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Brought to you by Penguin. I can change the story because I am the story. With her execution looming, a woman is fighting for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy. A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century 'Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it together...' Picking up where Things I Don't Want to Know...

How do we keep going in a burning world? Songs from the Firefront is a vital and moving memoir in essays from Tim Winton, twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Cloudstreet and The Riders. A memoir in essays, Songs from the Firefront is a book about the sacred fragility of existence. Deeply...

Untold accounts of the biggest recent anti-terror operations First-hand reports of the most riveting anti-terror encounters in the wake of the 2016 surgical strikes, the men who hunted terrorists in a magical Kashmir forest where day turns to night, a pair of young Navy men who gave their all to...

A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel The Liar, and the best of Fry's weekly column for the Daily Telegraph...

Here is Virginia Woolf at her most entertaining and informative, relishing the portraits and insights she presents as she surveys a varied collection of individuals in English society and English literature. In The Common Reader Volume 2, (published in 1932), the essay lives on and even more so in this sensitive and engaging book by Georgina Sutton.

5. Dezember 1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stirbt in Wien. Sein alter Freund Gottfried von Jaquin ist zutiefst getroffen. Er fühlt selbst den Tod nahen und muss doch zusehen, wie sein - viel jüngerer - Freund und Lehrer plötzlich erkrankt und vor ihm ablebt. Keine 50 Tage später stirbt auch er. In den "Betrachtungen eines Freundes" hat Gottfried von Jaquin dem großen Komponisten ein wundervolles Denkmal gesetzt, indem er Briefe von und an Mozart sammelt und mit seinen eigenen Beobachtungen und Betrachtungen kommentiert. Es ist das Zeugnis einer langjährigen, engen Freundschaft und zeigt Mozart sehr privat.

"Îşi bat joc de tine. Te fură, te învârt pe degete, te mint. Îţi castrează legile şi-ţi râd în nas. Te fac să-ţi fie ruşine să scoţi buletinul în aeroporturile lumii. Te tratează cu dispreţ şi, când li se pare c-ar fi nevoie, cu gaze. Te duc cu preşul promisiunilor. Te...

Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past...

A new collection of inspiring personal philosophies from another noteworthy group of people This second collection of This I Believe essays gathers seventy-five essayists—ranging from famous to previously unknown—completing the thought that begins the book's title. With contributors who run...

'1가정 1보급'이 시급한 지독한 사랑꾼이 온다!『오베라는 남자』 프레드릭 배크만 첫 에세이배우 이종혁 강력 추천!"사랑하는 이들에게 선물하고 싶은 책"내 곁의 소중한 사람에게 건네고 싶은 러브레터! 『나보다 소중한...

Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to films with a fresh set of eyes and...

Un festín para quienes saben que comer también es una forma de contar historias «Como y recuerdo, recuerdo y como». Con ese mantra como guía, Benito Taibo regresa a los sabores, olores y texturas que han marcado su vida. En este segundo tomo de Cuchara y memoria, que abarca de la langosta...

Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.

This second collection of essays from actor and author Tim Dalgleish is packed full of diverse literary and historical essays including pieces on George Orwell, his poetry, being taught by Aldous Huxley, living in Paris and his ability to quietly read, on family outings in the car, whilst in the company of two guinea pigs, a cat, a baby, rugs, holiday paraphernalia, and a poorly goat.

Are the illustrious clans of the Mahabharata from Surya Vansh or Chandra Vansh? Which yuga does the Ramayana occur in, and does it occur only once? What do haldi, kumkum, bhasm or chandan signify in a puja thali? After the sensational response to Season 1 of EPIC Channel’s Devlok with Devdutt...

「あの旅」を斎藤工が全文読む――26歳の青年の人生を決定的に変えてしまった陸路二万キロが始まった！

Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der gnadenlosen Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.

Each Tales2Inspire book contain stories of a different yet uplifting theme, named for the gemstone whose meaning reflects the theme of that book.

This collection of DC Home’s second season is the audio version of a man trying to hold back an avalanche with a distraction. After launching DC Home’s first season, I returned for a season filled with more Trump than I could bear. Nobody warned me about the pandemic. And, despite my plots, despite my improvs, despite my rants, COVID-19 took DC Home as it took the United States, painfully unprepared.