Best of
English-Literature

2013

De Profundis and Other Prison Writings


Oscar Wilde - 2013
    But by May of the same year, Wilde was in Reading prison sentenced to hard labour. 'De Profundis' is an epistolic account of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that 'the supreme vice is shallowness'. This edition also includes further letters to his wife, his friends, the Home Secretary, newspaper editors and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas - Bosie - himself, as well as 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', the heart-rending poem about a man sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved.This Penguin edition is based on the definitive Complete Letters, edited by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland. Colm Tóibín's introduction explores Wilde's duality in love, politics and literature. This edition also includes notes on the text and suggested further reading.Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin. His three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and A House of Pomegranates, together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, won him a reputation as a writer with an original talent, a reputation enhanced by the phenomenal success of his society comedies - Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest.Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, and a collection of stories, Mothers and Sons. His essay collection Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar appeared in 2002. He is the editor of The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction.

Tune In, Part 1 (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)


Mark Lewisohn - 2013
    This extended special edition of Mark Lewisohn's magisterial book Tune In is a true collector's item, featuring hundreds of thousands of words of extra material, as well as many extra photographs. It is the complete, uncut and definitive biography of the Beatles' early years, from their family backgrounds through to the moment they're on the cusp of their immense breakthrough at the end of 1962. The ebook of the extended special edition comes in two parts, mirroring the two hardbacks that make up the deluxe print edition. Each part is sold separately and this is Part One, taking the story from the very beginning to their first, famous trip to Hamburg in 1960. Readers wishing to buy the whole extended special edition of Tune In in ebook should be sure to buy Part One and Part Two. Mark Lewisohn's biography is the first true and accurate account of the Beatles, a contextual history built upon impeccable research and written with energy, style, objectivity and insight. This extended special edition is for anyone who wishes to own the complete story in all its stunning and extraordinary detail. This is, genuinely and without question, the lasting word from the world-acknowledged authority.

H.G. Wells Collection, Over 50 Works: The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, Time Machine, Island of Dr. Moreau, Little Wars, World Set Free, Tales of Space and Time, When the Sleeper Wakes & MORE!


H.G. Wells - 2013
    Wells Collection, which has been designed and formatted specifically for your Amazon Kindle. Unlike other e-book editions, the text and chapters are perfectly set up to match the layout and feel of a physical copy, rather than being haphazardly thrown together for a quick release. This edition also comes with a linked Table of Contents for both the list of included books and their respective chapters. Navigation couldn't be easier.Purchase this H.G. Wells Collection and treat yourself to the following list of works created by this classic author: Novels:The Time Machine (1895)The Wonderful Visit (1895)The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)The Wheels of Chance (1896)The Invisible Man (1897)The War of the Worlds (1898)Love and Mr. Lewisham (1900)The First Men in the Moon (1901)The Sea Lady (1902)The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)Kipps (1905)A Modern Utopia (1905)In the Days of the Comet (1906)The War in the Air (1908)Tono-Bungay (1909)Ann Veronica (1909)The History of Mr. Polly (1910)The Sleeper Awakes (1910)The New Machiavelli (1911)Marriage (1912)The Passionate Friends (1913)The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)The World Set Free (1914)The Research Magnificent (1915)Mr. Britling Sees It Through (1916)The Soul of a Bishop (1917)The Secret Places of the Heart (1922)Non-fiction:Certain Personal Matters (1897)Anticipations of the Reactions of Mechanical andScientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought (1901)Mankind in the Making (1903)New Worlds for Old (1908)First and Last Things (1908)Floor Games (1911)Little Wars (1913)An Englishman Looks at the World (1914)What is Coming? (1916)God the Invisible King (1917)War and the Future (aka Italy, France and Britain atWar) (1917)In the Fourth Year (1918)The Salvaging of Civilization (1921)A Short History of the World (1922)Short Stories:Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) andTwo Other Reminscences (1895)The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1895)Tales of Space and Time (1899)Twelve Stories and a Dream (1903)Other Short Stories

The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler and Other Strange Stories


Reggie Oliver - 2013
    'The Complete Symphonies Of Adolf Hitler' 'Lapland Nights' 'The Garden Of Strangers' 'Among The Tombs' 'The Skins' 'The Sermons Of Dr Hodnet' 'Magus Zoroaster' 'The Time Of Blood' 'Parma Violets' 'Difficult People' 'The Constant Rake' 'The Blue Room' 'A Nightmare Sang' 'The Babe Of The Abyss' 'Bloody Bill' 'A Christmas Card'

Poems (1962-1997)


