The BBC TV Shakespeare Collection 22. The Merchant of Venice wiith embedded subtitles The BBC Television Shakespeare was a set of television adaptations of the plays of Shakespeare, produced by the the BBC between 1978 and 1985.
Pocket Rough Guide: Venice is your essential guide to this beautiful city, with information on all the key sights in an easy-to-use, pocket-size format, and with a full-color, pull-out map. Whether you have an afternoon, a few days, or more time at your disposal, the carefully curated itineraries found inside Pocket Rough Guide: Venice will help you plan your trip, and the "Best of" Venice section picks out the highlights you won't want to miss. Visit the magnificent Basilica di San Marco; take to the water on a gondola; explore the bars of the atmospheric Rialto.
Welcome to the magical underworld of Venice, Italy, where hidden canals and crumbling rooftops shelter runaways and children with incredible secrets. Prosper and Bo are orphans on the run from their cruel aunt and uncle. The brothers decide to hide out in Venice, where they meet a mysterious thirteen-year-old boy who calls himself the "Thief Lord.
Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice is one of the most famous and widely read texts in all of modern literature, raising such issues as beauty and decadence, eros and irony, and aesthetics and morality.
Robin Cook, master of bestselling medical thrillers, answers the "What's the worst thing that could happen?" question in this plot-twisting novel in which villains with no sense of ethics or social responsibility get their greedy hands on the newest cloning technology. It starts when a couple of Harvard graduate students answer the Wingate Clinic's ad for egg donors. The women figure on financing a year in Venice and the down payment on a Boston condo with the extraordinary sum they're promised. But a year later, the heroines feel the emotional need to seek out the children they've made possible for infertile couples.
