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For over 500 years, The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli has been one of the most influential—and controversial—works ever written on leadership, politics, and human nature. This Complete Edition brings Machiavelli’s insights to today’s listener with a faithful line-by-line modernization that keeps the original tone, structure, and message fully intact. Designed to be both accessible and authentic, this edition allows modern listeners to engage directly with Machiavelli’s ideas—without the barriers of outdated language or dense phrasing.

In 1920, Ireland stands on the brink of civil war. Lucie returns to her familial home to settle the estate, where she uncovers an abundance of handwritten letters—a lifetime’s worth of cherished memories and guarded secrets between her mother and aunts—as well as her grandfather’s diary. As she reads through her findings, Lucie begins to wonder just how well she knew her relatives and the circumstances of their lives.

A punto de cumplir 50 años, Nerea Sánchez descubre que ha vivido más para los demás que para sí misma. Siempre cumpliendo expectativas, siempre en el lugar que se suponía correcto. Hasta que un giro inesperado en su vida la obliga a preguntarse: ¿Y si todavía hay tiempo para cambiar? Un curso de escritura se convierte en el detonante de su transformación. Entre páginas llenas de recuerdos y verdades que nunca se atrevió a decir, Nerea comienza a reconstruirse. Su matrimonio se desmorona, su hija encuentra su propio camino y un amor del pasado reaparece, no para rescatarla, sino ...

Ian Fleming was best known for bringing to life the legendary character of James Bond, one of the most beloved and enduring icons of our time, but he was perhaps even more interesting than his creation. His career in Naval Intelligence and extensive travels around the world gave Fleming a keen eye and the authority to write on a wide range of topics beyond Bond’s adventures. This collection contains a selection of journalism and other writings by Fleming, covering his wartime experiences, reflections on crime and espionage, and the process of writing his novels, among other topics.

The City of Winchester has long been associated with King Arthur. In the alternative city that only Tony Peterson can travel to, some people are taking the legends far too seriously. King Arthur's massive Round Table has even been stolen from the City's Great Hall. Having just got married, Tony only travels over to sort out his finances but is immediately drawn into a conspiracy to set the British Empire against the Germans and Russians. Once again, he ends up helping his friend, Inspector Frank Cosgrove to try and unravel what is going on before it is too late. Nothing is as it seems and ...

In seinem ersten Roman »Buddenbrooks« erzählt Thomas Mann nur wenig verschlüsselt die Geschichte seiner Familie und ihrer Stellung in der Vaterstadt Lübeck, soweit er sie nachvollziehen, in Einzelheiten überblicken konnte, ja sogar noch miterlebt hat. Verwandte, Honoratioren und markante Persönlichkeiten seiner Jugend werden integriert. Es ist die Geschichte des langsamen Niedergangs einer reichen Kaufmannsfamilie über vier Generationen hinweg. Gert Westphal liest diesen epochalen Roman in ganzer Länge.

"'Now the Holy Thing is among us once again. So fast, brother, and pray. Tell the others to fast and pray, that perchance the vision may come to you too—and to them—and so the world may be healed.'" This book is a novelisation of The Holy Grail, Book 8 of Tennyson's Idylls of the King. In this account of the Grail legend, Percivale, having retired to a monastery, recounts to a fellow monk his experience of the Grail quest. This prose version is intended to make the poem more accessible to the general reader and students of the poem, as well as being a good read in itself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias masterfully encapsulates the transient nature of power and the enduring consequences of human hubris. Through the vivid imagery of a decaying statue in an endless desert, Shelley illustrates how Ozymandias's once-mighty empire has crumbled into obscurity, leaving behind only a shattered monument and an ironic inscription: "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" This stark contrast between the king's boastful proclamation and the surrounding desolation serves as a poignant reminder that all human achievements, no matter how grand, are ultimately ephemeral.

Legend Banks is a man with a troubled past. After losing both parents at a young age, he was left to be raised by his aunt. While serving a two-year sentence, Legend finally found his calling as a chef behind bars. Upon his release, he was determined to make his aunt proud while making a name for himself in the culinary field. Not knowing his ex that left him to do his time alone would cause chaos in his life. As he is trying to enjoy his new life as a successful, single, and wealthy man, an older woman captures his attention. Envy Knox is facing challenges while rebuilding her life and ...

William Blake's first biographer, Alexander Gilchrist, wanted to believe that Blake was a "new kind of man; and hence his was a new kind of art, and a new kind of poetry." However, what sets William Blake apart as a great poet and artist was not that he was so "new," but that he was so "old." He was a part of a mytho-poetic and Vatic tradition as old as poetry itself. Blake was heir to a mytho-poetic tradition that can be traced back to the very foundations of human thought and speech. The extraordinary in William Blake was not the "man," but his Vision and how he expressed it. But most (if...

