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A king foolishly divides his kingdom between his scheming two oldest daughters and estranges himself from the daughter who loves him. So begins this profoundly moving and disturbing tragedy that, pe……続きを見る

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare "Twelfth Night is a comedy by William Shakespeare, named after the Twelfth Night holiday of the Christmas season. It was written around 1601, and was first publi……続きを見る

A lifetime ago, the Lancashire poet, Allen Clarke, described his native county in the following, rather defensive, way: "The outside folk who have never seen Lancashire think it wholly a steam engin……続きを見る

While Banjo opens with a clutch of fine lyrics, elegies and set-pieces, at the heart of Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch’s new book is a remarkable tale of darkness and light, music and silence. Celebrating……続きを見る

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Thomas Middleton (1580-1627), a bricklayer's son, rose to become one of the most eminent playwrights of the Jacobean period. Along with Ben Johnson he helped shape the dynamic course of drama in Ren……続きを見る

The owners of the big house, Lord and Lady Richmond, have many servants. All have their jobs to do, but every day they must pass inspection before they start work. Today, the new Butler arrives to t……続きを見る

Curtis Ackie is a young British-born novelist, short story writer and sometime poet, based in Zagreb, Croatia. His fiction is primarily concerned with the magic of dreams as escapism. Dark Matter is……続きを見る

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on t……続きを見る

This book-collection file includes: The Alchemist, Cynthia's Revels, Epicoene, Every Man in His Humour, Every Man Out of His Humour, The Poetaster, Sejanus, and Volpone. It also includes Felix Schel……続きを見る

The Trojan Women By Euripides The consummation of a great conquest, a thing celebrated in paeans and thanksgivings, the very height of the day-dreams of the unregenerate man - it seems to be a great……続きを見る

William Butler Yeats: 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, i……続きを見る

A collection of verse taking a sideways view of life from birth to death and points between. How do you know if you are middle aged? Why are there so many bottles in your bathroom? Where exactly is ……続きを見る

Ian Duhig's The Speed of Dark is structured around his astonishing reworking of the text of Le Roman de Fauvel, a medieval text that railed against the corruption of the 12th-century French court an……続きを見る

Combined in this volume are two of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's most loved works, "The School for Scandal" and "The Rivals". "The School for Scandal" is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy tha……続きを見る

'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic gen……続きを見る

**The classic story that inspired the film starring Dev Patel and Alicia Vikander. "A medieval romance…but also an outlandish ghost story, a gripping morality tale and a weird thriller.…I couldn’t p……続きを見る

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Satirist, philosopher, elegist, aphorist, cultural historian – Peter Porter is perhaps too singular a talent to be described as ‘representative’ of the age: an Australian whose easy familiarity with……続きを見る

Appropriately for a book haunted by music, Katharine Towers’ poems exhibit an almost pianistic sense of timing, touch and tone. In The Floating Man, Towers writes about weight and weightlessness, pr……続きを見る

This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeare's career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, living on an enchanted island, has the……続きを見る

Tamburlaine the Great is a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life of the Central Asian emperor, Timur "the lame". Written in 1587 or 1588, the play is a milestone ……続きを見る

Black Marigolds by E. Powys Mathers "This is a versified translation of the Caurapancasika. This love poem of fifty stanzas was written by the Kasmiri poet Bilhana Kavi in the 11th century. The……続きを見る

In 1896 JM Synge met W. B. Yeats, who encouraged Synge to live for a while in the Aran Islands and then return to Dublin and devote himself to creative work. In 1897 Synge suffered his first attack ……続きを見る

A TALE OF TWO CITIES [Deluxe Illustrated Edition], The Complete & Original Dicken's Classic Plus BONUS Entire Audiobook *This Ebook Features Amazing Dynamic Chapter Navigation & Professional Formatt……続きを見る

For most people, Christmas is a time of joy; for some it has become a time of lonely sorrow. For Snowdrop, Christmas is about to become a timeless place of fear, horror – and unimaginable loss. On t……続きを見る

John Milton, the 17th century English poet author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England is of course known best for his famous epic poem "Paradise Lost" which retells the bib……続きを見る

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of ver……続きを見る

Flowering Off the Chrome is a collection of symbolic poetic projections into the rural landscape. Removed from the urban sprawl, set during midsummer and narrated through a series of dramatic monolo……続きを見る

Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the ……続きを見る