Publisher: Charles River Editors
Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of all ages experience a classic for the first time or revisit a past favorite. Omar Khayyam was a Persian poet, mathematician and philosopher. The Rubiyat is a classic collection of Khayyam's poems.
The devastation of war is tearing the Bharata family apart. The new king must unravel a mystery: how can he live with himself in the face of the devastation and massacres that he has caused. In Battlefield, the internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne and Jean-Claude Carrière revisit the great Indian epic The Mahabharata, thirty years after Brook's legendary production took world theatre by storm. An immense canvas in miniature, this central section of the ancient text is timeless and contemporary, asking how we can find inner peace in a world riven with conflict. It was first performed at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, in 2015, before an international tour including a run at the Young Vic Theatre, London, in 2016. 'Peter Brook's return to The Mahabharata is breathtaking - a dazzling piece of theatre' - Guardian 'An hour of magic realism… it has a gentle power that lingers' - The Times 'Delivered with remarkable grace and deceptive lightness of touch' - Financial Times 'Luminous and potent' - Independent 'Combines the immediacy of story-telling with the purity of Greek tragedy' - Sunday Express 'Something profound is felt on the pulse here... Peter Brook achieves rare magic, and with the slenderest art' - TelegraphShow book
In Highland Scotland in 1850, Catrìona lives life to the rhythm of seasons and Gaelic songs, until a dramatic change of circumstances forces her to fight for everyone and everything she loves. Years later Rose, an artist, who's trying to make sense of her fractured family and her own restlessness, searches among ruins in a deserted landscape.Show book
As the summer days wind down, LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of A Summer’s Afternoon by Benjamin King. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 29th, 2007.Show book
Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem. In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything. But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle. Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. Story. Poems. Story. Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters. And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse. 1 - Chapter & Verse - Oscar Wilde 2 - The Devoted Friend by Oscar Wilde 3 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde 4 - Sonnet to Liberty by Oscar Wilde 5 - Sonnet on Approaching Italy by Oscar Wilde 6 - Easter Day by Oscar Wilde 7 - Helas! by Oscar Wilde 8 - Serenade by Oscar Wilde 9 - Endymon by Oscar Wilde 10 - Her Voice by Oscar Wilde 11 - Impression du Matin by Oscar Wilde 12 - Requescat by Oscar Wilde 13 - A Vision by Oscar Wilde 14 - The Grave of Shelley by Oscar Wilde 15 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 16 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 2 by Oscar WildeShow book
1 - The Power of Poetry - Poems to Mend a Broken Heart - An Introduction 2 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe 3 - Loves Lies Bleeding by Algernon Charles Swinburne 4 - I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling 5 - Ebb by Edna St Vincent Millay 6 - Heart We Will Forget Him by Emily Dickinson- 7 - My Own Heart, Let Me Have More, Have Pity by Gerard Manley Hopkins 8 - They Flee From Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt 9 - The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by John Bodenham 10 - Love Arm'd by Aphra Behn 11 - A Shropshire Lad LIV - With Rue My Heart is Laden by A.E. Housman 12 - A Poor Torn Heart, a Tattered Heart by Emily Dickinson 13 - Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Proctor 14 - A Careless Heart by Isaac Rosenberg 15 - My Heart is Lame by Charlotte Mew 16 - A Fallen Leaf by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 17 - Helas! by Oscar Wilde 18 - A Pause of Thought by Christina Georgina Rossetti 19 - A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy 20 - The Last Betrayal by Edith Nesbit 21 - Greater Love by Wilfred Owen 22 - In the Tavern of My Heart by Willa Cather 23 - Hearts First Word I by Isaac Rosenberg 24 - I Have Loved Flowers That Fade by Robert Seymour Bridges 25 - I So Like Spring by Charlotte Mew 26 - May by Sara Teasdale 27 - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St Vincent Millay 28 - Renouncement by Alice Meynell 29 - A Shropshire Lad XXXIII - If Truth in Hearts That Perish by A.E. Housman 30 - The Forsaken Lover Consoleth Himself With Rememberance of Past Happiness by Sir Thomas Wyatt 31 - Sonnet 139 - O! Call Not Me to Justify the Wrong by William Shakespeare 32 - Love and Folly by Charlotte Smith 33 - No One So Much As You by Edward Thomas 34 - My Heart Cries by Kabir 35 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing by William Shakespeare 36 - Love's Farewell by Michael Drayton 37 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron 38 - We Parted in Silence by Isabella Valancy Crawford 39 - February by Edith Nesbit 40 - The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley 41 - Jilted by Radclyffe Hall 42 - Jealously by Rupert Brooke 43 - Jealously by Radclyffe Hall 44 - Spring Morning by A. E. Housman 45 - To His Forsaken Mistress by Sir Robert Ayton 46 - Love and Hate by Elizabeth Siddal 47 - Amour XXX Three Sorts of Serpents Do Resemble Thee by Michael Drayton 48 - Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 49 - Modern Love - II by George Meredith 50 - Divorce by Anna Wickham 51 - Modern Love - I by George Meredith 52 - Dead Love by Elizabeth Siddal 53 - He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead by W B Yeats 54 - Sailing Beyond Seas by Jean Ingelow 55 - If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 56 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke 57 - The Doleful Lay of Clorinda by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke 58 - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by T S EliotShow book
In science one reasons by analogy, so when mankind is confronted by experiences entirely beyond its understanding it takes an individual with intelligence and bravery in equal measure to push back the boundaries of the unknown….In London, in the 1900s, the solutions to supernatural occurrences were investigated by a man who was famous for his dealings with the unknown and the worlds of the dead: Jarrem Lee - Ghost Hunter, (or as he prefers to call it, a psychical detective). With the help of college student Arthur Bennett, he embarks on a series of spine-tingling and exciting adventures in the world of the dead.JARREM LEE - GHOST HUNTER Episode 09: The Whitechapel Vampire. A Vampire terrorizes London. JARREM LEE - GHOST HUNTER Episode 10: The Tragic Revenge of Charles Maynard. Can the human soul be captured? JARREM LEE - GHOST HUNTER Episode 11: The Waxing of the Moon. Is the client Lee is attempting to help actually a Vampire? JARREM LEE - GHOST HUNTER Episode 12: The Last Stand. Jarrem Lee takes on Dr. Ravenscroft to prevent him from bringing a demon back to life.Show book
