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  John Gabriel Borkman (NHB...

  Henrik Ibsen

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  John Gabriel Borkman, once an illustrious entrepreneur, has been brought low by a prison sentence for fraud. As he paces alone in an upstairs room, bankrupt and disgraced, he is obsessed by dreams of his comeback.
  Downstairs, his estranged wife plots the restoration of the family name. When her sister arrives unannounced, she triggers a desperate showdown with the past.
  Henrik Ibsen's most contemporary play and his penultimate, John Gabriel Borkman is gripping, penetrating and savagely funny. This version by Lucinda Coxon premiered at the Bridge Theatre, London, in September 2022, directed by Nicholas Hytner, with a cast led by Clare Higgins, Simon Russell Beale and Lia Williams.

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  Silas Marner

  George Eliot

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  In the town of Reveloe, there lives a man called Silas Marner. A strange little man, a weaver by trade, and seen with suspicion by the other villagers. He's been beset by bad luck all his life. Cast out of his simple religious life in Lantern Yard, and then returns home to find his money stolen. But then, on new years day, his luck changes when he finds a small child sitting before his hearth...  
  Published in 1861, this was the third novel by George Elliot, and delves into the topics of religion, industrialisation and community, and was praised at the time for its realism.  
  Narrated by Michael Ward.

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  The Waste Land

  T.S. Eliot

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  In The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot presents a haunting and fragmented vision of a world in decline—a world ravaged by war, disillusionment, and spiritual desolation. Considered one of the most influential poems of the 20th century, The Waste Land is a complex mosaic of voices, mythic references, and shifting landscapes, capturing the fractured psyche of modern life.
  
  Through its five sections, Eliot explores the themes of fragmentation, despair, and the search for meaning in a society torn apart by cultural and spiritual crisis. From the bleak and desolate opening lines, the poem journeys through images of decay, lost hope, and barren landscapes, interspersed with moments of revelation and the possibility of redemption. With references to works ranging from the Bible to Dante, the Upanishads to the Grail myth, The Waste Land weaves a dense web of cultural and literary allusions, challenging readers to confront the disintegration of modern civilization.
  
  A bold exploration of the fractured nature of contemporary existence, The Waste Land is both a lament and a call to find hope amidst the ruins—an extraordinary work of literary art that continues to resonate with readers in the modern age.

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  The Double

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  First published in 1846, The Double: A Petersburg Poem marks one of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s earliest and most daring explorations of the human psyche. Often overshadowed by his later masterpieces, The Double is nevertheless a crucial work in Dostoevsky’s literary evolution — a precursor to the psychological complexity and existential themes that would define Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and Notes from Underground. 
  The novella tells the story of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a low-ranking civil servant whose already fragile identity begins to unravel when he encounters his exact double — a man who is identical in appearance but possesses all the social charm and confidence Golyadkin lacks. What follows is a haunting descent into paranoia, self-alienation, and mental disintegration, all set against the bureaucratic backdrop of 19th-century St. Petersburg.

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  100 Great Catholic Poems

  Sally Read

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  Poetry is the language of Catholicism. From the songs of Scripture to the hymns of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Church has always used metaphor and image, meter and rhyme, and the music of language to illuminate and inculcate the faith.  Yet, when it comes to Catholic poetry itself, the song too often remains unsung. Many devout believers recoil from poetry, even when it is deeply Catholic. Many poetry lovers overlook Catholic poetry, even when it is truly great. And passionate readers are left with few resources from which to draw inspiration—even as the number of great Catholic poems continues to grow. This groundbreaking collection is designed to change that. Edited by acclaimed poet and author Sally Read, it includes a carefully curated collection of poetry with brief essays to introduce each selection; a detailed introduction and glossary of poetic terms; and a wide range of poetic voices—from giants like Dante and Shakespeare, to mystical saints like Hildegard of Bingen and John of the Cross, to modern masters like Gerard Manley Hopkins and Oscar Wilde, to contemporary female poets like Denise Levertov and Anne Porter. What emerges is truly universal: an unparalleled collection spanning twenty countries and twenty centuries. Whether Catholic or non-Catholic, a poetry skeptic or a poetry lover, readers will glean from these pages a deepened appreciation of the history of poetry, the life of the Church, and the powerful ways in which each strengthens the other. 

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  50 Masterpieces you have to read...

  George Eliot, Charles Dickens,...

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  Jerome, Jerome K.: "Three Men in a Boat"
  Joyce, James: "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
  Joyce, James: "Ulysses"
  Kingsley, Charles: "The Water-Babies"
  Kipling, Rudyard: "Kim"
  La Fayette, Madame de: "The Princess of Clèves"
  Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: "Dangerous Liaisons"
  Lawrence, D. H.: "Sons and Lovers"
  Lawrence, D. H.: "The Rainbow"
  Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan: "In a Glass Darkly"
  Lewis, Matthew Gregory: "The Monk"
  Lewis, Sinclair: "Main Street"
  London, Jack: "The Call of the Wild"
  Lovecraft, H. P.: "At the Mountains of Madness"
  Mann, Thomas: "Royal Highness"
  Maugham, W. Somerset: "Of Human Bondage"
  Maupassant, Guy de: "Bel-Ami"
  Melville, Herman: "Moby-Dick"
  Poe, Edgar Allan: "The Fall of the House of Usher"
  Proust, Marcel: "Swann's Way"
  Radcliffe, Ann: "The Mysteries of Udolpho"
  Richardson, Samuel: "Clarissa"
  Sand, George: "The Devil's Pool"
  Scott, Walter: "Ivanhoe"
  Shelley, Mary: "Frankenstein"
  Sienkiewicz, Henryk: "Quo Vadis"
  Sinclair, May: "Life and Death of Harriett Frean"
  Sinclair, Upton: "The Jungle"
  Stendhal: "The Red and the Black"
  Stendhal: "The Chartreuse of Parma"
  Sterne, Laurence: "Tristram Shandy"
  Stevenson, Robert Louis: "Treasure Island"
  Stoker, Bram: "Dracula"
  Stowe, Harriet Beecher: "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
  Swift, Jonathan: "Gulliver's Travels"
  Tagore, Rabindranath: "The Home and the World"
  Thackeray, William Makepeace: "Vanity Fair"
  Tolstoy, Leo: "War and Peace"
  Tolstoy, Leo: "Anna Karenina"
  Troloppe, Anthony: "The Way We Live Now"
  Turgenev, Ivan: "Fathers and Sons"
  Twain, Mark: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
  Verne, Jules: "Journey to the Interior of the Earth"
  Wallace, Lew: "Ben-Hur"
  Wells, H. G.: "The Time Machine"
  West, Rebecca: "The Return of the Soldier"
  Wharton, Edith: "The Age of Innocence"
  Wilde, Oscar: "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
  Xueqin, Cao: "The Dream of the Red Chamber"
  Zola, Émile: "Germinal"

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