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  The Importance of Being Earnest...

  Oscar Wilde

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  “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” 
  Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and still retain their power among today's audiences. 
  The final comic or dramatic work from undisputed genius Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is his most enduring popular play and a must-read for any Wilde fan. 
  A farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations, the play is an unforgettable satire of Victorian ways. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major theme is the triviality with which it treats institutions. 
  Wilde's notoriety caused the play, despite its early success, to be closed after 86 performances. This latest edition allows you to discover or enjoy once again the writing of one of history's great comedy and drama writers. 
  The Legend Classics series:Around the World in Eighty DaysThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Importance of Being EarnestAlice's Adventures in WonderlandThe MetamorphosisThe Railway ChildrenThe Hound of the BaskervillesFrankensteinWuthering HeightsThree Men in a BoatThe Time MachineLittle WomenAnne of Green GablesThe Jungle BookThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other StoriesDraculaA Study in ScarletLeaves of GrassThe Secret GardenThe War of the WorldsA Christmas CarolStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeHeart of DarknessThe Scarlet LetterThis Side of ParadiseOliver TwistThe Picture of Dorian GrayTreasure IslandThe Turn of the ScrewThe Adventures of Tom SawyerEmmaThe TrialA Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan PoeGrimm Fairy TalesThe AwakeningMrs DallowayGulliver’s TravelsThe Castle of OtrantoSilas MarnerHard Times

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  Fifty Shades of July - 50 of the...

  Walt Whitman, William Blake,...

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  The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar saunters into mid-summer.  Temperatures rise still further.  The landscape may wilt under oppressive heat but is still a spectacle of colour and structure that only Mother Nature has the resources for. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of July - An Introduction 
  2 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman 
  3 - An Afternoon in July by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon 
  4 - I Saw England - July Night by Ivor Gurney 
  5 - A Soldiers Cemetery by John William Streets (Killed and Missing in Action on 1st July 1916 Aged 31) 
  6 - July 2nd 1863 by Tom Reynolds 
  7 - Fourth of July by Julia A Moore 
  8 - July 4th 1857 by Alfred Gibbs Campbell 
  9 - America, From The National Ode July 4th 1876 by James Bayard Taylor 
  10 - 4th July 1882, Malines, Midnight by James Kenneth Stephen 
  11 - Ode For the 4th of July by James Monroe Whitfield 
  12 - Ode For July 4th 1917 by H P Lovecraft 
  13 - Broadway, New York, July 1916 by George Sterling 
  14 - London in July by Amy Levy 
  15 - St Martin's Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  16 - Between the Dusk of Summer by William Ernest Henley 
  17 - In This Summer by Daniel Sheehan 
  18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare 
  19 - A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly 
  20 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  21 - The Sweets of the Rose  by Hafiz 
  22 - The Rose by John Cournos 
  23 - The Secret Rose by William Butler Yeats 
  24 - The Forest Path by Lucy Maud Montgomery 
  25 - Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats 
  26 - Sailing to Byzantium by W B Yeats 
  27 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  28 - On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats 
  29 - Clouds by Mirabai 
  30 - Breton Afternoon by Ernest Christopher Dowson 
  31 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen 
  32 - How the Old Mountains Drip With Sunset by Emily Dickinson 
  33 - The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  34 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford 
  35 - July 9th 1872 by Abram Joseph Ryan 
  36 - On Leaving Ireland, July 14th 1916 by Tom Kettle 
  37 - On My Sons Return Out of England July 17th 1661 by Anne Bradstreet 
  38 - Sonnet July 18th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles 
  39 - Verses Upon the Burning of Our House July 18th 1666 by Anne Bradstreet 
  40 - Written in July by Samuel Rogers 
  41 - Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  42 - The School Boy by William Blake 
  43 - Answer July by Emily Dickinson 
  44 - Towser, a True Tale, 20th July 1806 by Robert Tannahill 
  45 - Summer Dawn by William Morris 
  46 - Summer by Alexander Pope 
  47 - A Night Rain in Summer by James Henry Leigh Hunt 
  48 - Summer Night by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  49 - Sonnet at Dover Cliffs July 20th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles 
  50 - Picnic July 1917 by Rose Macaulay 
  51 - Sonnet at Ostend July 22nd 1787 by William Lisle Bowles

