In "Anthony Roll," Anthony Anthony intricately weaves a narrative that transcends mere autobiography, offering readers a profound reflection on identity and belonging. The text is imbued with a lyrical quality, as Anthony employs an evocative prose style that seamlessly incorporates elements of memoir and philosophical inquiry. Set against the backdrop of his personal experiences as well as broader cultural themes, the book evokes the struggle of navigating selfhood amidst the pressures of...

BARLESS: A Bronx MemoirA raw, unsparing memoir of hunger, abandonment, and improvised family - told entirely in the voice of the boy who lived it.Anthony Aleman was eleven, alone for days at a stretch on the fourteenth floor of a South Bronx tower, when he learned to stage his own apartment for the social worker: shovel out the dog waste, swallow toothpaste so his breath was clean, line the cabinets with cans no one was allowed to open. He was protecting his mother - a woma...

Anthony Trollope’s fantastic novel about love across class divides.

Macbeth is among the best-known of William Shakespeare's plays, and is his shortest tragedy, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels, and has been adapted for opera, film, books, stage and screen. Often regarded as archetypal, the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends. For the plot Shakespeare drew loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland by Raphael Hol...

'Shakespeare invented the human as we continue to know it' Harold BloomSet in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Shakespeare's immortal drama tells the story of star-crossed lovers, rival dynasties and bloody revenge. Romeo and Juliet is a hymn to youth and the thrill of forbidden love, charged with sexual passion and violence, but also a warning of death: a dazzling combination of bawdy comedy and high tragedy.Used and Recommended by the National Theatre...

Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845-1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular even in the poet's lifetime and it remains so today. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Henry V is a Shakespearean history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in 1599. It is based on the life of King Henry V of England, and focuses on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War.The play is the final part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II, Henry IV, part 1 and Henry IV, part 2. The original audiences would thus have already been familiar with the title character, who was depicted in the Henry IV plays as a wild...

Sacrificing any chance of his own fame, the eighteenth century teenage poet Thomas Chatterton attributed his poems to a fictitious fifteenth century poet, under the name Sir Thomas Rowley. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works of Thomas Chatterton, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relat...

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint.

In "The Discovery of Witches," Matthew Hopkins, known as the self-proclaimed Witchfinder General, presents a chilling account of witch trials during the English Civil War. Written in a polemical style, the book integrates first-person narratives, legal treatises, and theological arguments to justify the persecution of alleged witches. Through detailed testimony and fervent rhetoric, Hopkins argues for the legitimacy of witch hunting, reflecting the societal anxieties of a nation torn by co...

John Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered in 1601. He spent the subsequent decade in poverty, trying to rehabilitate his reputation. He entered the Church in 1615, and become Dean of St Paul's. His first volume of poetry was published posthumously in 1633.In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critic...

Songs and Sonnets (1557), the first printed anthology of English poetry, was immensely influential in Tudor England, and inspired major Elizabethan writers including Shakespeare. Collected by pioneering publisher Richard Tottel, it brought poems of the aristocracy - verses of friendship, war, politics, death and above all of love - into wide common readership for the first time. The major poets of Henry VIII's court, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, were first pr...