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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Plays” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Robert Browning (1812 – 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, and in particular the dramatic monologue, made him one of...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic...

during the past thirty odd years with my love partner ive often pondered the meaning of love is it just electro chemical connections in the brain is loving a sibling more satisfying than loving a pet can loving a parent be the same as loving a spouse is love really more powerful than superman is love...

The title tells all. It is something I came up with, while writing a screenplay titled KICKS. In the screenplay a character says: "Life sure is a crooked map made under twisted stars." which is used to explain the fact that truth is often stranger than fiction, and that nobody should try to presume, or second guess life.

Being a descendant of Charles Darwin might not make William Pryor a celebrity but his memoir ought to. Survival of the Coolest is a deep read about a man with a legacy for greatness who instead dives into drug addiction and comes up to tell about it. Do yourself a favour put down the celeb bios and read this real life account of a real cool life.

Extrait : "Les vents retiennent leur haleine ; le soir est calme et sombre ; aucun zéphyr n'erre dans le bocage ; et moi, je vais revoir la tombe de ma Marguerite, et répandre des fleurs sur la cendre que j'aime. Dans cette étroite cellule repose sa poussière, cette poussière que tant de vie animait...

When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, sustained vision of the natural world and as 'a mirror of England' (Walter de la Mare). This edition, drawn from Thomas's...

This volume brings together, in definitive form, all of John Clare's important autobiographical writings. His Autobiographical Fragments, Journal, and Sketches are set alongside his famous Journey out of Essex. Maps of Clare's countryside, his will, and extracts from his asylum letters are also included,...

The essential lyric works of the great Elizabethan playwright--newly revised and updated Though best known for his plays--and for courting danger as a homosexual, a spy, and an outspoken atheist--Christopher Marlowe was also an accomplished and celebrated poet. This long-awaited updated and...

This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Poetry” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. John Keats (1795–1821) was an English Romantic poet. The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his...

A new annotated edition of Yeats’s indispensable, lifelong work of philosophy—a meditation on the connections between the imagination, history, and the metaphysical—this volume reveals the poet’s greatest thoughts on the occult. First published in 1925, and then substantially revised...

A collection of 16 poems by G.K. Chesterton. All of the poems in this book, except for "The Strange Ascetic" are taken from "The Flying Inn", a book by the same author.

This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1915. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studied at the Slade School of Art, and upon graduating began to work as a freelance journalist. Over the course of his life, his literary output was incredibly diverse and...

Greybeards at Play by the English writer,poet,philosopher,dramatist,journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic, G. K. Chesterton.Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown,and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognized the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.