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  Greek Tragedies III - Aeschylus:...

  Aeschylus Aeschylus, Sophocles,...

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  This anthology collects some of the most important plays by Ancient Greek tragedians, in updated translations with new introductions. 
   
  Greek Tragedies, Volume III presents some of the finest and most fundamental works of Western dramatic literature. It draws together plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from Chicago’s acclaimed nine-volume series, Complete Greek Tragedies. This third edition updates the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which they are famous. New introductions for each play provide essential information about the production histories and the stories themselves. 
   
  This volume contains Aeschylus’s “The Eumenides,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s “Philoctetes,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides’s “The Bacchae,” translated by William Arrowsmith; and Euripides’s “Alecestis,” translated by Richmond Lattimore.

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  The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow on 11th November, 1821 to distinguished multi-ethnic parents from a Lithuanian background.   
   
  His childhood years were at the family home in hospital grounds which also contained an orphanage, an insane asylum and a cemetery for criminals.  The young Fyodor often disobeyed his father by talking to the ill in the hospital gardens.   
   
  His health was compromised at age 9 when he experienced his first epileptic fit. By the time he was a teenager both parents had died and he was now enrolled in a military academy where he graduated and eventually became a Lieutenant in 1842.  He left military service the next year. 
   
  In 1846 he published his first novel ‘Poor Cow’ to great literary acclaim.  His next was unable to emulate that success but his short stories helped provide an income.  Life as an author was definitely difficult. As he began his next work he was arrested and incarcerated for treason and participation in the political and literary Petrashevsky Circle. Although the case was weak and unjustified he was sentenced to 4 years of hard labour followed by 5 years of military service in a Siberian regiment.  
   
  Despite the undoubted hardships and setbacks in his life, and whether they helped or hindered his writing, his talents produced many exceptional works of literature including ‘Crime and Punishment’, ‘The Idiot’ and ‘The Brothers Karamazov’.   
   
  Dostoevsky’s ability to get under the skin of his characters and show the inner workings of their mind was hugely influential and ahead of its time.  Interwoven with this was the influence of the broader social, spiritual and political forces at work in a person's psyche.   
   
  Fyodor Dostoevsky struggled financially and remained in poor health for much of his adult life.  He died from a lung haemorrhage on 9th February, 1881. 
   
  ‘The Dream of a Ridiculous Man’ is one of his many classic short stories that turn a splinter of the ordinary into the spiralling descent of chaos.

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  David Copperfield

  Charles Dickens

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  "David Copperfield," often referred to as "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery," is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a book in 1850. It follows the life journey of David Copperfield, from his birth and idyllic early childhood through trials and tribulations in youth, to his eventual success and happiness as an adult. The story is written in the first person and has been described by Dickens himself as his "favorite child" among his works. Throughout the narrative, Dickens addresses themes like class, family, and the challenges and rewards of personal development.

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  Lady Susan

  Jane Austen

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  Written in the then fashionable style form of letters between the characters in the book, Jane Austen tells the story of the beautiful widow Lady Susan. Lady Susan has an eye toward re-marrying well, and marrying off her teenage daughter. To achieve her objectives, she spins a tale of Victorian humor and manipulation. In the end, she outsmarts even herself.Jane Austen’s earliest known serious work, Lady Susan is a short, epistolary novel that portrays a woman bent on the exercise of her own powerful mind and personality to the point of social self-destruction.Lady Susan, a clever and ruthless widow, determines that her daughter is going to marry a man whom both detest. She sets her own sights on her sister-in-law’s brother, all the while keeping an old affair simmering on the back burner. But people refuse to play the roles assigned them. In the end, her daughter gets the sister-in-law’s brother, the old affair runs out of steam, and all that is left for Lady Susan is the man intended for her daughter, whom neither can abide.Told through a series of letters between the characters, the work concludes abruptly with the comment: “this correspondence…could not, to the great detriment of the Post Office revenue, be continued any longer.”The Letters:Letter 01: Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. VernonLetter 02: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 03: Lady Susan Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 04: Mr. de Courcy to Mrs. VernonLetter 05: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 06: Mrs. Vernon to Mr. de CourcyLetter 07: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 08: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 09: Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan VernonLetter 10: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 11: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 12: Sir Reginald de Courcy to His SonLetter 13: Lady de Courcy to Mrs. VernonLetter 14: Mr. de Courcy to Sir ReginaldLetter 15: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 16: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 17: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 18: From the Same to the SameLetter 19: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 20: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 21: Miss Vernon to Mr. de CourcyLetter 22: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 23: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 24: From the Same to the SameLetter 25: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 26: Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan VernonLetter 27: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyLetter 28: Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan VernonLetter 29: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 30: Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. de CourcyLetter 31: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 32: Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan VernonLetter 33: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 34: Mr. de Courcy to Lady Susan VernonLetter 35: Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. de CourcyLetter 36: Mr. de Courcy to Lady Susan VernonLetter 37: Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. de CourcyLetter 38: Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan VernonLetter 39: Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. JohnsonLetter 40: Lady de Courcy to Mrs. VernonLetter 41: Mrs. Vernon to Lady de CourcyConclusion

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  Transformation

  Dmitrey Merezhkovsky

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  Mischief, prank, and mistaken identity take on a new meaning in this delightful concoction by the master of the Silver Age of Russian literature Dmitrey Merezhkovsky.

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  Poezest

  Mike Bennett

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  Poezest contains works of legendary author Edgar Allan Poe reworked and reimagined by Mike Bennett, who has intertwined elements of Edgar Allan Poe's character with well-known works such as 'The Black Cat', 'The Raven', 'The Tell-Tale Heart', 'The Premature Burial' and many more. 
  Written in verse and prose, this body of work captures the spirit of Poe whilst retaining an originality that is as comedic as it is macabre, replete with murder, mystery and Machiavellian intrigue. The music underscore has been provided by Guy Cavill, capturing the mood of the creepy tale that helps to take the listener on a journey that has more twists and turns than Brands Hatch.

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