This comprehensive presentation of Roland Barthes’s work tracks his intellectual evolution, with particular emphasis on those areas where his influence is felt most strongly today. Key stages in Barthes’s intellectual itinerary are discussed in seven core chapters: Mythologies; Semiology; New criticism; Structuralism; Reader writer and text; Pleasure, the body and the self; and Photography. In each chapter concepts are contextualised so that the reader may understand the issues debated during the period under scrutiny, and the strength and originality of Barthes’s contribution to ...

This introductory study is part of the Literature Insights series, aimed at students and the general reader. Thomas Hardy is unique in English literature as a major novelist who is also a major poet. His collected poetry is among the most distinctive bodies of verse in the language, and includes such pinnacles of the lyric tradition as ‘The Darkling Thrush’, the haunted love-elegies written in memory of his first wife Emma, and such instantly recognizable titles as ‘Drummer Hodge’, ‘A Trampwoman’s Tragedy’, and ‘Convergence of the Twain’. It is also among the most ...

A new collection of Scottish folk and fairy tales. Mixing a new take on some traditional tales with original pieces. Pages filled with Selkies, Giants and animals quite shrewd. Witches, Kelpies and men who stood. Forty tales for you to read, of love, of loss, of betrayal and greed.

From the shores of Dieppe in 1942 to The Foreign Department in Kemsley House, from treasure hunting in Norfolk and fine dining in London to a golden typewriter in Jamaica, these are the writings of Ian Fleming. This collection of rarely-seen journalism spans Fleming’s career as an author, encompassing reviews for the Sunday Times, Second World War documents, travel journalism and his correspondence with Raymond Chandler and Geoffrey Boothroyd. It also includes newly-unearthed articles that have not been available for over half a century plus two very early works of fiction.

He thought he knew everything about his wife... He was wrong! Tom and Amy Pearce have built a seemingly perfect life - a loving marriage, a beautiful daughter, fulfilling careers, and a comfortable home. They couldn't ask for more. So why is Amy hiding something? When Tom stumbles upon an object he believed was lost in a tragic accident, memories flood back, catapulting him into an emotional whirlwind. A few days later, Tom observes an encounter between Amy and a mysterious stranger. The subtle shift in her demeanour piques his concern, stirring a deep unease within him. Desperate for ...

Disorderly Magic and Other Disturbances is a pop meditation on a number of themes: speed, delirium and distance, disillusion, urbanity, various manifestations of the idea of the wilderness and the wasteland, madness, dissolution, memory, mourning, forgetting, hauntology, hauntings, rapid transits, the non-existent, and conjuring the future. The work mixes magic, culture, mystery, memoir, history, melodrama — it is an invocation, an evocation, with dreamlike freedom of movement between past and present, from personal to universal.

Hemingway and Lorca: Blood, Sand, and Duende by Barbara Scott Immerse yourself in the vibrant world of Andalusia’s ancient culture with Hemingway and Lorca: Blood, Sand, and Duende by Barbara Scott. This compelling literary study explores how the rich heritage of Southern Spain profoundly shaped the works of Ernest Hemingway and Federico García Lorca, two literary giants born continents apart yet united by the region’s evocative traditions. From the blood and sand of the bullring to the soulful rhythms of gypsy flamenco and the mystical essence of duende, this book reveals how ...

IT SANK IN THE NOW, ex-pat down with all hands seen one Wednesday in a sinking southern city. It hit the April showers serving death en route to Yorkshire, killing peace and war and Mary timed it well, she was the biggest, longest woman to float the virgin shore. Oceanus tells a story that’s been told a thousand times before, one that’s known all around the world – the tale of a passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean with massive loss of life. Oceanus tells the story of the RMS Titanic. *** Praise for Eyes Like Lighthouses When the Boats Come Home: “Recommended for ...

Sherlock Holmes is back in one of his most gripping and high-stakes cases, The Sign of the Four. When a beautiful and mysterious woman seeks Holmes' help in uncovering the truth behind her father's disappearance and a series of anonymous gifts, the great detective and his steadfast companion, Dr. Watson, are pulled into a web of deception, murder, and long-buried secrets.

An oddly beautiful, warm room with a giant window looks out upon the sea. A man and a woman must face a fateful decision in the room. There is untold beauty in this place. The couple have a complex history. The man is a veteran, a pilot who has seen action. His wife, a beautiful woman he met during the war. Will they settle the rift that lies between them or go their separate ways?