Often considered the greatest epic in any modern language, Paradise Lost tells the story of the revolt of Satan, his banishment from Heaven, and the ensuing fall of Man with his expulsion from Eden. It is a tale of immense drama and excitement, of innocence pitted against corruption, of rebellion and treachery, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny.
The struggle ranges across heaven, hell, and earth, as Satan and his band of rebel angels conspire against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, motivated by all too human temptations, but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.
Written in blank verse of unsurpassed majesty, Paradise Lost is the work of a mastermind involved in a profound search for truth.
Milton's stated objective in writing Paradise Lost was to "justify the ways of God to men"; yet a controversy has developed among the literary community as to the epic's merit. "Poetry", said Dr. Johnson in his life of Milton, "is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason." If Paradise Lost does not fulfill this definition, what does?
This short story by Oscar Wilde has been the basis for a movie, a play, and has been required reading for many years.....
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Set in rural Shropshire shortly after the Napoleonic Wars, Precious Bane is narrated by the central character, Prue Sarn, whose life is blighted by having a harelip....
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Emma, originally published in 1815 and deemed Jane Austen's best novel, is a witty satire of English society set within the customary plot: young ladies finding proper husbands....
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a story about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friends....
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Seen through the eyes of Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen paints a charming, often ironic, picture of courtship and love....
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A dangerous man roams the dark, glistening streets of Victorian England. An unrepentant killer, a madman with a tormented soul, returns to the laboratory where it all began...
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This is the first story of The Jungle Book, in which the reader is introduced to Mowgli, the jungle boy, and his animal friends....
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Jane Austen's engaging and infuriating heroine sparkles in this superb fullcast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation, which stars Angharad Rees as Emma....
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Evil apparitions haunt a governess who is put in charge of two supposedly possessed children. In The Third Person, two spinsters add some spice to their lives by entertaining a ghost....
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Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead and subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity....
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En 1906 un acontecimiento real, el intento de volar el Observatorio de Greenwich por parte de un anarquista llamado Martial Bourdin, inspiro a Joseph Conrad el tema de un relato magistral....
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Bruno Alessandro, Aurora Cancian, Dario Penne, Marco Mete, Dante Biagioni, Gino La Monica, Emanuela Rossi
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Lo strano cado del Dr. Jekyll e Mr. Hyde di Robert Louis Stevenson e un romanzo psicologico imperniato sulla vicenda di un medico che scopre la doppia natura degli esseri.....
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The story concerns a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who conducts a great experiment to see if he can create a living being from the body parts of corpses....
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William Wymark Jacobs is now best remembered for his macabre tales like The Monkey's Paw and The Well (both included here), but most of his stories are humorous in tone....
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Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs....
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Why I Recommend
Audible by Alan Twigg
Audible (an Amazon.com company) is the world's leading online
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