Publisher: Masterpiece Everywhere
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
The Bard, William Shakespeare, is the supreme talent of playwriting and perhaps also of those 14 lines of verse we call the Sonnet. The Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle was a popular form for poets in the 16th Century with masterful works by many including Sir Phillip Sidney Edmund Spenser and Michael Drayton. Many others wrote sonnets interspersed amongst their other works such as John Donne and even Queen Elizabeth herself. But ranking above all others is William Shakespeare. Some of his sonnets are known in part or whole by all of us such as Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds. Sonnet 97 ‘How long has my absence been’ and Sonnet 18 ‘Shall I compare thee to a Summers day’. Many of the others are as equal in insight, magnificence, tender expressions, sweeping statements and sheer brilliance. Whilst in total they number 154 there is little other poetry of Shakespeare’s to compare them to unless of course the majesty of his plays is also thought of as poetry. It matters not. Instead let us feast on these sumptuous readings as we journey together through one of the greatest experiences the English language and its son William Shakespeare have ever created.Show book
Journey through the many stories and worlds of the immortal Vela - Vela, so red and ugly at birth they called him the Cooked; Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of song maker Mulialofa the Boneman. Follow him down through the centuries on his travels, encountering the single-minded society of the Tagata-Nei and the Smellocracy of Olfact. Accompany him, too, as he recounts the stories of Lady Nafanua, the fearsome warrior queen, before whose powers travelling chroniclers still bow down today.Show book
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 008: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.Show book
The acclaimed Scottish author’s poetry collection explores life’s disorienting journeys, illustrated with maps from the National Library of Scotland. Tom Pow spent six months as writer in residence at the National Library of Scotland Map Library in Edinburgh, Scotland. The library’s historic maps and cartographic artifacts became touchstones for a series of poems exploring memory, place, and the distances we experience between each other. Published by Polygon in collaboration with the National Library, this unique volume is illustrated with details from the library’s collection. It is a beautiful and haunting book that invites readers to get lost in its pages.Show book
‘Swooningly glorious’ The Times ‘Indisputably her best volume’ Sunday Times The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy’s first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems of political anger; there are elegies, too, for beloved friends, and – most movingly – the poet’s own mother. Woven and weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffy’s subject, sometimes it strays into the poem, or hovers at its edge. In the end, Duffy’s point is clear: the bee symbolizes what we have left of grace in the world, and what is most precious and necessary for us to protect. The Bees, at once intimate and public, is a work of great power from one of our most cherished poets.Show book
Between the covers you will find joy, satire, pathos, magic, and the goblin spirit, duende. Verse from dreams, some from close encounters with the bending sickle. The closer the chine, the truer the line.Show book
