‘The course of true love never did run smooth …’Hermia loves Lysander. But she must marry Demetrius or be condemned to life in a convent. Together, they plan to elope...
The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare’...
The true horror of the trenches is brought to life in this selection of poetry from the front line.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black ...
Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperia...
‘We that are true lovers run into strange capers.’Banished from her ambitious uncle’s court, the lovesick Rosalind flees to the forest with her cousin, Celia. Disguise...
Klasyka literatury polskiej – wyjątkowe dwujęzyczne wydanie Niniejszy tom zawiera zbiór bajek i przypowieści Ignacego Krasickiego, jednego z głównych przedstawicieli polskiego ...
Maria Jastrzębska - poetka, tłumaczka, redaktorka i animatorka kultury. Urodziła się 28 marca 1953 roku w Warszawie, cztery lata później wyemigrowała na stałe z rodziną do Londynu, w latach ...
Jolanta Kajzer - poetka urodzona w Gdańsku. Została uhonorowana prestiżowymi nagrodami: III nagrodą w Międzynarodowym Konkursie Haiku "Kusamakura" w Japonii w 2018 roku i honorowym wyróżn...
Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includ...
Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John A...
A landmark of world literature, "The Divine Comedy" tells of the poet Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in search of salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for th...
Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examination of American life.'A man is not an o...
"Eliksir. Еліксир. The Elixir" – tomik wierszy w trzech językach: po polsku, ukraińsku i angielsku – jest jak magiczny napój, który rozlewa się w naszych sercach...
Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams. Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowl...
Sadder than salad.From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the jo...
‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.’When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, discovers his father was murdered, he swears vengeance against the killer: his father’s b...
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a care...
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V as its inaugral volume, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing endeavours to take account of ...
In "The Star Sign" we see traces of the Bible, early and medieval Christian legend, medieval theather, the Franciscan evangelization of Mexico, the performative nature of Nahua religion, ...
'Outstanding... The best short introduction I have come across' Sunday TimesWhen he died at the age of just twenty-five, few imagined John Keats would one day be considered among the gr...