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Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of 45 poems by English poet William Blake. "Songs of Innocence" is the first part of the collection and appeared in 1789 with engraved illustrations by Blake. The second part, "Songs of Experience", also illustrated, was added in 1794 when Blake published the whole under the full title of Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. 

From the author of the international phenomenon War Horse comes a moving story of unity and inspiration in the face of war. A moving story about unity and inspiration in the face of destruction, by the 2003–2005 Children's Laureate and author of the internationally acclaimed War Horse. Tomas...

Never one to shy away from difficult subjects, in Love, Of a Kind Dennis brings awkwardness, pain and intimacy together in an inimitable and pithy way. In over 50 new poems, accompanied by woodcut engravings, not only does Dennis present us with a different kind of love, but he also presents us...

In this BBC full-cast production of Richard II, the male ego and narcissism of monarchs are hung out to dry... Written entirely in verse, the rhythms of the language in this epic tragedy encompass its themes of dignity and kingship with fitting grandeur and pathos, as the capricious and...

The Waste Land is a seminal work of modernist poetry by T.S. Eliot. Written in 1922, this five-part poem is a portrait of its time, a work that expresses the disillusionment of the modernist era and the desperation that the generation of writers of that time was feeling....

"Persone come poesie, poesie come persone": Dario Penne, protagonista iconico del doppiaggio italiano, è conosciuto per la sua arte di dare voce alle persone, alle persone che tutti amiamo, perché sono gli interpreti più celebrati del grande cinema, mostri sacri come Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine, Tommy Lee Jones, Christopher Lloyd, Christopher Walken, Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman e tanti altri.

Writer and director David Hare is one of England's leading political dramatists, celebrated for his many award-winning plays analysing the morality of contemporary Britain. This collection comprises some of his most acclaimed pieces, as well as a fascinating radio interview with Hare himself.

Master builder Halvard Solness is a self-made man. With no professional qualifications, he has built himself up through ruthless ambition and achieved a position of power and domination in his home town. But his success has come at a cost. His marriage is empty, destroyed by a personal tragedy that has left him wracked with guilt and pain, and he is increasingly frightened of failure and being displaced by the next generation. Then a mysterious young woman, Hilde Wangel, appears from the mountains, claiming to have met Solness 10 years earlier, when she was only 13. 

The Frozen Deep was originally written as a play by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. With Dickens himself gracing the stage as Wardour, the play was met with success, drawing audiences to tears night after night, and even performing for Queen Victoria herself. Drawing on reports of the real-life Franklin expedition of 1845, in which a crew had set out from England to discover the North Passage and disappeared without a trace, Collins and Dickens recreated the events of the ill-fated journey.

A House of Pomegranates (1891) is a collection of four fairy tales by Oscar Wilde: "The Young King," "The Birthday of the Infanta," "The Fisherman and His Soul," and "The Star Child." These magical, beautiful, tragic, and cynical tales will charm listeners of any age. Narrated by Noel Badrian, and performed by a full cast.

In the 1880's, an American senator observes, with some perplexity, English country life and all of its social echelons. To add some spice along the way, we follow the romances and intrigues of the flirtatious Arabella Trefoil.

According to George Bernard Shaw, Joan of Arc was in fact one of the first Protestant martyrs. She was one of the first apostles of nationalism, and the first French practitioner of Napoleonic realism in warfare. She also refused to accept the specific woman's lot, and dressed and fought and lived as men did. Shaw's exploration of the story of this ingenuous and eponymous heroine is set in six scenes and an epilogue, which takes place in 1456, when the church cleared Joan of the charge of heresy and condemned her accusers of corruption.

Càndid, la més cèlebre de les novel·les de Voltaire, és l’exemple més reeixit de narració filosòfica, un gènere sorgit amb la Il·lustració. A través del personatge del jove Càndid, Voltaire formula la pregunta present en tota la seva obra: per què existeix el mal? 

Roberto Malini, che da oltre trent'anni si dedica allo studio dell'Olocausto e a progetti di educazione alla Memoria, ha incontrato, soprattutto in Israele e in Italia, numerosi sopravvissuti ebrei e 'zingari': a loro sono dedicate le sue "Poesie dell'Olocausto". Il poeta presenta inoltre le sue versioni in italiano di alcune poesie di autori scomparsi nell'Olocausto o scampati ai campi di morte: Henja e Ayala Karmel, Jankiel Wiernik, Paul Celan, anonimi del Ghetto di Kovno e dalla comunità sefardita della Grecia, Wladislaw Szlengel, Tamara Deuel.

Roberto Malini, che da oltre trent'anni si dedica allo studio dell'Olocausto e a progetti di educazione alla Memoria, ha incontrato, soprattutto in Israele e in Italia, numerosi sopravvissuti ebrei e 'zingari': a loro sono dedicate le sue "Poesie dell'Olocausto". Il poeta presenta inoltre le sue versioni in italiano di alcune poesie di autori scomparsi nell'Olocausto o scampati ai campi di morte: Henja e Ayala Karmel, Jankiel Wiernik, Paul Celan, anonimi del Ghetto di Kovno e dalla comunità sefardita della Grecia, Wladislaw Szlengel, Tamara Deuel.

Haiku, vivere la poesia di Roberto Malini, presenta, sotto forma di un racconto filosofico, le più belle e profonde poesie brevi del Giappone antico e moderno - da Basho a Buson, da Issa a Shiki - nella traduzione dell'autore. E' un percorso poetico che si svolge fra boschetti, prati fioriti e ruscelli, con i monti a fare da cornice a un dialogo senza tempo.

Il fanciullo musico comprende diverse poesie dalle raccolte "Myricae", "I Canti di Castelvecchio" e "Primi e nuovi poemetti". In "Myricae" Pascoli scrive poesie dedicate al fluire delle stagioni, alla fatica nella campagna e all'umile vita del contadino. Dietro i cicli della natura umanizzata, però, si celano pensieri universali e profondi. Ne "I Canti di Castelvecchio" il poeta prosegue il dialogo con la madre iniziato in "Myricae".

The Doctor and Charley decide to take a well-deserved break from the monotony of being chased, shot at and generally suffering antisocial behaviour at the hands of others. And so they end up in Venice, well into Charley's future, as the great city prepares to sink beneath the water for the last time...which would be a momentous, if rather dispiriting, event to witness in itself.

Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) was the most controversial dramatist of his age. Most of his work focuses on the ubiquity and inevitably corrupting influence of sexual attraction. His most famous plays are the two that depict the rise, fall, and eventual gruesome death of the vampish Lulu, who, in Wedekind’s presentation, became a ghastly parody of Goethe’s “Eternal Feminine”. The first of the plays is Earth Spirit, in which Lulu marries and survives three husbands, only to face prosecution for the shooting of the third.

Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's elegant story details a New Year's Eve gathering in Dublin that is so evocative and beautiful that it prompts the protagonist's wife to make a shocking revelation to her husband—closing the story with an emotionally powerful epiphany that is unsurpassed in modern literature.