No library's complete without the classics! This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects the legendary fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.They are the stories we've known since we were children. Rapunzel. Hansel and Gretel. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. But the works originally collected by the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800s are not necessarily the versions we heard before bedtime. They're darker and often don't end very happily--but they're often far more interesting. This elegant edition of Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales includes all our cherished favorites--Snow White, Rumpelstiltsk... [Read More]
This major new complete edition of Shakespeare's works combines accessibility with the latest scholarship. Each play and collection of poems is preceded by a substantial introduction that looks at textual and literary-historical issues. The texts themselves have been scrupulously edited and are accompanied by same-page notes and glossaries. Particular attention has been paid to the design of the book to ensure that this first new edition of the twenty-first century is both attractive and approachable.
#1 Best Seller for over 2 years, Black Book of Poems is a collection of poems in which the poet touches on the subjects of love, loss, abandonment, religion, depression and pain.Apart from being a national bestseller, Black Book of Poems was also featured on Hilary Swank's holiday wish list as reported by Today on December 8, 2017.
In more than 300 years of Shakespearean scholarship, only one book, the famous Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, has investigated the meaning of every word that Shakespeare wrote. The lifetime work of Professor Alexander Schmidt of Königsberg, this book has long been the indispensable companion for every person seriously interested in Shakespeare, Renaissance poetry and prose of any sort, or English literature. It is really two important books in one.Schmidt’s set contains every single word that Shakespeare used, not simply words that have changed their meaning since the sevente... [Read More]
On the morning of May 30, 1593, Christopher Marlowe met with three associates in the English intelligence network. Later that evening the Queen's coroner was summoned to their meeting place. A body lay on the floor. After an inquest, the dead man was taken to a nearby churchyard busy at the time receiving victims of the plague. According to the official report, England's foremost playwright was interred without fanfare or marker. Soon, plays attributed to William Shakespeare began to appear on the London stage, plays so undeniably similar to Marlowe's that noted scholars have since declared th... [Read More]
This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)Macbeth (Shakespeare)Paradise Lost (John Milton)Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding)Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen)Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)Ode to the West Wind (P. B. Shelley)Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)Odes (John Keats)Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)Wuthering Heights ... [Read More]
Investigating the literary culture of the early interaction between European countries and East Africa, Edward Wilson-Lee uncovers an extraordinary sequence of stories in which explorers, railway labourers, decadent émigrés, freedom fighters, and pioneering African leaders made Shakespeare their own in this alien land.Exploring the unexpected history of Shakespeare’s global legacy, Shakespeare in Swahililand is a breathtaking combination of travel, history, biography and satire. It traces Shakespeare’s influence in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya – where Cambridge... [Read More]
William Shakespeare is rightly regarded as English Literature’s supreme talent. His plays are renowned and admired in every country and in every language. His poems too are acknowledged as classics. But many people don’t take the time to envelop themselves in his complete sonnets. There are several we all know and can easily quote but there are many others, rich and rewarding, within this collection that extend not just our appreciation of him but also the high quality and poetic genius he brings to each and every sonnet.
This anthology, jointly translated by a Japanese scholar and an American poet, is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English. Their collaboration has rendered translations both precise and sublime, and their selection, which span 1,500 years, from the early T’ang dynasty to the present day, includes many poems that have never before been translated into English. Stryk and Ikemoto offer us Zen poetry in all its diversity: Chinese poems of enlightenment and death, poems of the Japanese masters, many haiku the quintessential Zen art and an impressive se... [Read More]
Learn about all of Shakespeare's plays in one book! Read about William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, and poems as you never have before in an entertaining pop-up book collaboration between the internationally known comedy troupe the
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Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 68 % (A-), University of Warwick, course: Medieval to Renaissance English Literature, 11 entries in the bibliography, language:
William Shakespeare Complete Works Ultimate 'Must-Have' Collection: 213 Plays, Poems & Sonnets including the 16 rare 'hard-to-get' Apocryphal Plays PLUS: BONUS Material & easy to use Table of Contents Do you want the most complete
The beginning of the English drama dates from a late period in the history of this country. Until the reign of Elizabeth, dramatic literature was really non-existent. During the Middle Ages, the religious drama held
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