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This book contains the complete novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the chronological order of their original publication. Poor Folk The Double Notes From The Underground Crime and Punishment The Gambler The Idiot The Possessed (The Devils) A Raw Youth The Dream of a Ridiculous Man The Brothers Karamazov
A play about the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland, The Last Witch explores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart. Dornoch, northern Scotland, 1727. In the claustrophobic heat of summer, a woman's apparent ability to manipulate the power of land and sea stirs suspicion. Janet Horne can cure beasts, call the wind and charm fish out of the sea. Or can she? Her refusal to deny the charge of witchcraft puts her in dangerous opposition to the new sheriff. Her defiance threatens not only her own life but that of her daughter... Rona Munro's play The Last Witch is based on the historical account of Janet Horne, the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland. The play was commissioned by Edinburgh International Festival and co-produced by the Festival and the Traverse Theatre Company. It opened at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2009. 'Thrilling... seethes with poetry and emotion and is entirely gripping' - Guardian 'A powerful, poetic and unsettling supernatural thriller' - ScotsmanShow book
Romantic havoc ensues in the town of Bath when Sir Anthony arrives to arrange the marriage of his son Captain Jack Absolute to the wealthy Lydia Languish. Jack and Lydia are already in love, but because of Lydia’s obsession with romantic novels, Jack has disguised himself as a poor officer named Ensign Beverly – and he is only one of Lydia’s many suitors. The Rivals was Sheridan’s first play, and this charming comedy of manners continues to be widely performed today.Includes an interview with Linda Kelly, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: A Life.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Rosalind Ayres as Mrs. MalapropKenneth Danziger as ThomasLucy Davis as Lydia LanguishNeil Dickson as DavidSarah Drew as JuliaJulian Holloway as Sir Lucius O’TriggerChris Neame as Sir Anthony AbsoluteLloyd Owen as Captain Jack AbsoluteMoira Quirk as LucyMatthew Wolf as FaulklandDirected by Martin Jarvis. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in 2010.Show book
Two Gentlemen Of Verona is believed to be one of Shakespeare’s early comedies and as a result provides us with the first examples of a number of themes and devices that are further explored in many of his plays. These include loyalty, friendship and the nature of love. Also women dressing up as men is introduced by one of the central characters, Julia, dressing up as the page, Sebastian, to serve her loved one, Proteus, who has betrayed her. Although fewer characters than most of Shakespeare’s other plays, they are interesting ones and Ghizela Rowe in her reading, captures the story of this intriguing play with clarity.Show book
James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida on June 17th 1871. His mother, Helen, a musician and a public school teacher initially home-schooled him giving him a love of both English literature and European music. At 16 his education moved to Atlanta University and he graduated with a degree in 1894. In 1904 Johnson helped in Theodore Roosevelt's presidential bid. On winning Roosevelt appointed him as US consul at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela in 1906 and then Nicaragua from 1909. Johnson worked for the NAACP from 1916 as a field secretary, organizing local chapters. To counter race riots and lynching’s he organized mass demonstrations, such as a silent protest parade of over ten thousand African Americans down New York’s Fifth Avenue in July 1917. In 1920 Johnson was elected to manage the NAACP, the first African American to hold this position. That same year he was dispatched to monitor conditions in Haiti and described in The Nation the brutal occupation and also offered remedies. During the 1920’s he was one of the major inspirations of the Harlem Renaissance In the midst of all this he continued to write novels, poems, and folklore. In 1917, he saw published ‘50 Years and Other Poems’. In 1922, he edited ‘The Book of American Negro Poetry’, which the Academy of American Poets calls "a major contribution to the history of African-American literature." In 1927 followed ‘God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse’. One of the first African-American professors at NYU he was also, later, a professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University. His career spanned several elements; education, the diplomatic corps, civil rights activism, literature, poetry, and music. James Weldon Johnson died on June 26th, 1938 whilst vacationing in Wiscasset, Maine when his car was hit by a train. 01 - The Poetry of James Weldon Johnson 02 - Mother Night by James Weldon Johnson 03 - Brothers. American Drama by James Weldon Johnson 04 - A Poet to His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson 05 - O Black and Unknown Bards by James Weldon Johnson 06 - Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson 07 - I Hear the Stars Still Singing by James Weldon Johnson 08 - A Mid-Day Dreamer by James Weldon Johnson 09 - Morning, Noon and Night by James Weldon Johnson 10 - The Temptress by James Weldon Johnson 11 - Venus in the Garden by James Weldon Johnson 12 - The White Witch by James Weldon Johnson 13 - Beauty That Is Never Old by James Weldon Johnson 14 - Before A Painting by James Weldon Johnson 15 - The Awakening by James Weldon Johnson 16 - The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face by James Weldon Johnson 17 - Her Eyes, Twin Pools by James Weldon Johnson 18 - Down By The Carib Sea by James Weldon Johnson 19 - Deep in the Quiet Wood by James Weldon Johnson 20 - O Southland by James Weldon Johnson 21 - Fifty Years (1863 - 1913) by James Weldon Johnson 22 - The Suicide by James Weldon Johnson 23 - And the Greatest of These Is War by James Weldon Johnson 25 - Sonnet by James Weldon Johnson 26 - To America by James Weldon Johnson 27 - Life by James Weldon Johnson 28 - Ghosts of the Old Year by James Weldon Johnson 29 - Lazy by James Weldon Johnson 30 - The Word of an Engineer by James Weldon Johnson 31 - The Creation by James Weldon Johnson 32 - Prayer At Sunrise by James Weldon Johnson 33 - Listen Lord, A Prayer by James Weldon Johnson 34 - The Reward by James Weldon Johnson 35 - Sleep by James Weldon Johnson 36 - Go Down Death by James Weldon JohnsonShow book
Roshni Goyate, Sharan Hunjan, Sheena Patel and Sunnah Khan are four writers that make up the talented collective 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE and bring their radical, polyphonic performance style to bear on a series of individual pamphlets that still resonate with their collaborative force. Each author's discreet publication is a stand-alone work, published as a set of poetry and prose pamphlets, highlighting the daring, brilliant writing that characterises both the group and each individual author.Show book
The poem by Edgar Allan Poe, first published on January 29, 1845, in the New York Evening Mirror. The poet read it publicly for the first time in a literary salon hosted by his friend Anne Lynch Botta.The work is noteworthy for its distinct, rhythmic, melodic sound, linguistic stylization, and a sense of horror. It tells of a mysterious visit that a speaking raven makes to a man in despair after the loss of his beloved, portraying the slow process of the unfortunate man descending into madness.Show book
