British & Irish 100

A new collection of plays from Willy Russell, one of Britain's best-loved dramatists, features the smash hits Blood Brothers, Our Day Out: The Musical and Shirley Valentine as well as the previously……続きを見る

Best known for "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice" (1793) and "Caleb Williams" (1794), William Godwin (1756-1836) is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. This book offers aca……続きを見る

This edition contains two of Frances Burney's comedies: The Witlings, (1778-80) which satirizes the bluestockings; and The Woman Hater (1800-02), which explores social pretension and gender conflict. 続きを見る

The night before the funeral was when he told us that he was getting the lot and I said, I said only then in retaliation, you know, and I am not proud of this, but how Dad had, how he had smashed hi……続きを見る

First published in 1974. Wordsworth, with Coleridge, is the major literary critic of the Romantic period. This volume assembles all of Wordsworth’s formal critical writings and a selection of critic……続きを見る

First published in 1970, this stylistic and interpretative account of some of Wordsworth’s major poetry examines description and meditation in his landscape writing. It describes the integration of ……続きを見る

Few playwrights have been more slandered, abused or honoured in performance than William Shakespeare. First published in 1992, this collection of 300 stories focuses on Shakespeare’s plays on stage.……続きを見る

First published in 1983, this books aims to guide Wordsworth students through his difficult masterpiece by reading it in continuous sequence and making its sense emerge. The special value of this co……続きを見る

A doorway to a new future is ready to open. We are the hinge of that moment. We will let the door swing wide. On a beautiful spring evening – when both moons are full – two teenagers vow eternal lov……続きを見る

I enjoy writing material that is unique and hopefully inspires you, the reader, in some way. Each poem tells a story and conveys a message of some kind. I have tried to create material that is inter……続きを見る

In April 2013 Jackie Hagan was commissioned to write a solo show. The following month she was unexpectedly admitted to hospital with a very painful foot. Four months later she left hospital with one……続きを見る

The Secret Rose by the Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, W. B. Yeats.Following the work, Yeats never again attempted another long poem. His other early poems, wh……続きを見る

An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by the Irish novelist,playwright and poet,Oliver Goldsmith. 続きを見る

Greybeards at Play by the English writer,poet,philosopher,dramatist,journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic, G. K. Chesterton.Chesterton is well known for his fic……続きを見る

Everything human beings do finishes up bad in the end. Everything good human beings ever make is built on something monstrous. Nothing lasts. We certainly won't . . . William Carlisle has the world ……続きを見る

All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare,an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.This boo……続きを見る

The Duchess of Padua by the Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet,Oscar Wilde.The Duchess of Padua is a play,it is a five-act melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in blank verse. I……続きを見る

A Sicilian Romance by the English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel,Ann Ward Radcliffe.This book was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790.The plot concerns the……続きを見る

The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare,an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.This b……続きを見る

More Bab Ballads by Sir William Schwenck Gilbert,the English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas).Gilbert also wrote the B……続きを見る

You know, love is milk, that's what it is. Three couples struggle to meet their basic needs for food, love and survival. As they try to make sense of a changing world, their inner desires and appeti……続きを見る

Dramatic Romances by Robert Browning,an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.His poems are known for their irony, characte……続きを見る

Every Man in His Humour is a 1598 play by the English playwright Ben Jonson,an English playwright, poet, actor and literary critic of the 17th century, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon E……続きを見る

Ever wish you could just go somewhere else? In this, his third book, David Smith invites you to visit places near and far, journey back into childhood and reflect on the passage of time. This wildly……続きを見る

Songs of Two Nations by the English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic,Algernon Charles Swinburne.He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to ……続きを見る

ContentsThe Arrow and the Song  HENRY W. LONGFELLOWThe Babie  JEREMIAH EAMES RANKINLet Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite  ISAAC WATTSLittle Things EBENEZER COBHAM BREWERHe Prayeth Best  SAMUEL T. COLERI……続きを見る

From the author of I Saw a Man comes a powerful drama in verse that captures both the trauma of modern warfare and the difficulty of transitioning back to normal life after combat. In early 2008, th……続きを見る

A collection of poetry that takes readers through a personal journey of the struggles with depression and anxiety. Fading Footsteps has four chapters that delve into issues of loneliness, self-estee……続きを見る

In the infinite multiverse all things are possible, so it is said. If it is possible to step from one existence into another then just maybe what follows may have happened already, is happening as y……続きを見る

How would you feel about sitting in front of that nice old village pub on a sunny afternoon while convoys of 40-ton tankers roll past six feet away? Deerland Energy's plans to drill for shale gas in……続きを見る