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Collected Plays - Blithe Spirit; Present Laughter; This Happy Breed; Tonight at 8.30 (II) by Noël Coward; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
Category: No Category | Series: World Classics Ser.
'The fourth volume in the Coward Collection. Volume Four of Noel Coward''s plays contains a selection of Coward''s plays from the thirties and forties which includes Blithe Spirit, a comedy that centres around the spirit medium Madame Arcati. The play that mocks sudden death was produced at precisely th ...Show more
Collected Plays - Relative Values - Look after Lulu - Waiting in the Wings - Suite in Three Keys by Noël Coward; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
Category: No Category | Series: World Classics Ser.
'The fifth volume in the Coward Collection. Containing Coward''s best work from the last two decades of his life, this volume includes Relative Values, which ran for over a year in 1951-2, Look After Lulu (1959), his perennially popular Feydeau adaptation, Waiting in the Wings (1960), a bravura piece se ...Show more
Confessions by Augustine Hippo
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
St Augustine's 'Confessions' was written between AD 397-400. An autobiographical work, it was written in thirteen parts, each a complete text intended to be read aloud. Written in his early 40s, it documents the development of Augustine's thought from childhood into his adult life - a life he considered ...Show more
Coward - Plays 3 - Design for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight at 8. 30 (i); Still Life by Noël Coward
Category: No Category | Series: World Classics Ser.
'The third volume in the Coward Collection. The third volume of Coward''s plays contains some of his best work from the thirties- Design for Living - is about a triangular alliance between two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward''s, which he waited to write until she and he and I had arrived by ...Show more
Coward Plays: v.1: "Hay Fever", "The Vortex", "Fallen Angels", "Easy Virtue" by Noel Coward
Category: No Category | Series: World Classics
This first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Coward and the century were still in their 20s. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Coward's first biographer. Hay Fever, a comedy of bad manners, concerns a weekend with friends of the Bliss fa ...Show more
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain. 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the ...Show more
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full ...Show more
Democracy in America by ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. De Tocquevill ...Show more
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by H. F. Cary With an introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world ...Show more
Don Quixote by CERVANTES Miguel V
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and Richard Strauss. The tall, ...Show more
Essays in Idleness by Kenko
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Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death his works were first ban ...Show more