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The latest plays of Tom Stoppard, author of such contemporary classics as Jumpers, Dirty Linen, The Real Inspector Hound, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. It is Tom Stoppard’s very special……続きを見る

This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English translations of poems by Eluard, Rimbaud, Ap……続きを見る

Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all livin……続きを見る

Plagued by debt, tormented by writer’s block and in desperate need of a new hit, promising new playwright Will Shakespeare finds his muse in the form of passionate young noblewoman Viola De Lesseps.……続きを見る

There's gossip going around that we're all like him. That we're all paper thin, that it's all been painted over, and each one of us is gonna sit down one day and not be able to stand up, like we've ……続きを見る

You have to be tough to be kind. That's what I've learned from you, Granddad. Tough and fearless and strong. So that's what I'm going to be. Naples, 1606. Inside an unfinished church, a painting is ……続きを見る

A wise, rude, sharp poetry collection encompassing a life from childhood to attempted adulthood, from one of the most important poets of the new generation. 'She writes with honesty, conviction, hum……続きを見る

As theatre and drama of the Romantic Period undergo a critical reassessment among scholars internationally, the contributions of women as playwrights, actresses, and managers are also being revalued……続きを見る

The idea of Shakespearean genius and sublimity is usually understood to be a product of the Romantic period, promulgated by poets such as Coleridge and Byron who promoted Shakespeare as the supreme ……続きを見る

Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and remain……続きを見る

Challenging the idea that a writer’s work reflects his experiences in time and place, Andrew M. Cooper locates the action of William Blake’s major illuminated books in the ahistorical present, an im……続きを見る

Handel's Messiah is the world's most popular choral work. But its story begins in the unlikely setting of a room above a pub in Chester, when the great composer, detained by bad weather on his way t……続きを見る

This volume contains eleven poems. The subject matter generally lies in the realm of love found, love lost or some other aspect of love. 続きを見る

Vronsky What were you thinking about with your head stuck to the watering can? Anna Oh, the same, always the same. I was thinking about my happiness and about my unhappiness. Russia is changing. R……続きを見る

The British historian and Whig politician, Baron Macaulay was a celebrated essayist and reviewer, whose poetry and works on British history have been hailed as literary masterpieces. Wedded to the I……続きを見る

Come one, come all, and join us at THE STAR this Christmas, as we re-open the doors for your enjoyment and delight, with a magical, mammoth, marvellous and mesmerising Music Hall ENTERTAINMENT! Cele……続きを見る

Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free. This vital new version by Patrick Marber ( Closer, Three Days in the Country) opened at The National Theatre, London, in December 2016. 続きを見る

The complete plays of Fanny Burney, taken from the original manuscripts of her work. The work includes a general introduction, headnotes to each play, explanatory notes and variant readings. 続きを見る

Ebook comes with main table of contents and interlinked sub table of contents. Each chapter is clearly marked so user knows which book within the boxset is being read. The Novels of Henry James. Wa……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 sto……続きを見る

One woman's journey through cancer, chemotherapy and beyond. "Freya here expresses the full scope (of cancer), in her own way, of the rigors of the experience, and, I think, puts it in a form that f……続きを見る

If I was to throw myself beneath that tide... If I was to let the water take me, 'til the cold felt like heat, like love... Present day, Liverpool. All alone, an old man falls in a basement and lose……続きを見る

Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play……続きを見る

This is Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1920 lyrical drama in four acts, 'Prometheus Unbound'. It concerns the torture of Prometheus, the Greek mythological figure who defies the gods by giving fire to human……続きを見る

Mientras el mundo occidental se derrumbaba a mano de las poderosas legiones romanas, una mujer se atrevió a luchar por la libertad de Inglaterra. Adaptado de la creativa biografía narrativa “Boudica……続きを見る

Sixty-odd more titles make up the seventh volume in the Moments in Rhyme series, making up roughly the first half of an extended journey through Sri Lanka, India and Nepal. At times comic and at oth……続きを見る

"Writing a poem is stepping into endlessness." This collection of poetry by Abhilash Fraizer is a record of those brief blessed moments. In the fraction of a second, you see a light year. If you are……続きを見る

I'd had a conversation specifically with Dan about ecstasy. It's one of the things you do as a parent, isn't it? Wear your helmet when you're out on your bike, you know, don't take drugs. To be hone……続きを見る

A collection of short stories with chosen hindi poems & an equivalent English translation depicting the life of an Indian teenager as he transitions from questioning himself to challenging the tradi……続きを見る

James I’s The Kingis Quair is a hidden gem of medieval poetry, written in 1424 by a Scottish king held prisoner in England from the age of eleven until almost thirty years old.  The poem narrat……続きを見る