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Here are some of the finest narrative poems in the English language, dating from an age of rich inspiration.

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is the fascinating tale of Henry Higgins, a professor of speech and phonetics who takes on the task of teaching Eliza Doolittle, a lower-class flower seller, how to "act like a lady".

Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Blake, Coleridge, and Byron. The poets of the Romantic Period celebrated with readings by Sir Ralph Richardson, Christopher Hassall, Margaretta Scott, and Tyrone Power.

It’s Christmastime and everyone is in the holiday spirit at no-kill animal shelter Junebug Farms. When Junebug sponsors the annual Christmas parade to raise money and awareness for their shelter, the staff have a plan: the king and queen of the parade will spend the holidays filming adorable Christmas vignettes to bring in donations and find forever homes for lovable pups before Santa comes.

Is there anything worse than your I-don’t-do-commitment ex finally getting married? Not according to Scottie Templeton. Factor in living with her grandma, her rattletrap car, and never-ending job struggles, and Scottie’s stressed.

Cassidy Clarke wants to find herself. Tasked with scattering her friend Mason’s ashes, she heads to the campground where they met as kids. She expects the grief. She expects the guilt. She expects how absent she feels in her own life. What she doesn’t expect is the broken disrepair of the campground. Or the grouchily broody, yet intriguingly beautiful, cabin manager.

Sasha Wolfe has been talking up her new girlfriend to her overbearing mother for months, and when her skeptical sister dares her to invite this new squeeze over for family Christmas, Sasha accepts the challenge. After all, how hard can it be to bring your nonexistent girlfriend home for the holidays?

A chance meeting over a runaway pooch is the start of a journey for each woman. Over the course of one unbelievable summer set on the beautiful shores of Canandaigua Lake in upstate New York, these two women will teach one another, learn from one another, question their own beliefs and expectations, and unwittingly fall in love.

Amelia Martini’s favorite things are traveling, animals, and peanut butter. When she left her job to explore the world with her wife, she didn’t expect Tammy’s plans to include leaving her. Now, Amelia is starting over again and facing middle age alone. It’s a struggle, but she doesn’t want to be bitter forever. Thirty-something Kirby Dupree loves life. Not always easy when you’ve lost as much as she has and carry as much sadness as she does. But she made a promise to always look for beauty, so she does her best...even when she has to squint to see it.

The only girl in a house of boys, Julia Martini worked extra hard to get noticed. That has made her business-minded and driven, and she’s determined to turn her family’s struggling bar around. Simple. All she has to do is remodel, re-staff, and rebrand the place, work insane hours and ignore the sexy blonde who comes in to...she’s flirting, right?

"Silas Marner" is a classic novel that delves into the intricacies of human nature, societal dynamics, and the power of redemption. The story begins with Silas Marner, a skilled weaver living in the fictional village of Raveloe. Silas is unjustly accused of theft by his best friend, and as a result, he is ostracized from the close-knit community he once belonged to. Broken-hearted and embittered, Silas relocates to a remote cottage on the outskirts of the village, where he lives a reclusive and miserly existence, finding solace only in his work and in hoarding gold coins.

You’ve built a $50 Million (or larger) business. You are living in rarefied air. You’ve nailed your product-market fit and implemented all the basic business lessons about creating processes. You’ve celebrated multimillion-dollar benchmarks. You want to keep going, but the next steps...

Come ogni domenica, anche quel giorno il signor Hubert Cardinaud ha assistito alla messa con suo figlio, a seguire, la passeggiata vicino al mare, poi una sosta al tavolino di un caffè. Fa caldo, il signor Cardinaud non vede l'ora di togliersi la giacca e appenderla all'attaccapanni nel corridoio di casa. Sa già che ad accoglierlo ci sarà il profumo d'arrosto che sua moglie Marthe sta preparando. Appena entrato, però, chiama, ma non gli risponde nessuno; poi capisce cosa c'è che non va, non si sente profumo d'arrosto ma puzza di bruciato.

A comprehensive and entertaining look at how video games became a cultural and global force, perfect for fans of Blood, Sweat, & Pixels and Console Wars. The evolution of video games from a niche pursuit to the world’s largest entertainment medium, with billions of players and billions of...

Geboren in der ehemaligen britischen Kolonie Indien verlief das Leben von George Orwell alles andere als geradlinig. Womöglich durch die brutale Fremdherrschaft des Empires über Indien und durch Stalins organisierten Staatsterror und Massenmord angewidert, entwickelte er sich zu einem überzeugten sozialistischen Demokraten, der alle Machtorgane von möglichst vielen Menschen organisiert und Machtumsetzung immer auf möglichst vielen Schultern verteilt sehen wollte. Einen großen Teil seiner prosaischen Werke bilden seine Essays ab, hier Teil 15.

Coralin ist Reedertochter aus gutem Hamburger Hause – doch sie muss aus ihrem alten Leben fliehen und findet sich von einem Tag auf den anderen als Hauslehrerin im Seebad Norderney wieder. Schon in der ersten Woche geraten sie und ihre Schülerin Emmi bei einem Ausflug in Seenot. Der Tagelöhner Onnen versteht diese Ignoranz der Badegäste einfach nicht … Kein Respekt vor Meer und Gezeiten! Bald schon merkt Cora, dass der verschlossene Onnen ihr von Tag zu Tag mehr bedeutet. Regelmäßig verschwindet er jedoch und kehrt erst Tage später missgelaunt zurück.

From the undisputed master of the short story comes a dazzling and disturbing new collection. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Divisional Director Todd Birnie sends round a memo to employees he thinks need some inspiration; and in an auction of local...

Un joven anarquista se roba un frasco que contiene una peligrosa bacteria, desde el laboratorio de un patólogo. Cuando el científico se da cuenta de lo ocurrido, se origina una loca e incansable persecución.

Christopher Columbus, discoverer of America: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

The first novel that George Sand wrote without a collaborator, this is not only a vivid romance, but also an impassioned plea for change in the inequitable French marriage laws of the time, and for a new view of women. It tells the story of a beautiful and innocent young woman, married at sixteen to a much older man. She falls in love with her handsome, frivolous neighbor, but discovers too late that his love is quite different from her own.