Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems, The by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Category: Classic Fiction
"Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean." Described by his friend Charles Lamb as "an archangel slightly damaged," Coleridge was deemed a towering genius by many of his contemporaries, and one who, in conversation, had no equal. Fa ...Show more
The Garden Party and Collected Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield
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Category: Classic Fiction
When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one of their working-class neighbours, this burgeoning sense o ...Show more
The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories by Douglas (TRN) Emile; Parmee Zola
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Category: Classic Fiction
Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely accomplished short-story writer, as exemplified by the tales included in this volume. Concerned with the manifold aspects of everyday life and varying in th ...Show more
Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri; Anthony Mortimer (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction
The Vita Nuova, with its unusual blend of prose and poetry, is universally recognized as Dante's early masterpiece and provides an indispensable prequel to The Divine Comedy. Set in thirteenth-century Florence, part autobiography and part religious allegory, it traces Dante's quest to find a poetic idio ...Show more
Love Poems by Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Classic Fiction
One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin's immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is most popular for, is his mastery of the love poem, a genre which he perfected like few others before or after him. This volume contains a selection of his most famous and end ...Show more
Humorous Tales by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classic Fiction
First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career. These tales derive their humour from absurd situations - a drunken Irish soldier waking up to find himself worshipped as a god in the Indian holy city of Benares, a monkey let ...Show more
Chamber Music and Other Poems by James Joyce
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Category: Classic Fiction
Universally known for his groundbreaking prose - especially for the monumental novel Ulysses and its depictions of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century - James Joyce started off as a writer of lyrical poetry, a genre which he never abandoned in his lifetime and which informs and enriches the rest ...Show more
Der Fliegende Hollander: The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
An essay in the guide places the opera in the context of emerging German Romanticism and another highlights the musical riches of the score. A further article explores the emerging importance of myth to Wagner and his contemporaries. As well as a detailed description of the work's performance history, W ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides in Association with the English National Opera (ENO)
A Midsummer Night's Dream was Benjamin Britten's seventh major opera and had its premiere in 1960. Britten and his partner Peter Pears adapted Shakespeare's much-loved comedy, using (with the exception of only one line) Shakespeare's own text, as well as cutting and simplifying the play. This newly comm ...Show more
Simon Boccanegra by English National Opera Staff (Contribution by); Giuseppe Verdi; Gary Khan (Volume Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Verdi's Simon Boccanegra exists in two versions: that of the 1857 original and that of the 1881 revision. The texts of the libretto of both versions are included in this guide, with a number of essays which focus on the differences between the two. Rodolfo Celleti provides the story's historical context ...Show more
Parsifal by Wagner Richard
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
From its conception in 1857 to its first performances in 1882, Parsifal represented the culmination of the themes that preoccupied Wagner during the latter part of his life. This guide includes a series of articles on Wagner's profound and complex opera, which the composer preferred to call a Bu¨hnenwei ...Show more
La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides in Association with the English National Opera (ENO)
Puccini's masterpiece "La boheme" is one of the most beloved and enduring operas of all time. In this guide, William Ashbrook evaluates the opera's initial reception, the reasons for its wide appeal and Verdi's influence on the composition. Nicholas John discusses the tortuous evolution of the libretto ...Show more