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With Austen for Beginners A Memoir of Jane Austen, illustrations, Free Audiobook Links This edition of Sense and Sensibility includes the origin version colored illustrations by C. E. Brock. and HUGH THOMSON Beautiful colored pictures that follow the story line will make this story more...

Contents AGNES GREY. THE TENANT of WILDFELL HALL JANE EYRE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY THE PROFESSOR SHIRLEY VILLETTE. EMMA. ( Unfinished Novels ) WUTHERING HEIGHTS COTTAGE POEMS. POEMS Brontë Family Photo Gallery

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte - With Illustrations, Summary and Free Audio Book Link FEATURES:      •     Title contains original illustrations           •     Title contains Summary...

This wisely funny comedy, which contains some of Shakespeare’s loveliest poetry, contrasts a court’s world of envy and rivalry with a forest’s world of compassion and harmony. In the Forest of Arden, the banished young heroine, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, encounters an extraordinary...

This book-collection file includes: Cymbeline, Pericles, The Tempest, and The Winter's Tale. According to Wikipedia: "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent...

In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings–“Beware the ides of March”–and of moving public oratory, “Friends,...

Madame Bovary scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857. And the story itself remains as fresh today as when it was first written, a work that remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. It tells the tragic story of the romantic but empty-headed Emma Rouault. When...

Taking its inspiration from historical fact, Collaborators explores the intense, paradoxical, and ultimately deadly friendship between the dissident writer Mikhail Bulgakov and Josef Stalin, centering around a play which Bulgakov was forced to write to commemorate Stalin's sixtieth birthday. Stalin...

The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and...

Only tragedy can save her… Lucy Piddock meets Arthur Goodrich, solid, kind and dependable; a stonemason by trade working in his father’s Black Country business. Arthur seems to be the ideal match, but he lights no flame in Lucy’s heart. Anyone else would be satisfied. But Lucy wants more. She...

A commander of a German U boat UB-116 plans and executes a suicide attack on the British fleet in Scapa Flow in the final days of WW I.  Based on real events and well researched, there can be no victory for the crew.  The moral dilemma is agonizing, but clear. Honor or dishonor, but at what...

First ever Armchair Detective two-parter: "And the man is... Mandrake." Old Tom receives an invitation to a castle that he simply cannot refuse. He has dreaded this day for a long time, but he knew it would come all the same. He knows his 'friend' from the Old Days will be...

It's like being at a crossroads - a point of absolute, unequivocal change. It makes the blood rush. Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1833. Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, has collapsed on stage whilst playing Othello. A young black American actor has been asked to take over...

Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this...