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  Percy Bysshe Shelley Renaissance...

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  Percy Bysshe Shelley was able to distill big themes into brilliant poems.   
   
  In this collection ‘The Masque of Anarchy’ captures the appalling terror of British troops killing and injuring their own people as they peacefully protest for the reform of Parliamentary representation at Peterloo in Manchester on 16th August, 1819.   
   
  ‘Adonais’ majestically captures his admiration and the deep tragic loss he felt for his friend and fellow Romantic poet John Keats.  
   
  In ‘Ode To Liberty’ Shelley makes a bold plea for the support of revolutionary causes and for the expression of individual freedom. 
   
  In these three pieces Shelley confirms that he did not limit himself in being part of the Romantic movement and was able to actively comment with conviction and passion on the social and political issues of his day.

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  The Three Apples - from The...

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  "The Three Apples" is a story contained in the One Thousand and One Nights collection (also known as the Arabian Nights). Scheherazade tells the history of a murder — making this the first mystery story put to paper.

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  The Chronicles of Barsetshire...

  Anthony Trollope

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  Three novels of life and death in a rural town in Victorian England by a master of drama and social satire. In the nineteenth century, Anthony Trollope created the fictional world of Barsetshire, the setting for a series of classic novels that addressed love, murder, religion, politics, and the ordinary lives of locals both rich and poor.The Warden: A well-meaning public official finds himself embroiled in a scandal.Barchester Towers: A bishop passes away, leading the town to become caught up in church politics.Doctor Thorne: A young noble is drawn to a woman, but his family is displeased by her lack of fortune and social standing, in this sweeping love story.

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  Moll Flanders (Unabridged)

  Daniel Defoe

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  Moll Flanders tells her own story, a vivid and racy tale of a woman's experience in the seamy side of life in late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century England and America. Born in Newgate prison, and seduced in the home of her adoptive family, she learns to live off her wits, defying the traditional depiction of women as helpless victims.

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  Ballad of the White Horse...

  G. K. Chesterton

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  This epic poem is about Alfred the Great's defense of Christian England against the pagan Viking invaders. The decisive battle is fought in sight of a white horse mark made on a hill, after which the poem is named. As the white horse mark must be continually maintained by weeding to be clearly seen, Chesterton sees it as a symbol of the continual struggle to maintain the Christian culture and values for which Alfred the Great fough

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  The First Men in the Moon

  H. G. Wells

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  One would think that after the momentous events of 1969 H.G Wells’ science fiction adventure “The First Men in The Moon” would have lost any fascination for the modern reader. 
  Yet of course, Wells is never concerned merely with the mechanics of science fiction. 
  It is surely the human reaction to these events that grips us and causes us to return again and again to this story. 
  Narrated by Simon Hester, with original music.

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