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On the surface, an idyllic romance, full of happy love and optimistic philosophy of goodness...but perhaps Shakespeare had a private wink for the more sophisticated.

Traumatized by his past as a Bolivian soldier who, in a sudden coup d'etat, was forced to participate in atrocities, Alfredo flees to Montreal, haunted by the dead.

This dramatised audio version of the play continues the description of the reign of Henry IV up to his death and the acceptance of the throne by Prince Hal.

Birdsong, wind: here by the ocean every noise was surrounded by silence that reached all the way to the stars.

Richard II is the poet's play, full of great speeches and fine writing, rather than subtle character and keen insight.

At the hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, Bryce is learning to predict the worst. Racing heart: infection, probably malaria. He'll send Iris for saline. Shortness of breath? TB.

Brings together the most famous and personable pain ever invented for the theatre - Beatrice and Benedick.

Meet the Perfect Man - no, no, he's not the hero of Thought You Were Dead.

A place: the Traymore Rooms, downtown Montreal, an old walk-up. Those who live there and drink at the nearby caf' form the heart of Traymorean society.

The story of a half crazed musician, living in the labyrinth of the Paris Opera, who creates a series of mysterious events to further the career of a young singer with whom he is infatuated.

Mwanito was eleven when he saw a woman for the first time, and the sight so surprised him he burst into tears. Mwanito has been living in a former big-game park for eight years.

When big-time Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura approaches Spenser and his redoubtable sidekick, Hawk, about locating his only daughter's missing husband, it's clear he's not telling the

Listless, bored, alienated, and mistrustful, Trace Patterson has finished his first year of university and is living with a drunken aunt in North Van.

Newly divorced, Lydia's life is in a downward spiral. Looking for respite, she takes off on a vaca'tion to Mexico with her formerly estranged mother.

The story of the survival of two elderly women abandoned by a migrating tribe in the Arctic.