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  African-American Writings

  Various Various

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  This collection worships Black History. They are the famous African-American writers who have fearlessly examined cultural stigmas, provided intimate life details, presented new ideas and created remarkable fiction through literary works. For their prophetic genius, these men and women have received many prizes, among other honors. Our list of amazing African-American authors includes Frederick Douglass, who has detailed the lives of black characters who struggle with identity amidst racism and hostility; Langston Hughes, a founder of the Harlem Renaissance; and Paul Laurence Dunbar, who has eloquently chronicled various eras of her life through his autobiographies.This audiobook is an excellent resources for African American Writers, edited by James Weldon Johnson. Johnson's collection inspired the Harlem Renaissance generation to establish a firm African-American literary tradition in the United States.

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  Vassa (NHB Modern Plays)

  Maxim Gorky

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  'There are no miracles in this world. Only those we make for ourselves.'
  It's 8 a.m. and a revolt is underway.
  The father is dying. The son is spying. The wife is cheating. The uncle is stealing. The mother is scheming. The dynasty is crumbling.
  One house. One fortune. One victor.
  Maxim Gorky's savagely funny play Vassa Zheleznova was first published in 1910. Mike Bartlett's adaptation, Vassa, premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in October 2019.

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  Kindness

  Frederick William Faber

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  Father Frederick William Faber was a beloved spiritual writer, preacher, and superior of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in London. An Oxford scholar and Anglican priest since 1839, Faber converted to Roman Catholicism in 1845 following his mentor John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman. During the 1850s, Father Faber published several popular spiritual books, which have been treasured by Catholics ever since: All for Jesus, Growth in Holiness, The Blessed Sacrament, The Creator and the Creature, The Foot of the Cross, Spiritual Conferences, The Precious Blood, and Bethlehem. The present work, Kindness, which bears an imprimatur, is taken in part from Spiritual Conferences, which was published in 1859. (Introduction by dave7)

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  The Silver Poets

  Michael Drayton, Sir Philip...

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  Poetry has over the centuries grouped poets or poems into many different themes and movements. 
   
  Amongst its most unusual movements are the English wordsmiths, The Silver Poets. 
   
  This select band lived during the sixteenth century reign of Queen Elizabeth 1st.  Amongst their storied ranks were Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Davies, Michael Drayton and Mary Sidney (Herbert), the Countess of Pembroke. 
   
  The theme The Silver Poets most often took to their pens was Love. Their offerings on the subject came in many poetic forms from the beginning of the English renaissance till the end of the Elizabethan Age.  In this regard it broke with previous approaches and re-identified this complex emotion in new ways. 
   
  Allied to this these poets spoke on many subjects, including faith and politics, in new ways against a background of a century riven by religious conflicts as it turned from the suffocating and corrupt Catholic faith to welcome, and at times reject, the purer form of Protestantism. Across Europe new ideas brought turmoil, the threat of invasion, new expressions of art and many other elements to these shores. 
   
  It was also an age when England began to confidently survey the horizon and look to a future that promised much, including a golden age of literature, and fleets venturing overseas in search of trade, dominions and ideas. 
  1 - The Silver Poets - An Introduction 
  2 - My Lute Awake by Sir Thomas Wyatt 
  3 - They Flee From Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt 
  4 - And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus by Sir Thomas Wyatt 
  5 - The Forsaken Lover Consoleth Himself With Rememberances of Past Happiness by Sir Thomas Wyatt 
  6 - Farewell Love and All Thy Laws Forever by Sir Thomas Wyatt 
  7 - A Satire Against the Citizens of London by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 
  8 - London Hast Thou Accursed Me by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 
  9 - The Fraility and Hurtfulness of Beauty by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 
  10 - Life by Sir Walter Raleigh 
  11 - My Last Will by Sir Walter Raleigh 
  12 - Farewell To The Court by Sir Walter Raleigh 
  13 - My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His by Sir Phillip Sidney 
  14 - Ode by Sir Philip Sidney 
  15 - Sonnet I from Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney 
  16 - Leave Me O Love by Sir Philip Sidney 
  17 - The Smokes of Melancholy by Sir Philip Sidney 
  18 - The Doleful Lay of Clorinda by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke 
  19 - O by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke 
  20 - O Lord in Me There Lieth Naught by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke 
  21 - To My Most Dearly Beloved Friend by Michael Drayton 
  22 - To His Coy Love by Michael Drayton 
  23 - The Ballad Of Agincourt by Michael Drayton 
  24 - Glastonbury from Poly-Olbion by Michael Drayton  
  25 - Woodstock. Rosamond to King Henry by Michael Drayton 
  26 - Sonnet I by Sir John Davies 
  27 - A Lover Out of Fashion by Sir John Davies 
  28 - Man by Sir John Davies

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  Shakespeare Tales of Friendship...

  William Shakespeare, Edith Nesbit

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  This collection of Shakespeare's tales focuses on themes of friendship and betrayal. Included in this volume: 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona', 'The Comedy of Errors' and 'The Winter's Tale'. 
  Read in English, unabridged.

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  Taken (NHB Modern Plays)

  Winsome Pinnock

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  A mother is confronted by the child she had to give up.
  This play was originally published in the volume Charged, a collection of plays about the lives of women in the criminal justice system, and was commissioned and premiered by Clean Break, a theatre and education company working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system.

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