Tag: Classics

AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Romeo and Juliet: A Novel

A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/30/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

Romeo and Juliet: A Novel by David Hewson

Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

It’s a story you think you know: the age-old tale of "star-cross’d lovers"; two families at war; a romance, so pure and absolute, fated for a tragic end. It’s a story so thoroughly embedded in our culture, and so frequently retold. Yet, nothing captures the spark, the possibility, and the surprise of Shakespeare’s work quite like this…

In Romeo and Juliet: A Novel, author David Hewson reworks and expands on the classic story so that it becomes something richer, something new and entirely its own. Much more than a simple love story, it is a brilliant examination of young versus old, hope against despair, and, for Juliet, the search for individual identity at a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel.

Hewson’s talent for writing for audio is undeniable, and he finds his perfect vocal foil in Armitage, an actor of immense range and absorbing intensity. Together, they bring you a familiar story told in a surprising way – with an ending you might not expect.

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June 30, 2017
AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Picture of Dorian Gray

A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/09/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

The dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty.

The man who remains forever unchanged–petulant, hedonistic, vain, and amoral–while a painting of him ages and grows increasingly hideous with the years, has been horrifying and enchanting readers for more than 100 years.

Taking the reader in and out of London drawing rooms, to the heights of aestheticism, and to the depths of decadence, The Picture of Dorian Gray is not simply a melodrama about moral corruption. Laced with bon mots and vivid depictions of upper-class refinement, it is also a fascinating look at the milieu of Wilde’s fin-de-siècle world and a manifesto of the creed “Art for Art’s Sake.”

The ever-quotable Wilde, who once delighted London with his scintillating plays, scandalized readers with this, his only novel. Upon publication, Dorian was condemned as dangerous, poisonous, stupid, vulgar, and immoral, and Wilde as a “driveling pedant.” The novel, in fact, was used against Wilde at his much-publicized trials for “gross indecency,” which led to his imprisonment and exile on the European continent.

The Picture of Dorian Gray firmly established Wilde as one of the great voices of the Aesthetic movement and endures as a classic that is as timeless as its hero.

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June 9, 2017

Sunday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

Classics, Romantic Comedy, Paranormal, Historical Romance, Contemporary Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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An international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is one of the defining works of the 1960s.

Randle McMurphy is a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn.

But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, backed by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will.

What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story’s shocking climax.