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The Complaisant Lover
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
A “delicious . . . champagne cocktail” of a stage comedy about a sporting British couple’s marital—and extramarital—propositions (New York Herald Tribune).
Victor Rhodes, a hearty and amiable dentist in North London, has what he thinks is a happy marriage. It’s stable, routine,...
Justice (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A Tragedy in Four Acts
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
In this 1910 play, Galsworthy sought to highlight injustices in the British prison system, especially the use of solitary confinement and other cruel and arbitrary punishments. The immense popularity of the play helped secure significant reforms.
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER (With Original Illustrations)
The Most Famous Poem of the English literary critic, poet and philosopher, author of Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems, Biographia Literaria, Anima Poetae, Aids to Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Poem relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The...
by George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
In the opening scene of Arms and the Man, which establishes the play's embattled Balkan setting, young Raina learns of her suitor's heroic exploits in combat. She rhapsodizes that it is "a glorious world for women who can see its glory and men who can act its romance!" Soon, however, such romantic...
Plays Political
The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 1999
While some of Shaw’s earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet, frankly, it is doubtful how seriously we can now take Shaw as a political thinker. Despite writing in...
Don Juan in Hell
From Man and Superman
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Using intriguing characters and sparkling dialogue, George Bernard Shaw explored ideas and issues that transformed the conventions of British theater. "Don Juan in Hell" showcases the master's art at its best.
An episode from Act Three of Man and Superman, "Don Juan in Hell" is...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***
Synopsis:
Collection of poems by the American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century. He is often identified as the first writer to develop a uniquely American...
Anglo-Saxon Verse
The Collected Poetic Works
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
The first Saxon migration to the British Isles arrived in 449AD, after which a flourishing culture developed (Anglo-Saxon) - only ending with the Norman invasion in 1066. Of all the Anglo-Saxon art remaining to us, their poetry is of the very highest literary quality, and provides a fantastic source...
The Angel In The House
"The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so."
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was born on July 23rd 1823 at Woodford in Essex. Although he is still relatively unknown his stature as a Victorian Poet continues to increase. After some uneven success at writing poetry in 1846 Coventry came to the post of printed book supernumary assistant at the...
The Bees
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
A winner of the Costa Book Award, "beautiful and moving poetry for the real world" (The Guardian)
The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of new poems as British poet laureate, and the much anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot Prize–winning Rapture. After the intimate...
by Aldous Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Over the course of his career, British writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) shifted away from elitist social satires and an atheistic outlook toward greater concern for the masses and the use of religious terms and imagery. This change in Huxley's thinking underlies the previously unpublished play Now More...
by Thomas Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
Thomas Hardy abandoned the novel form at the turn of the century, probably after public reaction to Jude the Obscure, but continued to write verse displaying a wide variety of metrical styles and stanza forms and a broad scope of tone and attitude. This definitive volume contains selections from his...
by E.R. Braithwaite
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
An uplifting story of the triumph of love, inspiration and hope against all odds, laced with the song and dance of austere, 1940s Britain.
Ricky Braithwaite, an ex-RAF fighter pilot and Cambridge graduate, arrives in London in 1948. Despite his First Class degree in electronic engineering he...
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The greatest sonnets ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language--now in a handsome edition featuring exquisite color illustrations.