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Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare, W.)
Features one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. Here, the text may well seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock, though vanquished…
€ 3,³⁵
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare, W.)
Although this play ends like a comedy, with reconciliations, forgiveness and marriages, it has often been regarded as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. It shows the difficulty of effecting an appropriate balance between judicial…
€ 3,³⁵
Macbeth (Shakespeare, W.)
Encompasses witchcraft, bloody murder, and ghostly apparitions. This work tells the tragedy of a good, brave and honourable man turned into the personification of evil by the workings of unreasonable ambition.
€ 3,³⁵
King Lear (Shakespeare, W.)
Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world's literature.
€ 3,³⁵
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, W.)
Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., the drama vividly illustrates the ways in which power and corruption are linked.
€ 3,³⁵
Henry V (Shakespeare, W.)
Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages.
€ 3,³⁵
Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (Shakespeare, W.)
This history play is lively in its interplay of political intrigue and boisterous comedy, subtle in the connections between high statecraft and low craftiness, exuberant in its range of vivid characters, and memorable in its…
€ 3,³⁵
Hamlet (Shakespeare, W.)
Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature
€ 3,³⁵
As You Like It (Shakespeare, W.)
As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd.
€ 3,³⁵
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare, W.)
Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics
€ 3,³⁵
Black Beauty (Sewell, A.)
Black beauty had a fine, soft black coat, one white foot and a silver star on his forehead. This tale tells of the horse's adventures and the disappointments and joys that surround him.
€ 6,⁵⁰
Ivanhoe (Scott, W.)
Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, this title is packed with incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the fierce Templar knight, Sir Brian de…
€ 5,⁴⁰
Rob Roy (Scott, W.)
From its first publication in 1816, "Rob Roy" has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters.
€ 3,³⁵
Little Prince (Saint-Exupery, A de)
On one level this work is the story of an airman's discovery of a small boy from another planet in the desert and his stories of intergalactic travel, and on the other hand it is a thought-provoking allegory of the human…
€ 3,³⁵
Collected Short Stories of Saki (Munro, H.H.)
The extraordinary stories of 'Saki' are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried.
€ 3,³⁵