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
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
Katharina Blum is pretty, bright, hard-working and at the centre of a big city scandal when, at a carnival party, she falls in love with a young radical on the run from the police. Portrayed by the city's leading newspaper as a whore, a communist and an atheist, she becomes the target of anonymous phone ...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
Lorna Doone by R D Blackmore
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion (1685). It is also a moving love story tol ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics
This edition prints all three parts of Dante's great poem about the journey of the soul - Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso - in the recent English translation by Allen Mandelbaum, with an introduction and explanatory notes on each canto by the noted Dante scholar, Peter Armour. This is a beautiful hard ...Show more
Carl Von Clausewitz On War by Carl von Clausewitz
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
War...is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will' Writing at the time of Napoleon's greatest campaigns, Prussian soldier and writer Carl von Clausewitz created this landmark treatise on the art of warfare, which presented war as part of a coherent system of political though ...Show more
Henry V by William Shakespeare
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Category: Theatre | Series: Collins Classics
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