den Literaturnobelpreis.

Runaway Bunny, The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant, and Goodnight Moon are national treasures and many of us remember them from our childhoods. Catherine Zeta-Jones narrates The Runaway Bunny in a new piano-trio version composed by GPR Records artistic director and four-time Emmy Award Winner, Glen Roven. This piece premiered at Carnegie Hall with the American Symphony. Runaway Bunny was written in 1942 and has been published continuously since that time - it's a wonderful timeless story of free thinking and creativity.

La storia di Eugénie è ambientata a Saumur, piccolo paesino della campagna francese. Il padre di Eugénie, che in città è conosciuto come papà Grandet, è un vecchio vignaiuolo arricchitosi grazie all'eredità paterna fatta fruttare tramite giusti investimenti finanziari, ha un fiuto infallibile per gli affari e ad una proverbiale avarizia, che suscita in lui un notevole attaccamento all'oro che “sembrava aver comunicato il suo colore al suo viso”. Nonostante la sua ricchezza, quindi, il padrone di casa fa di tutto per nasconderla, non parlarne e, soprattutto, non spenderla.

Northanger Abbey certainly contains some elements of 18th century Gothic “potboilers” but with a satiric slant. It has the overbearing father who was “not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters”, although her mother does not die giving birth to her, and the “heroine”, Catherine Morland, prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes like watering rose bushes or feeding canaries. The book is a hilarious parody and certainly the most lighthearted of Austen's novels.

When young minister Noah and his dutiful wife arrive at their new post in the hills, they find a gray and wet little town where it's been raining for as long as anyone can remember. Noah's wife is determined to help her husband revive this soggy congregation, but she soon finds her efforts thwarted by her eccentric new neighbors, among them an idiom-wielding Italian hardware store owner, a towering town matriarch, and a lovelorn zookeeper determined to stand by his charges.

The sea was in Michael’s blood from the moment he was born.With most of his life spent travelling from one far away destination to another, when tragedy strikes unexpectedly and takes everything away from him, Michael’s heart is marooned at sea. However, when he chances upon a rag tag band of sea farers with ambitious ideals, he thinks he just may have found a new purpose.

Året er 1930, og det er jul på Fyrø. Men intet går, som det skal. En vinteraften bliver øen afskåret fra omverdenen, og nu er gode råd dyre - for hvordan holder man jul, når man ikke kan få fat i alle de ting, som man plejer? "Jul på Fyrø" er en julekalenderbog beregnet til højtlæsning og inddelt i 24 spændende og sjove kapitler - ét til hver dag.

B.J. Harrison reads Louisa May Alcotts famous novella "Behind a Mask", which is widely considered to be Alcotts masterpiece in sensation fiction. A wealthy Victorian-era family recruits Jean Muir as sixteen-year-old Bellas governess. But soon enough, Jean Muir appears to have everyone under her spell, and to have the power to do everything as she pleases. This novella from the late 19th century was initially published under Louisa May Alcotts pseudonym A. M. Barnard...

A raging flood in Missouri took the lives of a married couple who barely got their three-year-old son into a cradle that carried him downstream. The parents were drowned. A kind rancher managed to pull the makeshift device to shore and wound up calling the boy Dave and raising the youngster to manhood without a known family name. The savior didn’t officially adopt the boy but they behaved as a loving father and son in adult life. A scoundrel family discovered the truth and labeled the young man a “nameless nobody.”