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Cover of Collected Poems
by Alan Sillitoe
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016

A sweeping collection of poetry from one of Great Britain’s most celebrated postwar writers.   Bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe delves into the profound and personal world of poetry in this collection of two hundred poems written between 1950 and 1990. Culled from seven previously published...
Cover of Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.
Cover of Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009

"The permanent popularity, now of mythic intensity, of Romeo and Juliet is more than justified," writes eminent scholar Harold Bloom, "since the play is the largest and most persuasive celebration of romantic love in Western literature." William Shakespeare (1564-1616) based...
Cover of The Seagull
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012

‘We need the theatre, couldn't, couldn't do without it. Could we?’ A successful actress visits her brother's isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrated residents unfulfilled ambitions into sharp relief. As her son attempts to impress with a self-penned play, putting much...
Cover of Essays in Honour of Eamonn Cantwell

Essays in Honour of Eamonn Cantwell

Yeats Annual No. 20


by Warwick Gould
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

This number of Yeats Annual collects the essays resulting from the University College Cork/ESB International Annual W. B. Yeats Lectures Series (2003-2008) by Roy Foster, Warwick Gould, John Kelly, Paul Muldoon, Bernard O’Donoghue and Helen Vendler. Those that were available in pamphlet form are...
Cover of Shrines of Upper Austria
by Phoebe Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018

A Poetry Book Society Spring 2018 Recommendation Shortlisted for The 2018 Forward (Felix Dennis) Prize for Best First Collection Wandering in central Europe, a traveller observes and records a landscape of lakes, folk culture and uneasy histories. Phoebe Power's Shrines of Upper Austria gathers...
Cover of Love Bombs and Apples
by Hassan Abdulrazzak
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016

‘I nod, make sounds of sympathy but all the time, one side of the split screen is busy computing all the possible places to get laid in Ramallah at this time of night’ A Palestinian actor learns there’s more to English girls than pure sex appeal. A Pakistani-born terror suspect figures...
Cover of The Lord Byron Collection
by Lord Byron
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button.  All of our collections include a linked table of contents. Lord Byron was a prominent English poet who helped lead the...
Cover of Lord Byron Complete Works – World’s Best Collection

Lord Byron Complete Works – World’s Best Collection

350+ Works - All Poetry, Poems, Plays, Rarities Incl. Don Juan, Manfred, The Gauier Plus Biography and Bonuses

by Lord Byron, John Galt
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018

Lord Byron Complete Works Ultimate Collection This is the world's best Byron collection, including the most complete set of Byron's works available plus many free bonus materials. Lord Byron Byron was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic Movement. He is still regarded...
Cover of The Making of the West End Stage

The Making of the West End Stage

Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830–1870

by Jacky Bratton
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011

All roads lead to London - and to the West End theatre. This book presents a new history of the beginnings of the modern world of London entertainment. Putting female-centred, gender-challenging managements and styles at the centre, it redraws the map of performance history in the Victorian capital...
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Being Shelley

The Poet's Search for Himself

by Ann Wroe
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008

From Ann Wroe, a biographer of the first rank, comes a startlingly original look at one of the greatest poets in the Western tradition. Being Shelley aims to turn the poet's life inside out: rather than tracing the external events of his life, she tracks the inner journey of a spirit struggling to...
Cover of The Anchor Book of Sixteenth Century Verse
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013

This comprehensive anthology contains selections from the work of twenty-five poets of the sixteenth century. Employing the original, rather than normalized, texts, the volume includes complete, non-excerpted poems by John Skelton, Philip Sidney and others. The selections - which include such works...
Cover of The Damned United
by David Peace, Mr Anders Lustgarten
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016

When Don Revie took over this club, Leeds were a rugby league town. No interest in football. Gates under 10,000. We'd never won a thing. He built one of the great clubs of English football, one of the great teams of English football, from scratch on barren ground from nothing more than spirit and...
Cover of Trout Stanley
by Claudia Dey
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005

Described by Variety as ‘Yukon Gothic,’ Claudia Dey’s acclaimed Trout Stanley is set in northern British Columbia, on the outskirts of a mining town between Misery Junction and Grizzly Alley. In this inhospitable setting live a pair of sisters, twins who are not identical in any way: Sugar,...
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