Christopher Marlowe - The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
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Category: Theatre | Series: Penguin Classics
The complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong, sacred and profane Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
Ghosts, A Public Enemy, When We Dead Wake by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Theatre | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A collection of plays that focus on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them.
The Complete English Poems by John Donne
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods. Constant in his work, however, ...Show more
Counting One's Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by William Shawcross
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Category: Diaries & Letters
One of the revelations of William Shawcross's official biography of the Queen Mother was her private correspondence. Indeed the Sunday Times described her letters as 'wonderful ...brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness.' Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent from her earl ...Show more
The School for Scandal and Other Plays by Richard Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Category: Theatre | Series: Classics Ser.
The three plays collected in this volume demonstrate Sheridan's unerring ability to create unrivalled comedy out of ingenious plots, witty repartee, farcical situations and flamboyant characters. And while he never overtly moralizes, Sheridan uses brilliant comedy to deflate hypocrisy and satirize the m ...Show more