Robert Lax - 2013
    Compiled and edited by the poet's former assistant John Beer, this selection reflects—through meditative sequences in striking vertical columns—Lax's rigorous attention to the world around him and his relentless aspiration to new ways of writing.love &deathare blood& bonelove &deathare bread& stonelove &deathare rose& thorn(love &deathare sheep& shorn)Robert Lax (1915�-2000) published dozens of volumes of poetry and prose with small presses and worked as an editor for the New Yorker, Jubilee, and PAX. From 1962 to the end of his life, he made his home in the Greek islands.John Beer is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium, 2010), which won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. For two years in the late 1990s, he served as literary assistant to Robert Lax. He currently lives and teaches in Oregon.

The Adventure of the Six Napoleons


Vincent Goodwin - 2013
    But when the details of several Napoleon statues being destroyed are revealed, he decides it may be worth looking into after all. Follow the clues with Holmes and Dr. John Watson as they uncover their biggest find yet. Graphic Planet is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 3-8.

A Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Treasures


Charles Dickens - 2013
    In 1944, A Christmas Carol, Dickens released The Chimes: A Christmas Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, which combined his usual sympathy for the poor with the notion that we must always strive to live in nobler ways. In 1845 came the novella The Cricket on the Hearth. The years 1846 and 1848 respectively saw published The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. Because of this wealth of Christmas-themed works, Dickens is sometime referred to as “the man who invented Christmas.”About the Word Cloud Classics series:Classic works of literature with a clean, modern aesthetic! Perfect for both old and new literature fans, the Word Cloud Classics series from Canterbury Classics provides a chic and inexpensive introduction to timeless tales. With a higher production value, including heat burnished covers and foil stamping, these eye-catching, easy-to-hold editions are the perfect gift for students and fans of literature everywhere.

Wasted


Kate Tempest - 2013
    I'm changing things. This is it.Three old friends in their mid-twenties. One remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, it’s time to seize control. Make a difference. Change things. This is it.A day trip through the parks and raves and cafes of South London, where life is what you make it. The rapid fire words of Kate Tempest paint a picture of lives less ordinary in an unforgiving world, sound-tracked by an exhilarating score.The drama mixes rap-style poetry delivered with microphones and self-reflexive addresses to the audience.A play about love, life and losing your mind, and the first play from one of the UK’s most exciting performance poets, Kate Tempest.

Silt


Robert Macfarlane - 2013
    His companion on this atmospheric and potentially perilous journey is his old friend and photographer, David Quentin.In this special e-book edition, the Broomway section of The Old Ways appears alongside a run of twenty-two photographs taken that day by David, which form a haunting counterpoint to the text itself. In a newly written afterword, David reflects on the walk, on Robert Macfarlane's writing and on the fascinating legal terrain which paths like this one traverse even as they cross the land itself.Praise for The Old Ways:'Macfarlane has shown how utterly beautiful a brilliantly written travel book can still be. As perfect as his now classic The Wild Places. Maybe it is even better than that' William Dalrymple, Observer'A lovely book, a poetic investigation into what it is to follow a path, on land and at sea, in the footsteps of both our ancient predecessors and such writers as Edward Thomas: Macfarlane is reviving an entire body of nature writing here' David Sexton, Evening Standard'Beautifully written, moving, thrilling. It reminded me of how much stranger and richer the world is... at walking speed' Philip Pullman, Guardian 'A magnificent meditation on walking and writing. An astonishingly haunted book' Adam Nicolson, Daily Telegraph'The Old Ways sets the imagination tingling . . . it is like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems' John Carey, Sunday TimesRobert Macfarlane is the author of the award-winning Mountains of the Mind; The Wild Places; The Old Ways, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction; and Landmarks, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.David Quentin is a barrister specialising in tax law. He also takes photographs, teaches Cambridge undergraduates about versification and plays the bass guitar in London-based krautgoth noisegaze outfit The Murder Act.

Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)


Jonathan Swift - 2013
    This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Jonathan Swift, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Swift's life and works * Concise introductions to the satires and other works * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * GULLIVER’S TRAVELS is illustrated with contemporary illustrations * Provides both the adapted 1726 and the authoritative 1735 versions of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS * Rare satires appearing for the first time in digital print * An exhaustive offering of political, religious and journalism works * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Swift's letters to ‘Stella’ - spend hours exploring the author’s personal correspondence * Features two biographies - discover Swift's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: some obscure poems cannot appear in this eBook, being the result of more recent scholarship and so protected by copyright. Once these works enter the public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Satires A TALE OF A TUB THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS THE BICKERSTAFF-PARTRIDGE PAPERS THE SWEARER’S BANK GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, 1726 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, 1735 A MODEST PROPOSAL AN EXAMINATION OF CERTAIN ABUSES A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF GENTEEL AND INGENIOUS CONVERSATION DIRECTIONS TO SERVANTS MINOR SATIRES The Sermons THREE SERMONS BROTHERLY LOVE AND OTHER SERMONS Other Religious Works LIST OF RELIGIOUS WORKS The Political Works DRAPIER’S LETTERS LIST OF POLITICAL WORKS The Historical Works THE HISTORY OF THE FOUR LAST YEARS OF THE QUEEN AN ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND REMARKS ON THE CHARACTERS OF THE COURT OF QUEEN ANNE REMARKS ON LORD CLARENDON’S “HISTORY OF THE REBELLION” REMARKS ON BISHOP BURNET’S “HISTORY OF HIS OWN TIME” NOTES ON THE “FREEHOLDER” The Journalism CONTRIBUTIONS TO ‘THE TATLER’ CONTRIBUTIONS TO ‘THE EXAMINER’ CONTRIBUTION TO ‘THE SPECTATOR’ CONTRIBUTIONS TO ‘THE INTELLIGENCER’ The Poetry Collection THE POEMS OF JONATHAN SWIFT The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Memoir A JOURNAL TO STELLA The Biographies SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF DR. JONATHAN SWIFT by R. Phillips DEAN SWIFT by James McGee

Herald of the Hidden & Other Stories


Mark Valentine - 2013
    Signed, numbered edition limited to 400 copies. Herald of the Hidden collects ten adventures of Ralph Tyler, an occult detective from an obscure shire in the heart of England, without private means or any special esoteric knowledge. The Ralph Tyler stories first appeared in hard-to-find small press publications. Three of the stories are previously unpublished, including two newly written for this collection. Along with six further supernatural tales, all the stories are previously uncollected in book form.

Self-Published Kindling: Memoirs of a Homeless Bookstore Owner


Mik Everett - 2013
    But as the traditional publishing industry begins to fall, e-books dominate the book market, and the economy slows, the family winds up homeless-- a big secret to keep, as business owners. While some authors struggle with addiction and others struggle to tell their story, a young family struggles simply to survive.

Ibn Sina: A Concise Life


Edoardo Albert - 2013
    Born in Persia in the tenth century, his passion for knowledge was unbound, and he made lasting contributions to medicine, math, and philosophy. Due to the scope and brilliance of his work he can be compared to the great Leonardo da Vinci.With illustrations, photographs, and maps, the rich and diverse world that produced Ibn Sina is vividly brought alive.Edoardo Albert is a London-based writer of Italian and Sri Lankan extraction. He also wrote Imam al-Ghazali: A Concise Life which was the first book in the Concise Life series.

Broken Glass Waltzes


Warren Moore - 2013
    It’s a story of lust, violence and madness with a heavy metal beat. Jim Thompson meets Alice Cooper. Metallica reading James M. Cain. PRAISE: “Warren Moore’s Broken Glass Waltzes is as relentless as Tony Iommi’s guitar and pounds at the reader’s brain like Dave Lombardo’s machine gun drums. A Heavy Metal Noir ride replete with sex, drugs, rock n’ roll—and a murder conceived in insanity—this wicked gem moves at a breakneck pace from the moment Cincinnati’s number one metal drummer meets the girl of his nightmares to the shocking climax. Two sets of devil horns, high up.” —Ed Kurtz, author of Bleed, Control, and A Wind of Knives

Orphans on Granite Tides


Adam S. Cantwell - 2013
    CantwellThe German watches the door. White faces rush by like bubbles.The Russian emerges with the parcel under his arm. Raindrops darken the brown paper.Inside the parcel, a silk-lined box; inside that, the ragged, stained pages of the Miwok’s manuscript. The cryptic memoir recounts the life and dreams of an obscure mystic—a childhood on the wild coast of America, at the edge of the earth; servitude on the Continent; flights to worlds within the world… It illuminates everything and nothing, it prefigures and obscures the new world forming beneath the fissured crust of 1939.The German and the Russian have been sent after the manuscript and will judge whether it is authentic, or a late forgery, a hateful slander, or an epochal testament of planetary history. They will chase the dead savage’s words through Paris, to the edge of the precipice, and beyond.The Miwok’s words would help them, would warn them, if the gulf separating them all could be bridged…

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English (Translated)


BookCaps - 2013
    If you’ve always wanted to read Shakespeare, but are intimidated by the older language, then this is the perfect edition for you! Every single Shakespeare play is included in this massive anthology! Each play contains the original language with modern language underneath!

Complete Works of John Galsworthy - Delphi Classics


John Galsworthy - 2013
    46 Complete Works of John Galsworthy A Bit O' Love A Family Man Another Sheaf Beyond Censorship and Art Concerning Letters Five Tales Four Short Plays Fraternity Joy Justice Loyalties Quality and Others Saint's Progress Six Short Plays Strife Tatterdemalion The Burning Spear The Complete Essays The Complete Plays The Country House The Dark Flower The Eldest Son The Fifth Series Plays The First and Last The First Series Plays The Forsyte Saga, Complete The Foundations The Fourth Series Plays The Freelands The Fugitive The Inn of Tranquility The Island Pharisees The Little Dream The Little Man The Mob The Patrician The Pigeon The Second Series Plays, Complete The Silver Box The Skin Game The Third Series Plays, Complete To Let Villa Rubein And Other Stories Windows

Peppa Pig: My Grandpa


Ladybird Books - 2013
    Read all about how much Peppa Pig and George love their Grandpa in this brilliant board book, which is the perfect present for Grandpa Pigs and little piggies everywhere! Ideal for sharing with little Peppa fans at playtime, preschool or even tucked up in bed.This adorable book is brought to you by the best-loved characters from Peppa Pig - the number one award-winning preschool children's TV show on Channel 5 and Nickelodeon.

An Old Woman and Her Cat


Doris Lessing - 2013
    From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a woman’s gradual drift outside the limits of society.An old woman, with gipsy blood, begins to find the conventions of society stifling – when her husband dies, and her children leave home, she embraces a marginal, unconventional existence, accompanied by her faithful cat.‘An Old Woman and Her Cat’ brilliantly combines Doris Lessing’s unforgiving examination of our society – and those it cannot accommodate and ulitmately fails – with a wonderful portrait of her favourite animal – the cat.This story also appears in the collection The Temptation of Jack Orkney.

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar for Grade 9-1 GCSE Complete Study & Practice (with Online Edition)


CGP Books - 2013
    Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar for GCSE, Complete Revisio

Rik Mayall Reads Three Little Pigs and Other Stories


Rik Mayall - 2013
    The recording includes Beauty and the Beast, The Gingerbread Man, Sinbad the Sailor, Goldilocks, Aladdin and The Three Little Pigs.

Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Delphi Classics)


Ben Jonson - 2013
    This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Ben Jonson, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (6MB Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Jonson's life and works* Concise introductions to the plays and other texts* Images of how the dramas were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the texts* ALL 19 plays, including rare fragments and F G Waldron's continuation of THE SAD SHEPHERD* Includes the complete masques and entertainments for the first time in digital print* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry* Easily locate the poems you want to read* Includes Jonson's rare non-fiction texts* Features a special Jacobean Language glossary, providing easy access to difficult words and their definitions* Special criticism section, with essays by writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and T. S. Eliot evaluating Jonson’s contribution to literature* Also includes a bonus biography - discover Jonson's turbulent life* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genresCONTENTS:The PlaysA TALE OF A TUBTHE ISLE OF DOGS (LOST PLAY)THE CASE IS ALTEREDEVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUREVERY MAN OUT OF HIS HUMOURCYNTHIA’S REVELSTHE POETASTERSEJANUS HIS FALLEASTWARD HOVOLPONEEPICOENETHE ALCHEMISTCATILINE HIS CONSPIRACYBARTHOLOMEW FAIRTHE DEVIL IS AN ASSTHE STAPLE OF NEWSTHE NEW INNTHE MAGNETIC LADYTHE SAD SHEPHERD (Fragment)MORTIMER HIS FALL (Fragment) The Masques and EntertainmentsTHE MASQUES OF BEN JONSONThe Poetry CollectionsEPIGRAMSTHE FORESTUNDERWOODEUPHEME OR, THE FAIRE FAMEEPITHALAMIONMISCELLANEOUS POEMSThe PoemsLIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERLIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDERThe Non-FictionTIMBER, OR DISCOVERIES MADE UPON MEN AND MATTERENGLISH GRAMMARThe CriticismNOTES ON BEN JONSON by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBEN JONSON by Jacob FeisMASQUES AND GENERAL INFLUENCE by W. W. GregBEN JONSON by T. S. EliotThe BiographyLIFE OF BEN JONSON by Felix E. SchellingGlossary of Jacobean Language