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  The Late Mattia Pascal

  Luigi Pirandello

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  The protagonist, Mattia Pascal, finds that his promising youth has, through misfortune or misdeed, dissolved into a dreary dead-end job and a miserable marriage. His inheritance and the woman he loved are stolen from him by the same man, his eventual wife and mother-in-law badger him constantly, and his twin daughters, neglected by their mother, can provide him with joy only until an untimely death takes them. Death robs him even of his beloved mother. 
  To escape, he decides one day to sneak off to Monte Carlo, where he encounters an amazing string of luck, acquiring a small fortune. While reading a newspaper on his return home, he discovers, to his immense shock and delight, that his wife and mother-in-law declared an unknown corpse to be his own. Faced with this sudden opportunity to start afresh, he first wanders about Europe, and finally settles down in Rome with an assumed identity. His character develops in unexpected, even admirable, ways.

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  Short Story Press Presents All...

  Short Story Press, Matthew...

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  “All Lesser Creatures” takes an often-used mythologic monster idea and twists into a new direction. You will see the more familiar take on the idea in the story as well but also as seen in a very different light. This story realizes the full potential of a certain basic idea, just as the main character realizes the full and awesome potential of he and his kind, who previously believed themselves to be without defenses. The story is comprised of: 
  • A simple man who suffers an accident leaving him with a bizarre condition 
  • This man coming to accept and even enjoy his new lifestyle thanks to newfound community 
  • Several unusual creatures with amazing abilities 
  • Unexpected twists on an old idea, taking it to new places and to a new level 
  • A tale of triumph over vicious oppression by the downtrodden underdogs 
  • A new appreciation for a wide variety of animals 
  “All Lesser Creatures” is a refreshing and positively affirming story. If you feel like the world has got you down and there’s nothing you can do about it, just look to the example set by Gary Landry (the main character) and his friends. Your situation and the appropriate response will almost certainly not be the same but the message is clear: don’t underestimate or give up on yourself. Realize your true potential. 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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  All's Well that Ends Well

  William Shakespeare

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  The authoritative edition of All’s Well That Ends Well from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well is the story of its heroine, Helen, more so than the story of Bertram, for whose love she yearns. Helen wins Bertram as her husband despite his lack of interest and higher social standing, but she finds little happiness in the victory as he shuns, deserts, and attempts to betray her.The play suggests some sympathy for Bertram. As a ward to the French king, he must remain at court while his friends go off to war and glory. When Helen cures the King, he makes Bertram available to her. To exert any control over his life, Bertram goes to war in Italy.Helen then takes the initiative in furthering their marriage, undertaking an arduous journey and a daring trick. Few today, however, see a fairy-tale ending.This edition includes: -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An annotated guide to further readingEssay by David McCandlessThe Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.

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  Myrtle

  Ruth Wiggins

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  In her heady, debut pamphlet Myrtle, Ruth Wiggins celebrates the primal forces of nature and the human heart. Interweaving the ancient with the modern world, she explores fertility and death, in poems that are imbued with a subtle eroticism. There is a serious playfulness at work here too: a carnival stallholder battles with a spider, and a bored vegetarian contemplates life as a fox, while lovers fear death and separation as the gods look on in amusement. This free-wheeling and assured collection is full of dry humour and wisdom, and is by turns poignant, dark and full of zest.

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  Fifty Shades of February - 50 of...

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,...

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  The second month adds tiny dashes of colour.  Nature begins to gently rouse herself for the coming season.  Winter begins to withdraw its raw and elemental fingers in soft remembered surrender to the natural cycle that welcomes Spring.  
  Our classic poets, in 50 poems of inky verse, reveal all manner of events, sights and sounds. Among their ranks are Longfellow, Coleridge, Dickinson, Teasdale, Clare and a wealth of many others, who, with their thoughts and desires express the world in lines of revelation. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of February - An Introduction 
  2 - February by John Clare 
  3 - Lines on Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  4 - February by Dollie Radford 
  5 - On the Death of Ms Burnite Who Died February the 2nd 1878 by David John Scott 
  6 - The Snowdrop by Henry James Pye 
  7 - February 3rd, 1830 by Henry Alford 
  8 - February by Arthur Christopher Benson 
  9 - February by Edward Ward 
  10 - February by Louisa Sarah Bevington 
  11 - February 10th, 1840 by Henry Alford 
  12 - A Calendar of Sonnets by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  13 - Hymn Written Sunday February 11th, 1798 by Robert Anderson 
  14 - In February by Alice Meynell 
  15 - A Valentine's Song by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  16 - A Valentine by Matilda Betham Edwards 
  17 - February by Edwin Arnold 
  18 - Meeting in Winter by William Morris 
  19 - Valentine by Elinor Wylie 
  20 - Sonnet I - Go Valentine and Tell That Lovely Maid by Robert Southey 
  21 - A Valentine by Lewis Carroll 
  22 - St Valentine's Day by Edith Nesbit 
  23 - The February Hush by Thomas Wentworth Higginson 
  24 - Snow Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  25 - In February by John Addington Symonds 
  26 - London Snow by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  27 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  28 - Snow Beneath Whose Chilly Softness by Emily Dickinson 
  29 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens 
  30 - Woods in Winter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  31 - The Brook in February by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 
  32 - Before You Thought of Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  33 - Winter - My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  34 - Winter Calls by Daniel Sheehan 
  35 - February by George Walter Thornbury 
  36 - To Susanna, February 1824 by Eliza Acton 
  37 - To A Primrose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  38 - To Primroses Filled With Morning Dew by Robert Herrick 
  39 - February by Sara Teasdale 
  40 - February by James Berry Bensel 
  41 - February Morning by Laurence Binyon 
  42 - The Thrush in February by George Meredith 
  43 - February Twilight by Sara Teasdale 
  44 - Evening in February by Francis Ledwidge 
  45 - Rainy Midnight by Ivor Gurney 
  46 - The Rain and the Wind by William Ernest Henley 
  47 - February by Edith Nesbit 
  48 - To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman 
  49 - Ode to France, February 1848 by James Russell Lowell 
  50 - To H W L on His Birthday 27th February, 1867 by James Russell Lowell 
  51 - February. An Elegy by Thomas Chatterton

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  Girl from the North Country (NHB...

  Conor McPherson, Bob Dylan

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  Duluth, Minnesota. 1934. A community living on a knife-edge. Lost and lonely people huddle together in the local guesthouse.
  The owner, Nick, owes more money than he can ever repay, his wife Elizabeth is losing her mind, and their daughter Marianne is carrying a child no one will account for.
  So, when a preacher selling bibles and a boxer looking for a comeback turn up in the middle of the night, things spiral beyond the point of no return…
  In Girl from the North Country, Conor McPherson beautifully weaves the iconic songbook of Bob Dylan into a show full of hope, heartbreak and soul. It premiered at The Old Vic, London, in July 2017, in a production directed by Conor McPherson, and later transferred to the West End, Broadway, Australia, Ireland and toured the UK.

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