The Old Pacific Capital
  • Por Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Editor: Robert Louis Stevenson

"The old pacific capital" (1882) is an account of a journey undertaken by Robert Louis Stevenson in Monterey, Mexico, in 1880. The work is written in the form of essay...

The Arsonist
  • Por Chloe Hooper
  • Duración: 6:39:34
  • Narrador: Sybilla Budd
  • Editor: Simon & Schuster UK

On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch...

Casino: Love And Honor In Las Vegas [abridged]
  • Por Nicholas Pileggi
  • Duración: 2:51:42
  • Narrador: Fred Neumann
  • Editor: Simon & Schuster

Love, greed and betrayal in the Las Vegas mob.From Nicholas Pileggi, author of the bestselling Wiseguy -- the #1 bestseller that later became the hit movie Goodfellas -- comes...

Travels Through France And Italy
  • Por Tobias Smollett
  • Editor: Interactive Media

Smollett describes in great detail the natural phenomena, history, social life, economics, diet and morals of the places he visited. Smollett had a lively and pertinacious...

The Guilty River
  • Por Wilkie Collins
  • Editor: Wilkie Collins

Gerard Roylake, returned from Germany on the death of his father to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen, stays with his stepmother, who is keen to introduce him to local...

Henry Vi
  • Por William Shakespeare
  • Editor: Interactive Media

The play begins with the funeral of Henry V, who has died unexpectedly in his prime. As his brothers, the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester, and his uncle, the Duke of Exeter,...

The Clouds
  • Por Aristophanes
  • Editor: Interactive Media

Strepsiades complains to the audience that he is too worried about household debts to get any sleep – his aristocratic wife has encouraged their son's expensive interest in...

The Historic Thames
  • Por Hilaire Belloc
  • Editor: Interactive Media

England has been built up upon the framework of her rivers, and, in that pattern, the principal line has been the line of the Thames. Partly because it was the main highway of...

Shakespeare Tales Of Humour And Wit
  • Por William Shakespeare
  • Editor: Interactive Media

In Shakespeare plays the tragic and the comic often fade into each other turning into harmonious blending of these two elements. Shakespeare takes a special delight in employment...

The Trojan Women
  • Por Euripides
  • Editor: Interactive Media

The play begins with the god Poseidon lamenting the fall of Troy. He is joined by the goddess Athena, who is incensed by the Greek’s exoneration of Ajax the Lesser’s actions...

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