When the Countess Narona meets Agnes Lockwood, the woman jilted by her husbandtobe, she feels a great sense of foreboding. After the marriage, she moves with her husband, Lord Montbarry, to Venice. As much as Agnes tries to forget the episode of her broken engagement, her fate and that of the Countess seem to be inextricably woven. Both are relentlessly drawn to the Palace Hotel in Venice for a final and dramatic encounter, in the room where more than past emotions resurface to haunt them.
Loosely based on a case from the annals of French crime, the horror of this mystery comes through the invention of one of the classic Victorian "sensation" novelists, Wilkie Collins, who also wrote The Moonstone and The Woman in White.
In this, perhaps Dickens' most profound and personal novel, we are invited to share in the sentimental education of Pip, the poor boy from the village forge...
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Though The Arabian Nights are generally known as stories for children, they were originally tales for adults full of adventure, sexuality, violence, and the supernatural...
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Byron was the ideal of the Romantic poet, gaining notoriety for his scandalous private life. Here, Tyrone Power reads a selection of his finest work....
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It is the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bellringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral, who falls in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda....
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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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M. R. James (Montague Rhodes James) was a noted British medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge. He is best remembered today for his ghost stories....
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Jane Austen's lighthearted and witty novel, set in the early 1800s, is the story of a pretty young woman who is looking for a rich and handsome husband....
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If it were I who were to be always young and the picture to grow old, I would give my soul for it. So says Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's brilliant creation who sells his soul for youth and beauty....
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In A Few Quick Ones, P. G. Wodehouse brings together some of his oldest friends for a party. Jeeves and Wooster are there, so is Mr Mulliner and the Oldest Member....
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Renowned professor George O'Brien of Georgetown University provides the biographical background of four Irish authors and an indepth analysis of their greatest works....
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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....
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