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In this BBC full-cast production of Richard II, the male ego and narcissism of monarchs are hung out to dry... Written entirely in verse, the rhythms of the language in this epic tragedy encompass its themes of dignity and kingship with fitting grandeur and pathos, as the capricious and...

The Chronicles of Clovis, published in 1911, was the third in Saki (H. H. Munro)'s series of very funny and very vicious stories. As an insider, Saki was ideally poised to eviscerate the Edwardian middle class way of life, and his pitiless and magnetic sense of humour - teamed with an ability to wield that sharpest of writer's tools, the (very) short story - makes these some of the funniest and most quotable of tales. All of the running themes in Saki's work are here.

This edition of Romeo and Juliet is an adaptation of Shakespeare's eponymous play, the incredible romantic story full of passion and wisdom retold in plain modern English, capturing the very essence and key elements of the original Shakespeare's drama.

A fascinating new volume of messages about motherhood, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and about mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour and frustration, wisdom and sacrifice...

A Cockney flower girl is transformed into a charming woman of the world by a professor of phonetics. This is the play that was later to be adapted as the musical, My Fair Lady.

La célèbre comédie de Molière dans une édition audio intégrale en cinq actes. Harpagon, vieil avare suspicieux, aime son coffre plus que ses enfants et veut épouser la jeune Mariane, aimée de son propre fils Cléante. Ruses, quiproquos et cache dérobé entraînent la famille dans un...

More Ups than Downs is a collection of warm, uplifting poetry that speaks to the seesaw rhythm of being alive. It’s about the joys of embracing imperfection - a soft reminder that, sometimes, elation and disaster exist side by side, and that’s ok. From 'The Unpalatable Parts', a poem that...

A lifetime of reading. A lifetime of writing. A lifetime of ideas. Through his books, Ian McEwan has become one of the great storytellers of our time, as well as one of our most important public intellectuals. His work explores the human psyche with extraordinary insight and sensitivity, and...

It’s Midsummer’s Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it’s the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas’s daughter. And her disappearance could test Nora and Jonas’s relationship in ways they never expected. 

Hochspannung für Fans von Freida McFadden und Claire Douglas »Die Adresse ist 14 Tudor Grove – sollte ich noch nicht zu Hause sein, wenn du Milo abholst, passt unsere Nanny auf ihn und Jacob auf.« Doch als Marissa Irvine zur vereinbarten Adresse kommt, wo ihr kleiner Sohn zum Playdate...

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.

Here are eight fundamental works by one of the few greatest English poets: three lyric pieces, Songs of Innocence, The Book of Thel, Songs of Experience; the prose satire An Island in the Moon, the mystical prose poem The Marriage of Heaven & Hell, and three visionary poems: The French Revolution, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, America, a Prophecy. William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the great relevant figures of his time, who like Beethoven in music bridges the classical and romantic, remaining himself uncategorizable.

Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama—comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play—as well as lyric poetry, epic poetry, and the dithyramb). He examines its "first principles" and identifies its genres and basic elements. His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion.

En compagnie de Sophie Amundsen, le lecteur est initié par le détour de la fiction romanesque aux grands événements et figures de la pensée occidentale : Socrate, Platon, Aristote, le Moyen Age, la Renaissance, Spinoza, Hegel, Marx, Freud, le post-modernisme, entre autres. "Qu'est-ce qu'il y a de plus important dans la vie ? Tous les hommes ont évidemment besoin de nourriture. Et aussi d'amour et de tendresse. Mais il y a autre chose dont nous avons tous besoin : c'est de savoir qui nous sommes et pourquoi nous vivons."

The town calls Chris Flower a hero. He isn't so sure. After pulling a man from a burning car in a late-night crash, Chris is thrust into an unwanted spotlight. Neighbours stop him in the street. Strangers congratulate him. But somebody died that night, and the more the story is repeated, the heavier the silence becomes for him. As Chris tries to return to the life he was building with the woman he loves, the past refuses to let him go, because something else happened that night. He made choice that he desperately wants to remain hidden. Because heroes aren't supposed to have something to hide.

A lively account of medieval England through the eyes of its most famous poet and chronicler Who were Chaucer's thirty-three pilgrims, and why were they heading to Canterbury? What do they and their tales tell us about medieval England as a place, and about the daily lives of its people?...

Written as the epitaph Stevenson wished to have on his grave, the poem approaches death without fear or despair. Instead, Stevenson looks back on a life willingly lived and imagines death as a return home—a sailor coming in from the sea, a hunter returning from the hills.

Written in December 1854, shortly after the disastrous Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War, The Charge of the Light Brigade commemorates the cavalrymen who rode into overwhelming Russian artillery after a mistaken order. Tennyson's poem is both celebration and memorial: it acknowledges that “someone had blundered,” yet deliberately places the soldiers' courage and obedience at the center of the poem. It was first published on December 9, 1854, only weeks after the battle.

John Cooper Clarke may have an honorary doctorate and a poem on the English Literature GCSE syllabus, but don’t let that fool you: the ‘Poet Laureate of Punk’ is still a bona fide iconoclast. In Have It, a collection of scathing new poems, the Bard of Salford puts his pen to work across a...

Von kaltem Schweiß gebadet rennt Liz durch die Kleinstadt. Ehe sie sich versieht wird sie in die Psychiatrie gebracht. Dort wird ihr Schizophrenie diagnostiziert. Eine Krankheit, die durch Stimmen hören und Wahn sowie Stigmatisierung gekennzeichnet ist. Niemand ahnt etwas von ihrem Trauma, das auch als Ursache für ihre Erkrankung in Frage käme. Wird sie trotz all dieser Umstände ihre große Liebe finden?