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This work presents a fictionalized biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley, introducing the significant events of his life. Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets with an interesting and diverse life. The writer did a great job portraying his free-spiritedness, his romantic nature, and the way he fought for what he believed in.
Two plays exploring the struggle of mental illness by the Tony Award–winning “giant of American theater” and author of Hurlyburly (Chicago Tribune). Good for Otto, which premiered in October 2015 at the Gift Theatre in Chicago, is a “sprawling drama of mental illness” in which “Mr. Rabe digs into his subject with a depth that almost feels bottomless.” Drawing on material from Undoing Depression by psychotherapist Richard O’Connor, it explores the lives of a therapist and his many patients, all trying to navigate personal trauma (Charles Isherwood, The New York Times). Visiting Edna, which premiered in September 2016 at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, is a drama of “deeply searing power” about the bond between mother and son. As Edna faces a short future plagued by her many illnesses—and a cancer that looms so large it becomes another character—she and her adult son struggle to communicate about their shared past as they contemplate the future (Variety). Taken together, the plays offer a satisfying glimpse into “Rabe’s theatrical universe . . . at once vivid and mysterious, a pageant and a puzzle” of contemporary American life (John Lahr, The New Yorker). “Many would list [Rabe] among the very greatest of living playwrights.” —Chris Jones, Chicago TribuneShow book
A hilarious new spin on the Hollywood romcom featuring two proposals, two weddings, an elopement and a cast of unforgettable characters. Kate likes her men tall, dark and smouldering. She has a fatal attraction to bad men. Then she meets Steve… Steve is a feminist. Can Kate overcome her love of lipstick, cupcakes and Heathcliff? Can Steve forgo the ethical confetti and learn to be a little bit more ravishing in bed? Can the two of them reinvent romance for the twenty-first century? Samantha Ellis's play How to Date a Feminist premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2016, ahead of a UK tour.Show book
"Of all the voluminous literature on the Negro, so much is mere external view and commentary…We turn therefore in the other direction to the elements of truest social portraiture, and discover in the artistic self-expression of the Negro to-day a new figure on the national canvas and a new force in the foreground of affairs.” The New Negro Movement of the 1920s marked a shift in the pursuit of African American equality. African American soldiers were returning home from World War I, and after fighting for freedoms abroad, they were inspired to continue that fight on their own soil. The “old” ways had focused on passively accepting social policies, but the “new” ways would harness their collective voices in defining their own identity. The intellectual and artistic movement of the Harlem Renaissance stirred a tremendous wave of social change. The New Negro was edited by Dr. Alain LeRoy Locke, a great intellectual and social visionary who is also considered the father of the Harlem Renaissance. This collection features works from many influential African American writers, such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen. Alain Locke dedicates this book to future generations. In keeping with his vision, inAudio is honored to share this audiobook production with an enduring legacy of listeners.Show book
Unplugged! If there is a single word capable to accurately summarize the atmosphere of this book, that is for sure the most appropriate given that - similarly to an unplugged performance of your favorite band/singer - the selected poems in this book also convey the sensation of filling out the room and taking your senses to a different state of mind. They address topics such as love, romance, perceptions about life around us, and new discoveries. Nonetheless, they are ‘unplugged’ of unnecessary features, meaning that they make the reader feel at ease from the very first lines and engaging you just like an intimate conversation with your closest friend. An Author's Republic audio production.Show book
Once more the year begins. The first month of the Gregorian calendar. Cold winds howl, the landscape shivers, frost, snow, ice are the many blankets for the land. Daylight is thin, it arrives late and leaves early ceding the hours to shadow and the ink of night.
1 - Fifty Shades of December - An Introduction
2 - Ode Written on The First of December by Robert Southey
3 - A Calender Of Sonnets - December by Helen Hunt Jackson
4 - The Idlers Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For the Year - December by Wilfred Scawen Blunt
5 - Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson
6 - Before Winter by Edith Nesbit
7 - December Matins by Alfred Austin
8 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
9 - Some Too Fragile For Winter Winds by Emily Dickinson
10 - Come Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
11 - On the Death of Major Whitefoord, December 15th 1825 by Eliza Acton
12 - A Wife in London (December 1899) by Thomas Hardy
13 - To the Memory of Mrs Lefroy Who Died December 16th, My Birthday by Jane Austen
14 - Sonnet 6 - Then Let Not Winter's Ragged Hand Deface by William Shakespeare
15 - In Drear Nighted December by John Keats
16 - It is Winter by Daniel Sheehan
17 - Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills by Percy Bysshe Shelley
18 - Gloomily the Clouds Are Sailing by Anne Bronte
19 - December by John Bannister Tabb
20 - Eden In Winter by Vachal Lindsay
21 - To A Lady Who Presented to the Author A Lock of Hair Braided with Her Own and Appointed a Night in December To Meet Him in the Garden by Lord Byron
22 - The December Rose by Edith Nesbit
23 - My Winter Rose by Alfred Austin
24 - To Flowers from Italy by Thomas Hardy
25 - Sicily. December 1908 by Henry Van Dyke
26 - Lachin y Gair by Lord Byron
27 - A December Day by Robert Fuller Murray
28 - Snow-Bound (The Sun That Brief December Day) by John Greenleaf Whittier
29 - December's Snow by Arthur Conan Doyle
30 - Sweetheart Winter by Vachel Lindsay
31 - Winter by Robert Southey
32 - The Foolish Fir Tree by Henry Van Dyke
33 - In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti
34 - December the 23rd 1879 by George MacDonald
35 - A Christmas Carol by Samual Taylor Coleridge
36 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott
37 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore
38 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart
39 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
40 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton
41 - Minstrels. A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth
42 - A Carol. I by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland
43 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan
44 - Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson
45 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling
46 - The Farm Woman's Winter by Thomas Hardy
47 - December the 27th 1879 by George MacDonald
48 - A New Years Eve in Wartime by Thomas Hardy
49 - At the Entering of the New Year by Thomas Hardy
50 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred lord Tennyson
51 - Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
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The first play written by award-winning actor and playwright Karen Cogan. The Half Of It is a relentless, darkly lyrical monologue about a life, lived unseen, which won the Stewart Parker Award in 2018 after a sold-out run at the Dublin Fringe Festival, produced by Mommo Theatre. In a London flat, a Cork woman is climbing the walls. She lives alone, eating dry digestives and hiding from the postman. She hasn't stepped outside in six years. Does she definitely still exist? 'An exquisite piece of theatre… a poignant reflection on modern society and how we treat ourselves and each other' - The Reviews Hub 'A slow-burning and complex vision of a woman's inner life' - No More WorkhorseShow book
