Six Plays - Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, Caps and Bells, Right You Are (if You Think You Are), the Jar, the Patent by Luigi Pirandello; Felicity Firth (Translator); Robert Rietty (Translator); John Wardle (Translator); Bruce Penman (Translator); Carlo Ardito (Translator)
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This selection of plays by Luigi Pirandello contains some of his best-known works, such as Six Characters in Search of an Author - an absurdist piece in which the characters, actors and Pirandello himself interact during the rehearsal of a fictional play within the play - and Henry IV - a tragicomic tal ...Show more
The Bérenger Plays by Eugène Ionesco; Donald Watson (Translator); Derek Prouse (Translator)
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This collection brings together the four plays that feature Ionesco's everyman protagonist Jean Bérenger. In 'The Killer', he comes across a "radiant city", an ideal civilization which is unfortunately being terrorized by a killer, whom he decides to track down and dissuade from committing any further c ...Show more
Prosecco - The Wine and the People Who Made It a Success by Luigi Bolzon
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Following in the footsteps of other illustrious Italian gastronomic successes - from pizza to pasta, from mozzarella to Parmesan and mortadella - Prosecco is the most recent "made in Italy" product to have colonized the world. But what is its history, and how did it come to be a global phenomenon? Luigi ...Show more
A Funny Sort of Minister by Dominique Demers
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At a train station on her way to meet her friends Marie and Leo to recover her pet rock, Madame Charlotte accidentally picks up the Prime Minister's elephant-hide bag instead of her own. As it contains important documents and the politician is due to make an important speech on children's education, Mis ...Show more
The Green Dwarf and Other Early Fiction by Charlotte Brontë
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"Pronounce quickly, monarch. If you die and make no sign on the subject, woe to Angria... The sword of war is unsheathed and the blade will rankle in many a bosom ere Adrian be cold in his grave." Inspired by a box of wooden toy soldiers given as a present to her elder brother Branwell in 1826, Charlot ...Show more
Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems, The by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean." Described by his friend Charles Lamb as "an archangel slightly damaged," Coleridge was deemed a towering genius by many of his contemporaries, and one who, in conversation, had no equal. Fa ...Show more
The Garden Party and Collected Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield
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When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one of their working-class neighbours, this burgeoning sense o ...Show more
The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories by Douglas (TRN) Emile; Parmee Zola
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Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely accomplished short-story writer, as exemplified by the tales included in this volume. Concerned with the manifold aspects of everyday life and varying in th ...Show more
Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri; Anthony Mortimer (Translator)
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The Vita Nuova, with its unusual blend of prose and poetry, is universally recognized as Dante's early masterpiece and provides an indispensable prequel to The Divine Comedy. Set in thirteenth-century Florence, part autobiography and part religious allegory, it traces Dante's quest to find a poetic idio ...Show more
Love Poems by Alexander Pushkin
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One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin's immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is most popular for, is his mastery of the love poem, a genre which he perfected like few others before or after him. This volume contains a selection of his most famous and end ...Show more
Humorous Tales by Rudyard Kipling
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First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career. These tales derive their humour from absurd situations - a drunken Irish soldier waking up to find himself worshipped as a god in the Indian holy city of Benares, a monkey let ...Show more
Chamber Music and Other Poems by James Joyce
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Universally known for his groundbreaking prose - especially for the monumental novel Ulysses and its depictions of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century - James Joyce started off as a writer of lyrical poetry, a genre which he never abandoned in his lifetime and which informs and enriches the rest ...Show more