Welsh Literature

Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's presence he feels she lacks, but until the arrival of Cynthia, her dazzling stepsister, Molly finds her situation hard to accept. Intertwined with the story of the Gibsons is that of Squire Hamley and his two sons.

Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula - the pinnacle of Gothic horror for generations - rises again. When young English lawyer Jonathan Harker arrives in Transylvania on the eve of Saint George's Day, he cannot shake a strange feeling of uneasiness. The air grows colder as he arrives at his destination: the castle of Count Dracula. Jonathan has been summoned by the count for business, and while he finds his new host obliging and polite, he can't help but notice the man's pallid skin, odd lack of appetite, and long daytime absences.

Арчибальд Кронин — шотландский врач и писатель, пожалуй, самый успешный и высокооплачиваемый романист 1930-х годов, которому в этот период удалось по популярности превзойти саму Агату Кристи. Повесть Зачарованный снег публикуется на русском языке впервые.

Gwendolen Harleth gambles her happiness when she marries a sadistic aristocrat for his money. Beautiful, neurotic, and self-centered, Gwendolen is trapped in an increasingly destructive relationship, and only her chance encounter with the idealistic Deronda seems to offer the hope of a brighter future. Deronda is searching for a vocation, and in embracing the Jewish cause he finds one that is both visionary and life-changing.

Suite au décès de M. Dashwood, sa veuve et ses trois filles se voient contraintes de quitter le Sussex et le domaine familial de Norland. Elles se réfugient dans le Devon, à l'invitation d'un généreux parent, où une nouvelle vie, plus modeste les attend. Les sœurs aînées, Elinor et Maria, l'une plus raisonnable, l'autre plus sentimentale vont vivre leur premiers émois amoureux non sans quelques revers.

Coach Bloom finally manages to get the best out of me in an important mid-season game. I score three goals and after the match the elation boils over into lust as my true feelings for him come to the surface. I invite him to the locker room and it’s there that we do something sinful. I’m so caught up in the moment that I decide to take him...in my ass! I just didn’t realize how crazy it would be!

Out there on the ocean, you can do almost anything, and Mr. Hackman and I really put that notion to the test that day. He takes me out to catch glimpses of dolphins and whales, but soon I see something just as memorable but way more forbidden.

The last thing I expected on a vacation to France was for my historian guide, Mark, to claim me in one of the old, war-torn bunkers — but that’s exactly what happened after he accidentally sees a nude snap of me on my phone! I guess history really turns him on, because he’s about to pound his big thickness into me and I can’t wait. I hope nobody catches us!

My mature boss Judd was the best mechanic I knew, and women like me rarely want to get into car work. We bonded quickly despite the age gap, and now, we have competitions to see who can change out parts quickest. Today, I’m presented with a brand-new, sinful challenge that I can’t pass up, but it’s less of a time trial and more of a length trial, if you catch my drift!

What do they really look like? At 19, I’m desperate to find out. I hide in the bathroom just as my older landlord, Richard, approaches, peering around the curtain to see that big, delicious thing of his for the first time. My gasp gives me away, and now he wants to know why I’m there. He decides that now that I’ve seen his, he has to see mine.

As 19th birthday presents go, this one was a little out of the ordinary! My boss had taken me away for the weekend to Las Vegas, and as an added treat, he’d bought me a VIP booth on the huge Ferris wheel that overlooks the strip. On the way around it, we start doing a strip of our own, and before long, he’s thrusting himself through my wetness. I’m so desperate for him to finish inside me - is that a mistake?

Until that day I’d never taken anyone in there, and here I was with my seasoned housemate Blake and his friend Jeff together. Listen as I manage to satisfy two men at once, while also satisfying my intense craving to be taken in the naughtiest way of all!

You know the old cliché where the buff guy is standing behind the cute girl as she cues her pool shot or takes aim to swing a golf club? Well imagine that scenario with your own mature golf coach, then imagine that you suddenly feel something in his pants. There’s no one around for acres, and I’m dying to know what one feels like. You’ve already gone too far, Mr. Lassiter. Why not go a little further?

I explained it all so perfectly to my trainer, Luke. We spar to get ready for the real thing, so what’s the difference between fighting and sex? Listen to how he prepares me for my first time, getting more than the both of us bargained for as he finishes deep inside me! I never thought I’d lose my virginity to my own boxing coach in the middle of the ring!

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse. It then relates the epic battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

Zahvatyvayushchaya istoriya o Maugli, mal'chike, vospitannom volkami i prochimi obitatelyami dzhungley, ego blizost' k miru zhivotnyh, a takzhe dramaticheskie otnosheniya s lyud'mi, k kotorym on vse-taki vynuzhden vernut'sya; udivit'sya hrabrosti malen'kogo otvazhnogo mangusta Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, vstupivshego v edinoborstvo s kobrami; ocenit' muzhestvo i uporstvo belogo kotika, reshivshego obespechit' svoim sobrat'yam bezopasnuyu zhizn'.

In this beautiful collection, 20 outstanding writers set out with old memories and new adventures. ‘I’ve always hated walking,’ Harland Miller offers as his precis, while Ingrid Persaud and Agnes Poirier consider the rituals of pilgrimage and protest march. ‘It isn’t a walking city,’ Kamila Shamsie writes of Karachi, though she strides across it regardless. On the shores of Foulness Island, Will Self hopes to avoid landmines. In a forest north of Berlin, Jessica J. Lee gets soaked, then lost.

A German advocate of the Kaiser discovers he is a facial/physical match for young Englishman Everard Dominey, who is near death after harrowing experiences in Africa. The remarkable doppelgänger resemblance leads Major-General Baron Leopold Von Ragastein to infiltrate the UK in perfect disguise. He wants to lead his country’s efforts as Europe is racing toward war. Part of the plan is to murder Dominey and have the Baron take his place in English society.

In May 1987, Jackie Benton received a heartbreaking phone call from her boyfriend, Sean Hardy, bringing an end to their five-year relationship. He’d fallen for a fellow student at Exeter University. Sean and Jackie would never see each other again. Thirty-three years later, Sean returns to his home town. There, he inadvertently discovers what became of Jackie Benton.

En Angleterre, de nos jours. Meg et Grace Nichols, ce sont peu les pierres angulaires qui cimentent le petit village de pêcheurs d'Ashford, dans les Cornouailles. Tout le monde aime et aide cette mère célibataire qui a tout sacrifié pour prendre soin, seule, de sa fille Grace, une ado lourdement handicapée et totalement dépendante. Jusqu'à ce matin d'été : Meg est découverte assassinée dans son lit ; de Grace, il ne reste que le fauteuil roulant, abandonné dans le jardin.