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Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy devises a romantic plot around separated twins, misplaced passions, and mistaken identity. Juxtaposed to it is the satirical story of a s……続きを見る

"The Man of Destiny" is one of Shaw's shorter works, just a one act play, in which we see the mastery of character development that is so common to the playwright's works. The play is an investigati……続きを見る

The Gododdin Poems from The Four Ancient Books of Wales by William F. Skene The Gododdin Poems was first published in 1869 under the authorship of William F. Skene. The Gododdin (pronounced [go'doði……続きを見る

Miles Deacon's poems have delighted his fan for years. This collection addresses such topics as 'Thermal Vest', 'Banana Under A Car', 'Terrors', 'New Year Survival Guide', 'Cupman' and 'Zombies!' 続きを見る

Follow Abigail as she is hurled, against her will, through a thousand years of life to gain the experience that could save the World as civilization, in the not too distant future, begins to decay……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most suc……続きを見る

A critically acclaimed experimantal collection of poetry, or rather the story of a troubled soul in verse: the journey starts with the mysterious 'Ybo''; the mind is lost in psychedelic and foggy li……続きを見る

It is 1587 and BRANAN, he has no other name, barely escapes from Dromsay, a remote and primitive island off the Scottish mainland.  He is  being hunted by the evil MacCrannon brothers, kn……続きを見る

The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Although classified as a comedy in the First Folio, and while it shares certain aspects ……続きを見る

November is Sean O’Brien’s first collection since his widely celebrated The Drowned Book, the only book of poetry to have won both the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. November is haunted by the miss……続きを見る

A book of poems by KiNo, Poet of Sound & Image. Intermittent Lunacy displays a unique voice in contemporary English literature. KiNo's poetic skills manifest a timeless, naked and elegant imagery. T……続きを見る

This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illu……続きを見る

From the Tony Award-winning author of Copenhagen comes a play that's “spectacularly funny...a peerless backstage comedy” (The New York Times). Noises Off is not one play but two: simultaneously a tr……続きを見る

In this classic and much-loved edition of Marlowe's best-known play, John D. Jump provides the reader with a wealth of introductory and explanatory material. As well as a fascinating chronology of M……続きを見る

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandr……続きを見る

In her new volume of verse, Bowering continues her rigorous, ambitious path and delivers poems that blend a variety of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees a……続きを見る

October 1999 saw the death of the poet Learaí Phádraic Learaí Ó Fínneadha, from an Lochán Beag in Cois Fharraige originally, but who had moved closer to Galway city, to Bearna, when he married. Now,……続きを見る

One of George Bernard Shaw's most performed and studied plays, "Arms and the Man" is a classic example of Shaw's comedic wit. Set during the Serbo-Bulgarian war, "Arms and the Man" is a biting socia……続きを見る

(An Irish-language title) Inis Mor artist Sean O Flaithearta has teamed up with publishers Clo Iar-Chonnacht to produce a new collection of Mairtin O Direain’s poetry to mark the centenary of the Ar……続きを見る

Alchemy of Age is Victor Keegan's fourth book of poetry covering friendship, art, science, London, birth, death and everything in between, as seen through the magic mirror of age. Victor spent most ……続きを見る

“Valentine and Orson” is a romance which has been attached to the Carolingian cycle. Earliest English version (The Historye of the two Valyannte Brethren: Valentyne and Orson ... by Henry Watson) wa……続きを見る

"It is the mountain that conquers the heart of the climber". The author was born and raised in Scotland, and her passion for climbing snow topped peaks, inspired this Poetry Collection. Ice Melts (T……続きを見る

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.  Not DAVID TREASURE.  A refugee from the misery of a 19th. century Welsh coal mining town, David escapes to a new life in America.  But the ……続きを見る

Stray Threads Poetry is an eclectic mix of poems ranging from the humorous to the sad and the long to the short. What are my poems about? To paraphrase the great Bob Dylan - "Some are about fifty li……続きを見る

Adonibezek – the 'Lightning Master' – is a little known character who appears briefly in Judges, the seventh book of the Bible. Briefly – Adonibezek claimed to have maimed seventy other kings by cut……続きを見る

Hamlet One of the most famous plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the young prince of Denmark who must reconcile his longing for oblivion with his duty to avenge his father’s murder is one ……続きを見る

Matthew Arnold is rightly placed amongst the greats of Victorian Poetry with Browning and Tennyson. The son of the founder of Rugby School he grew up to become a poet via a career as a school insp……続きを見る

Poetic Republic: Poems to Talk About 2013 documents an anonymous peer review process in which 729 poets (from 48 countries) read, voted on and commented on each other’s poems (1,346 poems in total) ……続きを見る

“A Christmas morning”  is a nice and kind Christmas poem / verse / story / tales for children by Clifton Bingham (1859–1913). This book was firstly published by Raphael Tuck & Sons in 1890.……続きを見る

Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's version of a Cinderella story. Fanny Price is a poor relation living with her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, and their children. Edmund, the second……続きを見る