Love Tragedy

Thus with a kiss I die. Romeo and Juliet, written by English dramatist William Shakespeare during 1594–1596, is one of the bard's most popular and frequently performed plays. It was first published in an unauthorised quarto in 1597. An authorised longer quarto was published in 1599.

Has “emancipation” truly freed women—or only refashioned the cage? In The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation, Emma Goldman cuts through slogans and respectability to reveal why ballots, professions, and paychecks alone cannot deliver a full human life. With unsparing clarity and compassion...

A selection of Euripides’ renowned Greek tragedies, adapted for BBC Radio Acclaimed by Aristotle as ‘the most tragic of the poets’, Euripides was one of the pre-eminent playwrights of 5th century Athens. Included here are seven of his masterpieces: powerful, shocking tales of passion...

More than 150 deaths across Japan have been linked to Blue Morpho, a game of escalating tasks ultimately leading to suicide. The mastermind behind it is Kei Yosuga, a high schooler admired by everyone around her. Kei’s childhood friend, Nozomu Miyamine, knows this all started with one murder...

Full-cast productions of Seneca’s most famous tragedies, plus letters from the Roman philosopher read by Paul Scofield Stoic philosopher and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca lived through the reigns of Caligula and Claudius, and was tutor and adviser to Nero, before his untimely suicide in...

Se dice que detrás de cada gran hombre, hay una gran mujer ¿verdad? Bueno, también esa frase podría trasladarse al rock, un género que ha permitido que varios cantantes y compositores de fama mundial potencien la frase gracias a sus vínculos amorosos con mujeres que como Yoko Ono, Linda Eastman, Sharon Arden, entre otras, les han servido de guía e inspiración.

‘Enlightening, moving’ SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives. ‘The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...

Dramatisations of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most popular works, plus bonus documentary Often described as ‘the laureate of the Jazz Age’, F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the reckless, hedonistic spirit of 1920s America in his classic novels The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned and Tender is...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Nicholas Khan, best known for their role in Transformers. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Malcolm Heath, read by Roy McMillan. One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western...

The two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War traces the extraordinary downfall of financier Jubilee Jim, bringing to life New York’s Gilded Age and some of its legendary players, including Boss William Tweed, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the...

This program is read by the author. Heartstopper meets Derry Girls in this wonderfully hilarious rom-com about finding your first love when your personality might be too big for the world around you. Patch Simmons has decided that this is the year he will get a boyfriend, so it's goodbye to his...

'A dream of a read!’ New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn 'Emotional, raw, and beautifully written' ★★★★★ From the author of the internationally bestselling novel, WHEN THE WORLD FELL SILENT, comes a breathtaking tale of secrets, betrayal, and the enduring power of friendship...

Bloomsbury presents In Pursuit of Love by Mark Bostridge, read by John Hastings. From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Adèle Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love – and the writer who chased after her more than 150 years later. It’s...

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Love All is a heartfelt story of love and adulthood in the 1960s. 'Graceful, moving' – Daily Express The late 1960s. For Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and neglectful parents, the innocent, isolated days...

For once, my life was calm. Behind us was the threat of our distillery being shut down. Now we could focus on growing our brand exactly the way I dreamed of doing it when I took it over. Nothing was going to stop me. Until she moved in next door. My enemy’s wife with her seven-year-old son. I don’t need this right now. But everything inside me pulled me toward her. I even offered her a job. Little did I know I was starting a war. Again. But this time, I’m ready for it.

Return to the Underworld... Deina has finally found what matters most to her in all the world. And lost it. To save the one she loves, she's bound herself to the Underworld and an endless future of darkness. But not even her sacrifice is enough to secure Theron or her friends' safety in the...

Ray Norman spent most of his life living in far-flung corners of the globe, working on long-term development projects and living out his calling as a Christian professional. By the time he arrived in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania around the turn of the millennium, he was veteran of life as...

After experiencing a personal tragedy, Carmen McKenna finds Hunters Hollowa bustling campground in rural North Carolinato be her new home and worst nightmare. Despite the promises of a chosen family and a safe place to grow up, living next door to the Hunters two sons comes with its own set of...

Expressions of Poetry by Montice Harmon is a beautiful collection of semi-confessional poems that speak about the poet's trials and tribulations. The poems are a kind of motivation for depressed minds and discouraged people to rise above their problems and face the world with a positive attitude. Most of Harmon's poems are prose poems. He takes prose poems to another level with this collection. The poems all deal with some aspect of the poet's personal struggles - his joys and sorrows - and they connect you with his spirit and inner mind.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the world’s most famous love story was never only about love, but about the fatal speed of hatred? In *Romeo and Juliet*, William Shakespeare creates a tragedy of youth, passion, family violence, and destiny in a Verona divided by ancient feud...