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Aphra Behn was a British writer and poet from the Restoration era. Behn is noted for being one of the first English women to earn a living by writing and she would become the idol of many famous female authors who followed her. This edition of The Rover includes a table of contents.

Since its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays. It adds The Words Upon the Window-Pane, one of Yeats's most startling dramatic works in its...

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes CONTENTS INTRODUCTION DELIA BY BY SAMUEL DANIEL DIANA BY BY HENRY CONSTABLE IDEA BY MICHAEL DRAYTON FIDESSA BY BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN CHLORIS BY WILLIAM SMITH PHILLIS BY THOMAS LODGE LICIA BY GILES FLETCHER

In Gondal’s Queen, Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford presents a cycle of eighty-four poems by Emily Jane Brontë, for the first time arranged in logical sequence, to re-create the “novel in verse” which Emily wrote about their beloved mystical kingdom of Gondal and its ruler, Augusta Geraldine Almeda,...

Reintroducing the poetry and prose of a remarkable poet, editor, and critic, this is a comprehensive selection of Andrew Crozier’s work. A definitive anthology, it offers insight into Crozier’s influences and praises him for championing writing excluded from the familiar canon, and for helping...

The Stranger and His Friend James Montgomery, british editor and poet (1771-1854) This ebook presents «The Stranger and His Friend», from James Montgomery. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- MOTTO...

Jane Holland's second collection, Boudicca & Co., is a provocative and vibrant exploration of women and their roles in society. The perennial themes of motherhood, love and sex jostle for space here with elegies, poetry written for performance, and Celtic-inspired mythological pieces. Richly allusive,...

Is this the strangest thing that two people have ever done in the history of the world? In this uncertain world, who can predict what brings people together? When two strangers meet by chance amidst the bustle of a crowded London train station, their lives are changed forever. Multi-award-winning...

A chance meeting with a mysterious elderly man... Who is Old Tom - a sad and lonely fusspot? Or a forgotten figure whose bewildering deductive abilities hint at something more..? Does he ever leave his armchair? Why is he only seen or heard by engaging, local newspaper reporter, Trench? And...

Pseudonym of the British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. He is best known for his supernatural thriller The Beetle: A Mystery, which was published in the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula and was initially even more popular. Heldman was educated at Eton and Oxford University. He began to publish...

A moving and darkly comic story of an Afghanistan veteran's search for redemption, and a fascinating insight into the plight of ex-servicemen in modern Britain. Ex-squaddie Ray - mentally scarred from his time in Afghanistan - returns home to Doncaster to attempt to see his kids and reconcile...

An uproarious underworld whodunit, Ronan O’Donnell’s single-hander reworks the hardboiled crime thriller for our times. A suspicious death at the workplace and loner security guard Nick Prentice is hauled in for interrogation. The Inspector thinks he’s got his man, as Nick’s seedy wee...

George Eliot was a prominent British author during the Victorian era.  Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, decided to use a male pen name because she believed readers would take her work more seriously.  Many of Eliot’s novels are among the most famous in 19th century literature.  This edition of How Lisa Loved the King includes a table of contents.

"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 living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry...