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  George Bernard Shaw: MRS...

  George Bernard Shaw

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  .Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902 but was banned after two performances because of the profession talked about. The play is about a former prostitute, now a madam (brothel proprietor), who attempts to come to terms with her disapproving daughter. It illustrates Shaw's belief that the act of prostitution was not caused by moral failure but by economic necessity. It also has a lot to say about the hypocrisy of English society that profited from many despised and illegal professions and used people in despicable ways but pretended to look down on them. This was probably why it was banned, not because of the 'profession' of Mrs. Warren, but because it exposed very highly placed people doing nasty things to make money

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  Evening Star

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 29 recordings of Evening Star by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the weekly poetry project in honor of Poe's 200th birthday, January 19th, 2009.

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  In between life

  Luiz Valério de Paula Trindade

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  Unplugged! If there is a single word capable to accurately summarise the atmosphere of this book, that is for sure the most appropriate given that, similarly to an  unplugged performance of your favourite band/singer, the selected poems in this book also convey the sensation of filling out the room and taking your senses to a different state of mind. They address topics such as love, romance, perceptions about life around us, and new discoveries. Nonetheless, they are ‘unplugged’ of unnecessary features, meaning that they make the reader feel at ease from the very first lines and engaging you just like an intimate conversation with your closest friend.

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  Thrown in the Throat

  Benjamin Garcia

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  “An unabashed celebration of complexity in queerness and gender, an arresting snapshot of survival and a triumphant reclamation of language.” —Shelf Awareness (starred review) “Tongues make mistakes / and mistakes / make languages.” And Benjamin Garcia makes a stunning debut with Thrown in the Throat. In a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer life amidst troubled times, Garcia writes boldly of citizenship, family, and Adam Rippon’s butt. Detailing a childhood spent undocumented, one speaker recalls nights when “because we cannot sleep / we dream with open eyes.” Garcia delves with both English and Spanish into how one survives a country’s long love affair with anti-immigrant cruelty. Rendering a family working to the very end to hold each other, he writes the kind of family you both survive and survive with. With language that arrives equal parts regal and raucous, Thrown in the Throat shines brilliant with sweat and an iridescent voice. “Sometimes even a diamond was once alive” writes Garcia in a collection that National Poetry Series judge Kazim Ali says “has deadly superpowers.” And indeed these poems arrive to our hands through touch-me-nots and the slight cruelty of mothers, through closets both real and metaphorical. These are poems complex, unabashed, and needed as survival. Garcia’s debut is nothing less than exactly the ode our history and present and our future call for: brash and unmistakably alive. “Angry, tender, and resounding with the speech of flowers, birds, and diamonds, every syllable carries a glorious charge.” —The Boston Globe, “Best Books of 2020” “Electrifying . . . explores unrepentant sexual desire, interrogates fraught familial relationships, and examines our troubled cultural moment.” —Lambda Literary

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  Me As a Penguin (NHB Modern Plays)

  Tom Wells

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  A charmingly offbeat, surreal comedy of knitting, penguins and Battenberg.
  Stitch is hitting the gay scene of Hull. Or at least dipping his toe in the water, while staying with his heavily pregnant sister Liz and her shabby sofa-loving partner Mark. But why won't Stitch let anyone into the bathroom even though Liz is dying for a pee? And who is the man in the giant penguin costume?
  Me, As a Penguin premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2010.
  This volume also features two monologues by Tom Wells, About a Goth and Notes for First Time Astronauts.
  'a remarkable piece of writing, wry, witty and surreal' —WhatsOnStage
  'thoroughly charming' —Time Out

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  Kevin Goes to Japan Story Only

  Miwako Kiritani

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  日本語教材の「ケビン日本ヘ行く」の物語のみです（単語表、JLPTサンプル問題はありませんので、ご注意ください） 
  親友の幸雄を頼ってワーキングホリデーで日本にやってきたイギリス人のケビンは、幸雄の同僚、松村弓子に一目ぼれ。幸雄の同期で幸雄に6年片思いのヤンデレOL青木智子の計らいで、弓子とのダブルデートが実現するが、事件勃発。ケビンの片思いは？　そして智子の恋は実るのか？ 
  日英同時表記のため、英語、日本語学習として最適です。 
  This book is the story only of the Japanese language material, called "Kevin Goes to Japan." (please note that there are no vocabulary lists or JLPT sample questions) 
  Kevin, an Englishman who came to Japan on a working holiday with his best friend Yukio, falls in love at first sight with Yukio's colleague, Yumiko Matsumura. Through the arrangement of Tomoko Aoki, Yukio's colleague and a yandere office lady who has had a crush on Yukio for six years, Kevin and Yumiko go on a double date, but something happens. What about Kevin's unrequited love? And will Tomoko's love come true? 
  This book is written in Japanese and English, which is ideal for learning English and Japanese.

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