Irish World

Idealistic parson's son Jim goes to sea thirsting for adventure as the mate of the pilgrim ship Patna. However, when disaster looms, Jim is persuaded by his crewmates to abandon the ship, leaving the vessel and hundreds of passengers to their fate. But with his life in ruins, Jim alone has the courage to face up to the public censure which follows, piquing the interest of Captain Marlow, who befriends Jim and relates the tale of the young man's attempts to come to terms with his guilt and make an honorable future for himself.

The majority of Vernon Lee’s work was essays and studies on art and history, but this little-known essay’s sense of places lends itself more to poetry than nonfiction. As Lee guides us through an enchanted wood, it gives us an insight into the inspiration behind Lee’s supernatural stories.

Au phare, c'est cette destination vers laquelle se tend et se déploie tout le roman, un serment en suspens, à flux tendu au-dessus des profondeurs abyssales de la conscience des personnages. La promesse d'une promenade scelle l'alliance de Mrs Ramsey avec ses enfants, contre le père, contre vents et marées, le temps qui passe et la Guerre - c'est autour de cette parole donnée que se nouent les désirs enfouis et les pensées tues, que se cristallisent tragiquement les souvenirs d'enfance.

Trentacinquenne appassionato di musica pop, ex dj e attualmente proprietario di un negozio di dischi in cattive acque, Rob Fleming è pieno di interrogativi che lo inquietano. La ragazza lo ha appena lasciato; se per caso ritornasse, sarebbe capace di amarla totalmente, disperatamente come adesso? E inoltre: non farebbe meglio a smettere una buona volta di vivere in mezzo ai cd e a trovarsi un vero lavoro, a farsi una vera casa, una vera famiglia?

The son of a notorious outlaw is adopted into a wealthy, law-abiding family as an infant after his father is killed in an attempted robbery. Will he follow in the footsteps of his outlaw father, or will his life be guided by the respectable woman who nurtured him to manhood?

Tara faces her toughest decisions yet: love or self-respect, family or freedom, and ultimately . . . life or death. After years living under the thumb of a tyrannical Fae mob boss and sacrificing for her family, magical tracker Tara Knightley's world is changing in every way. She's finally found love with the man of her dreams, she's coming into her own with her talents, and she's discovering that her Fae roots run deeper than she ever guessed. But then things begin to unravel. First, Judah's pack forces him to make an impossible choice that could mean the end of his new relationship with ...

Dame Edith Evans, Sir John Gielgud and Anthony Quayle perform a selection of 18th-century comedy.

The Importance of Being Earnest is undoubtably Oscar Wilde's best known play probably due to its sharp wit that cannot help but enchant and entertain any reader, theatregoer or listener with this performance.

Захватывающие истории о приключениях неунывающего художника Смока Беллью, в один прекрасный день решившего отправиться за приключениями и конечно же несметным богатством на Аляску, теперь можно не только читать, но и слушать.

Amiable but stolid peer Bill, Lord Dawlish, possessor of a slender income and a querulous fiancée, resolves to seek his fortune in America. But before he can even get on the boat, he discovers that the eccentric American millionaire whom he cured of slicing his approach-shots on the links at Marvis Bay a few months earlier has unexpectedly left him five million dollars, as a reward for his altruistic action. But to Bill, noblesse more or less obliges him to share the fortune with the old man's disinherited niece, Elizabeth.

The horrors of the First World War devastated many a Dublin family and the Brannigans weren’t spared. Struggling to get past their heartache, the family finds itself divided by both the rebellion against British rule and the wide Atlantic. Devoted matriarch Eda Brannigan witnesses her family unraveling. Sean and Molly make startling choices with potentially lethal consequences. Francis steeps in a drunken angry stupor. Young Brandon is so eerily quiet. Eda desperately wishes her beloved firstborn, Deirdre, wasn’t living so far away. But with a determined resolve, Eda soldiers on in her ...

Spanning a century and two continents, from the muddy fields of Ireland to a hotel room in Paris, a dingy bar in Segovia to an airplane bound for Taipei, The Boatman and Other Stories follows an unforgettable cast of characters. Three gunshots on the Irish border define the course of a young man’s life; a writer clings fast to a star-crossed affair with a woman who has never been fully in his reach; a fisherman accustomed to hard labor rolls up his sleeves to dig a grave for his child.

Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative nonfiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning of home.

As the Great War enters its most deadly phase, Patrick, Jenny, and Danny Carmody must cast aside their personal desires in order to stand with Britain against Germany and her allies. Danny, who is recovering from serious wounds, is devastated when he learns he must return to the Continent to fight at the front. Patrick prays for a shore posting, but the Royal Navy has something much more insidious in store for him. Jenny and Kevin rekindle their love for one another, but their relationship is tested when the Irish people demand their independence.

William Wordsworth is one of the greatest poets of English literature. This poem, Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, is often considered as one of Wordsworth's greatest masterpieces. Here, he explores some of the themes that always inspired him, namely his childhood, memories, the beauties of nature, and the human soul. In this audiobook, the poem has been analyzed with a brief annotation with relevant quotations from the original text. The main poem has also been narrated.

À Middlemarch, cité imaginaire de la province anglaise, vers 1830, la jeune et intelligente Dorothée aspire à de grandes réalisations. Elle épouse le pasteur Casaubon, beaucoup plus âgé qu'elle et espère aider son mari dans les travaux de recherche pour un livre qui devrait être son chef d'œuvre. Mais Casaubon ne la prend pas sérieux, la néglige. De plus, il prend ombrage de l'amitié qui rapproche Will Ladislaw, son cousin, et Dorothée. Ce mariage se révèle être une erreur.

Живя в своем фешенебельном доме в Вестминстере Флер и Майкл Монт вращаются среди самых ярких и привилегированных представителей общества. Но послевоенный Лондон это уже совсем не та старая добрая Англия. Теперь это место для реализации личных амбиций, в котором принято жить одним днем. Сомс Форсайт постоянно находится рядом с любимой дочерью балуя и оберегая ее, но он никак не может понять и принять новые правила жизни. И в тот самый момент, когда думает, что защищает свою дочь, он оказывается инициатором крупного великосветского скандала.

Zwei Jugendfreunde aus Dublin verabreden sich nach knapp 10 Jahren in einer Bar auf ein paar Bier. Während der eine Dublin nie verlassen hat, ist der andere viel gereist, hat neue Erfahrungen gemacht, seinen Horizont erweitert und arbeitet als erfolgreicher Journalist in der Weltstadt London.

James Hogg was an 19th century Scottish writer. Mary Burnet is a traditional Scottish ghost story which he retold.

First love. First heartbreak. First snow. First Snow is a stand-alone single mum reverse harem romance from international best-selling author, Hanleigh Bradley. Three brothers. One childhood sweetheart. There's only two things the Stedman brothers have in common; Lexie O'Neill and their pact to avoid her. It's been almost 10 years since Kendall, Fletcher and Bailey last spoke to Lexie and a lot of things have changed in that time. But this Christmas, the pact might just get broken, but can the Stedman brothers reignite Lexie's belief in the magic of the first snow.