The Seafarer
"Seafarer" is a play.
| The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse
The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a selection of its poetry, and includes a range of works by the poets of the a
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Alan Bennett, Single Spies
Presents two Alan Bennett plays, originally performed at the National Theatre and adapted for BBC Radio 4. This title includes "An Englishman Abroad", a story about a double-agent Guy Burgess, hiding in a squalid flat in Moscow; and "A Question of At
| The Odyssey
An epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity o
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno Pt. 1
Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, this work depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. Led by leering de
| The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Middle Ages Through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century v. 1
A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosse
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John Betjeman Collected Poems
This is the definitive John Betjeman collection reissued for the centenary of his birth, and includes his verse autobiography Summoned by Bells in its entirity
| Surgically Enhanced
Pam Ayres is one of our most widely-adored poets throughout the world. Her work is popular with fans of all ages, and her wry observations on the peculiarities of modern life will raise a smile from even the most hardened cynic. This work is a collec
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The Prophet
An allegorical guide to living. It delivers spiritual, yet practical homilies on a wide variety of topics central to daily life: love; marriage and children; work and play; possessions; beauty; truth; joy and sorrow; and, death.
| Collected Poems
This edition of Larkin's poems presents his four published books "The North Ship", "The Less Deceived", "The Whitsun Weddings" and "High Windows" in their original sequence. The text also includes an appendix of poems that Larkin published in other p
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Rapture
The effortless virtuosity, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her an admired contemporary poet. This collection of poems aims to serve as a map of real love. It reflects Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions of love, and
| District and Circle
Starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock/clunks shut' in the eerie conditions of a menaced twentieth-first century. This book includes a number of prose poems and translations. It offers resistance as the poet ga
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Catching Life by the Throat
Following the hugely successful Josephine Hart Poetry Hours at the British Library where actors such as Roger Moore and Juliet Stevenson have read poetry from Auden to Eliot, from Larkin to Plath - comes the book and a complimentary CD.
| Hamlet
This fully annotated version of "Hamlet" makes the play completely accessible to readers in the 21st century, and offers help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody and alternative readings of phrases and lines.
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Othello
A popular soldier and newly married man, Othello seems to be in an enviable position. And yet, when his supposed friend sows doubts in his mind about his wife's fidelity, he is gradually consumed by suspicion.
| As You Like it
When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves now a fellow exile and res
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Medea and Other Plays
This title is a collection of Euripides' plays.
| Pygmalion
Shaw's dramatization of a Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and women's independence.
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A View from the Bridge and All My Sons
Includes the plays "All My Sons" and "A View from the Bridge".
| Sherlock Holmes Collection
All four classic Sherlock Holmes audiobooks, now available together for the first time in one specially priced pack
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