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  The Prelude

  William Wordsworth

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  Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism. An autobiography in verse, it tells of his childhood in the Lake District, his student days in Cambridge, his passion for the French Revolution and his later disenchantment with it.  It also tells of his personal journey to a belief in Nature as the great moral and spiritual force which shapes human life, but on which human society all too often turns its back. Sub-titled 'Growth of a Poet's Mind', The Prelude is both a key document in the history of English literature and an inspiring work of imagination.  It is as fresh and challenging today as when it was written two centuries ago.

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  Upon His Mistress Dancing

  James Shirley

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Upon His Mistress Dancing by James Shirley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January, 15, 2012.James Shirley (sometimes spelt Sherley) was a prolific English playwright and poet who was active in the first half of the seventeenth century. (Summary by Lucy Perry)

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  The Hound of the Baskervilles -...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bleak...

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  "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" 
   
  The Great Detective embarks upon his most terrifying case, when an ancient curse threatens to claim the life of the last surviving member of the Baskerville family. Does a demonic hound stalk the moor at night? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of mystery is brought to life in this lushly-scored, full-cast audio adaptation featuring Sir Derek Jacobi (Cadfael, Gladiator) as Sherlock Holmes with Anthony D.P. Mann as Dr. Watson. 
   
  Cast: Sir Derek Jacobi (Sherlock Holmes), Anthony D.P. Mann (Dr. Watson), Ilke Hincer (Sir Henry), Amie Bello (Mrs. Barrymore), Nikolas Yuen (Mortimer), Barry Yuen (Stapleton), Lisa Morrissey (Hotel Attendant), James Hoegerl (Boy), Richard Boyer (Policeman). Music by Brent Holland.

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  The Fishermen (NHB Modern Plays)

  Chigozie Obioma

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  In a small Nigerian town, Ben and Obembe, along with their two older brothers, slip away to fish at a forbidden river. Unnoticed and carefree, they keep coming back until one day a madman's prophecy changes the course of their lives forever.
  Adapted by Gbolahan Obisesan from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel by Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen is a powerful allegory of brotherhood, vengeance and fate. It was first seen at HOME, Manchester, in 2018, before a tour of the UK including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in a co-production between New Perspectives and HOME.
  'A remarkable, mythic book' Alice Walker on The Fisherman by Chigozie Obioma

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  Deadly Revenge - Get ready for a...

  Leigh Russell

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  A missing child, an absent father, a race against time.
  When a distraught mother reports her baby's sudden disappearance, taken from her cot in the middle of the night, the finger of suspicion immediately points towards her absent husband.
  But Detective Geraldine Steel senses that there's more to this case than meets the eye.
  As the investigation unfolds, a tangled web starts to unravel, exposing hidden secrets within the mother's life. The spotlight falls on her tumultuous relationship with her controlling father, a controversial figure in the political arena.
  With each passing moment, the hunt to find the missing infant becomes more urgent and increasingly perplexing.
  Detective Steel is left with no choice but to cast suspicion upon everyone connected to the family. But just as the truth seems within reach, a shocking discovery turns the case into a dangerous game of deadly revenge.
  Prepare for heart-stopping twists and a race against time as Geraldine Steel navigates a maze of deception and betrayal. As the body count rises, she must unravel the truth before more lives are lost.
  Deadly Revenge is a gripping and suspenseful thriller that will leave you breathless.
  Leigh Russell's masterful storytelling will captivate fans of Angela Marsons, Mel Sherratt, and Karin Slaughter.

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  The Town Down the River

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

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  "In 1910, when Edwin Arlington Robinson published The Town Down The River, he included what has become one of his most famous poems: ""Miniver Cheevy."" His portrait of this man, a ""child of scorn"" who ""wept that he was ever born,"" who ""sighed for what was not,"" who ""scratched his head and kept on thinking,"" captures Arlington's sense of life in 32 immortal lines.The other poems in the book, though not as famous as ""Miniver Cheevy,"" amplify and explore Arlington's sense of the fate of humankind in ways both serious and comic. He can be mystically, really Biblically, allegorical, as in ""The Wise Brothers;"" he can be amused, cynical and detached, as in ""Doctor of Billiards."" He can be both relieved and amazed to find a human life that has redeemed itself, as in ""Shadrach O'Leary,"" and both frightened and bewildered by the inscrutable lives that confront him, as in ""Alma Mater.""No matter what mood he takes, his instinct for human nature, his understanding of the great issues that shape life and fate, and his ability to find deep meaning in the commonplace make his work as intriguing today as it was in his own day - a day in which he won no less than three Pulitzer Prizes."

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