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  The Day I Met Myself - Collected...

  Peter Gammond

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  Selected poems of author and musician Peter Gammond

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  John Milton

  John Milton

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  Milton stands alongside Shakespeare and the Bible in the power of his verse and its continuing impact. He is one of the great voices of English poetry. Born in 1608, he is best known for his epic Paradise Lost, but most of his writing life was spent composing shorter works. This collection brings together his brilliant early poems, including Il Penseroso, L’Allegro and Lycidas, as well as some of the finest and most touching works of his maturity, such as On His Blindness and Methought I saw my late espoused saint. This anthology will serve as an introduction, or as a reminder of the range and variety of John Milton’s great gifts.

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  Short Story Press Presents...

  Short Story Press, Janet Marie...

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  Everyone it seems wonders, at some point in their lives, what will happen when they eventually stand before the “Pearly Gates”? One man seems stuck somewhere between, in a groundhog effect, approaching and re-approaching the Gates in a repeatedly futile attempt to attain a bottle of white-out. In order to follow standard protocol, the clerk must annotate on the requisition form what exactly the white-out is being used for. Peter is his name, and he has seen the White-Out Man many times over the past months and his patience is running thin. As he inquires of the reasoning behind the request, White-Out Man becomes irate and difficult, overheard by Peter’s Boss who intervenes on the intercom. 
  White-Out Man is haggard, and doesn’t seem to realize that the same old mistakes can’t be covered up over, and over again. The file-purging time approaches yet again, and he has discovered that before he can purge, his form needs to be clean, hence the necessity of the white-out. He also doesn’t recognize that he is in impeding danger of being hauled down the seemingly endless stairs to the “Sub-levels”. Poor White-Out Man, he knows what lies down in the Sub-levels; but is unsure if there is any way to avoid them other than to white-out his mistakes time and again. 
  This rare metaphorical work, White-Out Man, broaches age-old questions of humanity in a purely science fiction manner that most people today can relate to. In a world that is all but overcome by technology and requisite red tape, where not even a simple pen can be accessed without filling out a form, it seems all but impossible to maintain any semblance of composure. The question is… will we be faced with these same or similar endless circles of frustration and bureaucracy even after our time on Earth is complete? 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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  Aeschylus I - The Persians The...

  Aeschylus Aeschylus

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  The third edition of this volume includes newly revised, authoritative and compelling translations of four timeless works by the Ancient Greek tragedian. 
   
  Aeschylus I contains “The Persians,” translated by Seth Benardete; “The Seven Against Thebes,” translated by David Grene; “The Suppliant Maidens,” translated by Seth Benardete; and “Prometheus Bound,” translated by David Grene. For this edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated these translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which the renowned University of Chicago Press series is famous.  
   
  This edition also includes brand-new translations of Euripides’ Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles’s satyr-drama The Trackers. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.  
   
  In addition, each volume includes an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays. The entire series has also been reorganized both within and between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays were originally written.

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  Lover's Vows

  Elizabeth Inchbald

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  Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe (1780; literally "Child of Love," or "Natural Son," as it is often translated), all of which were published between 1798 and 1800. Inchbald's version is the only one to have been performed. Dealing as it does with sex outside marriage and illegitimate birth, Inchbald in the Preface to the published version declares herself to have been highly sensitive to the task of adapting the original German text for "an English audience." Even so, she left the setting as Germany.The play was first performed at Covent Garden on Thursday, 11 October 1798, and was an immediate success: it ran for forty-two nights, "making it by some distance Covent Garden's most successful venture of that season," and went on to be performed in Bristol, Newcastle, Bath, and elsewhere. It was likewise successful as a print publication, though it also aroused controversy about its "levelling" politics and moral ambiguity. Anne Plumptre, who translated Kotzebue's play as The Natural Son, wrote (perhaps not disinterestedly as the production of Inchbald's work effectively precluded the production of her own) that Inchbald had transformed the character of Amelia into a "forward country hoyden." Others, however, defended the morality of the play. And indeed, various characters indulge in considerable moralizing about charity, honour, and forgiveness. (Summary by wikipedia) 
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  Baron Wildenhaim, Countryman, and Prologue: Algy PugCount Cassel: John FrickerAnhalt and Narrator: AlanFrederick: Peter BishopVerdun the Butler and Epilogue: Ernst PattynamaLandlord: Martin GeesonCottager: David LawrenceFarmer: Dale BurgessGentleman: Ric FServant and Cottager's Wife: Amy GramourAgatha Firburg and Dramatis Personae: Sandra GAmelia Wildenhaim: Elizabeth BarrCountry Girl and Preface: rigbyjmNarrator: Paul AndrewsAudio edited by: Algy Pug