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  Bump

  Chiara Atik

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  When Claudia gets pregnant she has a very clear plan for how she wants to give birth. Her pre-natal anxieties inspire her father to create a device for safer deliveries and Claudia realizes that nothing ever goes quite as expected. Includes a conversation with playwright Chiara Atik and Dr. Judith Reichman, an OB/GYN and longtime medical contributor to The Today Show.Bump is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in October 2020.Directed by Rosalind AyresProducing DIrector: Susan Albert LoewenbergLucy DeVito as Mary, Apple, ReceptionistAnna Lyse Erikson as Lemon, Third WomanAlma Martinez as MariaAnna Mathias as Midwife, Avocado, DoulaAna Ortiz as ClaudiaMoira Quirk as Walnut, Mama, Second WomanHerbert Sigüenza as LuisAndré Sogliuzzo as YouTube GuyDevon Sorvari as Grapefruit, Waiting MotherInger Tudor as Narrator, Plum, Different MamaProducer: Anna Lyse EriksonRecording Engineer, Editor and Sound Designer: Neil WogensenSenior Radio Producer: Ronn LipkinFoley Artist: Jeff GardnerMixed by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

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  Bicycle Thieves - Poems

  Mary di Michele

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  pbiA masterwork from one of Canada’s most important poets/b/i/p
  pReferencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele’s iBicycle Thieves/i commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through elegy and acts of translation of text and of self./p
  pThe collection opens with a kind of hymn to life on the planet, sung from the peak of that urban island, Montreal — an attempt to see beyond death. The book moves into a sequence of poems described by Sharon Thesen as the poet “envisioning the passage of time under the ‘full and waning’ moon of Mount Royal’s beacon cross, recalling her Italian immigrant parents in Toronto and her current life in Montreal [. . .] a sort of iDecameron/i.”/p
  pThesen’s description is apt for the collection as a whole, which moves into the poet’s autobiography — in search of catharsis through literature — and pays tributes to poets who have been part of the literary landscape di Michele now inhabits. iBicycle Thieves/i is poetry as time machine, transcending the borders between life and death, language and culture./p

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  The Rock

  T.S. Eliot

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  The Nobel Prize–winning author created the words for this unique play about religion in the twentieth century. 
   
  The choruses in this pageant play represent a new verse experiment on Mr. Eliot’s part; and taken together make a sequence of verses about twice the length of “The Waste Land.” 
   
  Mr. Eliot has written the words; the scenario and design of the play were provided by a collaborator, and the purpose was to provide a pageant of the Church of England for presentation on a particular occasion. The action turns upon the efforts and difficulties of a group of London masons in building a church. Incidentally, a number of historical scenes, illustrative of church-building, are introduced. The play, enthusiastically greeted, was first presented in England, at Sadler’s Wells; the production included much pageantry, mimetic action, and ballet, with music by Dr. Martin Shaw. 
   
  Immediately after the production of this play in England, Francis Birrell wrote in The New Statesman: “The magnificent verse, the crashing Hebraic choruses which Mr. Eliot has written had best be studied in the book. The Rock is certainly one of the most interesting artistic experiments to be given in recent times.”  
   
  The Times Literary Supplement also spoke with high praise: “The choruses exceed in length any of his previous poetry; and on the stage they prove the most vital part of the performance. They combine the sweep of psalmody with the exact employment of colloquial words. They are lightly written, as though whispered to the paper, yet are forcible to enunciate . . . . There is exhibited here a command of novel and musical dramatic speech which, considered alone, is an exceptional achievement.”

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  15 Minutes Of Love Poems -...

  Ben Jonson, Miraibai, Edward...

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  Love. What is love? 
   
  The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. 
   
  Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love’s beauty is perhaps in the fact that the question never can be adequately answered; its ephemeral, a chimera of the heart and only felt. 
   
  Our own experiences are unique and personal to ourselves and of little help defining it for another. 
   
  Love is perhaps best expressed through poetry. As Plato said 2500 years ago “At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet”. Writing a love poem for ones’ partner is seen as the most romantic of gestures. It opens our hearts to another's. Lovers love. 
   
  Here, in this volume history’s greatest poets convey thoughts, feelings and sentiments of love to you in quick (or bite-size) conversations of verse that can slip into your day and your partner's heart. 
   
  01 - Fifteen Minutes of Love - Volume 6 - The Owl & The Pussycat & Other Poems 
  02 - The Owl And The Pussycat by Edward Lear 
  03 - The Flea by John Donne 
  04 - Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  05 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet 
  06 - To Celia by Ben Jonson 
  07 - Courtship by Alexander Brome 
  08 - Gloire De Dijon by D H Lawrence 
  09 - Love's Harvest by Alfred Austin 
  10 - Sonnet XXXVII - The Love Moon by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  11 - The Beloved Comes Home by Miraibai 
  12 - Love's Deity by John Donne

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