Family Classics

The five young March sisters grew up on the East Coast during the American Civil War. Although they had very different personalities, their strong bond connected them as sisters throughout their childhoods and into their adult lives. They relied on one another as they faced struggles of growing up during the war and as they grew into young women.

In this captivating small-town romance, one perfect kiss is all it takes to change two people's lives forever. Becca Thorpe has uprooted her life and escaped to the beach. Now's her chance to get away from city living, throw caution to the ocean winds, and live in the moment. Especially if...

Die Autorin entführt uns in eine farbige Szenerie von Schicksalen - Patrizier, Schausteller, Spekulanten - vor dem Hintergrund der aufbrechenden Gegensätze der Stadt Pilsen um 1870 und der untergehenden Habsburger Monarchie. Der Roman wurde seinerzeit zu Recht mit Thomas Mann "Die Buddenbrocks" in einem Atemzug genannt: Es ist das meisterhafte Portrait einer Familie, psychologisch brillant und in bezwingender Sprache - ein Stück Literatur, wie man es heute kaum mehr findet.

Sein Großvater hat dem Kaiser in der Schlacht bei Solferino das Leben gerettet. Sein Vater ist ein pflichtbewusster Beamter der k.u.k. Monarchie...

This program is read by Bradley Whitford, brother of the author and best known for his roles in The West Wing, The Handmaid's Tale, and Get Out. With its playful rhymed verse, this bedtime favorite from author Ann Whitford Paul, If Animals Kissed Good Night, is sure to delight time and again...

Join the Sylvanian Families on their summer adventures in this sweet story, based on the animation Freya's Happy Diary, now showing on Youtube! It's summer time in Sylvania, and Freya and her friends are taking a holiday in the forest. Her best friend, Ralph Walnut, is keen to practice his ninja...

Protagonistin des Romans ist die junge Wäscherin Gervaise Macquart, die zu Beginn der Handlung von ihrem Liebhaber Auguste Lantier verlassen wird. Er nimmt ihr ganzes Geld mit und hinterlässt als einziges Andenken die beiden gemeinsamen Söhne Claude und Etienne. Gervaise, eine tugendhafte und fleißige, aber nunmehr bettelarme Wäscherin, heiratet daraufhin den ehrbaren, aber recht lebenslustigen Zinkarbeiter Coupeau.

New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and frivolous new pal Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises...including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable.

Anne is growing up and leaving the Island to spend four years of her life at Redmond College. She meets a wonderful new friend in Philippa Gordon, offspring to an old and exclusive "bluenose" family. Phil's family ties, combined with her beauty and charm, open the gates of all the social cliques and clubs at Redmond. And where Phil went, Anne went. Thus, Anne found her social pathway at Redmond made very easy while other freshettes were doomed to remain on the fringe of things.

The Austins are trying to settle into their new life in New York City, but their once close-knit family is pulling away from each other. With the Austins going in different directions, they don't notice that something sinister is going on in their neighborhood - and it's centered around them. A mysterious genie appears before Rob and Emily. A stranger approaches Vicky in the park and calls her by name. Members of a local gang are following their father. The entire Austin family is in danger. If they don't start telling each other what's going on, someone just might get killed.

"The Most Frugal of Men" is a funny story about masters of frugality outperforming each other; "The Moon-Cake" about the dangers of asking for a cake that would resemble the moon; "The Ladle that Fell from the Moon" tells about the witty attempt to confound an elderly scammer; "The Young Head of the Family" tells about a father being outwitted by his daughter-in-law; and "A Dreadful Boar" tells how a poor old woman could defend herself of an elf that met her in the form of a wild boar, threatening to devour her granddaughter.

Maggie Tulliver, whose father owns a mill perched on the banks of the River Floss, is intelligent and imaginative beyond the understanding of her community, her relatives, and particularly her brother Tom. Despite their opposite temperaments, Maggie and Tom are united by a strong bond. But this bond suffers when Tom's sense of family honor leads him to forbid her to associate with the one friend who appreciates her intelligence and imagination.

When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables send for a boy orphan to help them out at their farm, they mistakenly get Anne Shirley, a feisty, independent but warm-hearted 11 year-old girl. Fortunately her sunny nature and quirky imagination win the hearts of her reluctant foster parents and everyone in the community. But not a day goes by without some memorable adventure or prank in the tragicomedy of her life.

“An extraordinary gift to its lucky readers: an enormously full and brilliantly structured novel whose characters come to feel as familiar—and as bottomlessly mysterious—as one's own family.” —Karen Russell, author of National Book Award finalist The Antidote A brilliant, sweeping...

Wien um 1880: Der persische Schah besucht die Hauptstadt. Gelangweilt von seinen Haremsdamen verlangt er die verheiratete Gräfin W. als Gespielin für eine Nacht. Ein moralisches und diplomatisches Dilemma, für das der anwesende Baron von Taittinger zum Glück eine Lösung kennt: Er lässt die Prostituierte Mizzi Schinagl, die der Gräfin stark ähnelt, fürstlich ausstaffieren und präsentiert sie dem persischen Herrscher.

Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of an impoverished family, must navigate a world of desire and romance once she meets Alec d'Urberville. The son of a rich widow, he takes a fancy to her and gets her a position as the poultry keeper on his family's estate. However, her good fortune is soon complicated by Alec's libertine ways, and Tess returns home shamed. Once recovered, she separates herself from the gossip by finding work at a dairy farm outside the village.

Primo romanzo di Lawrence, pubblicato nel 1913, in parte di ispirazione autobiografica (il personaggio di Miriam è ispirato alla migliore amica della giovinezza dello scrittore), il libro offre descrizioni dettagliate della vita dell’epoca nella zona mineraria di Nottingham. Il tema delle relazioni, sempre centrale nell’opera di Lawrence, che viene qui trattato è il rapporto madre figlio, in cui la eccessiva vicinanza emozionale voluta dalla madre rende il figlio incapace di amare.

This audio will focus on Brad and Ashley Hanes, young newlyweds who are facing their first season of winter. Opposite work schedules, differing views on finances and when to start a family, and Brads selfish and immature habits are forcing the young couple apart, causing them to question why they ever got married in the first place. It will take a whole lot of help - mostly from their nosy but well-meaning neighbors - for Ashley and Brad to pull their marriage out of the winter blues and into a hopeful spring.

Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.

Tom Lee’s life changes forever the day he meets a talking tiger named Mr. Hu and discovers that he has magical powers and great responsibilities that he never imagined. Tom joins Mr. Hu’s ragtag band of creatures in their fight to keep an ancient talisman out of the hands of the worst possible enemy. This action-packed fantasy reveals a hidden world within our own where animals take human form, where friendship is the final weapon in the battle between good and evil, and where a young boy is responsible for saving the world he knows—and the one he is just discovering.