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  Fifty Shades of London - 50 of...

  Samuel Johnson, Ella Wheeler...

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  This vast and teeming metropolis that many of us call home sits astride a small river on a small island anchored off the north-west shores of Europe.   Yet its very name ‘London’ is famed, admired and known worldwide.  Its growth from hamlet, town, fortification, city and centre of Empire is one of rich reward.  Within its ever-changing borders that are forever moving outwards are gems of architecture across cultures, times and influences that exist in very few other places.  Its diaspora of peoples and cultures overlap, thrive, compete and influence this leviathan of a world city.  
     
  1 - Fifty Shades of London - An Introduction 
  2 - A Ballad of London by Richard Le Gallienne 
  3 - London by Joanna Baillie 
  4 - Dear Old London by Eugene Field 
  5 - The London Bobby by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  6 - London Types - Bus Driver by William Ernest Henley 
  7 - The Cockney Soul by Henry Lawson 
  8 - London Roses by Willa Silbert Cather 
  9 - Behind the Scenes. Empire by Arthur Symons 
  10 - A London Fete by Coventry Patmore 
  11 - London Hast Thou Accursed Me by Henry Howard 
  12 - London by William Blake 
  13 - A London Thoroughfare. 2 AM by Amy Lowell 
  14 - Impression de Nuit (London) by Lord Alfred Douglas 
  15 - London, My Beautiful by F S Flint 
  16 - London in July by Amy Levy 
  17 - A London Plane Tree by Amy Levy 
  18 - In a London Square by Arthur Hugh Clough 
  19 - London I by Julian Bell 
  20 - London Poets by Amy Levy 
  21 - Chatterton in Holborn by Ernest Rhys 
  22 - West London by Matthew Arnold 
  23 - Ballade of the 'Cheshire Cheese' in Fleet Street by T W Rolleston 
  24 - Hyde Park At Night Before the War; Clerks by D H Lawrence 
  25 - London After The Great Fire 1666 by John Dryden 
  26 - His Tears To Thamesis by Robert Herrick 
  27 - The Thames At Mortlake by Ben Jonson 
  28 - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth 
  29 - London Interior by Harold Munro 
  30 - Compensation by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  31 - In A London Drawingroom by George Eliot 
  32 - Freedom in a Suburb by Ernest Radford 
  33 - Death In A London Lodging by Richard Le Gallienne 
  34 - In Westminster Abbey, October 12th 1892 by John Todhunter 
  35 - On the Tombs At Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont 
  36 - Scenes In London I - Piccadilly by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  37 - Scenes In London II - Oxford Street by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  38 - Scenes In London III - The Savoyard In Grosvenor Squeare by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  39 - London Snow by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  40 - From Piccadilly in August by John Freeman 
  41 - Piccadily Circus At Night; Street Walkers by D. H.  Lawrence 
  42 - Letter From Town; on a Grey Morning in March by D H Lawrence 
  43 - The Call to London by Radclyffe Hall 
  44 - The Foggy Dew by Katharine Tynan 
  45 - The Little London Girl by Kate Greenaway 
  46 - Farewell to London in the Year 1715 by Alexander Pope 
  47 - Written in London on the 19th March 1796 by Matilda Betham 
  48 - On My Leaving London, June the 29th by Sarah Fyge-Egerton 
  49 - His Return to London by Robert Herrick 
  50 - A Satire Against the Citizens of London by Henry Howard 
  51 - London, A Poem, In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal by Samuel Johnson

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