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Christopher Marlowe was one of the most famous playwrights in all of literature.  Marlowe's tragic plays, noted for their blank verse and unique protagonists, were a great influence on the legendary William Shakespeare. Some of Marlowe's classics include Doctor Faustus, Edward II, and Tamburlaine...

The English poet and dramatist, George Chapman, whose translation of Homer long remained the standard English version, was a rival of Shakespeare and a revered classical scholar. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. For the first...

Poems of Henry Vaughan Volume II Henry Vaughan, welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet (1621-1695) This ebook presents «Poems of Henry Vaughan Volume II», from Henry Vaughan. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS...

King John William Shakespeare, english poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist (1564-1616) This ebook presents «King John», from William Shakespeare. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly...

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button.  All of our collections include a linked table of contents. Christopher Marlowe was one of the most famous playwrights...

2 works of Abraham Cowley English poet (1618-1667) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Abraham Cowley. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Cowley's Essays Poetry

Out of Joint Presents: A Dish of Tea With Dr Johnson Irritable, generous, seriously depressed yet a great wit: meet Samuel Johnson – poet, essayist and lexicographer. This evening of stories and conversation brings to life some of the most colourful figures of the eighteenth century. The...

Mientras el mundo occidental se derrumbaba a mano de las poderosas legiones romanas, una mujer se atrevió a luchar por la libertad de Inglaterra. Adaptado de la creativa biografía narrativa “Boudica, Reina Británica de los Icenos”, Boudica cuenta la historia de la reina más grande y legendaria...

Good poetry for children is rare. Few collections, few single poems in fact, survive beyond a few years of popularity. There are exceptions — the poetry and verse of Walter de la Mare, Lewis Carroll, and Edward Lear come to mind. Still rarer is successful children's poetry by a poet known equally...

Following in the successful nature-writing style of Robert MacFarlane and Gillian Clarke, Distance and Memory is a book about remoteness: a memoir of places observed in solitude, of the texture of life through the quiet course of the seasons in the far north of Scotland. It is a book grounded in the...

Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the thirties by a young writer. It is a record of the author's emotional and intellectual experience during those months, the trivia of everyday living set against the events of the world outside, the settlement in Munich and slow defeat in Spain.

Includes the plays Venus Observed, The Dark is Light Enough and Curtmantle This volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work concludes his 'Season Plays' with Venus Observed ('Autumn') and The Dark is Light Enough ('Winter'). In the first of these, commissioned by Laurence Olivier,...

2 works of Charlotte Mew English poet (1869-1928) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Charlotte Mew. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: The Cenotaph The Yellow Book Volume II

Restoration London's leading actor and theatre manager Thomas Betterton has not been the subject of a biography since 1891. He worked with all the best-known playwrights of his age and with the first generation of English actresses; he was intimately involved in the theatre's responses to politics,...