Of the complex, richly rewarding masterworks he wrote in the last decade of his life, Little Dorrit is the book in which Charles Dickens most fully unleashed his indignation at the fallen state of mid-Victorian society. Crammed with persons and incidents in whose recreation nothing is accidental or spurious, containing, in its picture of the Circumlocution Office, the most witheringly exact satire of a bureaucracy we possess, Little Dorrit is a stunning...

Thirty-seven Spanish poems from the 12th-century Cantor de Mio Cid to the 20th century poetry of Garcia Lorca Salinas and Alberti. Eugenio Florit and Amelia Agostini de del Rió read lyrics, epics, dramatic and humorous verse in authentic spoken versions. The book contains the Spanish poems with translations into English, biographical information and portraits of the poets, and commentary.

"Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit, is a peaceful sort who lives in a cozy hole in the Shire, a place where adventures are uncommon and rather unwanted. So when the wizard, Gandalf, whisks him away on a treasure-hunting expedition with a troop of rowdy dwarves, he's not entirely thrilled"--Container.

A collection of three of Shakespeare's comedies from BBC Radio.

A retelling of Homer's epic that describes the wanderings of Odysseus after the fall of Troy.

Holmes is struck down by a rare tropical disease and death seems imminent. His only hope lies in a planter from Sumatra whose expert knowledge comes at a price. In the second story, Watson goes to Switzerland to find an aristocrat who has vanished, but the trail leads back to a funeral parlor in London. In the third story, Watson enforces a relaxing holiday on Holmes to cure his work-related exhuastion. The eerie Cornish Coast provides exactly the...

This extended, 10-episode version of the movie, The Empire Strikes Back, sweeps you into a realm of imagination that is beyond the reach of cinema for an adventure you'll never forget.