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A Doll's House and Other Plays
Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social...
Jazz
Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet - who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks - tries with a k...
The Extraordinary Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
"On the contrary, my dear Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see Herein lie the problems- a stolen jewel, the inexplicable death of a young woman, the disappearance of one of the most remarkable racehorses in England, a missing butler, the curious symbols of danci...
Yours Truly: Women of Letters
What dark gastronomic slip does Annabel Crabb have to confess to an unsuspecting guest? How did Mary Anderson change the life of Frank Woodley - despite the fact the two of them have never met? How did a plate of steak teach Missy Higgins a firm lesson about not being too hard on herself? The act of let...
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
Before 1492 it was assumed that all significant knowledge was already available; there was no concept of progress; people looked for understanding to the past not the future. This book argues that the discovery of America demonstrated that new knowledge was possible- indeed it introduced the very concep...
Shakespeare's Sonnets, Retold - Classic Love Poems with a Modern Twist
William Shakespeare; James Anthony; Stephen Fry (Foreword by)
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Retold by William Shakespeare and James Anthony, with a foreword by Stephen Fry. Read by Stephen Fry and Paapa Essiedu and the author. 'James Anthony has done something I would have confidently stated to be impossible. He has "transl...
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened-...
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