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Begun in 1797, when William was at the height of his poetic powers, The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals provide invaluable insight into the daily lives of Dorothy and William Wordsworth, William’s friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the incidents that inspired some of his greatest poems. Richly immersive and intimately domestic, the Journals transport the listener to life in the Lake District 200 years ago as Dorothy describes the Lake District countryside, her garden and neighbours, keeping house, going on walks, and the people she meets along the way

Catherine Morland comes from a big family of modest means and has never had any aspirations to landing a Darcy or a Colonel Brandon as you might find in Austen's other novels. Catherine's family seems to be fairly unremarkable. She truly is the least likely of Austen's heroines to be in that role. She is naive as to what might actually happen when she's invited on a trip to Bath with a family friend. But others are more conniving. John and Isabella Thorpe have their own ideas and assumptions about Miss Morland and her expectations.

Phantasmagoria, Lewis Carroll's longest poem, was first published by Macmillan and Co., London, in 1869. Written in seven cantos, it tells the tale, in quintains, of a gentleman called Tibbets and his experience conversing with a phantom. This amusing “epic” takes us through their initial fear of each other, a fierce debate over the goings-on of the supernatural world, and finally, to a touching mutual admiration.

El corsario es, ante todo, un poema autobiográfico que narra las aventuras de un tal Conrad, un corsario rechazado por la sociedad -no así por las mujeres- debido a su comportamiento escandaloso. El poema inmediatamente atrajo la atención del público debido a la personalidad arrasadora de Byron, incluso algunos adeptos a la estadística afirman que se llegaron a vender diez mil copias durante su primer día en la calle.

Read by the author, Kathleen Jamie. A Scotsman Poetry Book of the Year 'Jamie’s poetry offers a new way of seeing the world and a new form of intelligence about ourselves and other species' – Kit Fan, Guardian The Keelie Hawk is a landmark poetry collection from Kathleen Jamie, the former...

The Romantic Epistle was published in 1717 and aroused considerable interest because of its mildly suggestive content. It portrays an incident in which Héloïse d'Argenteuil, now immured in a convent chances on a letter from her former lover and later, husband, the brilliant philosopher Peter Abelard.

Cuento de Navidad es una novela corta que cuenta la historia de un hombre avaro y egoísta llamado Ebenezer Scrooge y su transformación tras recibir la visita de una serie de fantasmas en Nochebuena. Este relato fue muy bien recibido por los lectores y los críticos. Scrooge era un señor muy adinerado cuyo único socio, Marley, había muerto. Este anciano solitario, vivía en su particular mundo, todo le desagradaba y más aún la Navidad. Su rutina diaria esa caminar por las mismas calles sin que nadie lo saludara.

The Death of Shakespeare is a novel of historical fiction that imagines how the plays attributed to William Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, with occasional help from the Bard himself. William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon appeared in London in 1590 at the age of 26 and is believed by many to have begun writing the greatest plays the world has ever seen. There is no record of his education, if he had any.

Narra la historia de un fértil y apacible valle, localizado en el territorio más inhóspito de los Andes ecuatoriales, donde se asientan unos colonos que pronto han de enfrentarse a una terrible desgracia: todos sus hijos nacen ciegos.

Barbados, 1834. El amo de la plantación Providence reúne a sus esclavos y anuncia que el rey de Inglaterra ha decretado el fin de la esclavitud. Pero los gritos de alegría se apagan cuando les advierte que ya no son esclavos, sino aprendices. Nadie puede irse. Deberán trabajar para él durante seis años más. La libertad es solo otro nombre para la vida que siempre han vivido. Esa noche Rachel huye y se convierte en fugitiva. Comienza una búsqueda desesperada para encontrar a sus hijos, los cinco que sobrevivieron al nacimiento y fueron vendidos.

When the Duchess of Hinwick is found dead on her daughter’s wedding day, renowned sleuth Lord Edgington must prove his grandson's innocence by discovering the real killer’s plot. As he unravels the mystery of the murdered aristocrat, it becomes clear that even her own family are happy to see the back of her. With the bride’s ex-fiancé, a suspicious butler, and a plethora of plotting relatives among the suspects, how will the famous detective find the truth when just about everyone wanted the duplicitous woman dead?

This is a minute-by-minute depiction of a typical night at a legendary monthly house party known as 'The Wickedest'. Here, we meet a vivid cast of characters, young and old, all surfing a revelry steeped in camaraderie, community, desire and a spirit of jubilant defiance. A modern epic, The Wickedest explores the institution of shoobs or house parties and their vital role within working-class communities. The poems range from classical English sonnets to experimental forms and are immersively interwoven with text messages and ephemera. 

Read by the author, Raymond Antrobus. ‘I became fatherless at 26 and a father at 35 and whenever I look out the living room window I feel myself become the child left alone in the house’ Centred around two lyric poems on imminent fatherhood and the birth of a child, Signs, Music is a book...

День, который мы празднуем — история, вышедшая из-под пера популярного американского новеллиста О. Генри (англ. O. Henry, 1862–1910). Попугай, бездумно повторяя заученные слова, заставил друзей вспомнить о днях лишений на банановых плантациях далекой Коста-Рики. Писатель также прославился благодаря рассказам "Фараон и хорал", "Сыщики", "Момент победы", "Закон и порядок", "День, который мы празднуем", "Тысяча долларов", "Багдадская птица" и "Орден золотого колечка".

Saved from an unwanted marriage, Darcy finds himself in Hertfordshire with his sister and former fiancée. In repayment for a debt of honor, Mr. Darcy assists Bingley in finding a wife who truly loves him by testing his potential brides. Although helpful in some ways, it ends up causing substantial confusion, especially for Elizabeth, who is upset by his peculiar behavior.

In After You Were, I Am, charged moments from history collide with our own godless modern world. Read by the author, the recording is divided into three sections - ingenious rewritings of canonical prayers, dramatic monologues from the Pendle witch trials of 1612, and the divine tragedy of the Elizabethan magus John Dee - obsess over individual human characters and how our past informs (and informs on) our present.

A collection of 52 poems, one for every week of the year.

Sisters Grace and Marion are driven apart, only to be reunited over the festive season. Dickens's Christmas stories perfectly enraptured the spirit of the Victorian Christmas and came to inspire many traditional aspects of the season today, including what we know think of as Christmas dinner, family gatherings, dancing, and more.

Like the Roman matron for whom she is named, plain but clever Octavia seems destined for abandonment. Handsome, fun-loving and heir to an earldom, Dorian is the opposite. In Regency London, life for him is a game in which other people, including Octavia, are his pawns. Everyone loves him until he does the unspeakable: he runs off with anther man's wife. Despite the permanent ache in her heart, Octavia spends her early and middle years building a life she loves as a village apothecary with people who love and appreciate her. Exiled Dorian spends most of his in regret.

From 1820 to 1860, nearly two million Irish migrated to the United States, mostly due to the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1852. Many died crossing the ocean due to disease and dismal conditions of what became known as coffin ships. Not Forgotten is the story of love and loss, enchantment and despair, joy and sorrow. Nora Brown was smitten when she met Oliver McManus. After fathering six children with Nora, Oliver disappeared, joining the Irish Brotherhood and leaving his family behind, he never returned.