Publisher: HB Classics
Here you will find the complete novels and novellas of Leo Tolstoy in the chronological order of their original publication. - Childhood - Boyhood - Youth - Family Happiness - The Cossacks - War and Peace - Anna Karenina - The Death of Ivan Ilyich - The Kreutzer Sonata - Resurrection - The Forged Coupon - Hadji Murad
This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers.01 Japanese - Fushinchuu by Mori Ogai (1862-1922) [1910] - Text. Key words: prose, fiction, constructing, Ginza02 Russian - ????? by Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) [] - Text. Key words: poem03 Spanish - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) [] translated by Alberto Lasplaces (1887-1950) - Text. Key words: Poem04 Polish - Odsiecz Wiednia by Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski (1874-1941) [1913] - Text. Key words: opowiadanie, humor, bitwa pod Wiedniem, historia05 French - L'éloge de rien, dédié à personne by Louis Coquelet (1674-1754) [1730] - Text. Key words: Philosophy Satire06 Portuguese - Língua Portuguesa by Olavo Bilac (1865-1918) [] - Text. Key words: Poetry, Fiction, celebrating the Portuguese Language07 Portuguese - Velhas Árvores by Olavo Bilac (1865-1918) [] - Text. Key words: Poetry, fiction, nature08 Spanish - La Confesión de un Crimen, from Spanish Tales for Beginners by Armando Palacio Valdés (1853-1938) [1919] - Text. Key words: Short story09 Russian - Pervyi Sneg by Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky (1792-1878) [1819] - Text. Key words: Poetry10 Russian - Rossiya (??????) by Aleksandr Blok (????????? ????) (1880-1921) [] - Text. Key words: poem11-15 Dutch - Sonnets by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581-1647) [1610] - TextKey words: poetry, fiction, love sonnet, Dutch Golden Age16 Latin - Horace Ode 2: To Augustus (from Odes and Epodes) by Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC-8 BC) [] - Text. Key words: Poem, OdeShow book
Terence Rattigan's epic and probing drama about the man immortalised as Lawrence of Arabia. Arrogant, flippant, withdrawn and with a talent for self-concealment, the mysterious Aircraftman Ross seems an odd recruit for the Royal Air Force. In fact the truth is even stranger than the man himself. Behind the false name is an enigma, a man named Lawrence who started as a civilian in the Map Office in 1914 and went on to mastermind some of the most audacious military victories in the history of the British Army. These victories earned him an enduring and romantic nom de guerre: Lawrence of Arabia. Rattigan's 1960 play reveals the unusual and deeply conflicted Englishman behind the heroic legend. This edition, with an Introduction by Dan Rebellato, was published alongside the revival at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2016, directed by Adrian Noble and starring Joseph Fiennes as Ross.Show book
This is the book that made Lord Byron (George Gordon) famous. He was a published and a known poet, but until this book took the English-speaking world by storm in 1812, he was not a famous poet. Byron was, however, a celebrity. As an aristocrat whose personal life was considered shockingly scandalous - and even today would be good stuff for celebrity gossip magazines - his name was known. His previous work was received out of a mixture of literary merit and personal notoriety. This book directly capitalizes on that. Childe Harold narrates the experiences of a young nobleman, sated with the wine, women, and song of his native England, who goes forth in search of the wine, women, song, and adventure of Spain, Greece, and the Ottoman Empire. The book is literally an armchair travelogue in rhyming couplets, quite unlike anything before or since. He expresses himself in vivid, forceful and emotional language on the landscapes, people, customs, and cultures he encounters, and shapes his experience into a deep study of that subject so favored by all the Romantic poets - himself. This performance of the work is underscored at intervals with excerpts from the music of Byron's contemporary, John Field, often regarded as the inventor of the nocturne - a form of Romantic music very well suited to the romanticism of the poet and his work. Public Domain (P)2010 Robert Bethune A Freshwater Seas production.Show book
Me, You, Then Snow by Khashayar Mohammadi is a collection of poetry woven from dreams, memories and deep-seeded longing, a collection of poetry that ranges from ambiguously addressed love-letters, to ekphrastic poems for arthouse cinema, to pieces written near midnight when the day’s experiences rush back into view. Though working in diverse forms and styles, the poetry manifests as a profoundly unified desire to experience and communicate the world.Show book
A bold and theatrically inventive adaptation of the literary classic that puts the interior life of the novel on stage. As a child, the orphaned Jane Eyre is taught by a succession of severe guardians to stifle her natural exuberance. A part of herself is locked away, out of view of polite society... until she arrives at Rochester's house as a governess to his young child. Soon Rochester's passionate nature reawakens Jane's hidden self, but darker secrets are stirring in the attic... 'Polly Teale has liberated Jane Eyre in a way that Charlotte Bronte could not... Her most inspired idea is to fuse the mad woman in the attic with Jane's younger self' - Observer 'Puts the interior life of the book on stage as well as its narrative. Adaptations of this quality can't be dismissed as a poor second to reading the book' - Time Out 'one of the finest and most searching stage adaptations I have ever seen... this Jane Eyre succeeds as both a wise distillation of the novel and a thrilling piece of theatre in its own right' - Daily TelegraphShow book
A bold and startling comic thriller about climate crisis, conspiracy, and what lurks beneath the waves… It's 2050 and, due to the rising sea level, a small coastal town in Britain is now underwater. Some of the town's inhabitants have taken shelter in a manor house, which has been converted into a camp for climate-change refugees. It's run by Maxscore, a shady private company. As they face power cuts, food scarcity and blackmail, the camp inmates start to realise that people are mysteriously disappearing. A strange force has been unleashed and is set to destroy them. Can they stop it before it's too late? Hassan Abdulrazzak's play Sea Things was first performed at Southwark Playhouse, London, in a production by Oxford School of Drama. The Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series features large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults.Show book
