Other books that might interest you

• 

  A Charles Dickens Holiday...

  Charles Dickens

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The Cricket on The Hearth was first published in 1845. 
   
  A cricket constantly chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the Peerybingle family. The arrival of a mysterious stranger threatens to shatter this harmony. Does the cricket have supernatural powers? Does he restore faith and overcome suspicion? A masterful story of love and loyalty, The Cricket on The Hearth is effused with the spirit of the season. 
   
  The Seven Poor Travellers was first published in 1854. 
   
  On Christmas Eve, a traveling gentleman happens upon a house in a quaint little village, which houses up to six travelers each evening. He decides to treat them all to a Christmas dinner and tells them a story around the fireplace about a soldier who finds the true meaning of forgiveness and redemption. 
   
  A sparkling holiday gem from the great Charles Dickens.

  Show book

• 

  Now You Care

  Di Brandt

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Nominated for a Griffin Poetry Prize
   
  In Now You Care, her fifth collection of poetry, Di Brandt voices a passionate argument against environmental degradation and a plea for psychic transformation in our violent times. Tuned in to the toxic fallout of over-industrialization and war, these poems face the dark side of our postmodern climate with a language that doesn't give in. They tremble and shake,they rage against despair, they speak against death and wrestle with the fateful spirits of Armageddon to loosen their choke-hold on humanity. Perhaps we won't figure it out and the horizon is already on fire, and our best love will never be more than an approximation of regret, but grass still grows between the cement blocks of the sidewalk to 'grin of the wild.'

  Show book

• 

  Female discrimination in the...

  Levi Freud

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  THIS BOOK DISCUSSES WOMEN'S ROLE IN THE MORMON CHURCH HISTORICALLY AS WELL AS TODAY.I DISCUSS THE UNFAIRNESS OF THE MORMON PLAN OF SALVATION AND GODHOOD AS WELL AS EVERYDAY MARRIAGE CHILDREN AND LIVING UNDER THE MODERN DAY MORMON CHURCH.THIS BOOK WILL GIVE YOU THE TRUE PICTURE AND WILL HAVE YOU LAUGHING OUT LOUD.

  Show book

• 

  Charles Dickens - Chapter &...

  Charles Dickens

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - Charles Dickens - An Introduction 
  2 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  3 - The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens 
  4 - The Song of the Wreck by Charles Dickens 
  5 - The Hymn of the Wiltshire Laborers by Charles Dickens 
  6 - A Child's Hymn by Charles Dickens 
  7 - Lucy's Song by Charles Dickens 
  8 - Little Nell's Funeral by Charles Dickens 
  9 - Gabriel Grub's Song by Charles Dickens 
  10 - George Edmund's Song by Charles Dickens 
  11 - Squire Norton's Song by Charles Dickens 
  12 - A Fine Old English Gentleman by Charles Dickens 
  13 - The Trial for Murder by Charles Dickens

  Show book

• 

  The Brute

  Joseph Conrad

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Born in 1857 in Poland, Joseph Conrad became a British citizen just before he turned 30.  In the intervening years he lost both parents; as an orphan aged 11 he was therefore raised by an uncle, who at 16 let the boy go to Marseille to work on merchant ships where the colourful life of the sea was further enhanced by stints gun running and, intriguingly, political conspiracy.  At age 36 his life turned from one of ships to one of literary pursuit.  In doing so Conrad brought to English Literature a further layer of style and a deeper examination of the human psyche in a wealth of work.  
   
  He wrote many novels, rightly regarded today, as some of the finest in English literature.  Among their canon are Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Shadow Line and, of course, Heart Of Darkness.  For this volume we dwell among his numerous short stories. In these condensed, narrative structures much is said in beautiful language. 
   
  His characters may be brave, comic, serious, trapped by their own constraints, or as in the Brute, the ship itself, but are always fully formed and true to his word.

  Show book

• 

  Salome

  Oscar Wilde

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Iokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils. (Summary by wikipedia)Cast:Herod Antipas: Mark PenfoldIokanaan: Bruce PirieThe Young Syrian: Kim StichTigellinus: Matthew ReeceA Cappadocian: Tim FerreiraA Nubian: D MoNeYFirst Soldier: SkythrockSecond Soldier: Joshua LoganThe Page of Herodias: om123Herodias: SweetlilbirdySalome: Arielle LipshawA Slave: AnaFirst Jew: Frank BookerSecond Jew/Fourth Jew/Sadducee: Elizabeth KlettThird Jew/First Nazarene: Denny SayersFifth Jew: David LawrenceSecond Nazarene: Algy PugA Pharisee: mbNarrator: Tricia GAudio edited by: Arielle Lipshaw

  Show book