Publisher: Charles River Editors
George Bernard Shaw was a prolific Irish playwright who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925. Shaw’s famous plays include Man and Superman and Pygmalion which was adapted into the classic musical My Fair Lady. This edition of Augustus Does His Bit includes a table of contents.
Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 23, a weekly poetry project.(Summary by Annie Coleman)Show book
Sir Ian McKellen, fresh from his performance as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings is Prospero, and heads a strong cast in Shakespeare’s last great play. The wronged duke raises a tempest to shipwreck his old opponents on his island so that he can ensure justice is done. With Emilia Fox as Miranda, Scott Handy in the pivotal role of the sprite Ariel and Ben Owukwe as Caliban, this new production directed by John Tydeman, balances the magic and the earthiness with music playing a key role.Show book
Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most important and influential American writers of the 19th century. He was the first author to try to make a professional living as a writer. Much of Poe's work was inspired by the events that happened around him. His poetry alone would ensure his spot in the literary canon. Poe's notable verses range from the early masterpiece “To Helen” to the dark, mysterious “Ulalume.” From “The Raven,” which made him world-famous upon its publication in 1845, to “Annabel Lee,” the posthumously published eulogy for a maiden “in a kingdom by the sea.” Most famously, Poe completely transformed the genre of the horror story with his masterful tales of psychological depth and insight not envisioned in the genre before his time and scarcely seen in it since. Stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” reveal Poe’s talent at its height. He was an early pioneer in the genre of science fiction. Poe was fascinated by the science of his time, and he often wrote stories about new inventions. Poe too is credited with inventing the modern detective story with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” His concept of deductive reasoning, which he called "ratiocination" inspired countless authors, most famous among them Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.Show book
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 041: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.Show book
Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words. The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one. But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition. Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children’s textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today. Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We’ve put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations. In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of John Dryden and William Morris as well as themes on Victorian Poetry, August, The Female Poet and more. All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can’t. Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes. Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores. This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that. Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey. The Poetry Hour – Volume 15 John Dryden. An Introduction Farewell Ungrateful Traitor by John Dryden Dreams by John Dryden Alexanders Feast or The Power of Music by John Dryden August August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg At Sundown by Daniel Sheehan A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire by Percy Bysshe Shelley Moonlight Summer Moonlight by Emily Jane Bronte August by Algernon Charles Swinburne August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale The Female Poet. An Introduction. Volume 3 Good Night by Mary Gilmore Expecting the Lord by Anne Griffiths My Mother’s Kiss by Frances E W Harper Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe You Kissed Me by Josephine Slocum Hunt The Power of Words by Letitia Elizabeth Landon Love, The Soul of Poetry by Anne Killigrew The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus Sonnet by Amy Levy Animal Poems – An Introduction The Fly by William Blake The City Mouse and the County Mouse by Christina Rossetti The Owl & the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear A Lobster Quadrille by Lewis Carroll From Baby Tortoise by DH Lawrence William Morris - An Introduction The Earthly Paradise – Apology by William Morris Our Hands Have Met by William Morris The Voice of Toil by William Morris A Garden By the Sea by William Morris The Message of the March Wind by William Morris Victorian Poetry - An Introduction A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy My Prayers Must met A Brazen Heaven by Gerard Manley Hopkins When Summer’s End is Nighing by AE Housman The Mother’s Son by Rudyard Kipling The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear Sonnet XXIX by George Meredith Between the Dusk of a Summer Night by William Ernest HenleyShow book
'I'm going to find out – which of us is right, society or me.' Henrik Ibsen's three great 'problem plays', A Doll's House, Ghosts and Hedda Gabler, challenged the conventions of nineteenth-century society and sparked a revolution in European theatre. Their female protagonists, Nora Helmer, Helene Alving and Hedda Gabler, continue to exert their power over modern audiences. This volume brings together all three plays in sensitive and playable translations from the original Norwegian, along with a full introduction to Ibsen, his times and his work. The Drama Classic Collections bring together the most popular plays from a single author or a particular period. They offer students, actors and theatregoers a series of uncluttered, accessible editions, accompanied by comprehensive introductions. Where the originals are in English, there is a glossary of unfamiliar words and phrases. Where the originals are in a foreign language, the translations aim to be both actable and accurate – and are made by translators whose work is regularly staged in the professional theatre.Show book
