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This set includes five tales of extraordinary heroism, marvelous intrigue, and exceptional courage that have inspired and amazed people for generations.

This is a collection meant to be cherished for a lifetime. Whether encountering these cherished tales for the first or the 50th time, listeners will find enchantment in this collection.

A sparkling collection of the major works of the ever-adored Oscar Wilde, with incredible casts including Judi Dench, Martin Clunes, Michael Sheen, Miriam Margolyes, Ian McDiarmid, Joely Richardson, Penelope Keith, Martin Jarvis, Diana Rigg, Simon Russell Beale, Sheila Hancock, Ian McKellen and Stephen Fry.

Thin, Brittle, Mile is the story of brothers Luke and Tyler Dearlove who travel to the remote, sparsely populated Skidaway Island searching for their third missing sibling. The brothers soon garner the sense that something is terribly wrong on the island, and their inquiries, which stir up the most insidious of hornets nests, are greeted at first with shrouded suspicion, then with open hostility, followed by blunt threats, harassment, and escalating violence.

Despite the many films and television programmes over the decades since the end of the Second World War that portrays our allied heroes as grown-up men and women, the Battle of Britain was in the main actually fought and won by teenagers. The average age of an RAF fighter pilot was just 20 years old. Many of the men and women who designed and built their planes were even younger.

Dubbed 'the father of the English novel' by Sir Walter Scott, Henry Fielding is well known for his ribald humour and ironic, satirical fiction. Collected here are four of his most famous works, including his comic masterpiece Tom Jones, as well as a fascinating documentary exploring the foundling motif in fiction.

Alexander of Macedon was one of history’s greatest ever military commanders. By the time of his death, aged just 32, he had conquered the entire Persian Empire and was ruler of a vast territory stretching from Greece to the borders of India. These six episodes tell his extraordinary life story, as reimagined by acclaimed dramatist David Wade.

When the Reverend Elaine Metcalfe is inducted as the vicar of Pontvale, she hopes the job will have more to it than lending out spare sets of keys. She soon discovers there's plenty of challenges in her new home - not least the daily needs of her parishioners, which range from community theatre productions, arranging a wedding and a funeral for the same day, and local scandal over the vicar's culottes.

This book contains the following works: 1. Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum, 2. William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, 3. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden, 4. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, 5. Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island, 6. H.P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, 7. Jack London: The Call of the Wild, 8. Mary W. Shelley: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 9. Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human (Confessions of a Faulty Man)....

Das Schauspiel "Die Spieldose" ist ein Heimkehrer-Stück: Ein während des Krieges irrtümlich Totgesagter beschwört durch seine unerwartete Rückkehr ins Leben jenen tragischen Konflikt herauf, der heute (1949) nicht nur peripheres Einzelschicksal, sondern Gegenstand von erschütternden Statistiken ist.

20 Self-Help Classics Collection: classic books on how to successfully make money and influence relationships. This collection of titles encapsulates the greatest writings of all time on how to grow in wealth and prosperity. 

Alternating between nineteenth-century Europe and present-day New England, this tale follows the great British painter J. M. W. Turner - and his scene of artists, intellectuals, and lovers - and Henry, a middle-aged family man whose otherwise mundane existence is disrupted by the discovery of The Center of the World, Turner’s controversial painting of Helen of Troy that had been thought lost forever.

Prepare to meet the most seductively female and the most shockingly fatal of femmes fatales, brought to you by 17 of today's finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and sizzling masterpieces of kisses and kiss-offs, gams and gats, published for the first time anywhere.

Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites 40 actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.

Michael Maloney, Josette Simon and Anne-Marie Duff star in this fast and funny production of Shakespeare's most sparkling and optimistic comedy, when all the world is turned on its head and authority is usurped, when by civil misrule girls become boys and women lust after women. 

A full and poignant portrait of one of the geniuses of the 1960s counterculture. From the creation of the Yippies!; and the tumult of the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests; to the humor and agony of the Chicago conspiracy trial; the scandal of Abbie's 1973 cocaine bust, and his years as a fugitive; to his final struggle with manic-depressive illness, this biography offers an intimate examination of the contradictions that make Abbie Hoffman such a compelling figure - with the information and affection only a brother could bring to the complexities of Abbie's life.

For 20 years, Great Lives has been a linchpin of Radio 4, presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and Matthew Parris. In it, a household name is invited to choose one of their heroes to discuss with the presenter and a guest expert. But will their chosen person live up to intensive scrutiny, and merit the description of having led a great life? In this special collection, celebrating the programme's 20th anniversary, the very best episodes featuring musicians' lives are collected together.

Der Herbst kommt und Petronella hat mit der Apfelernte alle Hände voll zu tun. Da bringen die Zwillinge Lea und Luis eine schreckliche Nachricht: Der fiese Bäckermeister Kümmerling will das Müllerhaus kaufen. Der Garten soll weg und an seine Stelle soll ein Parkplatz gebaut werden. Das kann doch nicht wahr sein! Doch Kümmerling hat die Rechnung ohne die Kinder und die kleine Hexe gemacht: Während die Apfelmännchen allerhand Fallen bauen, um den Garten zu beschützen, hecken Petronella, Luis und Lea einen tollen Plan aus, um Kümmerling ein für alle Mal das Handwerk zu legen.

Im Garten von Petronella Apfelmus ist die Aufregung groß: Ein Kaninchen hat ein Loch in den Hühnerauslauf gebuddelt - und nun fühlen sich Nofretete & Co nicht mehr sicher in ihrem Stall! Tatsächlich ist die Sorge nicht unbegründet: Als es dunkel wird, kommt der alte Fuchs mit knurrendem Magen vorbei, um sich eins der Hühner zu schnappen. Wie gut, dass Apfelhexe Petronella mit ihrem Zauberstab nicht weit ist. Und so nimmt eine aufregende Nacht mit der vereinten Hilfe aller Gartenbewohner dann doch noch ein gutes Ende.

Hirschkäfer Lucius, der beste Freund von Petronella Apfelmus, hat Geburtstag. Ein Fest muss her, findet die kleine Hexe, und plant eine Überraschungsparty für den Käfer. Petronella schreibt Einladungen, damit die Apfelmännchen, die Zwillinge Lea und Luis und allerhand andere Freunde zum Feiern in ihren Garten kommen. Alles läuft nach Plan. Doch gerade als Petronella ein Geschenk für Lucius zaubern möchte, geschieht das Unglaubliche.