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Thomas More is an enduringly fascinating and profoundly controversial figure. A brilliant scholar, his Utopia of 1516 dared to imagine how society might be completely reordered. At the same time, his hatred of the Reformation caused him to advocate, and seek to implement, the death penalty for...

Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, Nostromo explores the volatile politics and crippling greed surrounding the San Tomé silver mine. The story of power, love, revolutions, loyalty and reward is told with richly evocative description and brilliantly realised characters. But Nostromo is more than an adventure story; it is also a profoundly dark moral fable. Its language is as compellingly resonant as the sea itself; the characters absorbing and complex.

Middlemarch (Book 2: Old and Young), A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. It appeared in eight installments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midlands town, from 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education.

A Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays, known for its humorous and farcical plot. It revolves around two sets of identical twins, separated at birth, who are unaware of each other's existence. The play takes place in Ephesus, where one pair of twins, Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in search of their long-lost brothers. Unbeknownst to them, their twins, Antipholus of Ephesus and Dromio of Ephesus, already reside in the city.

In Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler," listeners are introduced to the enigmatic and complex titular character, whose name alone has become synonymous with intrigue and psychological depth. Set against the backdrop of a stifling bourgeois society in 19th-century Norway, the play follows Hedda Gabler, a woman trapped in a loveless marriage and yearning for freedom and fulfillment.

Explore the extraordinary legacy of W.B. Yeats through a collection that brings together his finest poetry, personal reflections, and writings on Ireland's literary revival. Known for his romantic and lyrical style of poetry, Yeats's work was often inspired by Irish myths, spiritualism, love, longing and loss. His later work became more modernist in style, challenging poetic conventions and shifting to a political focus. This audiobook edition is expertly read by Aidan Kelly.

The second poetry collection from acclaimed poet Susannah Dickey, winner of the PEN Heaney Prize. How do we communicate the hopefulness of new love in a dying world? A young woman, dining alone in a Paris bistro while awaiting the arrival of her lover – confronts her dish of calf’s head with...

情感教育是法国大作家福楼拜1821 –1880的长篇小说代表作主人公福赖代芮克·毛漏出身于法国外省家庭在去巴黎上大学途中与画商阿尔鲁夫妇结识对阿尔鲁夫人一见倾心到巴黎后他想方设法接近阿尔鲁夫人但对方隐忍矜持得到她的爱并非易事渴望与失望之余福赖代芮克又纠缠于交际花罗莎乃特大投机家党布罗斯的夫人家乡女子路易丝等几个不同类型女人的怀抱情事以外时局动荡福赖代芮克与各种政治倾向的人物交往一八四八年二月革命的浪潮在小说中得到了直接的反映如译者李健吾先生所言“毛漏的情感教育在本质上即是福氏的情感教育但是毛漏不就是福氏这是一个天性不纯禀赋不厚然而一往情深的习见的青年良弱缺少毅力”“”了解毛漏这样的青年等于了解中产阶级自私然而却不就是自私毛漏一向慷慨一向热衷许多人慷慨而又热衷具有经验以及从经验体会出来的处世哲理并非毫无区别地兼善毛漏不然这是一块软面随心所欲由人揉搓他没有鲜明的人格他的人格富有弹性像一张琴人人可以弹出自己所需要的共鸣然而不是毛漏自鸣他会将别人的拨弄看做自主天赋独厚的音籁不认识自己他以为认识他把一时的习染误做天才的流露因而自负过高他逗留在事物的表皮永久吸入现象永久默默无闻富有流动的接受性没有比他易与的人仿佛河床的污泥一波一波流过依然故我在河床沉淀淤积他在急湍之中回旋以为是自己波动他或许有动的意识他当然有而且很多然而从来没有形成一种意志一种活力”

Our agent, a man named Mr Verloc, minds his own business while he keeps his shop in London's Soho, alongside his wife, who attends to her aged mother and disabled brother. Their lives are turned upside down when Verloc is reluctantly employed to plant a bomb and destroy an observatory in London. What was once the perfect bomb plot inevitably turns awry and Verloc, his family and his associates are forced to face the consequences.

BBC Radio dramatisations and readings of Browning’s most famous poems, performed by stars including Anton Lesser, Roger Allam and David Tennant, plus two bonus plays Victorian poet Robert Browning was renowned for his evocative dramatic monologues peopled with vivid, morally ambiguous...

In popular imagination, Tolkien is a Luddite, but recent scholarship has identified Tolkien's extensive modern sympathies. Tolkien, Philosopher of War contributes to this growing literature. His is a modern critique of Enlightenment thinking, specifically those philosophies that wrest the initiative from God in divinizing man. His worry is apocalyptic politics—political movements that take Christ's word out of the realm of grace and make it a platform for political action.

The longest major poem by renowned English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge tells of a wedding guest who is intercepted on his way to the ceremony by an old mariner. The mariner engages the guest with an incredible tale of a fateful sea journey, the story of which he is compelled to relate.

Brought to you by Penguin. A delightful, thoughtful and original new way to understand England's history This is the history of England told in a new way: glimpsed through twenty-five remarkable poems written down between the eighth century and today, which connect us directly with the...

Some people worry that they don't appreciate poetry; but English poetry wasn't written to be appreciated it was written to be enjoyed. For six centuries people have been reading poetry for enjoyment - for fun, for romance, for religion and for entertainment - and this is a book about those...

George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she was judged harshly by family, friends, and strangers. Eliot wanted to draw attention to the feelings and motivations of ordinary people, so that we...

Countless would-be readers and listeners of Finnegans Wake - James Joyce's 1939 masterwork, on which he labored for a third of his life - have given up after a few pages and "dismissed the book as a perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with novelist and poet Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first guide to understanding the fascinating world of Finnegans Wake.

C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in world history, providing deep insight into some of the greatest writers of the age, including Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, William Tyndale, John Knox, Dr. Johnson, Richard...

Octobre 1990. Le capitaine français Jorik Arteta, en mission au Rwanda, rencontre Espérance, jeune professeure engagée dans la transition démocratique de son pays. 6 avril 1994. Un éclair déchire le ciel de Kigali. Le Falcon du président rwandais explose en plein vol. Commencent alors cent jours de terreur et de sang. Les auteurs des tirs de missiles ne seront jamais identifiés. Quelqu'un, pourtant, connaît la vérité. Noël 2024. Jorik, sa fille et sa petite-fille s'envolent pour le Rwanda. Tous poursuivent leur propre quête, tourmentée par les fantômes du passé.

Surviving the Trojan War was just the beginning of the adventure for Odysseus. What lay ahead was a journey home that would last for years as he encountered gods and monsters before finally returning home - only to face the greatest threat to his happiness of all. This translation of Homer's classic tale captures all the timeless excitement and gripping drama that have made it a favorite for centuries.

A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for...