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  Collected Plays Two

  Alfian Sa'at

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  Alfian Sa’at’s The Asian Boys Trilogy is a fascinating, insightful tour through the lives and loves of the gay community in Singapore. In the campy and carnivalesque Dreamplay, history is turned upside-down as a goddess travels through time to ‘save gay men from themselves’. In Landmarks, geography takes centrestage, as eight short plays explore the spaces that have been claimed, colonised, and trespassed by those at the margins of the mainstream. In Happy Endings, the playwright’s adaptation of the novel Peculiar Chris evolves into a meditation on the relationship between life and literature. With clear-eyed compassion and eloquent outrage, this collection of plays charts the coming-of-age of a community finding its voice.

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  Gitanjali - Song Offerings

  Rabindranath Tagore

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  GitanjaliBy Rabindranath TagoreWith an Introduction by W. B. YeatsGitanjali (song offerings) is a collection of 103 devotional poems written originally in Bengali and first published in 1910.  In 1912 a translation into English by the author was published in 1912, and led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.The Indian sage, Paramahansa Yogananda, who was a friend and admirer of Tagore, made the following comment on his poetry:  "The beauty of his lines, to me, lies in his art of referring to God in nearly every stanza, yet seldom mentioning the sacred Name. 'Drunk with the bliss of singing,' Tagore writes, 'I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.'"Production copyright 2024 Voices of Today

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  Paradise Lost

  John Milton

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  An angel's rebellion. A world newly created. A choice that changes everything.
  In this towering epic, Milton brings to life the cosmic struggle between Heaven and Hell, led by the proud and compelling figure of Satan. Through breathtaking verse, we witness the creation of Earth, the innocence of Adam and Eve, and the tragic temptation that reshapes human destiny forever. The poem's grandeur, emotion, and moral complexity have made it a cornerstone of world literature.
  
  Celebrated as "the greatest English poem ever written," Paradise Lost combines drama, theology, mythology, and unforgettable imagery into a work that continues to inspire awe centuries later.
  
  If you love epic storytelling, powerful language, and timeless battles between freedom, obedience, pride, and love, this masterpiece is essential reading.
  
  Open the book—and enter the epic realm where Heaven trembles and humanity begins.

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  Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

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  How far would you go to claim power?
  
  Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's most intense and haunting tragedies. Set in medieval Scotland, the play follows the rise and fall of Macbeth, a nobleman whose ambition is awakened by a prophecy—and driven to murder by desire for power and fear of losing it.
  
  As Macbeth and Lady Macbeth descend into paranoia and madness, Shakespeare explores the corrosive effects of unchecked ambition, guilt, and moral corruption. Witches, visions, and dark symbolism create an atmosphere of relentless tension and psychological horror.
  
  This gripping tragedy examines power, fate, conscience, and the price of betraying one's humanity.
  
  Inside this eBook, you'll experience:
  
  A fast-paced tragedy filled with suspense and violence
  
  One of literature's most compelling portrayals of ambition
  
  Supernatural elements that deepen psychological terror
  
  A timeless warning about the cost of power
  
  Widely studied and performed, Macbeth remains essential reading for students, theater lovers, and readers of classic drama.
  
  Step into a world where ambition devours the soul. Buy now and experience Shakespeare's darkest tragedy.

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  Embark

  Sean O'Brien

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  A new collection by Sean O’Brien – ‘Auden’s true inheritor’, and one of our wisest poetic chronographers – is not just a literary event, but also, invariably, a reckoning of the times. Given the nature of our times, his voice is an essential one: there is no other poet currently writing with O’Brien’s intellectual authority, historical literacy and sheer command of the facts. Embark also registers our unique cultural climacteric, where the larger crises of the planet – the pandemic and the terrifying spectre of revanchist nationalism among them – impact all of us, and where the illusion of a church-and-state separation of the personal and political can no longer hold. As the poet turns seventy, he shows us how the inevitable absences that age brings are assuaged by how we furnish them; the result is not just a logic made from loss and pain, but a music, a metaphysic, and finally a redemptive art. Embark reminds us of the enduring consolations of love, of friendship, of the freedoms and possible futures still afforded by the imagination – and, through O’Brien’s own exemplary model, of poetry itself.

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  The Refrigerator Memory

  Shannon Bramer

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  The Refrigerator Memory is an exuberant, strangely funny celebration of sadness.
     
  With fable-like miniature stories and short lyric poems, Shannon Bramer creates a world littered with stolen pears and prosthetic arms and inhabited by Kindness scientists and hot-air-balloon operators. The poems invoke a world of childhood delights and demons in the context of grown-up fears and appetites: heartbreak, loss, jealousy and old-fashioned sibling rivalry. You’ll find the hopelessly misunderstood Love the Clown (never goes out without his red wig) and Noni, a forlorn young man who can’t stop crying.
     
  But while sadness plays a starring role, the true hero of the collection is the imagination; its transformative powers warm widows and drunken gods and designated mourners.
     
  You won’t forget The Refrigerator Memory: the icebox cometh to warm your heart.
     
  ‘Bramer’s “Our Prosthesis�* … [is] wonderfully succinct, while still managing to convey entire lives floating beneath its surface.’ – Lee Gowan
     
  ‘[Bramer writes] poems with resonant grief, fragile glass and desperate love, carved carefully and spare out of cold, dark objects, achieving small, remarkable poems.’ – rob mclennan

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